Putting locks on doors is a reasonable preventative measure that keeps honest people from opening them. It does not "stop industrial espionage."
Of course it does! What spy would want to have this conversation at the monthly meeting:
[Sam the spy] Hi, Ralph [Ralph the spy] 'Evening, Sam. Whatcha been up to lately? [Sam] Well, last week I lifted some sweet tech specs from ABC Aerospace that I think Mr. Big will really like. [Ralph] PFFT! ABC Aerospace?! What a crackerbox -- they don't even lock their doors! [loudly, to entire room] HEY EVERYBODY!! Get this: ol' "fingers" here cracked ABC AEROSPACE!! Next stop: FORT KNOX!! [from the crowd] "Hey, double-oh-seven, they been handin' out candy at the daycare all week; you think you could give me a few pointers that'll help me take some of it away from those kiddies?!" [Sam] I think I'll shoot myself with my fountain pen now...
The problem with asking Jessica Alba to play the Invisible Woman is that she's not someone we want to be invisible in the first place -- it's pretty hard to "suspend your disbelief" when you're busy hoping her invisibility powers fail but her costume's function perfectly...
Actually, I tried to check the link (during a brief "Outlook 2003 did WHAT with my message? I need to take a" break) but my employer has flagged that site as a "sex site" so it was blocked -- and now I guess my name is flashing across a computer in HR...
Yep, I finally got a chance to read the rest of the Wiki article and saw the blurb about the RSOD. Next version'll probably have a green screen of death, then they'll have the entire color spectrum covered one way or the other.
'West Midlands Police deals robustly with anti-social behaviour. By targeting what may seem relatively low-level crime we aim to prevent it developing into more serious matters.'
Somehow, I think this plan might just backfire (if not with at least one of these three, then eventually...)
Think about it: given the choice between having enough food to eat and fueling our automobiles (and trucks, etc.) which do you think would win? (hint: it ain't us!)
We've created an insatiable beast that WILL be fed, or else.
Just make it a point at the meetings to not sit between the lady vampire and the guy with the painting; sometimes they get along quite well and sometimes not...
Yeah, but the up side would be that now the crap he owns is the crap they wanted and he can "market" it to them. With a fair markup, of course. Bonus: he doesn't even have to ship it; he can just walk it over (of course he'll still charge for the "shipping and handling" -- after all, he did have to handle it...)
I have a cocksure attitude towards just about any subject you can think about. This means I can read someone's legitimate musing on a subject and sometimes (quite often, actually) trot out the tired old "oh, if that could have been done don't you think someone would already have done it?" straw dog (and trash it soundly!) That does not mean I can keep my big flapper shut. Why? Because I have to make myself at least feel like I'm superior to each and every egghead or eggheaded notion I encounter. Anything that you can come up with, I can slap with my little label and make myself feel superior.
So excuse me for not entertaining your brilliant idea, I'm too busy nursing my sprained arm.
Actually, "prior art" creds probably ought to go to (once again) Mrs Wells' little boy, H.G.; if he were still alive he could make a supportable claim on everything from "global circumnavigation via gas-filled envelope" all the way up to "lunar visitation via VTOL craft".
To paraphrase (ok, steal and then blatently modify) that old movie title, the mods MUST be crazy, because the parent post was hilarious! (I especially appreciated the use of "approximately pi" and the quite appropriate "2.17313508 X 10^-16 Parsecs", though it would have been cool if you could have figured out how to work in the classics "hogshead" and "fortnight"...) If I had a point, Nothing would get it.
...The tool then searches for appropriate responses and posts a response to the new article on Slashdot proclaiming it to be a dupe...
Sounds like this thing's just a few modules short of obsoletizing us all; give this thing a "beowulf cluster" module and a "in Soviet Russia" module and it'd be pretty well self-contained. Any day now it'll be welcoming it's overlord self...
[conspiracy "theory" that the moon landings were faked]...It's about on par with a Jehovah's Witness trying to say that the geological evidence for an old planet was just put there by God to test our faith.
We "young-Earth creationists" put up with a lot, but when you compare us to this batch of kooks you're going TOO FAR!
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Of course it does! What spy would want to have this conversation at the monthly meeting:
The problem with asking Jessica Alba to play the Invisible Woman is that she's not someone we want to be invisible in the first place -- it's pretty hard to "suspend your disbelief" when you're busy hoping her invisibility powers fail but her costume's function perfectly...
Actually, I tried to check the link (during a brief "Outlook 2003 did WHAT with my message? I need to take a" break) but my employer has flagged that site as a "sex site" so it was blocked -- and now I guess my name is flashing across a computer in HR... Yep, I finally got a chance to read the rest of the Wiki article and saw the blurb about the RSOD. Next version'll probably have a green screen of death, then they'll have the entire color spectrum covered one way or the other.
then you probably could jam-through a patent for just about anything
You were thinking "RSOD"!
Yeah, I'm slow but I eventually get there!
Actually, I was thinking BSOD.
...should be blue (to match the screen.)
Situation: I've got the "green", he ignores the red, our cars "meet".
Equipment required: (Escort)
- "jaws of life" (to remove driver's door)
- back board and neck brace (to remove driver)
- large white vehicle with garish lights and loud siren (to transport driver)
- large flat-bed truck (to transport Escort)
- City work truck (to transport concrete for patching curb which forcibly removed Escort's rear wheel during "meeting")
Equipment required: (Catalina)Synopsis: In contest between Catalina and Escort, bet on the Catalina.
Think about it: given the choice between having enough food to eat and fueling our automobiles (and trucks, etc.) which do you think would win? (hint: it ain't us!)
We've created an insatiable beast that WILL be fed, or else.
Oil? Nope. My prediction: Fred's big feet. (think "Flintstones")
On a positive note, all those oil company bigwigs'll be turned into Al Bundy-style shoe salesmen...
Lima beans? LIMA BEANS?
THANK YOU! Now I have a plausible reason to never eat another of those disgusting little orbs again!
Please don't waste mod points modding this up funny, all I did was notice that it only took a couple of hours for the mods to ignore P's request.
In addition, please don't donate money to my PayPal acct.
...and you can keep your pron, too.
Yeah, I think we can all agree that orderly, predictable malarky is much preferable.
Just make it a point at the meetings to not sit between the lady vampire and the guy with the painting; sometimes they get along quite well and sometimes not...
Yeah, but the up side would be that now the crap he owns is the crap they wanted and he can "market" it to them. With a fair markup, of course. Bonus: he doesn't even have to ship it; he can just walk it over (of course he'll still charge for the "shipping and handling" -- after all, he did have to handle it...)
I have a cocksure attitude towards just about any subject you can think about. This means I can read someone's legitimate musing on a subject and sometimes (quite often, actually) trot out the tired old "oh, if that could have been done don't you think someone would already have done it?" straw dog (and trash it soundly!) That does not mean I can keep my big flapper shut. Why? Because I have to make myself at least feel like I'm superior to each and every egghead or eggheaded notion I encounter. Anything that you can come up with, I can slap with my little label and make myself feel superior.
So excuse me for not entertaining your brilliant idea, I'm too busy nursing my sprained arm.
Actually, "prior art" creds probably ought to go to (once again) Mrs Wells' little boy, H.G.; if he were still alive he could make a supportable claim on everything from "global circumnavigation via gas-filled envelope" all the way up to "lunar visitation via VTOL craft".
To paraphrase (ok, steal and then blatently modify) that old movie title, the mods MUST be crazy, because the parent post was hilarious! (I especially appreciated the use of "approximately pi" and the quite appropriate "2.17313508 X 10^-16 Parsecs", though it would have been cool if you could have figured out how to work in the classics "hogshead" and "fortnight"...)
If I had a point, Nothing would get it.
Do Yourself It?
Master Yoda, is that you?
Already been done by some Greek dude about 22 centuries ago...
Yeah, like that's the first time we've heard THAT statement made.
Either way, never understimate the power of the government to screw something up .
Sounds like this thing's just a few modules short of obsoletizing us all; give this thing a "beowulf cluster" module and a "in Soviet Russia" module and it'd be pretty well self-contained. Any day now it'll be welcoming it's overlord self...
We "young-Earth creationists" put up with a lot, but when you compare us to this batch of kooks you're going TOO FAR!