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« Reply #1470 on: November 04, 2009, 07:52:14 AM » |
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Yeah, I'm not going to watch that. Thanks for the info, I'll file it in the "useless trivia" section of my brain.
Do you watch South Park? Did you see the Whale Wars episode" The Song cartman sings is Poker Face... the same song as this woman sings.. Only his is much better. No, haven't watched SP in 3-4 years. |
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« Reply #1471 on: November 07, 2009, 05:07:32 AM » |
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F@CK!! Stay Off the Road Anyway there lady!!   950th Try Is a Charm: Woman Finally Passes Driver's License Test
Saturday, November 07, 2009
SEOUL, South Korea — A woman in South Korea who tried to pass the written exam for a driver's license with near-daily attempts since April 2005 has finally succeeded on her 950th time. The aspiring driver spent more than $4,200 in application fees, but until now had failed to score the minimum 60 out of a possible 100 points needed to get behind the wheel for a driving test.
Cha Sa-soon, 68, finally passed the written exam with a score of 60 on Wednesday, said Choi Young-chul, a police official at the drivers' license agency in Jeonju, 130 miles south of Seoul.
Police said Cha took the test hundreds of times, but had no specific total. Local media said she took the test 950 times.
Now she must pass a driving test before getting her license, Choi said.
Repeated calls to Cha seeking comment went unanswered. She told the Korea Times newspaper she needed the license for her vegetable-selling business.
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Are we going to return to ever having a point or is this thread going to go further south? That's what she's wondering <![CDATA[<a href="http://www.divshare.com/flash/audio?myId=5983880-525" target="_blank">http://www.divshare.com/flash/audio?myId=5983880-525</a>]]> |
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« Reply #1472 on: November 07, 2009, 11:49:52 AM » |
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 Did they change the answers every time?
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« Reply #1473 on: November 07, 2009, 01:19:30 PM » |
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You're right, I am wrong to express my opinion.
Yeah. Shut up about AB. |
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« Reply #1474 on: November 07, 2009, 01:24:14 PM » |
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how about we all shut up about shutting up?  |
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« Reply #1475 on: November 07, 2009, 01:24:42 PM » |
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Sokalner was working the red carpet at the ACE Awards.... They still give out ACE Awards? |
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« Reply #1476 on: November 07, 2009, 02:11:12 PM » |
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Sokalner was working the red carpet at the ACE Awards.... They still give out ACE Awards? Yup, I got one last week. Still not interested enough to go pick it up at the UPS center. |
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« Reply #1477 on: November 09, 2009, 08:33:19 AM » |
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Spider Silk can be used as artificial musclesSpider silk is renowned for its lightweight yet stronger-than-steel fibers, and now scientists are finding a new use for the fine, strong thread: as an artificial muscle.
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Scientists have known for years that some spider silk contracts dramatically, up to 50 percent, when it gets wet. The phenomena is known as super contraction. Scientists speculate that spiders use super contraction as a way to help tighten their webs when dew appears in the morning. Like human muscle, spider silk muscles would have degrees of movement, depending on the amount of water in the air around the muscle. High humidity would mean maximum contraction, low humidity would loosen the treads. Water breaks apart the hydrogen bonds inside the thin strands of protein, causing new, contracting bonds, to form. As the water evaporates the hydrogen bonds reform in their original positions.
The new artificial muscle could be used in microelectromechnical systems (or MEMS) -- tiny devices that operate on very small scales to, for example, separate individual cells. All a spider silk, cyclic contraction-based spider silk artificial muscle would have to do in a MEMS system is open or close a tiny channel to separate individual cells.
A MEMS system would be a great first use for spider silk artificial muscles because not much silk would be needed. Despite decades of research and dozens of attempts to create artificial spider silk, no one has succeeded in creating an effective replacement. All the silk for an artificial muscle would have to be gathered by hand from real spiders, a fairly labor intensive task.
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« Reply #1478 on: November 09, 2009, 08:35:01 AM » |
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That's really cool.
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« Reply #1479 on: November 09, 2009, 08:44:05 AM » |
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You're right, I am wrong to express my opinion.
Yeah. Shut up about AB. If you really want to be pissy about this and pick some sort of retarded forum fight, go ahead and keep egging me on. I'd recommend you don't though. |
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« Reply #1480 on: November 09, 2009, 10:16:50 AM » |
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You're right, I am wrong to express my opinion.
Yeah. Shut up about AB. If you really want to be pissy about this and pick some sort of retarded forum fight, go ahead and keep egging me on. I'd recommend you don't though. Don't have to. You just proved my point for me. You can tell other people to shut up but how dare someone tell you you're wrong to express an opinion.  |
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« Reply #1481 on: November 09, 2009, 11:13:25 AM » |
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You're right, I am wrong to express my opinion.
Yeah. Shut up about AB. If you really want to be pissy about this and pick some sort of retarded forum fight, go ahead and keep egging me on. I'd recommend you don't though. Don't have to. You just proved my point for me. You can tell other people to shut up but how dare someone tell you you're wrong to express an opinion. I was wrong to tell you to shut up, at the time I thought I'd just save everyone else from having to read your bland opinion. Continue on with sounding like an outraged fanboy that will forever remain dull and spiteful. I enjoyed your posts a lot more when you were unintentionally funny and griping about George W. Bush and how I long for those days. Say what you will about my opinion I at least try to be entertaining when I express it although that may not always happen. Note to Mods & Admin: I'm done now with arguing with her. |
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« Reply #1482 on: November 10, 2009, 07:36:42 AM » |
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You knew that when you tried to shut me up. Twice. But your attempts at censorship will never work. Mystic Studios Productions will always prevail. The spirit and truth will never die!
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« Reply #1483 on: November 12, 2009, 10:13:25 AM » |
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Lawsuit claims Sarah Jessica Parker stole iPod idea, sold to Steve Jobs in 1983Apple’s no stranger to lawsuits ranging from the mundane to the bizarre, but it’s hard to imagine that even the X-Files of their legal department nurses a more utterly strange lawsuit than the one Franz A. Wakefield is leveling against Apple. What’s his beef? He claims he invented the iPod in 1983, but had the design stolen from him by Sex in the City star Sarah Jessica Parker, who then sold it to Steve Jobs in an utterly unlikely bit of corporate espionage.
The year is 1983. According to the lawsuit, Wakefield developed a friendship with Parker and made a trade secret deal with her to commercialize the iPod Classic, iPod Nano, iPod Mini, iPod Shuffle, iPod Touch and iPhone. They arranged a deal for Parker to net two percent of gross revenues for licensing the technology to a suitable electronics company. But Sarah Jessica Parker — only 18 at the time, mind you — decided to run straight to Steve Jobs, betraying Wakefield and selling the very technology that he himself created to Apple. Jobs then waited nearly two decades to capitalize upon his ill-begotten technology.
So what does Wakefield want? In a letter to Steve Jobs, he demanded: “I… seek legal recourse for the immediate cease and desist from the manufacture, marketing, and sale of all the iPOD, iTunes, and Iphone lines; along with pursuing damages from the products sold to date, unjust enrichment caused by the theft, enforcement of the agreed 2% gross revenues on all sales, and any other applicable damages or compensation.”
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« Reply #1484 on: November 12, 2009, 02:46:38 PM » |
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