It would have a small but noticeable effectt, I'm pretty sure. Just imagine wanking while there is a set of eyes following your mouse cursor. Feel comfortable? Me not
Isn't this uncomfortably cold on your wrist? I mean, my hand is already freezing after a looong gaming session in a cooler room - but granite is so thermally conductive, it's feeling very cold and keeping that way for hours.
Could you keep gaming with this mousepad for several hours or just for the occasional mouse move while working at the office?
"Limited" probably means it will run until the ticket sales decline and not a day more. And you're not allowed to film the theater screen with your camcorder:)
Although you're right, I think China is clearly the "thief" on this one, suing the locksmith for not providing detailed descriptions of his locks. The assumption "if they had the specs, they'd already copied it" is not far fetched...
And nobody will be trying to contain his hysterical laughter as China is going against patents, monopolies and immoral political or economical behaviour. Their accusations contain a fair bit of irony, much like the thief suing the locksmith.
There are thousands of CCD "spy"cameras available everywhere that have an aperture of less than 3mm. Their video quality is not much worse than the regular surveillance cam, which is already enough for driving a tank. And I'm sure the military can do MUCH better than that.
An enemy near enough to see two tiny camera pinholes in front of a cloaked M1 Abrams from the future should make his peace with God immediately.
I think He placed more emphasis on useful redundancy, data integrity and versatility. Or all compressed chromosome species were wiped out when bandwidth got cheap.
First: I doubt all other cell companies come up with the same tactics. Someone needs more customers or would like to take potshots at the competition.
Second: I can live without VoIP or unlimited phone calls. It may be less convenient and whatnot, but it works. So if the offer new data plans while trying to tell me what to put in my data packets, well, they're screwed. I don't want my phone company to snoop my traffic for whatever reason they come up with. I don't want the postal service to open my letters and I sure as hell don't want the network company to analyze my datagrams.
I will only accept letter transport if I am sure nobody reads my letters except for the recipient, the same goes for phone service (POTS-style) and I see no reason why packet switched service should be any different. Transport my letters reading only the envelope, switch my phone calls reading only the called number and forward my packets reading only source IP, destination IP and checksum.
Charge me for all you want, but leave my privacy alone.
Anyone intercepting my letters, phone calls and datagrams better be an office of the law, on duty, with a warrant issued by a judge. Anything else is illegal, immoral and certainly not worth to PAY for.
I do whatever I want with my hardware. I won't let a company dictate terms to me. Period. I will either find some competitor of yours, or I will hack my way through your restrictions, thumb my nose at you, and help others do the same. Or I will just live without VoIP for some months or a few years more. I can wait, your bank loans taken to build up the infrastructure cannot. So, take your time...
We are not alone in this. Ignore these sentiments at your peril.
I always thought the US was a free country, at least when hiring and firing was concerned. Since when did the US turn to mandating how job applications are written? Is this aprils fool early or is it real? I can't believe what I read right now - federal regulators checking all employers with more than 40 employees for compliance with THAT law? So I need to conform to a federal standard when *trying* to hire workers? I just wait for the Supreme Court to kill that one off, since when is posting a job offer a lawsuit-loaded tripmine?
Water still boils at 100 deg.C. and coffee is still made with boiling water, right? Then what was your point again, do you serve your coffee immediately or do you put ice cubes in it first?
Coffee is burning hot, because it is made from mixing ground coffee beans with boiling water. So coffee is made at 100 degrees Celsius. If I buy coffee, I want it as fresh (and therefore as hot) as possible, because lukewarm coffee is utterly disgusting. I am a human adult, I assume I've endured enough pain from being dumb when I was a child. I KNOW better than to put scaldingly hot liquids in a paper bag in my lap while driving a vehicle. Anyone who doesn't simply needs to have some more years in kindergarten then.
And there's still the option of NOT buying coffee at McD's or throwing it away if you bought it and find it too hot. It's not a federal duty to -buy hot coffee -put it in an unsafe paper cup -place it in your lap and -drive around the streets.
Leave out a single one of these activities and you're gonna be fine.
OK, here's the kicker: every customer from McDonalds KNOWS their coffee is scaldingly hot. At the moment you pick up the cup, you can FEEL it through the paper, you SEE water vapor above it and you KNOW it is hot. Boiling water is, well, boiling hot. But everyone knows that by now. Electric drills hurt your eyes if poked into, gas grills get hot, coffee is hot, boiling water is hot.
The whole world around you is absolutely life-threatening dangerous, if you don't pay attention to some parts of it, if you don't employ that kind of common sense you should have learned in your childhood. Adults don't need someone to tell them that cigarettes are addictive and fresh coffee is tasty but dangerous. Adults don't get someone to tell them that the outlets in their home carry lethal voltage, their car is going to need tire pressure, inspections and whatnot or that a bike helmet isn't going to protect you on a crotch-rocket motorbike.
Yes, McD's coffee was hot, but as a matter of fact it's your own fault if you put anything that *might* be hot in your lap while driving. Boiling watery liquids are common around us, so if you're careless or brain-damaged enough to put fresh boiled liquids (a) in an unsafe container (b) directly in front of your most sensitive body parts (c) while actively driving a motor vehicle (d) well, you're screwed. Every two of these combined are going to make a mess, but that woman made sure to not miss a thing. If you still got a hint of a doubt it was NOT primary stupidity on the side of the person putting -scaldingly hot coffee -in a paper cup -in their lap -while driving then we just can't argue any further. I think we might be from a different planet or dimension then, sorry. I wouldn't know what to say anymore then...
Yep, that's the old-fashioned way. It works, but not as easy or fast as adblock. One right click, two keystrokes and then "OK" is all it takes to clean noisy websites. Especially if banner ads or other annoying stuff are served from the same IP adress as the real content. Websites that feature ugly animated GIFs, frames, blinking flash and whatever embeds are stopped cold. Might be called the three-clicks-out policy.
Free porn websites are a breeze with this, to be honest. Collect all destination hostnames from a popular TGP and block every URL with these hostnames ending in *.gif, *.js and *.swf and enjoy faster load times, less clutter, no stupid framings and no blinkenlights. Everything containing your most hated niche keywoard and ending in *.jpg blocked is also a great plus while seeking some solo amusement. Use "Linky" to open up the entire TGP in tabs at once and Adblock to filter out banner crap and unwanted niches is a good measure when availiable bandwidth is not the top priority. No more t-girls, studs, scat and MILFs or whatever may NOT float your boat.
So: Adblock is a superior approach when it comes to blocking unwanted HTTP content. Pre-emptively freezing unwanted download and spyware sources, the RealMedia main server maybe or whatever server IP your favorite phone-home shareware shouldn't find is best placed in the hostfile.
Don't ask me, ask the combatants of the "War on Drugs(tm)". If you feel qualified about taking the drug yourself, then take it. Qualified in at least the same way you and me would feel qualified after reading the insanely long package inserts of any prescription medicine. Few normal people are able to understand more than the half of it, but we take it anyway. With natural drugs that have been around some thousand years it's probably not as bad, but that's only my opinion, not that of our lawmakers.
I don't care if smoking has real or perceived benefits for anyone. But I believe in personal freedom. If *you* want to kill yourself slowly and painfully, then *you* should have every available means at your disposal to do so. Because I wouldn't like anyone to define what is best for me, I don't define to anyone else what's best for them.
Smoking *is* addictive and dangerous, no question about that. But since everybody knows that by now, and smokes anyway, all we can do is watch them die. In a free society, there is no such thing as "help with force", no matter how hard some people wish there was. Restaurant owners can restrict smoking, shopping malls can, as well as airlines and taxi drivers - on their own property.
I'm no smoker, but I'll sure as hell defend your right to smoke wherever non-smoking people could escape the fumes if they wanted to, the owner of the place agrees and there's no fire hazard involved. I'm more and more embarassed about how fast we give up personal freedom these days...
Not really. Winning one million dollars AND the right to stick it to critics is the point here:) - I'm as much a materialist as the next poster here, but yes, even without money, a scientific proof would be an enormous breakthrough.
There are far too many accounts from eyewitnesses, including some from experienced officers and university professors to dismiss the entire thing. These stories are as old as mankind itself, probably the oldest meme of all. It wouldn't be good science if we just ignored them. I guess that's the reason behind the Randi Challenge, as it would be foolish to pursue all account from a scientific side. Let the mediums come out by themselves, if they dare.
Straight from Wikipedia: The primary constituents... are... nitrogen, oxygen, methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen....
Gas released mostly has a foul odor which mainly results from low molecular weight fatty acids such as butyric acid (rancid butter smell) and reduced sulfur compounds such as hydrogen sulfide (rotten egg smell) and carbonyl sulfide that are the result of protein breakdown.
Methane is the main component of regular natural gas. That's why there are hundreds of meters and gauges on the market to detect even minute amounts of methane. Every gas installation company probably has some of them in use every day. Rent one, set it up to record one datapoint every ten seconds, scan or photograph the printout. Then prove there's no other source of natural gas in the house, collect the million dollar bounty and post photos everywhere to annoy scientists.
Are there any tours available through their HQ? I mean, a repeatable supernatural phenomenon will draw in thousands of visitors, let alone bring you Randi's million bucks. So where's a link and a photo?:)
I invite you to post logged-in again, explain something more and give a link to some photos. With anything supernatural appearing repeatedly in the same spot and timeframe, you have not forgotten to make some photos, do you?
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It would have a small but noticeable effectt, I'm pretty sure. Just imagine wanking while there is a set of eyes following your mouse cursor. Feel comfortable? Me not
Isn't this uncomfortably cold on your wrist? I mean, my hand is already freezing after a looong gaming session in a cooler room - but granite is so thermally conductive, it's feeling very cold and keeping that way for hours.
Could you keep gaming with this mousepad for several hours or just for the occasional mouse move while working at the office?
"Limited" probably means it will run until the ticket sales decline and not a day more. And you're not allowed to film the theater screen with your camcorder :)
Although you're right, I think China is clearly the "thief" on this one, suing the locksmith for not providing detailed descriptions of his locks. The assumption "if they had the specs, they'd already copied it" is not far fetched...
And nobody will be trying to contain his hysterical laughter as China is going against patents, monopolies and immoral political or economical behaviour. Their accusations contain a fair bit of irony, much like the thief suing the locksmith.
Hmm, I dunno. Wahid, Mustafa, Muhammad, can you three take a look and find out what it is?
Even the terrorists are using an adblocker already. I haven't seen a web banner in years...
You misspelled two billion dollars per unit.
There are thousands of CCD "spy"cameras available everywhere that have an aperture of less than 3mm. Their video quality is not much worse than the regular surveillance cam, which is already enough for driving a tank. And I'm sure the military can do MUCH better than that.
An enemy near enough to see two tiny camera pinholes in front of a cloaked M1 Abrams from the future should make his peace with God immediately.
Anything can be interpreted as a vague threat. When talking face-to-face, even a subtle change of voice can be sufficient.
Where to draw the line, then?
I think He placed more emphasis on useful redundancy, data integrity and versatility. Or all compressed chromosome species were wiped out when bandwidth got cheap.
First: I doubt all other cell companies come up with the same tactics. Someone needs more customers or would like to take potshots at the competition.
Second: I can live without VoIP or unlimited phone calls. It may be less convenient and whatnot, but it works. So if the offer new data plans while trying to tell me what to put in my data packets, well, they're screwed. I don't want my phone company to snoop my traffic for whatever reason they come up with. I don't want the postal service to open my letters and I sure as hell don't want the network company to analyze my datagrams.
I will only accept letter transport if I am sure nobody reads my letters except for the recipient, the same goes for phone service (POTS-style) and I see no reason why packet switched service should be any different. Transport my letters reading only the envelope, switch my phone calls reading only the called number and forward my packets reading only source IP, destination IP and checksum.
Charge me for all you want, but leave my privacy alone. Anyone intercepting my letters, phone calls and datagrams better be an office of the law, on duty, with a warrant issued by a judge. Anything else is illegal, immoral and certainly not worth to PAY for.
I would like to be the second one to say this:
*** Screw you, T-Mobile! ***
I do whatever I want with my hardware. I won't let a company dictate terms to me. Period. I will either find some competitor of yours, or I will hack my way through your restrictions, thumb my nose at you, and help others do the same. Or I will just live without VoIP for some months or a few years more. I can wait, your bank loans taken to build up the infrastructure cannot. So, take your time...
We are not alone in this. Ignore these sentiments at your peril.
Sure, it's their network. Let them have it for themselves if they don't like the greedy customers. I'm sure the shareholders won't mind at all...
I always thought the US was a free country, at least when hiring and firing was concerned. Since when did the US turn to mandating how job applications are written? Is this aprils fool early or is it real? I can't believe what I read right now - federal regulators checking all employers with more than 40 employees for compliance with THAT law? So I need to conform to a federal standard when *trying* to hire workers? I just wait for the Supreme Court to kill that one off, since when is posting a job offer a lawsuit-loaded tripmine?
Water still boils at 100 deg.C. and coffee is still made with boiling water, right? Then what was your point again, do you serve your coffee immediately or do you put ice cubes in it first?
Coffee is burning hot, because it is made from mixing ground coffee beans with boiling water. So coffee is made at 100 degrees Celsius. If I buy coffee, I want it as fresh (and therefore as hot) as possible, because lukewarm coffee is utterly disgusting. I am a human adult, I assume I've endured enough pain from being dumb when I was a child. I KNOW better than to put scaldingly hot liquids in a paper bag in my lap while driving a vehicle. Anyone who doesn't simply needs to have some more years in kindergarten then.
And there's still the option of NOT buying coffee at McD's or throwing it away if you bought it and find it too hot. It's not a federal duty to
-buy hot coffee
-put it in an unsafe paper cup
-place it in your lap and
-drive around the streets.
Leave out a single one of these activities and you're gonna be fine.
OK, here's the kicker: every customer from McDonalds KNOWS their coffee is scaldingly hot. At the moment you pick up the cup, you can FEEL it through the paper, you SEE water vapor above it and you KNOW it is hot. Boiling water is, well, boiling hot. But everyone knows that by now. Electric drills hurt your eyes if poked into, gas grills get hot, coffee is hot, boiling water is hot.
The whole world around you is absolutely life-threatening dangerous, if you don't pay attention to some parts of it, if you don't employ that kind of common sense you should have learned in your childhood. Adults don't need someone to tell them that cigarettes are addictive and fresh coffee is tasty but dangerous. Adults don't get someone to tell them that the outlets in their home carry lethal voltage, their car is going to need tire pressure, inspections and whatnot or that a bike helmet isn't going to protect you on a crotch-rocket motorbike.
Yes, McD's coffee was hot, but as a matter of fact it's your own fault if you put anything that *might* be hot in your lap while driving. Boiling watery liquids are common around us, so if you're careless or brain-damaged enough to put fresh boiled liquids (a) in an unsafe container (b) directly in front of your most sensitive body parts (c) while actively driving a motor vehicle (d) well, you're screwed. Every two of these combined are going to make a mess, but that woman made sure to not miss a thing. If you still got a hint of a doubt it was NOT primary stupidity on the side of the person putting
-scaldingly hot coffee
-in a paper cup
-in their lap
-while driving
then we just can't argue any further. I think we might be from a different planet or dimension then, sorry. I wouldn't know what to say anymore then...
Yep, that's the old-fashioned way. It works, but not as easy or fast as adblock. One right click, two keystrokes and then "OK" is all it takes to clean noisy websites. Especially if banner ads or other annoying stuff are served from the same IP adress as the real content. Websites that feature ugly animated GIFs, frames, blinking flash and whatever embeds are stopped cold. Might be called the three-clicks-out policy.
Free porn websites are a breeze with this, to be honest. Collect all destination hostnames from a popular TGP and block every URL with these hostnames ending in *.gif, *.js and *.swf and enjoy faster load times, less clutter, no stupid framings and no blinkenlights. Everything containing your most hated niche keywoard and ending in *.jpg blocked is also a great plus while seeking some solo amusement. Use "Linky" to open up the entire TGP in tabs at once and Adblock to filter out banner crap and unwanted niches is a good measure when availiable bandwidth is not the top priority. No more t-girls, studs, scat and MILFs or whatever may NOT float your boat.
So: Adblock is a superior approach when it comes to blocking unwanted HTTP content. Pre-emptively freezing unwanted download and spyware sources, the RealMedia main server maybe or whatever server IP your favorite phone-home shareware shouldn't find is best placed in the hostfile.
Don't ask me, ask the combatants of the "War on Drugs(tm)". If you feel qualified about taking the drug yourself, then take it. Qualified in at least the same way you and me would feel qualified after reading the insanely long package inserts of any prescription medicine. Few normal people are able to understand more than the half of it, but we take it anyway. With natural drugs that have been around some thousand years it's probably not as bad, but that's only my opinion, not that of our lawmakers.
I don't care if smoking has real or perceived benefits for anyone. But I believe in personal freedom. If *you* want to kill yourself slowly and painfully, then *you* should have every available means at your disposal to do so. Because I wouldn't like anyone to define what is best for me, I don't define to anyone else what's best for them. Smoking *is* addictive and dangerous, no question about that. But since everybody knows that by now, and smokes anyway, all we can do is watch them die. In a free society, there is no such thing as "help with force", no matter how hard some people wish there was. Restaurant owners can restrict smoking, shopping malls can, as well as airlines and taxi drivers - on their own property. I'm no smoker, but I'll sure as hell defend your right to smoke wherever non-smoking people could escape the fumes if they wanted to, the owner of the place agrees and there's no fire hazard involved. I'm more and more embarassed about how fast we give up personal freedom these days...
Not really. Winning one million dollars AND the right to stick it to critics is the point here :) - I'm as much a materialist as the next poster here, but yes, even without money, a scientific proof would be an enormous breakthrough.
There are far too many accounts from eyewitnesses, including some from experienced officers and university professors to dismiss the entire thing. These stories are as old as mankind itself, probably the oldest meme of all. It wouldn't be good science if we just ignored them. I guess that's the reason behind the Randi Challenge, as it would be foolish to pursue all account from a scientific side. Let the mediums come out by themselves, if they dare.
Flatulence is a mix of gases.
... are ... nitrogen, oxygen, methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen. ...
Straight from Wikipedia: The primary constituents
Gas released mostly has a foul odor which mainly results from low molecular weight fatty acids such as butyric acid (rancid butter smell) and reduced sulfur compounds such as hydrogen sulfide (rotten egg smell) and carbonyl sulfide that are the result of protein breakdown.
Methane is the main component of regular natural gas. That's why there are hundreds of meters and gauges on the market to detect even minute amounts of methane. Every gas installation company probably has some of them in use every day. Rent one, set it up to record one datapoint every ten seconds, scan or photograph the printout. Then prove there's no other source of natural gas in the house, collect the million dollar bounty and post photos everywhere to annoy scientists.
Are there any tours available through their HQ? I mean, a repeatable supernatural phenomenon will draw in thousands of visitors, let alone bring you Randi's million bucks. So where's a link and a photo? :)
I invite you to post logged-in again, explain something more and give a link to some photos. With anything supernatural appearing repeatedly in the same spot and timeframe, you have not forgotten to make some photos, do you?