Looking for radio signals IS NOT the way to search for intelligent life, as "intelligent life" would not use such slow propagating waves for interestellar communication.
This is a little smarter than just a big antenna. It collects info by recieving all sorts of waves and analyzing them to get actual images of the area (plus a lot of other info I imagine). Think radar on nitro.
By the way, but did anyone mention yet that this kind of seems like a Beowulf cluster of antenae? Sorry - couldn't help myself!
No sorry, no cd copies. All $10,000 (a guestimate based on $15 apiece) worth paid for with real hard earned dollars.
The problem is, the ad industry still expects me to pay for this crap. Five bucks for a magazine 1/3 content and 2/3 advertising. Fifty bucks or more for ad crammed reality TV (yeah, I shut off my cable. Not worth it). Radio is still free, oh wait, they want to sell me satelite radio now. I'm happy to pay for something, I just expect something worth paying for. No, I'm not some teenage fanboy who is pissed that he actually has to pay for his next video game, I make and spend an awful lot of money.
Listen up adboy! Here I am. The consumer. Your industry is FUCKED! You drive me away from the entertainment industry by polluting it with your drivel. Oh well, I can spend my money at the bar instead. At least I get what I pay for there!
Since you are such a huge "privacy advocate" I assume that the only form of advertising you take part in is placing yellow pages ads and setting up websites. I consider any unsolicited info about a product an invasion. No exceptions. TV ads, radio ads, magazine ads; all right up there with spam and telemarketers.
I suppose I might object less to advertising that speaks above the lowest common denominator, but I have yet to see that!
This whole conversation is making me want to break out my baby seal club! OK
Water is compressable - just not very
Steam is very compressable - this is how power generation in a boiler works. I should know, I build the damned things!
Water is not a sub. for brake fluid - It boils, freezes and generally is a problem. I'm actually amazed we still use it mixed with antifreeze for coolant.
Cars should have hoods that open - I really hate this "user-friendly" car concept they have going right now. I don't my car to call anyone for me. No mechanics, no policemen, not even a hooker. I have a phone, I'll use it when I need to. As for a hood that doesn't open... Says who? I'll get the M*****F***er open.
I'm trying to figure out which is worse: getting fired by IM or getting dumped by IM.
I do have to hand it to then for sheer cold-blooded brutality. The little devil guy that pops up over my right shoulder really got a kick out of this one!
I agree. As someone who has spent a lot of time driving excessively fast, I can't imagine that any kind of automatic system could account for human experience, and familiarity with your vehicle. When I buy a new car, I tend to spend quite a bit of time learning how far I can push its limits so that I know how it will handle when I'm clipping along at 80 and Bambi suddenly wants to get up close and personal with my grill.
As I said, I sometimes drive excessively fast, and occasionally I have gotten in wrecks, two of which were actually my fault. The only automatic system I can imagine to help in those two situations would be a variable governor that would keep me withing the speed limit. Trust me, I have no intention of getting such a thing installed!
Countermeasures be damned... I'll worry when they make me install it in my old rigs. I have no interest in anything coming out of Detroit these days anyway!
Depends on where you live I guess. Here in my little corner of NW Oregon, ATT seems to have the best coverage. Out here in the boonies, I tend to have very little trouble with dropped calls and what-not. I was pretty happy with the status-quo, now I'm nervous!
I actually disagreed with the quoted post until you put it that way. Hell yes! All y'all get off my road!
Oh, crap... I guess I've gotta go learn assembly language now!
Hey, why not be immortalized before your time?
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"For those imagining yourself in a coffin in space, try again. Only 7 grams (less than 1/4 of an ounce) is sent up in the full version of their "Earthview" service, which involves a craft that projects the ashes out into "orbit" (not exactly one that can be tracked) while the craft itself vaporizes in the atmosphere. A discount version involves only one gram of ashes."
So, the way I see it, I can save 7 grams worth of pubic hair and toenail clippings and send it into space with this outfit and live on in the stars while I'm still here! Not to mention already living on in the city sewer, my girlfriends sheets, etc...
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fishing line - very cheap.
No sorry, no cd copies. All $10,000 (a guestimate based on $15 apiece) worth paid for with real hard earned dollars.
The problem is, the ad industry still expects me to pay for this crap. Five bucks for a magazine 1/3 content and 2/3 advertising. Fifty bucks or more for ad crammed reality TV (yeah, I shut off my cable. Not worth it). Radio is still free, oh wait, they want to sell me satelite radio now. I'm happy to pay for something, I just expect something worth paying for. No, I'm not some teenage fanboy who is pissed that he actually has to pay for his next video game, I make and spend an awful lot of money.
Listen up adboy! Here I am. The consumer. Your industry is FUCKED! You drive me away from the entertainment industry by polluting it with your drivel. Oh well, I can spend my money at the bar instead. At least I get what I pay for there!
Since you are such a huge "privacy advocate" I assume that the only form of advertising you take part in is placing yellow pages ads and setting up websites. I consider any unsolicited info about a product an invasion. No exceptions. TV ads, radio ads, magazine ads; all right up there with spam and telemarketers.
I suppose I might object less to advertising that speaks above the lowest common denominator, but I have yet to see that!
This whole conversation is making me want to break out my baby seal club!
OK
Water is compressable - just not very
Steam is very compressable - this is how power generation in a boiler works. I should know, I build the damned things!
Water is not a sub. for brake fluid - It boils, freezes and generally is a problem. I'm actually amazed we still use it mixed with antifreeze for coolant.
Cars should have hoods that open - I really hate this "user-friendly" car concept they have going right now. I don't my car to call anyone for me. No mechanics, no policemen, not even a hooker. I have a phone, I'll use it when I need to. As for a hood that doesn't open... Says who? I'll get the M*****F***er open.
What I haven't heard from anyone is how this will work while surfing porn and keeping one hand "busy"
Finally someone can answer the question:
"Who got da funk?"
HAHAHAHAHAHA
No shit! That little paperclip bastard has locked me up and almost caused me to put a brick through my computer more than once.
Wow, I had a girlfriend? Boy I HAVE been drunk lately!
I'm trying to figure out which is worse: getting fired by IM or getting dumped by IM.
I do have to hand it to then for sheer cold-blooded brutality. The little devil guy that pops up over my right shoulder really got a kick out of this one!
I agree. As someone who has spent a lot of time driving excessively fast, I can't imagine that any kind of automatic system could account for human experience, and familiarity with your vehicle. When I buy a new car, I tend to spend quite a bit of time learning how far I can push its limits so that I know how it will handle when I'm clipping along at 80 and Bambi suddenly wants to get up close and personal with my grill.
As I said, I sometimes drive excessively fast, and occasionally I have gotten in wrecks, two of which were actually my fault. The only automatic system I can imagine to help in those two situations would be a variable governor that would keep me withing the speed limit. Trust me, I have no intention of getting such a thing installed!
Countermeasures be damned... I'll worry when they make me install it in my old rigs. I have no interest in anything coming out of Detroit these days anyway!
I'm sure it will all work out the same for us lowly consumers even if they are opposed : Assume the position as usual!
Eh, at this point I don't need statistics outside my own tax returns. All I have to do is look at my personal yearly income.
;)
Clinton = Lots O' money for me! Blowjobs for everyone I say!
Bush = Hey where did my money go? Time to drown myself in alcoholic sorrow!
I can find a million reasons to vote against Bush, but I don't need any past my own greed!
As for who serves the rich? Don't we all in one way or another - or did you pirate your copy of Windows?
You mock the imperial system, yet your sig mentions beer? Don't you understand that all true happiness revolves around pints!
Depends on where you live I guess. Here in my little corner of NW Oregon, ATT seems to have the best coverage. Out here in the boonies, I tend to have very little trouble with dropped calls and what-not. I was pretty happy with the status-quo, now I'm nervous!
2 problems with asking a meth cook:
1 He probably traded dope for it and doestn't know where it came from.
2 If you spend too much time parked in his driveway asking him, your car will wind up half torn apart, and painted odd colors.
I actually disagreed with the quoted post until you put it that way. Hell yes! All y'all get off my road!
Oh, crap... I guess I've gotta go learn assembly language now!