The MAFIAA tried this tactic during the early days of their little war against the pirates, and the judges swatted them down hard.

This bunch never caught the precedence and got smacked for it. Money wasted.

There was talk about a child's version being tested. I think that this might be just that. The adult version is a bit bulky.

At a bank, they put in gold-tinted reflective panels as exterior decoration. Shortly afterward they realized that the reflection was roasting their vehicles. So they called in a contractor and they lightly blasted the panels, making them opaque. I forgot what material they used, probably something soft to keep from knocking too much of the gold coating off, just to soften the mirror finish.

Reprogram them so they can go to work in schools as touchscreen systems for pre-k to 6th graders. They were built to take a beating so a bunch of kids could not put much of a hurt on them, right?

Shades of Raul Julia: "FIIFTY MILLLION!!" And there was great rejoicing (while the ball went down the drain).

Tilting: "Heh heh heh, you're a funny guy!"

That thing sucked more quarters out of my pocket in one day compared to when Gauntlet hit the streets.

I don't think Cousin Itt is ever going to like me; I used him as target practice every time he came up.

How NVIDIA had laid out the hardware specs of their chipset put EVGA on the spot. The chip die does not allow for efficient heat transfer (the dammed thing's as small as an AMD Athlon 4), plus the form factor limits how much cooling they could add to the card. EVGA did their best in putting the leaf blower on it plus the Precision software. I'm planning to deploy the Omega drivers onto my GTX285 1G here shortly to see how it reacts to it.

They'll delve into the masses of data accumulated over the years, peering at impact traces, peeling back gig after gig of data in search for that miracle that would flip the universe as we know it upside down...

I want to know how Yankee formed their poll questions up.
I'll bet that the questions were set up as being vague, hard to understand, and clicking on either one would equal a positive uptick for at&t.

I also want to know the coverage of their polling. Was it already pre-ordained where they would be polling people by at&t, knowing damned well they would get high marks? Did they even bother with fringe areas, or even New York for that matter?

All this sums up to astroturfing, pure and simple.

It's a cozy little portrait studio/camera shop located on the Parsons Plaza. Very comfortable, with outstanding portraits of Dwayne and his family gracing the walls. When I would visit when I was little, they were very nice. I got portraits done of me and family too.

Yes, it is a small operation, but it's also a family business. Patronize them as much as you can folks, they are good at what they do.

is rather like whipping a dead horse. Yes, there are sources where you can get the service, but you are going to pay a small ransom and keep paying as you use it. That's the upshot of the deal.
The downside to it is that you are going to be set back to the good ole days of 56K dialup. No viewing of multimedia stuff, no gaming, save for turn based board games perhaps, and no huge email attachments, both outgoing and incoming.

Even with the new Iridium birds being fired into orbit, you will never, ever get faster than 256K, maybe 512K. And the ping times? Forget it. 1500ms will be as fast as you can get, even with the low-orbiting Iridium network.

SATCOM is a no-nonsense, no frills system. You want the speed, you pay the piper.

If you want a bad teacher, here's an example.

This was back in the late 80's when this happened so this dates me. There was one English teacher who would make certain student's homework "disappear" then claimed that she never received it. This was obviously having an impact on their grades and school performance. So yours truly chimed in on making copies using either carbon sheets or the school's copier. We got the endorsement from our home room teacher and started to use the school's copier to make "backups" of our homework.This caught her in the open, forcing her to back down and start accepting the homework like a good teacher. We never did have hard proof of her making it disappear on purpose though. Several years after I graduated she moved on, either being sacked or resignation.

No Spot! Don't chew on that... *FZZZTT!*

NO TERRIER

Oh man, that just made me get uneasy there for a while. Fantastic piece of writing you have done! You really should consider building that skill up and start submitting manuscripts.

Several things prevented this discovery from happening right off the bat:

Soviet occupation, the sov's were more interested in shaping the afghans into the "True Soviet" instead of prospecting for minerals. In essence, screwing up pretty badly.
The taliban; who would want to see an extremist group like them filthy rich on metals, including possible the most massive Lithium deposit? We'd never be rid of them, not without all out war.
And now they got a good reason to go dig.

I wish them the best of times and please keep it as green as they can.

Better than that blasted poppy, IMO.

...with so many people banging the gong. A quarter way through the article, I had to get my hip waders out, the BS being so deep. Half way through I pretty much closed the page up, I could not stand the PR parrot and his drivel. My god, do they still believe in that, even though almost all his points are pretty much demolished?

They simply need to tear down their current pricing structure for printers and consumables, rebuilding it into a more balanced, more consumer friendly pricing scale.

What really got my goat was his arrogant statement that "Manufacturers have to police themselves." They have been and their yields have come up, but at a cost for the consumer to pay.

His sniping at Kodak was a simple diversion from the actual issue at hand, an easy trick for a PR flak.