Comment Re:In other news (Score 1) 230
But he did say that the infrastructure allowing this to happen had been built
By IBM!
So you mean we'll be forced to play Jeopardy to death in these camps . . . ?
But he did say that the infrastructure allowing this to happen had been built
By IBM!
So you mean we'll be forced to play Jeopardy to death in these camps . . . ?
Everyone in the US armed forces is without honor.
Is that you, Fred "Westboro Baptist Church" Phelps . . . ?
I thought you were dead.
the Kennedy assassination tapes
Kennedy shot himself. Stanley Kubrick had already been secretly contracted to film the moon landings at Area 51, and so he was just instructed to fake an assassination tape on the side.
tell me something in terms an idiot would understand
Richard Feynman answered that question with something like:
"I can't explain it in terms that you would understand, because I can't understand it, in terms that you would understand."
And ironically, replace "Facebook" with "Hollywood" in the summary above.
And comically, replace "Facebook" with "Slashdot" in the summary above.
Or "Obamacare" . . .
Apply heat and O2 to complete fire triangle.
Well, you’re obviously being totally naive of course. When you’ve been in marketing as long as I have, you'll know that before any new product can be developed it has to be properly researched. We’ve got to find out what people want from fire, how they relate to it, what sort of image it has for them.
Do people want fire that can be fitted nasally?
If you're so clever, you tell us what color fire should be.
When it comes to specific Internet activities, such as email or online banking, this change in behavior translates into a worrying trend for the online economy: over one quarter of respondents (26%) said that, based on what they have learned about secret government surveillance, they are now doing less banking online and less online shopping. This shift in behavior is not good news for companies that rely on sustained or increased use of the Internet for their business model.Importantly, the study also found that, contrary to the claims of many, the Snowden revelations aren't just being followed by security-obsessed techies. While the general public may not be keeping tabs on all the details, they are getting the basics.
And in case anyone is tempted to think that this is a narrow issue of concern only to news junkies and security geeks, let me be clear: according to this latest survey, 85% of adult Americans are now at least somewhat familiar with the news about secret government surveillance of private citizens phone calls, emails, online activity, and so on.Once again, it appears that the federal government, and the NSA in particular, have created a huge cost for innovation and economic growth, while having almost no real benefit to show for it.
With the "Fearless Leader", of course. Turkey's Erdogan could be the co-pilot
The sanctions are just a farce. If Putin turns off the gas to Western Europe, Germany's economy will sputter, taking down the rest of the EU, and it will get all Mad Max-y there. This is why Germany will never agree to any serious sanctions against Russia.
Note that one of Obama's first moves was to try to whip up some plan to get Europe off their dependency on Russian Gas. And there is no quick and easy solution to that.
And, no, we can't just build a "series of tubes" to bring gas from the US to Europe.
I'd put Kim Philby up there as the most damaging . . . he revealed just about everything of Western Intelligence to the Soviets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...
Oh, and the Chief of German Military Intelligence, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, "was among the military officers involved in the clandestine opposition to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. He was executed in the Flossenbürg concentration camp for the act of high treason.": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
So what all he was up to on the side . . . we will never know . . .
And the closest thing to a quantification was "10 to 20 times as fast as any in the rest of Norway." Which means....what?
A Norwegian will tell you that the rest of Norway is twice as fast as Sweden. A Swede will claim the opposite.
Hope that helps.
These guys made a deal with Pepsi, the epitome of a soulless American corporation
However, Pepsi did burn Michael Jackson, literally, so give them a tiny bit of credit.
I do not think there is a single law on the books that makes it illegal not to know something.
If there was, most of the kids that I went to school with would be in jail. They had shit for brains. The poor teachers were fighting a lost cause trying to teach that lot.
All knowledge is op-out-able, as far as I am aware, no one is likely ever going to force you and everyone else to know something.
No known force in the universe seems to be able to get some kids to do their homework.
So even if doctors were force to tell potential diabetics that they will develop the disease if they keep quaffing sugary drinks . . . a lot of folks will opt out in their own head anyway. Simply because they don't want to hear what a doctors is telling them.
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.