You can do something similar with Froogle. They've got that line "Search for your search item here near you."
I was having some fun the other day with:
Search for the Holy Grail near you.
Search for Waldo near you.
Sure enough it works with "African Slaves."
And if you click on the maps link, you get a map of the U.S. with little red tacks in about 10 places.
That doesn't quite fly for Madonna though. She literally IS the industry. She not only performs, but she owns her own label, Maverick, managing herself and others including (but not limited to) Alanis Morissette, Deftones, Michelle Branch and a number of Movie Sountracks.
While it's true that new artists and bands on the scene often get little from the sales of their debut album and other early albums, artists who have "made it" can negotiate MUCH better terms or go the Madonna route and start their own label. The Beatles' 'Apple' still makes news here on Slashdot from time to time.;-)
ID assumes a certain amount of micromanagement on the part of the creator. At least as far as I understand it. My understanding of God, which is that of the ground of being or source of all that is, is a very creational energy, but not so much the kid with the chemistry set type god that the IDers seem to propogate. Let me take this a step out toward the anthropomorphic and attribute to God a little personality. It's still possible that the creation happens as a natural result of the proto-existance of the God and God simply interacts with what comes up. So no, simple belief in God does not equate to a belief in ID. It requires a belief in a particular sort of god.
So instead of a bunch of apps with names that start with "k" and a bunch of apps that start with the letter "g" we'll have a bunch of similar apps that start with the letter "p!"
That reminds me of the first episode of the BBC sitcom Coupling. A character, Susan, is trying to find out a little about this guy she's interested so she asks her coworker who's a friend of his. She asks how well he knows him. He says "We're porn buddies." "Is that some sort of code, were you two in prison together or something." "No, no no, once upon a time we exchanged flat keys." "Are you sure this isn't some sort of code." "In the event of his death, I run over and remove all his porn before his family can come and find it. And he'd do the same for me." "Let me get this straight. If he dies, you destory all his porn?" "Who said anything about destroy?" "You can't seriously mean you'd keep the porn!" "Well, that's sort of a fringe benefit."
I didn't get that exactly right, but it was close enough.
I wouldn't care too much for handing out my account number to people!
That account number is generally found on the bottom of those checks we still use frequently. The routing number as well so every time you use a check you're giving the person the information they'd need to wire you funds.
Fonzi would just snap his fingers and that whole battle station on top of the elephant would have come crashing down. Or if Arthur Fonzerelli had been in the opening sequence, he would have snapped his finger and the ring would have fallen off Sauron's finger, while Arwen and Galadriel would have run in and hung off each of his arms swooning. He MIGHT think about the fact that they're grandmother/granddaughter but hey! They're elves it doesn't really matter.
Nah, the settlement should be for a certain amount of cash and stock and then to put McCartney on the board of. . . eh . . . following the chain. . . . Disney!
I can't wait to fly my big ass freighter ship from Vendetta-Online into the World of Warcraft. Maybe I'll knock down a couple of those nasty spidery things with my afterburners.;-)
I'd probably crash though as I doubt the Linux client would work anymore in that world.
I just did that. All I found were doctors and dead guys.
I guess that's because I'm not generally foolish enough to set up an online persona with my REAL name.
Now if someone googles for bohemian72, there's a fairly interesting fellow in England who also uses this alias but that is not me.
Reminds me of something I did at work once. I work with a department that monitors the work of some of our business partners. If they don't follow our instructions, and especially if they cause us to be in non-compliance with certain laws, we have a whole series of remedies for the various situations leading up to deactivation as an authorized partner. We have a rather terse yet professional letter that we send when we take that particular action. One day for a joke, I took the letter and replaced the caption at the top "Notice of Deactivation" with "PWNED!" No I never sent that version to anyone but a couple of my friends.
This is somewhat a blanket reply to many of the replies to this metric comment. Everytime this comes up, you see a bunch of people getting all superior about the metric or SI units and maybe they should. I'm not going to judge that now. You also get a bunch of comments from people saying "In Europe we... ", "In England we... " "Everywhere, except the United States,... " The thing is, no one really knows how true that is. What everyone means is "I was taught..." and "I'm assuming everyone in my region (nation, continent)..." While I'm sure there are places in England that have largely completed the conversion to metric units, I can tell just watching British television and reading BBC on the web that it's still not uncommon for people there to use the English or Imperial units. This is especially true of miles and English speaking places will never lose their "pint". Whichever pint that may be. I would expect France to be completely metric, but I don't KNOW that. There are little pockets of people doing their own thing the world over and France is no exception. As much as everyone would like to say "Everyone in my *fill in the blank* has gone metric," There's always going to be someone who is the exception. About the best one can say is that "Everyone in my experience uses the metric system."
I don't know if this added anything particularly useful to the conversation, but hopefully it addresses the habit around here of using generalities.
Now I know there may be books and whatnot that negate what I'm going to say, but I don't know that for sure. Taking directly from the movies, I did not lose any sense that the Force was any less of a mystical energy field created by and yet surrounding and guiding all life simply because people interfaced with it through the midi-chlorians. The force is what it is. The midi-chlorian count simply explains part of the interface. It was clear that some people were stronger in the force than others and I think we all knew something more or less genetic controlled how "strong" one was in the force. They might have well said, "Whoa! He's got a recessive yet powerful gene in the Force chromosone." (Clearly I'm not a geneticist). Just because we were explained the mechanism behind why some are more talented in their use of the force than others it doesn't discount the Force itself.
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You can do something similar with Froogle. They've got that line "Search for your search item here near you."
I was having some fun the other day with:
Search for the Holy Grail near you.
Search for Waldo near you.
Sure enough it works with "African Slaves."
And if you click on the maps link, you get a map of the U.S. with little red tacks in about 10 places.
Do you not let your dog out? Does your dog wear pants?
Most dog's asses are illuminated by sunlight on a daily basis.
I concede, that indeed is better.
Oh they'd be remiss if they didn't name the portable version Mini Wii.
Similar to the Mary Poppins quote: Enough's as good as a feast.
That doesn't quite fly for Madonna though. She literally IS the industry. She not only performs, but she owns her own label, Maverick, managing herself and others including (but not limited to) Alanis Morissette, Deftones, Michelle Branch and a number of Movie Sountracks. While it's true that new artists and bands on the scene often get little from the sales of their debut album and other early albums, artists who have "made it" can negotiate MUCH better terms or go the Madonna route and start their own label. The Beatles' 'Apple' still makes news here on Slashdot from time to time. ;-)
Come on this is Slashdot, I'm sure he meant "Frack No!" ;-)
Well, yeah! If we get a toe hold again, we can eat the plants. At least more likely that we can eat robots.
ID assumes a certain amount of micromanagement on the part of the creator. At least as far as I understand it.
My understanding of God, which is that of the ground of being or source of all that is, is a very creational energy, but not so much the kid with the chemistry set type god that the IDers seem to propogate.
Let me take this a step out toward the anthropomorphic and attribute to God a little personality. It's still possible that the creation happens as a natural result of the proto-existance of the God and God simply interacts with what comes up.
So no, simple belief in God does not equate to a belief in ID. It requires a belief in a particular sort of god.
So instead of a bunch of apps with names that start with "k" and a bunch of apps that start with the letter "g" we'll have a bunch of similar apps that start with the letter "p!"
It's crazy but it might just work!
That reminds me of the first episode of the BBC sitcom Coupling. A character, Susan, is trying to find out a little about this guy she's interested so she asks her coworker who's a friend of his. She asks how well he knows him. He says "We're porn buddies."
"Is that some sort of code, were you two in prison together or something."
"No, no no, once upon a time we exchanged flat keys."
"Are you sure this isn't some sort of code."
"In the event of his death, I run over and remove all his porn before his family can come and find it. And he'd do the same for me."
"Let me get this straight. If he dies, you destory all his porn?"
"Who said anything about destroy?"
"You can't seriously mean you'd keep the porn!"
"Well, that's sort of a fringe benefit."
I didn't get that exactly right, but it was close enough.
Since the IRA has again renounced violence, the boys need something to do!
Elbonian mp3 player
That account number is generally found on the bottom of those checks we still use frequently. The routing number as well so every time you use a check you're giving the person the information they'd need to wire you funds.
but ya got to love the way that SQL was worked into that word.
Fonzi would just snap his fingers and that whole battle station on top of the elephant would have come crashing down.
Or if Arthur Fonzerelli had been in the opening sequence, he would have snapped his finger and the ring would have fallen off Sauron's finger, while Arwen and Galadriel would have run in and hung off each of his arms swooning. He MIGHT think about the fact that they're grandmother/granddaughter but hey! They're elves it doesn't really matter.
Nah, the settlement should be for a certain amount of cash and stock and then to put McCartney on the board of. . . eh . . . following the chain. . . . Disney!
Well, that would be nice too, but it's not available to players yet. The Trident should be before too long though.
I can't wait to fly my big ass freighter ship from Vendetta-Online into the World of Warcraft. Maybe I'll knock down a couple of those nasty spidery things with my afterburners. ;-)
I'd probably crash though as I doubt the Linux client would work anymore in that world.
I just did that. All I found were doctors and dead guys. I guess that's because I'm not generally foolish enough to set up an online persona with my REAL name. Now if someone googles for bohemian72, there's a fairly interesting fellow in England who also uses this alias but that is not me.
Reminds me of something I did at work once.
I work with a department that monitors the work of some of our business partners. If they don't follow our instructions, and especially if they cause us to be in non-compliance with certain laws, we have a whole series of remedies for the various situations leading up to deactivation as an authorized partner. We have a rather terse yet professional letter that we send when we take that particular action. One day for a joke, I took the letter and replaced the caption at the top "Notice of Deactivation" with "PWNED!"
No I never sent that version to anyone but a couple of my friends.
This is somewhat a blanket reply to many of the replies to this metric comment.
Everytime this comes up, you see a bunch of people getting all superior about the metric or SI units and maybe they should. I'm not going to judge that now. You also get a bunch of comments from people saying "In Europe we... ", "In England we... " "Everywhere, except the United States,... " The thing is, no one really knows how true that is. What everyone means is "I was taught..." and "I'm assuming everyone in my region (nation, continent)..."
While I'm sure there are places in England that have largely completed the conversion to metric units, I can tell just watching British television and reading BBC on the web that it's still not uncommon for people there to use the English or Imperial units. This is especially true of miles and English speaking places will never lose their "pint". Whichever pint that may be.
I would expect France to be completely metric, but I don't KNOW that. There are little pockets of people doing their own thing the world over and France is no exception.
As much as everyone would like to say "Everyone in my *fill in the blank* has gone metric," There's always going to be someone who is the exception. About the best one can say is that "Everyone in my experience uses the metric system."
I don't know if this added anything particularly useful to the conversation, but hopefully it addresses the habit around here of using generalities.
I accept the movie, purely because Audrey Tautou is in it. :-)
You neglected "They're - They are."
Now I know there may be books and whatnot that negate what I'm going to say, but I don't know that for sure. Taking directly from the movies, I did not lose any sense that the Force was any less of a mystical energy field created by and yet surrounding and guiding all life simply because people interfaced with it through the midi-chlorians.
The force is what it is. The midi-chlorian count simply explains part of the interface. It was clear that some people were stronger in the force than others and I think we all knew something more or less genetic controlled how "strong" one was in the force.
They might have well said, "Whoa! He's got a recessive yet powerful gene in the Force chromosone." (Clearly I'm not a geneticist).
Just because we were explained the mechanism behind why some are more talented in their use of the force than others it doesn't discount the Force itself.
Just my opinion.