I feel sorry for Encyclopedia Britannica. Like many other companies that were built on the concept of monopolizing information, they no longer have a viable business model.
Ah yes, as both Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and I have discovered, any time you piss a cop off, you are guilty of "disorderly conduct". That's the problem with charges that are entirely at the discretion of the arresting officer; even if there is no chance in hell of the DA actually pressing charges, the cop still gets to act as judge, jury, and executioner, punishing you for pissing him off by making you spend a night in jail (yes, it can take 8-10 hours to "process" somebody brought into the jail) even if you are innocent of everything except annoying a cop. And by the way, they actually charge you for this "processing", even if there was no probable cause to arrest you, and they take the charges out of any money you have on you. If you get a chance, empty your pockets BEFORE you get hauled off, then at least you don't have to pay for it.
It turned out that you can't buy an upper ball joint for whatever it was (a higher-end model, too) but must purchase the entire A-arm. This is something you do on economy cars, not luxury ones! Uh, no. "Kitting" is something Honda does an ALL it's cars. I backed a Civic CRX into something and bent the tip of the tailpipe. Honda insisted on replacing the entire exhaust system, right up to the header, at a cost of over $1000. Midas graciously welded a new tip on the tailpipe for about $40. In fact, todays Accords are indistinguishable to me from older Acuras. And yes, I've owned serveral Hondas and Acuras. The only difference I've seen is that the Acuras tend to last a bit longer.
This is where the simile breaks down... Please look up the words "simile" and "analogy" in the dictionary.
note that all mass market cars made today are junk possessed of planned obsolescence I agree with you on this one; apparently all cars are now designed to fall apart at 100,000 miles. It is amazing how they all invariably start requiring expensive maintenance within 10% of that mark. The last car that was designed built to last was the Checker; they went out of business because they got lousy gas mileage, and they never got any repeat business because the few people that bought them never bought new ones. (Yes, they were available for private purchase, not just taxi fleets.) I'm not sure if even Rolls-Royce vehicles are designed to last anymore.
That argument works against drug testing at work. If someone's ability to do their job is impaired, they should be fired for not doing their job. If the drugs are not effecting their ability to do their job, then why should anyone care? I'm not sure that applies to driving, however. I've known alcoholics that functioned better with high levels of alcohol in their system than without, but I still wouldn't trust them to drive my car (mostly because one of them smashed up my first new car within 2 weeks of my purchasing it.)
Problem is, being impaired isn't against the law. Being intoxicated is. I've never driven while intoxicated, but I've driven impaired many times. Mostly because I'd just worked 18 hours and was driving home at 3am, or when I was driving coast-to-coast in 56 hours. Was I at increased risk of being involved in a accident? Absolutely. Was I doing anything unlawful? I don't think so.
The Segway has 2 major problems: 1) It costs over $5000 for a personal transportation device that should cost no more than $500. There is a balance sensor available for the LEGO Mindstorm that transforms it into a Segway model; how complicated could the Segway actually be? 2) It was based on the assumption that all municipalities would rush to make them legal for sidewalk use. Quite the opposite has happened; most placed have banned them.
Dean Kamen doesn't design consumer devices; he designs medical devices. My theory is that he really wanted to design a 2-wheel electric wheelchair, but would never have gotten the funding for it. However, there was plenty of investment money available for consumer devices for which 95% of the development cost could also be used for the wheelchair. There you have it -- the Segway is a throwaway product, a device designed to trick investors into subsidizing the development of a 2-wheel wheelchair.
Obviously no sex offender would think to move without registering their new address, or to drive more than a few miles from their registered home address looking for victims!
No coincidence. Comic Con 2009 ended last Sunday. I look forward to stories about green arrows made from 100% recycled material, and of course this guy
Sure you can... just carry around a Windows netbook along with your Linux laptop. Turn IP forwarding on in the netbook and connect the two via an ethernet crossover cable... Voila! Linux can use the free WiFi! As a bonus, you can use the netbook to view all those websites that only work with IE...
The most disturbing part of that documentary is that it begins with this juvenile delinquent killing a woman and ends with her killing the woman's sister -- and the bitch gets off scott free! WTF?!? Won't somebody please think of the green-complexioned victims! I call hate crimes here -- clearly she is discriminating against green colored people. P.S. I think the mechanical man came with a "vibrate mode".
Placing the lab underground instead of in a 100-year old farmhouse should solve the problem nicely. Where do you think the lab should be located? In the Bay Area right on the San Andreas Fault? In Portland, between two active volcanoes? On the Gulf Coast, also known as "Hurricane Alley". How about below sea level in New Orleans? Unlike most natural disasters, you can easily design a building to withstand tornadoes. I suspect a virulent disease lab isn't going to have big plate glass windows anyway...
Just ask Kobe Bryant. In fact, I believe the severity of infidelities can be directly measured by the cost of the bling required to shut the "injured party" up. Kobe committed a four million dollar fuckup... shouldn't Guiness give him at least an honorable mention?
Yes, Portland has the Rose City Rollers too.. but that is not exactly the kind of behavior I want to encourage my daughter to participate in, no matter how retro/cool it is. Has Jim Croce's Roller Derby Queen come back into vogue as well?
Still, it was a great, prophetic movie. Yeah, 'cause in real life, people really do get sucked into their computers all of the time... I'm sorry, it had a pathetic plotline, bad acting, and terrible graphics. Aside from semi-cool light cycles (which were only put in to leverage a computer game spinoff as far as I can tell) there is really nothing to like about the movie.
Disney doesn't steal your culture, they just copyright it, then charge you money to use your own culture. I've always contended that both Disney and Microsoft use the same business model: steal intellectual property from others, then vigorously defend it as their own. That being said, I still use XP, and I will be taking my daughter to The Frog Princess as soon as it comes out. Sigh...
94. Roller skates, as opposed to blades. There are several skating rinks in Portland (e.g. Roller World and Oaks Park) that still rent traditional skates. Of course these places do have a real retro feel (they even play disco!) But my 8-year old is quite familiar with both inline and old-style skates. Inlines are faster, but most stunts are easier with a wheel in each corner. Inlines work a lot more like ice skates, except that they are more prone to lateral slipping.
15.3-D movies meaning red-and-green glasses.
1) 3-D movies used red and blue, not red and gree, glasses.
2) Free 3-D glasses were passed out for this year's superbowl ads.
3) 3-D movies are still being released on DVD. With the obligitory red and blue glasses. Theaters, on the other hand, are now using digital projectors and glasses with horizontally and vertically polarized lenses. (It is not clear to me how the digital projector polarizes the frames in the first place. I suspect it is actually 2 projectors with polarized lenses alternating frames. But that could also be done with film and a rotating mirror.)
Sure, you enjoyed dancing... but did you get any? 'Cause "getting some" is kind of a prerequisite for evolution. I'm sure they tall girls enjoyed it too -- 'cause they could look over your head and scope out the guys they really wanted to pick up. And give them their best "please come rescue me from this dweeb!" look. Of course, if you are really short, the one thing you never want to tell a tall girl is, "Gee, your hair smells terrific!"
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I feel sorry for Encyclopedia Britannica. Like many other companies that were built on the concept of monopolizing information, they no longer have a viable business model.
It's called OCD. Get over it.
It's ok. I want to sleep with his mother too...
Is he also suing U2's guitar player?
Ah yes, as both Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and I have discovered, any time you piss a cop off, you are guilty of "disorderly conduct". That's the problem with charges that are entirely at the discretion of the arresting officer; even if there is no chance in hell of the DA actually pressing charges, the cop still gets to act as judge, jury, and executioner, punishing you for pissing him off by making you spend a night in jail (yes, it can take 8-10 hours to "process" somebody brought into the jail) even if you are innocent of everything except annoying a cop. And by the way, they actually charge you for this "processing", even if there was no probable cause to arrest you, and they take the charges out of any money you have on you. If you get a chance, empty your pockets BEFORE you get hauled off, then at least you don't have to pay for it.
It turned out that you can't buy an upper ball joint for whatever it was (a higher-end model, too) but must purchase the entire A-arm. This is something you do on economy cars, not luxury ones! Uh, no. "Kitting" is something Honda does an ALL it's cars. I backed a Civic CRX into something and bent the tip of the tailpipe. Honda insisted on replacing the entire exhaust system, right up to the header, at a cost of over $1000. Midas graciously welded a new tip on the tailpipe for about $40. In fact, todays Accords are indistinguishable to me from older Acuras. And yes, I've owned serveral Hondas and Acuras. The only difference I've seen is that the Acuras tend to last a bit longer.
This is where the simile breaks down... Please look up the words "simile" and "analogy" in the dictionary.
note that all mass market cars made today are junk possessed of planned obsolescence I agree with you on this one; apparently all cars are now designed to fall apart at 100,000 miles. It is amazing how they all invariably start requiring expensive maintenance within 10% of that mark. The last car that was designed built to last was the Checker; they went out of business because they got lousy gas mileage, and they never got any repeat business because the few people that bought them never bought new ones. (Yes, they were available for private purchase, not just taxi fleets.) I'm not sure if even Rolls-Royce vehicles are designed to last anymore.
I'm more interested in whether or not we can build a microchip into a human brain. At least then I might be able to remember my wife's anniversary...
That argument works against drug testing at work. If someone's ability to do their job is impaired, they should be fired for not doing their job. If the drugs are not effecting their ability to do their job, then why should anyone care? I'm not sure that applies to driving, however. I've known alcoholics that functioned better with high levels of alcohol in their system than without, but I still wouldn't trust them to drive my car (mostly because one of them smashed up my first new car within 2 weeks of my purchasing it.)
Problem is, being impaired isn't against the law. Being intoxicated is. I've never driven while intoxicated, but I've driven impaired many times. Mostly because I'd just worked 18 hours and was driving home at 3am, or when I was driving coast-to-coast in 56 hours. Was I at increased risk of being involved in a accident? Absolutely. Was I doing anything unlawful? I don't think so.
Now I'm gonna have to stop spitting in cop's faces!
The Segway has 2 major problems: 1) It costs over $5000 for a personal transportation device that should cost no more than $500. There is a balance sensor available for the LEGO Mindstorm that transforms it into a Segway model; how complicated could the Segway actually be? 2) It was based on the assumption that all municipalities would rush to make them legal for sidewalk use. Quite the opposite has happened; most placed have banned them.
Dean Kamen doesn't design consumer devices; he designs medical devices. My theory is that he really wanted to design a 2-wheel electric wheelchair, but would never have gotten the funding for it. However, there was plenty of investment money available for consumer devices for which 95% of the development cost could also be used for the wheelchair. There you have it -- the Segway is a throwaway product, a device designed to trick investors into subsidizing the development of a 2-wheel wheelchair.
At last, referees and umpires will be able to drive themselves to work!
I think they'll get the picture when you shout, "Fuck you, buddy! Get the hell out of the way! What are you, blind or... uh, nevermind..."
Obviously no sex offender would think to move without registering their new address, or to drive more than a few miles from their registered home address looking for victims!
No coincidence. Comic Con 2009 ended last Sunday. I look forward to stories about green arrows made from 100% recycled material, and of course this guy
Sure you can... just carry around a Windows netbook along with your Linux laptop. Turn IP forwarding on in the netbook and connect the two via an ethernet crossover cable... Voila! Linux can use the free WiFi! As a bonus, you can use the netbook to view all those websites that only work with IE...
The most disturbing part of that documentary is that it begins with this juvenile delinquent killing a woman and ends with her killing the woman's sister -- and the bitch gets off scott free! WTF?!? Won't somebody please think of the green-complexioned victims! I call hate crimes here -- clearly she is discriminating against green colored people. P.S. I think the mechanical man came with a "vibrate mode".
Placing the lab underground instead of in a 100-year old farmhouse should solve the problem nicely. Where do you think the lab should be located? In the Bay Area right on the San Andreas Fault? In Portland, between two active volcanoes? On the Gulf Coast, also known as "Hurricane Alley". How about below sea level in New Orleans? Unlike most natural disasters, you can easily design a building to withstand tornadoes. I suspect a virulent disease lab isn't going to have big plate glass windows anyway...
Just ask Kobe Bryant. In fact, I believe the severity of infidelities can be directly measured by the cost of the bling required to shut the "injured party" up. Kobe committed a four million dollar fuckup... shouldn't Guiness give him at least an honorable mention?
Yes, Portland has the Rose City Rollers too.. but that is not exactly the kind of behavior I want to encourage my daughter to participate in, no matter how retro/cool it is. Has Jim Croce's Roller Derby Queen come back into vogue as well?
Still, it was a great, prophetic movie. Yeah, 'cause in real life, people really do get sucked into their computers all of the time... I'm sorry, it had a pathetic plotline, bad acting, and terrible graphics. Aside from semi-cool light cycles (which were only put in to leverage a computer game spinoff as far as I can tell) there is really nothing to like about the movie.
Disney doesn't steal your culture, they just copyright it, then charge you money to use your own culture. I've always contended that both Disney and Microsoft use the same business model: steal intellectual property from others, then vigorously defend it as their own. That being said, I still use XP, and I will be taking my daughter to The Frog Princess as soon as it comes out. Sigh...
94. Roller skates, as opposed to blades. There are several skating rinks in Portland (e.g. Roller World and Oaks Park) that still rent traditional skates. Of course these places do have a real retro feel (they even play disco!) But my 8-year old is quite familiar with both inline and old-style skates. Inlines are faster, but most stunts are easier with a wheel in each corner. Inlines work a lot more like ice skates, except that they are more prone to lateral slipping.
15.3-D movies meaning red-and-green glasses.
1) 3-D movies used red and blue, not red and gree, glasses. 2) Free 3-D glasses were passed out for this year's superbowl ads. 3) 3-D movies are still being released on DVD. With the obligitory red and blue glasses. Theaters, on the other hand, are now using digital projectors and glasses with horizontally and vertically polarized lenses. (It is not clear to me how the digital projector polarizes the frames in the first place. I suspect it is actually 2 projectors with polarized lenses alternating frames. But that could also be done with film and a rotating mirror.)
Keep this up, and eventually evolution will create bears able to pick door locks with their claws.
Sure, you enjoyed dancing... but did you get any? 'Cause "getting some" is kind of a prerequisite for evolution. I'm sure they tall girls enjoyed it too -- 'cause they could look over your head and scope out the guys they really wanted to pick up. And give them their best "please come rescue me from this dweeb!" look. Of course, if you are really short, the one thing you never want to tell a tall girl is, "Gee, your hair smells terrific!"