Once again, airplane manufacturers have been giving serious consideration to offering Internet access in the skies. Back in 1994, Boeing considered equipping each seat with a serial modem. Laptop users could hook up to the modem and dial out. (Dial-up was the primary means of connecting to the Internet back in those days.)
We chuckled at the though of attaching the serial cable and getting a Plug-and-Play pop-up message:
I think it's more like "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you."
That just means you need to bomb them again. Many military theologians interpret the smitings in the Old Testament as an airpower-centric and profoundly interventionist foreign policy on the part of the Almighty.
Seriously I read an article in a left of centre British paper interviewing people from an Afghan village that was peaceful until the Taliban arrived and set up shop. The Taliban terrorised people, mostly women, but they also beat a few of the men to death until the villagers stopped doing anything they objected to. Which was pretty munch anything. At the start of the US invasion the house the Taliban had commandeered was suddenly blown to bits by a 2000lb laser guided bomb from a US fighter. The Taliban were all either killed or left, no one knew for sure, but in any case the village was free of their alien influence one morning and minus one house.
The coolest part was at the end when one of the Afghans pointed to the contrails from a B52 flying overhead and said that so long as they were on the prowl, the Taliban would not come back and life would be good.
If it carried on for long enough, maybe people would regard the aircraft overhead a bit like an awesomly powerful deity with an inexplicable fondness for womens rights. Come to think of it, the Old Testament God had inexplicable preferences too. Perhaps Gods need to be both ultra powerful and hard to understand to make people worship them and not their competitors.
Ally Sheedy was interviewed by a journalist after her career tanked and said that at one point she called her agent and asked why he wasn't getting her work. The agent said "The reason you don't get work is because you don't have fuckability" and then explained somewhat viciously "People don't want to fuck you".
So yes, an association with mainframes does hurt your romantic life.
It's very appropriate too, given that the vast majority of people with vastly expensive LeCroy scopes on their desks actually only seem to use them for things like peeking at I2S signals that a much cheaper scope would be fine for.
Maybe rail travel is just obsolete? Of course the government could tax people and spend a fortune on high tech trains and keep it alive like it does in other countries, but what's the point? Maybe the government should subsidise the horse drawn buggy industry too.
The things to bear in mind is that a 747 flies much faster than this MagLev, around 900 km/h according to Wikipedia vs 500 km/h for this thing. And if you fill all the seats they get 100 miles per gallon per passenger
Air travel. Buy an airport and a bunch of planes. After that you only need to buy fuel for the planes. And planes get better gas mileage than cars, plus they run on kerosine which is cheaper than gasoline. More to the point the goverment only has to worry about the airport, the planes and fuel come from the private sector.
Railways. You need to build and maintain a whole railway. Ok fuel usage is lower still, but maintaining the railway is vastly expensive.
I think you're missing the point here. The Afghan government is a bunch of Westernized Afghans engineered into power by the US. My guess is that few of the cabinet support executing this guy.
In an odd sort of way it reminds me of the story of Jesus. Pontius Pilate was a Roman governor who wasn't particularly religious and saw Jesus as being essentially harmless. An angry mob wanted him killed and Pilate went along with it, reluctantly.
You know what I hate? Those santa figures that start going "hohoho" if you go within about 30 feet of them. You know, it's a lucky thing halloween is when it is, or they'd have all the xmas tat in the stores already.
Feel free to mod me -1 bah humbug.
In Capitalist Korea, Santa Killbots downmod you -1, hohohoho.
Main Entry: sin*gle*ton Function: noun Etymology: French, from English single Date: 1876 1: a card that is the only one of its suit originally dealt to a player 2 a: an individual member or thing distinct from others grouped with it b: an offspring born singly <singletons are more common than twins>
I like the way MW has a joke for Singleton. If you look up other words with a single definition it doesn't say "one entry found".
It reminds of the definition of recursive in the hacker's dictionary.
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Once again, airplane manufacturers have been giving serious consideration to offering Internet access in the skies. Back in 1994, Boeing considered equipping each seat with a serial modem. Laptop users could hook up to the modem and dial out. (Dial-up was the primary means of connecting to the Internet back in those days.)
We chuckled at the though of attaching the serial cable and getting a Plug-and-Play pop-up message:
New device detected: Boeing 747
Can't they just remodulate the shield harmonics or reverse the polarity of the neutron flow or something?
I think it's more like "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you."
That just means you need to bomb them again. Many military theologians interpret the smitings in the Old Testament as an airpower-centric and profoundly interventionist foreign policy on the part of the Almighty.
Seriously I read an article in a left of centre British paper interviewing people from an Afghan village that was peaceful until the Taliban arrived and set up shop. The Taliban terrorised people, mostly women, but they also beat a few of the men to death until the villagers stopped doing anything they objected to. Which was pretty munch anything. At the start of the US invasion the house the Taliban had commandeered was suddenly blown to bits by a 2000lb laser guided bomb from a US fighter. The Taliban were all either killed or left, no one knew for sure, but in any case the village was free of their alien influence one morning and minus one house.
The coolest part was at the end when one of the Afghans pointed to the contrails from a B52 flying overhead and said that so long as they were on the prowl, the Taliban would not come back and life would be good.
If it carried on for long enough, maybe people would regard the aircraft overhead a bit like an awesomly powerful deity with an inexplicable fondness for womens rights. Come to think of it, the Old Testament God had inexplicable preferences too. Perhaps Gods need to be both ultra powerful and hard to understand to make people worship them and not their competitors.
Ally Sheedy was interviewed by a journalist after her career tanked and said that at one point she called her agent and asked why he wasn't getting her work. The agent said "The reason you don't get work is because you don't have fuckability" and then explained somewhat viciously "People don't want to fuck you".
So yes, an association with mainframes does hurt your romantic life.
Glad I'm not the only one that hears that.
It's very appropriate too, given that the vast majority of people with vastly expensive LeCroy scopes on their desks actually only seem to use them for things like peeking at I2S signals that a much cheaper scope would be fine for.
Maybe rail travel is just obsolete? Of course the government could tax people and spend a fortune on high tech trains and keep it alive like it does in other countries, but what's the point? Maybe the government should subsidise the horse drawn buggy industry too.
The things to bear in mind is that a 747 flies much faster than this MagLev, around 900 km/h according to Wikipedia vs 500 km/h for this thing. And if you fill all the seats they get 100 miles per gallon per passenger
There's a big difference in the two things.
Air travel. Buy an airport and a bunch of planes. After that you only need to buy fuel for the planes. And planes get better gas mileage than cars, plus they run on kerosine which is cheaper than gasoline. More to the point the goverment only has to worry about the airport, the planes and fuel come from the private sector.
Railways. You need to build and maintain a whole railway. Ok fuel usage is lower still, but maintaining the railway is vastly expensive.
When life gives you magic lactating trains, make magic milkshakes.
I think you're missing the point here. The Afghan government is a bunch of Westernized Afghans engineered into power by the US. My guess is that few of the cabinet support executing this guy.
In an odd sort of way it reminds me of the story of Jesus. Pontius Pilate was a Roman governor who wasn't particularly religious and saw Jesus as being essentially harmless. An angry mob wanted him killed and Pilate went along with it, reluctantly.
That seems quite reasonable to me. If you broke someone's stapler, you'd buy them a new one.
The Pentagon has tested Viagra to help prevent impotence in My Lai type situations.
Bitter yeah. But it never killed anyone.
I've tasted endangered species before and they're great. I can only imagine what a whole advanced civilisation would taste like.
I'm in ur village, rapin' ur maidens.
You know what I hate? Those santa figures that start going "hohoho" if you go within about 30 feet of them. You know, it's a lucky thing halloween is when it is, or they'd have all the xmas tat in the stores already.
Feel free to mod me -1 bah humbug.
In Capitalist Korea, Santa Killbots downmod you -1, hohohoho.
This sounds like a job for FreeDos.
@echo off
color 1f
echo IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL
No, it's impossible. Only one archive can archive all sites except for itself.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/singleton
singleton
One entry found.
Main Entry:
sin*gle*ton
Function:
noun
Etymology:
French, from English single
Date:
1876
1: a card that is the only one of its suit originally dealt to a player
2 a: an individual member or thing distinct from others grouped with it b: an offspring born singly <singletons are more common than twins>
I like the way MW has a joke for Singleton. If you look up other words with a single definition it doesn't say "one entry found".
It reminds of the definition of recursive in the hacker's dictionary.
http://www.ccil.org/jargon/jargon_33.html#TAG1486 /n./
recursion
See recursion.
Clearly both are an attempt at meta humour.
Don't kid yourself. They probably have. But then, who did you get to work at what would probably be a very remote location?
Terrorist suspects and illegal combatants.
A man had a problem and he decided to convince the Goverment to pass a law to help him. Then he had two problems.
Just look at them. If they have a heavy brow and long apelike arms, don't discuss evolution with them.
Yeah, go for a veal calf.
They deserve busted components. If you push the limits of a device, you deserve what you get. Maybe good and cool, maybe broken shit.
Yeah, but maybe good shit. Man.
The Apple will put them in the d^Hplace in a court where accused people stand.