What exactly are "inalienable rights" anyway? We say they are something that everyone has, but it's like money - only worth something if people believe that it is worth something. Arguing whether those rights are oppressed or have been removed is an exercise in pedantry. I could equally argue that my right not to be "taken or imprisoned upon the appeal of a woman for the death of any other than of her husband" (article 34 of the Magna Carta) was oppressed when it was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1863 (c.125) and Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872 (c.98)*.
I tried reading the book once, just to see what all the fuss was about. It was written in such a boring and awful style that I didn't get beyond the first few pages. I find it hard to understand how it got banned, because I don't believe that anyone could possibly have forced themselves to read it.
He should just get the Termina-RIAA-tor to sue everyone who listened to the files.
Hey, has anyone wondered if the RIAA actually is the real Skynet? Maybe there's no people there anymore, just a bunch of tube-crawling lawyer-bots who are taking over the world, one extortionist lawsuit at a time...
This is scary - what if the terrorists get hold of one of these particle accelerators and make a black hole and destroy the earth?
We need to act quickly! We need to have mandatory strip searches at every airport to make sure nobody is concealing a black hole in their PANTS (Particle Accelerator Neutral Transportation System)
Gandalf (TTT): "Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time. "
That line really really annoyed me. After all the effort they went to to get the armour and the language and stuff right, how the heck did they come up with this line? I kept going over it in the theatre as I was watching, and as near as I can tell the life expectancy in Middle-Earth at the time was very very tiny - approximately six years (2000/300).
If you estimate one "life of man" as about 70 years (as Tolkien did when he was working out the reigns of the kings/stewards of Gondor) you get 21,000, but I can't seem to make that fit in with the overall scheme of things either...are they saying that Olorin started wandering around 21,000 years ago? That doesn't seem to fit either.
As long as the pipe doesn't get ruptured, I don't see how combustion would be a problem - you could make as many sparks as you like but without any oxygen the gas wouldn't burn (at least, according to what the fire safety people taught me in hi skule)
The best place to go for this sort of thing is Bollywood....I saw one film where Amitabh Bachan (one of Bollywood's biggest stars) was somehow playing a guitar with a big thick white glove on his left hand. Not that it mattered much because he didn't move his hand anyway, he was just strumming.
On the other hand, kudos to Val Kilmer in Top Secret...he sang all of "his" songs, and I noticed that he was actually playing the guitar in at least one scene (and a barre chord no less).
I decided to do my bit to save the environment, so I popped down to the supermarket and bought a packet of these things. I can't remember the wattage, but it was the same as the wattage of my existing incandescent bulbs. The new bulbs light up the room about the same as if it was a bright sunny day outside but the curtains were shut. It's a dull, cold light, so I switched them all back except for the one in the bathroom. The bulbs came in a packet of four, so I estimate that by about 2045 I'll have emptied the packet.
I came up with a whole new renaming system that's better than blackjack and hookers. We re-assign each existing "planet" to the following categories:
Mercury is now a chuzzwozzer
Earth is now a blurgen
Venus is now a blurgen_semi
Mars is now a goontron
Jupiter is now a zyx
Saturn is now a zyx_pseudo
Uranus is now a zyx_semi_pseudo
Neptune is now a zyx_pseudo_semi
Pluto is now a pluto_semi
Charyon is also a pluto_semi
That other new one they found is now a pluto
As new objects are discovered, we can create new categories for them if they don't fit in existing categories. Each object is named according to the following system: Category-ThingItIsOrbiting-UniqueName Eg Earth would be Blurgen-Sol-Earth For non-scientific purposes people would only use the unique name. The earth moon would be BlurgenQuasi-Earth-Moon. Pluto would be Pluto_Semi-Charyon/Pluto-Pluto. Jupiter would be Zyx-Jupiter/Sol-Jupiter. The sun would be GreatBallsOfFire_Semi-Orion-Sol.
Binary systems would be as follows: Category1+Category2:BinaryOrTernaryOrQuaternaryEtc CategoryName-ThingItIsOrbiting-ThingsInSystem
Thus the Charyon/Pluto system would be Pluto_Semi+Pluto_Semi:DoubleTrouble-Sol-Charyon/Pl uto.
This means that we can now retain the word planet as a purely non-scientific term referring to Chuzzwozzer-Sol-Mercury, Blurgen_Semi-Sol-Venus, Blurgen-Sol-Earth, Goontron-Sol-Mars, Zyx-Jupiter/Sol-Jupiter, Zyx_Pseudo-Sol-Saturn, Zyx_Semi_Pseudo-Sol-Uranus, Zyx_Pseudo_Semi-Sol-Neptune and Pluto_Semi-Charyon/Pluto-Pluto so that children, astrologers, and myspace users don't get too confused.
One great side effect of this is the level of support we'll get from the scrabble-playing community for including a category called "zyx".
We just haul up and lasso that sucker! Then we drag the lunar load back down a bit so the barycenter is still within earth, then we tie the rope to a tall tree so that the moon doesn't float away again.
Or we can build a big earthen wall, tall enough that the barycenter of the moon stays within it. Kind of like a tight-fitting planetary ring.
Is it possible for them to use their oxygen supply as a kind of jet pack? The oxygen must be under pressure, so they could disconnect the tube, hold their breath and aim carefully....
Latest ABC report: six U.S. computer companies (Apple, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Microsoft and Netgear) have teamed and applied for a new patent entitled: "An automated system to effect the removal of, through exploitation of flaws in patent systems, patents inconveniently held by competitors."
As soon as the patent is passed, they will use it against the CSIRO. Shortly after, M$ stab the remaining five companies in the back by using the new patent against itself which will start a chain of events leading to the unfortunate early implosion of the universe.
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I for one welcome our new rocketman overlords!
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of rocketbelts?
I'm going to build my own rocketbelt. With blackjack. And hookers!
In Soviet Russia, the rocketbelt flies you!
What exactly are "inalienable rights" anyway? We say they are something that everyone has, but it's like money - only worth something if people believe that it is worth something. Arguing whether those rights are oppressed or have been removed is an exercise in pedantry. I could equally argue that my right not to be "taken or imprisoned upon the appeal of a woman for the death of any other than of her husband" (article 34 of the Magna Carta) was oppressed when it was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1863 (c.125) and Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872 (c.98)*.
* http://www.davros.org/legal/magna_carta.html (I ain't a lawyer!)
Shouldn't this be on the list? It has a bunch of dating ads on the bottom now, but it didn't use to. I love the music!
I tried reading the book once, just to see what all the fuss was about. It was written in such a boring and awful style that I didn't get beyond the first few pages. I find it hard to understand how it got banned, because I don't believe that anyone could possibly have forced themselves to read it.
I'll be in my early 60s by the time I've emptied out the packet!
He should just get the Termina-RIAA-tor to sue everyone who listened to the files.
Hey, has anyone wondered if the RIAA actually is the real Skynet? Maybe there's no people there anymore, just a bunch of tube-crawling lawyer-bots who are taking over the world, one extortionist lawsuit at a time...
This is scary - what if the terrorists get hold of one of these particle accelerators and make a black hole and destroy the earth? We need to act quickly! We need to have mandatory strip searches at every airport to make sure nobody is concealing a black hole in their PANTS (Particle Accelerator Neutral Transportation System)
As long as the pipe doesn't get ruptured, I don't see how combustion would be a problem - you could make as many sparks as you like but without any oxygen the gas wouldn't burn (at least, according to what the fire safety people taught me in hi skule)
The best place to go for this sort of thing is Bollywood....I saw one film where Amitabh Bachan (one of Bollywood's biggest stars) was somehow playing a guitar with a big thick white glove on his left hand. Not that it mattered much because he didn't move his hand anyway, he was just strumming.
On the other hand, kudos to Val Kilmer in Top Secret...he sang all of "his" songs, and I noticed that he was actually playing the guitar in at least one scene (and a barre chord no less).
I think we should start a new internet....with blackjack, and hookers!
I decided to do my bit to save the environment, so I popped down to the supermarket and bought a packet of these things. I can't remember the wattage, but it was the same as the wattage of my existing incandescent bulbs. The new bulbs light up the room about the same as if it was a bright sunny day outside but the curtains were shut. It's a dull, cold light, so I switched them all back except for the one in the bathroom. The bulbs came in a packet of four, so I estimate that by about 2045 I'll have emptied the packet.
I got two words for you: Cane Toad.
As new objects are discovered, we can create new categories for them if they don't fit in existing categories. Each object is named according to the following system:
Category-ThingItIsOrbiting-UniqueName
Eg Earth would be Blurgen-Sol-Earth
For non-scientific purposes people would only use the unique name. The earth moon would be BlurgenQuasi-Earth-Moon. Pluto would be Pluto_Semi-Charyon/Pluto-Pluto. Jupiter would be Zyx-Jupiter/Sol-Jupiter. The sun would be GreatBallsOfFire_Semi-Orion-Sol.
Binary systems would be as follows:
Category1+Category2:BinaryOrTernaryOrQuaternaryEt
Thus the Charyon/Pluto system would be Pluto_Semi+Pluto_Semi:DoubleTrouble-Sol-Charyon/P
This means that we can now retain the word planet as a purely non-scientific term referring to Chuzzwozzer-Sol-Mercury, Blurgen_Semi-Sol-Venus, Blurgen-Sol-Earth, Goontron-Sol-Mars, Zyx-Jupiter/Sol-Jupiter, Zyx_Pseudo-Sol-Saturn, Zyx_Semi_Pseudo-Sol-Uranus, Zyx_Pseudo_Semi-Sol-Neptune and Pluto_Semi-Charyon/Pluto-Pluto so that children, astrologers, and myspace users don't get too confused.
One great side effect of this is the level of support we'll get from the scrabble-playing community for including a category called "zyx".
We just haul up and lasso that sucker! Then we drag the lunar load back down a bit so the barycenter is still within earth, then we tie the rope to a tall tree so that the moon doesn't float away again.
Or we can build a big earthen wall, tall enough that the barycenter of the moon stays within it. Kind of like a tight-fitting planetary ring.
That just means that it is behind us! They must have the telescope the wrong way around.
I for one welcome our new SQL-injecting script-kiddie overlords!
Is it possible for them to use their oxygen supply as a kind of jet pack? The oxygen must be under pressure, so they could disconnect the tube, hold their breath and aim carefully....
Latest ABC report: six U.S. computer companies (Apple, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Microsoft and Netgear) have teamed and applied for a new patent entitled: "An automated system to effect the removal of, through exploitation of flaws in patent systems, patents inconveniently held by competitors." As soon as the patent is passed, they will use it against the CSIRO. Shortly after, M$ stab the remaining five companies in the back by using the new patent against itself which will start a chain of events leading to the unfortunate early implosion of the universe.