Right on, brother. I don't know how that got modded offtopic. It should have been modded +3, for being the only person with the grammatical certitude to point out that/. can't get a simple thing like that right on the FRONT PAGE. That's embarrassing. Now mod me down offtopic, too!
It just seems the WAY that they make people want things is getting worse.
I think C.S. Lewis noted this back in the thirties when he talked about people selling silly products, using even sillier advertisements to sell them. Still, maybe advertising *is* getting worse. It's probably a combination of a slippery slope and diminishing marginal utility. In other words, it keeps getting worse because people keep thinking that it's going to help them sell their products, and all of the idiocy gains them little and for a short time. That's why i try to support only products that are advertised sensibly (no popups, no infomercials, no sex-induced sales, etc.)
Let me give you a hint. Congress assigned the courts the duty of determining if the laws it passed were Constititionally valid.
This is an honest inquiry: When did Congress give the Supreme Court that duty? I always thought that the court gave itself that power in Marbury v. Madison. I'm aware that Alexander Hamilton wrote something about it previously as well.
Well said. Although i'm not sure that i'd want to live in C Springs when sparks were shooting out of every metal item in sight, charging the ionosphere is definitely a solution.
Now just pull out your generator with ionosphere charger and charge that baby up for me. Should cut down on my electricity bills.
That really couldn't be said any more sensibly. Of course, if i were in your situation, i'd do all i could to get my father to work himself into a heart attack, and then reap those sweet rewards. Then again, what do i know... i quit my job because i hated it.
I'd say courageous, more like it. People just don't have the balls to quit a job based on principles anymore. Chances are, though, you're the kind of guy who's steadfast enough in his principles, and cerebral enough, having made a plan and stuck to it, that most companies would be more than happy to hire you. If not, do contract work. As long as you can hack it, and have decent qualifications, you're much more likely to be happy.
Maybe it wouldn't be efficient to hold the turbine out the window of a moving vehicle, but this device would definitely cut out steps 2-4 in my 5 step process.
1. Build up intense intra-intestinal gaseous pressure.
2. Fill a metal container with water.
3. Fit steam turbine tightly onto opening in metal container.
4. Light match.
5. Release said gastronomic pressure into device.
Loading a Microsoft product into a robotic device would be like using it to operate my car, and i wouldn't recommend that. It would crash at least once per day, and i'd have to restart the car several times on any significant journey.
Seriously though, i can envision a world in which M$ software is installed into every robotic device, a world with lawns half-mowed, floors half-vacuumed, and hackers running out of coke while programming because their robotic butlers have had to reboot 4 times between the refrigerator and the basement.
Am i the only one who thinks the artwork isn't the coolest thing on the face of the planet? (feel free to flame).
And the name isn't that cool either... it's just an acronym. Why bother trademarking an acronym unless it's something that you invented or originally developed?
To make money and scare people away from your product, just the way the RIAA scares music downloaders. Not a 1:1 analogy, but you get the point.
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Right on, brother. I don't know how that got modded offtopic. It should have been modded +3, for being the only person with the grammatical certitude to point out that /. can't get a simple thing like that right on the FRONT PAGE. That's embarrassing. Now mod me down offtopic, too!
It just seems the WAY that they make people want things is getting worse.
I think C.S. Lewis noted this back in the thirties when he talked about people selling silly products, using even sillier advertisements to sell them. Still, maybe advertising *is* getting worse. It's probably a combination of a slippery slope and diminishing marginal utility. In other words, it keeps getting worse because people keep thinking that it's going to help them sell their products, and all of the idiocy gains them little and for a short time. That's why i try to support only products that are advertised sensibly (no popups, no infomercials, no sex-induced sales, etc.)
Let me give you a hint. Congress assigned the courts the duty of determining if the laws it passed were Constititionally valid.
This is an honest inquiry: When did Congress give the Supreme Court that duty? I always thought that the court gave itself that power in Marbury v. Madison. I'm aware that Alexander Hamilton wrote something about it previously as well.
Well said. Although i'm not sure that i'd want to live in C Springs when sparks were shooting out of every metal item in sight, charging the ionosphere is definitely a solution.
Now just pull out your generator with ionosphere charger and charge that baby up for me. Should cut down on my electricity bills.
That really couldn't be said any more sensibly. Of course, if i were in your situation, i'd do all i could to get my father to work himself into a heart attack, and then reap those sweet rewards. Then again, what do i know... i quit my job because i hated it.
I'd say courageous, more like it. People just don't have the balls to quit a job based on principles anymore. Chances are, though, you're the kind of guy who's steadfast enough in his principles, and cerebral enough, having made a plan and stuck to it, that most companies would be more than happy to hire you. If not, do contract work. As long as you can hack it, and have decent qualifications, you're much more likely to be happy.
Maybe it wouldn't be efficient to hold the turbine out the window of a moving vehicle, but this device would definitely cut out steps 2-4 in my 5 step process. 1. Build up intense intra-intestinal gaseous pressure. 2. Fill a metal container with water. 3. Fit steam turbine tightly onto opening in metal container. 4. Light match. 5. Release said gastronomic pressure into device.
Loading a Microsoft product into a robotic device would be like using it to operate my car, and i wouldn't recommend that. It would crash at least once per day, and i'd have to restart the car several times on any significant journey.
Seriously though, i can envision a world in which M$ software is installed into every robotic device, a world with lawns half-mowed, floors half-vacuumed, and hackers running out of coke while programming because their robotic butlers have had to reboot 4 times between the refrigerator and the basement.
Am i the only one who thinks the artwork isn't the coolest thing on the face of the planet? (feel free to flame).
And the name isn't that cool either... it's just an acronym. Why bother trademarking an acronym unless it's something that you invented or originally developed?
To make money and scare people away from your product, just the way the RIAA scares music downloaders. Not a 1:1 analogy, but you get the point.