As the GP said, this likely comes from the money telcos paid for the bandwidth, so the users of the bandwidth are paying indirectly, not the taxpayers. If you don't have a phone that uses these freqs, you're not paying a dime.
To a particle physicist, most laymen are halfwits. Folks in that profession usually have a bit higher IQ than the general public, and certainly more education.
Sure, they also expect you to buy the theatrical version of 'The Lion King' if you want to show it to your brat's birthday party invitees who are not related to you. Ditto for Peepaw's retirement home and the firefighter's room.
They tried to extort money from Mike because people were playing their car radios outside the beer garden at Felbers.
He told them to go fuck themselves. Seeing as how his bar is in a pretty dangerous part of town and is usually full of crazy, often armed drunks, I doubt the guy will be back.
They do need to be first in line. About fifteen years ago I took a class at a local college, and the instructor was in charge of the Illinois Secretary of State's mainframe. We all got a tour of the inside of the impressive thing. That state trooper pulling over that car needs computer access a hell of a lot more than you do, and my instructor proudly stated that they had zero downtime for five years. They have two natural gas generators in case of power outage (redundancies everywhere), that sort of thing.
If your town gets hit by a tsunami or tornado or earthquake, FEMA and your state emergency agency is going to need those computers. You probably won't.
Holy crap, mods! Am I the only one who RTFA? It's not a CD or computer memory, it's a double layer sapphire disk with silver printing sandwitched in between and needs nothing more complex too read than a simple microscope and knowledge of whatever human language it's written in. The comments about computer languages are JOKES, son (as Mr. Leghorn might say).
It's something to keep future generations whose civilizations have collapsed safe from the poisons we've buried.
What I didn't understand was "Instead of the complex hardware required to produce holograms." Holograms are pretty easy to do with film, all you need is a dark room, a laser, a lens, and a beam splitter. To see the image you simply shine a laser at the film after it's developed. We did this in an undergrad physics class I took way back in the seventies.
It seems to me that if you had a high enough resolution display, you could view holograms on it by backlighting with lasers instead of LEDs, although making the actual movies would likely be difficult.
Lasers are perfectly harmless (as long as you don't look at them with your remaining eye)
And sometimes when you do, as long as the surgeon doesn't screw up. They use lasers to repair torn retinas, repair damaged corneas, fix nearsightedness, and clean artificial implanted lenses.
On the side of Marijuana, there is a slight lung cancer risk
That was disproven a couple of years ago by a team who was trying to prove it was carcinogenic, since all smoke contains carcinogens. They compared nonsmokers, cigarette smoker, smokers of both and nonsmokers. They expected those who smoked both pot and tobacco to have the most cancers and nonsmokers the least, but those who only smoked pot had fewer cancers than nonsmokers (although the difference was not staistically signifigant), and cigarette smokers who also smoked pot had half as many cancers as those who only smoked cigarettes.
Pot does raise your risk of emphysema.
As for risk of depression, you're going to have to point to a reputable study, because I've been smoking pot for 40 years and so have most of my friends, and I see no more depression among pot smokers than nonsmokers. I have known people who were previously depressed before trying it and found that pot eased their symptoms, so I'm calling BS without a good citation.
Seconded. The first thing I thought when I saw this was "oh, for Crrist's sake, what's wrong with people?" Indeed, it's a scam and a poorly disguised one at that. I hope the people selling this thing all go bankrupt.
When's the last time you used a modern desktop distro? I've been putting Linux on normal people's PC (Mandriva and kubuntu) for years when their registries got so trashed there was no fixing it without a reinstall and they had no disks, and in every case they seldom had to call me for maintenance afterwards.
The funniest thing is they almost invariably ask "is this legal?" Linux is unpopular because it's mostly unknown outside nerd circles. Even if it were better known, Windows has gotten less annoying (still too annoying) and a lot more stable and secure, and unless Windows craps out completely there's really little reason to switch. I use Linux mostly because I know of the features it has that Windows lacks that I dearly love, and Windows still annoys me. But that said, laziness has kept it on my notebook since I bought it last year.
You were right about programs, provided you need those programs. Gimp isn't Photoshop, but Photoshop is a very expensive piece of software that only pros really need. A better example is Audacity vs EAC. Both are free, but EAC is Windows-only and it has a few features I consider necessary that Audacity either lacks or I haven't found. But again, unless you want to sample your LPs and tapes and burn to disk, it shouldn't matter to you.
But then, there are shitty Windows programs as well. And shitty Linux programs. And good programs on both platforms.
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That's a very good point. It's the smoke itself that's bad. If you smoked dandelions it would still be bad for your lungs.
So you'll only need one car instead of two or three, same as everyone else.
If embiggen or cromulent (let alone enbiggen) are words, then stratodoober is a word, too.
As the GP said, this likely comes from the money telcos paid for the bandwidth, so the users of the bandwidth are paying indirectly, not the taxpayers. If you don't have a phone that uses these freqs, you're not paying a dime.
To a particle physicist, most laymen are halfwits. Folks in that profession usually have a bit higher IQ than the general public, and certainly more education.
I believe he was trying to say that the guy he was referring to was on drugs. The reference is from the Sly and the Family Stone song "Higher".
Sure, they also expect you to buy the theatrical version of 'The Lion King' if you want to show it to your brat's birthday party invitees who are not related to you. Ditto for Peepaw's retirement home and the firefighter's room.
They tried to extort money from Mike because people were playing their car radios outside the beer garden at Felbers.
He told them to go fuck themselves. Seeing as how his bar is in a pretty dangerous part of town and is usually full of crazy, often armed drunks, I doubt the guy will be back.
There is no file system; it's not a computer disk. RTFA!
They do need to be first in line. About fifteen years ago I took a class at a local college, and the instructor was in charge of the Illinois Secretary of State's mainframe. We all got a tour of the inside of the impressive thing. That state trooper pulling over that car needs computer access a hell of a lot more than you do, and my instructor proudly stated that they had zero downtime for five years. They have two natural gas generators in case of power outage (redundancies everywhere), that sort of thing.
If your town gets hit by a tsunami or tornado or earthquake, FEMA and your state emergency agency is going to need those computers. You probably won't.
Holy crap, mods! Am I the only one who RTFA? It's not a CD or computer memory, it's a double layer sapphire disk with silver printing sandwitched in between and needs nothing more complex too read than a simple microscope and knowledge of whatever human language it's written in. The comments about computer languages are JOKES, son (as Mr. Leghorn might say).
It's something to keep future generations whose civilizations have collapsed safe from the poisons we've buried.
What I didn't understand was "Instead of the complex hardware required to produce holograms." Holograms are pretty easy to do with film, all you need is a dark room, a laser, a lens, and a beam splitter. To see the image you simply shine a laser at the film after it's developed. We did this in an undergrad physics class I took way back in the seventies.
It seems to me that if you had a high enough resolution display, you could view holograms on it by backlighting with lasers instead of LEDs, although making the actual movies would likely be difficult.
It also depends on how good the TV's tuner is. Mine is crappy and seems to filter nothing, while others never get interference.
It was Steven's song, but Dr. Demento was the only one who played it.
Lasers are perfectly harmless (as long as you don't look at them with your remaining eye)
And sometimes when you do, as long as the surgeon doesn't screw up. They use lasers to repair torn retinas, repair damaged corneas, fix nearsightedness, and clean artificial implanted lenses.
On the side of Marijuana, there is a slight lung cancer risk
That was disproven a couple of years ago by a team who was trying to prove it was carcinogenic, since all smoke contains carcinogens. They compared nonsmokers, cigarette smoker, smokers of both and nonsmokers. They expected those who smoked both pot and tobacco to have the most cancers and nonsmokers the least, but those who only smoked pot had fewer cancers than nonsmokers (although the difference was not staistically signifigant), and cigarette smokers who also smoked pot had half as many cancers as those who only smoked cigarettes.
Pot does raise your risk of emphysema.
As for risk of depression, you're going to have to point to a reputable study, because I've been smoking pot for 40 years and so have most of my friends, and I see no more depression among pot smokers than nonsmokers. I have known people who were previously depressed before trying it and found that pot eased their symptoms, so I'm calling BS without a good citation.
If man was meant to fly, he'd have been given a big enough brain to design a 747.
Seconded. The first thing I thought when I saw this was "oh, for Crrist's sake, what's wrong with people?" Indeed, it's a scam and a poorly disguised one at that. I hope the people selling this thing all go bankrupt.
I believe the blood sucking parasite is a woman. "No wonan, no cry."
Well, normal people aren't going to install any OS. They buy a computer and use it until it doesn't work any more, then they call comeone.
Only its poorly written operating system.
Those giant $65,000 trucks are.
CDrs are a lot more fragile than USB sticks. Throw a CD out of your car window and see if it still plays.
a Linux desktop is still a thing for an expert.
When's the last time you used a modern desktop distro? I've been putting Linux on normal people's PC (Mandriva and kubuntu) for years when their registries got so trashed there was no fixing it without a reinstall and they had no disks, and in every case they seldom had to call me for maintenance afterwards.
The funniest thing is they almost invariably ask "is this legal?" Linux is unpopular because it's mostly unknown outside nerd circles. Even if it were better known, Windows has gotten less annoying (still too annoying) and a lot more stable and secure, and unless Windows craps out completely there's really little reason to switch. I use Linux mostly because I know of the features it has that Windows lacks that I dearly love, and Windows still annoys me. But that said, laziness has kept it on my notebook since I bought it last year.
You were right about programs, provided you need those programs. Gimp isn't Photoshop, but Photoshop is a very expensive piece of software that only pros really need. A better example is Audacity vs EAC. Both are free, but EAC is Windows-only and it has a few features I consider necessary that Audacity either lacks or I haven't found. But again, unless you want to sample your LPs and tapes and burn to disk, it shouldn't matter to you.
But then, there are shitty Windows programs as well. And shitty Linux programs. And good programs on both platforms.
Crap, I should have previewed, the link to reference.com broke.
Oh?