...but not completely. The nuclear waste that caused the moon to be torn away were stored HERE! A cautionary tale?
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When it won the Hugo and Nebula I realized that those awards no longer meant anything.
How long did it take you to come to this realization? The Hugos are voted on by fans - they've always been a popularity contest. And just because the Nebs are voted on by SFWA rather than fans, you think that the result is any "purer" than the Hugos are? SF writers are people, too.
I don't have mod points, but I wouldn't mod this as troll because it isn't one. It's your opinion. Opinions are nice. Thank you for yours.
Incidentally, the $400 that I spent on an iPhone a year ago after the first price drop was almost exactly the same as I spent on a Treo 650 a year previously. Smartphones are more expensive than regular phones. That's the way it is.
One resident recalled that "the Hill dwellers were amateur everything: hikers, riders, photographers, ethnographers, mineralogists, musicians, and artists-craftsmen in all assorted fields. Saturday nights they partied and square danced. Sundays they fished or exploited their hobbies."
The parties were frequent and well attended. Resident Jean Bacher recalled that "Saturday nights, the mesa rocked... fenced in as we were, our social life was a pipeline through which we let off steam."
Some of the most brilliant minds of the last century seemed perfectly capable of having fun together and blowing off steam. Maybe this time there will be more LAN parties than square dances, but people will figure out how to get together.
Maybe Apple could ship the little plastic tools the battery replacement companies ship with the batteries. There, now you have the tools you need included in the package.:)
Then they would have to give instructions into their use and, having given their blessing to users opening up the case, Apple would then be responsible every time someone screwed it up and damaged something. Or damaged themselves...
Bankruptcy tanks your credit rating, which tanks your ability to get credit for a long, long time.
Rather the opposite. It makes you more attractive to companies that want to give you credit because you can't declare bankruptcy again for a period of time. An acquaintance of mine got his first offer for a new credit card less than a month after he signed the bankruptcy papers.
If you really want to screw up your credit, use a credit counseling service that negotiates lower payments with your creditors and lets you pay your bills off. Sure you're doing the right thing in actually paying off your bills, but you're poison to the lenders because there's nothing stopping you from doing it again.
Best behavior? Freshmen Congressmen get no committee assignments, aren't recognized by either the majority or minority leadership to speak in debate and are very lucky if they figure out how to introduce a bill before they reach their first anniversary of being sworn in.
Under term limits, the only ones with any institutional memory whatsoever in Congress will be lobbyists. Which will be the legislators that have been term-limited out, because they've been there, made contacts and know how things work.
I had this particular problem at the place that I work when I was a manager, but in reverse.
I'd love to have been able to get qualified staff to answer user problems and questions but, because of the stigma attached to working at a support desk, we had tremendous difficulty. We've worked hard at promoting people from the helpdesk to higher positions - with some success - but weren't able to get really qualified staff because even moderately qualified people looked upon helpdesk as a dead end and wouldn't even talk to us when we mentioned it.
Some of my best tier two and tier three employees came from the helpdesk. They weren't the most technical staff, at least in the beginning, but they sure knew what the users do and how system downtime affected them. They often assisted the application developers in problem solving - when I could get the developers to talk to them - because frequently the developers often had little clue as to how their applications worked from the user point of view.
It really depends where you live and if the shipper feels that your location is "safe". Neither FedEX nor UPS will leave a package at my condominium, even if the delivery notice slip is signed. They will, however, drop packages off without signature at my friend's house 10 miles away.
Because of all of the propositions that Californians have passed over the years locking in specific levels of spending, there's not a whole lot of give to the budget. Add to that the costs for running the state (salaries, benefits and other costs - about 10% of the budget), only about 30 percent of the California State budget is discretionary.
The two sides are fighting over the small percentage of budget that they can actually alter. Gridlock is almost unavoidable.
Despite winning a clear majority of delegates in the primaries, he bowed to Hillary Clinton for a roll-call vote at the convention.
I think it's a brilliant move. Besides political junkies and the true believers, nobody watches conventions any more. There's little doubt that he will get the nomination and having a roll-call vote introduces a bit of drama that may get people to watch - for no other reason to see if there's an unlikely floor fight - who wouldn't otherwise do so.
You're right: independent developers can charge ridiculous prices for their apps on iPhone. Whether that's going to be a long term viable market remains to be seen.
For what values of ridiculous? Developers can charge anything from gratis to $10. Some of the best applications at the App store are free - and that's not "best because they're free", it's "best because they're good". Developers are free to charge up to $10. Unless you want to charge more, where's the problem in this?
Because maybe, just maybe, the system wasn't designed to allow someone to change someone's pay to some arbitrary number because nobody thought it would be necessary.
There's really a very limited set of things that you can do with someone's pay within the California Civil Service. You can raise it or redirect it (liens, for example), you can dock some of the amount, you can change the deductions as necessary, but aside from reassignment pay doesn't change that much. You can change the pay but you can't really change the rate of pay much without changing the employee classification. And doing that would mean that paychecks would be screwed up for years.
Now, I'm not saying that most of the stuff on infomercials isn't crap, but if you know of one exception, what makes you think that there aren't any more?
Troma Films did one called The Troma System a bunch of years ago that I caught late one night. Can't say I bought any of their films - other than the ones that I already had - but it was hilarious.
Yes, if I was talking about safety at speeds in excess of 200 MPH in a car that weighs less than 1500 pounds, can take corners at 5Gs and has fuel sitting right next to the driver, you would need all of that stuff, which I wasn't, which is why I didn't mention it.
I was talking about the features that the F1 designers and builders have put in their cars that reduce the risk of injury to the driver in a serious accident to very close to nothing, which, as I was responding to the GP talking about the damage that a car can take from an SUV in an impact, is pretty close to on topic.
When I was 15 I wanted to have sex with older men...including as old as 21-22 (and even much older on on occasion). They wanted to have sex with me. So what? I hardly think they are pedophiles.
They aren't. They're rapists. If what you said is true and if you lived in the United States at the time, every single male that you had sex with when you were 15 was guilty of statutory rape. At 15, you are not considered as being able to give your consent to someone that much older than you in any state in the Union - it's irrelevant how mature you thought you were or how old that they thought you were.
A 20 year old man having sex with a consenting 15 year old is not nearly the same as a 40 year old having sex with an 8 year old.
It isn't. One is statutory rape, the other is sexual abuse of a minor.
Not necessarily, if you design the cars in the right way - with a strong inner shell and everything else disposable.
A good example of this is an F1 car - they are designed with crashes in mind. They have strong central component to protect the driver with everything else breakable to take energy away from the tub that the driver sits in. Take Robert Kubica's accident in the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix, for example, After contact with Jarno Trulli, his car hit a bump, lifting it and rendering him unable to steer. His car hit a safety wall at approximately 28G decelaration and then tumbled down the track, finally coming to rest against another safety wall on its side. Most of car was strewn along the track, but the tub protected the driver. He not only lived to race again, but suffered little injury.
Noted, these are very, very expensive cars, are single seaters, don't have doors (making the carbon-fiber tub that the driver sits in much easier) and not really designed to run on the street, but the concept of sheddable body around a strong central area still could apply
Of course this makes the car more costly to fix which will annoy insurers and leaves a nasty very sharp mess on the street if you use the baked carbon fiber that they use on F1 cars, but if you want to make cars lighter and still protect the driver and passengers, it's worth looking at...
FWIW, I seem to remember that the phrase "Islamic terrorism" was used to show that the US wasn't fighting against all Islam, just the followers that use terror tactics to achieve their goals. Yes, it's spin doctoring on a titannic scale, but we didn't want to piss off all followers of Islam, just certain ones.
I know that this is horribly off topic, but what's up with the "sum IQ of all NASCAR fans"? Is it because it started in the Southern United States, or is that racing fans in general are perceived to be a bit slow in the intelligence department?
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...but not completely. The nuclear waste that caused the moon to be torn away were stored HERE! A cautionary tale?
When it won the Hugo and Nebula I realized that those awards no longer meant anything.
How long did it take you to come to this realization? The Hugos are voted on by fans - they've always been a popularity contest. And just because the Nebs are voted on by SFWA rather than fans, you think that the result is any "purer" than the Hugos are? SF writers are people, too.
I don't have mod points, but I wouldn't mod this as troll because it isn't one. It's your opinion. Opinions are nice. Thank you for yours.
Incidentally, the $400 that I spent on an iPhone a year ago after the first price drop was almost exactly the same as I spent on a Treo 650 a year previously. Smartphones are more expensive than regular phones. That's the way it is.
He's The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight
An amusing meme, but far from the truth. From a history of Los Alamos Lab :
One resident recalled that "the Hill dwellers were amateur everything: hikers, riders, photographers, ethnographers, mineralogists, musicians, and artists-craftsmen in all assorted fields. Saturday nights they partied and square danced. Sundays they fished or exploited their hobbies."
The parties were frequent and well attended. Resident Jean Bacher recalled that "Saturday nights, the mesa rocked... fenced in as we were, our social life was a pipeline through which we let off steam."
Some of the most brilliant minds of the last century seemed perfectly capable of having fun together and blowing off steam. Maybe this time there will be more LAN parties than square dances, but people will figure out how to get together.
Maybe Apple could ship the little plastic tools the battery replacement companies ship with the batteries. There, now you have the tools you need included in the package. :)
Then they would have to give instructions into their use and, having given their blessing to users opening up the case, Apple would then be responsible every time someone screwed it up and damaged something. Or damaged themselves...
Bankruptcy tanks your credit rating, which tanks your ability to get credit for a long, long time.
Rather the opposite. It makes you more attractive to companies that want to give you credit because you can't declare bankruptcy again for a period of time. An acquaintance of mine got his first offer for a new credit card less than a month after he signed the bankruptcy papers.
If you really want to screw up your credit, use a credit counseling service that negotiates lower payments with your creditors and lets you pay your bills off. Sure you're doing the right thing in actually paying off your bills, but you're poison to the lenders because there's nothing stopping you from doing it again.
Yeah, it's not as though nuclear power or oil or coal companies have come to the Congress with their hands held out, is it?
Best behavior? Freshmen Congressmen get no committee assignments, aren't recognized by either the majority or minority leadership to speak in debate and are very lucky if they figure out how to introduce a bill before they reach their first anniversary of being sworn in.
Under term limits, the only ones with any institutional memory whatsoever in Congress will be lobbyists. Which will be the legislators that have been term-limited out, because they've been there, made contacts and know how things work.
I had this particular problem at the place that I work when I was a manager, but in reverse.
I'd love to have been able to get qualified staff to answer user problems and questions but, because of the stigma attached to working at a support desk, we had tremendous difficulty. We've worked hard at promoting people from the helpdesk to higher positions - with some success - but weren't able to get really qualified staff because even moderately qualified people looked upon helpdesk as a dead end and wouldn't even talk to us when we mentioned it.
Some of my best tier two and tier three employees came from the helpdesk. They weren't the most technical staff, at least in the beginning, but they sure knew what the users do and how system downtime affected them. They often assisted the application developers in problem solving - when I could get the developers to talk to them - because frequently the developers often had little clue as to how their applications worked from the user point of view.
It really depends where you live and if the shipper feels that your location is "safe". Neither FedEX nor UPS will leave a package at my condominium, even if the delivery notice slip is signed. They will, however, drop packages off without signature at my friend's house 10 miles away.
That's only part of the problem.
Because of all of the propositions that Californians have passed over the years locking in specific levels of spending, there's not a whole lot of give to the budget. Add to that the costs for running the state (salaries, benefits and other costs - about 10% of the budget), only about 30 percent of the California State budget is discretionary.
The two sides are fighting over the small percentage of budget that they can actually alter. Gridlock is almost unavoidable.
I think it's a brilliant move. Besides political junkies and the true believers, nobody watches conventions any more. There's little doubt that he will get the nomination and having a roll-call vote introduces a bit of drama that may get people to watch - for no other reason to see if there's an unlikely floor fight - who wouldn't otherwise do so.
For what values of ridiculous? Developers can charge anything from gratis to $10. Some of the best applications at the App store are free - and that's not "best because they're free", it's "best because they're good". Developers are free to charge up to $10. Unless you want to charge more, where's the problem in this?
There's really a very limited set of things that you can do with someone's pay within the California Civil Service. You can raise it or redirect it (liens, for example), you can dock some of the amount, you can change the deductions as necessary, but aside from reassignment pay doesn't change that much. You can change the pay but you can't really change the rate of pay much without changing the employee classification. And doing that would mean that paychecks would be screwed up for years.
Yes, Americans pay for both making and receiving calls and texts. We've discussed this here ad nauseum...
Because they wanted to make a Jupiter 2?
I've been secretly substituting them for the motivational posters at work. heh. heh.
Troma Films did one called The Troma System a bunch of years ago that I caught late one night. Can't say I bought any of their films - other than the ones that I already had - but it was hilarious.
I was talking about the features that the F1 designers and builders have put in their cars that reduce the risk of injury to the driver in a serious accident to very close to nothing, which, as I was responding to the GP talking about the damage that a car can take from an SUV in an impact, is pretty close to on topic.
They aren't. They're rapists. If what you said is true and if you lived in the United States at the time, every single male that you had sex with when you were 15 was guilty of statutory rape. At 15, you are not considered as being able to give your consent to someone that much older than you in any state in the Union - it's irrelevant how mature you thought you were or how old that they thought you were.
A 20 year old man having sex with a consenting 15 year old is not nearly the same as a 40 year old having sex with an 8 year old.
It isn't. One is statutory rape, the other is sexual abuse of a minor.
A good example of this is an F1 car - they are designed with crashes in mind. They have strong central component to protect the driver with everything else breakable to take energy away from the tub that the driver sits in. Take Robert Kubica's accident in the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix, for example, After contact with Jarno Trulli, his car hit a bump, lifting it and rendering him unable to steer. His car hit a safety wall at approximately 28G decelaration and then tumbled down the track, finally coming to rest against another safety wall on its side. Most of car was strewn along the track, but the tub protected the driver. He not only lived to race again, but suffered little injury.
Noted, these are very, very expensive cars, are single seaters, don't have doors (making the carbon-fiber tub that the driver sits in much easier) and not really designed to run on the street, but the concept of sheddable body around a strong central area still could apply
Of course this makes the car more costly to fix which will annoy insurers and leaves a nasty very sharp mess on the street if you use the baked carbon fiber that they use on F1 cars, but if you want to make cars lighter and still protect the driver and passengers, it's worth looking at...
FWIW, I seem to remember that the phrase "Islamic terrorism" was used to show that the US wasn't fighting against all Islam, just the followers that use terror tactics to achieve their goals. Yes, it's spin doctoring on a titannic scale, but we didn't want to piss off all followers of Islam, just certain ones.
Hardcore gamers always start new games in "hard" mode - easy is for lamers and n00bs.
I know that this is horribly off topic, but what's up with the "sum IQ of all NASCAR fans"? Is it because it started in the Southern United States, or is that racing fans in general are perceived to be a bit slow in the intelligence department?