No-one COMPLAINS!!!!!
A good proportion of the world's hatred and wars are caused by people of one religion complaining about the way that another religion causes them to view the world, (and to view people of another religion specifically).
See if you can spot any current religions being complained about because of the way that their interpretation of the world is _believed_ to lead them to act. (M*slims)
I am not getting one if the battery dies in 18 months and replacement costs more than the unit did in the first place, (See iPod). I have an iBook, but the battery is dead after 18 months, but at least it can be replaced, (even if it will cost me about 100).
It downloads an executable froma website. Obviously the number of downloads increases as the virus spreads. If the virus is thought to be harmless people won't panic about clearing it out. Maybe when there are enough computers (PCs) transmitting the virus, the website owner will change the executable for the real payload, and wammee - fireworks.
Or maybe not.
I remember them when they came out - they were supposed to feed the sound into your collar bones, and the sound would somehow get through your body to your ears.
The only problem is that they didn't work, (Collar bone is not connected to your head perhaps?), so you heard the sound through the air from the speakers which were just below your ears, on your collar bone/shoulder.
If time travel is possible, then you can go to any point in the whole of infinite time...
Why would you bother with this particular few thousand years? Maybe with a wider perspective, this is quite a dull quiet period.
Stem cells can be harvested form the umbilical cords after birth, as well as from embryos. This should not be banned, as there may be many cures which could be discovered, and there could be other methods of gathering stem cells, too.
Safety critical software such as aircraft software has to be highly checked and certified. The problem with software which does not happen with hardware is that a a change which is supposed to only fix problem (a) means a recompilation, and there is always the chance that function (b) has been screwed up, so generally we have to restest just about everything, whatever the change. It costs much more to test software to a good standard, than to develop it. We reckon that the minimum change for engine control software will take 6 weeks of 18 hours per day testing to validate. And we DO find unrelated faults, which occur occasionally.
In an extreme case like that - no problem, it is the borderline cases that are harder to judge.
For instance, there is a major storm off Europe, and the rescue service need the GPS system for locating two large ships in trouble, BUT the americans want to prevent a chinese spy ship from tracking an experimental spy plan over taiwan.
Result: One american spy plane, lots of dead Spanish sailors.
Once and Future King - YES. The only book that always makes me cry, when Arthur stands up and explains to the hedgehog what it's all about. A brilliant book. There was a Walt Disny thing "Sword in the Stone" that was based in part of it, the lessons from merlin in the moat as a fish, etc, but there is so much more to the books.
I never thought I'd see so many Americans talking sense! This is great!. THIS is why america is hated and feared - not because of any individuals, (OK one or two), but because of the runaway government. You know that the American defence budget is equivalent to the WHOLE OF THE REST OF THE WORLD combined? And it's being run by George Bush et al. That certainly frightens me. He wants to fight THREE major wars at once. Madman. So, go for it, get people to vote and get things on a more even keel - we're all behind you!
Unique AND there are no others like it? Wow! That IS unique.
Remainds of an article I saw about a Ferrari that was considered to be unique - there were only 19 others like it!
Is it true that they can never change the $1 bill because there it is so easy to forge that there is a vast and unknown amount of forgeries out there, and changing the bill would risk a finacial collapse, if the american government had to 'redeem' all of the forgeries?
One company I worked at, if you were one minute late clocking in, (07:31), then you got docked one minute's pay. Not too difficult is it? Neither the company nor the employee notices one minute here or there.
I remember being told as a kid that USSR and USA were so far at the opposite extremes that they were very similar - highest ratio between highest and lowest wages, nationalist indocrination in schools, persecution of political opponents, (this was around McCarthy), both fighting through heavily arming minor nations in the cold war manoeuvering, etc. Then both nations changed for the batter , but the USA seems to be heading back to a state of terror and secret police.
By the way - in the war against terror, I hope you're sending less money to the IRA than you used to....
You need a two party political system - Nationalise, and fix everything, then change governments, and privatise it and make it more efficient, then change governments and nationalise the lean industry, invest in the system, (power, phone lines, whatever), then change governments, and privatise it all....
Repeat ad nauseam.
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No-one COMPLAINS!!!!! A good proportion of the world's hatred and wars are caused by people of one religion complaining about the way that another religion causes them to view the world, (and to view people of another religion specifically). See if you can spot any current religions being complained about because of the way that their interpretation of the world is _believed_ to lead them to act. (M*slims)
I am not getting one if the battery dies in 18 months and replacement costs more than the unit did in the first place, (See iPod). I have an iBook, but the battery is dead after 18 months, but at least it can be replaced, (even if it will cost me about 100).
It downloads an executable froma website. Obviously the number of downloads increases as the virus spreads. If the virus is thought to be harmless people won't panic about clearing it out. Maybe when there are enough computers (PCs) transmitting the virus, the website owner will change the executable for the real payload, and wammee - fireworks. Or maybe not.
I remember them when they came out - they were supposed to feed the sound into your collar bones, and the sound would somehow get through your body to your ears. The only problem is that they didn't work, (Collar bone is not connected to your head perhaps?), so you heard the sound through the air from the speakers which were just below your ears, on your collar bone/shoulder.
If time travel is possible, then you can go to any point in the whole of infinite time... Why would you bother with this particular few thousand years? Maybe with a wider perspective, this is quite a dull quiet period.
Stem cells can be harvested form the umbilical cords after birth, as well as from embryos. This should not be banned, as there may be many cures which could be discovered, and there could be other methods of gathering stem cells, too.
Safety critical software such as aircraft software has to be highly checked and certified. The problem with software which does not happen with hardware is that a a change which is supposed to only fix problem (a) means a recompilation, and there is always the chance that function (b) has been screwed up, so generally we have to restest just about everything, whatever the change. It costs much more to test software to a good standard, than to develop it. We reckon that the minimum change for engine control software will take 6 weeks of 18 hours per day testing to validate. And we DO find unrelated faults, which occur occasionally.
In an extreme case like that - no problem, it is the borderline cases that are harder to judge. For instance, there is a major storm off Europe, and the rescue service need the GPS system for locating two large ships in trouble, BUT the americans want to prevent a chinese spy ship from tracking an experimental spy plan over taiwan. Result: One american spy plane, lots of dead Spanish sailors.
Once and Future King - YES. The only book that always makes me cry, when Arthur stands up and explains to the hedgehog what it's all about. A brilliant book. There was a Walt Disny thing "Sword in the Stone" that was based in part of it, the lessons from merlin in the moat as a fish, etc, but there is so much more to the books.
Why shouldn't some country other than America get the first viewing, for once? Seems fair to me - it was made in NZ after all.
"I'm googling for it"? Only in America can you 'verb' a noun!
I never thought I'd see so many Americans talking sense! This is great!. THIS is why america is hated and feared - not because of any individuals, (OK one or two), but because of the runaway government. You know that the American defence budget is equivalent to the WHOLE OF THE REST OF THE WORLD combined? And it's being run by George Bush et al. That certainly frightens me. He wants to fight THREE major wars at once. Madman. So, go for it, get people to vote and get things on a more even keel - we're all behind you!
Unique AND there are no others like it? Wow! That IS unique. Remainds of an article I saw about a Ferrari that was considered to be unique - there were only 19 others like it!
Impossible when? Impossible yesterday may be possible today and easy tomorrow.
Is it true that they can never change the $1 bill because there it is so easy to forge that there is a vast and unknown amount of forgeries out there, and changing the bill would risk a finacial collapse, if the american government had to 'redeem' all of the forgeries?
78,000 suspected terrorists! What are they doing, putting everyone who applies for a visa on the list!
One company I worked at, if you were one minute late clocking in, (07:31), then you got docked one minute's pay. Not too difficult is it? Neither the company nor the employee notices one minute here or there.
I remember being told as a kid that USSR and USA were so far at the opposite extremes that they were very similar - highest ratio between highest and lowest wages, nationalist indocrination in schools, persecution of political opponents, (this was around McCarthy), both fighting through heavily arming minor nations in the cold war manoeuvering, etc. Then both nations changed for the batter , but the USA seems to be heading back to a state of terror and secret police. By the way - in the war against terror, I hope you're sending less money to the IRA than you used to....
So this processor will get on and do "inquire 'delete *.* are you sure (y/n)'", delete *.* ...pause for user entry to catch up ...oops.
You need a two party political system - Nationalise, and fix everything, then change governments, and privatise it and make it more efficient, then change governments and nationalise the lean industry, invest in the system, (power, phone lines, whatever), then change governments, and privatise it all.... Repeat ad nauseam.