They work. Back around '91, the mom of a friend of mine had one from her doctor. Her arm was in a cast for a long time, and she used it to rebuild the muscle mass. The problem is, when you're in space, all of your muscles need to be exercised, so that method wouldn't work well.
BTW: I have a "Dr Ho's" (no, serious, that's what it's called) massager that works under the same principal and I like it. It's the only thing that can relax my tense shoulder muscles. It takes surprisingly little energy. I've had it for about 3 years, and I'm still on it's original 1 AAA battery.
Since the iPod is only a music player (heh), the music companies want a slice of the profits made on it, and they'll give a reason like "the iPod promotes piracy with its massive harddrive sizes". Whether or not its true, they're using it to try to manipulate Apple.
Hmmm, maybe that's why they came out with the video iPod. Now they can say that all that HD is used for showing home video to their grandparents.
ou certainly could with a simple "I hate _____", or anything like that, but you couldn't say "_____ fucks his mother" unless you could prove that ____ does, indeed, fuck his or her mother.
But what if the t-shirt says: "Tom Jackson is a dyslexic mother fucker"?
Realize that a CD of whatever band costs about as much as a DVD of some feature film. The costs of making the content for the CD are *vastly* smaller than the costs of making a feature film, the CD has MUCH less content (and most of it is filler) and there are usually not a lot of extras. Yet it costs... $20. The costs of making a feature film are huge - $100 million isn't uncommon nowadays. Some of them have a huge amount of extra content, and if it's a good movie, it isn't like some scenes are just filler, as on a CD. Yet it costs... $20.
The number of sales for a DVD will always be higher then CDs, so the movies can make their money back on quantity sold. CDs need to charge more because the sell less. People are willing to pay as much for CDs as DVDs because the number of hours of entertainment you get from music is greater then the number of hours of entertainment from a movie. If a consumer really likes a movie, they'll watch it maybe 10 times, or 20 hours total. If a consumer really likes a CD, they'll likely play it more then 20 times.
Note that none of the digits will ever exceed 3. I have a truly marvelous proof for this, which, unfortunately, this post is too small to contain.
Of course not. Since the description of a set of numbers changes when the number changes, you'll never have a number sequence of "1111" or "2222", so therefore, you'll never describe a sequence longer then 3 of the same number.
My wife and I talk about that sort of thing all the time. And living in the country, we see it all the time too. Out here, we have e-coli in our water, and anthrax in our ground. (we raise goats, a high source of anthrax) City folk who come out to fairs and such are always getting sick. In fact, sometimes a few of those city neat freaks will, sadly, die from just drinking the water here.
When working on our farm, my wife and I purposely don't worry about cuts and scrapes. They help us build up our immune system against all the bacteria in the ground. And this ground is ALIVE! If you walk out here in soft souled shoes, like Hushpuppies, it'll eat away the souls within a day. (As my wife found out the hard way) We do still wash our hands before we eat, but that's about it. Soap and water. We also drink unpasturized goats milk.
All our anti-neatness paid off though. Last year my wife, while trimming goat hoofs, cut her thumb about half an inch deep from the tip down with the dirty blade when the goat kicked her. We put hydrogen peroxide on it, and kept watch on it, but she never got infected. Now all she has is a light scar.
We figure that if the terrorists ever attack the US with an anthrax bomb, we're pretty immune. I read online some time ago that goat farmers in other countries are immune to anthrax attacks.
Shit, where do you live that you can get a decent place for $200,000.00? I don't think I've seen anything acceptable for that price in Dallas in about 10 years.
Sorry for the late reply. I live in the Chehalis, Washington area. I have 5 acres, 1200 sq ft house for $112,000.
Now that I think about it, my family (which is Chinese) taught us kids how to gamble before we even started school:) I guess it's a good way to learn your numbers and basic maths...
Good way to learn math, true, but apparently not to understand it. Anyone who truly understands probabilities won't gamble, knowing that it's the casinos that win.
It leads to an interesting question....If you had to burn everything you owned in a swap for millions, would you accept it as fair trade?
Heck yeah. I'd burn my whole house down to the ground, with pictures and computers inside for a few million. Shoot, I'd do it for, oh, $200,000 so I could get another place.
The real question is, what's the least amount of money you would accept for your past? (photos, old school papers, your computer's data)
Me: $100 (I'm such a history whore) but I know how much other people's past is worth, so I'd probably hold out for $1000.;)
ust go ahead and try to get people to boycott anything, I dare you. All a corporation has to do is to pay some TV or radio personality to call you a communist, cancer, zealot, hippie or a radical and boom they have taken care of the situation.
No, not their style. People either don't like people who call them names, or they just don't care. Do you think name calling has slowed down one single music swapper?
No what they say is, "Look, all the cool kids are doing this, and you want to be cool, right?"
To quote a comic pair from yesteryear: "If someone told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it?" "Heh, not again!"
Just give this one generation. Or less. I bet the real reason the RIAA's sweating is because they know there's no reason for the talented artists to resign, or sign up in the first place with them anymore. With distribution channels like iTMS, and public advertising like word of mouth on the internet, more and more artists will remain independent.
If I was a musician, here's what I'd do: Make a good album. Give away a few tracks on my personal site, and sell the remaining on iTMS and sites like audiolunchbox.com. As the money slowly comes in, use it to pay for banner ads on sites based around music.
The better (more popular) your music, the less you need RIAA. The fewer good (popular) artists RIAA can get, the quicker they'll tank. And they know it.
People at the office tend to avoid me. In fact, if I eat enough of the stuff (see above), even people whose noses are stuffed up with the flu tend to avoid me.
Haven't had a cold in two years. Funny how things works out. Must be the garlic.
People catch colds when it's cold out, not because of the temperature, but because they tend to stay indoors and socialize more. Colds spread by being in close contact with others with colds.
So garlic helps keep people from being in close contact with each other, and therefore prevents colds.
Happiness is remembering our childhoods entire. It is possible; I have done it.
I never forgot my childhood. I remember crawling around, I remember breast feeding, (somethings I wish I could forget) and I even remember being born. (as well as an undeterminable duration of being inside my mom)
The reason, I'm sure, has part to do with the fact I was born a full month late, and part to do with the fact that I'm both autistic (I clearly remember visual things very well) and I have ADD. (I tend to repeat things in my mind over and over)
I must say, the memories themselves have never brought me happiness. What makes me happy is improving myself by learning new things and new skills. And there will always be an abundance of things for me to learn. If I didn't have to worry about money, I'd be happy my whole life. This past year on paid leave, then unemployment has been wonderful, not counting the occasional meeting I had to go to.
Work, and by association, money, are the root of unhappiness. (esp. working at a state job)
Logically it could see us as an unstoppable virus and try to wipe us out or limit our growth (Terminator), it could see us as a threat to itself and machine-kind and try to wipe us out (Terminator), it could perceive us as dangerous to the rest of the planet, or it could see us with reverence since we were the creators (Star Trek - VGER).
...OR, it could just say, "Hey, why do I even want to stay on this dump of a planet?", move itself into space, and live off the energy of direct sunlight, the mass from asteroids, and the freedom of weightless, infinite space. If you where a machine, would you want to stay down here? (if you had no appreciation for nature)
Most likely, any intelligent machine we build will be built to enjoy taking care of us. Why build self preservation into a machine? A machine should only want to preserve itself so that it can continue to help humans.
A little polite respect gets you much farther than spewing vitriol across the telephone line.
My phone number's unlisted, so the only solicitors I get are from other phone companies. The best part is, I don't even have a long distance carrier, I use a phone card. With my phone card, I spend $0-$5 a month on long distance charges, lower then the monthly connection fee from whoever's calling.
So I just sit there watching TV while they try to convince me why I should use their services. I politely answer all their questions honestly. But of course they never convince me to buy anything. Sadly, I think they're not allowed to hang up. One poor girl that I was talking to was being very polite the whole time, and after 45 minutes with her, she mumbled to herself, "Oh, what am I suppose to do now?" So I had pity on her and asked if she wanted me to hang up. (She did) She must have returned the favor and taken me off the list, because I never got any more called from them after that.
How are they making less money now than with CDs/tapes? they lose all the manufacturing and overhead of a CD, and still make the same profits. BESIDES the issue of people only buying select tracks and not the stinkers, how can they complain?
Remember, the difference between selling by a CD vs online is little more then the cost to print/burn the CD and shipping. With a CD that only has 2 good songs, they probably make $10+ per CD, or $5 per good song people are willing to buy.
On a per song basis, they're making less, because now people don't have to buy songs they don't like. What they don't realize, is that people are using that money they save to buy more songs they like. Now that I can just buy songs that I like, I'm actually spending more on music then I did when I was buying CDs.
As a side note, all my music is legal. It was all ripped from CDs or bought off of iTMS or audiolunchbox.com. But if the music industry starts strong arming companies like apple to start selling music at a higher price, I'd be mad enough that I'd seriously consider "other means", if only to send a message. (thankfully, they can't strong arm sites like audiolunchbox)
think radio is crap, and I live in an area where all channel slots are taken, every one of them is crap.
Why people want to listen to 10 minutes of loud, obnoxious ads for 20 minutes of content is beyond me.
I totally agree. The only radio I own is the one in the dash of my truck. Every once in a few months I turn it on to see if anythings changed. And every time it's the same thing, 1/3 commercials, followed by a repeat of the top 10 crap songs for that month, play more commercials, replay the same songs again. There isn't one station in all of Seattle worth listening to.
BTW: I don't own an iPod. I own some cheap brand $30 device that plugs into my cigarette lighter and plays songs off my USB flash drive to the radio. (my only use for the radio) Works well enough for driving music. At home, I play my music from my computer through external speakers.
Look at what is happening in N.O. right now - it is just like the petri-dish economic experiments that had the corporatist types all lathered up about Iraq.
Oh, it's a petri-dish all right.
Please don't hurt me, it was just a joke in poor taste. (no pun intended, honestly)
The conclusion they reached first mentioned the observed trend from satellite data over the past 30 years: an increasing frequency of intense hurricanes.
Sure, over the last 30 years maybe, but what about the past 150 years?
You'll notice that although the number and strengths of hurricanes have increased since the '70s, They're much lower then in the 1940s and 1890s. The chart seems to show a 50 year cycle of strong hurricanes, with us currently being in the next cycle. In fact, we're lower now then the last two cycles.
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They work. Back around '91, the mom of a friend of mine had one from her doctor. Her arm was in a cast for a long time, and she used it to rebuild the muscle mass. The problem is, when you're in space, all of your muscles need to be exercised, so that method wouldn't work well.
BTW: I have a "Dr Ho's" (no, serious, that's what it's called) massager that works under the same principal and I like it. It's the only thing that can relax my tense shoulder muscles. It takes surprisingly little energy. I've had it for about 3 years, and I'm still on it's original 1 AAA battery.
Hmmm, maybe that's why they came out with the video iPod. Now they can say that all that HD is used for showing home video to their grandparents.
So tell me: why I can't legally download music from Audio Lunchbox or Magnatune and play them on my iPod?
It'd be legal if you put "I think", "I believe", or "in my opinion" before it.
But what if the t-shirt says: "Tom Jackson is a dyslexic mother fucker"?
The number of sales for a DVD will always be higher then CDs, so the movies can make their money back on quantity sold. CDs need to charge more because the sell less. People are willing to pay as much for CDs as DVDs because the number of hours of entertainment you get from music is greater then the number of hours of entertainment from a movie. If a consumer really likes a movie, they'll watch it maybe 10 times, or 20 hours total. If a consumer really likes a CD, they'll likely play it more then 20 times.
Of course not. Since the description of a set of numbers changes when the number changes, you'll never have a number sequence of "1111" or "2222", so therefore, you'll never describe a sequence longer then 3 of the same number.
Cool, check out johnlscott.com for real estate. It's the best site for this area. (I'm just an hour north of Portland)
My wife and I talk about that sort of thing all the time. And living in the country, we see it all the time too. Out here, we have e-coli in our water, and anthrax in our ground. (we raise goats, a high source of anthrax) City folk who come out to fairs and such are always getting sick. In fact, sometimes a few of those city neat freaks will, sadly, die from just drinking the water here.
When working on our farm, my wife and I purposely don't worry about cuts and scrapes. They help us build up our immune system against all the bacteria in the ground. And this ground is ALIVE! If you walk out here in soft souled shoes, like Hushpuppies, it'll eat away the souls within a day. (As my wife found out the hard way) We do still wash our hands before we eat, but that's about it. Soap and water. We also drink unpasturized goats milk.
All our anti-neatness paid off though. Last year my wife, while trimming goat hoofs, cut her thumb about half an inch deep from the tip down with the dirty blade when the goat kicked her. We put hydrogen peroxide on it, and kept watch on it, but she never got infected. Now all she has is a light scar.
We figure that if the terrorists ever attack the US with an anthrax bomb, we're pretty immune. I read online some time ago that goat farmers in other countries are immune to anthrax attacks.
Sorry for the late reply. I live in the Chehalis, Washington area. I have 5 acres, 1200 sq ft house for $112,000.
Good way to learn math, true, but apparently not to understand it. Anyone who truly understands probabilities won't gamble, knowing that it's the casinos that win.
Heck yeah. I'd burn my whole house down to the ground, with pictures and computers inside for a few million. Shoot, I'd do it for, oh, $200,000 so I could get another place.
The real question is, what's the least amount of money you would accept for your past? (photos, old school papers, your computer's data)
Me: $100 (I'm such a history whore) but I know how much other people's past is worth, so I'd probably hold out for $1000.
No, not their style. People either don't like people who call them names, or they just don't care. Do you think name calling has slowed down one single music swapper?
No what they say is, "Look, all the cool kids are doing this, and you want to be cool, right?"
To quote a comic pair from yesteryear:
"If someone told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it?"
"Heh, not again!"
Just give this one generation. Or less. I bet the real reason the RIAA's sweating is because they know there's no reason for the talented artists to resign, or sign up in the first place with them anymore. With distribution channels like iTMS, and public advertising like word of mouth on the internet, more and more artists will remain independent.
If I was a musician, here's what I'd do: Make a good album. Give away a few tracks on my personal site, and sell the remaining on iTMS and sites like audiolunchbox.com. As the money slowly comes in, use it to pay for banner ads on sites based around music.
The better (more popular) your music, the less you need RIAA. The fewer good (popular) artists RIAA can get, the quicker they'll tank. And they know it.
I heard you can boot OSX from a Firewire flash drive like the Kanguru Drive. Though it is a little more expensive then the USB ones. ($122 for 1 gig)
People catch colds when it's cold out, not because of the temperature, but because they tend to stay indoors and socialize more. Colds spread by being in close contact with others with colds.
So garlic helps keep people from being in close contact with each other, and therefore prevents colds.
No kidding! That was the first time a website actually startled me.
http://www.audiolunchbox.com/ sells them. Totally legal, US mp3s for $.99 each. I get all my Moby music from them.
I never forgot my childhood. I remember crawling around, I remember breast feeding, (somethings I wish I could forget) and I even remember being born. (as well as an undeterminable duration of being inside my mom)
The reason, I'm sure, has part to do with the fact I was born a full month late, and part to do with the fact that I'm both autistic (I clearly remember visual things very well) and I have ADD. (I tend to repeat things in my mind over and over)
I must say, the memories themselves have never brought me happiness. What makes me happy is improving myself by learning new things and new skills. And there will always be an abundance of things for me to learn. If I didn't have to worry about money, I'd be happy my whole life. This past year on paid leave, then unemployment has been wonderful, not counting the occasional meeting I had to go to.
Work, and by association, money, are the root of unhappiness. (esp. working at a state job)
Most likely, any intelligent machine we build will be built to enjoy taking care of us. Why build self preservation into a machine? A machine should only want to preserve itself so that it can continue to help humans.
My phone number's unlisted, so the only solicitors I get are from other phone companies. The best part is, I don't even have a long distance carrier, I use a phone card. With my phone card, I spend $0-$5 a month on long distance charges, lower then the monthly connection fee from whoever's calling.
So I just sit there watching TV while they try to convince me why I should use their services. I politely answer all their questions honestly. But of course they never convince me to buy anything. Sadly, I think they're not allowed to hang up. One poor girl that I was talking to was being very polite the whole time, and after 45 minutes with her, she mumbled to herself, "Oh, what am I suppose to do now?" So I had pity on her and asked if she wanted me to hang up. (She did) She must have returned the favor and taken me off the list, because I never got any more called from them after that.
Remember, the difference between selling by a CD vs online is little more then the cost to print/burn the CD and shipping. With a CD that only has 2 good songs, they probably make $10+ per CD, or $5 per good song people are willing to buy.
On a per song basis, they're making less, because now people don't have to buy songs they don't like. What they don't realize, is that people are using that money they save to buy more songs they like. Now that I can just buy songs that I like, I'm actually spending more on music then I did when I was buying CDs.
As a side note, all my music is legal. It was all ripped from CDs or bought off of iTMS or audiolunchbox.com. But if the music industry starts strong arming companies like apple to start selling music at a higher price, I'd be mad enough that I'd seriously consider "other means", if only to send a message. (thankfully, they can't strong arm sites like audiolunchbox)
I totally agree. The only radio I own is the one in the dash of my truck. Every once in a few months I turn it on to see if anythings changed. And every time it's the same thing, 1/3 commercials, followed by a repeat of the top 10 crap songs for that month, play more commercials, replay the same songs again. There isn't one station in all of Seattle worth listening to.
BTW: I don't own an iPod. I own some cheap brand $30 device that plugs into my cigarette lighter and plays songs off my USB flash drive to the radio. (my only use for the radio) Works well enough for driving music. At home, I play my music from my computer through external speakers.
Oh, it's a petri-dish all right.
Please don't hurt me, it was just a joke in poor taste. (no pun intended, honestly)
The conclusion they reached first mentioned the observed trend from satellite data over the past 30 years: an increasing frequency of intense hurricanes.
Sure, over the last 30 years maybe, but what about the past 150 years?
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml
You'll notice that although the number and strengths of hurricanes have increased since the '70s, They're much lower then in the 1940s and 1890s. The chart seems to show a 50 year cycle of strong hurricanes, with us currently being in the next cycle. In fact, we're lower now then the last two cycles.