Not picking on your comment - more just adding additional weight to it: don't forget that some plants react too when attacked - releasing chemicals into the ground to warn other plants and/or increasing the toxicity of their sap.
That's why I'm amused that you say 'vegan or hypocrite' - vegans are hypocrites too. It's just they conveniently forget that most nutritious food that they can eat is/was living at some point...
dude, Peter Gabriel performs with Zorb balls and Segways on stage. He's as much a nerd as the rest of us!
Some may not like his music, but he's a shrewd musician and his performances are always spectacular.
The best idea I've ever seen in the music business as well, was that he released the audio from the concert on CD. So for each concert, in each major city, there's a CD recording the night. It's not edited clips or 'the best bits' - it's local hecklers and the bits where he gets his tongue tied doing a link to his next song recorded directly from the mixing desk - it helps you recall the night you experienced in your local arena/city hall, not the night someone else experienced in the Texas Dome, or whatever.
>Hell! Does anybody even consider using Sony Connect?
I do, but it generally involves Kaz Hirai and/or Ken Kutaragi being on the receiving end of a sharped Sony Connect installation CD aimed at their family jewels. Then it becomes Sony DisConnect.
so what if one of these radioactive snails bites a human?
"Snailman, Snailman, does whatever, a snail can..." doesn't sound quite right, does it?
But I'm sure he could face off against Doc Squid, The Green Leprechaun, and his evil alien clone, Poison?
Yay. Credit card details. So they can talk to their good buddies at AMEX, MasterCard and Visa and find out exactly what else we've been purchasing...
You bought how much fertiliser Mr Smith? For an Acre of land you say? Please step into our office, we've got to discuss your agricultural needs... Oh no, we don't think you're a terrorist, but ignore the soundproofing... Yes, these tools look remarkably painful don't they?
The G5 HDDs are SATA. The actual optical drives in G5s are standard PATA IDE and can take most writers (I 'upgraded' mine from a Pioneer a104 to modded firmware 109 - now it can write DVD-RAM, Dual Layer DVDs and is RPC-0 - nice and cheap, and utterly reliable too. Can't fault that modded firmware.)
btw - recognise your name from your newsletters - I really love the newsletters you guys send out ^_^
i.e. Rumble patent owning company makes survey about rumble - that they famously bitch slapped Sony for patent infringing. rather than: Rumble patent owning company makes survey about tilt sensors - that they don't mass produce.
the whole tilt sensing question seems tacked on to basically immersion's survey where they essentially mock Sony with loaded questions for not licensing their patented tech.
personally I don't think this article deserved/. front page, but I think you've got to at least look at the context of the story before you start crying bias. Or are you biased against stories that appear to be biased?;)
Ignoring the fact that your displayed paranoia is worse than the mass media (I really hope it's sarcasm rather than actual sentiment - if the latter, get help), let's pretend that were a sensible question for a second:
Why do something as complicated using bluetooth and visible profiles, when they could do something far easier using a digital clock/eggtimer? Cheaper parts, less risk of them getting blown up by a sudden rush of bluetoothers showing up while they're setting things up, and fairly consistent and predictable results.
I hate to have to say this, but having no social/sex life would probably count against you.
You're a good person, in a bad circumstance (at least so long as the post isn't BS - but I don't think it is)
However - if there's a sexual harrassment lawsuit - people'd start saying you've got no outlet for your sexual side and all that, and it would probably add to the case against you. I don't think this is right, or fair, but I do think that's the case unfortunately and the way that things seem to work in this messed up world:(
I certainly don't mean to say this to scare you - unfortunately I really do think it's a case of damned if you do and damned if you don't.
The best part about the DS Lite 'upgrade' is that suddenly people have two DS-es they don't need. So they give their old hardware away or sell it cheap. The old DS is given to someone else who first finds they're really fun to own and play on, and then realise that they'd rather a DS Lite for the additional benefits. So then they get a lite and pass on the DS to someone else yet again.
My old DS was given away to a college-age girl who never was really interested in games. Now I hear she's pretty addicted. Similarly my parents actually want to purchase one (helps I'm giving Brain Age for fathers day, and loaning them my imported lite)
Yes, early adopters of the original brick got burned and have probably paid out twice. But I suspect they're not bitter (I know I'm not) and meanwhile the system just spreads on.
That's great, because not buying the products they make, is better than buying them because everyone knows no income is better than some income, however small. Right?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not on the side of sweatshop operators or the people who are making money out of essentially slave labour. However, at the same time, i'm sure if opposite the sweatshop there were places giving decent wages, with vacancies, the sweatshops would be paralysed. However, sweatshops are still around and people are still desperate in these countries to make whatever they can. Why shouldn't your dollars (or pounds, or euros, or yen) go to helping out people further below the poverty-line than your countrymen?
And for my conclusion, forgive me for paraphrasing this, however it stuck in my mind as a good illustration of the point. "It is good that workers should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by sweatshops. Yet a sweatshop is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good." The original was by a gentleman called Thomas Babbington Macaulay addressing UK Parliament.
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that's entirely a matter for debate. Plants show more sentience than animal lactate, but which do Vegans consume, and which don't they?
If you're going to post an argument, at least make it defensible and reasoned...
Hahaha that's silly - wtf are they going to do, run away? Next time I see a cow choke on a "toxic" blade of grass I'll believe that one.
Grass, no, but more sophisticated plants, yes.
Feel free to look it up
Similarly, douglas firs produce alleochemicals to warn other trees to increase production of anti-feedant chemicals, when they are under attack.
So unless you actually have any idea what you're talking about, STFU.
Not picking on your comment - more just adding additional weight to it:
don't forget that some plants react too when attacked - releasing chemicals into the ground to warn other plants and/or increasing the toxicity of their sap.
That's why I'm amused that you say 'vegan or hypocrite' - vegans are hypocrites too. It's just they conveniently forget that most nutritious food that they can eat is/was living at some point...
If only I had mod points.
Anyway...
dude, Peter Gabriel performs with Zorb balls and Segways on stage.
He's as much a nerd as the rest of us!
Some may not like his music, but he's a shrewd musician and his performances are always spectacular.
The best idea I've ever seen in the music business as well, was that he released the audio from the concert on CD. So for each concert, in each major city, there's a CD recording the night. It's not edited clips or 'the best bits' - it's local hecklers and the bits where he gets his tongue tied doing a link to his next song recorded directly from the mixing desk - it helps you recall the night you experienced in your local arena/city hall, not the night someone else experienced in the Texas Dome, or whatever.
>Hell! Does anybody even consider using Sony Connect?
I do, but it generally involves Kaz Hirai and/or Ken Kutaragi being on the receiving end of a sharped Sony Connect installation CD aimed at their family jewels. Then it becomes Sony DisConnect.
so what if one of these radioactive snails bites a human? "Snailman, Snailman, does whatever, a snail can..." doesn't sound quite right, does it? But I'm sure he could face off against Doc Squid, The Green Leprechaun, and his evil alien clone, Poison?
if only I had mod points.. :-/ You just made my morning
Yay. Credit card details. So they can talk to their good buddies at AMEX, MasterCard and Visa and find out exactly what else we've been purchasing...
You bought how much fertiliser Mr Smith? For an Acre of land you say? Please step into our office, we've got to discuss your agricultural needs... Oh no, we don't think you're a terrorist, but ignore the soundproofing... Yes, these tools look remarkably painful don't they?
The G5 HDDs are SATA. The actual optical drives in G5s are standard PATA IDE and can take most writers (I 'upgraded' mine from a Pioneer a104 to modded firmware 109 - now it can write DVD-RAM, Dual Layer DVDs and is RPC-0 - nice and cheap, and utterly reliable too. Can't fault that modded firmware.)
btw - recognise your name from your newsletters - I really love the newsletters you guys send out ^_^
perhaps due to the context of the study
/. front page, but I think you've got to at least look at the context of the story before you start crying bias. Or are you biased against stories that appear to be biased? ;)
i.e.
Rumble patent owning company makes survey about rumble - that they famously bitch slapped Sony for patent infringing.
rather than:
Rumble patent owning company makes survey about tilt sensors - that they don't mass produce.
the whole tilt sensing question seems tacked on to basically immersion's survey where they essentially mock Sony with loaded questions for not licensing their patented tech.
personally I don't think this article deserved
and was fairly terrible.
God knows why it got a second season.
BOFH would make a better series. Dark humour and comedy violence for the win.
Ignoring the fact that your displayed paranoia is worse than the mass media (I really hope it's sarcasm rather than actual sentiment - if the latter, get help), let's pretend that were a sensible question for a second:
Why do something as complicated using bluetooth and visible profiles, when they could do something far easier using a digital clock/eggtimer? Cheaper parts, less risk of them getting blown up by a sudden rush of bluetoothers showing up while they're setting things up, and fairly consistent and predictable results.
Who the HECK puts cpus in a toaster?!?
How do you think the toast gets cooked overwise? It ain't going to brown itself...
unfortunately they did, and it was depressingly bad.
so bad you might even have watched it and then repressed it in memory.
Let us never speak of The IT Crowd again.
I always heard it said that "crossplaying is love"
I always thought 'yes, the kind of love that usually involves whips, candles, clamps, and electric currents'
Firstly: IANAL.
:(
I hate to have to say this, but having no social/sex life would probably count against you.
You're a good person, in a bad circumstance (at least so long as the post isn't BS - but I don't think it is)
However - if there's a sexual harrassment lawsuit - people'd start saying you've got no outlet for your sexual side and all that, and it would probably add to the case against you. I don't think this is right, or fair, but I do think that's the case unfortunately and the way that things seem to work in this messed up world
I certainly don't mean to say this to scare you - unfortunately I really do think it's a case of damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Strangely, I thought that too. I wonder if Grant Naylor (well Rob Grant and Doug Naylor) read the original incomplete version?
Even so, given the popularity and brilliant humour of Red Dwarf (at least in the UK...) I don't think it's worth worrying about
Thankyou, someone needed to say it. (about Japan, not the Soviet Russia meme)
leaves more Yumi for the rest of us ;)
this made me remember the subtle knife from the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy...
Don't go losing any fingers using it now!
The best part about the DS Lite 'upgrade' is that suddenly people have two DS-es they don't need. So they give their old hardware away or sell it cheap. The old DS is given to someone else who first finds they're really fun to own and play on, and then realise that they'd rather a DS Lite for the additional benefits. So then they get a lite and pass on the DS to someone else yet again.
My old DS was given away to a college-age girl who never was really interested in games. Now I hear she's pretty addicted. Similarly my parents actually want to purchase one (helps I'm giving Brain Age for fathers day, and loaning them my imported lite)
Yes, early adopters of the original brick got burned and have probably paid out twice. But I suspect they're not bitter (I know I'm not) and meanwhile the system just spreads on.
Very very clever Nintendo.
Wow, I really hope that was satire.
If not, you (and possibly your generation) really need to learn spelling and grammar.
That's great, because not buying the products they make, is better than buying them because everyone knows no income is better than some income, however small. Right?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not on the side of sweatshop operators or the people who are making money out of essentially slave labour. However, at the same time, i'm sure if opposite the sweatshop there were places giving decent wages, with vacancies, the sweatshops would be paralysed. However, sweatshops are still around and people are still desperate in these countries to make whatever they can. Why shouldn't your dollars (or pounds, or euros, or yen) go to helping out people further below the poverty-line than your countrymen?
And for my conclusion, forgive me for paraphrasing this, however it stuck in my mind as a good illustration of the point.
"It is good that workers should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by sweatshops. Yet a sweatshop is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good."
The original was by a gentleman called Thomas Babbington Macaulay addressing UK Parliament.
as opposed to the optimal 4.5 sigma with a 1.5 sigma phase shift...
:(
I should be a blackbelt...