Comment Ban the AK-47 (Score 1) 230
I see terrorists usually carrying AK-47s. Maybe we should ban those.
I see terrorists usually carrying AK-47s. Maybe we should ban those.
I'm assuming that he's talking about Skywalker Ranch which is a whole valley. His neighbors can't even see inside the valley...by design. Why are they complaining? Fun fact, the lake in the middle of the ranch is called Lake Ewok.
I'd opine that such cars are more crash-ready than today's cars given that they're made of actual metal and heavy gauge metal instead of plastic.
On that subject, I'm amused by the ad for the smart car where they show a pickup truck on top of the space frame. Yeah, um, you do know that F=ma, right?
Bonuses are a convenient way for the corporation to reduce its tax liability.
Why can't we do the equivalent of SETI@Home or the protein folding thing or hell, even bitcoin mining for fusion simulation?
What a lot of people don't realize is that top brass gets compensation that's often not in their salary e.g. stock options. Salaries are taxed at the ordinary income rate. Bonuses and options are not. More than likely this was a weasel move to garner public support while secretly loving the fact that his tax burden has been significantly lowered.
There goes Gawker.
Pass the donuts!!
But but but but but....they get free tuition at Stanford et al.
They're filming a sequel to The Arrival and are trying to method act it.
Can you run a
Yup. Aside from being written in common C/C++, not only does it work cross-platform for desktop environments but also for tablet/phone environments.
Oh, man, what this says about homeopathy.
Way back in the golden age of CGI software development, those of us on the cutting edge always marveled at the amazing work John Knoll (of Photoshop and ILM fame) did and we all wanted a button in our 3D programs that made everything look as good as his work. Never happened, of course, because you can't code real talent. But, in one of my plugins, I put in an Easter egg which was a giant button that said "Create award-winning animation"
Somebody ought to cross ball point pens with coat hangers so that the pens will multiply instead of disappear.