MIT Engineers

[AlabamAlum]

There are wifi phone apps for the iPad I hear (don't have one, so that's second hand info).

[BigRedMan]

My boss and another guy I work with have an Ipad. I chuckle everytime that put in their little docking station and starting typing on the keyboard. Finally they asked me why I chuckle like that when they do that and I said....

Congrats, you have created a laptop. Awesome.


They did not find that entertaining in the least bit.

[Bklyn]

The Cold War no one is talking about...because one doesn't want to upset the king. However, it looks like everyone's employer...or bank...has been infiltrated.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/featu ... ing-201109

[AlabamAlum]

An Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, a Welshman, a Gurkha, a Latvian, a Turk, an Aussie, a German, an American, an Egyptian, a Jap, a Mexican, a Spaniard, a Russian, a Pole, a Lithuanian, a Jordanian, a Kiwi, a Swede, a Finn, an Israeli, a Romanian, a Bulgarian, a Serb, a Swiss, a Greek, a Singaporean, an Italian, a Norwegian, an Argentinian, a Libyan, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist and an African went to a night club. The bouncer said:



[spoiler=]"Sorry, I can't let you in without a Thai."[/spoiler]

[AlabamAlum]

A man is walking home alone late one night when he hears a…
BUMP…
BUMP…
BUMP… behind him.

Walking faster he looks back, and makes out the image of an upright coffin banging its way down the middle of the street towards him.
BUMP…
BUMP…
BUMP…

Terrified, the man begins to run towards his home, the coffin bouncing quickly behind him…
faster…
BUMP…
BUMP…
BUMP…

He runs up to his door, fumbles with his keys, opens the door, rushes in, slams and locks the door behind him. However, the coffin crashes through his door, with the lid of the coffin clapping…
clappity-BUMP…
clappity-BUMP…
clappity-BUMP…
clappity-BUMP…
on the heels of the terrified man…

Rushing upstairs to the bathroom, the man locks himself in. His heart is pounding; his head is reeling; his breath is coming in sobbing gasps. With a loud CRASH the coffin starts breaking down the door; bumping and clapping towards him.

The man screams and reaches for something heavy, anything… his hand comes to rest on a large bottle of Robitussin. Desperate, he throws the Robitussin as hard as he can at the apparition… and…


[spoiler=]the Robitussin stopped the coffin.[/spoiler]

[AlabamAlum]

I was reading the wikipedia article on cataracts

It was only partially cited.

[eCat]

The Cold War no one is talking about...because one doesn't want to upset the king. However, it looks like everyone's employer...or bank...has been infiltrated.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/featu ... ing-201109

yea I had heard that, what you don't hear is we're doing it too

[AlabamAlum]

'Mr. Clark, I have reviewed this case very carefully,' the divorce Court Judge said, 'And I've decided to give your wife $775 a week,'

'That's very fair, your honor,' the husband said. 'And every now and then I'll try to send her a few bucks myself.'

[AlabamAlum]

1. The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.

2. I thought I saw an eye-doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian .

3. She was only a whiskey-maker, but he loved her still.

4. A rubber-band pistol was confiscated from an algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption.

5. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.

6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.

7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

9. A hole has been found in the nudist-camp wall. The police are looking into it.

10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

[AlabamAlum]

11. There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.

12. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

13. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other: 'You stay here; I'll go on a head.'

14. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.

15. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.'

16. The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

17. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.

18. A backward poet writes inverse.

19. In a democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.

20. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.

[AlabamAlum]

21. If you jumped off the bridge in Paris, you'd be in Seine .

22. A vulture carrying two dead raccoons boards an airplane. The stewardess looks at him and says, 'I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.'

23. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says, 'Dam!'

24. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

25. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, 'I've lost my electron.' The other says, 'Are you sure?' The first replies, 'Yes, I'm positive.'

26. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root-canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.

[BigRedMan]

Absolutely horrible.

[Jungle Rat]

An Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, a Welshman, a Gurkha, a Latvian, a Turk, an Aussie, a German, an American, an Egyptian, a Jap, a Mexican, a Spaniard, a Russian, a Pole, a Lithuanian, a Jordanian, a Kiwi, a Swede, a Finn, an Israeli, a Romanian, a Bulgarian, a Serb, a Swiss, a Greek, a Singaporean, an Italian, a Norwegian, an Argentinian, a Libyan, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist and an African went to a night club. The bouncer said:



[spoiler=]"Sorry, I can't let you in without a Thai."[/spoiler]

This post can't just go un noticed. Horrible.

[CAT]

They made me laugh--but I admit to being in Seine!

[Bklyn]

The Cold War no one is talking about...because one doesn't want to upset the king. However, it looks like everyone's employer...or bank...has been infiltrated.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/featu ... ing-201109

yea I had heard that, what you don't hear is we're doing it too

Considering the value of our intellectual property versus China's, I think China is disproportionately making out on that exchange.

(Maybe I'm wrong but China hasn't seemed to be on the forefront of any innovation, they do have a tremendous human resource in the country and a lot of technically proficient individuals, however their educational and governmental system
does not translate into a wealth of envious intellectual ppty, IMO)

[eCat]

China can only make copies of whatever original is out there.

Even if they make advances in education, I think its cultural

I wasn't saying its even between us - China is by far the most agressive

Something else China is doing - they are leasing the worlds resources. They are doing shit like building cities in Africa in exchange for the minerals rights below them.

[Jungle Rat]

They are also stealing our secrets through cyber hacking. I wouldn't be surprised if aTm is in on this.

[Bklyn]

Even if they make advances in education, I think its cultural

Yep

[CAT]

I was in China last year and in a position to ask a lot of questions. Education is very big over there with children doing 3-4 hours of homework every night and school on Saturdays. Don't underestimate the power of the dragon--It is also building it's army (hugely) and building aircraft carriers---sound familiar?

[Bklyn]

Education is big and they're finally adopting some Western principles focused on creativity as opposed to repetition. However, unless their gov't gets a little less totalitarian, I don't see the culture changing significantly enough to make an impact there. With that said, if they keep stealing our innovation (to build aircraft carriers, search engines and highly sophisticated electronics) they may not need independent, creative thinkers to spur their economic progression.