Yes, I'm familiar with the use of +1 Insightful because +1 Funny doesn't add karma
Read the/. FAQ, they change that. Funny now does give karma.
Please tell me people didn't take my joke seriously and believe this was about coal.
Neither the summary nor article were very informative. It's easy to see why folks would think it simply removes the oxygen from the CO2 from the lack of information.
Isn't the right to life the most basic right of all?
If life is a basic right than why does everyone die? You sound like Loretta in "The Life of Brian".
Everyone has to die but not everyone has to be spied on by their own governments, and nothing in the US Constitution gives government authority to spy on citizens.
This god damned surveillance state was what I thought I was fighting against while I was in the military.
Unless you can get light to go faster than light there's nothing you can do about that. You're not in Kansas playing Quake with someone on the moon, you're controlling robots with a hell of a lot less latency than controlling the Martian robots.
, as a thousand separator? WTF, not everybody is english or american
What English speaking countries use "." as a thousands separator? You're writing in English. When you're in Mexico do you say "Este cervesa es two fifty" or "Este cervesa es dos y cincuenta"? (my Spanish is rusty, I hope I got that right)
Another important point, we are on strike NOT for the money, we are on strike because the company that have our contracts is changing condition and removing some benefits , maybe U.S. laws permit that, but ALMA is located in Chile, and laws here are different
My U.S. employer tried the same thing, my union sued the company for breach of contract (and won).
I think in US it is not the unions that can help. These are incompetent, corrupt bureaucrats that are charge with tasks that overwhelm them.
Some unions, yes. One I was in at one job was in bed with management and worse than useless, but most are worth far more than the union dues.
Unless your union sucks the union leaders are democratically elected by the union members, and you vote on everything they do, including whether to accept a contract, whether to strike, etc.
Yep, you nailed him. But there's little difference between crazed and crazy. There are a couple of guys at a bar I go to that follow roman's religion, and a guy who thinks I'm a space alien in disguise. They're a lot alike.
That's a deal breaker for me. I hate serials and cliffhangers, look what happened to My Name Is Earl. Imagine if STNG had been cancelled during the middle of the one where the Borg assimilated Picard?
Thank you for the link, that was indeed well done and faithful to the original series. I did have trouble with some of the casting. Spock's voice is too high pitched. Nichelle Nichols was hot, Kim Stinger is kind of "meh...".
The acting was all excellent. Vic Mignogna nailed it, that was the best William Shatner impersonation I've ever seen. Chris Doohan is eerily like his dad, down to the facial expressions. I was disappointed with Larry Nemecek's portrayal, his characterization of McCoy was nothing like DeForest Kelley's. The rest of the characterizations were passable to pretty good.
I used to deride the inconsistencies until Nobots. I'm a bit more tolerant now, consistency is hard in a single book, let alone in a multi-series series.
So... you're saying that violence is the first refuge of the competent? But remember, when the Borg captured Picard, it wasn't violence that got him back, and it was turning the Borg's violence against themselves that destroyed the Borg, after trying to use violence against the Borg destroyed the entire fleet.
Agreed. Nothing like sitting in traffic in a Mustang with a 302 Coyote engine.
I'm reminded of "Yuppiedrone", an old song making fun of yuppies, with a line that brags that his BMW will do 100mph in ten seconds or something and "it takes an hour to go five miles."
You're exactly right, this isn't for 100 mile trips any more than a motorized bicycle or motor scooter is. You'd still need a car, but it would be handy, cheap to drive as well as being really fucking cool!
Am I the only geezer here today? I'd expect someone to point out that the 21st century is a science fiction fantasy, just like we thought it'd be, and it's even wilder than we imagined. I don't remember seeing any folding cars in anything I've read... but then, I didn't know that Murray Leinster predicted the internet (full text of story in link) in 1946, either.
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Yes, I'm familiar with the use of +1 Insightful because +1 Funny doesn't add karma
Read the /. FAQ, they change that. Funny now does give karma.
Please tell me people didn't take my joke seriously and believe this was about coal.
Neither the summary nor article were very informative. It's easy to see why folks would think it simply removes the oxygen from the CO2 from the lack of information.
Cool != popular.
Isn't the right to life the most basic right of all?
If life is a basic right than why does everyone die? You sound like Loretta in "The Life of Brian".
Everyone has to die but not everyone has to be spied on by their own governments, and nothing in the US Constitution gives government authority to spy on citizens.
This god damned surveillance state was what I thought I was fighting against while I was in the military.
doing DNA analysis on dog shit (true story -- Hoover did it)
Hoover died in 1972, DNA profiling didn't come until 1984.
Apparently newer than reading the summary.
The latency will be absolute shit.
Unless you can get light to go faster than light there's nothing you can do about that. You're not in Kansas playing Quake with someone on the moon, you're controlling robots with a hell of a lot less latency than controlling the Martian robots.
This comment (above) by one of the striking workers answers your question succinctly.
, as a thousand separator? WTF, not everybody is english or american
What English speaking countries use "." as a thousands separator? You're writing in English. When you're in Mexico do you say "Este cervesa es two fifty" or "Este cervesa es dos y cincuenta"? (my Spanish is rusty, I hope I got that right)
Another important point, we are on strike NOT for the money, we are on strike because the company that have our contracts is changing condition and removing some benefits , maybe U.S. laws permit that, but ALMA is located in Chile, and laws here are different
My U.S. employer tried the same thing, my union sued the company for breach of contract (and won).
I think in US it is not the unions that can help. These are incompetent, corrupt bureaucrats that are charge with tasks that overwhelm them.
Some unions, yes. One I was in at one job was in bed with management and worse than useless, but most are worth far more than the union dues.
Unless your union sucks the union leaders are democratically elected by the union members, and you vote on everything they do, including whether to accept a contract, whether to strike, etc.
If your union sucks it's your own fault.
I didn't notice it was the same guy, and yeah I thought it was funny, too.
You are going to look like a dork in one of those.
Who cares? I don't need to impress anyone, especially not random strangers.
Yep, you nailed him. But there's little difference between crazed and crazy. There are a couple of guys at a bar I go to that follow roman's religion, and a guy who thinks I'm a space alien in disguise. They're a lot alike.
it ended on a cliffhanger
That's a deal breaker for me. I hate serials and cliffhangers, look what happened to My Name Is Earl. Imagine if STNG had been cancelled during the middle of the one where the Borg assimilated Picard?
Thank you for the link, that was indeed well done and faithful to the original series. I did have trouble with some of the casting. Spock's voice is too high pitched. Nichelle Nichols was hot, Kim Stinger is kind of "meh...".
The acting was all excellent. Vic Mignogna nailed it, that was the best William Shatner impersonation I've ever seen. Chris Doohan is eerily like his dad, down to the facial expressions. I was disappointed with Larry Nemecek's portrayal, his characterization of McCoy was nothing like DeForest Kelley's. The rest of the characterizations were passable to pretty good.
Again, thanks for the link, I've bookmarked it.
If CBS sees dollar signs it'll be on TV.
It's been nearly 50 years. Time to give it a rest
Get off my lawn, punk. Do you feel lucky?
Wonder whatever happened to them? The models, not my brothers.
Your brothers stole them after they broke their own, fellow geezer.
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Please don't do that. www.bit.ly/goatse
This isn't twitter, twit.
The fact that the Device looks like a badly-rolled joint is besides the point.
I always wondered if that was a thinly disguised bit of propaganda, or maybe a sarcastic parody of propaganda.
I used to deride the inconsistencies until Nobots. I'm a bit more tolerant now, consistency is hard in a single book, let alone in a multi-series series.
If you hack out the time travel portion of the middle of the series, Enterprise was quite enjoyable.
I couldn't get past the theme song.
The Doctor will have a sonic tricorder!
Sometimes violence is the rational solution, as with the Borg. /vulcanlogic
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent"
So... you're saying that violence is the first refuge of the competent? But remember, when the Borg captured Picard, it wasn't violence that got him back, and it was turning the Borg's violence against themselves that destroyed the Borg, after trying to use violence against the Borg destroyed the entire fleet.
Agreed. Nothing like sitting in traffic in a Mustang with a 302 Coyote engine.
I'm reminded of "Yuppiedrone", an old song making fun of yuppies, with a line that brags that his BMW will do 100mph in ten seconds or something and "it takes an hour to go five miles."
You're exactly right, this isn't for 100 mile trips any more than a motorized bicycle or motor scooter is. You'd still need a car, but it would be handy, cheap to drive as well as being really fucking cool!
Am I the only geezer here today? I'd expect someone to point out that the 21st century is a science fiction fantasy, just like we thought it'd be, and it's even wilder than we imagined. I don't remember seeing any folding cars in anything I've read... but then, I didn't know that Murray Leinster predicted the internet (full text of story in link) in 1946, either.