Does the tree flower after a hundred years and expend so much energy that it kills itself? Or does the tree put on an impressive flowering process because after a hundred years it's dying and needs to spread some seeds before it's too late?
this new thing looks like some ricer kid's car show fantasy
Well then, here in southern California at least, the new one should blend in just fine too.
I just started poking around http://www.projectplaylist.com/ Don't know yet if it's worth much or not, but it might be worth a try.
I hate to admit I use it at all, but the music on myspace has some okay stuff. Just poke around the bands' pages and see what you get. Find a local band you may or may not know and follow their "friends" links, especially some of the smaller show producers and such. If you like metal, start with http://www.myspace.com/coldethylmusic (shameless plug, my tattoo artist is the drummer).
Ya, I don't agree with the idea either. To me it's another case of trying to govern what should be handled by proper parenting.
I'm still not sure just how to go about increasing the level of parenting in our society though. All the best ideas are completely unconstitutional. Most are okay by me, but that's not enough. If we could just make stupidity illegal...
I think you missed the part about "guidelines, not law". It's not currently illegal for the store to sell these games to minors. Apparently there are some working towards making the video game rating systems law, at least in California at this point.
The fun part is that (so I've read) the law would impose fines of thousands of dollars as well as charging the offender with a felony of some sort, for selling Mature video games to minors. It seems the penalty for (first offense) selling alcohol to minors is a fine of about three hundred dollars.
That artist's rendering image just makes me so excited. Pretty impressive design there. Very imaginative too! It's like they took a picture of an SR-71, cut off the wings and moved the vertical stabilizers to the fuselage. Wow! Almost as cool as this image of the fabled Miata SR-71.
"the system automatically detects a cell phone call and records which car was making the call"
Anyone noticed the new onstar stuff, where the car periodically calls up general motors, uploads recent statistics (unsure of what), and you can go check your car's "health" at the onstar website. So there's quite a few new chevrolets out there randomly making calls themselves.
Or (wow, still onstar) how about when the onstar monitor folk notice your car doing something weird and call you up to make sure you're okay? Been a few years, but I vividly remember a "General Motors Big Brother" type writeup in something like Autoweek in which during slalom testing of a new Monte Carlo the nice onstar lady rang into the cabin and said something like "we noticed your g-force sensors were triggered. Were you in an accident?".
If this happens, Chevy drivers can at least have a little fun. "Damn you friendly Onstar Lady! You just got me shot!!!"
First thing's first, I'm not overly happy I wasted the time reading Robin Cook's Abduction. I don't recommend reading it at all. Silliness, pure silliness. That said...
In Robin Cook's novel Abduction the later-generation human-ish things "upload" their consciousness into a computer, have a new body constructed (probably along the lines of cloning), then are re-downloaded into the new body, thus becomming effectively immortal. Death was a planned excercise, occurring when the body-mainframe data transfer happened. When someone was killed (which never happened, utopia, blah) before the transfer happened though, everything of that person was lost permanently (maybe Atlantis never heard of tarballs?).
Anyway, I still don't recommend you go read that, even if it does have a sub-storyline like you're talking about here.
Take into account the potential cost of losing your shiny Mac. Now, go ahead and spend some cash on a phone that contains a decent camera, works like an ipod, and has a web browser. No need to worry about having to unload a memory card from the camera, just upload them and take more. Wanna blog a photo, no problem, most blogging places handle moblogging well (as do several OSS softwares if you want to maintain your own). When you want tunes they're right there too. Handle your trip blogging via the phone's web browser (for my blog I made a stripped-down admin page just for using via the cellphone). Plus, it's still a phone, so you can call your SO, Mom, whoever, and tell them how groovy your trip is going. Now you're down to your backpack full of clothes and a phone.
I have started spending more time working at various Ren Faires around CA. Taking only what I need (mostly clothes and tools), living in a tent, working for cash, and putting smiles on peoples' faces, I've learned that, believe it or not, my life feels much fuller without a daily dose of Slashdot or social networking (eg myspace) or Email.
Personally I figure if you're even thinking of carting along any more technology than a phone, you're pretty well missing the point of backpacking around the world.
Bill: Can you zoom in on this area right here? Chloe: *clickity clickity clickity* Jack (on cellphone): Can you send that to my PDA? Chloe: Well you'll just have to wait. I have to go to the server room to clear a socket.
Probably okay for practice. I imagine there is probably already a plan in place for leaking batteries though, as well as most anything that's actually part of the station.
When the plans were created there probably were no thoughts of wasabi, or tobasco, or any other wet foods being a problem. These guys can't make a computer handle rolling over to the new calendar at new years, or make sure their people aren't homicidal nutjobs, why should they bother testing parts/systems against food?
"... the surgery left her with... a surprised look permanently affixed to her face."
I'd say about half the facelift's I've ever seen left the person with a permanently surprised look on their face.
On a positive note, at least she'll always look happy about whatever crappy christmas gifts she gets... SO: *hands her pretty wrapped box* Her (opening package containing a bowling ball with the name 'Homer' on it): *surprised look* SO: "I knew you'd love it!"
Or whenever her SO cooks dinner... SO: "Look, Honey, I made pimento/broccoli meatloaf!" Her: *surprised look* SO: "I knew you'd love it!"
Apparently you glossed over where this list came from. Who cares how many run on Linux? When you want games for Linux, don't look at a list coming from "Games for Windows".
Because Apu at the kwik-e-mart isn't going to notice some geek with a hammer and chisel opening a card terminal that's bolted to the counter right in front of him? Um, I just find that hard to believe.
Nothing is tamperproof, they built it, there's a way to take it apart. Doing it without anyone noticing though, that's a different story.
Habib (to next customer in line): "Please to be waiting a moment for your squishee, the person in front of you is not yet finished molesting the card machine. Would you be liking to add a microwave burrito while you are waiting please?"
What are you? I'm a robot baby seal! I do cute, people things with my hands! You're free to go. Next! What are you? I'm a cow. Get in the truck. But I can... I SAID GET IN THE F-ING TRUCK!
"...the value of the precious metals contained in coins now exceeds their face value..."
Kinda like before, when they started making pennies out of zinc, and quit making silver coins out of silver? Nickels haven't been made out of nickel since like the '60's, right?
I've long been under the belief that the anti-counterfeiting techniques used in making bills had to have put their cost at greater than a dollar. Meaning the multitude of "new" dollar bills were already operating at a loss. I mean, the little metal/plastic strip radio transmitter thingus, so the palm-tree-looking "cell phone towers" can keep track of the currency driving by them, those can't be cheap, right?
I shit you not, "they" are building a new one of those towers down the street from my house, ingeniously disguised as a church! The palm tree and pine tree ones look pretty crappy. But, aside from the telltale little trailer-building, this one just looks like a new bell tower added on to an existing church. I'm not a religious man, but that's got to be blasphemous in some way.
Then they should have posted numbers and percentages, or spoken in percentages. They supplied the numbers as whole numbers and then called them something they weren't. Pretty basic.
Slashdot Mirror
Does the tree flower after a hundred years and expend so much energy that it kills itself? Or does the tree put on an impressive flowering process because after a hundred years it's dying and needs to spread some seeds before it's too late?
No. This is the *start* of the search for the really tasty chicken. You'll *never* find it cause they all taste like cardboard.
Well then, here in southern California at least, the new one should blend in just fine too.
..."Assembly is trying to push a"... "bill even though it contains significant flaws."
That passes for news these days?
I just started poking around http://www.projectplaylist.com/ Don't know yet if it's worth much or not, but it might be worth a try.
I hate to admit I use it at all, but the music on myspace has some okay stuff. Just poke around the bands' pages and see what you get. Find a local band you may or may not know and follow their "friends" links, especially some of the smaller show producers and such. If you like metal, start with http://www.myspace.com/coldethylmusic (shameless plug, my tattoo artist is the drummer).
Ya, I don't agree with the idea either. To me it's another case of trying to govern what should be handled by proper parenting.
I'm still not sure just how to go about increasing the level of parenting in our society though. All the best ideas are completely unconstitutional. Most are okay by me, but that's not enough. If we could just make stupidity illegal...
I think you missed the part about "guidelines, not law". It's not currently illegal for the store to sell these games to minors. Apparently there are some working towards making the video game rating systems law, at least in California at this point.
The fun part is that (so I've read) the law would impose fines of thousands of dollars as well as charging the offender with a felony of some sort, for selling Mature video games to minors. It seems the penalty for (first offense) selling alcohol to minors is a fine of about three hundred dollars.
Part of me just died a little.
The Kingdom of Loathing http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/ Not flash, just HTML and Javscript.
Stick figures, strange enemies (sabre toothed lime?!), soft spots for seal clubbers and disco, and plenty of alcohol.
That artist's rendering image just makes me so excited. Pretty impressive design there. Very imaginative too! It's like they took a picture of an SR-71, cut off the wings and moved the vertical stabilizers to the fuselage. Wow! Almost as cool as this image of the fabled Miata SR-71.
"the system automatically detects a cell phone call and records which car was making the call"
Anyone noticed the new onstar stuff, where the car periodically calls up general motors, uploads recent statistics (unsure of what), and you can go check your car's "health" at the onstar website. So there's quite a few new chevrolets out there randomly making calls themselves.
Or (wow, still onstar) how about when the onstar monitor folk notice your car doing something weird and call you up to make sure you're okay? Been a few years, but I vividly remember a "General Motors Big Brother" type writeup in something like Autoweek in which during slalom testing of a new Monte Carlo the nice onstar lady rang into the cabin and said something like "we noticed your g-force sensors were triggered. Were you in an accident?".
If this happens, Chevy drivers can at least have a little fun. "Damn you friendly Onstar Lady! You just got me shot!!!"
First thing's first, I'm not overly happy I wasted the time reading Robin Cook's Abduction. I don't recommend reading it at all. Silliness, pure silliness. That said...
In Robin Cook's novel Abduction the later-generation human-ish things "upload" their consciousness into a computer, have a new body constructed (probably along the lines of cloning), then are re-downloaded into the new body, thus becomming effectively immortal. Death was a planned excercise, occurring when the body-mainframe data transfer happened. When someone was killed (which never happened, utopia, blah) before the transfer happened though, everything of that person was lost permanently (maybe Atlantis never heard of tarballs?).
Anyway, I still don't recommend you go read that, even if it does have a sub-storyline like you're talking about here.
Take into account the potential cost of losing your shiny Mac. Now, go ahead and spend some cash on a phone that contains a decent camera, works like an ipod, and has a web browser. No need to worry about having to unload a memory card from the camera, just upload them and take more. Wanna blog a photo, no problem, most blogging places handle moblogging well (as do several OSS softwares if you want to maintain your own). When you want tunes they're right there too. Handle your trip blogging via the phone's web browser (for my blog I made a stripped-down admin page just for using via the cellphone). Plus, it's still a phone, so you can call your SO, Mom, whoever, and tell them how groovy your trip is going. Now you're down to your backpack full of clothes and a phone.
I have started spending more time working at various Ren Faires around CA. Taking only what I need (mostly clothes and tools), living in a tent, working for cash, and putting smiles on peoples' faces, I've learned that, believe it or not, my life feels much fuller without a daily dose of Slashdot or social networking (eg myspace) or Email.
Personally I figure if you're even thinking of carting along any more technology than a phone, you're pretty well missing the point of backpacking around the world.
But all we've ascertained from satellite photos is that it's not on the roof!
Fox invented this six freakin years ago.
Bill: Can you zoom in on this area right here?
Chloe: *clickity clickity clickity*
Jack (on cellphone): Can you send that to my PDA?
Chloe: Well you'll just have to wait. I have to go to the server room to clear a socket.
Probably okay for practice. I imagine there is probably already a plan in place for leaking batteries though, as well as most anything that's actually part of the station.
When the plans were created there probably were no thoughts of wasabi, or tobasco, or any other wet foods being a problem. These guys can't make a computer handle rolling over to the new calendar at new years, or make sure their people aren't homicidal nutjobs, why should they bother testing parts/systems against food?
"It's hard enough to find here on Earth in most places."
Where are you at? It's all over here in SoCal. We probably just have the whole planet's supply of it concentrated here...
"... the surgery left her with ... a surprised look permanently affixed to her face."
I'd say about half the facelift's I've ever seen left the person with a permanently surprised look on their face.
On a positive note, at least she'll always look happy about whatever crappy christmas gifts she gets...
SO: *hands her pretty wrapped box*
Her (opening package containing a bowling ball with the name 'Homer' on it): *surprised look*
SO: "I knew you'd love it!"
Or whenever her SO cooks dinner...
SO: "Look, Honey, I made pimento/broccoli meatloaf!"
Her: *surprised look*
SO: "I knew you'd love it!"
Apparently you glossed over where this list came from. Who cares how many run on Linux? When you want games for Linux, don't look at a list coming from "Games for Windows".
And it was modded Insightful? Yeesh...
Heaven forbid the media using a headline that grabs your attention...
Because Apu at the kwik-e-mart isn't going to notice some geek with a hammer and chisel opening a card terminal that's bolted to the counter right in front of him? Um, I just find that hard to believe.
Nothing is tamperproof, they built it, there's a way to take it apart. Doing it without anyone noticing though, that's a different story.
Habib (to next customer in line): "Please to be waiting a moment for your squishee, the person in front of you is not yet finished molesting the card machine. Would you be liking to add a microwave burrito while you are waiting please?"
What are you?
I'm a robot baby seal! I do cute, people things with my hands!
You're free to go. Next! What are you?
I'm a cow.
Get in the truck.
But I can...
I SAID GET IN THE F-ING TRUCK!
(ya, I changed it a bit)
"...the value of the precious metals contained in coins now exceeds their face value..."
Kinda like before, when they started making pennies out of zinc, and quit making silver coins out of silver? Nickels haven't been made out of nickel since like the '60's, right?
I've long been under the belief that the anti-counterfeiting techniques used in making bills had to have put their cost at greater than a dollar. Meaning the multitude of "new" dollar bills were already operating at a loss. I mean, the little metal/plastic strip radio transmitter thingus, so the palm-tree-looking "cell phone towers" can keep track of the currency driving by them, those can't be cheap, right?
I shit you not, "they" are building a new one of those towers down the street from my house, ingeniously disguised as a church! The palm tree and pine tree ones look pretty crappy. But, aside from the telltale little trailer-building, this one just looks like a new bell tower added on to an existing church. I'm not a religious man, but that's got to be blasphemous in some way.
Then they should have posted numbers and percentages, or spoken in percentages. They supplied the numbers as whole numbers and then called them something they weren't. Pretty basic.
"methane underwent double-digit growth ... rising from 1,520 parts per billion by volume (ppbv) in 1978 to 1,767..."
Let's see;
1767 - 1520 = 247
Isn't 247 triple digit?