Well, then in another situation a person could say "I let him in my house which I own, therefore I can record the coversation which occurs therein." Which wouldn't fly either.
How about a foiled pocket key fob for the key to slip into when not in use? You could even emboss the appropriate logo on it.
Or if the car doesn't need a physical key, one could make a "key" which could retract into a foil enclosure when not in use (I'm thinking of the mechanism similar to a utility knife, but don't forget the hole to let it on the key ring).
That's why we invented money.
We invented money because you can't compound interest on chickens... plus it's a hassle to put them in my wallet.
However, I agree with the barter system. My wife tutors French for a girl in our town, and the girl's mother is a LMP so free massages.
Cheney will not be a viable canidate. His ties to Halliburton and his health (2 or 3 heart attacks) will probably be fish-in-a-barrel type issues. Mere speculation on my part. Guiliani, perhaps.
There was an Asian market http://www.uwajimaya.com/ in Seattle with special sensors on the carts which would cause them to lock up if it left the parking lot. I'm sure these would be similarly equipped, or have a tag on them or something.
I don't know about books, but as far as pipe drawings and schematics it's nice to have a 24"x36" paper I can mark up and trace through to troubleshoot. Of course we have them archived but it's very difficult to follow on a relatively tiny screen.
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Well, Toby Keith seemed to fan the flames more than any political party. And it was blown out of proportion-- the Dixie Chicks are a terrible band on their own without saying inflammatory stuff. Heh heh. Natalie made her comment outside of the US (3/10/3 in London), and she said it so casually like it was just a joke, not realizing that words do indeed pack a powerful punch. "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." The fact she never had the marbles to say it inside the United States is what bothered me about it. Did she honestly think it wouldn't come back to them? Their record sales came from all sorts of people, people who don't necessarily give a crap of their political viewpoints but thought enough of their music to set aside a few dollars for their album.
It seems hypocritical to say "Well, I have the right to say whatever I want, but you don't have the right to stop buying my CDs and stop playing my music on the radio." Say what you want-- be prepared to reap the consequence.
At the same time, I am a bit wary of people who base their whole political doctrine on a handful of recording artists or actors, on either side of the issues.
I feel bad CBS had to relegate the movie to cable; I don't get Showtime so I missed it. I think I saw it on DVD so maybe I'll look into it. At least it's available. If I understand it correctly, the Republican Party did raise a stink about it but the GOP is not a government organization. This is very important to understand. The FCC didn't shut it down. Is it a terrible loss that it didn't show on Prime Time? Sure is. People should be smart enough to decide for themselves what's truth and what's fiction. In a perfect world...
I mentioned my post to a friend and he said "In a perfect world, people would choose to buy a product [Slim Fast] on merit alone." I replied "In a perfect world, people wouldn't need to be buying Slim Fast."
My personal definition of censorship implies it comes from a government. A company choosing to limit what it broadcasts or prints is simply acting on a business decision. If a publisher decides it won't publish a particular novel because it has a bad word in it and it might affect how it's able to sell books in the future, but the author decides it's integral to the novel to keep it (Say, "All Quiet on the Fuckin' Western Front") it's the publisher's right to refuse, as long as the author has a right to market his novel elsewhere.
That's right. People have the right to say whatever they wish. Even famous people. Yet I find it disappointing when famous people get upset when a sponsor drops them in response for what they said, or they find themselves in the public's disfavor for saying it. Whoopi has the right to say whatever she wants; but she is ignoring the right of Slim-Fast to drop her like a bad habit because, in the end, individuals have the right not to buy Slim-Fast.
The same thing applies in a way to the Dixie Chicks. I agree fully with their right to be ashamed about President Bush. However, while they have the right to say whatever they wanted they ignored the public's right to not particularly agree with them, and raised quite a ruckus about it.
Whether they're right or not is left as an exercise to the reader.
This is a huge stretch I think, but who's to say some enterprising person could crack into a robot housekeeper's program and instruct it to "throw out" some credit card statements or valuables while the owner's away? Or possibly run its video feed as part of the robot's recognition system to snoop about?
It's bad enough my voyeuristic apartment manager makes comments about my bookcases and sofa not *quite* matching. Lord knows what she could do with a Rosie Prototype...
I was reading some of the "facts" on the website-- they consider Korea to be one country already, claming 222,200 km2 in land area and 70mil population, actually the sum of both figures of both North and South Korea.
There is absolutely no mention of itself as "North Korea" nor any of "South Korea". I find this a little disconcerting, and if they did have nukes I'd be worried. If they believe their own prophaganda and have a means to make it real we're in trouble.
To be fair, I checked out the South's website (y'know, to "shop around") and they still differentiate themselves from the North.
And why does the PDRK need my e-mail address? I noticed it was red like the required entries but did not have the asterisk so I left it out. I'm probably in enough trouble checking out a website for the axis o' evil.
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Well, then in another situation a person could say "I let him in my house which I own, therefore I can record the coversation which occurs therein." Which wouldn't fly either.
It's kind of like the beer equivilent of Starbucks - half beverage, half ashtray. Brilliant!
I saw some psychic fiends in that movie Scanners (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081455/)... scared the begeebus outta me.
How about a foiled pocket key fob for the key to slip into when not in use? You could even emboss the appropriate logo on it. Or if the car doesn't need a physical key, one could make a "key" which could retract into a foil enclosure when not in use (I'm thinking of the mechanism similar to a utility knife, but don't forget the hole to let it on the key ring).
Not a problem as Public Enemy sampled it in "He Got Game" :)
Not a problem as I think you are quoting "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield.
That's why we invented money. We invented money because you can't compound interest on chickens... plus it's a hassle to put them in my wallet. However, I agree with the barter system. My wife tutors French for a girl in our town, and the girl's mother is a LMP so free massages.
Cheney will not be a viable canidate. His ties to Halliburton and his health (2 or 3 heart attacks) will probably be fish-in-a-barrel type issues. Mere speculation on my part. Guiliani, perhaps.
Lock up the wheels, I mean-- not the computer :)
There was an Asian market http://www.uwajimaya.com/ in Seattle with special sensors on the carts which would cause them to lock up if it left the parking lot. I'm sure these would be similarly equipped, or have a tag on them or something.
The way things decay radioactively, it will take HL5 to accomplish that.
I don't know about books, but as far as pipe drawings and schematics it's nice to have a 24"x36" paper I can mark up and trace through to troubleshoot. Of course we have them archived but it's very difficult to follow on a relatively tiny screen.
The pretty girl in the cubicle across from me-- is she winking at me, or just right-clicking?
Types, shoots, and leaves...
The real question is, "Is Blaise Pascal in heaven?"
Thirty-seven!?
Well, Toby Keith seemed to fan the flames more than any political party. And it was blown out of proportion-- the Dixie Chicks are a terrible band on their own without saying inflammatory stuff. Heh heh. Natalie made her comment outside of the US (3/10/3 in London), and she said it so casually like it was just a joke, not realizing that words do indeed pack a powerful punch. "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." The fact she never had the marbles to say it inside the United States is what bothered me about it. Did she honestly think it wouldn't come back to them? Their record sales came from all sorts of people, people who don't necessarily give a crap of their political viewpoints but thought enough of their music to set aside a few dollars for their album.
It seems hypocritical to say "Well, I have the right to say whatever I want, but you don't have the right to stop buying my CDs and stop playing my music on the radio." Say what you want-- be prepared to reap the consequence.
At the same time, I am a bit wary of people who base their whole political doctrine on a handful of recording artists or actors, on either side of the issues.
I feel bad CBS had to relegate the movie to cable; I don't get Showtime so I missed it. I think I saw it on DVD so maybe I'll look into it. At least it's available. If I understand it correctly, the Republican Party did raise a stink about it but the GOP is not a government organization. This is very important to understand. The FCC didn't shut it down. Is it a terrible loss that it didn't show on Prime Time? Sure is. People should be smart enough to decide for themselves what's truth and what's fiction. In a perfect world...
I mentioned my post to a friend and he said "In a perfect world, people would choose to buy a product [Slim Fast] on merit alone." I replied "In a perfect world, people wouldn't need to be buying Slim Fast."
My personal definition of censorship implies it comes from a government. A company choosing to limit what it broadcasts or prints is simply acting on a business decision. If a publisher decides it won't publish a particular novel because it has a bad word in it and it might affect how it's able to sell books in the future, but the author decides it's integral to the novel to keep it (Say, "All Quiet on the Fuckin' Western Front") it's the publisher's right to refuse, as long as the author has a right to market his novel elsewhere.
That's just me, I'm a pretty simple.
That's right. People have the right to say whatever they wish. Even famous people. Yet I find it disappointing when famous people get upset when a sponsor drops them in response for what they said, or they find themselves in the public's disfavor for saying it. Whoopi has the right to say whatever she wants; but she is ignoring the right of Slim-Fast to drop her like a bad habit because, in the end, individuals have the right not to buy Slim-Fast. The same thing applies in a way to the Dixie Chicks. I agree fully with their right to be ashamed about President Bush. However, while they have the right to say whatever they wanted they ignored the public's right to not particularly agree with them, and raised quite a ruckus about it. Whether they're right or not is left as an exercise to the reader.
Hooking up some charged-up capacitors on the robots' exteriors will quickly solve that problem, methinks. 1... 2... 3... Pu-Bzzzzt!
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This is a huge stretch I think, but who's to say some enterprising person could crack into a robot housekeeper's program and instruct it to "throw out" some credit card statements or valuables while the owner's away? Or possibly run its video feed as part of the robot's recognition system to snoop about?
It's bad enough my voyeuristic apartment manager makes comments about my bookcases and sofa not *quite* matching. Lord knows what she could do with a Rosie Prototype...
It's more expensive because we need to pay for the robot housekeepers...
Penguins are in the Southern Hemisphere, out of range I'm afraid. We could import 'em.
I was reading some of the "facts" on the website-- they consider Korea to be one country already, claming 222,200 km2 in land area and 70mil population, actually the sum of both figures of both North and South Korea. There is absolutely no mention of itself as "North Korea" nor any of "South Korea". I find this a little disconcerting, and if they did have nukes I'd be worried. If they believe their own prophaganda and have a means to make it real we're in trouble. To be fair, I checked out the South's website (y'know, to "shop around") and they still differentiate themselves from the North. And why does the PDRK need my e-mail address? I noticed it was red like the required entries but did not have the asterisk so I left it out. I'm probably in enough trouble checking out a website for the axis o' evil.
Oh, and how does one contrstuct an underwater "wind farm"? Okay, I'll stop needling.
10MW won't make a dent I think, but it's a good idea as an experiment. It would be barely 1% of the capacity of one of the nuclear plants up the road.