Microsoft ripped me off with Mechwarrior 4 and its "I don't like your CDROM drives" DRM. Since the package was open, I was SOL at CompUSA. I stopped buying new PC games then, and have been playing only console or old PC games. And CompUSA went out of business; good riddance.
Nobody ever suggests this, but maybe just don't speed.
You've never driven in almost any downtown street where they've timed the lights to be green only if you're traveling 3-5 miles per hour over the speed limit. If you don't speed, you get stuck at almost every light. But the cops know this, because when they're not camping those streets, they're traveling at 3-5mph over the speed limit with the rest of the traffic.
Or maybe he wants to heat his dog/cat house? Incandescents are perfect for this; they produce a little heat (just enough to warm up a small area, but not enough to cook the animal), and when they stop working, it's obvious from quite a distance because they also stop producing light. To do that with heat lamps, you'd have to use the weakest variety, which produce almost no light, so you'd have to have an indoor/outdoor wireless thermometer or a switch that turns an LED light on when the heat lamp breaks.
Not solely. We've seen Google projects that we like but which don't get enough love from Google, so the project goes bust without them trying to make it work.
If this technology had been available in the 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement would never have happened.
If this technology had been available in the 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement would have become uncivil very quickly. Shooting peaceful protesters with pain-inducing rays will only end badly.
Incorrect. You *are* allowed to do such almost everywhere in the US, exceptions being positions where it might be construed as official government policy. Some bosses might have special rules about it, but that's their business. Usually, the line one has to cross to be in trouble is one of harassment: repeatedly proselytizing after people have said "no" (specific to Christanity, Jesus told his followers not to be this kind of $@& when he sent them out two-by-two). In a government job like this one, where his position can't establish official policy, this guy had to have either been harassing his coworkers, or he has a legitimate grievance.
I've got one of those atomic radio clocks that updates its UTC time via radio and changes its DST setting on its own. Unfortunately, it changes on the old change dates, so I change it four times a year instead of two (or none); today, wait for it to auto-change, change it again, etc.
http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/dst.cfm
Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures. It was a pool of radiance style game and a creator of such games. I remember making so many adventures and monsters with that game, well into the late 90's even.
Combine it with a system that refocuses based on where you're looking and how your eyes are trying to focus, and you'll have a stereoscopic movie I'd actually want to see.
I've been telling people since the war in Iraq started that it's been about Iran all along. Establishing bases in Afghanistan and Iraq was just a stepping stone. Delaying major victories in both countries was to help stretch US presence until this juncture was reached.
Isn't the point of a cantenna to use the shape of the can to extend the range of the signal? How does that work when the can is pitching with every wave?
You have to admit, that's not a standard children's chemistry set (usually just 4-5 test tubes) you're describing. If I saw someone with that much glassware at home, I'd be curious what they use it for too.
were you this critical of Bush? That guy was barely literate
Hey now. What was he doing when the 9/11 attacks happened? That's right, he was reading a picture book.
Joking aside, he is actually quite well read, and missed Mensa by just 5 IQ points. 125 is quite respectable.
Can you give me an answer based 100% on reason and not nostalgia why we SHOULDN'T let technology remember lots of trivia for us instead of wasting brain time?
100% on Reason? That sounds difficult. Start with Decartes, you know, "Cogito, ergo Sum" and all that rot. Then, unfortunately, you can't do a whole lot more with pure reason. You have to invite some experience into the mix and make some assumptions.
This in itself may be an example of what you're looking for, although you phrased in inappropriately. Without a common framework of remembered things, communication starts to break down. What effect to literary allusions have if no one bothers to remember the stories they come from? How do we make cogent arguments when it's common to assume that "allusion" equals "illusion" or that "100% on Reason" means something other than what it should?
100% on Reason? That sounds difficult. Start with Decartes, you know, "Cogito, ergo Sum" and all that rot. Then, unfortunately, you can't do a whole lot more with pure reason. You have to invite some experience into the mix and make some assumptions.
This in itself may be an example of what you're looking for, although you phrased in inappropriately. Without a common framework of remembered things, communication starts to break down. What effect to literary allusions have if no one bothers to remember the stories they come from? How do we make cogent arguments when it's common to assume that "allusion" equals "illusion" or that "100% on Reason" means something other than what it should?
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Microsoft ripped me off with Mechwarrior 4 and its "I don't like your CDROM drives" DRM. Since the package was open, I was SOL at CompUSA. I stopped buying new PC games then, and have been playing only console or old PC games. And CompUSA went out of business; good riddance.
I guess that sums up how people might confuse a pub with a movie. Bad decision making on the part of the pub.
http://codex.ultimaaiera.com/wiki/Bobbits
Nobody ever suggests this, but maybe just don't speed.
You've never driven in almost any downtown street where they've timed the lights to be green only if you're traveling 3-5 miles per hour over the speed limit. If you don't speed, you get stuck at almost every light. But the cops know this, because when they're not camping those streets, they're traveling at 3-5mph over the speed limit with the rest of the traffic.
Or maybe he wants to heat his dog/cat house? Incandescents are perfect for this; they produce a little heat (just enough to warm up a small area, but not enough to cook the animal), and when they stop working, it's obvious from quite a distance because they also stop producing light. To do that with heat lamps, you'd have to use the weakest variety, which produce almost no light, so you'd have to have an indoor/outdoor wireless thermometer or a switch that turns an LED light on when the heat lamp breaks.
Not solely. We've seen Google projects that we like but which don't get enough love from Google, so the project goes bust without them trying to make it work.
If this technology had been available in the 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement would never have happened.
If this technology had been available in the 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement would have become uncivil very quickly. Shooting peaceful protesters with pain-inducing rays will only end badly.
Incorrect. You *are* allowed to do such almost everywhere in the US, exceptions being positions where it might be construed as official government policy. Some bosses might have special rules about it, but that's their business. Usually, the line one has to cross to be in trouble is one of harassment: repeatedly proselytizing after people have said "no" (specific to Christanity, Jesus told his followers not to be this kind of $@& when he sent them out two-by-two). In a government job like this one, where his position can't establish official policy, this guy had to have either been harassing his coworkers, or he has a legitimate grievance.
I've got one of those atomic radio clocks that updates its UTC time via radio and changes its DST setting on its own. Unfortunately, it changes on the old change dates, so I change it four times a year instead of two (or none); today, wait for it to auto-change, change it again, etc. http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/dst.cfm
Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures. It was a pool of radiance style game and a creator of such games. I remember making so many adventures and monsters with that game, well into the late 90's even.
War of the Worlds. Massive meatspace attack, and it didn't even mean to be.
But human cloning is illegal in the USA.
Combine it with a system that refocuses based on where you're looking and how your eyes are trying to focus, and you'll have a stereoscopic movie I'd actually want to see.
I've been telling people since the war in Iraq started that it's been about Iran all along. Establishing bases in Afghanistan and Iraq was just a stepping stone. Delaying major victories in both countries was to help stretch US presence until this juncture was reached.
the FBI keeps escalating things, [...] The FBI throws a rock, Anonymous throws a boulder
Who's escalating again?
cantenna while on a boat
Isn't the point of a cantenna to use the shape of the can to extend the range of the signal? How does that work when the can is pitching with every wave?
You have to admit, that's not a standard children's chemistry set (usually just 4-5 test tubes) you're describing. If I saw someone with that much glassware at home, I'd be curious what they use it for too.
I wouldn't trust the fucking United Snakes government to tell me its raining outside.
I do regularly. They're quite accurate.
The whole purpose of the Onion is to confuse readers into momentarilly believing the story is real.
Until it becomes real, as the political stories sometimes become.
I was hoping you were going to say: "You can't vote if you buy lottery tickets". Its a pretty simple way to eliminate bottom quartile.
What about the MIT group that figured out a sure-thing with lottery tickets?
If a doctor is on a bus, he's not getting to that vital operation quickly anyway.
Now we know what a goblin spider's shamisen sounds like.
were you this critical of Bush? That guy was barely literate
Hey now. What was he doing when the 9/11 attacks happened? That's right, he was reading a picture book.
Joking aside, he is actually quite well read, and missed Mensa by just 5 IQ points. 125 is quite respectable.
Can you give me an answer based 100% on reason and not nostalgia why we SHOULDN'T let technology remember lots of trivia for us instead of wasting brain time?
100% on Reason? That sounds difficult. Start with Decartes, you know, "Cogito, ergo Sum" and all that rot. Then, unfortunately, you can't do a whole lot more with pure reason. You have to invite some experience into the mix and make some assumptions.
This in itself may be an example of what you're looking for, although you phrased in inappropriately. Without a common framework of remembered things, communication starts to break down. What effect to literary allusions have if no one bothers to remember the stories they come from? How do we make cogent arguments when it's common to assume that "allusion" equals "illusion" or that "100% on Reason" means something other than what it should?
100% on Reason? That sounds difficult. Start with Decartes, you know, "Cogito, ergo Sum" and all that rot. Then, unfortunately, you can't do a whole lot more with pure reason. You have to invite some experience into the mix and make some assumptions.
This in itself may be an example of what you're looking for, although you phrased in inappropriately. Without a common framework of remembered things, communication starts to break down. What effect to literary allusions have if no one bothers to remember the stories they come from? How do we make cogent arguments when it's common to assume that "allusion" equals "illusion" or that "100% on Reason" means something other than what it should?