A pen is a much more dangerous weapon than that. Strangely, you're also allowed to bring them on airplanes.
I remember flying about 3 weeks after 9/11. They had removed all the plastic knives from the food area at Midway airport in Chicago. Not the forks or the spoons, just the knives. You could make an instant pointy weapon out of ANY plastic utensil. Just pure insanity.
There's a world of difference between pirating music for *personal enjoyment* and pirating music for profit/resale. Pirating software in a business environment is the latter.
Amen. Credit Unions are definitely the place to be. Exactly the same services as a bank, except all the money that gets made on your deposits gets rolled back into the system instead of going into the pockets of already-rich people. My credit union gave back $6 million in cash last year to depositors.
1. Original humans evolved on Kobol 2. Original humans create Centurions and Skinjobs, this happens like 5000 years ago (let's call them "Kobol Cylons") 3. Kobol Cylons rebel, Kobol is destroyed. 4. Surviving original humans found the 12 colonies, surviving Kobol Cylons find Earth and settle on it (maybe just Kobol Skinjobs? unsure) 5. Kobol Skinjobs living on Earth (not sure if there are Centurions anymore) basically become to think of themselves as human over a long period of time, as they can sexually reproduce. They're supposed to be us (me and you). They lose the technology to resurrect because they don't need to anymore (can sexually reproduce) 6. Long time passes, assume thousands of years, peace and prosperity. The Kobol Skinjobs living on Earth don't remember their true origins, so we'll call them Earth Skinjobs now. 7. Earth Skinjobs end up creating what are essentially Centurions, the "weird" ones that were found on the destroyed Earth. Let's call these Earth Centurions. They (of course) rebel against their Earth Skinjob masters and this time Earth is destroyed. BUT, before it's destroyed, 5 people working at some biotech company (the final 5) figure out how the lost art of resurrection works. They are the only survivors of the destruction of Earth, because they see the destruction of Earth is coming and manage to build themselves some kind of resurrection ship in orbit before Earth is nuked. 8. Final 5 (Earth Skinjobs) set off to the 12 colonies at sublight speed in their resurrection ship (it takes like hundreds of years to get there. Not sure how they survive, maybe they die and resurrect over and over on the same ship. Weird.) so they can warn the "true humans" there not to create artificial life, because it will end up killing them Skynet style. Not sure why they care...maybe they forgot their origins and don't know they were once enemies of the true humans? 9. Final 5 arrive at the 12 colonies during the time of the "original" BSG series. Oops, they're too late; the "12 Colonies Humans" are at war with the "Colonial Centurions", the artificial life the 12 colonies humans have created, which are the Centurions we're familiar with. Colonial Centurions are trying to create their own Skinjobs, but they're failing/creating Hybrids (that drive the baseships). 10. Final 5 offer to give the Colonial Centurions the "true" Skinjob technology if they stop fighting the humans. Colonial Centurions accept, and the Final 5 + the Colonial Centurions go off to...somewhere. Then there's 40 years of peace, Lee is born, etc. Steps 11 through 13 take place during the 40 year peace. 11. The first new "Post-War" Skinjob is John/Cavil created by the Final Five (specifically Ellen). With Cavil's help, seven more "models" were built. These new Post-War Skinjobs can't reproduce sexually with one another, but can with a true human or Earth Skinjob. At some point in the process, however, Cavil came to disagree strongly with the notion of making the Post-War Skinjobs as much as possible like true humans/Earth Skinjobs, and sought to undermine the Final Five. At one point, this meant tampering with the replication process for the Sevens; no copies could be made, as the genetic template was destroyed. (This could have meant that the original Seven survived, however.) 12. Ultimately, Cavil betrayed the Final Five by killing them and tampering with the resurrection process, erasing their memories. The Final Five were reprogrammed with false memories of their lives as Colonials, and they were seeded into Colonial society. Since the final 5 were the evolved "Earth Skinjobs", they were just like Humans, right down to the ability to age over time. This coup this happened pretty soon after the war ended, so most of the 40 year peace was still ahead of them. 13. During the 40 year peace, Cavil concocted a plan for revenge against the Humans and the means to reproduce. He prohibited knowledge and discussion of the Final Five, and p
I used to be a Mac Genius, and the iMacs we sold at the time were the "half volley ball" based ones with the screen on a metal arm. Taking one of those apart to get to the monitor arm made me want to kill myself. Huge pain.
I run OS X on a single-processor 1.25GHz G4 with 2GB of RAM and it runs just fine, assuming I keep the number of application I have open at any given time to a small number. Does your video card support CoreImage and CoreVideo? If not, that might be why it's dogging a bit. But really, OS X is a very responsive OS on old hardware. Hell, I had 10.3 loaded on a 266MHz G3 and it ran OK.
Yeah really. With my TiVo I don't have the slightest clue what time most shows are on, or even what network (if it's not obvious). I just go "Oh, it's Saturday, that means I have the new BSG from last night!"
Plex. Not a huge fan of the interface (no mouse support), but it plays things like a dream. 1080p (H264 AAC mkv) plays flawlessly on my CoreDuo Mini (1.66GHz, T2300)
I did something similar when I quit a job. I left what I called "The Gotcha File" for my successor, outlining what you talked about, in addition to tech info he'd need to know.
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Live sucks. Sorry, had to say it. :)
Indeed. A good Belgian Special had better have some foam, otherwise you don't get any lacing! :(
And how would the creators of "Veggie Tales," a cartoon expressing religious morality, feel about a Larry the Cucumber vibrator?
That's possibly the funniest thing I've ever read.
Oh wheerrrreeee is my hairbrush? Oh wheerrrreeee is my hairbrush?
Let us glaze our asses and toast the queer Dean!
It burnses!
A pen is a much more dangerous weapon than that. Strangely, you're also allowed to bring them on airplanes.
I remember flying about 3 weeks after 9/11. They had removed all the plastic knives from the food area at Midway airport in Chicago. Not the forks or the spoons, just the knives. You could make an instant pointy weapon out of ANY plastic utensil. Just pure insanity.
There's a world of difference between pirating music for *personal enjoyment* and pirating music for profit/resale. Pirating software in a business environment is the latter.
Amen. Credit Unions are definitely the place to be. Exactly the same services as a bank, except all the money that gets made on your deposits gets rolled back into the system instead of going into the pockets of already-rich people. My credit union gave back $6 million in cash last year to depositors.
Here you go:
1. Original humans evolved on Kobol
2. Original humans create Centurions and Skinjobs, this happens like 5000 years ago (let's call them "Kobol Cylons")
3. Kobol Cylons rebel, Kobol is destroyed.
4. Surviving original humans found the 12 colonies, surviving Kobol Cylons find Earth and settle on it (maybe just Kobol Skinjobs? unsure)
5. Kobol Skinjobs living on Earth (not sure if there are Centurions anymore) basically become to think of themselves as human over a long period of time, as they can sexually reproduce. They're supposed to be us (me and you). They lose the technology to resurrect because they don't need to anymore (can sexually reproduce)
6. Long time passes, assume thousands of years, peace and prosperity. The Kobol Skinjobs living on Earth don't remember their true origins, so we'll call them Earth Skinjobs now.
7. Earth Skinjobs end up creating what are essentially Centurions, the "weird" ones that were found on the destroyed Earth. Let's call these Earth Centurions. They (of course) rebel against their Earth Skinjob masters and this time Earth is destroyed. BUT, before it's destroyed, 5 people working at some biotech company (the final 5) figure out how the lost art of resurrection works. They are the only survivors of the destruction of Earth, because they see the destruction of Earth is coming and manage to build themselves some kind of resurrection ship in orbit before Earth is nuked.
8. Final 5 (Earth Skinjobs) set off to the 12 colonies at sublight speed in their resurrection ship (it takes like hundreds of years to get there. Not sure how they survive, maybe they die and resurrect over and over on the same ship. Weird.) so they can warn the "true humans" there not to create artificial life, because it will end up killing them Skynet style. Not sure why they care...maybe they forgot their origins and don't know they were once enemies of the true humans?
9. Final 5 arrive at the 12 colonies during the time of the "original" BSG series. Oops, they're too late; the "12 Colonies Humans" are at war with the "Colonial Centurions", the artificial life the 12 colonies humans have created, which are the Centurions we're familiar with. Colonial Centurions are trying to create their own Skinjobs, but they're failing/creating Hybrids (that drive the baseships).
10. Final 5 offer to give the Colonial Centurions the "true" Skinjob technology if they stop fighting the humans. Colonial Centurions accept, and the Final 5 + the Colonial Centurions go off to...somewhere. Then there's 40 years of peace, Lee is born, etc. Steps 11 through 13 take place during the 40 year peace.
11. The first new "Post-War" Skinjob is John/Cavil created by the Final Five (specifically Ellen). With Cavil's help, seven more "models" were built. These new Post-War Skinjobs can't reproduce sexually with one another, but can with a true human or Earth Skinjob. At some point in the process, however, Cavil came to disagree strongly with the notion of making the Post-War Skinjobs as much as possible like true humans/Earth Skinjobs, and sought to undermine the Final Five. At one point, this meant tampering with the replication process for the Sevens; no copies could be made, as the genetic template was destroyed. (This could have meant that the original Seven survived, however.)
12. Ultimately, Cavil betrayed the Final Five by killing them and tampering with the resurrection process, erasing their memories. The Final Five were reprogrammed with false memories of their lives as Colonials, and they were seeded into Colonial society. Since the final 5 were the evolved "Earth Skinjobs", they were just like Humans, right down to the ability to age over time. This coup this happened pretty soon after the war ended, so most of the 40 year peace was still ahead of them.
13. During the 40 year peace, Cavil concocted a plan for revenge against the Humans and the means to reproduce. He prohibited knowledge and discussion of the Final Five, and p
I used to be a Mac Genius, and the iMacs we sold at the time were the "half volley ball" based ones with the screen on a metal arm. Taking one of those apart to get to the monitor arm made me want to kill myself. Huge pain.
I run OS X on a single-processor 1.25GHz G4 with 2GB of RAM and it runs just fine, assuming I keep the number of application I have open at any given time to a small number. Does your video card support CoreImage and CoreVideo? If not, that might be why it's dogging a bit. But really, OS X is a very responsive OS on old hardware. Hell, I had 10.3 loaded on a 266MHz G3 and it ran OK.
Yeah really. With my TiVo I don't have the slightest clue what time most shows are on, or even what network (if it's not obvious). I just go "Oh, it's Saturday, that means I have the new BSG from last night!"
Plex. Not a huge fan of the interface (no mouse support), but it plays things like a dream. 1080p (H264 AAC mkv) plays flawlessly on my CoreDuo Mini (1.66GHz, T2300)
wrong and an asshole. congrats!
Don't forget the quaint and rustic pictures of naked men in the men's bathroom. I prefer Maggiano's pinups, thanks.
Yeah man, there's nothing at all on Usenet.
Don't forget about soybeans!
I tried to watch that movie, and it was just awful, awful, awful.
I really thought I'd love it, but it was just BAD.
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MOD PARENT UP. People with actual experience with this topic need to be listened to.
It will play in Peoria!
That's probably being sold by Thawte. And considering that a lot of browsers out there still don't support EV.
IE7 does
Firefox 3 does
Safari does
So what browsers don't that people actually use? No, Opera doesn't count. :)
I did something similar when I quit a job. I left what I called "The Gotcha File" for my successor, outlining what you talked about, in addition to tech info he'd need to know.
Pretty sure you can find Noggin/Nick/Alton Brown on the internet.
http://tvnzb.com/
Oh come on now, the movie isn't that bad. How great was the aerobraking sequence? And John Lithgow!