My CIA to English dictionary defines "can't confirm" as "We're not allowed to tell you what we know, even though we know what you know and you think you know what we know, because we know you don't know exactly what we know and we might know more than you know we know, you know?"
Saves a lot of breath.
I found light sabre duels with no words and no character conflict to be pretty empty.
Bad kung fu movies have more character conflict that Darth Maul and Mr. Master Jedi.
That was what was great about the real #1 to #3 and what was so lacking from the new #1 to #3.
I agree. And I thought some of the acting (particularly Annakin and Obi-wan) was just bad. It's pretty bad when the CGI aliens seem more "human" than the main characters.
I haven't seen the old movies since I was a kid. Maybe they were just as bad, but I was too young to notice.
I guess we in the U.S. just can't win. If we import a lot of something, we're selfish. If we export a lot of something, we're putting the rest of the world
out of business. Have you seen the size of the U.S. trade deficit? I'd say it's more like we're keeping the rest of the world in business!
Just fill the passenger compartment (and passenger's lungs) with an 02 saturated liquid and accelleration ceases to be an issue.
Sounds good at first, but look what happens in a lab centrifuge -- you'd probably wind up with all your tissues separated into layers of equal density (with the "O2 saturated liquid" somewhere in the middle)!
While I admit that sometimes the process does get in the way, the fact is there is a good reason for 'process'.
IMHO every company has a process - good or bad, consistent or inconsistent. It sounds like your company has a consistently bad process. IT people aren't really anti-process. Heck, for a programmer process is what we do! We know process can be good or bad, but to management process is sometimes an end in itself (e.g. ISO 9000, six sigma), or just plain poorly understood. The best approach to process I've seen is where the lower level managers and employees are allowed input. And different groups can have different processes. A big company trying to be consistent in everything across the whole organization looks good on paper, but I've never seen it work out well.
After looking at the pics, I'm wondering if the pink area is actually that much smaller in the "after" photo. It looks more like it's just a different shape.
Granted, my experience with these things is limited to a 1 hour "tour" I took a few years ago, but it seems to me that "reverse torque" could make you fall forward. Normally, you balance because the thing tries to stay under you, but if you get on and it incorrectly tries to move backward - you'd fall forward, right?
So, it's the old "Coefficient of Performance" trick!
That term didn't sound familiar to me (been a while since I was in school), but I looked it up in wikipedia. A COP greater than 1 is nothing remarkable and doesn't violate any physical laws.
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... but I'm not holding my breath!
My CIA to English dictionary defines "can't confirm" as "We're not allowed to tell you what we know, even though we know what you know and you think you know what we know, because we know you don't know exactly what we know and we might know more than you know we know, you know?"
Saves a lot of breath.
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Regarding the girlfriend question - he's actually married. They quote his wife as saying, "Very impressive, now what's my birthday?"
I haven't seen the old movies since I was a kid. Maybe they were just as bad, but I was too young to notice.
I guess we in the U.S. just can't win. If we import a lot of something, we're selfish. If we export a lot of something, we're putting the rest of the world out of business. Have you seen the size of the U.S. trade deficit? I'd say it's more like we're keeping the rest of the world in business!
After looking at the pics, I'm wondering if the pink area is actually that much smaller in the "after" photo. It looks more like it's just a different shape.
Granted, my experience with these things is limited to a 1 hour "tour" I took a few years ago, but it seems to me that "reverse torque" could make you fall forward. Normally, you balance because the thing tries to stay under you, but if you get on and it incorrectly tries to move backward - you'd fall forward, right?
So, it's the old "Coefficient of Performance" trick! That term didn't sound familiar to me (been a while since I was in school), but I looked it up in wikipedia. A COP greater than 1 is nothing remarkable and doesn't violate any physical laws.