But will a Sienna cruise at 100 mph +, even up hills? My '65 T-bird would and it only had the earlier 390 Cu. In. motor.
By the way, the 64-66 T-bird was not intended for quick acceleration, or drag racing. It was a big 'sporty' luxury car for more than two people to cruise in speed, comfort, and style. The dashboard looked like it belonged in a space ship and the rear seat looked like it belonged in a cocktail lounge.
But there isn't any big money behind stopping spam. If you start executing people for computer crimes it will be the pirates getting the chair at the behest of the RIAA, not spammers.
Part of what we don't know is that our universe was rebooted to a point 17 years in the past the last time we messed around with these things and even worse outcomes could happen if we do it again.
Yeah, it's Sci-Fi, but I believe every word of it.
Slavery is when you aren't allowed to chose how, when and for whom you work, aren't allowed to quit, don't get paid, and are considered property.
Calling every less-than-ideal employment situation 'slavery' degrades the language and insults the memory of those who actually did suffer under slavery.
I do too. The reason this is the best policy for the buyer may not be totally obvious. I do it so I am not showing an interest in the item before it sells. I found from experience that showing an interest before the sale deadline meant that I would never end up winning the auction. I didn't really believe this when it was originally suggested to me, but I soon found that it was true.
From my perspective, making the auctions last until five minutes after the last bid would probably just prevent me from using the site anymore, since it would take away the only method I have found (other than 'BUY IT NOW') for buying anything there.
Haven't you ever been out shooting and dropped a sight adjusting screw, or piece of ammo, or maybe a contact lense on the ground. In the dark you'd never be able to find it with a normal flashlight. With this device you will have a chance, as long as you haven't melted it or exploded it with the flashlight before you find it.
>>> it's an analog process - your body 'energy blob' is really moved..
And how do you propose to prove that the teleported person isn't just a perfect recreation who has all the memories of the original and believes they are them, while the original consciousness actually ended when they were physically disassembled?
I've always thought, from the first time I saw it on Star Trek or read about it in a Sci-Fi story, that teleportation is obviously a quick painless death followed by replacement of you with a new synthetic person who thinks they are you. I'll pass.
1. Announce that I will not seek a second term and that neither I nor anyone working on my behalf will raise funds or otherwise take part in any future political campaigns until after I have left the Presidency.
2. Fire and replace all U.S. government employees and contractors who serve at the pleasure of the President (including of course, all U.S. Attorneys). This would not effect civil servants.
3. Countermand all existing Executive Orders.
4. Order, through the new department heads I appoint, the cancellation of all government contracts which are not in a state of 100 percent compliance to the performance and budget requirements set when the contracts were approved.
5. Publicly direct Congress to draft and approve legislation within one year specifically repudiating the 'zero basis presumption' which income taxes against wage earners are based on, and to create a new tax system recognizing that when labor is exchanged for money or goods, there is no tax event because it is an exchange of equal values.
6. Release Executive Orders which will stifle, cripple, and prevent the functioning of the IRS after one year.
7. Direct, through the new department heads I appoint, that illegal entry to the United States will be prevented to the utmost ability of the U.S. Border Patrol, Justice Department, and such other government departments as may be useful. All department heads will be put on notice that this, and the detection and removal of illegal aliens already here, are their top priorities and that they will be removed and prosecuted if they fail to pursue them in earnest, while they will be rewarded with desirable appointments upon their success.
I'll wait for normal looking sunglasses with embedded displays, forward and rearward facing cameras, reactive vision protection, vision enhancements like light amplification, telescopic, microscopic and filtered views, full audio video recording and playback, and the ability to swap views with another wearer remotely.
It's been a long time since I read it, but that story about the old Bolo sitting in the town square as a war memorial still haunts me. It would make a great segment in a Bolo movie.
>>> The technology was developed by Rocketdyne, which was acquired by United Technologies Corp., Hamilton's parent company, in 2005. Rocketdyne is the prime contractor for electric power systems on the International Space Station.
This sounds suspiciously close to YoYoDyne. You know, the ones who diverted funds from the vital U.S. Truncheon Bomber program into a private project back in the '80's.
We need to send a crack Congressional investigator to look into this immediately!
>>> Thus, the more imperfect information is, the better laissez-faire works compared to government intervention.
agreed, however;
Government intervention also has an agenda behind it. So even if information is perfect, government intervention will serve that agenda instead of necessarily creating as beneficial a result as a free market.
>>> Except in reality you are twice as likely to shoot a friend or family member than defend your home with your home defense gun.
False conclusion based on faulty data sampling.
A statistic does not get created unless there is a report. Cases where someone gets shot almost always generate a report. Cases where the homeowner's possession of a gun thwarts the crime and nobody gets shot are less likely to be reported.
Guns in the home are not high on the list of dangerous objects for average Americans. Check it out. The fact that drug dealers, thieves, and gang members often shoot their family members and 'friends' is used to make it sound like average people are not capable of defending themselves without endangering their families. It is a false impression intentionally created by lumping repeat criminal offenders in with the general population's statistics in these cases.
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But will a Sienna cruise at 100 mph +, even up hills? My '65 T-bird would and it only had the earlier 390 Cu. In. motor. By the way, the 64-66 T-bird was not intended for quick acceleration, or drag racing. It was a big 'sporty' luxury car for more than two people to cruise in speed, comfort, and style. The dashboard looked like it belonged in a space ship and the rear seat looked like it belonged in a cocktail lounge.
But there isn't any big money behind stopping spam. If you start executing people for computer crimes it will be the pirates getting the chair at the behest of the RIAA, not spammers.
How are they supposed to know those symptoms aren't just Vista doing some kind of indexing or whatever on their computer?
Next will we see disposable DVD players that come with the self destructing DVD already inside?
At least they aren't photoshopping the kids to look dead. Then we'd have to execute them for digital murder.
>>> I still have a huge library of Fortran code on 1/2" tape. If I ever want to see that code again will somebody please kill me.
Yes, after what you said about motorcycle enthusiasts, somebody surely will if the need arises.
In this very good book, 'Einsteins Bridge' it is explained that the worst has already happened, we just don't know about it.
http://www.amazon.com/Einsteins-Bridge-John-Cramer/dp/0380788314
Part of what we don't know is that our universe was rebooted to a point 17 years in the past the last time we messed around with these things and even worse outcomes could happen if we do it again.
Yeah, it's Sci-Fi, but I believe every word of it.
You have proven me correct.
Definition 1. is the result of the very kind of language degradation through misuse which I spoke of and the other two agree with my definition.
Slavery is when you aren't allowed to chose how, when and for whom you work, aren't allowed to quit, don't get paid, and are considered property.
Calling every less-than-ideal employment situation 'slavery' degrades the language and insults the memory of those who actually did suffer under slavery.
>>> The GP's "the Carlyle Group is mostly Bush and bin Laden money" is wildly exaggerated, to put it mildly
So, you're saying Michael Moore is not a trustworthy source?
Who'da thunk it!
>>> I snipe at every auction I bid on.
I do too. The reason this is the best policy for the buyer may not be totally obvious. I do it so I am not showing an interest in the item before it sells. I found from experience that showing an interest before the sale deadline meant that I would never end up winning the auction. I didn't really believe this when it was originally suggested to me, but I soon found that it was true.
From my perspective, making the auctions last until five minutes after the last bid would probably just prevent me from using the site anymore, since it would take away the only method I have found (other than 'BUY IT NOW') for buying anything there.
Haven't you ever been out shooting and dropped a sight adjusting screw, or piece of ammo, or maybe a contact lense on the ground. In the dark you'd never be able to find it with a normal flashlight. With this device you will have a chance, as long as you haven't melted it or exploded it with the flashlight before you find it.
I want one.
Parent makes good points.
>>> it's an analog process - your body 'energy blob' is really moved..
And how do you propose to prove that the teleported person isn't just a perfect recreation who has all the memories of the original and believes they are them, while the original consciousness actually ended when they were physically disassembled?
I've always thought, from the first time I saw it on Star Trek or read about it in a Sci-Fi story, that teleportation is obviously a quick painless death followed by replacement of you with a new synthetic person who thinks they are you. I'll pass.
If I had a mod point I would give it to you.
1. Announce that I will not seek a second term and that neither I nor anyone working on my behalf will raise funds or otherwise take part in any future political campaigns until after I have left the Presidency.
2. Fire and replace all U.S. government employees and contractors who serve at the pleasure of the President (including of course, all U.S. Attorneys). This would not effect civil servants.
3. Countermand all existing Executive Orders.
4. Order, through the new department heads I appoint, the cancellation of all government contracts which are not in a state of 100 percent compliance to the performance and budget requirements set when the contracts were approved.
5. Publicly direct Congress to draft and approve legislation within one year specifically repudiating the 'zero basis presumption' which income taxes against wage earners are based on, and to create a new tax system recognizing that when labor is exchanged for money or goods, there is no tax event because it is an exchange of equal values.
6. Release Executive Orders which will stifle, cripple, and prevent the functioning of the IRS after one year.
7. Direct, through the new department heads I appoint, that illegal entry to the United States will be prevented to the utmost ability of the U.S. Border Patrol, Justice Department, and such other government departments as may be useful. All department heads will be put on notice that this, and the detection and removal of illegal aliens already here, are their top priorities and that they will be removed and prosecuted if they fail to pursue them in earnest, while they will be rewarded with desirable appointments upon their success.
>>> :)
Would you also like a forearm-mounted computer that you can set for self-destruct while you cackle manically in strange deep alien tones
I'll pass, that's for the military version...
I'll wait for normal looking sunglasses with embedded displays, forward and rearward facing cameras, reactive vision protection, vision enhancements like light amplification, telescopic, microscopic and filtered views, full audio video recording and playback, and the ability to swap views with another wearer remotely.
It's been a long time since I read it, but that story about the old Bolo sitting in the town square as a war memorial still haunts me. It would make a great segment in a Bolo movie.
>>> The technology was developed by Rocketdyne, which was acquired by United Technologies Corp., Hamilton's parent company, in 2005. Rocketdyne is the prime contractor for electric power systems on the International Space Station.
This sounds suspiciously close to YoYoDyne. You know, the ones who diverted funds from the vital U.S. Truncheon Bomber program into a private project back in the '80's.
We need to send a crack Congressional investigator to look into this immediately!
>>> Thus, the more imperfect information is, the better laissez-faire works compared to government intervention.
agreed, however;
Government intervention also has an agenda behind it. So even if information is perfect, government intervention will serve that agenda instead of necessarily creating as beneficial a result as a free market.
>>> totally pwned...I suck.
At least you're more observant than jackie_chan_fan!
>>> Except in reality you are twice as likely to shoot a friend or family member than defend your home with your home defense gun.
False conclusion based on faulty data sampling.
A statistic does not get created unless there is a report. Cases where someone gets shot almost always generate a report. Cases where the homeowner's possession of a gun thwarts the crime and nobody gets shot are less likely to be reported.
Guns in the home are not high on the list of dangerous objects for average Americans. Check it out. The fact that drug dealers, thieves, and gang members often shoot their family members and 'friends' is used to make it sound like average people are not capable of defending themselves without endangering their families. It is a false impression intentionally created by lumping repeat criminal offenders in with the general population's statistics in these cases.
Apparently, the evil Kindle fanboys have won!
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