Unfortunately that may be true. This looks like one of those cases where if they don't win they will try again, all the while trying to change the rules to make it impossible to lose. It is starting to look like media sharing is the cannabis of the new millennium (or at least the first part:)).
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Oh no, this phone will cause users to get skin cancer, since they will have to be outside all the time."
Untrue. It will however cause a class action suit for neck injuries sustained while charging the phone during long conversations and, of course, multiple ear injuries due to idiots thinking gluing it there was a good idea.
Bugger that! I once went on a holiday to my families beach house and couldn't find my plastic light-saber. Eventually I found the metal end off one of the batteries and a small piece of chewed black plastic. It appears the rat ate through an inch think wooden floor to eat my light-saber.
I still wonder if it ate the other metal pieces and the carbon rod or whether it dragged them away.
I think by "giant toaster" TFC means a hydro-electric storage facility.....or a dam.:) If the grid doesn't have the ability to manage its load then it's not the fault of the wind farm, it's the fault of the outdated grid.
"Essentially their argument boils down to because people make mistakes and we can calculate the odds of them making a mistake, if they calculate the odds of something and it's greater than the odds of them having made a mistake then you have to use the odds of them making a mistake as the probability of the event happening."
Humans do that all the time. It's called trust. I think they just forgot to include the figure for how many times the naysayers (eg; "The end is nigh!") were wrong.
"At which time, I, as the wiley "bad guy", press the button telling the camera to make the clicking noise when taking a picture."
Really? I would just take a video.
In my case, I would have to contest that. After drinking two percolators of coffee one day in the sun I suffered severe hallucinations and paranoia. Flickers in the edge of vision, unseen people walking up the steps, liquids a green yellow bile colour. Inability to eat. Took about four hours to come down.
I had a little vision of this a while back. All done in a dark cartoon form to the soundtrack of Mekong Deltas versions of "The Hut of Baba Yoga" or "Night on Bare Mountain". If you know the songs, you will get the idea.
"So seriously, knowing Chinese could also be extremely useful for international travelers. If you ever get lost, just find the local Chinese restaurant."
"My thanks to you. I believe you have hit the nail on the head with your Chinese restaurant hypothesis. For many years I have wandered, drunk, stinking of whiskey, and spouting bad poetry in foreign countries with no memory of why I was there or where I was going. You see, I am Irish....."
Earthquake commission should cover it. Doesn't say so on the site but they will probably cover it under common bloody sense.
I did like this page though. You would imagine you would know if there was one.
And that would lead me to be from New Zealand (a small country near......Oh, $%#@!) Actually, in the words of one of our P.M.'s, we are a,"dagger pointed at the heart of Antarctica".
Really. Imagine being an elderly person. Unbeknowst to you, your doctor gets a kickback for proscribing a gun. You go to the doctor because you are getting old, ailments, flu, etc....and he gives you a gun. WTF are you going to think?
You think that is bad. A mate of mine sat me down and explained how he had spent the last 48 hours decoding the "Pied Piper Of Hamlet" as prophecy and carefully pointed out how it showed the two towers and his brothers death were related and caused by aliens. The bastard of it is that he is a lot smarter than me and the code worked.....bloody bi-polar's. The upstart is that there are patterns in everything. The standard on slashdot is the old malaria and icecream statistics. If anyone works hard enough they will find a pattern, even is it is a lack of a pattern. You just can't argue with mad people.
"No google logo for this?! I expected a penguin or something like that."
There was, but after the complaints about blowing the holes in two pengiuns and the back strain resulting from the G, L, and E the penguins decided no longer to have sex and have thus....gone extinct.
In this conversation? OK. Don't worry about OBL. Worry about the Russian bombers in Venezuela. Worry about the possible share market crash when Wall Street opens. Worry about Pakistan allying with Russia if you cross its border once again. Worry about the unidentified sub seen in Japanese waters. Then, at the end of all that, don't worry about it because there is nothing you can do about it. Be happy, love one another, and believe in yourself.
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"This is far from over."
:)).
Unfortunately that may be true. This looks like one of those cases where if they don't win they will try again, all the while trying to change the rules to make it impossible to lose. It is starting to look like media sharing is the cannabis of the new millennium (or at least the first part
It might make media realise that we have separate countries for a reason, and that many of those reasons have an equal validity.
" Oh no, this phone will cause users to get skin cancer, since they will have to be outside all the time."
Untrue.
It will however cause a class action suit for neck injuries sustained while charging the phone during long conversations and, of course, multiple ear injuries due to idiots thinking gluing it there was a good idea.
Bugger that! I once went on a holiday to my families beach house and couldn't find my plastic light-saber. Eventually I found the metal end off one of the batteries and a small piece of chewed black plastic. It appears the rat ate through an inch think wooden floor to eat my light-saber.
I still wonder if it ate the other metal pieces and the carbon rod or whether it dragged them away.
So are males. Take a risk, don't put me in prison.
Really? It sickens me to the core that children are so mollycoddled.
Offtopic, but there is a penumbral eclipse down here tonight if you are interested. Damn pity the weather has just closed in though. :)
I think by "giant toaster" TFC means a hydro-electric storage facility.....or a dam. :) If the grid doesn't have the ability to manage its load then it's not the fault of the wind farm, it's the fault of the outdated grid.
Beware the Tullamore Dew!
"Essentially their argument boils down to because people make mistakes and we can calculate the odds of them making a mistake, if they calculate the odds of something and it's greater than the odds of them having made a mistake then you have to use the odds of them making a mistake as the probability of the event happening."
Humans do that all the time. It's called trust. I think they just forgot to include the figure for how many times the naysayers (eg; "The end is nigh!") were wrong.
"At which time, I, as the wiley "bad guy", press the button telling the camera to make the clicking noise when taking a picture."
Really? I would just take a video.
In my case, I would have to contest that. After drinking two percolators of coffee one day in the sun I suffered severe hallucinations and paranoia. Flickers in the edge of vision, unseen people walking up the steps, liquids a green yellow bile colour. Inability to eat. Took about four hours to come down.
Or you could get the final word in.
I had a little vision of this a while back. All done in a dark cartoon form to the soundtrack of Mekong Deltas versions of "The Hut of Baba Yoga" or "Night on Bare Mountain". If you know the songs, you will get the idea.
"My thanks to you. I believe you have hit the nail on the head with your Chinese restaurant hypothesis. For many years I have wandered, drunk, stinking of whiskey, and spouting bad poetry in foreign countries with no memory of why I was there or where I was going. You see, I am Irish....."
Not 100% pure now. Are you? You bastards!
"How in the hell do you have a MINOR casualty?"
Under 18.
Earthquake commission should cover it. Doesn't say so on the site but they will probably cover it under common bloody sense.
I did like this page though. You would imagine you would know if there was one.
"Will the town be renamed Smallville, NZ?"
No.
The Smallville part isn't necessary as it is in New Zealand.
And that would lead me to be from New Zealand (a small country near......Oh, $%#@!)
Actually, in the words of one of our P.M.'s, we are a,"dagger pointed at the heart of Antarctica".
Really. Imagine being an elderly person. Unbeknowst to you, your doctor gets a kickback for proscribing a gun. You go to the doctor because you are getting old, ailments, flu, etc....and he gives you a gun. WTF are you going to think?
You think that is bad. A mate of mine sat me down and explained how he had spent the last 48 hours decoding the "Pied Piper Of Hamlet" as prophecy and carefully pointed out how it showed the two towers and his brothers death were related and caused by aliens. The bastard of it is that he is a lot smarter than me and the code worked.....bloody bi-polar's.
The upstart is that there are patterns in everything. The standard on slashdot is the old malaria and icecream statistics. If anyone works hard enough they will find a pattern, even is it is a lack of a pattern. You just can't argue with mad people.
"No google logo for this?! I expected a penguin or something like that."
There was, but after the complaints about blowing the holes in two pengiuns and the back strain resulting from the G, L, and E the penguins decided no longer to have sex and have thus....gone extinct.
"Doesn't the guy know that there are old pilots, and bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots?"
Arghhhh! I hate this saying. Have a look at the space program.
Yip, especially if I am looking in the direction of the milky way. There does appear to be more stars in that direction.
"Why not write something useful"
In this conversation? OK.
Don't worry about OBL. Worry about the Russian bombers in Venezuela. Worry about the possible share market crash when Wall Street opens. Worry about Pakistan allying with Russia if you cross its border once again. Worry about the unidentified sub seen in Japanese waters.
Then, at the end of all that, don't worry about it because there is nothing you can do about it. Be happy, love one another, and believe in yourself.