Ich sprayen die "Nano Magic" ohnen die stain und zuddenly ze bottel becommen part auf mein handen! Und mein monocle fuzen to meinen eye zocket! Was ist happenung to mir? Und die voices. Where kommen sie frommen? Und vas ist dies "Kollectiv"? Stoppen mit die sprechen voicen! Nein, nein, Ich nicht funf von sieben! Gott in Himmel, ich must kontacten diese authorities schnell...
Microsoft's success has not always been based on legal or ethical behavior. The company is, after all, a convicted monopolist, and the exercise of those monopoly powers wasn't just through a Gates or a Ballmer, but also through dozens of top managers, at least some of whom had to have known that what they were doing was wrong.
I just want to point out to anyone who wasn't following the (pre-2001) anti-trust suit that it is not a crime to have a monopoly. It is perfectly legal and what all companies aim for. What Microsoft got in trouble for (before the Bush administration basically dropped it) was that they were using their monopoly power to limit competition and leverage their way into new monopolies, i.e. Windows-->Office, Windows-->Browser, Windows-->Internet Provider...
Each computer starts with a search image (dragon, unicorn, gryphon, etc), and the genome of the real animal most closely resembling it (a lizard for the dragon, a horse for the unicorn...
If I commissioned them to build me a troll, I wonder whose genes they would start with?
How about taking requests from the people who have been buying your games? Please do an update of Gettysburg! Antietam was a vast improvement, but there is still much more that could be done. How about using the same 3d engine as in Pirates and CivIV? One of my major complaints with Gettysburg was the terrain and elevation. And toss in a map editor this time.
That argument is about as valid as saying that there should only be one text editor. Both KOffice and OO.o will be using OpenDoc as the native format. And since OpenDoc is actually open and not just a closed but "defacto" standard, the interoperability will be extremely good. So use whichever suite suits you.
Long enough to allow us to develop fusion as an energy source. And there is so much tritium and deuterium that we will have plenty of time (millions of years) to develop fusion of ordinairy hydrogen into a feasible source of energy. Within 100 years, energy will become the cheapest of commodities and raw materials and technology will be the sought after resources. Why do you think the wealthy have been trying to convince the public that knowledge is not knowledge but intellectual 'property'? They want to establish through "stare decicis" that those who own most of everything today will continue to own most of everything when energy is limitless and raw materials are cheap.
A free and democratic government would never kill its opponents. They just commit suicide or have an accident. Know what I mean? Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink. Say no more, say no more?
The light in the famous doctored photo that puts Sen. John Kerry next to actress Jane Fonda at a protest rally actually comes from two different directions.
"The lighting is off by 40 degrees," Farid said. "We are insensitive to it, but computers detect it."
Well even if that one is fake, at least we know that the one of John Kerry french-kissing Joseph Stalin is real.
Ru/V\/V\13: i dropped the biggest log with corn a while ago
Ru/V\/V\13: it splashed my ass when it hit the water! lol
r0\/eR: This is muy serioso. top secret stuff.
Ru/V\/V\13: ok (putting serious hat on) hit me
r0\/eR: Well, Americans are becoming aware that everything we tell them through the "free" <grin> press is a load of horse hockey.
Ru/V\/V\13: dont say hockey. thats a bad word. say shit. lol
r0\/eR: Monday Im gonna propose sumthing to the big man. What we do is have Aljazeera or BBC release a story that americans arent really the targets of all the propaGanja. That we are just trying to protect them from the "bad people" and that winning a war on terrorism is more important than sumthing as abstract as the truth.
Ru/V\/V\13: or the bill of rights. the consitution is just a piece a paper. paper covers rock but gun shoots paper.
r0\/eR: Well, I knew you'd understand but how do I pitch it to geebee?
Ru/V\/V\13: use smaller words. and call it sumpin like... operation gospeltruth. he ll go for it jus cuz a the name.
r0\/eR: Sweet!
Ru/V\/V\13: d00d!
r0\/eR: Sweet!
Ru/V\/V\13: d00d! rotfl
r0\/eR: LOL
Ru/V\/V\13: u want me 2 have c0nD33 get on it 4 monday?
r0\/eR: Probly should... (ok serious hats off!) Get on what? You know you'd do her.
I'd imagine that gas pump handles are pretty darn unsanitary.
I think fast food restaraunts are pretty darn unsanitary. I was in line behind a guy last summer who looked like he was a landscape worker or something. He was dirty as all get out and covered in perspiration. He paid for his meal with several dollar bills pulled out of a grimy wallet that was wet with his sweat. The bills looked like they had floated in a sewer for a couple weeks before he fished them out and put them in his pocket and of course when I paid with a ten a few seconds later what do you think I got in change? His nasty, oh god do I have to touch them, ones. I considered for a second asking for my change in quarters but he was still standing right there waiting on his food, so I felt forced by politeness to pretend that there was nothing wrong and touch those putrid, falling-apart bills and put them in my wallet. Then the woman behind the counter who had three inch, curved, fingernails started to put my order in a take-out bag so her hands were all over my fries. And nobody with three inch nails can wash their hands very well because they are too afraid of breaking one. Then when I told her it was for dining in, she pulled everything out and tossed it on a tray so that the fries were strewn all over and touched the plastic of the tray. Now maybe its different in other states but here they are not required to wash the trays between uses. They only wipe them off with a greasy towel to get the ketchup and mayonnaise smeared into a thin enough film that the next customer won't notice it. I was so grossed out from touching the bills that I went to wash my hands before I unwrapped the sandwich. That's when I noticed that the restroom door only opened inward. So I had to grab the handle to get out, the same handle touched by the half of all men (and probably 99% of all kids) who don't wash their hands after wiping their bottoms or holding their penises. I've tried lots of different foods but that's one flavor I'll pass on! Anywho, fast food establishments have got to be one of the worst disease vectors.
And besides, MS bashing aside, why on earth would I trust Microsoft to do a product like this correctly? They have no track record.
Because only MS can be trusted to build a product that will:
1. work with standards-based third party software in only the most rudimentary and frustrating ways, yet...
2. create an impressive looking but quite useless and almost uncustomizable app in only a few mouse clicks and...
3. which is tied tightly to a multitude of other microsoft programs containing features (1) and (2) above.
This is just an attempt to divert the public's attention from Bush's violations of the constitutional framework by refusing to obey the laws that Congress has passed and refusing to allow executive oversight of his actions by the judicial branch. If we become distracted by one of Rove's tricks now then we will be the last generation to have lived in the American republic the way it was originally conceived, with three branches checking and balancing the power of the other two.
No. Pluto only has an atmosphere during its summer which it is currently in. (It is closer to the sun at 30AU than it will be again for a very long time) During the winter the atmosphere will give up it's heat and fall to the surface as solid nitrogen snow where it will sit for a couple hundred years until the sun once again turns it from solid to gas. But the surface will always stay at the same temperature. This is the same effect seen when you measure the temperature of water with ice cubes in it. The water will stay at 32 degrees until all the ice is gone even if you put a flame underneath. The added heat would merely make the ice melt faster rather than raise the water temperature.
1. (January 2001) "If I take out a second mortgage on my house and buy one of these 'new economy' stocks like pets.com I can double my money in just a few months. I'll pay off my house and still have money to burn."
2. (August 2001) "Maybe I should drop out and join the Army. Chicks really dig guys in uniforms, and besides, what are the chances we'll be in a war in the next few years."
3. (Shouting to the skymarshall in the aisle across from you) "Excuse me, I dropped my lip balm and it rolled over by you. That's my balm right there. Could you throw me my balm? Oh don't bother, I'll get it. It's okay everyone! I got my balm!"
4. (Visiting family in NYC) "This white hotel sheet sure made a great ghost costume. I'll show everyone how their cousin from Arkansas can party. Wow, I'm almost late for the halloween party. I'd better take a shortcut through this part of the map called Harlem. Oh darn, I think my tire is going flat."
While Uncle Sam schemes to wring the last few cents out of fifty year old news clips and commentaries, John Bull just starts giving it away thus ensuring that History will a british spin on it for the next thousand years. What's next? I suppose the French will start giving their music away so that the rhythmic ditties of our lovely Britney will be relegated to the forgotten dustheap of the late 20th century? I can't think of anything worse unless someone like the Swedes did away with copyright entirely. Then our grandchildren could grow up thinking Ingmar Bergman was the greatest filmmaker of our day instead of Quentin Tarentino. How could I live in a world where european artsy-fartsy movies become the basis of third millenia culture while Kill Bill 2 rots a slow celluloid death in a forgotten warehouse in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles? Oh woe. Woe is me.
"Our finding that animal locomotion adheres to constructal theory tells us that -- even though you couldn't predict exactly what animals would look like if you started evolution over on earth, or it happened on another planet -- with a given gravity and density of their tissues, the same basic patterns of their design would evolve again," Marden said.
So giant ant overlords could only evolve on a planet with less gravity or intense pressures? Or maybe have bouyancy like at the bottom of our oceans. Maybe we should worry about giant lobstermen.
I would like to know how this applies to humans in space. Will I somday be able to fly under my own power in a lunar gymnasium like in an old Heinlein story I once read?
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Ich sprayen die "Nano Magic" ohnen die stain und zuddenly ze bottel becommen part auf mein handen! Und mein monocle fuzen to meinen eye zocket! Was ist happenung to mir? Und die voices. Where kommen sie frommen? Und vas ist dies "Kollectiv"? Stoppen mit die sprechen voicen! Nein, nein, Ich nicht funf von sieben! Gott in Himmel, ich must kontacten diese authorities schnell...
Dr. Emmett Brown: Marty, I'm sorry. But the only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning.
Marty McFly: [startled] What did you say?
Dr. Emmett Brown: A bolt of lighting. Unfortunately, you never know when or where it's ever gonna strike.
Marty McFly: Hmmmm... What about vegetable oil?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Well of course, vegetable oil. But where are we going to get vegetable oil in 1955?
Oops. Sorry, but I think I ate his noodliness last night. He's not a vengeful god, is he?
I just want to point out to anyone who wasn't following the (pre-2001) anti-trust suit that it is not a crime to have a monopoly. It is perfectly legal and what all companies aim for. What Microsoft got in trouble for (before the Bush administration basically dropped it) was that they were using their monopoly power to limit competition and leverage their way into new monopolies, i.e. Windows-->Office, Windows-->Browser, Windows-->Internet Provider...
If I commissioned them to build me a troll, I wonder whose genes they would start with?
Haven't you read Les Miserables? You can be sentenced to 19 years on Devil's Island for stealing a loaf of bread!
Wow, converting to MPAA units that's 300 years of jail time per second! Smokin!
Oh, and since the plug got pulled on that dinosaur game, how about open sourcing the code?
Girls start to get taller than the boys once they begin puberty typically around 11-13 years. Lisa is only 8.
That argument is about as valid as saying that there should only be one text editor. Both KOffice and OO.o will be using OpenDoc as the native format. And since OpenDoc is actually open and not just a closed but "defacto" standard, the interoperability will be extremely good. So use whichever suite suits you.
Long enough to allow us to develop fusion as an energy source. And there is so much tritium and deuterium that we will have plenty of time (millions of years) to develop fusion of ordinairy hydrogen into a feasible source of energy. Within 100 years, energy will become the cheapest of commodities and raw materials and technology will be the sought after resources. Why do you think the wealthy have been trying to convince the public that knowledge is not knowledge but intellectual 'property'? They want to establish through "stare decicis" that those who own most of everything today will continue to own most of everything when energy is limitless and raw materials are cheap.
A free and democratic government would never kill its opponents. They just commit suicide or have an accident.
Know what I mean? Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink. Say no more, say no more?
Those Canadians are a bunch of hosers, eh?
What, Hannity and colmes aren't good enough anymore?
"The lighting is off by 40 degrees," Farid said. "We are insensitive to it, but computers detect it."
Well even if that one is fake, at least we know that the one of John Kerry french-kissing Joseph Stalin is real.
Ru/V\/V\13 has entered the room.
r0\/eR: Yo Don!
Ru/V\/V\13: wazzup K-man?
r0\/eR: Well, jes doin sum thinkin...
Ru/V\/V\13: i dropped the biggest log with corn a while ago
Ru/V\/V\13: it splashed my ass when it hit the water! lol
r0\/eR: This is muy serioso. top secret stuff.
Ru/V\/V\13: ok (putting serious hat on) hit me
r0\/eR: Well, Americans are becoming aware that everything we tell them through the "free" <grin> press is a load of horse hockey.
Ru/V\/V\13: dont say hockey. thats a bad word. say shit. lol
r0\/eR: Monday Im gonna propose sumthing to the big man. What we do is have Aljazeera or BBC release a story that americans arent really the targets of all the propaGanja. That we are just trying to protect them from the "bad people" and that winning a war on terrorism is more important than sumthing as abstract as the truth.
Ru/V\/V\13: or the bill of rights. the consitution is just a piece a paper. paper covers rock but gun shoots paper.
r0\/eR: Well, I knew you'd understand but how do I pitch it to geebee?
Ru/V\/V\13: use smaller words. and call it sumpin like... operation gospeltruth. he ll go for it jus cuz a the name.
r0\/eR: Sweet!
Ru/V\/V\13: d00d!
r0\/eR: Sweet!
Ru/V\/V\13: d00d! rotfl
r0\/eR: LOL
Ru/V\/V\13: u want me 2 have c0nD33 get on it 4 monday?
r0\/eR: Probly should... (ok serious hats off!) Get on what? You know you'd do her.
Ru/V\/V\13: doubble bagger. case 1 fell off.
r0\/eR: LOL!!!
Ru/V\/V\13: rotfl
r0\/eR: cu monday @ staff
Ru/V\/V\13: l8r
r0\/eR has left the room.
Ru/V\/V\13 has left the room.
ask for an application right when you order lunch. That way you won't have to wait in the line twice.
I think fast food restaraunts are pretty darn unsanitary. I was in line behind a guy last summer who looked like he was a landscape worker or something. He was dirty as all get out and covered in perspiration. He paid for his meal with several dollar bills pulled out of a grimy wallet that was wet with his sweat. The bills looked like they had floated in a sewer for a couple weeks before he fished them out and put them in his pocket and of course when I paid with a ten a few seconds later what do you think I got in change? His nasty, oh god do I have to touch them, ones. I considered for a second asking for my change in quarters but he was still standing right there waiting on his food, so I felt forced by politeness to pretend that there was nothing wrong and touch those putrid, falling-apart bills and put them in my wallet. Then the woman behind the counter who had three inch, curved, fingernails started to put my order in a take-out bag so her hands were all over my fries. And nobody with three inch nails can wash their hands very well because they are too afraid of breaking one. Then when I told her it was for dining in, she pulled everything out and tossed it on a tray so that the fries were strewn all over and touched the plastic of the tray. Now maybe its different in other states but here they are not required to wash the trays between uses. They only wipe them off with a greasy towel to get the ketchup and mayonnaise smeared into a thin enough film that the next customer won't notice it. I was so grossed out from touching the bills that I went to wash my hands before I unwrapped the sandwich. That's when I noticed that the restroom door only opened inward. So I had to grab the handle to get out, the same handle touched by the half of all men (and probably 99% of all kids) who don't wash their hands after wiping their bottoms or holding their penises. I've tried lots of different foods but that's one flavor I'll pass on! Anywho, fast food establishments have got to be one of the worst disease vectors.
Because only MS can be trusted to build a product that will:
1. work with standards-based third party software in only the most rudimentary and frustrating ways, yet...
2. create an impressive looking but quite useless and almost uncustomizable app in only a few mouse clicks and...
3. which is tied tightly to a multitude of other microsoft programs containing features (1) and (2) above.
This is just an attempt to divert the public's attention from Bush's violations of the constitutional framework by refusing to obey the laws that Congress has passed and refusing to allow executive oversight of his actions by the judicial branch. If we become distracted by one of Rove's tricks now then we will be the last generation to have lived in the American republic the way it was originally conceived, with three branches checking and balancing the power of the other two.
No. Pluto only has an atmosphere during its summer which it is currently in. (It is closer to the sun at 30AU than it will be again for a very long time) During the winter the atmosphere will give up it's heat and fall to the surface as solid nitrogen snow where it will sit for a couple hundred years until the sun once again turns it from solid to gas. But the surface will always stay at the same temperature. This is the same effect seen when you measure the temperature of water with ice cubes in it. The water will stay at 32 degrees until all the ice is gone even if you put a flame underneath. The added heat would merely make the ice melt faster rather than raise the water temperature.
2. (August 2001) "Maybe I should drop out and join the Army. Chicks really dig guys in uniforms, and besides, what are the chances we'll be in a war in the next few years."
3. (Shouting to the skymarshall in the aisle across from you) "Excuse me, I dropped my lip balm and it rolled over by you. That's my balm right there. Could you throw me my balm? Oh don't bother, I'll get it. It's okay everyone! I got my balm!"
4. (Visiting family in NYC) "This white hotel sheet sure made a great ghost costume. I'll show everyone how their cousin from Arkansas can party. Wow, I'm almost late for the halloween party. I'd better take a shortcut through this part of the map called Harlem. Oh darn, I think my tire is going flat."
While Uncle Sam schemes to wring the last few cents out of fifty year old news clips and commentaries, John Bull just starts giving it away thus ensuring that History will a british spin on it for the next thousand years. What's next? I suppose the French will start giving their music away so that the rhythmic ditties of our lovely Britney will be relegated to the forgotten dustheap of the late 20th century? I can't think of anything worse unless someone like the Swedes did away with copyright entirely. Then our grandchildren could grow up thinking Ingmar Bergman was the greatest filmmaker of our day instead of Quentin Tarentino. How could I live in a world where european artsy-fartsy movies become the basis of third millenia culture while Kill Bill 2 rots a slow celluloid death in a forgotten warehouse in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles? Oh woe. Woe is me.
...to dress it up in different little outfits for each holiday?
So giant ant overlords could only evolve on a planet with less gravity or intense pressures? Or maybe have bouyancy like at the bottom of our oceans. Maybe we should worry about giant lobstermen.
I would like to know how this applies to humans in space. Will I somday be able to fly under my own power in a lunar gymnasium like in an old Heinlein story I once read?