So in America... You get to pay for the prank calls you recieve?
Sounds like telemarketers would have a field day. Currently I have lots of those on my housephone in Australia.... but mobiles cost too much for telemarketers to call all that often.
I can't imagine paying the phone company for calls I didn't want in the first place... Flagfall alone would be bad, even if I hung up immediately...
Or am I missing something here?
I can understand a fine (a hefty one) for breaking that particular copyright law, then being sent to goal (or jail, if you like) for not being able to pay it, but it seems a little odd to punish that particular crime in that particular way...
I mean, you're in the same lockup as people who stole cars, or perhaps tried to rob a bank... and it seems a different sort of crime to those.
I doubt he's going to the high security place murderers and rapists go to, though, folks.
I just have this vision of those early aeroplanes that look like the Wright Brothers contraption, only with 20 dozen extra wings tacked on to the fuselage until they're flying a venetian blind....
Ah yes, the razor of the future...
This looks like more of that randomised babble I get from my junkmail folder... Could anyone translate into inoffensive plain english? How is this different from any other business plan? Honestly?
Actually the spagetti code, with its' multiple purpose functions, cancellations due to multiplications, and so on, and all the rest of the junk in it, is more proof of evolution than of a divine and perfect god-thing creating us in his image...
...And biology research has been proven to cause disease and death in rats...
Seriously though... It doesn't necessarily follow that the cure (especially a cure that is still in its infancy - 'scuse the joke) is better than the disease, and the idea is to do the research now so that we can use the stem cells to cure terrible illnesses (and repair missing limbs and all the rest of it) without the side effect of the stem cells going out of control.
Of course medicine has side effects. Many of the drugs given to a person on chemo and radio therapy are to keep them alive while the actual cure goes ahead and kills their cancer. As yet we are still learning how to control the stem cells, and they are doing what cells do when uncontrolled: making more of themselves and living life to the full. We'll get better at controlling them if we research them. That's why it's called stem cell research...
Face it, it would probably be a more secure voting system if they voted by email. They could even make it into a computer game to encourage more young people to vote!
Although, if they did vote by email, imagine the junkmail vote....
You gotta wonder about any politician that wants no paper trail of his own votes. Why is he not interested in having hardcopy proof that he really did win this or that election? (or she, or she, I hope to the gods that Americans aren't backward enough to have only male options in parliament).
Odd. I've been in the SCA 8 years (...make that 9 years...) and never seen anyone draw live steel on anyone else. Ever. The closest I've seen to that sort of action was rapier fighting with armour and tipped swords and rules apon rules.
Are you sure you're not talking about some other reenactment group?
I agree it can be addictive though: I've seen people with worse SCA addictions than any you can get with WoW. Escapism is, after all, escapism, surely the most highly addictive thing known to man...
Ah, but you see, I got a 3 year warranty, and a plug and play system I didn't need to learn how to use.
I'm happy.
It's the philosophy of the user which is the key to the iPod: I don't expect anything but a random storage device for my resume and a simple way of having a pocket full of music. It does what I expected, no more, and I get to play with the playlist as a bonus.
And seeing as it's survived a trip through the washing machine with no ill effects, I'm happy with my purchase. I'd like to see a no name mp3 player do that!
...it's good to listen to on the train, you get all sorts of random songs, sort of like your own personal radio station... so long as you like the Beatles, that is. I punished the little unit by removing all the Beatles songs currently on it (there were 5, out of a full gig worth of songs) and instead of every second song being Norwegian Wood (for five hours I got random song, Beatles, random song, Beatles, random song, Beatles...), it started acting more normally.
Recent re-introduction of more Beatles music last week hasn't caused a return to the 60s, either, to my surprise. Yet.
I have noticed a lot more Beethoven than I thought I owned though....
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Well, for a start, you are much less likely to run out of fuel 18 metres up in the air while on a skateboard...
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Agreed.
Watches are meant to save time, not waste it. More buttons = more headaches.
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I don't use a watch: my phone is my source of what time it is. To tell the time, I pull my phone out of my pocket... and can also check for messages while I do so. My watch broke years ago, and when I got a replacement, that broke too. My phone breaks less, so is a more reliable "watch".
Weren't the bloggers typing while the school students were writing with a pen? That would make for a big difference in speed/volume of information given as essay answer. Let alone the ability to cross out versus the ability to cut and paste text (and loose valuable information which if crossed out, at least helps us poor markers know what the student was thinking and mark on neatness too).
Having marked stuff myself, yes typed stuff is easier to mark, but it doesn't give as much information on whether the student is able to understand the question as handwritten stuff does. And the point of essays is to see if students understand the question, and can converse on it.
In the Lois McMaster Bujold Miles Vorkosigan series (try http://www.dendarii.com/, or wiki her) there is a man with a "chip in his brain", an electronic memory device being used as memory augmentation. It ends up malfunctioning with terrible consequences (he's in charge of a rather charged political climate), but it's a great idea, being able to remember everything as if it happened, not even yesterday, but 30 seconds ago. Useful.
Simple accidental injuries in space as opposed to more complex injuries which would require the person to be shipped to a place with gravity for the operation, such as Earth or any handy moon that was nearby...
I don't know about the "accidental" versus "intentional" part though. Possibly a result of bad grammar on the part of the writer? Perhaps they're referring to appendicitis or stomach ulcers, not a result of accidents, but still requiring essential surgery...
What will the patient be like after returning to gravity?
I seem to remember that in the development of the X-ray a lot of people were treated for depression of the organs, or some such illness, which later turned out to be something that was caused by the machines taking the photographs, and only caused when the photographs were being taken in the first place. Peoples' organs weren't actually in the wrong place, they were being displaced by the heavy equipment, until the equipment went away again...
I can imagine a situation where they do the operation, then land, and find that when the body of the patient settles, the stitches pull out or the organs get twisted around and he has worse problems than he would have had if they'd stayed in a relatively constant gravitational pull.
Let alone the increases and decreases of gravity during the operation. "catch that kidney as it goes past, will you nurse? Oh, nevermind, it will change direction and return to it's rightful place in 5 more seconds..." Wow. It would be like a Monty Python sketch...
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Apparently they aren't "refugees" if they are victims of global warming: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s17763 89.htm
(Though what the are if they're not a refugee is a mystery to me).
So in America... You get to pay for the prank calls you recieve?
Sounds like telemarketers would have a field day. Currently I have lots of those on my housephone in Australia.... but mobiles cost too much for telemarketers to call all that often.
I can't imagine paying the phone company for calls I didn't want in the first place... Flagfall alone would be bad, even if I hung up immediately...
Or am I missing something here?
Mmm. Does seem a bit silly.
I can understand a fine (a hefty one) for breaking that particular copyright law, then being sent to goal (or jail, if you like) for not being able to pay it, but it seems a little odd to punish that particular crime in that particular way...
I mean, you're in the same lockup as people who stole cars, or perhaps tried to rob a bank... and it seems a different sort of crime to those.
I doubt he's going to the high security place murderers and rapists go to, though, folks.
Mmmm... Java with the lid off, so we can see the coffee inside...
Sorry, couldn't resist, must have had too much caffiene thismorning...
We were just discussing what the Wiki ought to buy. Perhaps some music software and distribution rights?
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I just have this vision of those early aeroplanes that look like the Wright Brothers contraption, only with 20 dozen extra wings tacked on to the fuselage until they're flying a venetian blind....
Ah yes, the razor of the future...
This looks like more of that randomised babble I get from my junkmail folder... Could anyone translate into inoffensive plain english? How is this different from any other business plan? Honestly?
Actually the spagetti code, with its' multiple purpose functions, cancellations due to multiplications, and so on, and all the rest of the junk in it, is more proof of evolution than of a divine and perfect god-thing creating us in his image...
...Unless he's the result of evolution?
...And biology research has been proven to cause disease and death in rats...
Seriously though... It doesn't necessarily follow that the cure (especially a cure that is still in its infancy - 'scuse the joke) is better than the disease, and the idea is to do the research now so that we can use the stem cells to cure terrible illnesses (and repair missing limbs and all the rest of it) without the side effect of the stem cells going out of control.
Of course medicine has side effects. Many of the drugs given to a person on chemo and radio therapy are to keep them alive while the actual cure goes ahead and kills their cancer. As yet we are still learning how to control the stem cells, and they are doing what cells do when uncontrolled: making more of themselves and living life to the full. We'll get better at controlling them if we research them. That's why it's called stem cell research...
Face it, it would probably be a more secure voting system if they voted by email. They could even make it into a computer game to encourage more young people to vote!
Although, if they did vote by email, imagine the junkmail vote....
You gotta wonder about any politician that wants no paper trail of his own votes. Why is he not interested in having hardcopy proof that he really did win this or that election? (or she, or she, I hope to the gods that Americans aren't backward enough to have only male options in parliament).
Odd.
I've been in the SCA 8 years (...make that 9 years...) and never seen anyone draw live steel on anyone else. Ever. The closest I've seen to that sort of action was rapier fighting with armour and tipped swords and rules apon rules.
Are you sure you're not talking about some other reenactment group?
I agree it can be addictive though: I've seen people with worse SCA addictions than any you can get with WoW. Escapism is, after all, escapism, surely the most highly addictive thing known to man...
Ah, but you see, I got a 3 year warranty, and a plug and play system I didn't need to learn how to use.
I'm happy.
It's the philosophy of the user which is the key to the iPod: I don't expect anything but a random storage device for my resume and a simple way of having a pocket full of music. It does what I expected, no more, and I get to play with the playlist as a bonus.
And seeing as it's survived a trip through the washing machine with no ill effects, I'm happy with my purchase. I'd like to see a no name mp3 player do that!
...it's good to listen to on the train, you get all sorts of random songs, sort of like your own personal radio station... so long as you like the Beatles, that is. I punished the little unit by removing all the Beatles songs currently on it (there were 5, out of a full gig worth of songs) and instead of every second song being Norwegian Wood (for five hours I got random song, Beatles, random song, Beatles, random song, Beatles...), it started acting more normally.
Recent re-introduction of more Beatles music last week hasn't caused a return to the 60s, either, to my surprise. Yet.
I have noticed a lot more Beethoven than I thought I owned though....
Well, for a start, you are much less likely to run out of fuel 18 metres up in the air while on a skateboard...
Be careful who you kiss then... A good loving french kiss, and you're suddenly not the suspects' girlfriend, but the suspect himself!
It actually doesn't work out that way, but I can imagine a movie coming out shortly with that as the main storyline, you wait and see...
Does it cope with daylight saving?
Agreed.
Watches are meant to save time, not waste it. More buttons = more headaches.
I don't use a watch: my phone is my source of what time it is. To tell the time, I pull my phone out of my pocket... and can also check for messages while I do so. My watch broke years ago, and when I got a replacement, that broke too. My phone breaks less, so is a more reliable "watch".
Weren't the bloggers typing while the school students were writing with a pen? That would make for a big difference in speed/volume of information given as essay answer. Let alone the ability to cross out versus the ability to cut and paste text (and loose valuable information which if crossed out, at least helps us poor markers know what the student was thinking and mark on neatness too).
Having marked stuff myself, yes typed stuff is easier to mark, but it doesn't give as much information on whether the student is able to understand the question as handwritten stuff does. And the point of essays is to see if students understand the question, and can converse on it.
In the Lois McMaster Bujold Miles Vorkosigan series (try http://www.dendarii.com/, or wiki her) there is a man with a "chip in his brain", an electronic memory device being used as memory augmentation. It ends up malfunctioning with terrible consequences (he's in charge of a rather charged political climate), but it's a great idea, being able to remember everything as if it happened, not even yesterday, but 30 seconds ago. Useful.
Compulsive telephone sanitisers. I never caught a flu from MY mouse.... What are they worried about, computers catching a virus?
Yeah I was worried about that. What if you're a slow reader?
Simple accidental injuries in space as opposed to more complex injuries which would require the person to be shipped to a place with gravity for the operation, such as Earth or any handy moon that was nearby...
I don't know about the "accidental" versus "intentional" part though. Possibly a result of bad grammar on the part of the writer? Perhaps they're referring to appendicitis or stomach ulcers, not a result of accidents, but still requiring essential surgery...
What will the patient be like after returning to gravity?
I seem to remember that in the development of the X-ray a lot of people were treated for depression of the organs, or some such illness, which later turned out to be something that was caused by the machines taking the photographs, and only caused when the photographs were being taken in the first place. Peoples' organs weren't actually in the wrong place, they were being displaced by the heavy equipment, until the equipment went away again...
I can imagine a situation where they do the operation, then land, and find that when the body of the patient settles, the stitches pull out or the organs get twisted around and he has worse problems than he would have had if they'd stayed in a relatively constant gravitational pull.
Let alone the increases and decreases of gravity during the operation. "catch that kidney as it goes past, will you nurse? Oh, nevermind, it will change direction and return to it's rightful place in 5 more seconds..." Wow. It would be like a Monty Python sketch...
I think they're referring to the point when the bungee makes you bounce back upward again, rather than the initial drop...