You'll know you're in trouble when a blind person you've never met can tell that you are 280 pounds, have long greasy hair, haven't showered in three days, and watched Revenge of the Sith eighteen times. Oh, and you are trying to get Linus to merge your kernel mods into the main development tree.
The event, which Microsoft has not publicized, was dubbed 'Blue Hat' -- a reference to the widely known 'Black Hat' security conference, tweaked to reflect Microsoft's corporate color.
Plus, our agricultural subsidy program has distorted markets all over the world
Absolutely. That's the whole purpose of the subsidies. Why do you think Bush increased that already bloated government program by another $30 billion as soon as he got into office? By making sure third world local farmers can't make a living growing food, the U.S. assures its position as the bread basket of the world. Going into the 21st century, arabs may have the oil but we have the corn syrup. And ultimately that is much more valuable. After all, Juan Valdez can get by without driving a car but the man has to feed his family.
But don't get me wrong. I think it's a better way to maintain dominance than, say, invading and occupying some viper pit on the other side of the planet.
Don't worry. As soon as the U.S. starts offering subsidies, corporate farmonauts will put the family farmonauts out of business and 90% of the ingredients in any martian recipe will be corn syrup, just like it is now at your friendly neighborhood food mega-distribution points.
It's not like telling a programmer how to communicate with the underlying hardware is going to tell them how it (the PCB/silicon) was designed, so why make this information secret?
I wonder if he could combine his design with
this one
which I believe was featured on Slashdot at one time. Just draw the water from the pot-in-pot refridgerator which should be sitting out on the balcony or somewhere else outside.
Seriously, I hope he didn't accept low pay with the promise of stock options like a lot of Microsoft employees have in the past. The day of the Microsoft made millionnaires is over.
Now if they just mandate more intelligent programming.
I don't know. I'm worried that televisions will get too intelligent in the future. I have a recurring dream that I am watching my new LCD "Buck Rogers in the 21st Century" TV and a commercial comes on, so I get up to make a sandwich but as soon as I start to leave-- the show comes back on. Then when I sit back down to watch it the commercial comes back. Every time I try to get up this happens again. So I give in and run to the kitchen while my show is on. But it's a dream so, you know, I'm always running in slow motion. Finally I make it and I can hear my show in the other room while I spread peanut butter and jelly on two slices of bread. It sounds really good. I can tell from the laughtrack that I'm missing some really funny shit. I literally throw the knife in the sink from four feet away and run as fast as I can to the couch. My show is still on. I made it. My butt touches the couch cushion as I take a bite of my sandwich and fix my eyes on the screen... just in time to see the commercial.
Hype? No way! The Xbox 360 is the most anticipated launch of a product in human history! I know it is. I read it in a trade rag. It was in an unbiased article sandwiched right between two huge glossy paged Microsoft ads. Could hype explain the massive groundswell of public interest this story has generated? Eight hours on Slashdot and almost 50 comments. Taco probably had to made arrangements with Akamai to handle the load. I'm almost afraid to hit the submit button because I don't want to be the straw that broke the camel's back, but if I don't hurry my post might get lost in the multitude so with fingers crossed here goes nothing!
that if Opera 8 is downloaded a million more times in the next four days that Eskil Sivertsen, his Public Relations Manager, would swim across the Atlantic underwater using the underwater breathing apparatus. Tetzchner says, '
last time I made a promise my body couldn't keep but this time I'll be rowing the boat, so I feel much more confident.'
Yes we were so silly back then with our fears of global thermonuclear war. But back then we didn't have terrorists blowing themselves up because they hate freedom or UN inspectards not being able to uncover massive WMD programs that we all know are there. And to top it off now we have to worry about judges legislating us into marrying partners of the same sex! I think we are just too busy with real problems nowadays to be paranoid.
So there saying its been around for over 50 years. But how often is it used? I bet if Will Ferrell hadn't used it in that Elf movie that most people wouldn't even recognize it. They'd be trying to say it like they do giga instead of with a j sound even though they both come from the same root word.
Okay, I am convinced. I will go out of my way to watch it sometime. However there has to be more to it than just kung-fu fannery (izzata word?) otherwise why would there not be any Bruce Lee movies on the list? Maybe the kung-fu fans think it's totally awesome and the mainstream thinks it's a solid hollywood style flick and the average of the two put it into the top 100. Anyway I'll keep my eyes peeled for it in the TV guide.
I did a double take on that one too. I watched Drunken Master but not DM2 but I still find it hard to believe that the sequel could be ranked as one of the greatest movies ever.
...after it was discovered that the pen Mr. Levie had been carrying was actually a laser pointer. He was subsequently charged with intending to shine it in the eyes of airline pilots during landing and then sent to Cuba for a speedy but secret trial. His court appointed defense attourney later said, 'I've never met Mr. Levie but he was obviously guilty or he would not have been charged. May he rest in peace.'
Although cat power seems at first to be a workable solution to our growing needs, extensive studies have shown that the storage of waste from such a system is almost an insurmountable problem. From whence would come all the kitty litter needed to generate power on such a grand scale? Some conspiracy theorists contend that this is the true purpose behind Bush's invasion in the Middle East, not for the oil but for the sand. Time will tell if there is any truth to these allegations but for now cat generated power seems to be only an engineer's pipe dream.
However, your proposal for cat-power generators makes more sense than this wave powered one. People don't realize that through a consequence of astrophysics, pulling power from the sea, whose movement is powered by the orbit of the moon, causes the moon to draw closer to the earth. If we continued to remove energy from the tide at the exponentially increasing rate that our civilization demands, within a few hundred years the moon would be so close that its orbit will begin to decay due to friction with our atmosphere threatening a quick and messy end.
And with fossil fuels long ago squandered our descendants may need to turn to the noble feline, using its innate energy production to pump power back into the sea and restore the natural orbit of our planetary system. But needing to replenish hundreds of years of power in a very short time would certainly ruin the economy and cause massive pollution and the downfall of modern civilization. A time traveler encountering this era would likely find scattered tribes of cave dwelling peoples, fearful of the moon and covered in cat poo.
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Well happy Father's Day
You'll know you're in trouble when a blind person you've never met can tell that you are 280 pounds, have long greasy hair, haven't showered in three days, and watched Revenge of the Sith eighteen times. Oh, and you are trying to get Linus to merge your kernel mods into the main development tree.
For once I'm glad to be in a red state!
Absolutely. That's the whole purpose of the subsidies. Why do you think Bush increased that already bloated government program by another $30 billion as soon as he got into office? By making sure third world local farmers can't make a living growing food, the U.S. assures its position as the bread basket of the world. Going into the 21st century, arabs may have the oil but we have the corn syrup. And ultimately that is much more valuable. After all, Juan Valdez can get by without driving a car but the man has to feed his family.
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But don't get me wrong. I think it's a better way to maintain dominance than, say, invading and occupying some viper pit on the other side of the planet.
Don't worry. As soon as the U.S. starts offering subsidies, corporate farmonauts will put the family farmonauts out of business and 90% of the ingredients in any martian recipe will be corn syrup, just like it is now at your friendly neighborhood food mega-distribution points.
Somebody alert Penn and Teller!
I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
I wonder if he could combine his design with this one which I believe was featured on Slashdot at one time. Just draw the water from the pot-in-pot refridgerator which should be sitting out on the balcony or somewhere else outside.
I RTFA but it was redundant!
Seriously, I hope he didn't accept low pay with the promise of stock options like a lot of Microsoft employees have in the past. The day of the Microsoft made millionnaires is over.
It makes sense since this is how we have been losing our rights, whittled away bit by bit.
I don't know. I'm worried that televisions will get too intelligent in the future. I have a recurring dream that I am watching my new LCD "Buck Rogers in the 21st Century" TV and a commercial comes on, so I get up to make a sandwich but as soon as I start to leave-- the show comes back on. Then when I sit back down to watch it the commercial comes back. Every time I try to get up this happens again. So I give in and run to the kitchen while my show is on. But it's a dream so, you know, I'm always running in slow motion. Finally I make it and I can hear my show in the other room while I spread peanut butter and jelly on two slices of bread. It sounds really good. I can tell from the laughtrack that I'm missing some really funny shit. I literally throw the knife in the sink from four feet away and run as fast as I can to the couch. My show is still on. I made it. My butt touches the couch cushion as I take a bite of my sandwich and fix my eyes on the screen... just in time to see the commercial.
Hype? No way! The Xbox 360 is the most anticipated launch of a product in human history! I know it is. I read it in a trade rag. It was in an unbiased article sandwiched right between two huge glossy paged Microsoft ads. Could hype explain the massive groundswell of public interest this story has generated? Eight hours on Slashdot and almost 50 comments. Taco probably had to made arrangements with Akamai to handle the load. I'm almost afraid to hit the submit button because I don't want to be the straw that broke the camel's back, but if I don't hurry my post might get lost in the multitude so with fingers crossed here goes nothing!
It says "Be sure to drink more Ovaltine."
that if Opera 8 is downloaded a million more times in the next four days that Eskil Sivertsen, his Public Relations Manager, would swim across the Atlantic underwater using the underwater breathing apparatus. Tetzchner says, ' last time I made a promise my body couldn't keep but this time I'll be rowing the boat, so I feel much more confident.'
Yes we were so silly back then with our fears of global thermonuclear war. But back then we didn't have terrorists blowing themselves up because they hate freedom or UN inspectards not being able to uncover massive WMD programs that we all know are there. And to top it off now we have to worry about judges legislating us into marrying partners of the same sex! I think we are just too busy with real problems nowadays to be paranoid.
That clinches it. The MOLP from the sixties is still around spying on people!
So there saying its been around for over 50 years. But how often is it used? I bet if Will Ferrell hadn't used it in that Elf movie that most people wouldn't even recognize it. They'd be trying to say it like they do giga instead of with a j sound even though they both come from the same root word.
Okay, I am convinced. I will go out of my way to watch it sometime. However there has to be more to it than just kung-fu fannery (izzata word?) otherwise why would there not be any Bruce Lee movies on the list? Maybe the kung-fu fans think it's totally awesome and the mainstream thinks it's a solid hollywood style flick and the average of the two put it into the top 100. Anyway I'll keep my eyes peeled for it in the TV guide.
I did a double take on that one too. I watched Drunken Master but not DM2 but I still find it hard to believe that the sequel could be ranked as one of the greatest movies ever.
...after it was discovered that the pen Mr. Levie had been carrying was actually a laser pointer. He was subsequently charged with intending to shine it in the eyes of airline pilots during landing and then sent to Cuba for a speedy but secret trial. His court appointed defense attourney later said, 'I've never met Mr. Levie but he was obviously guilty or he would not have been charged. May he rest in peace.'
I trust, Sir, that your mastery of English grammar is surpassed only by your proficiency at phonetics.
Unless this process is perfected before January 2038 in which case I don't want my consciousness running on any computer using the 64 bit Unix time counter.
Yeah the red one inside the briefcase being carried by a secret service agent who is always with the president.
Although cat power seems at first to be a workable solution to our growing needs, extensive studies have shown that the storage of waste from such a system is almost an insurmountable problem. From whence would come all the kitty litter needed to generate power on such a grand scale? Some conspiracy theorists contend that this is the true purpose behind Bush's invasion in the Middle East, not for the oil but for the sand. Time will tell if there is any truth to these allegations but for now cat generated power seems to be only an engineer's pipe dream.
However, your proposal for cat-power generators makes more sense than this wave powered one. People don't realize that through a consequence of astrophysics, pulling power from the sea, whose movement is powered by the orbit of the moon, causes the moon to draw closer to the earth. If we continued to remove energy from the tide at the exponentially increasing rate that our civilization demands, within a few hundred years the moon would be so close that its orbit will begin to decay due to friction with our atmosphere threatening a quick and messy end.
And with fossil fuels long ago squandered our descendants may need to turn to the noble feline, using its innate energy production to pump power back into the sea and restore the natural orbit of our planetary system. But needing to replenish hundreds of years of power in a very short time would certainly ruin the economy and cause massive pollution and the downfall of modern civilization. A time traveler encountering this era would likely find scattered tribes of cave dwelling peoples, fearful of the moon and covered in cat poo.