There are laws against animal cruelty in most communities in America. Such laws are created to prevent humans, primarily sociopathic children (it seems) from torturing domesticated pets. Laws like these are great, and remind me that humans can at least appear to care.
The hybrid animal created for research will very likely have a short life compared to its donor parent animals. However, do we know factually that it will be a painful life? Is it possible to engineer a hybrid animal that cannot feel pain?
I'm beginning to rant here. As I type, I am watching one of two puppies toss a small ball around the room and chase after it. Silly dog is making me smile without even trying. Clearly I have a strongly polarized opinion about this issue.
Yet I must say, in all honesty, I, for one, welcome our new chimera masters.:)
So you got access to a POS terminal? Can you check to see if a bug was fixed? Go to the ICST entry screen. To get there, use option 5. Stock, then 2. Transfers. Now enter a store number in the destination field. It doesn't have to be anything special; we're going to erase it soon. In the Shipped By field, enter whatever you like. Now in the comment field, type in a relevant comment with a ; separating two sentences. Tell me if the terminal locks up after you hit in this area.
Sorry, totally off topic. But, I really want to know if they fixed that bug. Last time I called POS support, they said it was a 'feature.'
To 'unlock' the terminal, just alt-f4 the ACRWIN process and restart it, either from the hotkey or the start bar.
Oh, and they haven't done away with the phone and address crap entirely. Any returns require that info. So do things like service vendors (cellular, pcs, satellite, etc) and in-store payments (Sprint, Dish Nutwork, etc). Usually those customers expect to fork up their infos.
Also don't forget transactions with gift cards or checks...
Tell me also how many entries of "Radio Shack" you have in your instore customer database.
For those who aren't yet certain of the possibility of global warming:
Wouldn't it be safest to assume, for now, that it IS happening and work to slow the progress of it?
I mean, what's the worst that can happen? Five, ten years later our data is firm enough to confirm or deny the existence of global warming. In that time, much can be done to reduce the possible contributors to the phenomenon.
To you who said it isn't neccesarily a bad thing to have global warming: dude, you have a truly apocalyptic view of life in general. Warming *will* melt ice caps. Oceanic salinity *will* drop, and massive numbers of aquatic life forms will die off while trying to cope with it. Even if the biblical floods don't inundate all coastal cities, our gross food chain will be disrupted from all these plants and creatures absence.
Once while visiting the White House, I got to see, briefly, a terminal's screen. While it looked like Windows, there were enough minor visual differences to make me believe it wasn't exactly Gatesian in nature.
When I asked the operator of the terminal what OS they were using, she shrugged her shoulders as though it wasn't privy to her position to know such minutiae.
Staffers can use whatever they want on their laptop. Or at least they could back then. I'm sure they've gotten a little more sensitive since then to security issues.
Bush could have scored some real points if say he'd cancelled his $40 million "I got elected again" party and given the money to the cause.
Well, it'd be a farce anyways since he wasn't ELECTED the first time, but AWARDED with the win by the Supreme Court.
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Sadly, you got points for being Funny when in fact that was incredibly Insightful.
I work in a tech industry where oh-so-many of my phone calls terminate in India. There, "Jeff" or "George" tries his damndest to communicate with me over language and culture barriers. He's also got to contend with my hearing loss, which makes it doubly difficult for me to understand English if it has a substantial Indian accent.
Now lets take the work crews here in Texas. Look real closely at new home constructions. Show me the blue collared fellow who ISN'T Mexican.
Globalization will occur regardless of any efforts to deflect or delay it. I believe it is inevitable with so many factors weighing in: populations grow more dense, cultures begin to meld together, borders become less relevant, etc. However, in the here-and-now, we find lots of legitimate citizens, who would pay taxes if they could, out of work due to cheaper available labor from India (in the example of telephone centers) and Mexico.
The argument against that point is that these unemployed Americans can always improve their lot in life with education. Righto. I'll just wheel up to the local university and take out a couple student loans to pay for this improvement. What? I don't qualify? Too much outstanding debt already? I'm only 33!
Okay, build the damn road already. If nothing else, it will greatly reduce traffic on 35.
We have a problem with our criminal justice system.
Oh good. So now we're down to just one problem!
Seriously, the criminal justice system in America has taken a tragic turn towards the commercial. Cops I know have been given the tacit understanding that the higher the dollar value of the crime/arrest, the more likely they'll get promotions, recognition, etc. With the exception of the spectacular (celebrity cases, multiple homicides, etc.) they pretty much ignore violent crime.
I hope all the GOOD cops out there understand that I am not criticizing their noble efforts. There's almost no crime in my vicinity thanks wholly to the work of several very serious police agencies...but I live in a small town. I do think law enforcement upper management has misguided priorities now.
No, I think it's more certain that Geordi will attempt to extend the Enterprise's subspace field around a part of the asteroid in order to reduce its overall mass.
Of course, then we are doomed as the thing would come apart from gravitational shear (according to Q at least).
Actually that brings to mind an interesting question I haven't seen explored yet. There must be many unobserved and unobservable masses floating randomly around out there. Each of these must exert some gravitational influence, right? Yet we have no reliable way to define these nuances other than to observe their effect on other visible bodies.
How can we possibly worry about an event 25 years hence which our current measurments are unable to confirm?
I guess that's why they measure these things in probabilities.
Bush junior was stuffed full of these things on the second and third debates. I believe one of the side effects listed is blinking like a strobe light.
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So, when did you start killing babies and what is your favorite technique?
No.
You gotta have a license to watch TV in the UK?
hmm... Al Bundy's underwear?
There are laws against animal cruelty in most communities in America. Such laws are created to prevent humans, primarily sociopathic children (it seems) from torturing domesticated pets. Laws like these are great, and remind me that humans can at least appear to care.
:)
These laws usually don't apply to 'valid' research. See http://www.peta.org/about/faq-viv.asp for a really slanted view of it.
The hybrid animal created for research will very likely have a short life compared to its donor parent animals. However, do we know factually that it will be a painful life? Is it possible to engineer a hybrid animal that cannot feel pain?
I'm beginning to rant here. As I type, I am watching one of two puppies toss a small ball around the room and chase after it. Silly dog is making me smile without even trying. Clearly I have a strongly polarized opinion about this issue.
Yet I must say, in all honesty, I, for one, welcome our new chimera masters.
So you got access to a POS terminal? Can you check to see if a bug was fixed? Go to the ICST entry screen. To get there, use option 5. Stock, then 2. Transfers. Now enter a store number in the destination field. It doesn't have to be anything special; we're going to erase it soon. In the Shipped By field, enter whatever you like. Now in the comment field, type in a relevant comment with a ; separating two sentences. Tell me if the terminal locks up after you hit in this area.
Sorry, totally off topic. But, I really want to know if they fixed that bug. Last time I called POS support, they said it was a 'feature.'
To 'unlock' the terminal, just alt-f4 the ACRWIN process and restart it, either from the hotkey or the start bar.
Oh, and they haven't done away with the phone and address crap entirely. Any returns require that info. So do things like service vendors (cellular, pcs, satellite, etc) and in-store payments (Sprint, Dish Nutwork, etc). Usually those customers expect to fork up their infos.
Also don't forget transactions with gift cards or checks...
Tell me also how many entries of "Radio Shack" you have in your instore customer database.
My closed caption display shows the word to be spelled "Feldercarp."
I presume that's Galactican for "amazing load of crap."
How about this little piece of strategery http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/graphics/b ush_strategery.jpg?
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1. Correlation
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3. Profit!
See? No Causation to be found in that.
I read that as saying The equivalent of sticking on a big wang on the back of a civic.
I read it again and thought wang would be funnier anyway..since they've been out of business for years!
*sigh* I get too much viagra spam.
For those who aren't yet certain of the possibility of global warming:
Wouldn't it be safest to assume, for now, that it IS happening and work to slow the progress of it?
I mean, what's the worst that can happen? Five, ten years later our data is firm enough to confirm or deny the existence of global warming. In that time, much can be done to reduce the possible contributors to the phenomenon.
To you who said it isn't neccesarily a bad thing to have global warming: dude, you have a truly apocalyptic view of life in general. Warming *will* melt ice caps. Oceanic salinity *will* drop, and massive numbers of aquatic life forms will die off while trying to cope with it. Even if the biblical floods don't inundate all coastal cities, our gross food chain will be disrupted from all these plants and creatures absence.
Gah.
Once while visiting the White House, I got to see, briefly, a terminal's screen. While it looked like Windows, there were enough minor visual differences to make me believe it wasn't exactly Gatesian in nature.
When I asked the operator of the terminal what OS they were using, she shrugged her shoulders as though it wasn't privy to her position to know such minutiae.
Staffers can use whatever they want on their laptop. Or at least they could back then. I'm sure they've gotten a little more sensitive since then to security issues.
A la cuisine!
Well, it'd be a farce anyways since he wasn't ELECTED the first time, but AWARDED with the win by the Supreme Court.
Sadly, you got points for being Funny when in fact that was incredibly Insightful.
I work in a tech industry where oh-so-many of my phone calls terminate in India. There, "Jeff" or "George" tries his damndest to communicate with me over language and culture barriers. He's also got to contend with my hearing loss, which makes it doubly difficult for me to understand English if it has a substantial Indian accent.
Now lets take the work crews here in Texas. Look real closely at new home constructions. Show me the blue collared fellow who ISN'T Mexican.
Globalization will occur regardless of any efforts to deflect or delay it. I believe it is inevitable with so many factors weighing in: populations grow more dense, cultures begin to meld together, borders become less relevant, etc. However, in the here-and-now, we find lots of legitimate citizens, who would pay taxes if they could, out of work due to cheaper available labor from India (in the example of telephone centers) and Mexico.
The argument against that point is that these unemployed Americans can always improve their lot in life with education. Righto. I'll just wheel up to the local university and take out a couple student loans to pay for this improvement. What? I don't qualify? Too much outstanding debt already? I'm only 33!
Okay, build the damn road already. If nothing else, it will greatly reduce traffic on 35.
Oh good. So now we're down to just one problem!
Seriously, the criminal justice system in America has taken a tragic turn towards the commercial. Cops I know have been given the tacit understanding that the higher the dollar value of the crime/arrest, the more likely they'll get promotions, recognition, etc. With the exception of the spectacular (celebrity cases, multiple homicides, etc.) they pretty much ignore violent crime.
I hope all the GOOD cops out there understand that I am not criticizing their noble efforts. There's almost no crime in my vicinity thanks wholly to the work of several very serious police agencies...but I live in a small town. I do think law enforcement upper management has misguided priorities now.
No, I think it's more certain that Geordi will attempt to extend the Enterprise's subspace field around a part of the asteroid in order to reduce its overall mass.
Of course, then we are doomed as the thing would come apart from gravitational shear (according to Q at least).
Actually that brings to mind an interesting question I haven't seen explored yet. There must be many unobserved and unobservable masses floating randomly around out there. Each of these must exert some gravitational influence, right? Yet we have no reliable way to define these nuances other than to observe their effect on other visible bodies.
How can we possibly worry about an event 25 years hence which our current measurments are unable to confirm?
I guess that's why they measure these things in probabilities.
Where I live, SG-1 has barely put feet in season 6. ;)
So, how is life back in the year 2001?
I certainly hope you are right. My wife's mother is a MILF.
Well it was very quick this time... the video page is not reachable http://www.kingstreetmedia.tv/hhg/hhgvlarg.wmv cuz all us geeks are watching.
Or its a windows media server or something.
I, for one, welcome our new snot-nosed gods.
Bush junior was stuffed full of these things on the second and third debates. I believe one of the side effects listed is blinking like a strobe light.
That depends on if you mean '0wnz' or 'owns.' The first seems a little more criminal than the second, though only barely..
Okay, lame to reply to my own question, but I found your answer already: http://www.wilwheaton.net/mt/archives/001733.php#0 01733
Feel free to talk politics anyway.
I, for one, welcome our new Retired Soyuz Pilot masters..
Here's a good question I didn't see asked earlier:
Did you vote?
Follow up:
What are your thoughts on the last national election?