Homer: Every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
I've used Apples all my life and I like Mac OS, but I'm fed up with the hardware. I'm not rich enough to spend hundreds of dollars on "style", on a Mac Mini with more expensive, less capable parts. I'm also not rich enough to just throw a monitor in the trash every time I get a new computer, buying Imacs. I just want a regular, maybe small tower with desktop parts, easily swapped RAM and maybe other parts. It should be at the same price as the Mini, but better, or equivalent to a Mini but cheaper.
I disagree, I think there are significant chances they would be somewhat humanoid if they existed. If they move around on land, they most likely need legs to do that. They might have more, but two is the minimum so they might have two. To make tools they need manipulative parts, and they could end up with two there. They would work better if they're up off the ground and a geared more towards fine control rather than being robust enough to walk on. Biology and evolution seem to favor bilateral symmetry, so they would probably have even numbers of limbs at least.
Also, sensory organs would usually work best when they're high up off the ground and able to turn in different directions, so I wouldn't be suprised if they had something resembling a head.
Maybe if a spam scam starts affecting businesses, or the wealthy, there will be a better chance that the politicians will wake up and do something about spam.
According to Wikipedia article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kalashnikov
Mikhail Kalashnikov is still alive. And he is hardly a poor man either. He used to be president of the factory that manufactured AK-47. He was not stinking rich but he, indeed, enjoyed prosperity and name recognition throughout Rusia.
There was a very recent book published about the AK-47. The author did an interview on C-SPAN radio about it. He talked about a TV show where they flew Kalashnikov in to meet Eugene Stoner (inventor of the M-16) and shoot each other's weapons. He said that Kalashnikov was poor and the producers of the show wound up buying him some nice shoes and things. He has recently been using his name on vodka and things, but if this author is to be believed, then before that he was not well off, certainly not by Western standards.
Businesses are not being "slow." If it's a business phone you want a phone attached to the freaking business and not in one person's pocket. Like, the front desk phone can be a landline phone that sits on the front desk, and whoever is running the fron desk can use that front-desk phone. It's really quite elegant. I don't know what you'd have, mabye a silver Motorola KRZR on one of those little ball-chains they keep pens on at the bank. I used to always steal those pens when I was a kid.
That is sensationalist crap, the thing about landlines being obselete. Maybe young students or people with apartments, but come on. There are huge advantages to a landline. It's more reliable and jamproof, and if you want an extra phone you pay $10 at the grocery store instead of hundreds (and repeating that every few years as they get obsolete). The voice quality is better and it doesn't run on freaking batteries. It's on the wall so you always know where it is and you don't lose it in the couch cushions. I can't imagine having a house without phones on the walls. What the hell do you do if you have kids and you have to hire a babysitter? Leave her your cellphone? Then what do you call home with? You can call her cellphone from yours but then there's still no number for the household, say if the neighbors want to tell you there's a fire next door or a prowler. And so on.
School shootings aren't common. One happens what, every few years? Car accidents are very common. Sports accidents are common. Fires are common, school shootings are not common.
No, this is an issue of public health, of transmissible dieases, where it not only affects what or who has it, it also threatens others who may catch it. Most free-market type people (randites, libertarians etc) recognize that a government should have power to quarantine people in time of plague and do things like that. I think you're mistaken when you equate "free markets" with people being allowed to do something that might breed and distribute new infectious diseases.
Does the good shape ever fold the pathological shape back into the good shape? If not, the good shape isn't a proteinaceous infectious particle. Maybe a prion-precursor but not a prion.
Don't they usually start out without prions? You have to infect them. I went cow-shopping and I remember prions were strictly an option. They should call these "prion-proof cattle."
One of linked stories is about someone who had problems with Mega. Apparently the big issues are that they don't have an out-of-pocket maximum, and that they have per-day maximums that are too low to be useful.
The other problem is that there have been allegations by some that the NASE is deceptive, in presenting themselves as an independent organization when they mainly sell Mega insurance. I really haven't looked into any of this myself, but you should be aware of it and do some research if you're dealing with them,
You're not clever. You think you're being very clever by busting out the double-i that most people don't know of, but it's not right here, as the word isn't "virius."
I was just a kid in the 90's so I might remember it as being bigger than it is. The tour went into the conference room overlooking the control room. We sat down at the table with the red phones and whatnot and got a short lecture. I think the control room was the size of a decent classroom, but taller. There were in fact screens on the wall, but they were in keeping with the size of the rooms, like the size of a big projection TV maybe.
Last year, however, they apparently unveiled a bigger room: http://www.csindy.com/csindy/2005-03-10/news.html. The picture is small, but it looks like they might have cut out the conference room and added the space that used to be that room and whatever was under it to the control room.
Another neat thing was the water reservoir; I don't know if there was more than the one we saw. It was an open pool, not very deep, in a long side tunnel with a bare rock roof.
The widget "touchtheSky" can be collapsed to just a little bar, which you can put over the title bar of your browswer. You can expand it to a one-line report or a little full window.
I agree, you can't do everything with widgets, but just the one for weather isn't obtrusive.
No, not tacking. Tacking involves turning the ship back and forth and having a keel which prevents it from moving on an axis that you don't want to move it on. Also the parent post said it would involve tradewinds coming from the stern.
The sail is filled with compressed air to give it the right shape. I imagine helium would be expensive for something so big that is inflated and deflated repeatedly.
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The decision is overridden because the crew can camp out in the space station.
The "no go" people claim to accept this. (they damn well knew too)
So...
Why say "no go" in the first place? Why worry about foam damage if
you know that you ultimately won't care?
They said that there is little risk to the crew, but there is excessive risk to the orbiter itself.
Has anybody heard if he had the good sense to copy the video and give it to other people before he took it to the police?
Also, does this mean the folks who film COPS and humiliate people are going to go to prison for recording people's voices without their consent? If videotaping counts as wiretapping and it's a matter of consent rather than knowledge, I don't see how almost all videotaping doesn't count. It would cover a lot, news crews, hidden-camera shows, etc.
Concrete is mimserable to drive on. It doesn't degrade like asphalt, but it's very, very noisy and it's slicker in the rain. Id hate to have to drive on nothing but concrete.
We're many decades away from having the technology or resources for self-sustaining colonies. Anything we do anytime soon will just be sending people up in glorified submarines. People can survive for a pretty long time in a submarine but they can't raise a family, run a submarine school, or build a new submarine in one. Massive missions and massive technological advancements are needed before we could have colonies with farms, families, schools, manufacturing etc. Better to just carry on with life and let technology advance rather than waste resources sending people up in little tin cans.
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Maybe, but it doesn't tell you that on the box so, a wise player will save ammo.
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Homer: Every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
Marge: That's because you were drunk!
Homer: And how.
I've used Apples all my life and I like Mac OS, but I'm fed up with the hardware. I'm not rich enough to spend hundreds of dollars on "style", on a Mac Mini with more expensive, less capable parts. I'm also not rich enough to just throw a monitor in the trash every time I get a new computer, buying Imacs. I just want a regular, maybe small tower with desktop parts, easily swapped RAM and maybe other parts. It should be at the same price as the Mini, but better, or equivalent to a Mini but cheaper.
Are they going so far as including the expired, re-labled milk, and band-aids on the hot dogs?
I disagree, I think there are significant chances they would be somewhat humanoid if they existed. If they move around on land, they most likely need legs to do that. They might have more, but two is the minimum so they might have two. To make tools they need manipulative parts, and they could end up with two there. They would work better if they're up off the ground and a geared more towards fine control rather than being robust enough to walk on. Biology and evolution seem to favor bilateral symmetry, so they would probably have even numbers of limbs at least.
Also, sensory organs would usually work best when they're high up off the ground and able to turn in different directions, so I wouldn't be suprised if they had something resembling a head.
Maybe if a spam scam starts affecting businesses, or the wealthy, there will be a better chance that the politicians will wake up and do something about spam.
There was a very recent book published about the AK-47. The author did an interview on C-SPAN radio about it. He talked about a TV show where they flew Kalashnikov in to meet Eugene Stoner (inventor of the M-16) and shoot each other's weapons. He said that Kalashnikov was poor and the producers of the show wound up buying him some nice shoes and things. He has recently been using his name on vodka and things, but if this author is to be believed, then before that he was not well off, certainly not by Western standards.
Businesses are not being "slow." If it's a business phone you want a phone attached to the freaking business and not in one person's pocket. Like, the front desk phone can be a landline phone that sits on the front desk, and whoever is running the fron desk can use that front-desk phone. It's really quite elegant. I don't know what you'd have, mabye a silver Motorola KRZR on one of those little ball-chains they keep pens on at the bank. I used to always steal those pens when I was a kid.
That is sensationalist crap, the thing about landlines being obselete. Maybe young students or people with apartments, but come on. There are huge advantages to a landline. It's more reliable and jamproof, and if you want an extra phone you pay $10 at the grocery store instead of hundreds (and repeating that every few years as they get obsolete). The voice quality is better and it doesn't run on freaking batteries. It's on the wall so you always know where it is and you don't lose it in the couch cushions. I can't imagine having a house without phones on the walls. What the hell do you do if you have kids and you have to hire a babysitter? Leave her your cellphone? Then what do you call home with? You can call her cellphone from yours but then there's still no number for the household, say if the neighbors want to tell you there's a fire next door or a prowler. And so on.
School shootings aren't common. One happens what, every few years? Car accidents are very common. Sports accidents are common. Fires are common, school shootings are not common.
No, this is an issue of public health, of transmissible dieases, where it not only affects what or who has it, it also threatens others who may catch it. Most free-market type people (randites, libertarians etc) recognize that a government should have power to quarantine people in time of plague and do things like that. I think you're mistaken when you equate "free markets" with people being allowed to do something that might breed and distribute new infectious diseases.
Does the good shape ever fold the pathological shape back into the good shape? If not, the good shape isn't a proteinaceous infectious particle. Maybe a prion-precursor but not a prion.
Don't they usually start out without prions? You have to infect them. I went cow-shopping and I remember prions were strictly an option. They should call these "prion-proof cattle."
One of linked stories is about someone who had problems with Mega. Apparently the big issues are that they don't have an out-of-pocket maximum, and that they have per-day maximums that are too low to be useful.
The other problem is that there have been allegations by some that the NASE is deceptive, in presenting themselves as an independent organization when they mainly sell Mega insurance. I really haven't looked into any of this myself, but you should be aware of it and do some research if you're dealing with them,
All the ones I've used had simple spinning weights. I don't see why it would be impossible to filter out a regular motion like that.
The plural of "virus" is not "virii." See WIkipedia on "Plural of virus":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus
You're not clever. You think you're being very clever by busting out the double-i that most people don't know of, but it's not right here, as the word isn't "virius."
Last year, however, they apparently unveiled a bigger room: http://www.csindy.com/csindy/2005-03-10/news.html. The picture is small, but it looks like they might have cut out the conference room and added the space that used to be that room and whatever was under it to the control room.
Another neat thing was the water reservoir; I don't know if there was more than the one we saw. It was an open pool, not very deep, in a long side tunnel with a bare rock roof.
Sorry to go offtopic, but where did you buy your synthetic diamond?
Don't answer, De Beers will have the dealer dead within a week.
The widget "touchtheSky" can be collapsed to just a little bar, which you can put over the title bar of your browswer. You can expand it to a one-line report or a little full window. I agree, you can't do everything with widgets, but just the one for weather isn't obtrusive.
No, not tacking. Tacking involves turning the ship back and forth and having a keel which prevents it from moving on an axis that you don't want to move it on. Also the parent post said it would involve tradewinds coming from the stern.
The sail is filled with compressed air to give it the right shape. I imagine helium would be expensive for something so big that is inflated and deflated repeatedly.
The decision is overridden because the crew can camp out in the space station. The "no go" people claim to accept this. (they damn well knew too) So... Why say "no go" in the first place? Why worry about foam damage if you know that you ultimately won't care?
They said that there is little risk to the crew, but there is excessive risk to the orbiter itself.
Has anybody heard if he had the good sense to copy the video and give it to other people before he took it to the police?
Also, does this mean the folks who film COPS and humiliate people are going to go to prison for recording people's voices without their consent? If videotaping counts as wiretapping and it's a matter of consent rather than knowledge, I don't see how almost all videotaping doesn't count. It would cover a lot, news crews, hidden-camera shows, etc.
Concrete is mimserable to drive on. It doesn't degrade like asphalt, but it's very, very noisy and it's slicker in the rain. Id hate to have to drive on nothing but concrete.
We're many decades away from having the technology or resources for self-sustaining colonies. Anything we do anytime soon will just be sending people up in glorified submarines. People can survive for a pretty long time in a submarine but they can't raise a family, run a submarine school, or build a new submarine in one. Massive missions and massive technological advancements are needed before we could have colonies with farms, families, schools, manufacturing etc. Better to just carry on with life and let technology advance rather than waste resources sending people up in little tin cans.
Maybe, but it doesn't tell you that on the box so, a wise player will save ammo.