Ok, so whyh should I give a damn about Sony's Blu-ray format when Sony makes obscenely horrible displays? By that, I mean, plasma, LCD, etc. Further more, does anybody keep their video discs in 100% abrasive-free environments? No.
From an article by Dan Bell I found on Ricoh's new Blu-Ray+HD-DVD laser:
The data layer of the Blu-ray Disc resides 0.1 mm from the disk's surface, while the HD-DVD data layer is 0.6-mm deep from the disk's surface, the same as DVD disks. Cd's have a data layer depth of 1.1 mm from the disk surface.
What does this mean? Expensive discs that are EXTREMELY DAMAGE-PRONE!
Sony needs to understand that they are beginning to produce actual junk.
If you can't fill in a circle, or stab a stainless steel punch rod through a sheet of perforated paper, then you shouldn't vote. If you can't realize that you may have problems voting on Election Day, and couldn't forsee them long enough to get an absentee ballot, then you shouldn't be let in to the polls, or allowed to vote. PERIOD. Yes, I support that idea even if at some point it would exclude me from voting some day when I am old and grouchy.
If you are to stupid to put a hole in a card, or fill in a blank box, you shouldn't be allowed to vote. Period.
It's the same reason we don't allow convicted felons to own guns - obviosly, they can't handle the responsibility. Gun ownership and voting are guaranteed by the Constitution, but just as guns can be taken away from felons for demonstrating the lack of responsibility, voting should be taken away from people who can't stab a steel punch rod through a flimsy paper card, or fill in a blank box.
There needs to be a minimum here - you must at least have the ability to do what they were - by some act of God - UNABLE to do in Florida: Follow the arrow to their choice, and then use a steel punch rod to punch through a PERFORATED PAPER BALLOT.
Would you let an epileptic or paranoid schizophrenic fly a commercial airliner? I think you get the point.
Light doesn't necessarily go 100% the speed of light. Light travels fastest in a vaccuum, but slower through liquids, solids, and other gases. To measure the uppr maximum speed of light, it would have to be traveling through a perfect vaccuum.
The only thing that travels faster than light is a politician whenever somebody accidentally drops their change on the ground.
I just tried the link in the article and I'm not experiencing any of those problems.
Although, I probably need to download IE7 to eliminate all possible variables if I anted to verify it myself, but I don't want Microsoft Joke on my computer.....
Has SlashDot actually run out of newsworthy things to post?! The only thing less newsworthy than this pointless article is worrying about the weather on the Moon.
Why do people put stock in stuff like runway shows? All it is is a bunch of uber-skinny models wearing things so ugly and absurd. Are runway shows intended to show off junk that makes people look like drowned cats and just be so abstract that there is nothing more being shown than what could pass as a random amalgamation of crap?
Yeah, I wish I could do that. In California, just pointing the gun, or anything that closely resembles a firearm, at them is walking the line as it is. But in Montana and a few other states, you can fire a warning shot. However, I am definitely sure that you can't shoot them, or even at them, unless there is "... an imminent threat of bodily harm.". In some other states, you can protect you property. In California, you're just screwed because they have to already be poiting the gun at you or charging at you with a knife or some kind of weapon.
Don't take this as a criticism of your comment. Believe me, I wish I could defend myself too, but I live in California, where defending yourself leaves you financially vulnerable to the criminals on all fronts, regardless of how justified your actions were.
"Why are you charging me with causing bodily harm by recklessly discharging a firearm?! I WAS AIMING!"
Actually, it IS legal to go through someones trash, but ONLY if they themselves placed it immediately adjecent to the curb, or on the street. Then it is assumed that the individual has surrendered and relinquished all rights of ownership to the contents of the trash can. If the can is not placed adjecent to the curb or on the street, then you can still argure that you still have legal property rights to it. Solution: Place the can away from the curb and on private property (i.e. your side of the sidewalk) with a piece of tamper-evident tape across the opening. Anyone going through it would then be trespassing if they crossed onto your property, breaking and entering if they broke the tape seal, fraud if they obtained any information on any of the garbage, and stealing if they took anything from it. Better yet, place the can close to your house and if you catch someone rifling through the can, turn the dogs on them or detain them at gunpoint. Chances are that if they have been chewed up by dogs or nearly shot, they will probably give their career choice a second-guessing. A shot with a taser and gratuitous use of pepper spray also helps. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
By the way..... I wonder what Walter Hewlett had to say about the whole scandal when he heard about it.
Wait a year or two and watch people and sham doctors continue to bastardize medicine by classifying this as a "disability", and then leech money from the government and insurance companies as 'compensation' and 'therapy'.
It is time to stop every single medical abnormality as a disability and force lazy people and hypochondriacs to suck it up and deal with it. Another joke of a "disability" is RLS, or Restless Legs Syndrome, and how RLS is classified as having 3 or more episodes of tingly legs when sitting or lying down and the urge "...to get up and move around..." PER MONTH. As a matter of fact, I am experiencing tingling in my legs and the urge to move around, but that it because of either the position that I am sitting is is cutting off/restricting circulation to my legs, or because of the fact I have the urge to get up and stick my foot up the ass of the hypochondriacs who belive and perpetuate this crap.
WHY IS EVERY SINGLE ABNORMALITY CLASSIFIED *AND RECOGNIZED* AS A MEDICAL DISORDER AND DISABILITY?!?!?!
I don't care how many 'doctors' stand by those claims. No matter what degrees or how many degrees you have, that doesn't necessarily make you correct. When you come up with bullshit like this, that's when you start to lose credibility, no matter where you went to school.
Not so fast. the launching of cows was a form of biowarfare in the Middle Ages, using the cows themselves as bioweapons. Better knock off that rhetoric or you and your cows may end up on a no-fly list.
BTW, a buddy of mine has a letter from the ATF specifying that 'spud guns' are not firearms, but cationed that local regulations may confiscate them because they can be quite dangerous if used improperly and are pretty damn loud.
Also, in reality, it is a lot more efficient to use compressed air than flammable vapor. Listening to the 'bang' shockwave bounce off of mountain ranges is fun, but I get alot more distance and higher impact velocities using compressed air than by using standard spark-ignition, although the band isn't there.:(
Does this new ruling apply to the cruise missile I use as a conversation piece?
So now it is illegal to say that you don't like someone's actions and provide evidence and examples thereof? Man, this is just another problem with America. If you don't like someone, sue them. For people who are sue-happy, please consult the following table:
Table 1.1
If you are suing someone, then consult the table and claim the following in your suit:
If the other person is:.....Of A Racial Majority: Claim that they are a racist and openly declare them so. Sue for Racial Riscrimination. Claim Emotional Trauma and/or Slavery Reparations (if applicable)......Of A Different Race: Claim that the other person is vehamantly against your race and is out to get you and your people. Sue for Racial Discrimination. Claim Emotional Trauma, and/or Slavery Reparations (if applicable). -Richer Than You: Claim that they are enslaving your group, and trying to starve you and your family to death. Sue for any reason. Claim Emotional Trauma. -Smarter Than You: Claim that they are of some "Priviledged Class" that you are not a member of, and blame any social inequalities. Sue under Affirmative Action. Claim Emotional Trauma. -Of Heterosexual Orientation: Claim that they are homophobic, and openly label them as such. Sue for Sexual Orientation discrimination. Claim Emotional Trauma, Monetary Damages. -Not Disabled: Claim that they have a better job because they are not disabled. Sue under Americans With Disabilities Act. Claim Emotional Trauma, Monetary Damages. -Has No Criminal Record: Claim that they paid off the judge and jury. Sue under the RICO Act, or any of the aforementioned reasons. Claim Emotional Trauma. -Has A Better Criminal Record: Claim that the police are out to get you. Sue under any of the aforementioned reasons. Claim Emotional Trauma, Monetary Damages. -Someone who doesn't feel like kissing your ass, sue for anything. Claim Emotional Trauma, Monetary Damages. -Saying Why They Don't Like Your Business: Sue them for $11,000,000. Take their house, ruin their life, and throw a temper tantrum until a bad judge gives in so he won't have to listen to your pathetic voice any more. Date more lawyers, then claim Emotional Trauma. Sue Lawyers for damages because they have lots of money and they hurt your feelings because they never called you back the next day after you slept with them.
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Nano-Oklahoma.
I think your nanobrain has turned to nanorust.
FACED!
You know, that could lead to a defamation suit, and a pretty clear one at that, against Maher.
It's called a crowbar.
Ok, so whyh should I give a damn about Sony's Blu-ray format when Sony makes obscenely horrible displays? By that, I mean, plasma, LCD, etc. Further more, does anybody keep their video discs in 100% abrasive-free environments? No.
From an article by Dan Bell I found on Ricoh's new Blu-Ray+HD-DVD laser:
The data layer of the Blu-ray Disc resides 0.1 mm from the disk's surface, while the HD-DVD data layer is 0.6-mm deep from the disk's surface, the same as DVD disks. Cd's have a data layer depth of 1.1 mm from the disk surface.
What does this mean? Expensive discs that are EXTREMELY DAMAGE-PRONE!
Sony needs to understand that they are beginning to produce actual junk.
100 bucks says that the new chip is a Dorito.....
If you don't exercise your right to vote, then you can't earn the priviledge to complain. PERIOD.
Again for those 'sharp-as-a-bowling-pin' types down in Florida:
If you don't vote, then you can't complain.
Like I've said in replies to earlier articles:
If you can't fill in a circle, or stab a stainless steel punch rod through a sheet of perforated paper, then you shouldn't vote. If you can't realize that you may have problems voting on Election Day, and couldn't forsee them long enough to get an absentee ballot, then you shouldn't be let in to the polls, or allowed to vote. PERIOD. Yes, I support that idea even if at some point it would exclude me from voting some day when I am old and grouchy.
Traffic cameras are for lazy police departments.
If you are to stupid to put a hole in a card, or fill in a blank box, you shouldn't be allowed to vote. Period.
It's the same reason we don't allow convicted felons to own guns - obviosly, they can't handle the responsibility. Gun ownership and voting are guaranteed by the Constitution, but just as guns can be taken away from felons for demonstrating the lack of responsibility, voting should be taken away from people who can't stab a steel punch rod through a flimsy paper card, or fill in a blank box.
There needs to be a minimum here - you must at least have the ability to do what they were - by some act of God - UNABLE to do in Florida: Follow the arrow to their choice, and then use a steel punch rod to punch through a PERFORATED PAPER BALLOT.
Would you let an epileptic or paranoid schizophrenic fly a commercial airliner? I think you get the point.
Light doesn't necessarily go 100% the speed of light. Light travels fastest in a vaccuum, but slower through liquids, solids, and other gases. To measure the uppr maximum speed of light, it would have to be traveling through a perfect vaccuum.
The only thing that travels faster than light is a politician whenever somebody accidentally drops their change on the ground.
I just tried the link in the article and I'm not experiencing any of those problems.
Although, I probably need to download IE7 to eliminate all possible variables if I anted to verify it myself, but I don't want Microsoft Joke on my computer.....
..........sigh..........
Oh dear God...
Has SlashDot actually run out of newsworthy things to post?! The only thing less newsworthy than this pointless article is worrying about the weather on the Moon.
"Everybody Wang Chung tonight!"
I hope that they aren't using Dell batteries!
Dear God, what the hell has happened?!
Why do people put stock in stuff like runway shows? All it is is a bunch of uber-skinny models wearing things so ugly and absurd. Are runway shows intended to show off junk that makes people look like drowned cats and just be so abstract that there is nothing more being shown than what could pass as a random amalgamation of crap?
Yeah, I wish I could do that. In California, just pointing the gun, or anything that closely resembles a firearm, at them is walking the line as it is. But in Montana and a few other states, you can fire a warning shot. However, I am definitely sure that you can't shoot them, or even at them, unless there is "... an imminent threat of bodily harm.". In some other states, you can protect you property. In California, you're just screwed because they have to already be poiting the gun at you or charging at you with a knife or some kind of weapon.
Don't take this as a criticism of your comment. Believe me, I wish I could defend myself too, but I live in California, where defending yourself leaves you financially vulnerable to the criminals on all fronts, regardless of how justified your actions were.
"Why are you charging me with causing bodily harm by recklessly discharging a firearm?! I WAS AIMING!"
Actually, it IS legal to go through someones trash, but ONLY if they themselves placed it immediately adjecent to the curb, or on the street. Then it is assumed that the individual has surrendered and relinquished all rights of ownership to the contents of the trash can. If the can is not placed adjecent to the curb or on the street, then you can still argure that you still have legal property rights to it. Solution: Place the can away from the curb and on private property (i.e. your side of the sidewalk) with a piece of tamper-evident tape across the opening. Anyone going through it would then be trespassing if they crossed onto your property, breaking and entering if they broke the tape seal, fraud if they obtained any information on any of the garbage, and stealing if they took anything from it. Better yet, place the can close to your house and if you catch someone rifling through the can, turn the dogs on them or detain them at gunpoint. Chances are that if they have been chewed up by dogs or nearly shot, they will probably give their career choice a second-guessing. A shot with a taser and gratuitous use of pepper spray also helps. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
By the way..... I wonder what Walter Hewlett had to say about the whole scandal when he heard about it.
Wait a year or two and watch people and sham doctors continue to bastardize medicine by classifying this as a "disability", and then leech money from the government and insurance companies as 'compensation' and 'therapy'.
It is time to stop every single medical abnormality as a disability and force lazy people and hypochondriacs to suck it up and deal with it. Another joke of a "disability" is RLS, or Restless Legs Syndrome, and how RLS is classified as having 3 or more episodes of tingly legs when sitting or lying down and the urge "...to get up and move around..." PER MONTH. As a matter of fact, I am experiencing tingling in my legs and the urge to move around, but that it because of either the position that I am sitting is is cutting off/restricting circulation to my legs, or because of the fact I have the urge to get up and stick my foot up the ass of the hypochondriacs who belive and perpetuate this crap.
WHY IS EVERY SINGLE ABNORMALITY CLASSIFIED *AND RECOGNIZED* AS A MEDICAL DISORDER AND DISABILITY?!?!?!
I don't care how many 'doctors' stand by those claims. No matter what degrees or how many degrees you have, that doesn't necessarily make you correct. When you come up with bullshit like this, that's when you start to lose credibility, no matter where you went to school.
Not so fast. the launching of cows was a form of biowarfare in the Middle Ages, using the cows themselves as bioweapons. Better knock off that rhetoric or you and your cows may end up on a no-fly list.
:(
BTW, a buddy of mine has a letter from the ATF specifying that 'spud guns' are not firearms, but cationed that local regulations may confiscate them because they can be quite dangerous if used improperly and are pretty damn loud.
Also, in reality, it is a lot more efficient to use compressed air than flammable vapor. Listening to the 'bang' shockwave bounce off of mountain ranges is fun, but I get alot more distance and higher impact velocities using compressed air than by using standard spark-ignition, although the band isn't there.
Does this new ruling apply to the cruise missile I use as a conversation piece?
You could call it WaterWeenie.....
WaterWeenie
So now it is illegal to say that you don't like someone's actions and provide evidence and examples thereof? Man, this is just another problem with America. If you don't like someone, sue them.
.....Of A Racial Majority: Claim that they are a racist and openly declare them so. Sue for Racial Riscrimination. Claim Emotional Trauma and/or Slavery Reparations (if applicable). .....Of A Different Race: Claim that the other person is vehamantly against your race and is out to get you and your people. Sue for Racial Discrimination. Claim Emotional Trauma, and/or Slavery Reparations (if applicable).
For people who are sue-happy, please consult the following table:
Table 1.1
If you are suing someone, then consult the table and claim the following in your suit:
If the other person is:
-Richer Than You: Claim that they are enslaving your group, and trying to starve you and your family to death. Sue for any reason. Claim Emotional Trauma.
-Smarter Than You: Claim that they are of some "Priviledged Class" that you are not a member of, and blame any social inequalities. Sue under Affirmative Action. Claim Emotional Trauma.
-Of Heterosexual Orientation: Claim that they are homophobic, and openly label them as such. Sue for Sexual Orientation discrimination. Claim Emotional Trauma, Monetary Damages.
-Not Disabled: Claim that they have a better job because they are not disabled. Sue under Americans With Disabilities Act. Claim Emotional Trauma, Monetary Damages.
-Has No Criminal Record: Claim that they paid off the judge and jury. Sue under the RICO Act, or any of the aforementioned reasons. Claim Emotional Trauma.
-Has A Better Criminal Record: Claim that the police are out to get you. Sue under any of the aforementioned reasons. Claim Emotional Trauma, Monetary Damages.
-Someone who doesn't feel like kissing your ass, sue for anything. Claim Emotional Trauma, Monetary Damages.
-Saying Why They Don't Like Your Business: Sue them for $11,000,000. Take their house, ruin their life, and throw a temper tantrum until a bad judge gives in so he won't have to listen to your pathetic voice any more. Date more lawyers, then claim Emotional Trauma. Sue Lawyers for damages because they have lots of money and they hurt your feelings because they never called you back the next day after you slept with them.
I just hope that Mustafa anticipates feline complications this time.