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What would a moonbase do all day? Who'd want to live on a lump of lifeless rock? The Internet speeds would be atrocious for starters! A 3 day trip to get to Disneyland with the kids in the holidays? Can't see it catching on meself.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Oh I agree, but why did 'we' only send 12 people and declare been there done that! I mean if we can support an artic or antartic research base why can't we justify another planet or moon.
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That's what makes these astronaut guys so special. They are willing to do what no one else is willing to do.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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All too soon there will be no heroes left, and we will forget we ever dared.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Kimbra: live, outdoors, "Two Way Street" ... that's what I call a "voice" ! [^]
"Sicomore" Livio Gianola, Italian flamenco virtuoso, and composer, playing a mesmerizing "Tarantas" on eight-string guitar. [^] ... music to remember lost love by, and cry, and music to dream of future love by, and sigh ...
Not quite a song, but ... I think this short video clip might give you an insight into how newcomers in QA feel (hint: identify with the young Caucasian woman).
Context: my brother and I have a contest going on to see who can find the most obscure and ridiculous b-movies.
Here's a 2 minute 23 second cut (imho, SFWC) from one of the German b-movie films in the series "Liane, Jungle Goddess: [^]
No nudity in this. The actress was 16 years old when the first movie was made, and there was some (topless) nudity in the other episodes, I read. You can find the whole series on YouTube if you want to be bored crapless.
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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BillWoodruff wrote: Kimbra: live, outdoors, "Two Way Street" ... that's what I call a "voice" ! [^] Really very good!
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Or how you get internet[^] when there is no internet.
I would sign up.
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Umm Piracy?
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In this particular case I'd rather label it "creative solution" or "life finds a way".
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Okay, it is creative, I will give it that what is the download speed, like sneaker net or worse!
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And who would they pay to?
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Two large screens are full of Windows file directories
Hahahaha -- not *nix!
See, this is the way government should work. It should impose ridiculous rules and regulations, and then ignore the entrepreneurs that create businesses around working around the regulations.
Of course, then we'd probably all be drinking the water from Flint, MI.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Of course, then we'd probably all be drinking the water from Flint, MI.
Probably[^]
Sometimes I wonder if we shouldn't remove all warning labels and let the gene pool sort itself out.
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Face + Palm, Radium up the bum????
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There are worse things out there.
Eben Byers[^] for example.
The Wall Street Journal ran a headline reading "The Radium Water Worked Fine until His Jaw Came Off". I don't recommend an image search.
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Hi Jorgen,
You might want to post these freebie links on the "free tools" forum here ? [^]
In the past I posted a link to an excellent free (Russian, Bulgarian, English) book on C# by a Bulgarian user group [^] ... on Free Tools ... and some people questioned that, but the link is still there, and the post was up-voted eleven times
cheers, Bill
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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If you like books and also like free, the Freebook Sifter[^] might be something for you.
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I see your Sifter and raise you Freebooksy[^]
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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This appears to be a site that is a "front" for re-direction to Barnes and Noble's, and other commercial sites offering "free" versions in their own formats. On Barnes and Noble, you will see a link to a "free" version for their Nook e-reader ... whether that version is unabridged, or viewable with whatever device, or PC software, is unknown to me. Of course, the links there to Project Gutenberg point to sources already in the public domain, and easily available on Gutenberg's web-site.
cheers, Bill
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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There is no such thing as a free lunch.
So Amazon and B&N gives away free books either to push an author they believe is on the rise, which will generate sales on the following books, or they do it to get people to buy the Kindle/Nook.
Yes, the PC version is for free AFAIK, but I wouldn't read a whole book on a monitor.
Sifter simply crawls it all and makes a list out of it, and survives on ads.
Then you have the other way that got pointed out by 90835442433867445#26365, Freebooksy, they do the same thing, but cutting out Amazon/B&N as a middle hand.
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I enjoy reading. Price is not a specific concern; it neither increases nor decreases my enjoyment.
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... Neko Case[^] has a voice that could make a dog cry (according to the Napster reviewer). I think it's meant to be a compliment. Not sure it succeeds in so being!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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