Something tells me this is the frequency you get when you hook up a busted up Speak N' Spell, tin foil and some mashed up Reese's Pieces... Is ET trying to call back to Drew Barrymore now that's she has turned out to be so hot and famous??
As I was riding from the airport to downtown Nagoya all I could think was that I was in the movie Blade Runner. After talking to some other teachers that were living in Japan as well I noticed some felt the exact same way. Obviously the Asian influence in the Blade Runner set is significant. But that first evening, that first ride through a city where I could read nothing at all.... a very cool, yet odd, Blade Runner feeling.
Tokyo, the land of school girl panities for sale, will see this game take off. All those middle aged salary men looking for a young thrill (on their nearly surgically attached cell phones, no less), will eat this up. If they'll pay $500 bucks for a school girl outfit, complete with picture of the girl that wore it, no telling what they will pay for this....
Am I the only one that noticed how the entire outline of India shows up so clearly? It's amazing how pronounced that is.... Guess all those outsourced IT jobs require lights at night, too...
Just finished a part time job at a bank where I learned a frightening amount about check fraud. Such technology will do NOTHING to stop professional check cons... Most fraud goes in the check-by-mail or ATM system with enough co-deposits to ensure that the check is never looked at once by a human being, at least not for authenticity or the like. The nice little numbers on the bottom of the check do the trick and the magnetic reader takes it from there. When a person does "proof" or look at the check they will focus soley on the amount of the check and the account number... They have WAY too many items to look at such silly stuff like.... name, pay to the order of or... signature. The looming Check 21 Act aims to stamp out some fraud, but won't do much most likely. How much money would it cost banks as a whole to employ enough people to inspect each of the millions and millions of checks each day? Tellers see only a portion of a bank's total check activity. With check fraud at some $500 million a year I guess the banking industry decided it's cheaper to live with than to fully combat. Doubt some new 3D sig will do anything at all to help...
Now I won't have to wait for the eMailman to make a delivery... I can get all those pesnis pills, hormones and loan approvals FAST! Whoo hoo! I might even get that college degree I always wanted...
I was just reading that Kanazawa Station in Japan will be built using this as an exterior skin. I used to teach English in the Hokurikku region (of which Kanazawa is a part of) and one of my students was an ederly man that sold home solar power units. In this area of Japan I saw quite a bit of solar powered home units. On train rides through the area it's very easy to spot the roof top systems. With electricty in Japan running as high as it does it's easy to see the attraction to solar power. And with a whole building covered in this stuff... you can bet the station will be selling excess power to the power company at peak hours.
I think that in 2145 the Bush Machine is still in power... and thanks to soaring defecits such "combat luxuries" as Duct Tape are no longer afforable... after all I hear it costs the DoD like 5 grand to buy one roll of Duct Tape these days.... just think of the inflation on that by 2145!!
When atom smashing cyclotronists observe the smallest particles known, they have discovered that the simple act of observing them causes change and unpredictibility. While I'm no Nobel candidate, I'm sure that if some pattern were found in financial markets, the discovery of such a pattern would cause the markets to behave much, much differently soley because people would now know which forces cause which outcomes. And as soon as financiers started to manipulate the system to meet their needs, the system would no longer be functioning in a natural state... It would now be following a different pattern altogether. So in a sense, just learning how the markets really work, just by observing them, they would become unpredicitible... all over again.
The country that gave the world Tellytubbies is far too busy to be bothered with such trivialities! God Save the Queen's account... or better yet, get access yourself with a Hershey's Bar!
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idontfear.com is more like idontload.com as of 4:25 p.m. CST... Hope it gets unslashed...
Speaking of vodka making you go blind.... are you sure that's a chick in the middle there? If only it were so easy to filter bad politicians that way.
Have you thought about trying good old fashioned parenting? Perhaps "being there" is the best way to monitor your child...
Something tells me this is the frequency you get when you hook up a busted up Speak N' Spell, tin foil and some mashed up Reese's Pieces... Is ET trying to call back to Drew Barrymore now that's she has turned out to be so hot and famous??
As I was riding from the airport to downtown Nagoya all I could think was that I was in the movie Blade Runner. After talking to some other teachers that were living in Japan as well I noticed some felt the exact same way. Obviously the Asian influence in the Blade Runner set is significant. But that first evening, that first ride through a city where I could read nothing at all.... a very cool, yet odd, Blade Runner feeling.
Tokyo, the land of school girl panities for sale, will see this game take off. All those middle aged salary men looking for a young thrill (on their nearly surgically attached cell phones, no less), will eat this up. If they'll pay $500 bucks for a school girl outfit, complete with picture of the girl that wore it, no telling what they will pay for this....
Am I the only one that noticed how the entire outline of India shows up so clearly? It's amazing how pronounced that is.... Guess all those outsourced IT jobs require lights at night, too...
Just finished a part time job at a bank where I learned a frightening amount about check fraud. Such technology will do NOTHING to stop professional check cons... Most fraud goes in the check-by-mail or ATM system with enough co-deposits to ensure that the check is never looked at once by a human being, at least not for authenticity or the like. The nice little numbers on the bottom of the check do the trick and the magnetic reader takes it from there. When a person does "proof" or look at the check they will focus soley on the amount of the check and the account number... They have WAY too many items to look at such silly stuff like.... name, pay to the order of or... signature. The looming Check 21 Act aims to stamp out some fraud, but won't do much most likely. How much money would it cost banks as a whole to employ enough people to inspect each of the millions and millions of checks each day? Tellers see only a portion of a bank's total check activity. With check fraud at some $500 million a year I guess the banking industry decided it's cheaper to live with than to fully combat. Doubt some new 3D sig will do anything at all to help...
Now I won't have to wait for the eMailman to make a delivery... I can get all those pesnis pills, hormones and loan approvals FAST! Whoo hoo! I might even get that college degree I always wanted...
I was just reading that Kanazawa Station in Japan will be built using this as an exterior skin. I used to teach English in the Hokurikku region (of which Kanazawa is a part of) and one of my students was an ederly man that sold home solar power units. In this area of Japan I saw quite a bit of solar powered home units. On train rides through the area it's very easy to spot the roof top systems. With electricty in Japan running as high as it does it's easy to see the attraction to solar power. And with a whole building covered in this stuff... you can bet the station will be selling excess power to the power company at peak hours.
I think that in 2145 the Bush Machine is still in power... and thanks to soaring defecits such "combat luxuries" as Duct Tape are no longer afforable... after all I hear it costs the DoD like 5 grand to buy one roll of Duct Tape these days.... just think of the inflation on that by 2145!!
When atom smashing cyclotronists observe the smallest particles known, they have discovered that the simple act of observing them causes change and unpredictibility. While I'm no Nobel candidate, I'm sure that if some pattern were found in financial markets, the discovery of such a pattern would cause the markets to behave much, much differently soley because people would now know which forces cause which outcomes. And as soon as financiers started to manipulate the system to meet their needs, the system would no longer be functioning in a natural state... It would now be following a different pattern altogether. So in a sense, just learning how the markets really work, just by observing them, they would become unpredicitible... all over again.
It's so good to know that Yellow Dog Democrats now have a platform in the Digital Age!
Wait... you mean there's more to life than gold teeth, spinning rims and fat chicks in velvet warm up suits??
The country that gave the world Tellytubbies is far too busy to be bothered with such trivialities! God Save the Queen's account... or better yet, get access yourself with a Hershey's Bar!