When I was a kid, no such thing as "anti bacterial soap" existed for the public's use. Soap, of several varieties did, and that was used. I played in the mud as a kid, drank out of the hose in the yard (in the summer, you ran it because the water in it was HOT... not to clean/clear anything out of it that may be bad for you or living in there. I remember seeing ants and/or spiders crawl out of the hose when I picked it up. I ran the water until a cool temp, drank, and shut off the hose without giving it a second thought.) and like most kids those (and these?) days, usually cleaned up when Mom and/or Dad forced you to. Was I sick? Not really. Maybe a cold every year or two, depending on where we lived. As an adult, I never was phobic about any and all germs around me. At my current age (45), I am still healthy as a horse. I don't really remember the last time I had a cold that was much more than simple sniffles. The last time I missed work was from hernia surgery. I have that wonderful feature of an IMMUNE SYSTEM. I feel that your body can be conditioned to have one. Anti bacterial soaps, etc. kill EVERY germ you have on your skin, both good AND bad. No thanks. I never have used that stuff, and have ZERO interest in using it. I'll stick to common soaps and shampoos, thanks...
Now GET OFF MY LAWN (and I'll get off my soapbox, no pun intended)
No wonder kids are joining gangs and such nowadays. With assclowns like this (and you can't tell me he's the only one in the US), it's no goddamn wonder. You have 4 kids here, wanting to actually, honestly make money to make more money to open a business (what did they call that? The American Dream?), and jackoff boy here shoots them down. Now, that being said, if they set up for say months, or interfered with traffic in the park, either vehicle or foot, I could see giving them shit about it... geeze... idiots like that don't need to procreate, plain and simple. Ok, I'm climbing off my soapbox now.
Actually, it was common for "actors" to talk (also the Director, etc.) during filming, seeing as there was no sound, direction could be given second by second, and she could have been answering the Director or telling them something. Also, her hand seems, to me, to be shielding the early morning sun from her eyes more than just the hat was able to. I have also seen older people (70's+) hold their hand like this, as somewhat of a precursor to Arthritis.
As a native of Nevada, and I mean I've been here since the 60's, the roads here that this would apply to the most (and I would GLADLY pay the tab for) are times like you're driving from Reno to either Elko or Vegas. Reno to Vegas is around 450 miles, all good, pretty straight road, and BORING AS HELL at even the 75mph it's at in the open areas. At 90mph, that would do wonders for your driving time. Also, keep this in mind kids... Nevada was one of the last states to go to the 55mph speed limit back in the day. Matter of fact, Nevada had to be threatened by the US DOT to change to 55mph. When the change came, and Nevada said "no thanks", the US DOT said "fine, no highway funds", to which Nevada changed to 55mph, BUT, you could speed up to 70mph and only pay a $5 "resources wasting fee". NOW, if you were say doing 75mph, you would get busted for the 20mph over the limit. Also, in this state, 20mph is "careless" driving plus the speeding, and 30mph is "reckless" driving. Careless is a nasty ticket, but Reckless can get you not only arrested, but your vehicle impounded. Just a little fyi folks.
Yeh, knucklehead, and they also know where ELSE you sleep, i.e. if you're boffing your secretary, or the girl next door, etc... or at least they know where your phone is at night...
EVERY broadcast signal that starts on this planet, or the Moon, or in orbit radiates in ALL directions. We have little control over their directions, so we've been broadcasting into space for nearly a century. Plus, I think the Skrull, from a Fantastic Four comic a few decades ago said it best, when one of the Skrull told Reed Richards "If you knew what was out there in the universe, you would be HIDING, not trying to contact them..."
Several years ago (around 2006 or 2007 seems like) I was working in a Dell warehouse in the western USA. (Yes, I'm being vague. I was security there, and don't really want the lawsuit if this can be traced back to me. Bear with me.) Now, all we dealt with were laptops, and "portable electronics", and printers and monitors. Never made sense to me that the same place an order would come in for a laptop would have a monitor too, but who am I to say anything? ANYHOW, the laptops would come in on large sheets. Now a normal semi trailer would have up to 5 of these sheets in them, loaded to the ceiling, and wrapped in layers of blue and clear plastic. ALL of the Dell laptops at the time came from Malaysia, period. No where else. So, we get a load in one day, and the workers start peeling these layers of plastic like usual. The laptops were packed in the Styrofoam shells, but no other packaging, all that was done there at the warehouse. When the last layer came off, it was discovered that all of these Styrofoam shells (which yes, were just packaging, and in no way were waterproof) were SOAKED. Seems like there was a rainstorm, or monsoon or some such over there while they were loading these on the boat, and they were wrapped during the storm. I SAW a laptop Styrofoam shell picked up off the stack, and tipped over and watched water POUR out of it. Know what Dell did? First thing was to call the bigwigs. It was decided to drain one, and let it dry for a few hours. After it appeared to be dry, they would turn it on. If it booted, they were to ship the lot. Early that afternoon, they turned on the "test" laptop, it fired up, and they shut it down, packed it up, and processed that flat of laptops like they had a conscious. By Dell? HELL NO, at least not the laptops...
Wow... am I the only one that actually went to the site to read their ad? The ad states that the device comes with it's own set of eye ware for protection. Plus, battery life, via lithium Ion batteries, is 120 minutes. it's around 255mm long, and nearly 40mm wide, so it's NOT small. I DID think that it was amusing that they alluded to it's possible self defense use. Tell me, if someone were mugging you, if you waved this in their face, that it wouldn't almost be worth it to tell the cops "yeh, officer, the guy you're looking for is around 5' 10", white, brown hair, and a burnt "W" in his face. No, I'm not joking..."
As one that was born in 1965, I DO remember saving for a few months to get my Vic-20 for $150, plus another $150 for the tape drive. I remember when CompuServe was $2.49 an HOUR of "internet" time, not that it was called that. Those were still the days of dialing directly who you wanted to communicate with. How do you think I feel buddy? I also remember the days of Motorola brick style phones that ran $1500, no contracts and pricing was usually around a buck a minute of cell time. Just like I remember the ads for a the first cell phone that was, gasp! less than half a pound in weight!!! Amazing, eh?I remember a time when ONLY those with some serious money had a cell phone, or even a "real" computer in the house, not just something like my old Vic.
Do I feel old? You betcha...
Personally... I used to have a 1981 VW Rabbit with a 1.4 liter gas engine that reliably got 38 MPG. Now, I'm not the EPA, but to me, that was pretty damn good mileage. With the 10ish gallon tank, I was pushing 400 miles on a tank, and routinely went 250-300 miles without even bothering to check the gas gauge.
And no, it didn't have AC, and yes, it WAS a 5 speed, not a damn auto.
I've never perceived the problem of getting vehicles to turn off engines at traffic lights as being a technical issue. Rather, the problem is much more one of regulation, and forcing everyone to adopt a standard. To make the strategy work, you need to:
(a) get every state in the union, and perhaps every municipality in every state, to modify their traffic lights in the same way, and
(b) get every automaker to make cars that with electronic modules that work with the *SAME* standard as the traffic lights, and
(c) get every class action litigator to agree to not sue anyone.
Business text books clearly say to "run away" from any system that requires broad corporate/public/governmental agreement, particularly if the system involves long-term governmental and corporate cooperation.
Let me add a monkey wrench into your list bud...
I have a 1990 Ford Van... how are you going to get MY old beast to conform to this new toy?...just a question...
I understand the idea of what constitutes "piracy" of media... but to me, it still makes absolutely no sense. Follow me here for a minute...
If I buy a CD at a brick and mortar store (let's say Wal-Mart for the sake of argument) and take it home to listen to on my CD player, all is well with the world.
But now, say my friend that has not heard this CD wants to hear MY copy of it. I can either invite them over to listen to it, or more likely, email him a copy of all or part of it in MP3 format after I had copied MY LEGALLY PURCHASED COPY to my computer. Now, I have just pirated my own copy, or more precisely facilitated my friend to own a pirated copy of my CD. This all sounds far more like I am RENTING the "rights" (what a laugh) to this CD, not buying it. If I can't do with it what I want to, AS LONG AS I'M NOT MAKING MONEY ON IT (like it used to be back in the VHS days), it sure as hell sounds like renting. NOW, if I'm RENTING this CD, does this mean that when/if something happens to it (scratches, etc.) can I get a new CD from Wal-Mart? Or whoever the record company was? Or (lmao) the RIAA?
I just think that the RIAA and MPAA Nazis need to just go the fuck away, not that they will, but it's a nice thought... If I loan/give a copy of a CD or movie to a friend, it IS my goddamn copy, right? Now if my friend starts burning copies and SELLING THEM (a whole different kettle of fish), sure... burn his ass. The whole thing just royally pisses me off due to the total lack of anything resembling common goddamn sense...
You DO understand the difference between a WAR and a COLD WAR, right? WAR=BOMBING and COLD WAR=NO BOMBING... got it? Plus, try checking my post again. Where did I say his goal was to end the Cold War? I said he was instrumental in it's end...
He was instrumental in ending the COLD WAR by way of misinformation leaked to the Soviets (you know, what the Russians were called when there was a SOVIET BLOCK?) that we had the fully functional "Star Wars" system online that would render all of the Soviet missiles irrelevant. Check your history books junior, seeing as it's VERY obvious that you aren't old enough to remember facts like that...
I hear ya, and you're also missing another use for small nukes... mining. Using a pocket nuke to blast loose a bunch of granite is an acceptable use for nukes as well, without the news being blasted about "oh my god!!! We're heading for nuclear winter!!! Oh the carnage!!!" etc...
Were you even ALIVE when he put all the strikers on the street? Honestly, what's the color of the sky on YOUR planet?
He DID end the mainstream Cold War, due to several things of sometimes questionable ethics, but still, at the end of the day, it got DONE.
Now, sorry for sounding assholish, but still... it fries my ass to hear people blast off a load of bullshit about shit that happened either before they were born, or at best, when they were still in diapers...
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Ah, my mistake... who's the current owner of Alpha Centari?
When I was a kid, no such thing as "anti bacterial soap" existed for the public's use. Soap, of several varieties did, and that was used. I played in the mud as a kid, drank out of the hose in the yard (in the summer, you ran it because the water in it was HOT... not to clean/clear anything out of it that may be bad for you or living in there. I remember seeing ants and/or spiders crawl out of the hose when I picked it up. I ran the water until a cool temp, drank, and shut off the hose without giving it a second thought.) and like most kids those (and these?) days, usually cleaned up when Mom and/or Dad forced you to. Was I sick? Not really. Maybe a cold every year or two, depending on where we lived. As an adult, I never was phobic about any and all germs around me. At my current age (45), I am still healthy as a horse. I don't really remember the last time I had a cold that was much more than simple sniffles. The last time I missed work was from hernia surgery. I have that wonderful feature of an IMMUNE SYSTEM. I feel that your body can be conditioned to have one. Anti bacterial soaps, etc. kill EVERY germ you have on your skin, both good AND bad. No thanks. I never have used that stuff, and have ZERO interest in using it. I'll stick to common soaps and shampoos, thanks... Now GET OFF MY LAWN (and I'll get off my soapbox, no pun intended)
...then how much for any of the other planets? I'll put a down payment on Mars right now...
...not if I'm driving my own vehicle... at least not YET (I hope)...
No wonder kids are joining gangs and such nowadays. With assclowns like this (and you can't tell me he's the only one in the US), it's no goddamn wonder. You have 4 kids here, wanting to actually, honestly make money to make more money to open a business (what did they call that? The American Dream?), and jackoff boy here shoots them down. Now, that being said, if they set up for say months, or interfered with traffic in the park, either vehicle or foot, I could see giving them shit about it... geeze... idiots like that don't need to procreate, plain and simple. Ok, I'm climbing off my soapbox now.
Actually, it was common for "actors" to talk (also the Director, etc.) during filming, seeing as there was no sound, direction could be given second by second, and she could have been answering the Director or telling them something. Also, her hand seems, to me, to be shielding the early morning sun from her eyes more than just the hat was able to. I have also seen older people (70's+) hold their hand like this, as somewhat of a precursor to Arthritis.
As a native of Nevada, and I mean I've been here since the 60's, the roads here that this would apply to the most (and I would GLADLY pay the tab for) are times like you're driving from Reno to either Elko or Vegas. Reno to Vegas is around 450 miles, all good, pretty straight road, and BORING AS HELL at even the 75mph it's at in the open areas. At 90mph, that would do wonders for your driving time. Also, keep this in mind kids... Nevada was one of the last states to go to the 55mph speed limit back in the day. Matter of fact, Nevada had to be threatened by the US DOT to change to 55mph. When the change came, and Nevada said "no thanks", the US DOT said "fine, no highway funds", to which Nevada changed to 55mph, BUT, you could speed up to 70mph and only pay a $5 "resources wasting fee". NOW, if you were say doing 75mph, you would get busted for the 20mph over the limit. Also, in this state, 20mph is "careless" driving plus the speeding, and 30mph is "reckless" driving. Careless is a nasty ticket, but Reckless can get you not only arrested, but your vehicle impounded. Just a little fyi folks.
Yeh, knucklehead, and they also know where ELSE you sleep, i.e. if you're boffing your secretary, or the girl next door, etc... or at least they know where your phone is at night...
EVERY broadcast signal that starts on this planet, or the Moon, or in orbit radiates in ALL directions. We have little control over their directions, so we've been broadcasting into space for nearly a century. Plus, I think the Skrull, from a Fantastic Four comic a few decades ago said it best, when one of the Skrull told Reed Richards "If you knew what was out there in the universe, you would be HIDING, not trying to contact them..."
One is tempted to say "DUH!" to then nth volume...
Several years ago (around 2006 or 2007 seems like) I was working in a Dell warehouse in the western USA. (Yes, I'm being vague. I was security there, and don't really want the lawsuit if this can be traced back to me. Bear with me.) Now, all we dealt with were laptops, and "portable electronics", and printers and monitors. Never made sense to me that the same place an order would come in for a laptop would have a monitor too, but who am I to say anything? ANYHOW, the laptops would come in on large sheets. Now a normal semi trailer would have up to 5 of these sheets in them, loaded to the ceiling, and wrapped in layers of blue and clear plastic. ALL of the Dell laptops at the time came from Malaysia, period. No where else. So, we get a load in one day, and the workers start peeling these layers of plastic like usual. The laptops were packed in the Styrofoam shells, but no other packaging, all that was done there at the warehouse. When the last layer came off, it was discovered that all of these Styrofoam shells (which yes, were just packaging, and in no way were waterproof) were SOAKED. Seems like there was a rainstorm, or monsoon or some such over there while they were loading these on the boat, and they were wrapped during the storm. I SAW a laptop Styrofoam shell picked up off the stack, and tipped over and watched water POUR out of it. Know what Dell did? First thing was to call the bigwigs. It was decided to drain one, and let it dry for a few hours. After it appeared to be dry, they would turn it on. If it booted, they were to ship the lot. Early that afternoon, they turned on the "test" laptop, it fired up, and they shut it down, packed it up, and processed that flat of laptops like they had a conscious. By Dell? HELL NO, at least not the laptops...
Just as an adder... I wonder how good the signals were in the bars that they lost the prototypes in? :)
Wow... am I the only one that actually went to the site to read their ad? The ad states that the device comes with it's own set of eye ware for protection. Plus, battery life, via lithium Ion batteries, is 120 minutes. it's around 255mm long, and nearly 40mm wide, so it's NOT small. I DID think that it was amusing that they alluded to it's possible self defense use. Tell me, if someone were mugging you, if you waved this in their face, that it wouldn't almost be worth it to tell the cops "yeh, officer, the guy you're looking for is around 5' 10", white, brown hair, and a burnt "W" in his face. No, I'm not joking..."
As one that was born in 1965, I DO remember saving for a few months to get my Vic-20 for $150, plus another $150 for the tape drive. I remember when CompuServe was $2.49 an HOUR of "internet" time, not that it was called that. Those were still the days of dialing directly who you wanted to communicate with. How do you think I feel buddy? I also remember the days of Motorola brick style phones that ran $1500, no contracts and pricing was usually around a buck a minute of cell time. Just like I remember the ads for a the first cell phone that was, gasp! less than half a pound in weight!!! Amazing, eh?I remember a time when ONLY those with some serious money had a cell phone, or even a "real" computer in the house, not just something like my old Vic. Do I feel old? You betcha...
Remember two things... It can ALWAYS get worse... I think Dennis Leary said it best when he said "Life SUCKS, get a helmet..."
Personally... I used to have a 1981 VW Rabbit with a 1.4 liter gas engine that reliably got 38 MPG. Now, I'm not the EPA, but to me, that was pretty damn good mileage. With the 10ish gallon tank, I was pushing 400 miles on a tank, and routinely went 250-300 miles without even bothering to check the gas gauge. And no, it didn't have AC, and yes, it WAS a 5 speed, not a damn auto.
I've never perceived the problem of getting vehicles to turn off engines at traffic lights as being a technical issue. Rather, the problem is much more one of regulation, and forcing everyone to adopt a standard. To make the strategy work, you need to:
(a) get every state in the union, and perhaps every municipality in every state, to modify their traffic lights in the same way, and (b) get every automaker to make cars that with electronic modules that work with the *SAME* standard as the traffic lights, and (c) get every class action litigator to agree to not sue anyone.
Business text books clearly say to "run away" from any system that requires broad corporate/public/governmental agreement, particularly if the system involves long-term governmental and corporate cooperation.
Let me add a monkey wrench into your list bud... I have a 1990 Ford Van... how are you going to get MY old beast to conform to this new toy? ...just a question...
I understand the idea of what constitutes "piracy" of media... but to me, it still makes absolutely no sense. Follow me here for a minute... If I buy a CD at a brick and mortar store (let's say Wal-Mart for the sake of argument) and take it home to listen to on my CD player, all is well with the world. But now, say my friend that has not heard this CD wants to hear MY copy of it. I can either invite them over to listen to it, or more likely, email him a copy of all or part of it in MP3 format after I had copied MY LEGALLY PURCHASED COPY to my computer. Now, I have just pirated my own copy, or more precisely facilitated my friend to own a pirated copy of my CD. This all sounds far more like I am RENTING the "rights" (what a laugh) to this CD, not buying it. If I can't do with it what I want to, AS LONG AS I'M NOT MAKING MONEY ON IT (like it used to be back in the VHS days), it sure as hell sounds like renting. NOW, if I'm RENTING this CD, does this mean that when/if something happens to it (scratches, etc.) can I get a new CD from Wal-Mart? Or whoever the record company was? Or (lmao) the RIAA? I just think that the RIAA and MPAA Nazis need to just go the fuck away, not that they will, but it's a nice thought... If I loan/give a copy of a CD or movie to a friend, it IS my goddamn copy, right? Now if my friend starts burning copies and SELLING THEM (a whole different kettle of fish), sure... burn his ass. The whole thing just royally pisses me off due to the total lack of anything resembling common goddamn sense...
You DO understand the difference between a WAR and a COLD WAR, right? WAR=BOMBING and COLD WAR=NO BOMBING... got it? Plus, try checking my post again. Where did I say his goal was to end the Cold War? I said he was instrumental in it's end... He was instrumental in ending the COLD WAR by way of misinformation leaked to the Soviets (you know, what the Russians were called when there was a SOVIET BLOCK?) that we had the fully functional "Star Wars" system online that would render all of the Soviet missiles irrelevant. Check your history books junior, seeing as it's VERY obvious that you aren't old enough to remember facts like that...
I hear ya, and you're also missing another use for small nukes... mining. Using a pocket nuke to blast loose a bunch of granite is an acceptable use for nukes as well, without the news being blasted about "oh my god!!! We're heading for nuclear winter!!! Oh the carnage!!!" etc...
Were you even ALIVE when he put all the strikers on the street? Honestly, what's the color of the sky on YOUR planet? He DID end the mainstream Cold War, due to several things of sometimes questionable ethics, but still, at the end of the day, it got DONE. Now, sorry for sounding assholish, but still... it fries my ass to hear people blast off a load of bullshit about shit that happened either before they were born, or at best, when they were still in diapers...
Common Sense... so rare it ought to be a goddamn superpower...
Ahhhhhh... the days of $2.49 an hour for Compuserve... :)
This looks really cool... but as someone that cares for a bedridden spouse, this would be FANTASTIC for taking care of bedsores...
I'm sure I'm not the only one on here that's heard the old joke... "What do you call 1000 lawyers on the bottom of the ocean?" "A good start..." :)