Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
You do trust the Computer, don't you, citizen?
Cannibal: The Musical is a Troma production. The same people who did The Toxic Avenger movies, for certain values there of.
Several of my friends live and/or work in Manassas (I live between Reston and Chantilly in Fairfax Co.), and all of them were complaining about the traffic (Prince William Parkway is already a nightmare during normal traffic rush...Northern VA competes with L.A. for traffic suckage, and the fairgrounds are adjacent to the stadium complex if memory serves). So while I doubt he lost their vote, he definitely annoyed a few of them. Which I find hilarious.
Like it's actually going to happen. Screw impeachment. Outing an active covert agent is treason. I want to see all those involved in that hang (I'm a contractor, we work with various intel agencies here in the DC metro area, and I have some idea just how hard gathering humint is).
Lori@209:
NASA LaRC is still there. I worked there for a bit in the late 90s. It's neat place, but NASA as an agency is toxic.
I grew up in Virginia Beach, born in 1970, and never expected to live to see the year 2000. Hampton Roads was target two on the Soviet list of places that must not be missed, according to the rumors (one of the above posters grew up next door in Norfolk, we'd have fried simultaneously, whoo), and was definitely in the top ten. The Atlantic Surface and Sub fleet commanders were at NOB NorVA (world's largest naval base, as noted by above poster), you had Langley AFB just over the James with it's large TAC air wing and command, Oceana NAS just up the street from where I lived, Fentress NAS out in Deep Creek, Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock is where ALL our Nimitz and larger class carriers are built and maintaned, and half our LA and Ohio class subs come out of it as well. Throw in Little Creek amphibious base, Forts Monroe and Eustis, Norfolk Naval shipyard (in Portsmouth), the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station (they strenuously object to the rumors they have nukes there, but as with all things sensitive and classified, they will confirm nor deny), Camp Peary (CIA training facility in Williamsburg) and Cheatham Annex just up the York river, and we had no doubt that the warheads would rain down from Gloucester Point west to Jamestown, and south to Surrey Nuclear power station just across the river, and include everything south and east all the way to the sounds of NC and the Atlantic.
Lemon Lime Gatorade:
Green or Yellow?
You'll find that females generally identify it as yellow, and males as green.
I'm told it has to do with the ratio of rods and cones being different for men and women.
I'm not sure how it fits in, but hey, it feels like it should be relevant. Aproposness? Relevantiness?
Teresa@66:
I've never had the pleasure of meeting Jim, but I've had lunch and dinner with Duncan on multiple occasions (he lives just over the Occoquan in Prince William Co.), and I swear, now that he's out of the Navy, he looks just like his brother (that picture doesn't give me a sense of scale...I have no idea how tall either the esteemed Lunatic from Texas or Jim are).
Are you sure that's not Duncan in that pic? I'm not convinced...
I met many a friend out there in the world thanks to rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan. He'll be missed. I read his Conan books in my early teens and TWoT through my 20s and 30s. I guess this shelf of hardcovers will remain incomplete, but neither will I part with them.
Lucy:
It's suicide because it won't happen (they don't have the numbers), and it'll create further division and strife, which they'll take the blame for.
JDM@5
They aren't going to. It'd be political suicide, and keeping their jobs is far more important than DOING their jobs.
Malthus (@46) I know it wouldn't shift 90deg, but it would definately shift often enough to totally wipe out large ecologies due to rapid climate change, and it'd happen often enough that the mass extinction of larger species would be a regular occurance.
The moon may or may not be a harsh mistress, but you can't live without her.
Sus: not rotation speed. The moon stabilizes the earth on its axis. Without the moon, we'd still orbit in the elliptical plane, but there wouldn't be a fixed axis as such.
He's still a complete nutjob, but that point actually is valid. It also wouldn't wipe out all life. Just the higher life forms.
It's still not proof of anything more than that in a universe of billions of galaxies with billions of stars that, statistically, some are going to have orbiting planets with the conditions to support life.
Bush is about to get handed a reality check in the form of Congress' refusal to continue to FUND the war.
Poor kid, always trying to get out from under daddy's shadow, and failing miserably.
It must really suck to be good at only one thing: Fucking up.
That's okay, I used to spell your name wrong all the time in exchanges with Duncan J. on Usenet.
My in-laws live in CT, and they were glad to see someone other then Lieberman run. I haven't talked to them yet, but I suspect they aren't exactly happy to see him still in office.
Better watch out Jim, piss off too many of the trolls and you might find yourself designated as an enemy combatant.
(I say this in jest, but I wonder who exactly I'm kidding).
Avery wrote:
Go back to Dihydrogen Oxide! Only use the IUPAC name - Oxidane. Sounds like something they'd have to run 60000000 cubic feet of dirt throuh an incinerator to get rid of, doesn't it. It only scores like 180 hits on Google. I only know it due to a fluke - most of the people I work with (I'm a researcher at Pfizer) look at me like I've asked them for a weasle when I mention it.
Also, technically it ought to be Hydrogen Oxide (Na2SO4 is sodium sulfate, not disodium sulfate).
I always liked Hydrogen Hydroxide [H(OH)] as a name for it that people'd totally miss.
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