I always thought they were so cool when I was a kid, how when you turned them on, they'd leave a big red mark on your skin, say, on your arm or cheek, etc.
But then, my cousin had his "accident" with a vacuum tube. If only he left it alone, instead of removing the attachment and puting his attachement in the tube....
Oh, wait. You mean the OTHER vacuum tubes. I'm so embarrassed. Nevermind.
I hate to waste one of my two "terrible Karma" posts on this... (and I don't get the mod system, really.. I just went negative one day.. but I digress. Sorry).
Anyway, here is why you're wrong: The R2 Series droid could have any number/letter combination. R2-D2 was just an early model of the D Series, R2 Astromech droid. There concievably would have been R2-D3, R2-X1938401, R2-A511, etc, etc, ad infinitum. However, Artooayfive-eleven just doesn't roll off the tongue all that easily!!!!
Heck, even Obi-Wan had an R4 unit, so R2 was really an old hunk of junk.
But can you imagine how Star Wars would have been different if that R5 Unit was in possesion of a GOOD motivator?!?!
No, No, No....
The whole "Duke Nukem Forever" thing is just a mistake! I'm telling you, in all seriousness... there was a big screw up when the canned the program.
See, the reporters couldn't kept hounding the developers, even though they were told it was a Dead Game. Finally, after one guy asked for about the 1000th time: "How much longer will we have to wait for this?!?"
To which the PR guy replied, "Duke Nuk'em? Forever."
So you can see it was a simple grammar error that has caused so much consternation over the years.:-)
Hemp isn't Pot.
I don't smoke it, and I don't waste my time with addle-headed fools that do.
Although, I'm sure the Snack food manufacturers of the world have a part in it's constant availability...:-)
One thing you forget to mention, is the other advantage of using Bio-Fuel... the GREENING effect. More land would be reserved for crop/fuel production.
The combination of less greenhouse gas pollutants, and an increased level of atomospheric cleaning, and we'd be in a much better off situation. Imagine all those countries currently wasting away their forests (rain, and other) changing their tactic, and instead planting high-yield crops, such as hemp.
Yes, hemp. Corn is only used because so much of it is stockpiled and then wasted as it rots in silos in the US. Indeed, it has become a subsidy program. By switching to hemp, there'd be a much higher yeild, faster growing, more hardy species of plant from which to extract the ethanol/biomass product.
Personally, I'd prefer a solar/wind powered solution, with future improvements in small scale generation and battery life/storage capacity.
But in the mean time, I think Biomass is the way to go. Shell has hooked up with various companies over the past several years, as have others - in an effort to wean their reliance on oil and on to future technologies.
I'm not so sure Hydrogen is the answer for our cars, since it's clearly not good for us in our food either:-)
Don't biodegradeble, food based products, er.. um... degrade!?!?
This sounds like a serious way to make you keep buying disks over and over, since their shelf life will have a freaking best before date on them!
No, he's wrong. Many Canadians used to shop south of the border due to unique items, etc. Not so much now that dollar is down (but it's rising) and because big box discounters have destroyed our local stores...
Taking things across the border is easy. Just tell customs. Unless you are buying a ton, they don't care much. I think it's $100 for 24 hours or less, plus a carton of smokes and 24 beer (bottle booze) and about 400$ for 3 - 5 days.
Fair amount of stuff.. just bring your receipts is all they ask for.
A lot of the movie was complete speculation, especially the rapidly increasing timeline... still, scientists have been warning about radical climate changes to the environment... not JUST warming, but all kinds.
The desalinization effect is well thought out and discussed. Do some web search and you'll find plenty of supporting research.
Here's hoping the speculation about the flash storm effects found in ADAT are only that.... Or it's gonna get a lot of people into a dead situation.
Hopefully, marketing people will show their normal propensity at technology... (ie: little to none) and we'll be able to block this garbage at the router/firewall.
This is bad. Really bad. Did I mention it's bad?
A whole new reason for your boss to not let games be played at lunch/after work.
Newer plastics are designed to decompose after a short (relatively) period of time, when exposed to the environment.
The problem of course, rears it's ugly head when the plastics are buried under 75,000 tonnes of refuse and zero air and water get in/on to it. Like so many other things, they sit there and remain intact, future evidence for archaeologists studying our society.
Metric was introduced in Canada when I was a kid... the morons of the Mulroney Government backed off it, in the 80's (15 years later) and many companies flipped at having to change their labelling AGAIN.
Now, we are a strange damned mix of mostly Metric, but also Imperial (British) standard.
Most younger people exist 100% in the metric world. I did too at one time, but I now use lbs and feet for personal measurement, and MPG for mileage. I never could get used to that litres per 100km idiocy. Why not say kilometers per liter? sheesh.
I'm sure not many will care about the US and it's foolish hold on ancient measures and hokey weights (To paraphrase Han Solo).
Yes, actually, it DOES beat the DaVinci Project, if they are successful with both flights.
It beats them by a few weeks.
Yes, Canada is very used to coming in with it's "Best personal achievement in a space race to date."
Sorta just like the Olympic performance? Ya, Canada, your team SUCKS, quit justifying being 32nd with 'personal bests' and excuses. Oh, and tell CBC to quit interviewing and talking to the LOSERS in all those events. Nobody cares. It makes us look dumb, and it perpetuates the myth that "just playing is an honour".
Well duh. But do you want your kids to aspire to medoicrity, or maybe have them shoot for gold?
DaVinci Project - as much as I want it to win - is going to be an also ran. Nobody will care, but it might get a mention 'cuz of the casino angle.
Just a note:
Most Americans I've known say the word "huh" just about as much as Canadians say "eh?"
Further south, it becomes "ya'll" and other colloqualisms. Canadians are just speaking English in a more uniformely poor manner.
Most Canadians would simply LOVE to see Quebec leave.
Many reasons, No. 1 being no more forced french in school and government. 10% of population runs 80% of government.
No. 2 being it would shrink Quebec, cuz many northern Aboriginal tribes want to remain Canadian. Of course, that would mean Canada would actually have to poney up and show some balls and defend them (and west Quebecers, largely english)... wether that would happen in such a pussy assed country, who knows.
No. 3 would be the huge cost savings in transfer payments. Successive seperatists governments have driven their economy into the ground with racist language laws and nationalistic socialistic business practices.
No 4... and by far the most important.... It would cuz 12 hours off the drive to Newfoundland!!!!!!
Well, you are mistaken. DVD's have NO... I repeat NO taxes/tariffs on them at this time. Only cassettes, digital tapes (DAT) and CD's (Computer and Audio at different rates, which is funny in and of itself).
Rest assured, NONE of those tarrifs are going to the Artists, and CRIA keeps trying to sue end users, just like in the USA. Last time, they tried to TAX the ISP's. Wouldn't that be peachy?
Don't think Canadians are safe. It's not true. The minute something like this happens in the US, Canada will surely follow. The PM has already blabbed the CRIA corporate line about changing the laws at the last big Media Convention before the last election.
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...but I used internet porn to get me OFF the crack.
WTF am I going to do NOW!?!?
I for one, welcome our new Loyalty Card Overlords.
All hail the cardreader! Double-good bonus points!
Please, someone tell me how to recover lost karma... brother can you spare some mod points?
Well, he could tell it was malfunctioning because it blew up in front of his face. I always wondered what a "motivator" really was.
Maybe Luke is one of those backyard mechanics that just doesn't know his drive belt from his axel.
But then, this IS a Lucas movie, so maybe he just changed it afterwards....
Someone mod me some points... I gotta get rid of this Karma, dude!
I always thought they were so cool when I was a kid, how when you turned them on, they'd leave a big red mark on your skin, say, on your arm or cheek, etc.
:-)
But then, my cousin had his "accident" with a vacuum tube. If only he left it alone, instead of removing the attachment and puting his attachement in the tube....
Oh, wait. You mean the OTHER vacuum tubes. I'm so embarrassed. Nevermind.
I hate to waste one of my two "terrible Karma" posts on this...
:-)
(and I don't get the mod system, really.. I just went negative one day.. but I digress. Sorry).
Anyway, here is why you're wrong: The R2 Series droid could have any number/letter combination. R2-D2 was just an early model of the D Series, R2 Astromech droid. There concievably would have been R2-D3, R2-X1938401, R2-A511, etc, etc, ad infinitum. However, Artooayfive-eleven just doesn't roll off the tongue all that easily!!!!
Heck, even Obi-Wan had an R4 unit, so R2 was really an old hunk of junk.
But can you imagine how Star Wars would have been different if that R5 Unit was in possesion of a GOOD motivator?!?!
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For the real truth, check out what really happened in the Mos Eisley Cantina with Han and Greedo.
No, No, No.... The whole "Duke Nukem Forever" thing is just a mistake! I'm telling you, in all seriousness... there was a big screw up when the canned the program.
:-)
See, the reporters couldn't kept hounding the developers, even though they were told it was a Dead Game. Finally, after one guy asked for about the 1000th time: "How much longer will we have to wait for this?!?"
To which the PR guy replied, "Duke Nuk'em? Forever."
So you can see it was a simple grammar error that has caused so much consternation over the years.
Hemp isn't Pot. I don't smoke it, and I don't waste my time with addle-headed fools that do. Although, I'm sure the Snack food manufacturers of the world have a part in it's constant availability... :-)
One thing you forget to mention, is the other advantage of using Bio-Fuel... the GREENING effect. More land would be reserved for crop/fuel production.
:-)
The combination of less greenhouse gas pollutants, and an increased level of atomospheric cleaning, and we'd be in a much better off situation. Imagine all those countries currently wasting away their forests (rain, and other) changing their tactic, and instead planting high-yield crops, such as hemp.
Yes, hemp. Corn is only used because so much of it is stockpiled and then wasted as it rots in silos in the US. Indeed, it has become a subsidy program. By switching to hemp, there'd be a much higher yeild, faster growing, more hardy species of plant from which to extract the ethanol/biomass product.
Personally, I'd prefer a solar/wind powered solution, with future improvements in small scale generation and battery life/storage capacity.
But in the mean time, I think Biomass is the way to go. Shell has hooked up with various companies over the past several years, as have others - in an effort to wean their reliance on oil and on to future technologies.
I'm not so sure Hydrogen is the answer for our cars, since it's clearly not good for us in our food either
All these so called "Wind Experts" can just blow me. :-)
If you are technically inclined (this _is_ slashdot) then perhaps you may want to check out Freevo or perhaps MythTV.
Seems to me, this might be the way for interested Linux/Opensource people... a great way to avoid BorgBill's assimilation.
I've shown those sites to a few people, and they get very excited... especially since Tivo like services are only now penetrating in my area.
Tivo's not everywhere... yet. Maybe MS can be headed off a the pass, too.
One mans "Brokerage Politics" is another mans Pandering.
I for one, welcome our new Discworld Overlords.
Wait, I need to go. I think I hear someone yelling "Guards, Guards, Gaurds...."
oh, wait, nevermind.
It's just some late halloween people cleaning up and muttering "Gourds, Gourds, Gourds...."
And now, for something completely different....
Don't biodegradeble, food based products, er.. um... degrade!?!? This sounds like a serious way to make you keep buying disks over and over, since their shelf life will have a freaking best before date on them!
No, he's wrong. Many Canadians used to shop south of the border due to unique items, etc. Not so much now that dollar is down (but it's rising) and because big box discounters have destroyed our local stores...
Taking things across the border is easy. Just tell customs. Unless you are buying a ton, they don't care much. I think it's $100 for 24 hours or less, plus a carton of smokes and 24 beer (bottle booze) and about 400$ for 3 - 5 days.
Fair amount of stuff.. just bring your receipts is all they ask for.
A lot of the movie was complete speculation, especially the rapidly increasing timeline... still, scientists have been warning about radical climate changes to the environment... not JUST warming, but all kinds.
The desalinization effect is well thought out and discussed. Do some web search and you'll find plenty of supporting research.
Here's hoping the speculation about the flash storm effects found in ADAT are only that.... Or it's gonna get a lot of people into a dead situation.
That's fucking camping! The bastards!
(oh, sure, sure, some will say it's a legitimate tactic....)
This sucks ass. Hard.
Hopefully, marketing people will show their normal propensity at technology... (ie: little to none) and we'll be able to block this garbage at the router/firewall.
This is bad. Really bad. Did I mention it's bad?
A whole new reason for your boss to not let games be played at lunch/after work.
Newer plastics are designed to decompose after a short (relatively) period of time, when exposed to the environment.
The problem of course, rears it's ugly head when the plastics are buried under 75,000 tonnes of refuse and zero air and water get in/on to it. Like so many other things, they sit there and remain intact, future evidence for archaeologists studying our society.
Metric was introduced in Canada when I was a kid... the morons of the Mulroney Government backed off it, in the 80's (15 years later) and many companies flipped at having to change their labelling AGAIN.
Now, we are a strange damned mix of mostly Metric, but also Imperial (British) standard.
Most younger people exist 100% in the metric world. I did too at one time, but I now use lbs and feet for personal measurement, and MPG for mileage. I never could get used to that litres per 100km idiocy. Why not say kilometers per liter? sheesh.
I'm sure not many will care about the US and it's foolish hold on ancient measures and hokey weights (To paraphrase Han Solo).
Fagoo-goo-Grass? oh man, where can I get some of that awesomest burninations?
" You have to concentrate on the story and also the characters and not make a weekly special effects show."
Ummm... er... did anyone point this out to Lucas?
I'm afraid if he has any hand in it - even just as executive - that note above just won't happen.
Yes, actually, it DOES beat the DaVinci Project, if they are successful with both flights.
It beats them by a few weeks.
Yes, Canada is very used to coming in with it's "Best personal achievement in a space race to date."
Sorta just like the Olympic performance? Ya, Canada, your team SUCKS, quit justifying being 32nd with 'personal bests' and excuses. Oh, and tell CBC to quit interviewing and talking to the LOSERS in all those events. Nobody cares. It makes us look dumb, and it perpetuates the myth that "just playing is an honour".
Well duh. But do you want your kids to aspire to medoicrity, or maybe have them shoot for gold?
DaVinci Project - as much as I want it to win - is going to be an also ran. Nobody will care, but it might get a mention 'cuz of the casino angle.
Just a note: Most Americans I've known say the word "huh" just about as much as Canadians say "eh?" Further south, it becomes "ya'll" and other colloqualisms. Canadians are just speaking English in a more uniformely poor manner.
Most Canadians would simply LOVE to see Quebec leave. Many reasons, No. 1 being no more forced french in school and government. 10% of population runs 80% of government. No. 2 being it would shrink Quebec, cuz many northern Aboriginal tribes want to remain Canadian. Of course, that would mean Canada would actually have to poney up and show some balls and defend them (and west Quebecers, largely english)... wether that would happen in such a pussy assed country, who knows. No. 3 would be the huge cost savings in transfer payments. Successive seperatists governments have driven their economy into the ground with racist language laws and nationalistic socialistic business practices. No 4... and by far the most important.... It would cuz 12 hours off the drive to Newfoundland!!!!!!
Well, you are mistaken. DVD's have NO... I repeat NO taxes/tariffs on them at this time. Only cassettes, digital tapes (DAT) and CD's (Computer and Audio at different rates, which is funny in and of itself).
Rest assured, NONE of those tarrifs are going to the Artists, and CRIA keeps trying to sue end users, just like in the USA. Last time, they tried to TAX the ISP's. Wouldn't that be peachy?
Don't think Canadians are safe. It's not true. The minute something like this happens in the US, Canada will surely follow. The PM has already blabbed the CRIA corporate line about changing the laws at the last big Media Convention before the last election.
Get with the frigging program