"Will quantum computing [mind control/Teilhard de Chardin's work/human cloning/black holes/the nanotechnology threat] affect this in the future?"
Answer "yes". When they ask you to elaborate, say "nobody knows yet." Admitting a lack of knowledge in an academic talk is so rare that the audience often appreciates the experience
Beyond that, the CD's themselves make nice frisbees.
Only if you don't like your frisbees to fly straight. One summer a few years ago, I lived in a house that a number of undergraduates had previously lived in. We got about a dozen AOL CDs in the mail every week. My summer roommate and I would play a game where we threw them across the room into a box to determine who had to make dinner/do the dishes/find the remote/buy beer/etc. They didn't fly well at all. One day, we decided it was much easier to throw them at each other and skip the box. After about five minutes of tearing around the backyard, we had thrown more on the roof than into each other. Good thing too, or I'd have had "1000 Hours Free!" imprinted on my forehead.
Now, if they had little downcurved edges...
Not for the first time (sigh), Electrolite makes me wish I had the time, stamina and patience to create a blog called "Actual Conservativism."
I'd read that. Real conservatives seem to be as rare as American socialists, and much quieter lately.
There is politics, and there is power. While it is unfortunate that the first is the road to the second, I suppose it's better than some of the alternatives. Still, it's not a very good way of putting power in the hands of those responsible enough to do useful things with it.
I'm a reasonably well-informed citizen of the United States, who votes and pays attention to the news and worries about the country and the world we live in. But I can't stand politics any more. To those who tell me that we need to engage in politics because that's how we make good things happen, you're right, absolutely right. I just don't have the stomach for it. Wake me up a week before it's time to vote.
Is it just me, or does that vase look utterly unlike the original? Look at the curves--they don't match up at all
What he said. After a bit of looking, I can see where the recovered piece came from, but boy does it look different. I wonder how much of that is due to the high-contrast gray image compared to a flat low contrast color image.
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