>> computers use more metal than any other consumer product > For a while now, we've had these things called "automobiles".
The only consumer product to contain more metal than computer is automobiles. And washing machines. TWO. There are TWO consumer products that contain more metal than computers...
Have you ever been suprised when some celebrity turms up on television movies and you go 'isn't he dead' or remember the plot of a movie that's different than when it turms up on tv. Well someone's just been messing with the spacetime continuum.
That's a relief. I thought it was because they had reconfigured The Matrix.
> I actually think that statement is quite informative, and used for effect rather than for straight facts. Like you said, I have no idea how much data 1-inch drives can hold today, but I understand this statement fully.
Professor: This is a single atom of Jumboneum, an element so rare that the nucleus alone is worth more than fifty thousand dollars. Bender: How much more? Professor: A hundred thousand.
"It's a smelly, scummy sort of ambulance chaser that doesn't have his/her ducks in a row before they baste some poor person in oil and fry them before the bench."
But if they hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
"I suggest you question everything they do, and all that they report as fact."
Indeed. British intelligence has been shown to be of less than stellar accuracy, so I'm hoping it's not a monumental f'up. My other worry is that all this plays so nicely into Tony Blair's hands, and provides plenty of ammunition for his beloved ID cards.
I can only hope that the authorities release enough information to convince the British public that the threat was real, and not imagined or concocted.
Every morning, before starting, I speak the Programmer's Prayer: "Lord: I begin today on your Great Work. Guide my hand, and bring forth the Code your Will desires. Give me your Strength to keep my Faith, and your Sensory Deprivation to ignore temptation right before my eyes. Goto Lord.
So God writes in Forth, not Lisp, as many supposed.
> The collapse of morals, lack of principled leadership, common sense and genuine concern for the populace shown by Blair's government is terrifying.
Couldn't have put it better myself. I'm something of a floating voter, so I have no idealogical axe to grind with Labour per se. But Blair lying to the electorate in order to have a war on Iraq is completely unacceptable. The man should simply not be in power. Same goes for the Jowell affair we had a while back. The whole thing just stinks. I'm disgusted.
Things may have been a lot better if John Smith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith_(UK_polit ician)) hadn't met with an untimely death.
Still, we only have ourselves to blame. We did, after all, vote this mob back in. The Tories don't seem much better, although it's hard to see that they could be as bad, or worse. Maybe it's time for a third party.
Indeed, I can say "Police State". I can also say that Blair is an evil son-of-a-bitch if this stuff ever becomes a reality. Seriously. It makes me sick.
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I'd vote for Kodos.
>> computers use more metal than any other consumer product
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> For a while now, we've had these things called "automobiles".
The only consumer product to contain more metal than computer is automobiles. And washing machines. TWO. There are TWO consumer products that contain more metal than computers
> lost revenues may have as much as three times the impact previously imagined.
Han Solo: I don't know. I can imagine quite a bit.
Have you ever been suprised when some celebrity turms up on television movies and you go 'isn't he dead' or remember the plot of a movie that's different than when it turms up on tv. Well someone's just been messing with the spacetime continuum.
That's a relief. I thought it was because they had reconfigured The Matrix.
Why should I vote for a 3rd party?
> I actually think that statement is quite informative, and used for effect rather than for straight facts. Like you said, I have no idea how much data 1-inch drives can hold today, but I understand this statement fully.
Professor: This is a single atom of Jumboneum, an element so rare that the nucleus alone is worth more than fifty thousand dollars.
Bender: How much more?
Professor: A hundred thousand.
"It's a smelly, scummy sort of ambulance chaser that doesn't have his/her ducks in a row before they baste some poor person in oil and fry them before the bench."
But if they hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
> Every time you hear a bell, an angel gets his wings.
What they don't tell you though, is that every time a rat-trap snaps, an angel gets set on fire.
-- Jack Handy
For more of the same: http://www.cco.net/~jpete/deepthou.htm
> I suppose it makes coding in APL (without documentation) a crime.
I'll see your APL code, and raise you a Perl script.
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. -- Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1969
I just use a female-mood-detector. That's _my_ source of high-grade randomness.
Does anyone know how Slashdotters can get hold of this mysterious substance called "female".
Our IT support department is like that, too.
"I suggest you question everything they do, and all that they report as fact."
Indeed. British intelligence has been shown to be of less than stellar accuracy, so I'm hoping it's not a monumental f'up. My other worry is that all this plays so nicely into Tony Blair's hands, and provides plenty of ammunition for his beloved ID cards.
I can only hope that the authorities release enough information to convince the British public that the threat was real, and not imagined or concocted.
So God writes in Forth, not Lisp, as many supposed.
> The collapse of morals, lack of principled leadership, common sense and genuine concern for the populace shown by Blair's government is terrifying.
t ician)) hadn't met with an untimely death.
Couldn't have put it better myself. I'm something of a floating voter, so I have no idealogical axe to grind with Labour per se. But Blair lying to the electorate in order to have a war on Iraq is completely unacceptable. The man should simply not be in power. Same goes for the Jowell affair we had a while back. The whole thing just stinks. I'm disgusted.
Things may have been a lot better if John Smith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith_(UK_poli
Still, we only have ourselves to blame. We did, after all, vote this mob back in. The Tories don't seem much better, although it's hard to see that they could be as bad, or worse. Maybe it's time for a third party.
> Can you say "Police State"?
Indeed, I can say "Police State". I can also say that Blair is an evil son-of-a-bitch if this stuff ever becomes a reality. Seriously. It makes me sick.