What I'd like to know (and what the "artists" SHOULD want to know) is why the unions are getting ANYTHING so long as they're (whoever "they" are, that is) spending 1.5X as much as the musician gets paid just to PROMOTE the blasted thing!
Sounds to me like if the union was doing what unions CLAIM to be for that the "artists" would be getting THE biggest slice of the pie, not be FIFTH in line!
You forgot "Left-side" -vs- "Right-side" for automobiles.
Also, having never been to Europe, I'm curious: for them is it "Hot on the left, Cold on the right..." like here in the U.S. or is it the other way around (and for that matter, does it flow uphill over there?)
Don't forget "bear" and "bare"! A semi-hilarious memo went around our site about a year ago regarding the parking lot repaving and the encouragement to "bare with us" through the inconvenience.
Well, almost everyone thought it was hilarious...
problem: people priding themselves on making it to work regardless of the weather; a few years ago during the "blizzard of the century" (it really was, for here; >32" of snowfall w/in a 12-hour period) I knew a lot of guys who went into work knowing that the place was closed (usually because the boss had better sense...) just so that the next week (when your area's average annual snowfall is seldom >32", the authorities aren't likely to be prepared to dig the place out overnite...) they'd be able to say to the boss "Hey, I was here, where were YOU?!?!"
On the other hand, whenever we get 160-mph winds they're usually confined to the trailer parks...
How true. I'm reminded of what Johnny Carson said one time in an interview when asked (something like) how was he able to get an entire one-hour show together in just a day, each and every day, when some hour-long shows that only air once a week weren't as good. His reply was that he had always found if he had a day to get ready for a show then that's what it took, and if he had a week to get ready for a show then that's how long it took -- in other words, it takes as long as it takes. Unfortunately, bosses usually don't appreciate receiving that maxim as an answer...go figure.
It's got all the essentials we've come to expect from SF:
Space travel
Robots
Lost civilizations
Danger & intrigue
Time travel "...We've broken the time barrier!"
Plus, it has the distinction of being the very first science fiction movie with a nude scene! (Huh? Whassat? Nude? In 1956?!?!?! Ok, ok, it's simulated nudity...and, to our eyes, not all that well-simulated...but for 1950's-era audiences it was a real SHOCKER!!)
From it's Shakespearean roots to the "Id monster" to a damsel-in-distress named (of all things) "Altaira" (computer geeks everywhere ought to recognize at least part of that name...) it's a veritable SciFi onion of delights; peel away one layer and there's a brand new one all ready to enjoy!!
And, if that one didn't "strike your fancy", I've got three more words for you:
Yeah, I've been watching them for quite a while, too! I'm really disappointed that we haven't seen anything of them for so long (of course, I guess unfulfilled promise is something we geeks ought to be used to by now...)
To me, one of the most memorable quotes from that site is the very last one, from an ORNL review of the incident:
"...if the operators had failed to complete the test they could not have repeated it for a year. This probably influenced them to take more risks than normal."
Geeeeez...not to stir the tinfoil hat crowd, but it sounds like you almost couldn't've scripted things to have gone much worse.
Thanks for the chuckle (actually, I'll probably GMAO all day) at the idea of some knucklehead buying a "disposable" camera, taking pictures with it, and then chucking it into the trash instead of taking it back to the drugstore.
...was placed at the top of the globe so that the globe's spin would conform to the "right-hand rule" (the right hand being somehow mystically superior to the left hand -- or at least the "right" being superior to the "left"; our word "sinister" comes from the latin word meaning "on the left"...)
If you orient (there's that word again...) the globe so that it's spin is in the same direction as the fingers on your right hand, "up" has to be "North"; the direction your thumb points (although, "thumbs-up" hasn't always had a positive connotation...)
Now, where else have I heard of this "right-hand rule"...? Hmmm... maybe "the ancients" weren't so backwards and unenlightened with their right-handedness superstitions after all.;-)
develop one that's human powered. Wait, wait, they have! (see the tiny little guy inside the egg-shaped cockpit?) BTW, this site also sets the internet record for most occurrences of the phrase BRIO Erector: Crazy Inventors Helicopter; 18!
"...People in charge of enormous corporations like that sort of thing."
Maybe, but the people just down the hall from the people in charge of enormous corporations like to have someone at whom to point the ominous finger of blame if (and inevitably when) something goes wrong. Sooner or later, somebody (and I'm not saying it might be someone in the employ of everybody's favorite villain. I'm NOT saying it. No way!) will launch an attack against everyone's favorite open-source OS and find some nasty little holes that nobody's ever noticed -- that's not a criticism of any individual, the open source "community", humanity in general, or anything else -- that's just plain common sense; nobody's perfect and therefore nobody's OS is perfect, no matter how hard we try to make the perfect one. That realization and the fact that Mr. IT Manager Dude doesn't want this script to play out in Mr. Bigwig's office someday:
Mr. IT Manager Dude: "Sir, our supply-chain server was attacked by the HRPuffinStuff virus last night, and everything's gone." Mr. Bigwig: "HRPuffinStuff, eh? I heard something about that the other day at the club...Johnson's server over at Amalgamated was wiped out! I warned him about using that "freebie" software. Say...how did it affect our servers, I thought HRPuffinStuff only attacked...that other stuff?" Mr. Dude: "Well, er, uh, well..." Mr. Bigwig: "Oh, I see. Well..." [signature flick of the hand] "...you're fired." Mr. Dude: "But sir! My department came in 40% under budget last quarter! You were so proud you said you wish I had married your daughter!!" Mr. Bigwig: "That budget was for you to spend to keep me in business, not to save and put me out of business!" [muttering] "Why isn't this darned trapdoor button working?" [louder] "Uh, take about three baby-steps to your left. No, wait, not your left but my left." Mr. Dude: "What? Oh, yes sir. NOOOOOooooooooooooo..."
is what's maintaining the "status quo." He'd much rather it went something like this:
Mr. Bigwig: "Fleeson! What's wrong with my supply-chain server?!" Mr. IT Manager Dude: "Oh, those torpid mooncalves over at IttyBittySoft have done it to us again, sir! We were hit by the HRPuffinStuff virus last night and it'll be about a day and a half while they come up with some sort of a patch. Meanwhile, though, if you need me I'll be sitting on top of the cluster singing it a soothing lullaby -- no, it probably won't help, but just in case..." Mr. Bigwig: "My God, man, what about your wife? Your family? Your golf game?!?! No, I can't let you waste your life here because of the incompetency of those...uh, what'd you call them again?" Mr. Dude: "Oh, torpid mooncalves, sir." Mr. Bigwig: "Yes, yes, that's it...good one, Fleeson! And, you're sure there's no alternative to their product?" Mr. Dude: "Well, sir, I know how you fear, er...what is it you called it...oh, yes, 'that freebie stuff'..." Mr. Bigwig: "Quite right! Besides, we can't go fooling around with things the shareholders wouldn't understand, like that stuff, but they sure understand the incompetence of IttyBittySoft! (You know, they're not as 'tech savvy' as we are!)" Mr. Dude: "Oh, no Sir! Mr. Bigwig: "Now, show me again how you start that nifty Solitaire program..."
"CYA" is still "Management-101" in a lot of books!
I was happy to see just the other evening in a documentary about the original olympics (on the History channel, I believe) the statement that there were NO restrictions or regulations against "performance enhancing" substances back then; if an athelete thought smoking a yak's turd before a competition gave him an edge over his opponent's eating pickled aardvark testicles, they both were invited to imbibe freely before they met in contest. The only things outlawed were eye-gouging and spitting (and, of course, THOSE rules were broken liberally!)
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What I'd like to know (and what the "artists" SHOULD want to know) is why the unions are getting ANYTHING so long as they're (whoever "they" are, that is) spending 1.5X as much as the musician gets paid just to PROMOTE the blasted thing! Sounds to me like if the union was doing what unions CLAIM to be for that the "artists" would be getting THE biggest slice of the pie, not be FIFTH in line!
I thought Wal-Mart was bad...
...but they're against the record companies...
...who are bad...
...which is good...
...which puts Wal-Mart on our side...
I'm soooo confused.
You forgot "Left-side" -vs- "Right-side" for automobiles.
Also, having never been to Europe, I'm curious: for them is it "Hot on the left, Cold on the right..." like here in the U.S. or is it the other way around (and for that matter, does it flow uphill over there?)
Don't forget "bear" and "bare"! A semi-hilarious memo went around our site about a year ago regarding the parking lot repaving and the encouragement to "bare with us" through the inconvenience. Well, almost everyone thought it was hilarious...
Sorry, couldn't help that take on the old joke...
problem: people priding themselves on making it to work regardless of the weather; a few years ago during the "blizzard of the century" (it really was, for here; >32" of snowfall w/in a 12-hour period) I knew a lot of guys who went into work knowing that the place was closed (usually because the boss had better sense...) just so that the next week (when your area's average annual snowfall is seldom >32", the authorities aren't likely to be prepared to dig the place out overnite...) they'd be able to say to the boss "Hey, I was here, where were YOU ?!?!"
On the other hand, whenever we get 160-mph winds they're usually confined to the trailer parks...
How true. I'm reminded of what Johnny Carson said one time in an interview when asked (something like) how was he able to get an entire one-hour show together in just a day, each and every day, when some hour-long shows that only air once a week weren't as good. His reply was that he had always found if he had a day to get ready for a show then that's what it took, and if he had a week to get ready for a show then that's how long it took -- in other words, it takes as long as it takes. Unfortunately, bosses usually don't appreciate receiving that maxim as an answer...go figure.
Cool! Just when I thought I had thought of every way possible to blame all my personality problems on my upbringing...
If it weren't for the last minute, NOTHING would EVER get done.
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Sounds like an excellent alternative to that antiquated tinfoil.
Be very careful to obey the law in NC.
What do Electric Sheep dream of?
Jumping over electric fences?
No, no, that's what insomniac androids count to get to sleep...
- Space travel
- Robots
- Lost civilizations
- Danger & intrigue
- Time travel "...We've broken the time barrier!"
Plus, it has the distinction of being the very first science fiction movie with a nude scene! (Huh? Whassat? Nude? In 1956?!?!?! Ok, ok, it's simulated nudity...and, to our eyes, not all that well-simulated...but for 1950's-era audiences it was a real SHOCKER!!)From it's Shakespearean roots to the "Id monster" to a damsel-in-distress named (of all things) "Altaira" (computer geeks everywhere ought to recognize at least part of that name...) it's a veritable SciFi onion of delights; peel away one layer and there's a brand new one all ready to enjoy!!
And, if that one didn't "strike your fancy", I've got three more words for you:
So there.
Yeah, I've been watching them for quite a while, too! I'm really disappointed that we haven't seen anything of them for so long (of course, I guess unfulfilled promise is something we geeks ought to be used to by now...)
it's called "clumsy typing" -- that, coupled with a 3-goof-limit on entering my password, has always done a pretty good job.
Geeeeez...not to stir the tinfoil hat crowd, but it sounds like you almost couldn't've scripted things to have gone much worse.
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Of course, Life magazine might get a circulation boost out of it.
Thanks for the chuckle (actually, I'll probably GMAO all day) at the idea of some knucklehead buying a "disposable" camera, taking pictures with it, and then chucking it into the trash instead of taking it back to the drugstore.
...was placed at the top of the globe so that the globe's spin would conform to the "right-hand rule" (the right hand being somehow mystically superior to the left hand -- or at least the "right" being superior to the "left"; our word "sinister" comes from the latin word meaning "on the left"...)
;-)
If you orient (there's that word again...) the globe so that it's spin is in the same direction as the fingers on your right hand, "up" has to be "North"; the direction your thumb points (although, "thumbs-up" hasn't always had a positive connotation...)
Now, where else have I heard of this "right-hand rule"...? Hmmm... maybe "the ancients" weren't so backwards and unenlightened with their right-handedness superstitions after all.
develop one that's human powered.
Wait, wait, they have! (see the tiny little guy inside the egg-shaped cockpit?) BTW, this site also sets the internet record for most occurrences of the phrase BRIO Erector: Crazy Inventors Helicopter; 18!
"Ever sneeze in one of these?" (Wally Schirra's Actifed commercial from 1974)
Maybe, but the people just down the hall from the people in charge of enormous corporations like to have someone at whom to point the ominous finger of blame if (and inevitably when) something goes wrong. Sooner or later, somebody (and I'm not saying it might be someone in the employ of everybody's favorite villain. I'm NOT saying it. No way!) will launch an attack against everyone's favorite open-source OS and find some nasty little holes that nobody's ever noticed -- that's not a criticism of any individual, the open source "community", humanity in general, or anything else -- that's just plain common sense; nobody's perfect and therefore nobody's OS is perfect, no matter how hard we try to make the perfect one. That realization and the fact that Mr. IT Manager Dude doesn't want this script to play out in Mr. Bigwig's office someday:
is what's maintaining the "status quo." He'd much rather it went something like this:
"CYA" is still "Management-101" in a lot of books!
Oh, there're plenty of possibilities!!
- The giant space rock from Armageddon
- The giant space rock from Deep Impact
- The giant space rock from Night of the Comet
- The giant rabbits in Night of the Lepus
- The giant spiders in Invasion of the Giant Spiders
- The giant leeches in Attack of the Giant Leeches
- The giant woman in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
And the list goes on and on and on...I was happy to see just the other evening in a documentary about the original olympics (on the History channel, I believe) the statement that there were NO restrictions or regulations against "performance enhancing" substances back then; if an athelete thought smoking a yak's turd before a competition gave him an edge over his opponent's eating pickled aardvark testicles, they both were invited to imbibe freely before they met in contest. The only things outlawed were eye-gouging and spitting (and, of course, THOSE rules were broken liberally!)