It seems like a weird time for an IPO, since http://www.sunrocket.com/ undercuts Vonage by about $9.00 per month if you prepay, and gives away a couple of phones to go with it, and some free international time, oh, and a free second phone number in any area code.
Oh, yeah. And a wounded soldier is much less effective than a dead one, too. I mean, sure if they're wounded they can still shoot back when you're trying to take their position, but if they're dead, their condemned souls can slither across the ground and take over cattle and slip into the nostrils of other SOULdiers and make them into immortal evil beings. Riiiiiiiiiiiiight
Ugh. Forget all the way across the big pond. I have a tie for "worst flight ever" - Chicago to Honolulu nonstop in a DC-10. That's it. The thing is, I've did it a dozen times before finally deciding to stop on the west coast to board a 747 first. The length of flights over the pacific are enough to cause even sane people to go nutz. It's really an ugly experience, even in the relative comfort of a 747.
Yes, I'm sure. Rhythm is the only accepted form of BC for Catholics. Unfortunately, there are two notes to be had as a result: 1) What do you call people who use the rhythm method? Parents 2) No, I'm going to let someone else take "rhythm" and make a funny with it.
On 1, the Catholic Church believes that all birth control, save "the rhythm method" is wrong.
As for the comment on invitro, the Church is also opposed to it because of the associated destruction of embryos.
I believe that both of these positions are dead on.
Guys, please read the bill. I'm begging you. Read it. Stop taking the word of Chicken Little already.
Q: Does this bill extend longstanding NWS/NOAA policy?
A: Yes.
Q: Uh, so what's the problem?
A: We're still trying to figure that out.
Q: So is NOAA going to stop innovating the ways in which weather information is released? Does this mean no more XML feed? No more RSS? When the next technology comes along will it not be available because of this?
A: WHAT? Did you READ the bill yet? If anything this will codify NOAA/NWS's responsibility to innovate. BTW, we can't wait until we can release Tulsa's Google Earth hack nationwide.
Have you read the bill by Santorum? Please don't answer "yes", because the answer is "no", or the answer should be "I can't read". The bill is simply an extension of existing policy, and is completely harmless...unless you are Chicken Little.
Does anyone think that the government should actively compete with the private sector? Of course not. So what is wrong with taking existing policy (which is just that for NWS), and actually codifying it with the force of law?
Next up - robot Jackass. Maybe they'll catch bullets in their teeth and jump out of airplanes over bodies of molton metal with parachutes that are too small, only to emerge with their metallic skin mostly gone, to say something stupid and dramatic like "beep".
An intelligent designer (when hypothesizing that the designer was the same for both) would not have produced a defective eye for humans when they designed it properly the first time (only the day before). Um, I think there would have to be some argument as to whether or not this was a defect. I think what you mean is that if you, given your limited knowledge and wisdom, were to design humans you would do so without a blind spot. Of course you are also assuming that the blind spot isn't a design compromise, or that there wasn't some intent that you, with your limited knowledge and wisdom can appreciate.
Whatever. Right. We creative people have no need of food, or bling, or wheels. Look. While creative people might be insulted (uh, they might say they're insulted), what we're really looking for is CREATIVE bribery. If the wife just drops her clothes, all she's getting is a sick look on my face.
However, if she walks up to me, hands me a pint while wearing that cute red number she bought for this sort of thing, drops the dress, and has something kinky on underneath, then turns to show some tail and gently bends over, placing her hands on the kitchen table, I might just have that same sick look on my face, but she might also just get what she was originally looking for, especially if she laced dinner with some ED medication (for recreational experimentation only, of course), and waits until I'm done with my brew.
Insulted? Sure. I'll get over it, though.
Are you kiding? How's this: I have a piece of mission-critical business software. I consider it mission-critical because it saves me around $15,000 per year over potential competing options. I also have the source to this software. The firm that originally sold me the software went belly up. That was 20 years ago. I continue to maintain this software with a staff of 0, and every time vendors call me offering me a service that does what this software does, or when other vendors call to sell me software that does what this software does I laugh. It's idiotic to suggest that there is some downside to having the source or that having the source somehow locks me in to some consultant or consultant fee. Adding _ALL_ of the costs of this software together I still save that $15,000 per year.
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It seems like a weird time for an IPO, since http://www.sunrocket.com/ undercuts Vonage by about $9.00 per month if you prepay, and gives away a couple of phones to go with it, and some free international time, oh, and a free second phone number in any area code.
Oh, yeah. And a wounded soldier is much less effective than a dead one, too. I mean, sure if they're wounded they can still shoot back when you're trying to take their position, but if they're dead, their condemned souls can slither across the ground and take over cattle and slip into the nostrils of other SOULdiers and make them into immortal evil beings.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiight
Ugh. Forget all the way across the big pond. I have a tie for "worst flight ever" - Chicago to Honolulu nonstop in a DC-10. That's it. The thing is, I've did it a dozen times before finally deciding to stop on the west coast to board a 747 first. The length of flights over the pacific are enough to cause even sane people to go nutz. It's really an ugly experience, even in the relative comfort of a 747.
It isn't that I don't like to work near other people, it's that I don't like to work it near...a lot of other people. Uh, did I coward that? Ah crap.
uh, aside from abstinence.
Yes, I'm sure. Rhythm is the only accepted form of BC for Catholics. Unfortunately, there are two notes to be had as a result: 1) What do you call people who use the rhythm method? Parents 2) No, I'm going to let someone else take "rhythm" and make a funny with it.
On 1, the Catholic Church believes that all birth control, save "the rhythm method" is wrong. As for the comment on invitro, the Church is also opposed to it because of the associated destruction of embryos. I believe that both of these positions are dead on.
Guys, please read the bill. I'm begging you. Read it. Stop taking the word of Chicken Little already. Q: Does this bill extend longstanding NWS/NOAA policy? A: Yes. Q: Uh, so what's the problem? A: We're still trying to figure that out. Q: So is NOAA going to stop innovating the ways in which weather information is released? Does this mean no more XML feed? No more RSS? When the next technology comes along will it not be available because of this? A: WHAT? Did you READ the bill yet? If anything this will codify NOAA/NWS's responsibility to innovate. BTW, we can't wait until we can release Tulsa's Google Earth hack nationwide.
Have you read the bill by Santorum? Please don't answer "yes", because the answer is "no", or the answer should be "I can't read". The bill is simply an extension of existing policy, and is completely harmless...unless you are Chicken Little. Does anyone think that the government should actively compete with the private sector? Of course not. So what is wrong with taking existing policy (which is just that for NWS), and actually codifying it with the force of law?
Oh what the hell. If we can export Jacko to Germany, what's a couple hundred regular predators here?
Have fun storming the firewall!
Next up - robot Jackass. Maybe they'll catch bullets in their teeth and jump out of airplanes over bodies of molton metal with parachutes that are too small, only to emerge with their metallic skin mostly gone, to say something stupid and dramatic like "beep".
An intelligent designer (when hypothesizing that the designer was the same for both) would not have produced a defective eye for humans when they designed it properly the first time (only the day before).
Um, I think there would have to be some argument as to whether or not this was a defect. I think what you mean is that if you, given your limited knowledge and wisdom, were to design humans you would do so without a blind spot. Of course you are also assuming that the blind spot isn't a design compromise, or that there wasn't some intent that you, with your limited knowledge and wisdom can appreciate.
Whatever. Right. We creative people have no need of food, or bling, or wheels. Look. While creative people might be insulted (uh, they might say they're insulted), what we're really looking for is CREATIVE bribery. If the wife just drops her clothes, all she's getting is a sick look on my face. However, if she walks up to me, hands me a pint while wearing that cute red number she bought for this sort of thing, drops the dress, and has something kinky on underneath, then turns to show some tail and gently bends over, placing her hands on the kitchen table, I might just have that same sick look on my face, but she might also just get what she was originally looking for, especially if she laced dinner with some ED medication (for recreational experimentation only, of course), and waits until I'm done with my brew. Insulted? Sure. I'll get over it, though.
Are you kiding? How's this: I have a piece of mission-critical business software. I consider it mission-critical because it saves me around $15,000 per year over potential competing options. I also have the source to this software. The firm that originally sold me the software went belly up. That was 20 years ago. I continue to maintain this software with a staff of 0, and every time vendors call me offering me a service that does what this software does, or when other vendors call to sell me software that does what this software does I laugh. It's idiotic to suggest that there is some downside to having the source or that having the source somehow locks me in to some consultant or consultant fee. Adding _ALL_ of the costs of this software together I still save that $15,000 per year.