The dogs shall rejoice. Luckily, since their rejoicing is normally a noisy business, Your Overlordship is far enough away not to be deafened.
BTW, the dachshunds usually eat what they kill, and have been training the rat terrier to do likewise. I'd hate to interfere; I could end up being bitten myself.
But what about the terriers? And my landlady wants to know about dachsunds--hers have shown great promise in the rodent elimination field, including the larger varieties.
Does the Overlord authorize the use of ferrets in rat-suppression? How about terriers? There's a young one at my house, and he's ready to learn...
If I recall correctly, the blimps were able to travel at convoy speed, and were expected to send a radio message for bomber support if they spotted a sub. The bomber would then release depth charges, and go back to its base. This system was supposed to reduce wear and tear on the bomber escorts--they could turn up as needed, rather than flying in gigantical circles over the convoy area, wearing out both pilot and machine.
Wrong end of the bird , Pat. Encarta claims:
Pope’s nose (plural pope’s nos·es)
noun
tail end of cooked bird: the fatty piece of flesh at the rear end of a cooked chicken, turkey, or other bird, to which the tail feathers were attached
Also called parson’s nose
U.K. term parson’s nose ( offensive in some contexts )
Which agrees with what I was taught growing up, although my mother always felt it was likely to be offensive in ALL contexts, and was intended to be so, by the (presumably) anticlerical originators of the term.
Gregg, astonishingly enough, being an ass is seen as here as a condition to be regretted, not one to be admired or emulated. You are free to be an ass in your own sppace, or, indeed, in any space where they'll put up with it. However, the Nielsen Hayden virtual living room was declared off-limits by the hostess some time ago, and she has the technology to make it stick.
Gregg, people here who indulge themselves with excessive rudeness and bad language lose their vowels. If they behave, their posts get to keep them. This is why Xopher was typing certain words without them--they'd be subject to disemvowelling if Teresa got to them.
By behave, Teresa, who moderates these discussions, does not mean "agree with us blindly"; what is expected is respect for others, arguments with serious backing behind them, and an ability to discuss above the levels of a set of schoolyard bullies. There are conservatives here; they are, however, real conservatives with an old-fashioned respect for courtesy and honorable conduct, and their arguments are based on something more than "I said so and if you won't admit it you're monkeypeople!" You'll notice that VD tended to kep his vowels; this is because, however inept his arguments were, they were at least expressed in civil language.
By and large, these threads are not about winning arguments; they are about sharing information and discussing differing viewpoints on everything from cilantro to classic Bad SF Movies, for everyone's enlightenment and entertainment. If you do win an argument here, it's because you've convinced those who disagreed with you, or were neutral on an issue, not because you showed up and berated people until they quit responding to you. We don't keep score here either; as long as the discussion is interesting and shows some level of consideration for the people taking part, most of us think it's a success.
You may be under the impression that you and Bane showed the Evul Libruls something; most of what I saw from you all was the sort of insults and tantrums my high-school debate teacher didn't tolerate. I saw no arguments that convinced me of the rightness of your cause, and no displays of rhetoric above that which Aristophanes beat to death with contempt in The Clouds.
I don't condemn the choice of Mr. Beale as a member of the Nebula juries; since I don't much care about the Nebula awards, I don't really care who got on the juries, and I do believe that if he had opinions that might have been detrimental to someone's cause, there were probably enough members on his jury to balance him out. However, none of his faithful supporters who've come over here have "won" anything; they haven't changed minds, and if any of them have opinions that deserve to be taken seriously, they failed to manage convince anyone here they were anything but juvenile bloviators. Rush is a poor role model for you; he stacks the deck against the Evul Libruls he pretends to take on and then declares a victory. If you want to be treated like a grown man whose opinions should be respected, act like one, and your first move is to behave as if you respect others. We are not crash test dummies for you to beat up on, and then strut over your triumph. Your vowels are the least you can lose here.
JVP, Tennessee also has a tobacco plant on the state seal. Many were shocked when the state legislature broke down and made the state office buildings non-smoking spaces--after all, the tobacco lobby was opposed to it!
Tracina notes: "...in both law and medicine, one has the option of eventually having a private practice, if desired. While one still has to get through all the crap at the beginning, there's the encouraging knowledge that it won't last forever, and that things are likely to improve when one is one's own boss and therefore less directly affected by and vulnerable to someone else's prejudices."
Law and medicine, to which we may add architecture and engineering, are also often family businesses, and sons often followed their fathers into the family firm. Now, this has been expanded; couples practice together, and sons and daughters follow their parents. However, even where science has a place in private industry, it tends not to be in family firms, where the student can hope to have a job when they've finished training.
Well that just shows how little I know. I didn't realize it took consuming enough martinis to become The Sewanee Review Given what I've seen of the society of that community, I thought any spirituous liquors would do.
If it's as hard to find volunteers for the job of jurying an additional selection into each of the categories as it all too often is to find people to take on for lots of other tasks in all-volunteer organizations, I expect the person setting up the juries was glad to get anyone who could be arm-twisted into doing the job.
As for screening for acceptability of opinions, you don't want to go there. This year, we think Beale's are uncool. In five year's time, who knows who'll be considered unacceptable. Witchhunt bad, tolerance [leavened with humor, as PNH advocates] good. As for his ungraciousness to Dr. Asaro, if she was indeed his target, I'd think the reaction he's getting here and elsewhere is probably punishment enough--he's been labelled "jerk", and so he shall be known, regardless of any good qualities he may possess. I know it's hard for many, here and elsewhere, to acknowledge that a man of his opinions may have good points; still, it is a possibility.
Besides, the thought of his possible paranoia and discomfiture when a female physicist and writer of fantasy novels offers him a chance at a responsible job in the organization entertains me. What's she up to? What did she mean by this? What's happening here? Is this his chance to stand up for the Good, the True, and the Right, or is it a Trap, set up by eval godless feminists?
The comment spam is creeping over from Making Light.
"it reminded me of May Day celebrations. All it lacked was the parade of rockets passing the stands..."
I'm waiting for the humongous shiny non-military medals to show up. They're giving them out to the tools and the minions; it's just that the current models aren't flashy enough by dictator standards.
I would suspect the reason for a movie-maker, whether studio or independent, to wait until a book or short story was in the public domain to make the movie is not frugality, but the fact that the living author might not have been willing to say Yes. Would Asimov have gone along with this summer's I, Robot? Would Dr. Seuss have felt the need for Jim Carrey to impersonate The Grinch, with Chuck Jones's version in existence? Of course, in both those cases, the heirs sold the rights, but the thought still stands: an unwilling live author, in control of their rights, is hard to get around.
On another tangent, The Four Feathers has been made into a movie at least 5 times, plus a TV version; the earliest imdb.com lists was done in 1915. As for The Iliad, there may not be as many movies based on The Matter of Troy as on The Matter of Britain, but it, too, has been done before. Extras weren't always so expensive, and the bar for special effects wasn't always so high.
Xopher, that process is still in use in more than a few places. I can think of at least one such plant in Missouri,and IIFRC, there are a couple in Georgia as well. I'm sure they aren't the only ones. It works, after all.
A good many of the windpower generators are in place in regions where wind presence, if not speed, is a fairly reliable factor--like most of the Great Plains. Back before REa, a lot of people there relied on wind mills to drive their well pumps, after all.
Another renewable source being explored is poultry-processing waste--there's a plant in Carthage, MO, producing synthetic crude oil from the remainders from a Butterball Turkey plant nearby--see http://www.changingworldtech.com and also
http://www.res-energy.com for more details.
I think there are some studies out there on combining poultry-farm waste with coal, in coal-fired generating plants--both the poultry farms and the coal-fired generators are common in southern US, so it's a natural combination. Sulfur based-emissions were reduced, and I don't recall that there was a marked loss in efficiency of generation. I'm not sure where I saw this research, right off the top of my head, though.
There's a phrase I don't often use, out of respect for all the women through the ages who have worked hard to raise children--both their own, through birth, as well as those who came their way by happenstance--to be worthy humans. However, after considering both the shy, timid shrinking violet in the White House and his lovely mother, Mrs. It's-not-rude-if-I-say-it, all I can say is "What a whiny little mama's-boy". Oooooh, Georgie, did the bad peoples say mean things to you and hurt your ickle feelings? Dat's OK, Mommy wuvs oo and remember, Georgie, since you're the Chosen One, you can make them all sorry they were so mean to you.
Yes, that was petty of me. I have issues with chcknsht sshls. Maybe it's a hillbilly thing, maybe it's my parents' fault. Harry Truman was right, though: if you can't stand heat, do you need to be in the kitchen?
We've started using a electronic system in Nashville for bus fares--we haven't got the light rail up and running quite yet, but I suspect they'll tie it into that as well. You can buy tickets by the week or month (unlimited rides), tickets worth X number of rides, or just feed a large bill into the farebox and get your change back in the form of a card you can use until the money's gone. Transfers are handled the same way. It's not a card-only system yet, and they haven't expanded it over to the taxis yet, but so far it's working well. I think Kansas City is also using a similar system, although I don't know if it's just on buses at this time. It certainly beats groping for exact change.
Equality under the law: Hmm. An interesting approach. Question: may the law ever exclude a given class of persons from a given institution (or allow such exclusion to occur) and not be held to trespass upon the guarantee of equality?
In many states in the US, felons, or certain classes of felons, are deprived of the right to vote, and are therefore excluded from the class of enfranchised residents of this country [that is to say, citizens 18 years of age and older]. Typically, there is a mechanism provided for petitioning to have the right to vote returned.
However, those felons who lose the right to vote did originally have it, or were too young to have belonged to the enfranchised group, from which they would not have been excluded when they became 18, if not for the felony.
Poll taxes, literacy requirements and such were all exclusionary mechanisms designed to disenfranchise otherwise acceptable voters--typically, these were racist maneuvers, as were the laws preventing naturalization of Asian immigrants. I beleive the exclusion of felons survives because it is supposed to be a punishment for a certain degree of criminality, and because an appeal process exists. A lawyer would know more about this, know it more completely, and explain it better. However, because the exclusion is provoked by a criminal act on the part of the excludee, and is not necessarily a permanent one, I think the guarantee of equality doesn't apply to these cases. Of course, this is my half-informed interpretation of these things, and I'm prepared to be called on it, and to see a full explanation appear from any more knowledgable person.
I'm sure the right hypnotic regression therapist could find it, along with Satanic Cult Abuse and alien abduction.
Perhaps the aliens were wearing white stockings?
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