If the robots are remotly controlled by troops elsewhere, this might save some casualties of war. If the robots start thinking on their own, I think we might have the horrors of 'Terminator' brought to life.
So eBay is using a word/phrase that someone else already came up with. Sheesh, don't we have better things to waste our courts time with? Buy It Now, Buy It ASAP, Buy It When The Credit Card Is Approved...who cares what it says. And if someone is gonna throw a fit over someone else using their words, how hard it is to just change the words, apologize for the inconvenience, and be done with it? How about instead of wasting money on a trial, throw that money into the hungry ppl in Ethiopia!
There are so many possibilities to have a perfect, electronic house. Just look at the opening of Back To The Future. How many things did Doc have hooked to the morning alarm? Granted they were simplistic and quite basic looking, but they each did a job. The only thing that scares me is those Sci-Fi movies about the house short-circuting and going nuts. Some things would be nice amenities to have, as long as they weren't all hooked to a central "brain" computer.
Good morning Dave.
1.) As much as a full day staring at the computer screen does wonders for my eyes, I doubt I could sit here and read a whole book, no matter how many sittings it would take me.
2.) If I didn't want to read it on the monitor, it would be a waste of paper to print it out, unless it was a book I was already planning to buy and it would be cheaper for me to print it on my own paper.
Yet again we have another case of the gov't involving themselves in decisions we are perfectly capable of handling on our own. If parents think a particular game is too hard-core for a child of a certain age, then it's up to them to BE A PARENT and not buy it! Kids beyond a certain young age should be desensitized to certain things, I agree. And for getting out anger on a game, I think is much more health than taking it out on the real world.
Well considering it IS tax season, I think they shoulda called the people and asked them before turning them into the gov't for paying down a credit card. I do think they went a lil overboard with the Homeland Security thing. Honestly, for one, is a terrorist gonna pay down their credit card when they come into money for a bombing? And two, who would steal your identity or credit card statement to pay $6,000 on it for you? I understand the credit card company calling you to verify you really did spend $10,000 in one weekend, but to report you for paying your debt back?
Dark energy?....ripping the universe apart?...I would think that would be on the top of their list to look into. Unless it's like, "Eh, why should we look into it? By the time it gets to us, we'll be long gone anyway."
I agree. I wouldn't start the countdown til Sony is monopolized by Microsoft just yet. Or should I say, assimilated into Microsoft's collective. Sony has other things other than mp3 players out there. But it'll come down to who makes the better player. This just means Sony might have to step things up a notch in the quality dept and not depend on the name they have built for themselves over the years to sell their products.
Well if we did ever make it to the moon and if we ever can build space ships, maybe they can find another habitable planet out there to transport some people too so they can quit killing people for population control here on Earth. Maybe they can transport all those people from those foreign nations we keep sending food too but they never gain any weight. They can start over on a new planet and farm for their own food.
So, let's bring animals into our spy missions cause we're not smart enough to build technology stealth enough to do it on our own. Riiight, so then our enemies find out and start blowing up every shark they see. Oh, now sharks have gone the way of the dinosaur.
It's not the video game company's job to sensor what games it comes out with. It's the parents' job to teach their kids the difference between video games and real life, and maybe wait til they're a lil older than 3 to give them the controls to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. For anyone with any intelligence, violent video games bring a certain release to the end of a hard day. If we can't take our anger out on pixels, where will we turn?
Manufacturers aren't doing it because they're still making money off the oil they continue to suck. Unfortunatly I don't think any major automobile manufacturer will make a car run on anything other than oil until the oil is gone. Then it'll be like, "Oh shit, it ran out? Guess we'll have to think of some other natural resource to bun." I like the idea of hydrogen powered cars. If I can fill up my car with tap water, damn that'd be nice!
Ok so does this new-fangled high-fuluent thing come with hole for your key ring? Cause if you lost it, there's not figuring out the knock, it's electronic. And does the door lock behind you from the inside too? So when you're home, someone knocks at the door and you have to get out your lil electronic key thing and hold it to the door. Not very practical, I think. And supposed you have you, your spouse, and 5 kids. You have to get one of these things made for everyone. Prolly a lot more expensive than cutting a key.
I don't know much about airplane phones, but I would assume they work on the same principle as a cell phone, being as there are no phone lines running from the plane to the ground. I just think that the people who make their money off the credit cards used to make mile-high phone calls, are just freakin out cause people are smartening up and realizing it's a bunch of crap that it intereferes with the instruments.
Laptops in every classroom could be helpful...assuming you type faster than you can write. Altho it would sure be annoying to hear umpteen students in the class click-click-clicking away. And anyway, who is paying for these laptops? Add that to the cost of books...unless they plan on putting the books on disk FOR this laptop. Hey there's an idea! Cut cost of printing books, sum it all up in the cost of a new laptop.
Interesting idea, for the idiots that just don't get it the first time their phone rings, but you better be able to guarantee you can shut off the power blocking the signals. If there's an emergency, you don't want everyone running to the only phone in the building. It's just common courtesy for people to shut off their phones on their own before walking into places where it's not allowed. We don't need a babysitter telling us, "we shut off your phone for you, thank you." Just post a guard at the entrances to grab those morons who left their phones on. They'll learn.
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If the robots are remotly controlled by troops elsewhere, this might save some casualties of war. If the robots start thinking on their own, I think we might have the horrors of 'Terminator' brought to life.
So eBay is using a word/phrase that someone else already came up with. Sheesh, don't we have better things to waste our courts time with? Buy It Now, Buy It ASAP, Buy It When The Credit Card Is Approved...who cares what it says. And if someone is gonna throw a fit over someone else using their words, how hard it is to just change the words, apologize for the inconvenience, and be done with it? How about instead of wasting money on a trial, throw that money into the hungry ppl in Ethiopia!
There are so many possibilities to have a perfect, electronic house. Just look at the opening of Back To The Future. How many things did Doc have hooked to the morning alarm? Granted they were simplistic and quite basic looking, but they each did a job. The only thing that scares me is those Sci-Fi movies about the house short-circuting and going nuts. Some things would be nice amenities to have, as long as they weren't all hooked to a central "brain" computer. Good morning Dave.
1.) As much as a full day staring at the computer screen does wonders for my eyes, I doubt I could sit here and read a whole book, no matter how many sittings it would take me. 2.) If I didn't want to read it on the monitor, it would be a waste of paper to print it out, unless it was a book I was already planning to buy and it would be cheaper for me to print it on my own paper.
Yet again we have another case of the gov't involving themselves in decisions we are perfectly capable of handling on our own. If parents think a particular game is too hard-core for a child of a certain age, then it's up to them to BE A PARENT and not buy it! Kids beyond a certain young age should be desensitized to certain things, I agree. And for getting out anger on a game, I think is much more health than taking it out on the real world.
Well considering it IS tax season, I think they shoulda called the people and asked them before turning them into the gov't for paying down a credit card. I do think they went a lil overboard with the Homeland Security thing. Honestly, for one, is a terrorist gonna pay down their credit card when they come into money for a bombing? And two, who would steal your identity or credit card statement to pay $6,000 on it for you? I understand the credit card company calling you to verify you really did spend $10,000 in one weekend, but to report you for paying your debt back?
Dark energy?....ripping the universe apart?...I would think that would be on the top of their list to look into. Unless it's like, "Eh, why should we look into it? By the time it gets to us, we'll be long gone anyway."
I agree. I wouldn't start the countdown til Sony is monopolized by Microsoft just yet. Or should I say, assimilated into Microsoft's collective. Sony has other things other than mp3 players out there. But it'll come down to who makes the better player. This just means Sony might have to step things up a notch in the quality dept and not depend on the name they have built for themselves over the years to sell their products.
Well if we did ever make it to the moon and if we ever can build space ships, maybe they can find another habitable planet out there to transport some people too so they can quit killing people for population control here on Earth. Maybe they can transport all those people from those foreign nations we keep sending food too but they never gain any weight. They can start over on a new planet and farm for their own food.
So, let's bring animals into our spy missions cause we're not smart enough to build technology stealth enough to do it on our own. Riiight, so then our enemies find out and start blowing up every shark they see. Oh, now sharks have gone the way of the dinosaur.
It's not the video game company's job to sensor what games it comes out with. It's the parents' job to teach their kids the difference between video games and real life, and maybe wait til they're a lil older than 3 to give them the controls to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. For anyone with any intelligence, violent video games bring a certain release to the end of a hard day. If we can't take our anger out on pixels, where will we turn?
Manufacturers aren't doing it because they're still making money off the oil they continue to suck. Unfortunatly I don't think any major automobile manufacturer will make a car run on anything other than oil until the oil is gone. Then it'll be like, "Oh shit, it ran out? Guess we'll have to think of some other natural resource to bun." I like the idea of hydrogen powered cars. If I can fill up my car with tap water, damn that'd be nice!
Ok so does this new-fangled high-fuluent thing come with hole for your key ring? Cause if you lost it, there's not figuring out the knock, it's electronic. And does the door lock behind you from the inside too? So when you're home, someone knocks at the door and you have to get out your lil electronic key thing and hold it to the door. Not very practical, I think. And supposed you have you, your spouse, and 5 kids. You have to get one of these things made for everyone. Prolly a lot more expensive than cutting a key.
I don't know much about airplane phones, but I would assume they work on the same principle as a cell phone, being as there are no phone lines running from the plane to the ground. I just think that the people who make their money off the credit cards used to make mile-high phone calls, are just freakin out cause people are smartening up and realizing it's a bunch of crap that it intereferes with the instruments.
Laptops in every classroom could be helpful...assuming you type faster than you can write. Altho it would sure be annoying to hear umpteen students in the class click-click-clicking away. And anyway, who is paying for these laptops? Add that to the cost of books...unless they plan on putting the books on disk FOR this laptop. Hey there's an idea! Cut cost of printing books, sum it all up in the cost of a new laptop.
Interesting idea, for the idiots that just don't get it the first time their phone rings, but you better be able to guarantee you can shut off the power blocking the signals. If there's an emergency, you don't want everyone running to the only phone in the building. It's just common courtesy for people to shut off their phones on their own before walking into places where it's not allowed. We don't need a babysitter telling us, "we shut off your phone for you, thank you." Just post a guard at the entrances to grab those morons who left their phones on. They'll learn.