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Comment Re:Missing Option (Score 1) 369

Mønti Pythøn ik den Hølie Gräilen Røtern nik Akten Di Wik Alsø wik Alsø alsø wik Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër? See the løveli lakes The wøndërful telephøne system And mäni interesting furry animals The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used are fictitious and any similarity to the names, characters, or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional. Signed RICHARD M. NIXON Including the majestik møøse A Møøse once bit my sister... No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"... We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked. Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti... We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked. Møøse trained by YUTTE HERMSGERVØRDENBRØTBØRDA Special Møøse Effects OLAF PROT Møøse Costumes SIGGI CHURCHILLMøøse Choreographed by HORST PROT III Miss Taylor's Møøses by HENGST DOUGLAS-HOME Møøse trained to mix concrete and sign complicated insurance forms by JURGEN WIGG Møøses' noses wiped by BJØRN IRKESTØM-SLATER WALKER Large møøse on the left hand side of the screen in the third scene from the end, given a thorough grounding in Latin, French and "O" Level Geography by BO BENN Suggestive poses for the Møøse suggested by VIC ROTTER Antler-care by LIV THATCHER The directors of the firm hired to continue the credits after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked. The credits have been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute. Executive Producer JOHN GOLDSTONE & "RALPH" The Wonder Llama Producer MARK FORSTATER Assisted By EARL J. LLAMA MIKE Q. LLAMA III SY LLAMA MERLE Z. LLAMA IX Directed By 40 SPECIALLY TRAINED ECUADORIAN MOUNTAIN LLAMAS 6 VENEZUELAN RED LLAMAS 142 MEXICAN WHOOPING LLAMAS 14 NORTH CHILEAN GUANACOS (CLOSELY RELATED TO THE LLAMA) REG LLAMA OF BRIXTON 76000 BATTERY LLAMAS FROM "LLAMA-FRESH" FARMS LTD. NEAR PARAGUAY and TERRY GILLIAM & TERRY JONES

Comment It isn't any fun but it works. (Score 1) 207

Back in the 60s I was part of a program in our school district. The idea was to see how fast kids could read and still past comprehension tests. Kids who scored in the top 1% on aptitude tests could be part of the program.
I was shown books a few grades above my current 5th grade level. The pages were projected and timed. The speed was increased until my test scores slipped below 80%. As I got better the speed was increased again and so on. After a while I was reading a page in 3 to 4 seconds. I could read a 100 page book in 5 minutes and pass a test on it.
I have used the faster reading in math, science and computer classes ever since. It is useless for enjoying fiction. This drains all of the fun. I slow down to conversation speed for those kinds of books. It is like running through the Louvre.

Comment Re:How about... (Score 5, Insightful) 349

How about not being afraid of an imaginary threat.
' if they aren't symptomatic they aren't contagious,' Period. I am not contagious. Neither is the nurse in Maine. or anyone except the Dr. in New York. In 10 days no one in the U.S. will be contagious. The quarantine in NJ is a publicity stunt run for political gain only. Here is why I say that;
1. All of this alarmist BS can be shown to be from the simple political motive of saying the current Administration is in need of replacement. The adds I see now from 'Not the Incumbent' candidates say that all of the worlds ills are directly caused by the printf('failed policy about %s caused by %s', current_fear, my_opponent) . They imply that due to these failures 'your children will die!'. This is easily testable. Look back at the previous Ebola, SARs and Swine Flu scares. Many had the most intense media coverage just before an election.
2. Swine Flu news disappeared in late November 2009. The Flu season is in Winter in the US. Oddly, almost no mention was made of all the cases that happened that 2010 season. The pandemic was real but the overblown threat was not needed after the 2009 elections. I was one of the people that amazingly caught and didn't die from Swine Flu (dunt dun da...).
I forecast that we will not hear any more stories of how Ebola will kill us all (especially on Fox News) after next Tuesday. The quarantine will also be lifted shortly thereafter. I am not saying that Ebola is not dangerous. I am saying the overblown response in not safety minded or scientific at all, just political. I could be wrong. It could be that pandemics only occur in election years.

Comment Homeopathy: But beware of overdose/dilution (Score 1) 291

I once over diluted my Homeopathy treatment and I was so healthy I died twice before enough water evaporated to save me.

My favorite Homeopathic E.R. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0

If you think about it, all of the air around you is 1 trillion times diluted everything! You never need to buy any remedies from the quacks. You can make your own at home by just adding a diluted amount of air to a glass of water.
Andy

Comment Re:I'm sure it's effective (Score 1) 419

Isn't that what they tell us? "If you're doing nothing wrong, then you should have nothing to hide"?

I agree, it isn't that I have nothing to 'Hide'. That is the wrong paradigm. I have nothing disclose or to share. Everyone has something to hide.

The have zero business looking at anything we do.

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.” (Benjamin Franklin)

“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” (James Madison)

They're heeeeere. (Carol Anne)

Comment 3,000 cards is 234k (Score 1) 204

Not to nitpick too much But for 3,000 punch cards to be 80k that would mean each card only had 28 columns. 3000 * 80 = 240,000 / 1024 = 234k I think it's the 3,000 that is the wrong number. The original IBM 23FD was about 80k or about 1,000 80 column punch cards worth. I used to do microcode updates on the mainframe at work. It was a huge pain and took forever. When the 5 1/4 disks came out it was Amazing!

Comment Never looked back Bye Bye Cable (Score 1) 697

I dumped cable about a year ago. I made a digital antenna http://current.org/ptv/ptv0821make.pdf I live in an urban setting and get about 30 channels. I use 4g wireless to a Cradlepoint router. That is about $25 US a month. Over that I get NetFlix, You Tube and whatever else I want. I have an HP laptop with HDMI out as a DVR and an LG BluRay with wifi. Went from almost $200 U.S. a month for cable to about $40. I get HD Digital TV and like it just fine. I can't imagine gong back. The extra $160 a month would pay for a new DVD box set every month, but I haven't needed one. I just go to the movies more often.

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