This feature would be useful for my sister-in-law, who is the worst driver I know or have ever heard of. She's kind of an accident-savant, she's been in seven accidents that have all been ruled "technically not her fault" --but that any other driver probably would have avoided. I dont know how she does it.
I can't wait for the car that detects a catastrophic collision and instantly fills the interior with an oxygenated gel that infiltrates the lungs and all orifices so there's no pressure differential between your body and the surrounding gel. And the interior walls and windows of the car would have nanotubes that repel or lessen the effect of sharp objects.
Would be a bitch if it accidentally went off in a minor fender-bender, you'd be pooping gel for days.
My friend is an alcoholic. Years ago he was pissing on a tree in San Francisco near an elementary school. It was after the bars closed on a Saturday morning so I doubt any children were ever in danger of seeing my friend's wang.
A cop pulled up, saw my friend and put him through the whole hands up thing. (Unfortunately my friend is also a total smart-ass to anyone in authority when drunk.) He was arrested and charged with indecent exposure and lewd behaviour within 100 yrds of an elementary school. He was about to be fucked royally.
My friend went before the judge, who fortunately recognized that my friend is a drunk who was taking a piss at 2am. He came very close to having his life fucked.
I was surprised at the basic ineptitude of most of the climbers. There were logjams at ladders because people didn't know how to negotiate them and other climbers are literally yelling at others "you incompetent fuck!" etc. etc...
A few years ago there was a Korean expedition to specifically remove the body of another Korean climber who died. These 6 climbers moved the body 100 yards in 5 hours then gave up.
Hell, I'm an alcoholic and drank heavily throughout my twenties. (And worked at various dot-coms in the good-old days. Was fired from a couple less liberal environments for showing up drunk in the morning. (I'm reminded of Lionel Hutz, who offers Marge a drink and pulls out a bottle. She says "It's 9am!" And he says "That's all right, I haven't slept for days." That was me.))
Anyways, I was a complete dick. I said really hurtful things to people. Sometimes people come up to me and say "hey, remember when you said 'blah blah blah' to George?" No. I really don't. I'm an alcoholic.
If you could be convicted for being a complete and utter asshole IRL, I would be in jail right now. Serving out a sentence for things I don't even remember doing.
(I quit drinking 4 years ago and am doing much better thank you.)
If you're not in America you wouldn't really get gun culture here. Many people think that when the government starts knocking on doors to take people's guns, that's the time we're going to need them the most. And I don't really disagree with them, although I've never even fired a gun. (I will get one for the zombie apocalypse though--which is about as real to me as another American Revolution would be, maybe even more real.)
The gun owners I know are responsible enthusiasts. In fact, I've never even known a person who's been shot, or had a family memeber shot, contrary to what you might hear about the US.
I recently had a mind-blowing conversation with the new maintenance guy. He's got one of those macho, forceful personalities that can't withstand criticism or anything against what he 'knows'. (Actual conversation. I wrote it down after to keep it fresh.)
Anyways, we were talking about the internet. He says "I read the internet all the time. I keep up on all the news. "
Then he says "You know those two Google guys are gay right?"
I say "Well, one is married and the other is about to be married. So unless they're on the Downlow, I don't think they're gay."
He says "Oh, I mean those two YouTube guys. And the Myspace guys. You know Google owns Myspace right?"
I say "Well, Google bought YouTube, but I don't think they have anything to do with MySpace."
He says "Yeah, Google bought MySpace. Anyways, those guys are gay. And I was also reading about the inventor of the internet!"
(I"m thinking "Tim Berners-Lee???? DARPA??? Who is he going to say is the inventor of the internet?)
He says" Yeah the inventor of the internet---MARK CUBAN."
I'm flabbergasted. Mark Cuban.
I say "Mark Cuban sold the site called Broadcast.com and became a billionaire. But he didn't invent the internet."
He says "Yeah he invented the BROWSER."
I say "I don't think he invented the browser. The first browser was called MOSAIC and invented by a bunch of specialists working for a university or the government or something."
He says "No he invented the internet.
I don't know what to say at this point and just say "uhhhhhhhh....ok.....Looks like you've been doing a lot of reading the internets."
Actually I think I misremembered the punch cards. The punch cards gave way to big binders with bluish lined paper with scrollwheel holes on either side. These binders were huge.
My mom worked for a company called California Microwave. When my teachers and other parents asked where my mom worked I would say proudly "California Microwave!" Microwaves weren't ubiquitous back then so people would say "Oh I really want to get one of those." And I would look at them strangely "You want to get a guidance system for a nuclear warhead?" which is what they did.
My uncle, a crackerjack computer salesman in Silicon Valley, with his suit, slicked-back hair, big tie and a piece of luggage under his arm showing us 'the future'. It was an Osborne I think. We looked on in awe as he removed the keyboard and we saw the 3 inch monochrome screen. He typed in a couple things and text scrolled by. My uncle was a GOD AMONG MEN. He told us how businesses would one day equip every employee with one of these to do spreadsheets and such while on the road.
My mom said "who wants to bring spreadsheets with them?" (She still carried big boxes of punch-cards home sometimes and would give me a few extras to play with. Not from the box though--she made it clear that I couldn't mess with those at all or the whole thing would be ruined.)
My uncle went on to build a small company that supplied parts to manufacturers in the Valley. Until people figured out that you could make them cheaper in Asia. Or just order a shipping container full of parts.
Nowadays he specializes in obsolete programming for some company. It seems all his business plans were rooted in early 80s tech. At least he found a niche.
I just had back surgery. It cost 120,000 dollars. My company has good insurance so they paid most of it. I just got my packet for next year and they are changing the policy, as I suspect most companies are next year. They will only pay 80 percent of the hospital bill.
This would mean I would owe $24,000 for the same surgery next year. I could come up with it, but I would have to give up some things. I live alone and don't have kids (thank god, jk) but I think a middle class family can't just come up with 24 grand at a moments notice.
And, my surgery was not that major, I was only in hospital for 2 days. If you had a major injury/illness, that could easily run up to $500,000 or even a million! Can you come up with 20 percent of a million? I can't.
And the Republicans talk about Health Savings Plans. They are bullshit. Unless you put 40 or 50k in you Health SAvings Plan, it's not going to do much of anything for you if you or your family members get sick/ill. You would be diverting a good portion of your salary into your Health Savings Plan--and that won't even cover a major hospital stay.
Even if you have insurance in America and you get injured/sick you are FUCKED.
I'm reminded of Homer Simpson who traded in his health plan for a keg of beer. He said he would be fine as long as his health doesn't deteriorate as he ages. We are all Homer Simpson--hoping we don't get sick.
I know, what's the big deal with virgins? The awkwardness, the teeth scraping, the bleeding and the guilt....
I want a slutty girl. Or I'd want a couple adventurous ones and then a really slutty one to show them how to do things and be kind of like the captain. Damn. I gotta go...
That the Patriot Act and Sarbanes-Oxley are making the US a pariah in international business. Why would a country want to even send a representative here if all his shit is gonna be confiscated at the border?
I realize there has to be some regulation but come on...at the expense of our future? And regarding regulation, how about not making rules that go against the free market, like lending to people who can't afford to pay back and subsequently packaging these loans as awesome investment opportunities.
Yes there were a few mistakes in that post, but the meat of it, 'shedding', was reliable info. And yes, the husband of the James Kim family would be, ummm, well, let's see, uhh....James Kim. Stupid phrasing. I meant the Kim family. (And I didn't mean to disparage his or his family's suffering by throwing in the word 'corpse'. I remember watching that whole thing play out on the news and I felt very bad for them. I hope they're doing OK, I lost my dad when I was a kid too.)
Maybe I shouldn't write a post so fast in the future.
People in the later stages of hypothermia engage in 'shedding' of clothes. They think they are hot so they start taking off articles of clothing, leaving a trail. This is often how rescuers find bodies, by following the trail of clothing to a frozen stiff. This was how they found the husband of the James Kim family who made a wrong turn in California about a year ago. The family stayed in the car while the husband went on walkabout. They followed the trail of clothing to his frozen corpse.
Nah, use a pinch...."see, a pinch creates a similar electromagnetic pulse, but without the fuss of mass destruction and death. So instead of Hiroshima, you'd be getting the seventeenth century. "
According to the movies.
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Is the LHC going to prove/disprove the validity of string theory?
I've read that string theory can't really be tested with our current technology and may never be proven to be right or wrong. As opposed to Einstein's theory of relativity, which was proven in an experiment in 1919, when light bent around a star was measured by Eddington--and made Einstein famous.
In fact I read an article recently that said string theory was basically leading physics to a dead end. The author said physicists were lost in this field and coming up with new theories and inventions for the sake of making their equations turn out correctly.
In America, you can't fuck with two things: guns and gas. As long as people have reasonable access to either they will be happy.
People's confidence in this administration have dwindled in inverse proportion to the rising price of gas. (THe Bush administration knows this so what did they do? Give D.C. back all its guns of course.)
Even with offices, you have trustees and such running around willy-nilly, or higgledy-piggledy or what have you.
I had a friend who lived on San Quentin. Seriously. He lived with his dad on the grounds at San Quentin. His dad was the head guard and they got houses on the grounds if they wanted.
One day he had to leave school early. I asked him why. He said "the State is executing somebody tonight and they lock the grounds down early. Nobody gets in or out for about 12 hours. "
What an excuse. "I have to leave early because of an execution."
There was a story about a prison a few months ago where a news photographer took a nice picture of bars and keys. Except the master key was clearly visible. (Wasn't a Medeco I don't think.)
A good locksmith or picker can look at a key and glean the numbers to cut a key for themselves. (If you've seen a handheld key-cutting machine it's pretty nifty. You just enter a number from 1 to 7 and it makes a cut on the key. You just enter a series of numbers and it makes cuts all the way down the key and voila! a new key. Takes less than a minute.)
The prison came out with a statement saying they had changed their locks.
Slashdot Mirror
Google did refuse the Justice dept's demand for user search info. That is admirable. While Yahoo and MS handed it over.
Interesting.
This feature would be useful for my sister-in-law, who is the worst driver I know or have ever heard of. She's kind of an accident-savant, she's been in seven accidents that have all been ruled "technically not her fault" --but that any other driver probably would have avoided. I dont know how she does it.
I can't wait for the car that detects a catastrophic collision and instantly fills the interior with an oxygenated gel that infiltrates the lungs and all orifices so there's no pressure differential between your body and the surrounding gel. And the interior walls and windows of the car would have nanotubes that repel or lessen the effect of sharp objects.
Would be a bitch if it accidentally went off in a minor fender-bender, you'd be pooping gel for days.
My friend is an alcoholic. Years ago he was pissing on a tree in San Francisco near an elementary school. It was after the bars closed on a Saturday morning so I doubt any children were ever in danger of seeing my friend's wang.
A cop pulled up, saw my friend and put him through the whole hands up thing. (Unfortunately my friend is also a total smart-ass to anyone in authority when drunk.) He was arrested and charged with indecent exposure and lewd behaviour within 100 yrds of an elementary school. He was about to be fucked royally.
My friend went before the judge, who fortunately recognized that my friend is a drunk who was taking a piss at 2am. He came very close to having his life fucked.
I was surprised at the basic ineptitude of most of the climbers. There were logjams at ladders because people didn't know how to negotiate them and other climbers are literally yelling at others "you incompetent fuck!" etc. etc...
A few years ago there was a Korean expedition to specifically remove the body of another Korean climber who died. These 6 climbers moved the body 100 yards in 5 hours then gave up.
Moving a body is too hard.
It seems he applied the old surgeon's maxim:
Watch one, Do one, Teach one.
Hell, I'm an alcoholic and drank heavily throughout my twenties. (And worked at various dot-coms in the good-old days. Was fired from a couple less liberal environments for showing up drunk in the morning. (I'm reminded of Lionel Hutz, who offers Marge a drink and pulls out a bottle. She says "It's 9am!" And he says "That's all right, I haven't slept for days." That was me.))
Anyways, I was a complete dick. I said really hurtful things to people. Sometimes people come up to me and say "hey, remember when you said 'blah blah blah' to George?" No. I really don't. I'm an alcoholic.
If you could be convicted for being a complete and utter asshole IRL, I would be in jail right now. Serving out a sentence for things I don't even remember doing.
(I quit drinking 4 years ago and am doing much better thank you.)
If you're not in America you wouldn't really get gun culture here. Many people think that when the government starts knocking on doors to take people's guns, that's the time we're going to need them the most. And I don't really disagree with them, although I've never even fired a gun. (I will get one for the zombie apocalypse though--which is about as real to me as another American Revolution would be, maybe even more real.)
The gun owners I know are responsible enthusiasts. In fact, I've never even known a person who's been shot, or had a family memeber shot, contrary to what you might hear about the US.
I recently had a mind-blowing conversation with the new maintenance guy. He's got one of those macho, forceful personalities that can't withstand criticism or anything against what he 'knows'. (Actual conversation. I wrote it down after to keep it fresh.)
Anyways, we were talking about the internet. He says "I read the internet all the time. I keep up on all the news. "
Then he says "You know those two Google guys are gay right?"
I say "Well, one is married and the other is about to be married. So unless they're on the Downlow, I don't think they're gay."
He says "Oh, I mean those two YouTube guys. And the Myspace guys. You know Google owns Myspace right?"
I say "Well, Google bought YouTube, but I don't think they have anything to do with MySpace."
He says "Yeah, Google bought MySpace. Anyways, those guys are gay. And I was also reading about the inventor of the internet!"
(I"m thinking "Tim Berners-Lee???? DARPA??? Who is he going to say is the inventor of the internet?)
He says" Yeah the inventor of the internet---MARK CUBAN."
I'm flabbergasted. Mark Cuban.
I say "Mark Cuban sold the site called Broadcast.com and became a billionaire. But he didn't invent the internet."
He says "Yeah he invented the BROWSER."
I say "I don't think he invented the browser. The first browser was called MOSAIC and invented by a bunch of specialists working for a university or the government or something."
He says "No he invented the internet.
I don't know what to say at this point and just say "uhhhhhhhh....ok.....Looks like you've been doing a lot of reading the internets."
419 no be thief, its just a game
Everybody dey play
419 is just a game,
you are the loser I am the winner
I go chop your dollar, I go take your money disappear.
Actually I think I misremembered the punch cards. The punch cards gave way to big binders with bluish lined paper with scrollwheel holes on either side. These binders were huge.
My mom worked for a company called California Microwave. When my teachers and other parents asked where my mom worked I would say proudly "California Microwave!" Microwaves weren't ubiquitous back then so people would say "Oh I really want to get one of those." And I would look at them strangely "You want to get a guidance system for a nuclear warhead?" which is what they did.
My uncle, a crackerjack computer salesman in Silicon Valley, with his suit, slicked-back hair, big tie and a piece of luggage under his arm showing us 'the future'. It was an Osborne I think. We looked on in awe as he removed the keyboard and we saw the 3 inch monochrome screen. He typed in a couple things and text scrolled by. My uncle was a GOD AMONG MEN. He told us how businesses would one day equip every employee with one of these to do spreadsheets and such while on the road.
My mom said "who wants to bring spreadsheets with them?" (She still carried big boxes of punch-cards home sometimes and would give me a few extras to play with. Not from the box though--she made it clear that I couldn't mess with those at all or the whole thing would be ruined.)
My uncle went on to build a small company that supplied parts to manufacturers in the Valley. Until people figured out that you could make them cheaper in Asia. Or just order a shipping container full of parts.
Nowadays he specializes in obsolete programming for some company. It seems all his business plans were rooted in early 80s tech. At least he found a niche.
I just had a titanium disc put it my back. They said this was 'elective surgery'.
So, either I could live my days in agonizing, excruciating pain until I put a bullet in my head, or 'elect' to have back surgery.
Interestingly, the surgery that fixed me had been done in Europe 15 years before the FDA allowed US doctors to perform it.
I just had back surgery. It cost 120,000 dollars. My company has good insurance so they paid most of it. I just got my packet for next year and they are changing the policy, as I suspect most companies are next year. They will only pay 80 percent of the hospital bill.
This would mean I would owe $24,000 for the same surgery next year. I could come up with it, but I would have to give up some things. I live alone and don't have kids (thank god, jk) but I think a middle class family can't just come up with 24 grand at a moments notice.
And, my surgery was not that major, I was only in hospital for 2 days. If you had a major injury/illness, that could easily run up to $500,000 or even a million! Can you come up with 20 percent of a million? I can't.
And the Republicans talk about Health Savings Plans. They are bullshit. Unless you put 40 or 50k in you Health SAvings Plan, it's not going to do much of anything for you if you or your family members get sick/ill. You would be diverting a good portion of your salary into your Health Savings Plan--and that won't even cover a major hospital stay.
Even if you have insurance in America and you get injured/sick you are FUCKED.
I'm reminded of Homer Simpson who traded in his health plan for a keg of beer. He said he would be fine as long as his health doesn't deteriorate as he ages. We are all Homer Simpson--hoping we don't get sick.
I know, what's the big deal with virgins? The awkwardness, the teeth scraping, the bleeding and the guilt....
I want a slutty girl. Or I'd want a couple adventurous ones and then a really slutty one to show them how to do things and be kind of like the captain. Damn. I gotta go...
That shows just how stupid the Bush administration is. They didn't even get the oil they went to war over. Fucking useless twats.
And, through their fucked-up policies, they completely lost to the Western market the greatest reserve of oil in the world, in the Caspian Basin.
Thanks a lot Bush!
That the Patriot Act and Sarbanes-Oxley are making the US a pariah in international business. Why would a country want to even send a representative here if all his shit is gonna be confiscated at the border?
I realize there has to be some regulation but come on...at the expense of our future? And regarding regulation, how about not making rules that go against the free market, like lending to people who can't afford to pay back and subsequently packaging these loans as awesome investment opportunities.
Yes there were a few mistakes in that post, but the meat of it, 'shedding', was reliable info. And yes, the husband of the James Kim family would be, ummm, well, let's see, uhh....James Kim. Stupid phrasing. I meant the Kim family. (And I didn't mean to disparage his or his family's suffering by throwing in the word 'corpse'. I remember watching that whole thing play out on the news and I felt very bad for them. I hope they're doing OK, I lost my dad when I was a kid too.)
Maybe I shouldn't write a post so fast in the future.
People in the later stages of hypothermia engage in 'shedding' of clothes. They think they are hot so they start taking off articles of clothing, leaving a trail. This is often how rescuers find bodies, by following the trail of clothing to a frozen stiff. This was how they found the husband of the James Kim family who made a wrong turn in California about a year ago. The family stayed in the car while the husband went on walkabout. They followed the trail of clothing to his frozen corpse.
Nah, use a pinch. ..."see, a pinch creates a similar electromagnetic pulse, but without the fuss of mass destruction and death. So instead of Hiroshima, you'd be getting the seventeenth century. "
According to the movies.
Is the LHC going to prove/disprove the validity of string theory?
I've read that string theory can't really be tested with our current technology and may never be proven to be right or wrong. As opposed to Einstein's theory of relativity, which was proven in an experiment in 1919, when light bent around a star was measured by Eddington--and made Einstein famous.
In fact I read an article recently that said string theory was basically leading physics to a dead end. The author said physicists were lost in this field and coming up with new theories and inventions for the sake of making their equations turn out correctly.
In America, you can't fuck with two things: guns and gas. As long as people have reasonable access to either they will be happy.
People's confidence in this administration have dwindled in inverse proportion to the rising price of gas. (THe Bush administration knows this so what did they do? Give D.C. back all its guns of course.)
Even with offices, you have trustees and such running around willy-nilly, or higgledy-piggledy or what have you.
I had a friend who lived on San Quentin. Seriously. He lived with his dad on the grounds at San Quentin. His dad was the head guard and they got houses on the grounds if they wanted.
One day he had to leave school early. I asked him why. He said "the State is executing somebody tonight and they lock the grounds down early. Nobody gets in or out for about 12 hours. "
What an excuse. "I have to leave early because of an execution."
There was a story about a prison a few months ago where a news photographer took a nice picture of bars and keys. Except the master key was clearly visible. (Wasn't a Medeco I don't think.)
A good locksmith or picker can look at a key and glean the numbers to cut a key for themselves. (If you've seen a handheld key-cutting machine it's pretty nifty. You just enter a number from 1 to 7 and it makes a cut on the key. You just enter a series of numbers and it makes cuts all the way down the key and voila! a new key. Takes less than a minute.)
The prison came out with a statement saying they had changed their locks.