Okay thats it, I am tacking the "sarcasm" tag on the end of any parody posts I make from now on. The above was meant to be a taste of whats to come from the shilling-effect cheney shills. Sigh. Actually I'm pretty good at it. Thought provoking yet disturbingly close to reality, while being utter tripe. Maybe I should apply there for a job?;-D
The above post is a complete troll, guns and bombs never killed anyone, its people that killed people! And of course people are motivated by ideas, so the only thing you really can declare war on is an idea, such as terrorism. I think the Generals in the Pentagon have our best interests at heart, regardless of what unsavoury methods might be used to achieve those goals. The question to ask is, whether you would prefer a war of words, or a war of guns and bombs?
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Already posted this a couple of times but this is really really odd... Theres something fishy going on here. Whats this?
BEIJING, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- More than half of Chinese middle-aged men show symptoms of depression, irascibility, aching joints, excessive sweating as well as a fading interest in sex because of a lack of testosterone, a recent health survey suggested.
Are testosterone salesmen shilling the world now? I call shenanigans...
Exactly... Theres something fishy going on here. Whats this?
BEIJING, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- More than half of Chinese middle-aged men show symptoms of depression, irascibility, aching joints, excessive sweating as well as a fading interest in sex because of a lack of testosterone, a recent health survey suggested.
Are testosterone salesmen shilling the world now? I call shenanigans...
USA what? Theres something fishy going on here. Whats this?
BEIJING, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- More than half of Chinese middle-aged men show symptoms of depression, irascibility, aching joints, excessive sweating as well as a fading interest in sex because of a lack of testosterone, a recent health survey suggested.
Are testosterone salesmen shilling the world now? I call shenanigans...
Doh, can't edit posts on slashdot. In addition, the smart move would have been to buy out these fansites and merchandise and incorporate it into their Firefly merchandising efforts. Everybody wins, and they get to keep selling the merch for their own profit for the foreseeable future.
As far as I can see from one of the links above in the headline, Universal actively encouraged and attempted to "consolidate" the large fanbase in an effort to virally market the movie. To take your lawnmowing analogy, they gathered up a bunch of kids that liked mowing lawns, and asked them to mow their lawn, before suing some of them for selling "Great Universal Lawnmowing Festival, everyone invited for another one next year!" t-shirts. Not only is it stupid, its probably illegal, so the kids are now asking for payment for their time and effort.
# I don't think there is any natural gas anywhere in Donnegal, although I don't know for other counties. Homes are heated with "turf" - chopped up bog grasses that are burned in miniature fireplaces. Quaint, but I'll take my Trane furnace.
# No natural gas makes hot water interesting. Don't simply assume that you will have hot water whenever you want it if you are visiting.
I don't know why you didn't just stay somewhere with electric showers. The use of turf is mostly a rural thing, and it's free; families go out cutting turf during the summer and lay in a stockpile for the winter. Next time pop down to Galway or Cork, theres as much difference between Donegal and Galway as there is between Iowa and New England, or California and New York.
Germans might not laugh very much, or smile very much at that, but it doesn't mean they don't have a sense of humour. They laugh at the fact that so many people in Ireland died of starvation during the "potato famine" of 1845-1849 when Ireland is completely surrounded by water. All they had to do was go fishing.
See what I mean? Not so much as a chicken crossing the road in there. Sigh.
Seriously, we have a young population (of a mere 4 million for a reasonably large country), theres no sectarian violence, people are well known for their friendliness, and its very easy to get in with an IT qualification. Also, you can say what you like about the Germans, Netherlands or Scandinavian countries, but lets face it; they have no sense of humour. Ireland won the "happiest place on earth to live" award not so long ago, we have a great deal of wealth, and employment is in good shape. You wouldn't bat an eyelid to see politicians and leaders ambling down the street buying groceries, although the downside is crazy property prices, which by all accounts are soon to collapse. Emigrants come home!
Then you realize that the social services suck. Want a painkiller for your broken leg? Tough. Want an annual dental checkup? Tough. Want a cop to investigate repeated break-ins? Tough.
Erm. Wut. This is complete and utter xenophobic tripe. Who modded this up? This doesn't represent the generally good health services and generally excellent police services you get in most of Europe at all. As for making something of yourself through hard work, you might try telling that to Mercedes, from your rust belt there. What a moran.
There are tricky ethical issues that have to be addressed and science operates, or should operate, within a code of ethics.
Not really. Why not just culture them in a petri dish? Cells taken from ethically acceptable sources, of course. Given the right conditions, you could do it on an industrial scale, surely?
Speaking as an American, "embryonic" stem cell research is one of those polarizing issues (like abortion) which at worst is ripping apart our nation and at best is keeping our representatives from cooperating with each other on the MUNDANE tasks of government because they are so busy stroking their respective constituencies passion with such hot-button issues
Okay. My point was, the rest of the world is zipping merrily ahead while the US sits and debates politics and/or religion, and turns good science into another chess piece. Better sort it out quick or you'll be left too far behind to catch up!
Its a bit like building a railroad but starting out with model trains.
Indeed. It rather reminds me of one of those black and white 1920s films where everyone is running around at high speed, to a catchy little ditty on the piano, only I'd take it less seriously. I mean what, from the sounds of it these guys couldn't find a good time in a whorehouse, and they claim they are trying to build a space elevator?
Cheers to that ol' chap Hammurabi. What greater gift to pass on to future generations than a bunch of laws? Better than trying to raise 'em up with values.
Laws were created for when values fail, for whatever reason. The problem is that a lot of people have lost sight of what the laws are for, and the law enforcers. Laws are codified vengeance to prevent people taking revenge for themselves. The police exist to get convictions. Lots of laws are a mistake, lots of police are an even bigger mistake. Both are absoloutely neccessary, however.
Although ya know, this gives me an idea. If you can patent something as braindead as this, why not declare other, more common business practices patentable ??? profit? Hell even something thats not a business practice, like wiping your arse, you could claim it was! Patent "lawyering", why didn't anyone think of that?
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Okay thats it, I am tacking the "sarcasm" tag on the end of any parody posts I make from now on. The above was meant to be a taste of whats to come from the shilling-effect cheney shills. Sigh. Actually I'm pretty good at it. Thought provoking yet disturbingly close to reality, while being utter tripe. Maybe I should apply there for a job? ;-D
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The above post is a complete troll, guns and bombs never killed anyone, its people that killed people! And of course people are motivated by ideas, so the only thing you really can declare war on is an idea, such as terrorism. I think the Generals in the Pentagon have our best interests at heart, regardless of what unsavoury methods might be used to achieve those goals. The question to ask is, whether you would prefer a war of words, or a war of guns and bombs?
This message was brought to you by Dick Cheney's lapdogs, in the name of president pubes.
How is that redundant, dipshit? The article is about the US, the one linked is about China, yet they were released on the same day.
Already posted this a couple of times but this is really really odd... Theres something fishy going on here. Whats this?
BEIJING, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- More than half of Chinese middle-aged men show symptoms of depression, irascibility, aching joints, excessive sweating as well as a fading interest in sex because of a lack of testosterone, a recent health survey suggested.
Are testosterone salesmen shilling the world now? I call shenanigans...
Exactly... Theres something fishy going on here. Whats this?
BEIJING, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- More than half of Chinese middle-aged men show symptoms of depression, irascibility, aching joints, excessive sweating as well as a fading interest in sex because of a lack of testosterone, a recent health survey suggested.
Are testosterone salesmen shilling the world now? I call shenanigans...
USA what? Theres something fishy going on here. Whats this?
BEIJING, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- More than half of Chinese middle-aged men show symptoms of depression, irascibility, aching joints, excessive sweating as well as a fading interest in sex because of a lack of testosterone, a recent health survey suggested.
Are testosterone salesmen shilling the world now? I call shenanigans...
It works for the Iraqis because they're willing to die to take out their enemies.
Tell that to the IRA.
Doh, can't edit posts on slashdot. In addition, the smart move would have been to buy out these fansites and merchandise and incorporate it into their Firefly merchandising efforts. Everybody wins, and they get to keep selling the merch for their own profit for the foreseeable future.
As far as I can see from one of the links above in the headline, Universal actively encouraged and attempted to "consolidate" the large fanbase in an effort to virally market the movie. To take your lawnmowing analogy, they gathered up a bunch of kids that liked mowing lawns, and asked them to mow their lawn, before suing some of them for selling "Great Universal Lawnmowing Festival, everyone invited for another one next year!" t-shirts. Not only is it stupid, its probably illegal, so the kids are now asking for payment for their time and effort.
Um... what about the religious wars you folks were / are having? Not sure I'd be happy to be caught in any of that, frankly.
Three words for you. Read. A. Newspaper.
Yeah, but you have to admit that the Irish are only funny when they're drunk :)
Ah no you have it back to front, we're only drunk because the rest of Europe isn't funny!
# I don't think there is any natural gas anywhere in Donnegal, although I don't know for other counties. Homes are heated with "turf" - chopped up bog grasses that are burned in miniature fireplaces. Quaint, but I'll take my Trane furnace.
# No natural gas makes hot water interesting. Don't simply assume that you will have hot water whenever you want it if you are visiting.
I don't know why you didn't just stay somewhere with electric showers. The use of turf is mostly a rural thing, and it's free; families go out cutting turf during the summer and lay in a stockpile for the winter. Next time pop down to Galway or Cork, theres as much difference between Donegal and Galway as there is between Iowa and New England, or California and New York.
Actually, Denmark is the happiest place to live with the happiest people so bollocks to Ireland at #11.
The Economist begs to differ...
Germans might not laugh very much, or smile very much at that, but it doesn't mean they don't have a sense of humour. They laugh at the fact that so many people in Ireland died of starvation during the "potato famine" of 1845-1849 when Ireland is completely surrounded by water. All they had to do was go fishing.
See what I mean? Not so much as a chicken crossing the road in there. Sigh.
Seriously, we have a young population (of a mere 4 million for a reasonably large country), theres no sectarian violence, people are well known for their friendliness, and its very easy to get in with an IT qualification. Also, you can say what you like about the Germans, Netherlands or Scandinavian countries, but lets face it; they have no sense of humour. Ireland won the "happiest place on earth to live" award not so long ago, we have a great deal of wealth, and employment is in good shape. You wouldn't bat an eyelid to see politicians and leaders ambling down the street buying groceries, although the downside is crazy property prices, which by all accounts are soon to collapse. Emigrants come home!
Then you realize that the social services suck. Want a painkiller for your broken leg? Tough. Want an annual dental checkup? Tough. Want a cop to investigate repeated break-ins? Tough.
Erm. Wut. This is complete and utter xenophobic tripe. Who modded this up? This doesn't represent the generally good health services and generally excellent police services you get in most of Europe at all. As for making something of yourself through hard work, you might try telling that to Mercedes, from your rust belt there. What a moran.
There are tricky ethical issues that have to be addressed and science operates, or should operate, within a code of ethics.
Not really. Why not just culture them in a petri dish? Cells taken from ethically acceptable sources, of course. Given the right conditions, you could do it on an industrial scale, surely?
Speaking as an American, "embryonic" stem cell research is one of those polarizing issues (like abortion) which at worst is ripping apart our nation and at best is keeping our representatives from cooperating with each other on the MUNDANE tasks of government because they are so busy stroking their respective constituencies passion with such hot-button issues
Okay. My point was, the rest of the world is zipping merrily ahead while the US sits and debates politics and/or religion, and turns good science into another chess piece. Better sort it out quick or you'll be left too far behind to catch up!
such research is funded at the federal level.
Speaking as a European, I can safely say, so what?
That flying gimmick will never take off :)
Do you think they managed to remember what the wingspan was, down to the closest 10 meters or so? These guys should have their own sitcom, seriously.
I'm not knocking the acheivement of this group, just putting it in perspective.
At least they managed to get higher than 50 meters. Or was it 60? Haaaaaaahahaaa, tragic...
Yes but, if you were running a competition, do you think you could remember how long the cable is?
Its a bit like building a railroad but starting out with model trains.
Indeed. It rather reminds me of one of those black and white 1920s films where everyone is running around at high speed, to a catchy little ditty on the piano, only I'd take it less seriously. I mean what, from the sounds of it these guys couldn't find a good time in a whorehouse, and they claim they are trying to build a space elevator?
In the words of the Jesus
Laughable, man! Haaaaa ha!!
Cheers to that ol' chap Hammurabi. What greater gift to pass on to future generations than a bunch of laws? Better than trying to raise 'em up with values.
Laws were created for when values fail, for whatever reason. The problem is that a lot of people have lost sight of what the laws are for, and the law enforcers. Laws are codified vengeance to prevent people taking revenge for themselves. The police exist to get convictions. Lots of laws are a mistake, lots of police are an even bigger mistake. Both are absoloutely neccessary, however.
Although ya know, this gives me an idea. If you can patent something as braindead as this, why not declare other, more common business practices patentable ??? profit? Hell even something thats not a business practice, like wiping your arse, you could claim it was! Patent "lawyering", why didn't anyone think of that?
Thats what I said.