then RadioShack would have smacked them down long ago - there is only one 'shack' and they tolerate no rivals. A shame PizzaHut isn't so agressive, in this case.
Bah, carpetbaggers should not usurp 'representative democracy' - they are not 'one of us' at the councils. A good example of a useless politician who used his family fortune to buy an office is senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia. But if a people want to hire outsiders like Hillary (with brand name recognition if not loads of cash to buy media attention with) to do their bidding it's up to them. People just parrot what they see on TV and what their media hero's are paid to say with little critical or investigative thinking anyway.
Just as every Elvis fan longs to visit Graceland, SPAM fans worldwide now have their own pilgrimage to make. In Austin, Minnesota a 16,500 square-foot SPAM Museum opened in September 2001.
Museum visitors will be welcomed to the world of SPAM luncheon meat with a variety of interactive and educational games, fun exhibits and remarkable video presentations.
Sure someone can make an intelligent phone with a smart embedded controller that can detect when you dial seven digits for a local call and append the appropriate prefix.
BTW it wasn't more than 30 years ago NY city was still using numbers like PENNSYLVANIA 6-5000 (going by air checks of radio stn WOR around 1970).
Million Dollar Duck (1971) A fairy tale comes to life in this wild Disney comedy about a family whose pet duck, after being exposed to radiation, acquires the ability to lay eggs with solid gold yolks, sending the U.S. Treasury Department into a tizzy. Stars Dean Jones, Joe Flynn, Sandy Duncan, Tony Roberts.
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This might be related, the patented hyper light speed antenna. Faster than c, time reversal? It worked on tv.
I would say that instead of sewage, authors.. often produce the raw ingredients for a meal
unless it's the New York art scene, where bodily excrement is quite often juxtaposed with religious iconography for maximum media attention grabbing headlines, c.f., "Piss Christ" and others
This reminds me of those 'staged' tours that opressive governments put on for the free world press every so often. I remember when Jerry Fawell went on a trip to aparthied era South Africa, took in the govt produced show, came back and said, "Well, all the natives looked happy to me".
One interesting item: the Amazing Randi tried to expose some religous scams (Most prominent being the Peter Popov crusade using wireless bug-in-the-ear so his wife to send him 'revelations' about people looking for healing) - but when he took them to court, the courts decided it was protected by 'separation of church and state'! What the court said essentially was if a minister rips off people it's something the state can't get involved in! Amazing.
Frankly I'd rather use a poor design that's relatively bug free than some focus group approved design that's loaded with lots of strange quirks and inexplicable hangups. Sure, using a poor design is like learning to ride a camel backwards, but as long as the camel is consistant and gets the job done it beats the dominant camel vendor's approved "industry standard", slick, nice looking, user friendly method when the animal keeps keeling over and dumping your load.
I like to image this comic strip: Two agents are hunched over a console at NSA HQ, one says to the other, "Dammit, I had a positive lock on his brainwave sync'd with the thought projector, but then he put that darn foil hat on again!"
Read an interview here. Lee was involved in getting public access terminals deployed in the early 70's in San Francisco, created the Pop 'Tronics "Penny Whistle Modem" project, and the highly collectible SOL-20 personal computer, member Honbrew Computer Club - this guy was/there/ during the genesis of the personal computer revolution.
it is NOT realistically possible to recover data that has been overwritten ONE time
It is the usual practice of law enforcement and goverments to instill a sense of superpowers in their abilities, just to keep people in line. Computer crime fighters might not be able to recover overwritten data, but they don't at all mind that you think they can, and probably won't correct anybody's misconception about it. It's part of their "if you commit a crime, we'll always get you!" hubris. As long as most people think that even deleted & overwritten data can be retrieved, they'll be less inclined to wrongdoing.
That is, they WANT you to think the big bro' is always watching;))
what will she use for SCROLL-LOCK???? You can't run a pc without one of those!!!
Actually - someone at work had a click-click keyboard and when the right shift crapped out he asked me to fix it (No I don't want a new keyboard - I want THAT keyboard!) and after bunging up the contacts first try I just 'borrowed' the contact parts from the scroll-lock key. Now r-shift works, and scroll-lock doesn't but it's never used that I know of.
Microsoft will have completed the purchase of the last independent ISP. All business transactions, from payroll to banking to consumer purchasing will have to be done online, as mandated by Federal Law, using terminals leased from MSFT for an affordable $99 / month. Attempting to connect an unauthorized terminal risks detection and prosecution. At that point, it will largely resemble the ATT voice line switched network of the 70's. After two decades of consumer dissatisfaction with discarded transactions and unrefunded money, a decade long 'break up' lawsuit will gain political momentum. etc etc etc.
I go into a store, give them cash, take a product, no record of transaction - well, ok they got my mug on the survailence cam.
Speaking of which, check out this Keystroke Catcher doodad - you sneak into you sons room one day, slip it inbetween the keyboard and mobo connector - then let him do his online skulduggery. Next day retrieve the device and find text like "Dude - lets skip school tomorrow. Brians parents are out of town and we can hang out at his place all day" (actual ad copy).
If we took every touchdown scored by a team during the year and added them up, then compared them to all the other teams, what would that prove? If a strong team played a weak team and scored very high, and that total was added in, it would give that team an unfair advantage at the end. If two strong teams played each other and the score was really low, those teams would suffer because their total scores would be low. Does that mean the higher scoring team, in this instance, is better, and the lower scoring teams are has-beens? I don't see it that way.
The series, World, NFL, whatever series, is won or lost not on the total number of touchdowns, or runs, or goals, but on the number of games won or lost. The President, under the Electoral College, wins or loses not based on the total number of votes, but on the number of states he or she wins. Counting the people voting for that person in each state would be like counting the number of runs scored by each team in the whole world series, and would not result in a winner, except on paper. What if the Giants and the Sox played a world series? And the Giants were ill from traveling all the way to, say, Japan, and on their first game they lost by, say, 21 to 1. Then they got their act together and the rest of the games resulted in scores of 2-1, 3-1 and 3-2, with the giants winning all 3. Now they are ahead three games to one, but they are way behind in total runs scored. The sox have 25 runs and the Giants have only 9. To win the series they would have to beat the Sox by a score of more than 16 to 0. We have seen from the last three games that the teams are evenly matched and what are the chances that the true heroes will be recognized? What are the chances that they can score 16 runs against this team which is, after all, almost as good as they are overall?
So, in a Presidential race, over a country as vast and diverse as ours, the founding fathers wisely told us that we should not count the number of runs scored, but rather how many games are won or lost by each side. Now, do you still want to abolish the Electoral College? Whether you do or not, how about an opinion?
"an interesting site that will be a delight for anyone with broadband and an interest in obsessive sci-fi fandom. Ask yourself: if you and your friends decided to shoot an entire episode of TOS Star Trek, and you wrote a script set on the recommissioned Exeter, and you rented a warehouse, built a replica of a Constitution-class starship, designed all the sets and lighting to look like 1967 TV, and spent SEVEN YEARS on the project, meticulously recreating the look and sound of a TOS episode, what would the result look like?"
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then RadioShack would have smacked them down long ago - there is only one 'shack' and they tolerate no rivals. A shame PizzaHut isn't so agressive, in this case.
Bah, carpetbaggers should not usurp 'representative democracy' - they are not 'one of us' at the councils. A good example of a useless politician who used his family fortune to buy an office is senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia. But if a people want to hire outsiders like Hillary (with brand name recognition if not loads of cash to buy media attention with) to do their bidding it's up to them. People just parrot what they see on TV and what their media hero's are paid to say with little critical or investigative thinking anyway.
Just as every Elvis fan longs to visit Graceland, SPAM fans worldwide now have their own pilgrimage to make. In Austin, Minnesota a 16,500 square-foot SPAM Museum opened in September 2001.
Museum visitors will be welcomed to the world of SPAM luncheon meat with a variety of interactive and educational games, fun exhibits and remarkable video presentations.
Sure someone can make an intelligent phone with a smart embedded controller that can detect when you dial seven digits for a local call and append the appropriate prefix.
BTW it wasn't more than 30 years ago NY city was still using numbers like PENNSYLVANIA 6-5000 (going by air checks of radio stn WOR around 1970).
Million Dollar Duck (1971) A fairy tale comes to life in this wild Disney comedy about a family whose pet duck, after being exposed to radiation, acquires the ability to lay eggs with solid gold yolks, sending the U.S. Treasury Department into a tizzy. Stars Dean Jones, Joe Flynn, Sandy Duncan, Tony Roberts.
This might be related, the patented hyper light speed antenna. Faster than c, time reversal? It worked on tv.
The great trumpeter Al Hirt played a catchy tune called Java - you can listen to a few bars here
Bring back VLB!
I would say that instead of sewage, authors .. often produce the raw ingredients for a meal
unless it's the New York art scene, where bodily excrement is quite often juxtaposed with religious iconography for maximum media attention grabbing headlines, c.f., "Piss Christ" and others
This reminds me of those 'staged' tours that opressive governments put on for the free world press every so often. I remember when Jerry Fawell went on a trip to aparthied era South Africa, took in the govt produced show, came back and said, "Well, all the natives looked happy to me".
One interesting item: the Amazing Randi tried to expose some religous scams (Most prominent being the Peter Popov crusade using wireless bug-in-the-ear so his wife to send him 'revelations' about people looking for healing) - but when he took them to court, the courts decided it was protected by 'separation of church and state'! What the court said essentially was if a minister rips off people it's something the state can't get involved in! Amazing.
Sitting in a raised, rotating cubicle with built-in computer monitors and its own heat and light controls, Smishko pores over logs
I'm astounded. I want a rotating cubicle. With a big knob marked 'angular velocity'. In radians per second.
Frankly I'd rather use a poor design that's relatively bug free than some focus group approved design that's loaded with lots of strange quirks and inexplicable hangups. Sure, using a poor design is like learning to ride a camel backwards, but as long as the camel is consistant and gets the job done it beats the dominant camel vendor's approved "industry standard", slick, nice looking, user friendly method when the animal keeps keeling over and dumping your load.
I like to image this comic strip: Two agents are hunched over a console at NSA HQ, one says to the other, "Dammit, I had a positive lock on his brainwave sync'd with the thought projector, but then he put that darn foil hat on again!"
Lets see, 6 years after the Berlin wall comes down - guess they needed to find something for all those unemployed cold war spooks to do.
Read an interview here. /there/ during the genesis of the personal computer revolution.
Lee was involved in getting public access terminals deployed in the early 70's in San Francisco, created the Pop 'Tronics "Penny Whistle Modem" project, and the highly collectible SOL-20 personal computer, member Honbrew Computer Club - this guy was
it is NOT realistically possible to recover data that has been overwritten ONE time
;))
It is the usual practice of law enforcement and goverments to instill a sense of superpowers in their abilities, just to keep people in line. Computer crime fighters might not be able to recover overwritten data, but they don't at all mind that you think they can, and probably won't correct anybody's misconception about it. It's part of their "if you commit a crime, we'll always get you!" hubris. As long as most people think that even deleted & overwritten data can be retrieved, they'll be less inclined to wrongdoing.
That is, they WANT you to think the big bro' is always watching
what will she use for SCROLL-LOCK????
You can't run a pc without one of those!!!
Actually - someone at work had a click-click keyboard and when the right shift crapped out he asked me to fix it (No I don't want a new keyboard - I want THAT keyboard!) and after bunging up the contacts first try I just 'borrowed' the contact parts from the scroll-lock key. Now r-shift works, and scroll-lock doesn't but it's never used that I know of.
A better punishment would be to force them to translate Office to Klingon, and then use it as the corporate standard. Costumes at employee discretion.
Microsoft will have completed the purchase of the last independent ISP. All business transactions, from payroll to banking to consumer purchasing will have to be done online, as mandated by Federal Law, using terminals leased from MSFT for an affordable $99 / month. Attempting to connect an unauthorized terminal risks detection and prosecution. At that point, it will largely resemble the ATT voice line switched network of the 70's. After two decades of consumer dissatisfaction with discarded transactions and unrefunded money, a decade long 'break up' lawsuit will gain political momentum. etc etc etc.
we have entered the Transparent Age.
only if you keep your privates online.
I go into a store, give them cash, take a product, no record of transaction - well, ok they got my mug on the survailence cam.
Speaking of which, check out this Keystroke Catcher doodad - you sneak into you sons room one day, slip it inbetween the keyboard and mobo connector - then let him do his online skulduggery. Next day retrieve the device and find text like "Dude - lets skip school tomorrow. Brians parents are out of town and we can hang out at his place all day" (actual ad copy).
If we took every touchdown scored by a team during the year and added them up, then compared them to all the other teams, what would that prove? If a strong team played a weak team and scored very high, and that total was added in, it would give that team an unfair advantage at the end. If two strong teams played each other and the score was really low, those teams would suffer because their total scores would be low. Does that mean the higher scoring team, in this instance, is better, and the lower scoring teams are has-beens? I don't see it that way.
The series, World, NFL, whatever series, is won or lost not on the total number of touchdowns, or runs, or goals, but on the number of games won or lost. The President, under the Electoral College, wins or loses not based on the total number of votes, but on the number of states he or she wins. Counting the people voting for that person in each state would be like counting the number of runs scored by each team in the whole world series, and would not result in a winner, except on paper. What if the Giants and the Sox played a world series? And the Giants were ill from traveling all the way to, say, Japan, and on their first game they lost by, say, 21 to 1. Then they got their act together and the rest of the games resulted in scores of 2-1, 3-1 and 3-2, with the giants winning all 3. Now they are ahead three games to one, but they are way behind in total runs scored. The sox have 25 runs and the Giants have only 9. To win the series they would have to beat the Sox by a score of more than 16 to 0. We have seen from the last three games that the teams are evenly matched and what are the chances that the true heroes will be recognized? What are the chances that they can score 16 runs against this team which is, after all, almost as good as they are overall?
So, in a Presidential race, over a country as vast and diverse as ours, the founding fathers wisely told us that we should not count the number of runs scored, but rather how many games are won or lost by each side. Now, do you still want to abolish the Electoral College? Whether you do or not, how about an opinion?
What is it with chocolate and space?
I'm still trying to figure out the marketing connection between Angels, clouds and toilet paper.
Described by one writer as:
"an interesting site that will be a delight for anyone with broadband and an interest in obsessive sci-fi fandom. Ask yourself: if you and your friends decided to shoot an entire episode of TOS Star Trek, and you wrote a script set on the recommissioned Exeter, and you rented a warehouse, built a replica of a Constitution-class starship, designed all the sets and lighting to look like 1967 TV, and spent SEVEN YEARS on the project, meticulously recreating the look and sound of a TOS episode, what would the result look like?"
I haven't checked it out yet but looks rather interesting.
So, what, is it one saint for every day of the year? If so, what day is St. Linus day???