Bluetooth it baby!

it’s been illigal for ages over here in the netherlands

Greetings to all minions.

Im First!!!! I AM THE GREATEST! I AM THE GREATEST! I AM THE GREATEST!

(insert movie clip from Nicolas Cage in Firebirds)

oh, first lol , is it my speakers or does the sound at the beginning crackle?

bluetooth illegal?…say it ain’t so… :shock:

are you sure?

OHH men. I wanted to request that word but I already know the origin. Now my name will never be mentioned by the HOT teacher. :cry:

Damn Foxbow! you beat me by mere seconds. I had this message on my clipboard. Im not worthy.

‘er…CaptainJack, i hate to burst your imaginary bubble…but, well, foxbow15 pricked it already… :mrgreen:

Are you really sure???

no, driving with you’re phone in you’re hand…that’s what she’s asking right?

lol :grin:

Damn you must have a fast computer. I can’t even reply to my own post as fast as you can. I guess thats why your an F16 pilot hu?

oh, you mean you actually listened to the lesson first?…lol…

gawd, i’m glad there’s one civilized nation in the world…drivers driving one-handed are a pet peeve of mine… :cool:

Dear Marina, I think it is a great law, and it will save many lives. I’ve seen going wildly on the freeway because they were talking on a cellphone. If you drive here, I hope you are careful, too.

For a word suggestion, how about “sweetheart”? Is it about taste?
From seesix, or CM6

I think there should be a law to require people to retest for their drivers license every 4 years. Heck they make drivers with a CDL retest every year or two.

Someone told me that the word “woman”, isn’t actually a variation of the word “man”… but that the word “man”, came from the word “woman”. As one of your minority female fans, can you educate us?

Best wishes,

-Del Rae

BTW I wanna request HOSPITAL

i hear a very slight crackle, similar to that on my vinyl records (yes, i still have ‘em – my 10-yr-old boy likes to listen to Black Sabbath :roll: )…

but then that very, very stunning bikini pic shows up, the world begins to spin, i see lights flashing and can’t hear a dang thing…

imagine that… :razz: :mrgreen: :cool:

Damn I still can’t find that video of Nicolas Cage in Firebirds. :sad:

Heya marina,
wanted to request 2 things :idea:
number uno -word “farfetched” :!:
number dos -phrase “pull my finger” :?:
thx if u do :mrgreen:
Souljablacc66 aka Vgwiz28 <— YouTube Acc

Her video was up for 40 minutes before she posted it on HFW.

Of course i listened to the lesson first :) That’s what it’s all abouth right :smile:

CaptainJack : yeah sure, you’re just trying to talk yourself out of being second :smile:

i agree wholeheartedly with the law…i’ve had at least a wired mike ever since i first picked up a cell phone…and Jabra rules!!!…

but i agree with the seatbelt law, too, and here in GA if you drive a pickup truck you still don’t have to have seatbelts…and you can carry riders in the bed of the truck…

go figure… :cool:

so it goes up on YouTube first?…gawd… :shock:

OH or the word “cheese” when people take pictures
WHY CHEESE THE PERSONS NAME WHO INVENTED THE CAMERA CHEESE should be something like smile :mrgreen:
THX again for being a great teacher

not yet :P

the vids on this site link to those on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWZbzLjxD2I

this?

It’s illegal in New York. :grin:
But the cops only sporadically enforce the law. :evil:
So the soccer moms still roam around yakking about the price of tea in Tibet and holding up traffic and cutting folks off. :evil: Shut up, it’s for the children. :???:
Just as bad as the seniors having whoopsee’s with the pedestrians, “Oh I didn’t see you thru the handicap sign hanging from my mirror”. :evil:
Hang on pedestrian I almost hit. Gertrude is calling to tell me about the special at the senior home. :???: Stewed prunes, yum :cool:
I’ll just follow that soccer mom doing a u-turn on a 6 lane highway. :evil: Shut-up I’m a senior. :roll:
The blue hair on the bluetooth. :mrgreen:

I haven’t a word, but a questions of words. Why do so many of the words in the english language orginate from old latin or greek lanuage?

I just tried watching 4 times and it stops ever time at :54 and then the little red (dark) stripe goes real quick all the waY to the end…? Try again? ..It loading all the way(light red stripe) but stops at:54…mmmm?

That is interesting delraecpa. Marina did a video of Female vs Male. (See her past lessons) that I think you will find interesting.
Woman is of late old English wimmam and wimmen , also an alteration wife, wifman or wifmen.
Maybe Teacher can come up with some interesting story about ‘woman’ vs ‘man’…

Same thing happen to me the other day on the Martini one. :evil:
Don’t know what it is or how to fix it.
Your not alone.
Very sporatic and doesn’t hurt other’s videos.

Yeah, i had the same problem to yesterday :S I added &fmt=18 behind the url in Youtube and then it worked fine..it also worked after i removed the &fmt=18, kinda weird but try it anyway

It’s illegal in NY–a good idea. Doesn’t seem to discourage too many people though.

If you drive a car with a manual transmission (stick), it’s a big problem to drive in city traffic while holding a phone–you need three hands–one for the wheel, one for the gear lever, and one for the phone…..the only option is to hold the phone with you left hand, and let go of the wheel while changing gear.

However, it should also be made illegal to EAT in the car, which is the cause of as many accidents.

But bluetooth earpieces don’t solve the problem of texting or of manipulating menus–which really are just as bad. I’ve seen people doing all kinds of crazy things while driving–watching videos (insane), reading (really!), and (sorry!) girls doing their make-up using the rear view mirror!

In those cases, I am truly lostforwords.

Hi Marina, can u do a movie on the origin of kudos. Plz do kudos!!! KUDOS!!!!

Still not workin’ for me….oh, it at :56 not :54

Are you both using firefox 3.0? maybe that’s the cause? it seems to have some minor flaws, i’v had some other small problems with it to.

Something must be not working with your eyeballs. I think the beach skin has brunt your retinas. Take to aspirin and reboot your eyes. Then open your browser and type in Microsoft sucks and hit refresh. That should fix it. :lol:

Im just bad ain’t I? :razz:

Seriously just reboot your machine.

I don’t even see this lesson on YT yet, which is odd :???: Ialways thought they went on YT first….mmmmm? Thanks for the tip foxbow15, but you might as well have said, banana banana banana, I’m to savvy when its come to these internet machines :oops:

That was funny!! What does reboot mean, to shut it off and start over?

Just as described this sort of law enacted years ago in New York
has it’s opponents and proponents. It has to do with certain statistics
while driving. I have made up a bumper sticker to unite one and all:

“Last year, phone-sex while driving helped produce over 50% more
jerks on the road than was previously expected. Please, people -
– help slap it down !!”

I have a word for you Marina, I want to know the origin of the word – Inn -
I think you know what the word means.
I liked the video, keep up the good work Marina :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT9f-2zcZkA&fmt=18

So this vid also shuts down at 0.56..?

yes…

i want to know where the word masturbation comes from

I ate in my automobile just for lunch today, no accident, course it was parked at the time though.

So, I was looking in the lessons section.
Ain’t on there? The word “ain’t” – it ain’t on there.
But, then I looked it up in my cheap dictionary.
And it ain’t in there …. ?
What’s going on here ?
Don’t tell me it ain’t a word – that argument
ain’t been heard since I was in high school in 1982.
Ain’t-cha going to do it?
What was I talking about…… :?:

Well, I know it’s a contraction word due to the apostrophe
But, most of my teachers said if we used that word
that we ain’t going to get a good grade.
I’m confused.

Ok, I rebooted and now theres not even a vid to watch, Its just a white box with a little red X in the top left cornner :shock: :???:

i had the problem yesterday also, but it disappeared after several attempts…

no worries, pagedoll, there’s really nothing there to see… :roll: :mrgreen: :twisted:

doh!…

‘course they do…still…

couldn’t they go up on the site then post to YouTube, or be simultaneous?…i don’t know…

hate to come in second to YTers…lol… :cool:

Help me teacher!…you’re my only hope :???: …you remember, the line from Star Wars :smile:

We lost 5 kids here last year to texting and driving in one accident. :evil:
What could be so important that you have to text and drive. :evil:
And they had just graduated from High School. :evil:

Actually holding a phone while driving is forbidden in entire European Union.

And I have a word request which would suit to make it in Russian… Why is there a word “copok” in russian and not “chetyrnadcatj”? Maybe it is obvious, it is just that I dont know much about Russian, only of what I have learned at primary school. But now I really wish to study it again. Ty mne pomozhesh, Marina? :oops:

Ok, the vid is back but still stops at :56, even on YT…I’m done :sad:

Marina,

The plant over your right shoulder doesn’t look too happy. :sad:
You didn’t try to water it with a Martini did you? :wink:

re: Video resetting at 0:56

This is very interesting. The video resets and jumps to the end at the 0:56 mark. I tested the embedded video above and it fails in all three browsers; MSIE6, FF3, Seamonkey 1.1.9

Also, the three cached FLV videos fail in the same location using any of my standalone video players.

The video does work perfectly in any browser on YT. Tested five times in a row.

Have no clue at the moment. I’ll let you know if I find anything.

Mine does that constantly, but i’m to lazy to fix it. Is it doing it only with this video or does it happen to all/most videos on YT. If its just this one its probably b/c its new.

I don’t have to deal with the new law, as I got fed up with driving years ago, and am able to get around just fine via subway and bus. Not having a car has given me a lot more freedom as a songwriter and lyricist to focus on what matters. Or, as my friend Aimee put in her song ‘Freeway’, I got a lot of money, but I can’t affored the freeway.

Speaking of, there is a slight dispute over at AimeeMann.com where some of her fans can’t accept that I had an influence lyrically (and personally) on her new album @#%&*! Smilers. But any real word detective that gives me the benefit of the doubt will see the truth of the matter. To those interested in delving into the mystery, here’s a link:

http://www.aimeemann.com/messageboard/viewthread.php?tid=7518

What’s cool is that it does involve a lot of wordplay, as Aimee incorporated the strange poetic stylings of Anne Sexton, a rather mischievous wordplayer. I can totally relate… Peace, Errin : )

Hi Marina What’s up with the phrase “Jump the Shark”? I can google it but would be fun to hear the explaination from you….

He requests the hospital, you guys take him to the hospital :smile:

Well those are all good theory’s.

This sounds similar to what happens to thw Windows Media Player
and will sometimes clear up after I run a spyware-scan(strange but true). Other fixes have been with the Java-script. The Java-script fix
I don’t know by heart, though. It starts out from the toolbar, then internet tools and there are about 4 or 5 settings in a checklist)
But, try your spyware scan for now.

Usually I hate new laws. Lawmakers should be awarded $50,000 for every law they take off the books. That’s using an incentive to motivate
the lawmakers. I also think lawmakers should be awarded a cool $1,000,000 (that’s one million bones) for each year they balance the budget. Getting back to the subject at hand, I am positively in favor of
the new law against cell phones in the car. People should drive their cars with undivided attention.

#66 Roadunmch!
your email is keeelling me LOL!!! :mrgreen:

Good evening Marina :D

Where is the TP of this vid? :P

Also I would really like to know the history of the word “Poker”. :)

a female friend of mine was on the way to Atlanta one day wth other ladies when they noticed a trucker driving his semi just a tad erratically…

when traffic bogged down, they happened to come alongside the cab of the truck, and it was immediately apparent what was going on…

the cab of the truck was bouncing very slightly up & down, and the trucker was driving one-handed…

yep, he was gettin’ a spit-shine… :shock:

never be surprised at the stupidity of humans… :sad:

try IE7…that’s what I’m using now…

also, I just checked and it runs fine in Safari 3.1.2 (tossed that in for CaptainJack)… :mrgreen:

In this early commenting, I guess I might as well gently open a can of worms.

At the end of the video, Marina said, “drive safe” as opposed to what I was taught, which should be; “drive safely”. English is my second language, and I was “beaten” up for saying “drive safe”.

Saying “drive safe” would imply driving a safe, which is a noun. Drive safely is an adverb modifying a verb.

The can of worm gets started when we talk about prescriptive grammar rules versus what is understood. These discussions have been on this site before.

An item I saw on the web said, “drive safe” has been in use and is understood to mean driving safely. Whereby, if you said “You drive safe” would be wrong and “You drive safely” would be correct.

Any grammar experts on this?

Since i’m watching the Matrix…where did the word ‘Oracle’ come from?

Bluetooth was the actual guy? :roll:
thanks for the in depth report.
it’s always nice when you investigate..
that’s why the logo is like that – runes!

homework, i have never had a cell phone.
my choice is to not wear that ball and chain.
gotta worry about where you leave it,
not to mention batteries, oh – and don’t
forget to leave it on overnight to catch
system updates, the insurance and
replacements – oy gevalt
and don’t go near a toilet in the loo
insurance won’t cover it
i see what people go through…
I missed out totally on
“can you hear me now”land
designs go from impractical
to impossible to reason with.
I don’t want a phone that can
outsmart me in MY house! LOL
I’m holding out for the
Dick Tracy model yet to
be invented Bluetooth tech
brings it even closer to reality.
I’d rather wear a nice watch
chronometer :smile:

said sorry

the “LY” makes the word an adverb.

I don’t know anyone w/o a cell phone. My 80year old grandma even has one. Even my friends w/ no credit rating has a pay-as-you-go one.

Extremely interesting discovery Marina!

I think it is an excellent law and should be made nationally. People need to pay attention to driving when driving [duh]. I now have Bluetooth® in my car, but still rarely talk while driving.

PS. I am glad your hair is growing out. You got it cut just a little too short last time. :)

I knew forgot something important.
AND NOW! back to the show! :mrgreen:
that was too real funny..

Funny! We were just talking about this on the previous thread!

Oh, and for the homework – I don’t think I am capable of driving anymore without talking on the phone!

Bluetooth it baby, god put a lock down on this one. Its always new, or improved and new, theres two much new and improved, thees enough new products in this world its now just a matter of source allocation.

Marina, dear teacher, just curious, this has nothing to do with the lesson, but have you ever considered lessons with captions for the hearing impaired? In addition to broadening your audience I believe it would give you a unique advantage as there is no one else who does video blogs who currently offers this service. I know it would mean a little extra work, but it might be worth the effort. Just a thought…

Hey, Del Rae, somebody slipped you a key, I see. females seem to know what you’re going to ask before you ask it, is that right?
Women are smarter umph thats right.

roadrunrnch, odd icon, or avatar is it suppose to mean anything special?

[best Sybill from Fawlty Towers]
on the phone “I know, I know”

I’ve been acosted to get one many times
my mother would freakin’ love it!

Thank You Bluetooth is one of the corporate trademarks that I could not quite grasp as far as name-to-product association. Once again, you have enlightened me and I do appreciate it.

Marina, it’s illegal in Texas also. So, no, I never do it unless I use the speakerphone feature. Any distraction while driving is potentially dangerous. (Which as Tim Allen pointed out, is why Mercedes doesn’t have cup holders. Or at least they didn’t until they started to be designed by people who consume Big Gulps. But I digress.) In addition to being dangerous while driving there is the possibility that the microwave transmissions can interrupt the blood-brain barrier and cause a lot of physical problems. (see link below please.) In Europe and the UK the placement of cell phone transmission towers is more closely regulated than here in America.
http://www.rense.com/general76/celkll.htm

I do not talk on the phone while driving, not even with a headset or whatever options there are. I have enough trouble concentrating. Since my son is about to drive soon, I really worry about teens driving and trying to talk on a phone at the same time. Also, on YouTube or somewhere, there were audiotapes of people talking on phones and crashing. It was horrible. A friend’s daughter was nearly killed by a man who couldn’t hear people screaming at him to stop because he was about to hit a bunch of kids while talking on the phone. I do think it is unsafe but that is just my opinion.

you can’t tell racers to drive safely
bad things can happen – a mojo thing.
I say to “drive friendly”, that works
good mojo :mrgreen:

Wow, viewers are really observant! I was so busy listening to the lesson I didn’t even know there was a plant in the background. I need to pay better attention.

Where did that come from?
Deathcard?
“let’s Charley know who did this”

I heard that about the microwaves. I wondered about that. I hope it isn’t truly dangerous.

It’s obvious you got your training from Foster Brooks

Marina had the numbers…
what was it … saves 300
lives a year, and that’s
just Rodeo Drive, I bet. :mrgreen:

what would you do? :mrgreen:
i’m keepin’ my toes! LOL

I am seeing this a lot from you :grin:
id this for real? :roll:

Hello Marina,

I did some testing and isolated the video issue to Javascript.
When I embedded the video in my own web page with no JS, it worked fine. When I copied the HFW embedded code with JS, the video would fail.

I think you had turned AJAX off prior to the server upgrade.
Might this be an AJAX issue?

All three browsers are now playing the video perfectly and I never re-booted nor did any other adjustments, other than turn JS OFF, then back ON again and cleared the cache.

Popcorn

Firefox checks AOK at 9:45 pm EST
check it again, should work. :mrgreen:

I missed a plant??
I need to start over… :mrgreen:

You need a Gravatar so Marina
can get a look at you. I can tell
you’ll be back :mrgreen:

It is not a stupid law if so many lives can be saved.

Marina, I would like to know the origin of the word usage “chick,” as in “That chick is hot.” :grin:

6″ tall Princess Leah? yeah, i remember
Saw Star Wars in Germany, barely able
to follow dialogue. C3PO was easier to
understand… :mrgreen:

Have you tried to get on on of those video segments on Jeopardy? That would be great promotion! Really, they do video segments all the time and word origins would be perfect topic.

Boot
“start up a computer,” 1975, from bootstrap (n.), 1953, “fixed sequence of instructions to load the operating system of a computer,” on notion of the first-loaded program pulling up itself by the bootstraps.

Bootstrap. Computers.
a. to start (a computer) by loading the operating system.
b. to start (a program) by loading the first few instructions, which will then bring in the rest.

re-boot (rÄ“-bōōt’)

A term that comes from computer usage. To reboot a computer is to start it up again after a computer crash. Hence, “reboot” has the connotation of starting a process over again.

The sad thing is I know the manual process of booting a computer operating system (OS) or software program.

Okay, I watched it two times and finally remembered to think about the plant. I think it is fine and it is an orchid plant or something exotic. They look like that.

I would like to know the origin of the word hoplology.

I’m not a grammar expert but it is supposed to be correct to say “I feel badly” instead of “I feel bad” but doesn’t “I feel badly” sound worse to most people? However, I think there is some distinction between a state of being and an action like driving. It is subtle.

Also, this isn’t really a word meaning thing but the word “Legos” is not American and is not plural in its original language. A bunch of Legos is called Lego. But who would say “Put up those Lego” here in America and leave out that “s”? It would sound like they were missing some Legos, symbolically speaking.

try it again, let me know if it still is a bug
do you have AVG? if not AdAware, maybe?
AdAware misses beau coup tracking cookies.
again, maybe the codecs need updated (deja vu?)
google keywords “codecs update download free”
is a good start. READ EVERYTHING before you
download anything
this is mine – it works (Google it)
—————————————————————————————
Codec v8.2 build 8 for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
—————————————————————————————

Features:

- CoreAVC® Video Codec 1.7.0.0
- DivX 6.8.2 Codec
- XviD 1.1.3 (12.04.2008)

- CoreAACâ„¢ Audio Decoder 1.2.0.575 rev.3
- AC3Filter 1.46

Now thats a smart idea jcr! Sound like a perfect match up!

At least you are capable of driivng. Some days, I don’t even feel up to that, depending on the traffic and how tired I am…just thinking about it made me yawn. Off to get some coffee.

She did a catchall lesson on
Bad Grammar that might
be a place to start :mrgreen:

Yes, but they’d probably hire her to take over Vanna White’s job.Oh, wait…I’m mixing up my game shows. :grin:

Does anybody remember when they used to be called “car phones?” People who are a menace while driving and talking at the same time would crash or cause a wreck if they just tried to change the radio station or adjust there heating or cooling! Cell phone talkers are NOT the bane of the road as our media would have you believe, it’s still tired drivers and people who drive impaired in some way, I have a cell phone adapter wired up into my helmet so I can talk and ride while riding my motorcycle so just THINK what I think of this law of not driving and talking on a cell phone while driving! So again, much like guns, the instrument is blamed for the fault and not the person doing the deed, we have plenty of laws to deal with poor driving this one will not do anything but generate more revenue and do nothing for safety! I now step down from my soap box.:-)

Which lesson, melika…? (I’ve still only watched about half of them)

Well being merely 17, I don’t drive or even own a cell phone for that matter.

I think it’s absolutely a great law. People can really become distracted when talking on the phone.

That is a brilliant idea.

That picture of the guy with the blue teeth was nasty but hilarious – I was like uhhhh, but hahaha!!! Anyway nice video once again, Marina, you’ve far outdone yourself, but I have a question for you – when’s your birthday and what was the original term for birthday?

Have a lovely night, Marina,
Shawn Michael Norris

Hey! Its work for me now!, the video…I can deal with the new law here in Cali but whats funny is I have to push the bluetooh thingy against my ear to hear it! :lol:

Sorry, Marina – oblivious is pronounced uh-bliv-ee-uhs

re: “I feel badly” sound worse to most people?

Hi jcr,
Several months ago, there was a long discussion about word evolution and evolution of grammar. Some of us follow strict rules of grammar, while others believe in using what sounds right; in other words prescriptive grammar vs descriptive grammar arguments.

http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/prescriptive-grammar.html

Thanks for your input and the Lego example.
Also, thank you for the nice article that you wrote about Marina.

Hi Hot4Words,

Where do I come from? Do you know … “Gee Willikers“.

Also what is the origin of “Honey Pie”? … as in … Marina, will you be my honey pie?

Send a kiss to … Gwillikers. xoxox

(Oh … and when did “xoxoxox” become “hugs and kisses?)

Kobe isn’t housetrained quite yet, the plant is the closest thing to outdoors for him. Don’t tell Marina…

ditto here… :grin:

2:27 / 2:27

Hi, lovely

Why do people say “what’s up?” as a greeting. For example: “What’s up, Honky?” Where did that come from?

…and where did ‘Honky’ come from as it relates to white people aka ‘crackers.’

lol…just curious.

And thank you for your reply and getting me up to speed with this discussion. I am also fascinated by how language evolves and prescriptive and descriptive grammar. For instance, “It is I” was taught to me by my English teacher but it always sounds awkward to me. Also, I think correct grammar can sound affected if used around people who don’t talk that way.

That article is a myth. I keep hearing this all the time. There is not enough energy from a bag of cellphones to pop any corn. Your body receives more radiation from getting a sun tan than a bag of phones.
I’m a federally licensed amateur radio operator (N7MFE) and Im sure that there is no way for a few cellphone can pop corn.
There are a ton of YT jokes being played on people because you can’t see whats happing behind the curtain (camera). I don’t know how they are doing this yet but here is a good example how people are fooling you.

Hey captain, I read somewhere you’re havin’ a birthday soon. When? I want to wish you a happy b-day when the day rolls around! :smile:

hold on a sec
trying to fix bloody Yahoo mail
Removed Anuddermales fix
didn’t work?
this should go to spam, lessee

Hello, miss Hot for the words. I would like to ask you to make a video to explain any of these things. Hat trick, Avatar, Apocalypse, Algorithm, glasnost, fait accompli, je ne sais quoi, connoisseur, cart blanche and/or Acme. Thank you so much, dear teacher : )

thats a pretty good ? i would like to know to.’Gee Willikers’

I’ve been using a bluetooth for almost 3 years now and averaging 40 hours per month on the phone AND I love it….
I’ve been using the Plantronics 510 model and it has been great.
Plantronics was the company that built the headset for the astronauts who landed on the moon. “One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Mankind”. Yes, its a good law. The bluetooth signal is much weaker than the cellphone so I also feel safer health wise.

Marina, How about Hysterical?…. That would be one to Gaffaw about, he said boisterously :lol:

Marina, tried a few things, no joy
just like you said – straight to spam
(i can find it now, at least!)
the options menu doesn’t have
a way to correct this – no list
to edit. woe is me…. :mrgreen:

Not oblivierse

if i resubscribe, will that make it better or, the same? :idea:

My theory is they have stripped out a microwave gun (magnetron) and just aimed it at the popcorn. So question develops is how does a microwave oven cook anything?
A microwave oven works by passing non-ionizing microwave radiation, usually at a frequency of 2.45 GHz (a wavelength of 12.24 cm), at about 500watst to 1000watts, through the food. Microwave radiation is between common radio and infrared frequencies. Water, fat, and other substances in the food absorb energy from the microwaves in a process called dielectric heating. Many molecules (such as those of water) are electric dipoles, meaning that they have a positive charge at one end and a negative charge at the other, and therefore rotate as they try to align themselves with the alternating electric field of the microwaves. This molecular movement creates heat as the rotating molecules hit other molecules and put them into motion. Microwave heating is most efficient on liquid water, and much less so on fats and sugars (which have less molecular dipole moment), and frozen water (where the molecules are not free to rotate). Microwave heating is sometimes explained as a rotational resonance of water molecules, but this is incorrect: such resonance only occurs in water vapor at much higher frequencies, at about 20 gigahertz.

Cellphones operate at 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz or you can say .850, .900, 1.8 and 1.9 GHz. A handheld cell phone operates on about 0.75 to 1 watt of power. Clearly not enough power to excite water in th e popcorn.

Myth busted!

Now I have to find out how they did it. I’ll search YT. I know a guy that make plasma in his microwave and other interesting science experiments.

We just had the same law go into effect up here in Washington State.

I am of mixed minds on the law. Anything to try and get drivers to pay more attention to their driving should be a good thing, but a lot of studies show that hands free talking can be just as distracting as holding a cell phone as the driver is concentrating on the conversation rather then the enviroment around the car. But outlawying blootooth phone calls would be akin to outlawing talking to passengers in the car.

The laws are great news to the manufacturers and retailers of bluetooth products though.

i have noticed their subject matter being swapped on occaision.
Step in and conquer both, Marina !!

CQ DX… CQ DX…
Hey L Jr., did you drop your old KB7 lic?
I haven’t been on the air for years. Too many other distractions. :grin:

Captn,
What made me laugh the first time I saw the video was that the phones on the table were receiving, not sending. True, cell phones are always sending IDs, but not at full power or duration like talk time.

The video was most likely done with green screen FX
Check out this video.

i put in a tech support report to yahoo
their email has been flawed since I can
remember. the tab always says I have
three emails when i have none!
bad code….no joy, yet :shock:

You just want her to say
“je ne sais quoi” because
of her sexiful voice! :shock:
Alright1 Hope you get it! :mrgreen:

Ahoy Ahoy I think that was it.

I don’t believe talking on your cell is any more distracting than shaving, applying makeup, or any number of activities which are currently not mentioned in legislation. So why not list them all, why single out one?

And actually, i don’t think a GOOD driver is at all distracted by a cell anymore than by the radio, the weather, etc. it’s the bad drivers who need to self-police themselves.

We all just had that lesson
Did you look at the words list?
be sure to check the recent
lessons, too. thanks :mrgreen:

you meant oh-bliv-ee-us, right?
“Boa-reese, let’s keel moose and skvirrel” :mrgreen:

Under the table is my quess… No I wasn’t fooled…

Hi Marina, this is not related to the Bluetooth video but I was on a yacht the other day and the people onboard started refering to the left side of the boat as “Port” side and the right side as “Starboard” side. Weird… Anyway, I just wanna asked if the Port side meant that the boat always goes alongside the port on that side? Or it is just a term with the same pronounication? I think it is also the same word as the sweet tasting wine called Port too. Please enlighten me if you can. Thank you very much! BTW, great videos! Cheerz

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None of the laws that *really* keep folks safest are stupid.

The stupid thing is when the laws never stop being made because “this group” thinks it needs to control “that group”,pretty soon the one group will have to watch to be sure the other group wipes its’ collective ass correctly.

Why not just build hands-free phones into new cars by law just like seat belts in the 1960s? THEN,pass another law that forces folks to answer every call!! You know,so the ringer does’nt distract You! :lol:
“Stupid” is most deffinately the word. :roll:

Gotta go,Dr Who(and Rose) will be on soon,no law against that——-yet.

Facetious rant is now turned off,I want a beer.

Oh,Marina,Yer still a cutie pie.

Since so many words in English come come Greek and Latin, where did those words come from? For example, the word manual comes from the Latin word manus (I think) for hand. Why is manus the Latin word for hand? Where is the root of words? Is it Mesopotamia or something like that?

LOL. Thanks fot the concern. Saying it properly I wanna request the word HOSPITAL.

What is 2:27?

I would like to know the origin of the word TOILET. :lol:
surprised you havnt done it yet,accually. :shock:
also
EXCITMENT
and
WORDS
:)k

I think he means @ 56seconds the video jumps to the end 2:27. My quess… because in does it for me too. It may be a youtube glitch.

Марина, the term “blue tooth” is used is dentistry to exactly what it says. This is a tooth that is dead, and typically is a baby tooth that has no permanent tooth to replace it; the tooth just dies in place, but remains in the jaw until it rots (hopefully the person would visit a stomatologist regularly, and the tooth would get extracted before it would do damage to the jaw.)

I know about this, since I had such an “orphan” baby tooth.

Пака

pedantickarl, Yes I did. KB7GFE was my old call. But I wanted the cool Technician call. I haven’t been on the air very much either. But the next sailing yacht I get will be fully loaded with ham gear! oh and I see you found my full identity. Damn government!

Yes I saw that too. Cellphone only transmit ID and other codes when not being used for talking. Thats why standby times are much larger than talk times. Did you know the NSA is able to send codes to your phone and make it turn on the microphone to listen in on your conversation without you knowing? Scary hu? This of course only works when the phone has power to it and is able to receive a call. Anytime I talk to people about classified information I make them give me their batteries.

Nope, if I do use a cell phone it’s with my bluetooth device. Marina I’ve got five cats and they’d like to know the origins of catastrophe. They’re cats and say their fasinated with anything starting with cat! :-)

Hey marina that was cool i never knew that, thanks for telling me :smile:

its a stupid law i still talk on my cell while driving !!!!!! most women put lipstick on while driving this one sunday a woman driver cut me off in calif on interstate 5 just cause she was puting makeup on her face !!! i had to slam on my brakes and spilled my coffee and droped my shaver and my donuts and my cell flew on the passager seat hehe

The cellphone popcorn trick revealed!

I was (as others here) where correct on how this trick could be done.
Ok sometimes its better to find smarter videos elsewhere than YT.
I found a video of a guy that actually did the trick. I do want to caution anyone who wants to try this at home. DON’T DO IT! It will damage your eyes for life instantly. It should be treated as a automatic rifle that is shooting invisible bullets that will kill you.

Cellphone Popcorn Trick Revealed

Not Youtube…walked over to my other shop & tried it there, is good. So it’s this computer, same trouble others had…over

Ok guys, your beating a dead horse on this Yahoo thing. :evil: Trust me, on this. :smile: On use Yahoo for sites that you think will use you email for spam. Then sign up for Gmail or some other email provider. If you send me an email I can send you a gmail invite, but I think it is now open to anyone. :grin:
“Friends don’t let friends use Yahoo mail.” :mrgreen: Do the smart thing and dump is as a primary email account. :wink:

Saw a guy with a book on His steering wheel, driving the most treacherous part of the highway up our Island… hope the donuts were O K with a little extra flavour.

Captainjack, there may be some fooling around on youtube but the Brits and Europeans, Russians and Australians all seem to be taking it very seriously, at least more so than the Americans.
http://www.buergerwelle.de/cms/content/view/57/70/
http://www.tesla.ru/english/membership-03.html
Until there is more evidence it would seem prudent to err on the side of caution.

BTW Captainjack, the phone company’s ability to turn on phones to eavesdrop (homework word) on conversations in rooms is nothing new. The government was doing that 40 years ago with conventional land lines to listen in on “organized crime”. They still need a judge’s order to do it though, so most of us are still safe.

how did u end up with “HOT FOR WORDS”???
wat made u think these words???…….just curious… :mrgreen: :grin: :razz: :???:

Im surprised she hasn’t been approached yet. Oh wait were talking about stupid network tv executives. Marina should talk to her agent about doing a show.

This is too funny!
http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4398
May 22nd, 2007
Anti-’Cell Phone While Driving Lawmaker’ Crashes … While Reaching for Phone

Cell Phone

By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

I’ve written previously about cities or states proposing headset laws, or even complete bans of cell phones while driving. This is a case of “do as I say, not as I do” as a California State Senator who had previously voted on SB1613, which requires headsets in California starting in 2008, crashed while reaching for her phone while driving.

State Sen. Carole Migden rear-ended a car on Highway 12 near Fairfield Friday that left one person with minor injuries, the California Highway Patrol said.

Migden was apparently reaching for her ringing cell phone just before she hit the sedan, the senator’s office said in a statement. Source: CBS5

Well you’ve read my post below. Now think about this for a bit. I know some people buy BT headsets so not to keep from putting a cellphone next to their ear causing cancer or whatever they believe in. Bluetooth head sets are little transmitters also. Funny don’t you think? Trading one transmitter for another. :grin: :roll: :roll:

Marina, did the ban on talking on cell phones also ban texting while driving? Ive actually seen some people doing that! I would think that is even more dangerous than talking on the phone while driving! Talk about having a death wish! (Maybe I’m wrong – they could have been playing GTA IV on their PSP.)

ya ya ya just another way for us to lose more of our rights and freedom !!!!!!! what we dont need is more govt controling our lives and telling us what were alowed and not alowed to do !!!!!!! Ltcom.August Van Suchtelen US Navy Seals

ya coffee flavor !!!!! hav a great day :mrgreen:

no lol !!!! you cannot talk on ur cell while driving but no laws against sending text recieving text or email :mrgreen:

In Italy a similar law passed a few years ago… as usual Italians respect it if there’s police in the whereabouts :roll:
Sense of safety while driving is not such a common state of mind…unluckily
Hugs

sniperskaya, to error on the side of caution one would need to turn off all radio stations, radars, microwave communications, etc, etc. If you could see all the radio waves we are generating in a color picture, you would wonder why we are not dead yet. So their is not a chance that people will shut down transmitters, this will ever happen. And I see radiation is just a minor thing. I see auto accidents being more important in saving lives. And yet all we do is just pass more laws and people just buy more insurance policies.

Eavesdropping.. Yes I know this very well. All to well my friend. All too well. You must have missed my earlier post… Google The Yakima Research Station. NSA no longer needs to tap into land lines. Its all done by satellites and computers. They no longer need a human to listen to communications. Its all done with software now. You would freak out as I do with what the NSA is capable of doing. :shock:
Also you don’t need a judges order when you intercept a radio signal. There are many loop holes in that law. That law is so obsolete its laughable. Im not trying to scare you. Im just letting you know the world is a different place than what you have learned over the years. :cool:

Thats whats called an even trade

The days of driving a car will be soon over. Robot cars will do the driving. The Great Robot Race
That was a few years ago. They just finished the Urban challenge in November of 2007.

This video is a bit geeky for the first 5 mins. They do take you for a spin inside the robot SUV called the BOSS. The robot will go around a mini course and you get to see the robot stop and let the other truck make a free right hand turn.
GM self driving vehicle: “BOSS” overview

So my question to everyone. Would you trust a robot to do the driving for you? And why or why not?

Yea I thought so too. I heard that a million time before. Who was that voice from anyway?

Marina is a very creative individual! You can never guess what the next video would be like. She is better that TV sitcoms! Sitcoms are to predictable these days.

In Slovenia, where i live, we have law that vorbids using cell phone without bluetooth system, smoking, doing make-up(ladies watch out :twisted: ) and anything that could disturb/distract you during driving(masks for mardi gras for example) which is up to police officer to decide…
and i also have to mention that our fines for moving violations are among highest in Europe
(example: speeding in town; 30km/h over limit:1000 euros and +9 points: when you reach 18 points you lose your driving licence)

I love how you pronounce California: it’s sounds like much more the imaginary place in “Amadís de Gaula” from which it’s name came than anywhere in this world.

Thats my problem with proper grammar I was taught made me feel very awkward too. Then the grammar rules change and no one informed me of this. I didn’t get the memo! I have asked here who makes the decisions of what the rules of grammar are? I want to send them a letter that I have changed the laws of mathematics. 2+2 now equals 5 because of for extremely large values of 2.

Thats very cool errin! I applaud you! :grin: I no longer own a car either. I too was fed up with stupid drivers :mad: . I would get so very angry I would almost want to get a gun and shoot the stupid drivers. :shock: There was a time that was becoming a common thing in LA.
Now I just tell people I have a personal driver, and he/she drives a bus.
I also have another personal driver. He drives a big black Lincoln Town car that I rent from time to time. I don’t use taxis! The town car is even cheaper than a taxi, plus he even opens the door for you! :grin:

I use Firefox for the Mac. Rarely use Safari. I see some site work better on FF than Safari and other site work better on Safari than FF. I use google for all my email and FF is best for that. On Safari, I loose many cool google features.

Sometimes it just YT. I the shut things down often to do maintenance. Many time that fails. I’ve had same problem happen on other website.

Hey melika, he has a Gravatar. It is either a keyhole or a ghost. :roll:
Anyway, did you notice that even the generic gravatars come from gravatar.com
Interesting.

Yea I commented about the plant in the last video I think. I made some comment about how it looked sad and that she should talk to it and love it very much. I know thats not normal for a guy to be more interested in the plant more than a hot teacher. :shock: Plants amaze me sometimes. I like it when they tear up sidewalks and roads. They tackle anything we throw at them. Give them time and they will take over everything we ever built on this planet.
What I can’t stand is Californians than move up here in the north west, the first thing they do is cut down all the evergreen trees. I tell them why in the hell did you move up here in the first place? :roll:

Im going to have to send PD a Mac so he can get on with his life. Damn windblows!

Tnks PD. Yea its the 25th. I scheduled to have that day off. I usually work on my b-day. Not this year! Damn it!
I was hoping Marina was 24 turning 25. Why? So I can call her up and say ” Hey Marina! Happy B-Day! Did you know your a quarter of a century old now!” My sister played that joke on me once. I returned the favor 4 years later.. :twisted:

Your bio reads as amazing as you are beautiful. Very impressive and thanks for the painless way to be exposed to new words and the origins of phases.

Nope thats not it. I wanted the video clip that Nicolas says Im the greatest!!

I guess im bit of a heli freak. I have almost all the Airwolf episodes and Fire birds movie.

I have a friend that did the model F-16 scene in Blue thunder. He was a big influence in getting me to fly my RC models at night. His name is Dave Herbert the “NightFlyyer”
Dave and I both have the Blade 400 3D RC helicopter that we like to fly.

Well Marina, this video should get you mention in G4 TV for sure!

In Germany you aren´t allowed to drive and talk for a long time now. I just don´t know if you can wear the headset while driving, I never wear a headset or use a handy when I drive. When you do a research on regulations you will find that a blind person is allowed to drive while someone who can´t hear isn´t allowed….. :???: .

I think its a stupid law. Yes we do need the law to force the sheeple to stop using their cellphone while driving, but this is just not the way to solve the problem. We need to take the driver out of the drivers seat. Once we do that then many problems go away. Many people are very good drivers and many are very bad drivers. Do you trust your life with a bad driver? I don’t! Is this law going to solve this issue of people driving while talking on the phone? No not even. They will still be distracted by the conversation. You don’t see me driving a cruise ship and talking on the phone. Thats just not safe, period.

Dear Miss HFW, yesterdays’ Phoney video picture quality was the best ever. With the Bluetooth video, video quality (pixels?) was poor. Homework: I don’t drive while on the phone, because I just can’t buy enough wire to do that. Yeah, sometimes while driving I : eat, read the map, read the mail, drink water on the rocks/shaken/not stirred. But I’m not suppose to, so rarely do that now. Yes, people have accidents while multi-tasking, so no cell phones makes sense to me. I try not to be a hypocrite. Maybe when this car shows up on e-bay, I will try to be a low-ball bidder Can you here me now?

Its the sheeple that need Big Daddy and Mommy (the Government ) to watch over their dumb asses. So we make laws to protect them, just like mommy and daddy. :mad:

I think this lesson will answer your question. :mrgreen:

http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/06/21/hot/

I agree with you Thing. Its kind of a stupid law. I though Washingtonians where smarter than that. Well I guess some of us are!

I’l go with CJ above me. I don’t have a problem with my msn old hot mail account, it has the filters to adjust who gets let in. Ditto with my aol, and verizon e-mail accounts

I remember 1982, car phone installation, for only $1200, monthly fees thereafter.

What is the origin of “Uptight” and how did the original meaning change to to characterize good sex. “Up tight, outta sight” (as in the Stevie Wonder song). Some how it came later to be defined as: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, jittery.
regards, roberto

Your link is dead..

This might be a job for Mr. alx, should he available for comment.

Read my The Great Robot Race comment below. There are links to how we can take the driver out of the driver seat today… Well soon…

C :cool: :cool: l vids, Guys.
That’s my Sunday taken care of.

Fox One Fife, what exactly does the “&fmt=18″ do and how might it help :?:

With the advent of new technologies etc. the cry still goes out from the human heart Come Talk To Me
The phone company I deal with, for my shops, screwed up the billing when I bought out a competitor. The billing office could not find out from the service dept. what messed up. I had to get my phone guy (set up my system) to get to the root of it. All as it was, was a lack of comunication between the switchboard & the Billing dept. they neglected to let them know at the switch that the call forward changed names 6 months ago & the rate should have been only about 40% for the, one line call forward. So 6 months later they call me to tell me I’m getting cut off because of the unpaid stuff, Billed to the old company that exists no more.
With all the gadgets & things for communicating people are, deep down, looking for an intimacy that is not brought by technology.A Love Supreme

Congratulations Jeopardy player CJ! On 2/04/03 the name “Yugoslavia” was officially abolished.

Calos

Three engineers were in a car on the way to a seminar when the vehicle suddenly grinds to a halt.
The driver tries in vain to start the engine again but to no avail.
Then on of the engineers announces, “I am a mechanical engineer, I will take the engine apart and find out what is wrong. I can fix it, change all the bearings and other worn parts, re-assemble it, check all the clearances, flush out the sump and change the oil and then everything will work just fine.”
The second engineer says, “No, that’s not at all necessary. I’m an electrical engineer. I will check the battery and charging circuits, tighten up all wire connections and earthing points and reset the distributor points and then everything will work just fine.”
The third engineer just laughs. “Guys, I am a Microsoft engineer; why don’t we all just get out of the car and go sit in the shade of that big old tree over there for five minutes? When we get back in the car, everything will work just fine.”
:mrgreen:

fox one fife? adding &fmt=18 at the end of an url on youtube increases the sound and image quality. It kinda loads slower but you don’t realy notice it if you have a normal internet connection.

http://en.gravatar.com/ Now we got to be nice to new students, so we get points from Miss HFW. i’m only 3-4 moons old.

I had an old boss at work, whose first name I forget. …… Anyway, we never asked Mr. Bates that question.

“I feel bad.” and “I feel badly.” are two different things.
An adverb tells us something about the verb it’s associated with, so “I feel badly.” means that my sense of touch is not at its most efficient, perhaps because I’m wearing thick gloves.
“I feel bad.” uses a different meaning of “feel” – “I am in an emotional state that is bad.”
Get it? :smile:

Glad your on board foxbow, we appreciate a technicians’ help.

Yeah! How do I do that? I think Marina and I are communicating telepathically – it’s what happens when two people are in love.
Of course, Marina doesn’t yet know she’s in love, but how else do you explain why she used my picture to illustrate someone with blue teeth.
What I want to know is how the hell she got hold of that picture; maybe she really is KGB. I’m getting paranoid. :shock:

Captn,
That site doesn’t allow direct linking. When you copy the link, then paste into the address field of your browser, it works.
13gb.com/media/images/telephonecar.jpg

here in the UK it s a law …..i still see Stupid people on the mobile phones …BUt there s a Law and speed camreas are stopping the silly drivers, there getting letter in there home with FINES !

Thanks, does that also work on the high quality videos or only on the standard ones?

Hey Marina I want to know the origins of the word bamboozle please and thank you
My best regards
Ivan.H.

Just scanned all the comments.
Boy did our HotForWords touch a nerve. :twisted:

How about Marina for Tim Russert’s replacement on “Meet The Press”. :lol:

(Wonder how much restraint Marina would have from bitch slapping George Bush) :evil:
(Ah that mental image brings a smile to my face. Better than Friday Night Smack Down) :twisted: :razz:

If anyone could tell from the L&T/JK phone incidents – I am surprised
that I own a phone or a computer for that matter. But the PC allows
a communication that I never thought possible.
What I think that is lost is the body language. I love to go on
(Being “cracker” dare I say?) with innuendo. Not, this moment.
I heartily agree that when you are hearing the words *only*, things
can add a duality to their meaning and the direction where you guide
your topic …. “where was I?”
… Just to say, It you see the person’s expression as they speak, it
is sometimes just as good as rephrasing the original sentence.
.
.
…. “What?”
.
.
I also, await the video-phone.
You might not believe me when I am so thankful for a site like this.
Don’t care.
Thanks, M! and the other M!
Whoa – thanks all!

I was wondering where whatever came from? It makes no sense and is way different fromt he way people use it.

The latest lesson picture looks good, it shows a nice side of you ——>

I think it’s a dumb law.

Give them time, they’ll outlaw it. Enjoy it while you can, kids.

or making Obama really come up with an idea…

or Hilary explain Bill (i’d really like to see that)…

or Ron Paul remove all his posters from the telephone poles…

or figurin’ out that “government” is not one man’s (or woman’s) agenda…but it is easier to blame one person than look for reasons behind the problems…

yep…

annudder nerve touched… :wink: :cool:

Love that guy. I wanted to do comedy like he did. Its very difficult to act like a drunk. Give me one beer and I start to slur my speech right away. I have a photos of me flying my heli after I had a few to many.

I don’t drive while talking on the phone, I pull off the road. I do think it should be made illegal. I have seen too many near misses because one ormore drivers are talking or texting.

Thanks pedantickarl…

GB, I had a girl friend that took me out on a date in one of those Yugos. Everyone told me I was lucky to be alive. I thought they where referring to my date! :roll:

:grin:

Hmmm…Alex Trebek should be due to retire soon. Marina for “Hostess with the Mostess”!!!

‘Course, we’d lose her to the fame, fortune & glamour of Hollywood…but Marina deserves it all…

A truly good idea, jcr…Marina was glorious on O’Reilly…

so, Marina, could you stand the scrutiny such a position would garner?… :cool:

Thats funny Bob. :grin:

i volunteer to type in all the text…of course, i would need to move to CA to sit next to Marina and make sure i understand every word she utters so that i transcribe it correctly… :mrgreen:

and she’d have to pay me handsomely, but i’m pretty sure we could strike some sort of deal… :wink:

but i do think it’s an honorable idea, sniperskaya….as long as the captions could be turned off for those of us who want to dwell on the “full picture”… :cool:

labbatt78 on July 6th, 2008 4:27 am

I think it’s a dumb law.

1. Laws cannot be dumb because they don’t possess intelligence.
2. I have often been told that “Laws are made by wise men for the guidance of fools”, but when I googled it, I was surprised to find that the proverb is actually “laws are for the guidance of wise men and the blind obedience of fools“.
The trouble is, that fools never believe they are fools, so no-one obeys laws unless they know the police are watching. They think that laws apply to other people and not to them.
3. What I think is “dumb” is that the laws are not enforced properly. We, in the UK as in the rest of the European Community, have the law forbidding the use of hand held devices whilst driving but we didn’t really need to have it. We already had an offence of “driving without due care and attention” which would certainly cover all cases of trying to multi-task frivolous activities whilst operating a lethal machine, including eating, smoking, looking at maps, operating your Satnav, texting, playing video games, emailing, and even talking to your passengers.
I get really scared when drivers feel the need to turn their attention away from the road to look at the passenger they are having a conversation with, but I learned that lesson the hard way at a young age, when I crashed my car trying to pick up my sunglasses from the passenger seat.
I do have a Bluetooth earpiece for use when driving, but I only use it to answer a call if it is relevant to my journey, for example where to pick up my wife. Most of the time my phone is switched off when driving, even though, as a pilot, I have spent thousands of hours flying aircraft and helicopters and talking simultaneously on the radio or to my passengers.

then here’s bob in all his cyan glory…

http://unclescam.org/teeth7.html

What would be really cool is if there was some way of having braille online so those who are visually impaired wouldn’t miss out on Marina’s lessons or her beauty and intelligence. Guess it would have to be a kind of “hands on” learning experience…

no wonder you think people should be tested on driving more often (not that i disagree with you)…

it’s the ol’ adage: those without cheese squeak the loudest… :mrgreen:

Ha! can you imagine the screenmakers delight at all the replacement screens needed by the pervs trying to feel if Marina’s boobs are real or phoney?

I would like to know the derivation of the word Psychology and why it seems to have the same root word as Psychic.

lol…yes, and i’d say that i’d volunteer for that “chore,” too, if i didn’t think i’d get slapped by Marina for the comment…

oh, wait…i’ve got just enough kink in me to appreciate a lovin’ slap… :twisted:

i have helped someone with MS install and use Dragon Naturally-Speaking, her only method of communicating with her virtual friends…speech-to-text has come a long way…and, of course, so has text-to-speech (‘cept my Garmin USA voice sounds robotic, so i use the Aussie lass)…

but visually- & aurally-impaired double-whammy?…that would be a hard nut to crack, for sure…

On the Bosom of young Abigail
was written the price of her tail
And on her behind
for the use of the Blind
Was the same information in Braille.

On the bosom of our Marina
is written the size of her bra
And on her behind
For the use of the Blind
Is the Braille code for Shangri La.

i’ve seen that while driving in Atlanta…

and the book being perused was the Christian bible…

how appropriate, as it might be the last text the idjit would read… :cool:

I would like to know of the derivation of the word Psychology and why it seems to share the same root word as psychic. :?:

I would also like to meet you some day in all your pulchritudinous glory. :wink:

Nah! I ain’t quite as ugly as that. :lol:

why did people name it telivsion and who made it when why please answer

“psyche” is Greek for “spirit, soul, mind”…Psyche was, of course, the lover of Eros…

as an aside, Marina outshines any concept of Psyche… :smile:

logia is, of course, “study of”…so psychology is “study of the mind”…

and since a psychic is supposedly using mental powers, the connection is obvious…

now if i only had a ghost of a shot… :cool:

:mrgreen: im 53yrs kid hehe

hehehe im back in military service leaving in 6days to Iran cant wait to get back to Arizona to drive my Dodge Viper

ya it happens to me once in a while than i just click on play again and it works just fine

I would love new Apple computer!! I hear using one is like learning a whole new language though. :sad: As you can probably see, I barely know the windows lingo. Anytime the smallest thing goes wrong with this vaio laptop my little brain goes into crisis meltdown mode :shock: 25th, got it. :smile: You seem to be ringing in at odd times(late) these days. :???: Have you been hangin’ out with a rock band…or just livin’ like a rockstar? :grin:

NSA has been looking at all people all over tha world if you watch TV all they do is reverse tech on satilite and as were watch a program on TV there watching you and see everything thats in front of your field of vision infront of your TV and these big screen HDTV gives a better larger view ya!!! big brother watching us all

if tht robot was life like features and looks at our teacher HELL YES i believe we all would :mrgreen:

:mrgreen: i have a video-phone [cell] from Norway although the USA cant see to upgrade its techology with the rest of the world been in use for yrs in most country but not here :cry: when i travel overseas it works fantastic :mrgreen:

:mrgreen: this cell phone law in cal wow whats next ur girlfriend band from driving in cars not distracting just a great joy :mrgreen:

im to afraid to use public transportation my lil red Viper gets there much faster :mrgreen:

this one i already knew from a movie

plant ??? who looks a plant with such a “FOXIE’ teacher in front of me

Marina, let’s just be grateful that King Harald’s nickname wasn’t “fat ass” or we could have something far worse than a “Bluetooth” on our heads… :roll: :razz:

I missed that one… I was at a “Women in the Lead” (we encourage women in politics) meeting, someone mentioned the idea, and my 13 year old son looked at me and thought I should ask HotForWords. Yes, feminists can adore Marina too!

:mrgreen: stop talking to ur girlfriend than while driving lol :mrgreen:

Marina, dear teacher, since we’ve had a few words dealing with drinks, how about origin of the name “shot glass”?
(Not as obvious as one might think.)

see above…and watch the double-clicks, they like to sneak up on ya… :cool:

where does ” CURSE WORD” comes from
( whay say blowjob is you suck, not blow XD)

:mrgreen: left hand for cell right hand for coffee and donuts right knee for steering left leg for tapping with ur music tht calif style in my lil Viper as i fly bout 125mph on I-5 :mrgreen:

Why is the word pontificate used to represent someone is speaking in a pompus manner

seat belts should be worn by young drivers for one year than become opitional per driver like when i ride my chopper in calif im forced to wear a stupid helmet when i enter Arizona i never wear a brain bucket the govt is taking away to many damn freedom from us !!!! Ltcom August Van Suchtelen US Navy Seals

btw, my dang blueberry bushes are over-producing this year…i could pick all day and still not get ‘em all…and many of the berries aren’t even ripe yet…

so if you need a quart or so, just let me know, Marina… :cool:

sorry, augie, i disagree…

helmets/seatbelts save lives – i don’t think there’s an argument there…

and they also save costs to taxpayers in services that have to be rendered to accident victims (less damage = less cost, right?)…

it is, IMO, a selfish person who sees helmets or seatbelts as inconveniences…

you may be the most careful rider in the world, yet an accident is just waiting to happen…because you aren’t the other driver, who ISN’T as careful (probably on their cell phone :wink: )…

good luck, though…and thank you for your service… :cool:

Cute sniperskaya, “I can’t hear you!” “Oh, I’m sorry.. I’m on my fat ass! Can you hear me now?”.. yeah.. good thing his name wasn’t “fat ass” :-)

Hello, everyone. I know this question is very weird but what is Marina saying from 0:26 to 0:34? I can’t listen to her, because I am Japanese learning English and my ability of listening is not good. Tell me please, anyone.

I believe it should be the law as any distraction in driving has the potential of causing or contributing to an accident so any distraction we can eliminate should help.

Marina’s very attractive accent got in the way there:

“Thank God, as people really are oblivious while yapping on their cell phones.”… :cool:

who’s more pompous than a pontiff?… :shock:

public roads are technically government property made available to the public. so the u.s. government, state and federal have the right to manage, maintain and govern them. that includes requiring certain safety standards of the vehicles and drivers that utilize them. however regulations are based to some extent on the expectations of the public. so public opinion is a consideration. annuddermale is correct, statistics indicate that the safety requirements do save lives and money.

Years ago a friend told me that he pulled up to a stop light with his girlfriend next to him. He had one hand on the wheel and one hand one her thigh, kind of high up, when a motorcycle cop pulled up next to them. The cop looking in and seeing what was going on looked at the guy and said, “Use two hands”. My friend looked at his girl and his hand on her thigh then back at the cop and said, “Then how am I going to drive?”

You’ve probably seen the cartoon Viking comic strip character “Hagar the Horrible”?
In Norway they call him “HÃ¥rek the Hard balls”.
I wonder if he’s related to augie, who doesn’t wear a hard ball on his head when biking because he has hard balls. (s ee below)

bob, apple engineer pedals past them and waves, “think different” pagedoll, i use an apple and i’m an idiot and can figure most things out. not to mention i don’t seem to need to figure as many things out because fewer things go wrong. the other cool thing about apple is their customer service. consumer reports rates them the highest among other things. i’ve used apple support before and they are always a great help and very friendly and respectful. if you purchase an apple, i’d visit a store if one is close by to check out the product, but purchase online from apple, better deals, tell them your a student and you’ll get a discount, and purchase the apple care agreement, its nice for beginners. any other questions ask me, or cap’ i do believe he’s running on a mac.

It keeps happening to me too.
It must be a You Tube problem.
I can see it through completey here.

:mrgreen: guess ur all right on tha govt controling our lives more and more everyday inorder to save taxpapers money ???? tht way we Americans can spend more and more funding WARS what a life !!!!! Ltcom Van Suchtelen !!!!!!!!!!!!

sorry about the bad sentence structure- it’s late for me.

Your english writing skills
are very good! :mrgreen:
Have you been to Gravatar,com?
Make yourself a nice icon
to be recognized easier :smile:

seriously buy a mac. never had a problem. well none that wasn’t marina’s fault in some way. but, she’s getting better, and the new server helps. ha.

Are Apple computors really that slow, Buzzword? :lol:

Interesting blurb on bluetooth: In Old Norse, blá “blue” could also mean “black” – for instance, when the Vikings encountered black Africans, they were referred to as “blámenn”, literally “blue men”, their land being called “BlÃ¥land” = “Blue land”.

Interesting historical note – there are monuments in Denmark, called the Jelling Stones, that were erected by Harald Bluetooth 1000 years ago and can still be seen, read and touched. He made the monument to honor his parents Gorm the Old and Thyra Danebod, and they say, “Harald, king, bade these memorials to be made after Gorm, his father, and Thyra, his mother. The Harald who won the whole of Denmark and Norway and turned the Danes to Christianity.”

It’s very cool when you can actually touch history. It can give one a feeling of going back in time. I’ve never been outside of Copenhagen when visiting Denmark, but I have been to a 1000 year old cathedral in Norway, with grave markers that were from soon after the viking age ended. It’s an eerie feeling, and gives one a at least a partial feeling that these people, who seem so different from us, really weren’t, and it’s just by happenstance that we are here and they there.

Speaking of a connection to history – if you want to see where your distant ancestors came from, check out the National Geographic Genographic project – it’s amazing – https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/index.html My results will be complete in a few days….

Sorry for the ruminations here, Marina. Just killing a few minutes before yard work…. ugh.

yea, so her viewers can remind her to do house work.

Oh – and while Africans were called “blamen” (pronounced blaw-men), the native Americans they encountered in Newfoundland were referred to as “skraelings” (in old Norse – “the uglies.”). Little known facts…. :-)

i use safari just because it’s most familiar. i’ve heard that google is developing an OS that will be offered for free just because their pissed off with microshit.

Don’t sell yourself short, Bob….. :grin:

The company I work for (trucking) doesn’t want anyone using a Bluetooth while driving. But it’s OK to use our CB’s. Duh!

My dear Marina,

So often we hear the word ‘Pussy’, what is the origin of this word and how does it relate to the phrase ‘Pussy Willow?

Thank you so much! :grin:

Your loyal student Quester46

Thank you, annuddermale! And yes, I think you are right. I was oblivious and distracted because of her very attractive accents.

check your blocked e-mail addresses, too…

i suppose you could create a filter to move “hotforwords” e-mails to your Inbox….

but overall, i think the easiest solution for you would be to create the Google mail account (Sign-up is here)

whatever.. :mrgreen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-3brRCRsA8

one of my all time favs

was Mr. Bates Psycho?… :cool:

you look for the icons?…i check the list for who’s posting, sometimes, but don’t usually look for icons…

‘course, you won’t be getting notification of this response… :cool:

ditto

you are 17 & DON”T have a cell phone?

what is America coming to?… :shock: :mrgreen:

In Greenland “skraelings” is a dirty word because it’s what the Vikings also called the Greenlandic people. The translation I heard there for “skraelings” was the wretches or the wretched ones.
BTW, Pros, if you’re ruminating about Viking family matters, could you be said to be RUNEmating?

shit, the prescriptive v.s. descriptive discussion. prospero811 i know your reading this, and for the sake of both of us shut the fuck up. by the aLx died of a sunburn in florida.

Curses! foiled, again – oh wait a click…
Ha ha! cool! does it come in any color
other than beige? Get one in pink,
put the rocket motor iin the hatchback,
get a monkey for a hood ornament
(push the buttons for you while driving)
break the sound barrier…
“can you hear me now?”
Marina could talk a “pink” streak
all the way to China, again. LOL :mrgreen:

Prescriptive vs. descriptive is an inaccurate way to describe the argument, particularly my take on it, since I did not suggest that grammar was either prescriptive or descriptive.

But, needless to say, I think we’ve had that argument already, and somebody should just link to it. If anybody has anything new to add to it, fine, but I think I’ve already made my points.

Marina,
I would really like to know where the word “jalopy” comes from. Thanks,
Yojimbo

It depends what you mean. Under the standard grammar rules, if you are saying you have a less than adequate sense of touch or to sense emotions, then you feel badly. If you are saying you don’t feel well or you are sorry for something then you feel bad.

Germany is extreemely cool to
have the Good Samaritan law!
Driver’s are REQUIRED to
carry a SURGICAL first aid kit
and stop to render assistance
when accidents happen.
Still got my kit, and my triangle :mrgreen:

Homework – We already have this law in the UK, and yes I do think it should be a law because there were more deaths when we didn’t use a Bluetooth headset.

I would like to request the word, Gay.

Was the person who invented the word was gay?

Lolly, Lolly, Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here!

the cold war continues. mutually assured destruction keeps the peace.

“smother that girl in chocolate syrup…”
Brown Shoes Don’t Make It – FZ :mrgreen:

Code example: Oh, and Fuck You Too!

and i’m 54, augie…

still a kid, tho’… :cool:

ha! old school style!

Code example: At the risk of being prescriptive…..

i’m pretty sure Marina recognizes that her extremely lovely accent might occasionally cause problems with comprehension, but the polite thing to do is overlook flaws and celebrate perfection…and Marina gives us much to celebrate… :!:

besides:

“Marina’s dulcet inflections are music to the ears of the uninformed…and the informed, too.”…Rule 10-4, good buddy in The Marina Sychophant Handbook… :cool:

the majority of americans speak english and most cannot listen well either.

Yeah, but I’m the U.S. and you are the U.S.S.R., and we all know how that cold war turned out! Code example: Remember to duck and cover!

So, Lolly ends in -ly; does that make it an adverb?

lol…good point, since they’ve been in use for gawd knows how long…

i so love irony…

oh, and Warren, i’d shake your friend’s hand (below), but he obviously has his priorites straight.. :cool:

Huh? What?

You are smacking on President Bush
the same way catty women smack on
Marina!? Please, don’t be burning
my flag. It’s supposed to be yours, too!

pssst! did i get it right? (below)
PEACE! :mrgreen:

i understand the frustration wetsuit5 enunciates, i just don’t agree with fingering President Bush as the culprit, nor do I find it funny to visualize someone slapping ANYONE, let alone the president…

i find it immature…and dangerous as a casual acceptance of violence…

but that’s my opinion, and i’ll allow wetsuit5 his… :cool:

Hm, your teachers tell you the law “if you see a accident stop and help, if police sees you can get into jail if you passed”, so it isn´t just the police, when someone saw you pass, and they call the police you can get into (deep) trouble. If it is a small accident you slow down and ask if they need help, in such case…you stop.

However, the truth is that some of today’s people keep going, it seems like the old traditions are “dog poo” for them.

I’m Canadian. And frankly, although it could come in handy once in a while, most kids my age use it like some sort of fashion accessory and they don’t have any serious need for a cell.

And it’s not like I’m some popular kid who’s got nothing to do but call people and chat.

Not so fast there buddy!
There’s more than one
way to skin a cat! Me-rowr!
Whoops! :mrgreen:
You probably should knock
the cat out cold, first!
Adapt, overcome – conquer!
contact fix didn’t take – so
now i scan the spam.
i hate scanned spam., but
what can ya do? :roll:

HI; in India it is already illegal to talk onthe phone while driving

You’ve got a good head, even for a Canuckian… :wink:

You are correct, cell phones are more of a convenience than a necessity in many cases (not just with kids). Unfortuanately it seems Society has dictated that we all must be constantly “connected” – and privacy now comes at a premium rather than being an innate right.

Tom

i speak American, not English… :cool:

(another #$% reply test)
I won’t be instigated to by
someone i don’t find a
challenge to educate :mrgreen:
wetsuit5 isn’t stupid, just
misdirected – “watch the shiny coin”
he didn’t do that thinking
for himself, though, did he? :roll:

HEY! I’VE GOT MAIL!!
Your tweak worked – fantastic!
cut and paste error on my part
Jubilation!

Hello my teacher. I have come to relay on you for my word origins and now I have a question of my own. I watched a show today about gangsters in the 1930′s U.S. and it talked about them being “on the lam”. I know what this means, but where did the phrase “on the lam” come from?? Thank you, Pavehawk55 (Bob)

Read below – i’ve got mail, again
Gratsi Danke Gracias Merci etc.

You mean when you click the text `watch in high quality` underneath a video? No i don’t think you will notice any significant change in detail when adding &fmt=18 behind the HQ video url, im not sure tough you might try it if the HQ version isn’t good enough.

blueberry pie,mmmm, my favorite. :mrgreen:

yea, we all know how the cold war turned out. who won?

c’mon over & pick ‘em, but you’ve got to bring Paige with you… :mrgreen:

That’s an interesting one pavehawk55! Thanks!

Hmm. I have a request for a word: Dogfight. How come aircraft battles are called “dogfights”?

A lot of first timer’s ask this question
I mean, a LOT of first timer’s ask this.
Every day and night, first timer’s ask
this question. Over and over and over.
Again, and again, and again, and again
there is no cure? Do you REALLY got it
bad to know this word origin???
This word is fascinating to you?? :roll:
Stick around and you will see this
word requested by others, today, tonight
tomorrow. Boring boring boring boring :mad:

There seems to be a funny theme with aerospace and animals =p

Yeah, the reason why I request this is because I just saw quite a few shows on the history channel today.

Don’t feel singled out, not picking on you
like i said, stick around long enough and
you’ll see it, too. Usually, people who ask
this do not visit, again. So be different!
Maybe you can think of another word?

It might be an elaborate scheme to keep those people who are requesting waiting ;). I bet those hits add up =p

You did not read the directions, huh?
“Please read the Words List” :!:

pussilanious willow :roll:

hi marina.

i wanted to know why the doors on the phantom

are called suicide doors.

and not like…

reverse doors?

thanks!

Slapping old King Bush around everytime he speaks a Bushism and making him wear a Dunce Cap everytime he does fits right in.

I be dah pez-a-dent and ah lern-ed eng-bah-list fum hops-in-suburbs.

I feel you. I can walk many roads as a result.
The high road: proper English, ettiquette, decorum and protocol.
The highway: Tech lingo truncated – gutter speak
The low road: Bad Grandma! BAD BAD! We be chillin’ :mrgreen:

to do all three well you must punctuate correctly or
you don’t look like you know what you’re doing :mrgreen:

Ok tell me if this is not smart. I don’t have a car payment. If I did buy a car it would deprecate to noting in 10 years. The loan would end up costing me twice the cost of the car. I don’t have to buy gas at $5 a gallon. I don’ have to pay for oil changes every 3000 miles. I don’t have to pay for repairing it for the 5th time. I don’t have to buy stupid crap to customize it. I don’t have to buy tires. I don’t get parking tickets. I don’ t get speeding tickets. I don’t put my life in the hands of a drunk driver. I don’t have to deal with road rage. I don’t have to feel stupid driving a big SUV just to only move my ass around town.
I share the ride with others. I use the bus (btw they have free wi-fi on them now, and plush seats). I use the street car ( they are brand new as of December) [Now there is a term 'Brand New']. I use zip car service. I rent a town car. I bike. and the #1 transport I like to use that very few people use, I walk with my two legs and feet.
If Albert were alive today, what would he use? Maybe this bike:
The Matra MS1 Electric Bike :cool:

I once heard that it originated as a gradual corruption (in this case, the slurring together of a phrase over many generations’ time) of the words womb and man.

Woman = womb-man

Paul, you sound like a peasant.. grow up!

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Hey! I mentioned that one on the “loo” page! :smile:

oops! copy paste lesdyxia
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=125952652

whatever age you are, you need to learn respect for others…

but i imagine that lesson would be lost on you right now…

oops! pissant, not peasant
sorry for the insulting the
harmless peasants. :mrgreen:

his bio says 53, SAME AS ME! :shock:

Iceland won the cod war

well, not sure where you got the bio, as i don’t see a link, but age isn’t a factor in maturity…often it’s just a byproduct… :wink:

My dear Teacher,
Is it just my vastly over active sense of worth or just being stupid?
Do you tend not to answer your regulars (ie Minions) I have noticed, but had not given it much credence. You pass over the crew of Your Love Boat. I understand you not answering my posts, mostly they are just silly nonsense and not in any need of an answer.

I don’t think you will be doing any harm if you were to answer more some of Your Minion’s as well as the others.
I have moved on to more hard News sites, But I will drop by to see your new Videos.

RRR

oh, golly… :mrgreen:

In a front end collision, the doors
often cannot be opened. wedged
shut. People would survive the
crash but die from smoke inhalation
because they could not escape.
one way to kill yourself is to run
your car in a closed garage, hence
the analogy to suicide.
wierd, huh?

Not another chopper pilot named Bob, or are maintenance crew?

never said it wasn’t smart, CaptainJack – wish to heck i could do it myowncan’taffordgasorevenfoodself…

but is it fair to complain about drivers when you don’t drive?…

just playin’ satan’s good-buddy, cap’n…you know that… :cool:

dogfight = air combat
catfight = girl combat
are there others?

Did you go to Gravatar.com, yet? :mrgreen:
it’s painlessly easy, i promise

I don’t know if anyone out there is into tennis, but there is a wicked battle on right now between Federer and Nadal for the Wimbledon championship…great match! :smile:

No false respect here for a treasonist drunkard and doper that has destroyed the nation. If King George wants respect he should conduct himself respecfully.

But why yak politics on a fun site?
Just put the dunce cap on Mr. Nuk-a-lur.

Marina in a Fedora,
flippin’ a silver dollar,
wearing a double
breasted suit,
slingin’ a gat.
Can you get a pink Thompson machine
gun to coordinate with the pink suit and hat?
well – you could green screen that part.. :mrgreen:

You’re just trying to get us to leave so you can have Marina to yourself. :roll:

Marina, Re: RRR
[best Schwarzennegger]
“He’ll be back”
he just took the whole minion
thing too much to heart. :mrgreen:

it’s been postponed in the 5th set due to rain…

so Marina should be back in a minute… :mrgreen: :cool:

PageDoll, Its really not that hard to learn as you might have told. Windows was based on the Macs graphical users interface (GUI). I use both systems. The Mac side of things is very intuitive. I don’t even read manuals most of the time. I mouse over the button and it tell me what it does or I just click on it and see what it does.

The Mac Operating system is very new compared to the old system. The OS X does much of its own repairs. They used to have a window to say something like, “I found such and such broken, I have repaired it for you. Have a good day”. I almost cried my eyes out! A computer that fixes its self? No way! Once you start using a mac in about a month you will think why in the heck you did move to the mac years ago.

I used to program computers so I know how to fix things. On a winblows machine Im always trying to fix my friends computers almost weekly. I never get any calls from my friends that have macs. Im not saying macs are perfect, they do have some issues. But the worst day on a mac is better than the best day on a winblows machine. Hell now macs can boot winblows or mac OS. So if you really hated the mac you still can use the computer as a winblows machine. But I have yet to meet someone that dumped Apple for a winblows machine.

I do have to let you know that a winblows program will not run on a mac. So you have to buy a new program or use parallels software to run windows inside of your mac. Don’t worry about software. The mac comes stock with many programs. There are a lot of free programs too.

Ringing in at odd times, yea. When im on the computer all day I can do 26 hour day. So over time my days move over about 30 minutes a day. I also can sleep 5 hours and feel refreshed. When im out and physically working I need 7 hours and closer to a 24 hour day.

Cher wanted to do a video on my ship (well taxpayers ship) and my team and I spent weeks painting the ship for the video. It took like 6 hours to shoot the video. It was a very long night, 2am if I remember right.

“elaborate scheme” ? :roll:
sigh – always a conspiracy…
“sometimes a cigar is just a cigar” – Freud

wow…you’re right!…why did you bring up such an asinine topic?…

let’s see…did you drink in college?…ever make mistakes you’d probably not make at this age? (hmmm…no, i won’t go there)…

move on is the order of the day…and you seem to salute that organization’s agenda…

oh, and Buffalo is Clinton’s constituency, right?…or is that Arkansas?…where are cigars made?

slingin’ mud just gets everyone dirty – or didn’t you know that?… :cool:

Hello Marina:

You’ve got a wonderful sense of style, and you’re quick on your feet. By the way, the etymology of F**k is worth looking into. I used to teach high school and I let one of my students research it. It’s origin is the slavic root “to hit or strike”, and it’s related to “Fox”, like you are. There’s quite a bit more in the O.E.D. and I’m sure you’ld present it more alluringly than me, so I’ll let you take it from here.

~ Andrew ~

hahaha…not to Bill… :cool:

I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHERE THE WORD “SEXY” ORIGIONATED. AS IN, “YOU ARE VERY SEXY MARINA”. I WILL WATCH FOR THE POSTING.THANK YOU! AND WE LOVE YOUR SHOW!

You won’t upset me with your
lies and bullshit, but I think you
may inflame those who show respect
for our country where you have none.
Paul – you show no sign that would
make you a worthy opponent in a battle
of wits. You come unarmed!
I understand your bitter ascerbic views
You claim to have leadership skill?
He does! LOOK
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=125952652

so blacks were the first smurfs?

and “the wretched ones” sounds sympathetic to me, Bob…

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Lazarus had it right… :cool:

Augie, Thats funny. Really they can’t do that. But they are watching you sort of. For example a tour boat company in Seattle had to install video camera around their operations. All are linked to the internet for DHS use. The tour boat company doesn’t even have access to the cameras to spy on their employees ( which is a good thing ).

In the city of Lynnwood, Wa. You can watch people walk and drive around town all via the internet and cameras installed about every major city block. A friend of mine was able to watch me walk 4 miles to home from a bus stop in downtown. Only 2 cameras where broken but he knew my route. Sounds like secret high tech government stuff? No. its open to the public on the cities website.

How good is face recognition software these days. Well you can buy a casio camera with the software on it. They use if for perfect focus. So this technology is available to the public right now. Imagine what the government has now… :shock:

I guess, you are not capable or
able to think of any other word?
I gots one for you! “jaded” :mrgreen:
[best Mr. Mackey]
“You sick little monkey”

That would ruin a lot of dates- LOL! :mrgreen:

PT, Yea I heard that also. That origin would have made the most sense to me. But as we know in etymology, logic never really shows the true origins. Acronyms are a good example. You know Marina should use some word that really has a logical origin and mess all of us up. :mrgreen:

You got me!! :lol:

Nice set up! LMFAO :mrgreen:

Dear teacher
I thought it was because the first blue tooth for a cell phone was blue looked like a tooth…. (Some times I’ve strange ideas). For the homeworks now: it is forbidden to drive with a cell phone in France, and it is a good thing. French don’t respect the law (it is a national tradition) but the idea has been voted thanks to a lobby.
Thank you for the lesson.
Don Felipe de las vegas.

Viva Don Felipe de las vegas!

last i looked, women are female human beings…

which is where the word originated…

late O.E. wimman (pl. wimmen), lit. “woman-man,” alteration of wifman (pl. wifmen), a compound of wif “woman” (see wife) + man “human being” (in O.E. used in ref. to both sexes; see man). Cf. Du. vrouwmens “wife,” lit. “woman-man.” The formation is peculiar to Eng. and Du. Replaced older O.E. wif, quean as the word for “female human being.”

“I won’t grow up”
Peter Pan :mrgreen:

I say, Marina in a fedora, with mobster suit .. white shirt unbuttoned way down …. and making me an offer I can’t refuse….. :smile:

“park the car , Marvin”
“Marvin, did you check the oil?”
“Brain the size of a planet,
I’m so depressed
I think I’ll turn myself off”
- Marvin, “your plastic pal who’s lots of fun”
the chronically depressed robot
(from BBC- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

Zoiks! misquote – should read :oops:
“Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with!”

Good day, teacher.
I’m a new devotee and I humbly request you educate your students about the word “soviet.” Some of us are old enough to remember its relevance, but I assume many of your students are unawares.

Oh you have GOT to get Gravatar!!
With your screen name there can only
be one picture for you! Kobe!
http:\\en.gravatar.com

Nadel JUst won!!! :grin: :grin:

Nadal in 5!…wow, that was great tennis!… :cool:

Dear fellow student,
Thank you! “Vivaaaaaaaaaaaaa las Vegas touiiiiiiin” (a failed attempt to mimick the sound of the song of Elvis).
Viva Page doll
Amicalement
Don Felipe del cielo

That was GREAT TENNIS!!!

Hmm. Gravatar. Interesting. Although I usually don’t bother placing an avatar unless I’m *extremely* active in a community. I check for videos, and make replies/comments if I have an interesting thought. Which doesn’t actually occur that often with hotforwords. Gravatar seems very convienent and may solve that problem… if only more sites I visit support it…

roadrunmch – I responded, respectfully, to your last post on the Hot board. I hope you read what I wrote carefully and try to understand what I’m trying to say, and understand that neither I, nor evolution, proves or seeks to prove your God doesn’t exist. I think, though, that you are missing something very valuable when you attack an idea about the theory of evolution that bears no resemblance to the actual theory. You are Don Quixote charging at windmills when you say that evolution contemplates or predicts skin evolving into eyes.

augie – good hunting
bring your people home
safe, …give ‘em Hell
…come home safe
copy? :mrgreen:

We gotta stop meeting like this – vuja de!
great screen name! :mrgreen:
Get a Gravatar (i-swear-it-won’t-hurt)
http:\\en.gravatar.com
since we’re already like bro’s
some advice – mind the UFO’s!

roadrunmch – oops – wanted to post this where you could see it – I responded, respectfully, to your last post on the Hot board and answered every one of your points.

I hope you read what I wrote carefully and try to understand what I’m trying to say, and understand that neither I, nor evolution, proves or seeks to prove your God doesn’t exist.

I think, though, that you are missing something very valuable when you attack an idea about the theory of evolution that bears no resemblance to the actual theory. You are Don Quixote charging at windmills when you say that evolution contemplates or predicts skin evolving into eyes.

I urge you, before you “ask questions” in the “deep end of the pool” to PLEASE read a book (library or bookstore). Try What Is Evolution, by Ernst Meyr

Or, if you want one written by a Christian, try Finding Darwin’s God

But there are dozens and dozens of good ones – Richard Dawkins writes well, and The Blind Watchmaker is fantastic.

Nobody thinks eyes evolved from skin…..

And, by the way, I take my own advice on this…. I’ve read the Old and New Testaments cover to cover, and I often look up and think about passages that are cited by believers for various propositions. I’ve also read, although much less thoroughly, the Qu’ran, the Book of Mormon, the Baghavad Gita, the Tao Tse Ching, the I’Ching, the Prose and Poetic Eddas from the Old Norse religion, and more.

From all of my reading and thinking about religion, I have become an atheist (and by that I mean a personal god that intervenes in human affairs, knows our thoughts, and punishes sin in an afterlife). Nothing is 100% certain, though. I am slightly less certain of there being no prime mover god either, although I do not have such a belief because there is no reason at this time to believe it.

The point being, however, that I did not dismiss the idea without trying to understand it and coming to some reasonably good understanding of what various religions say and profess.

A great summary for you – I hope you read it

I want to ask if u can define the word Ambigram
thx u are a very gorgeous woman i wished u had been my teacher lol

sincerely,
-SHADOWLINk

no worries – tell you what
pick up on this
the audio is kind bad,
’cause it’s live
but the message is clear
poolside :mrgreen:

I have a lil’ fun car as well, about 120mph is great sweet spot for mine. you should check this site out, http://www.wreckedexotics.com/newphotos/exotics/ ,It got me to slow down a bit…just a tad though. You don’t ever want to end up on that site! :grin:

Can I be the next teachers pet Marina pleaseeee? And can I request the word “Dynasty” please because I always thought that it only realted to war but then it also relates to sports. Help please?

Thanks much

Who knows. Maybe your next car might be like Kit in NightRider. :grin:

Damn this page is getting super slow. I see coco and one pixil. somehting.com was having problems loading. Oh wow.. it timed out…
Coco didn’t even load…

Theres a great spot on I-5 inbetween Oceanside and San Clemente when you can flog it for all shes worth…traffic permiting of course…NO WEAVING in and out of lanes like the jerks in the rice burnners! This is another great site for fast car vids, http://www.dpccars.com/ …alot of vids from europe with guys doing rolling start races on the autobahn. :mrgreen:

#408 who’s going to be 420? :idea:

PP811,
I’ve already figured out that you think I’ am a religious person. Not at all.
Spiritual some, but a realist absolutely. The Bible is Man’s attempt to make sense of what they do not understand. My belief starts in the beginning of time. At the moment of ( [?] )
My idea of a god is as a force of god. A force like gravity or GOoD.

I am so, ” deep end of the pool,” that I would need to swim up to get to the drain.
Know that space between a proton and a neutron? That’s where my head is. The no-thing between.
RRReal stupid

oops! #409
the speed is blinding me

I disabled the cocomment widget temporarily.. it was preventing the page from loading. Hopefully things will be fast right now.

Well im getting some major slow downs. I think its because of coco and some other links. I’ll going to try to block coco from loading on my browser and see if that fixes it. … Oh it looks like I might not have to. Coco failed to load. hehe

Neither, I was an MH-60 flight engineer. Remember except for single seat fighters, for every pilot flying there are at least a couple of non pilot flight crew members along to keep the pilot out of trouble. haha. Are you a chopper pilot named Bob?

Awwwweee. finally.. Faster speeds.. yes.. happy day. I used ad blocker and removed all of coco from the page and now the only thing thats a bit slow but tolerable is gravitar. CJ is now a happy camper… :mrgreen:

It doesn’t matter to me whether or not you are religious, nor does that have any bearing on evolution. You, however, created a false dichotomy when you asked me if it was so easy to believe that skin can evolve into an eye, why is it so hard to believe that god did it.

That’s what I was getting at. Whatever your concept of god or a creator, it doesn’t change the analysis of evolution. If you’re going to argue about evolution, you can’t persuasively do so by saying that evolution tells us that skin evolves into eyes. It doesn’t, and it doesn’t whether or not there is a god or gods, and evolution says nothing on the god question. That was something you brought up, not me.

And, what I’ve been trying to politely suggest to you that in whatever pool you normally swim at the deep end, in the theory of evolution pool you haven’t even put your toe in the shallow end to test the temperature.

The reason I am taking the time to suggest this to you, and to suggest where you might disabuse yourself of the idea that evolution says people came from mud or that skin evolved into eyes (or anything remotely like that), is because to someone who enjoys learning (as you evidently do) the theory of evolution is fantastically interesting. It is an amazingly ordered and elegant theory that blends so many different scientific disciplines that it can only be described as “beautiful” (just as Einstein’s relativity theory was described). It is that good.

If you open a book on it, I assure you, you won’t stop picking up new ones for a long, long, long time.

This is about the last I’ll say about it here, because I’ve already clogged Marina’s board up with too much stuff that isn’t relevant to philology. For that, I apologize to Marina.

Please read that summary… above, or one of the books, or at a minimum, with an open mind, please go through DonExodus’s two video series’ on youtube, links to which I posted on the Hot thread.

thanxs will do !!!!! :razz:

Hey BW, I seen your gravitar on the Philip DeFranco show.

Hello, my dear teacher, I would like to request the following words or phrases:

01) Swan song
02) Perquisite
03) Lubricious
04) Mea Culpa
05) Lucubrate
06) Cunt
07) Come
08) Go
09) Crackalackadingdong
10) Pornography
11) Queer
12) Ogle
13) Quark
14) Niggardly
15) Gorgeous
16) Hideous
17) Fubar
18) masturbate
19) Voyeur
20) Surreptitious

Thank you.

That cocomment was nothing but worthless spyware. I’m glad that you got rid of it.

wheres RRR when we need him… :???:

Too funny! :lol: :lol:

No we don’t have it in NC yet but I hope it’s coming. It also goes along with eating, drinking, tuning the radio or anything that distracts the driver. Here you are driving a 2 ton or bigger machine and your mind is not on the hazards of driving. I also think this adds to road rage, someone talking on a phone then cuts someone off, it’s on then. I know I’ll give them the finger or run them off the road. I have stopped them and beat the shit out of them. It may not teach them a lesson but I feel a whole lot better. Dang I am getting mad just thinking about it. So I need to go chill for awhile. Drink another cold one.

Spyware? Really? Naw.. But then look at the data google collects and now has to give it to viacom. Oh boy!

I like the idea of a single place to store all your comment and see the new updates on those comments but I feel the company is going about it the wrong way. IMHO. :grin:

Don’t drink another cold one, you’ll just get more upset!! HA! …good to hear from ya! :grin:

Good one Bob…

I was just thinking, how many HFW fans here are pilots?

I’m headed down to the BMX track for a little sunday night racin’, wish me luck, catch you cool cats later! Pagedoll-out

You too bud. I spent years trying to out manuver people in cars with cell phones while driving a firetruck on some of the bussiest roads here and all you get is flipped off by them. So now that I am retired I can pay a few back. Ha ha ha :wink:

Not really ill just ok. :grin:

If you’re a bigmouth with a bad memory, like me it’s handy to find what you said & where. Mike h.i.s.Wet …
Won’t help with the why though

prospero811, existence of a Creator of the universe is best realized by simply bringing that force of the Big Bang into focus. That one single force of the Big Bang became lots of other types of forces, electromagnetic, etc., causing everything in the universe to exist as we are now.

Put aside thoughts of what exactly that force was initially in the beginning, and what it has transformed itself into over time. And to now simply believe that that force is a dead force devoid of a connection to anything outside this universe …? No I cannot prove it’s a living or a dead force, but it made some “thing” like Marina to exist.

I propose all us posters at HFW call on Marina to come and join this conversation, and to answer a few questions we have. Let her know some people wish to interrogate her. I do believe she’s hiding something, and she knows more than she’s leading us all to believe. Her last few videos have been especially telling …

   :roll:   Marina? Care to respond?

look southwest and i’ll be outside mowin’…toss me one from the cooler, will ya?…

oh, and no cell phone while i’m on the Deere… :cool:

This is NOT a stupid law. I have seen people do so many stupid things while driving and talking on a cell phone. I also don’t think the law goes far enough. Talking on the phone while driving should be aganist the law….period!!!!

Another problem with the current law in California is that the fine for the violation is not high enough. It should be $100 or more. I know because I was involved in an accident while talking on a cell phone. Fortunately no one was hurt seriously but two cars including mine were totalled!!!

not me…i’m killin’ weeds a different way… :cool:

naw, Marina in a convict suit…a skimpy convict suit…chased by a skimpily-dressed police officer…both of whom are after Mr. Big…

me… :mrgreen:

well, me in a dream… :cool:

I’ve spent two days thinking about the plant in the background. You are right about the Orchid… Hey I’m an old guy & I need an excuse to watch the videos more than once.
As Marina never leaves anything in the videos by chance (not since the scissors on the kitchen floor incident) I think the Orchid may play a starring role in a, near future, HFW production. This book and others unravel an interesting origin & history…I’ll say no more & don’t tell anybody, but another, well maybe first, mystery solved by your trusty BillB.
Interesting book, Interesting author.

hello there, I think some of your video’s are very funny. You might even say they are hilarious. By the way, I would like to know where the word hilarious comes from.

…?

My suggestion: Absolve/Absolution versus Absolute/Absolutely
Thanks!

A word request for you, my dear teacher! :smile:

I am interested in learning more about the word “pear-shaped.” The term is commonly used in colloquial British English, where it means “to go awry,” but this definition is is completely unrelated to its initial use as a descriptor for something (or someone) that is tapered at the top and wider at the bottom, and utterly incongruous with its use as a term for a particularly rich or mellow tone in music. Just how and why did pear-shaped go pear-shaped?

With love,
Jeff

ahah bros? ahah i love marina aint she sooo sexy?

Mergatroidal…. I must confess I do not understand what you are saying, and whatever it is, it has nothing to do with whether life evolves on Earth.

Nobody knows what the Big Bang was. Big Bang theory really only goes back to 1/10 to the minus 43 of a second “after” the initial expansion contemplated in the theory. The Big Bang theory is really a misleading name (it was coined by Fred Hoyle, proponent of the Steady State theory as a slam or mockery of the theory). Nobody knows anything about the actual event itself, just the time period after it.

You say that the existence of a creator can be “best realized by simply bringing that force of the Big Bang into focus.” Well, that’s not a simple task at all – to bring that force into focus. As I noted, nobody even has a hypothesis about what the universe was like before one Planck’s Constant unit of time after the event itself. So, if you can bring that into focus, more power to you.

Yes, the big bang theory does postulate that the major forces we have now – electromagnetism, gravity, etc. were unified at the the time of the big bang itself. That is the theory that people have been searching for since Einstein’s Special and General theories of relativity and the advent of quantum mechanics. That holy grail of physics is the “Unified Field Theory” that I am sure most everyone has heard of before. Nobody knows what that is yet.

It’s easy to “put aside thoughts of what exactly that force was initially at the begiining.” Why is that easy? Because nobody knows yet. Unless you know, in which case, publish the paper because you’d be a shoe-in for the Nobel Prize in theoretical physics!

However, you create a false dichotomy when you turn this into a living or dead force. There are no living or dead forces, that we know of at all. They are just forces – force of gravity, electromagnetic force, etc. Might the Unified Force or Unified Field be “living” – I don’t know. But, you are right to say that “no I cannot prove it’s a living or dead force” – nobody knows anything about it, let alone whether it’s alive or dead.

I think you nailed it though, when you said that Marina is a divine creation. She walks in beauty, like the night, although she more lovely and more temperate.

strange…your video crashes for me right where the guy’s blue teeth come on (ugh). Must be me because don’t see other’s commenting on that, among the few I scanned. XOXO ken

Christ, I’m wordy… sorry everyone….

When he said 2:27 he meant into the 2nd minute and 27th second, hence the context in which he said it (2:27 – 2 being the minutes and 27 being the seconds of the video)!!!! That’s the context. 2 is the minutes or could be hours elsewhere and the 27 is the seconds or minutes in some other context.

Helpin’ out my beloved teacher Marina,
Shawn Norris

Wow, you really have a happenin’ site, Marina this is jam-packed! Could you do a word video on jam-packed? lol That’d be sweet.

HAHAHAHHAHAHAH That’s hilarious – I’m glad I don’t have King Harald’s bum on my head and how could everybody have one? It’s like: “Check me out – I got King Harald’s yeahhhh” :cool: …….*crickets chirp in background* “oh….I geuss it’s not as good as Bluetooth”.

She is scrumpdidleeicious,
that is a portemaneau* word
scrumptious + diddly + delicious
i think this was originated
by Ned Flanders, but
Marina is the wordsmith!
*you can learn stuff, too! :shock:
amazing site.

I ain’t trippin, I got bars (skills) at driving haha. I’m pretty sure us Californians will also lok more stylish :cool:

yo have u subscribed to her long?? do u have any of her past holiday cards?

Around six monthes,
Yup! you betcha
this is my desktop
http://www.beautyqueentv.com/bill_lyons/images/models/european/marina/marina02.jpg

WOOOA that is sexxy! i dont think shes wearing panties =) do u have any other ones? thanks. :grin:

Hi Marina, Sex Goddess From Russia With Love,

I’m wondering if you can haddle a nice, well-ordered set … something makes me thinks … DA! … and … DAH! … lol …

Here is the nice set: [wiggle, giggle, jiggle]

They all seem related in a way but they are different … how did they originate? In what order did they originate?

HotFor”HotForWords” (that’s me) wants to know.

And maybe you could demonstrate the difference between those three words, so that we could more easily remember? :>)

Send me a kiss soon. Or a wink, or a hug or giggle or a wiggle or a jiggle or something!

MWAAAA!!

Gwillikers

I was … along time ago … now I have to content myself with MS Flight Simulator.
Except for the S61n, I didn’t fly anything big enough to have place for the luxury of a flight engineer.
My engineers always told me that engineers were smarter than pilots for two reasons:-
1. Because an engineer could make an automatic pilot, but a pilot could not make an automatic engineer.
2. Because I was in the helicopter and they stayed on the ground.
However, the best ones always accompanied me on test flights, “to inspire confidence” :smile:

No, That’s a bad bet. to melikadothechacha and to augie, just plain No“.

Where do you live CaptJack? I want wifi in my bus!!

I couldn’t stay on the ground. The flight engineer is a “required for flight” position. We had to operate the rescue hoist and all the insertion and extraction gear, man the minigun, do the weight and balance, figure take off and landing data. The pilots had it easy all they had to do was drive. haha Actually our pilots were a great bunch. Awesome aviators.

prospero811, then don’t use the word force to describe anything about whatever was existent in the absolute very beginning, and then what this initial force (or huge amount of energy) transformed itself into as we know these forces and energies to be at this point in time. Label this initial something “IT” and don’t try to describe it as a force or energy, don’t identify IT in any way other than to recognize that IT is just something that existed in the beginning; an entity. There was nothing, not even the three dimensional space of the universe yet, all that existed was this entity … IT.

Whatever IT was, of all the things we can see and realize that IT also produced or is responsible for creating inside the universe over the fourteen billion years of time, we have to realize IT culpable? and causing our Marina to exist the way she is today. If you cannot single out this IT that was the only thing existing at the “very beginning,” than you probably cannot see that IT must be responsible for causing everything else that now exists in the universe.

  :eek:  IT’s not dead, not by a long shot. IT’s very interesting, as a matter of fact. :cool:

:smile: Hey can u send me more of her pictures dawg? :lol: thanks

Well, mergatroidal, I am not sure I follow your train of thought. Whatever we call the “unified field” – “unified force” or “it” or “#$#kdk3″ – does not define its characteristics. We don’t know anything about “it.”

I’ve watched some of his videos before, and this one I stopped watching at isotropic around six minutes into the view …

The conversation becomes sophic, cluttering my thoughts and it’s difficult to follow along with all the talk of who is right or wrong.

In regards to your statement though we do know some things about “it.” We do know “it” was the only thing in the room at Planck time. And here I AM now and I come into this room fourteen billion years later, I look around and I want answers to a few questions …, who, or what set up the furniture the way it is? Who or what put those pictures on the wall like that? Who or what has set all the food on the table? Etcetera.

We do know there was only one thing in the universe at Planck time. Whatever IT was, ‘ya gotta look to realize what IT has turned itself into over time. After all this time looking and understanding as much as possible how that initial energy transformed itself into all the other forms of Mass and Energy, I don’t care how IT made the apple come from apple trees anymore. I want to focus on that intial mass of hot energy. Right there, bulls-eye. Here is the instigator, the cause for it all. What is behind that initial energy bursting inside this universe?

What’s more plausible: a huge amount of chaotic energy explodes into the universe to eventually create our Marina, or a huge amount of controlled energy explodes into the universe to eventually (cause or intending to) create “things” like our Marina?

If you were a law enforcement officer investigating the situation I would have to say you’re trying too hard to not understand fresh evidence, and subsequently to follow up on any hunches you should have in regards to those leads. You’re biased and you’re turning the case cold. You don’t want to have and follow as many hunches as you can and should think of from looking at the evidence.

Using the initial force to guide my own investigative thoughts, this is my pet theory. It does seem to impose on mainstream thoughts on the matter.

That huge amount of energy was the only thing in the room at the (Planck) time. Forget the sophistry; what is behind that force? Something with intentions or not?To those who want to think and believe and argue that it’s all dead energy, … so it goes.

Yeah I hate it when people are yapping on the phone. When I use mine, I dial with it being held at the top of the steering wheel, so I don’t miss anything, and then I turn on the speaker phone, and I don’t sit and talk, I ask what needs to be asked, get my answer(s), and hang up. If I want to talk for a long time, i’ll go home and use my home phone. Either way, the car is not the place for CONVERSATIONS… :P

Have you tried upgrading your Flash player? Also might restart your computer after upgrading. IT doesn’t tell you to, but it might help anyway.

thanks :cool:

Definitely one of my better posts above …

Mergatroidal, o.k. – I’m wading through you post here. I will say I resent your implication that I have engaged in “sophistry.” Subtle, tricky, superficially plausible but generally fallacious methods of reasoning? Please. Not even close. If you claim I’ve engaged in that – please, by all means, identify what part of my reasoning is fallacious.

One, we do not know that “it” was the only thing there. Not having any idea of its characteristics, we cannot know that (yet). That is not say we won’t ever know. We don’t know now. We didn’t know 100 or so years ago about general and special relativity and quantum mechanics. Now we know something about them. We do not know about the unified field, except that whatever “it” was it wasn’t anything like what we see around us now.

You’ve got all those questions, as does everyone.

You talk of a pet “theory” but you haven’t stated clearly what your theory is. Is it that you think the big bang was controlled? Perhaps it was. But, there’s no evidence for it.

You talk of sophistry, but then you suggest that you “use the initial force to guide your own investigative thoughts…” – that is sophistry at its purest. It is fallacious because you do not know what the initial force was, and it therefore cannot be providing you with guidance. You suggest that hunches are something that you should rely on to come up with theories. They aren’t.

You refer to a huge amount of energy being the only thing in the room at Planck time. Yet, big bang theory contemplates that there wasn’t any energy then. Energy was created in the big bang.

In the inflationary theory, matter, antimatter, and photons were produced by the energy of the false vacuum, which was released following the phase transition. All of these particles consist of positive energy. This energy, however, is exactly balanced by the negative gravitational energy of everything pulling on everything else. In other words, the total energy of the universe is zero. The universe experiences inflationary expansion, but without creating net energy.

Quantum theory, and specifically Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, provide a natural explanation for how that energy may have come out of nothing. Throughout the universe, particles and antiparticles spontaneously form and quickly annihilate each other without violating the law of energy conservation. These spontaneous births and deaths of so-called “virtual particle” pairs are known as “quantum fluctuations.” Indeed, laboratory experiments have proven that quantum fluctuations occur everywhere, all the time. Virtual particle pairs (such as electrons and positrons) directly affect the energy levels of atoms, and the predicted energy levels disagree with the experimentally measured levels unless quantum fluctuations are taken into account.

Now I’ll speculate about a natural explanation: Perhaps many quantum fluctuations occurred before the birth of our universe. Most of them quickly disappeared. But one lived sufficiently long and had the right conditions for inflation to have been initiated. Thereafter, the original tiny volume inflated by an enormous factor, and our macroscopic universe was born. The original particle-antiparticle pair (or pairs) may have subsequently annihilated each other – but even if they didn’t, the violation of energy conservation would be minuscule, not large enough to be measurable. Perhaps the universe came from nothing, and its total energy is zero, but it nevertheless has incredible structure and complexity. There could even be many other such universes, spatially distinct from ours.

You speak of “intention” – however that is merely wishful thinking. It may be an intention, but there is no more reason to believe that than to believe the above.

The “designer’s” track record leaves something to be desired though. It was once under every rock, in every tree, in every volcano, behind every earthquake, in the tidal waves, and in the lightning and thunder and rain and wind. We learned how these things happen naturally. “It” once held the solar system in crystal spheres and perfect shapes, but now we know how planets and celestial bodies move naturally. It once was needed to power the sun, but now we know how stars work, naturally.

“It” is only “needed” now and only “seems more plausible” now in about two places – (1) in the first Planck moment of time to flip the switch on the universe, and (2) at the moment non-life became life (as if that fictitious dividing line actually exists….). We’ve almost driven “it” out of the latter place – we are nearing a comprehensive theory of abiogenesis, which I am confident in the coming decades will be found. Then “it” will be left only in one place… a light switch flipper that pushed the universe into existence.

What seems “more plausible?” That “it” really is living there – in the first Planck moment of time, just like it was once in the trees and in the lightening and in the earthquakes and in the quicksand and the waves of the ocean and the night sky? Or….. could it be that there also another natural explanation for that 10 to the minus 43 seconds as well….

I’m not a betting man, mergatroidal, but…. “it” hasn’t shown itself yet…

Waddya guys think?

Is mergatroidal PWNED! Or, is the Prose Perro off his rocker?

What the?

What is superficially plausible about the idea of something coming from nothing? How convenient the words are put together, the absurdity is presented to appear as if common sense, and then simply change the subject and move on. Sure, the idea of a huge amount of energy originating from nothing, equating and attempting to validate this idea with particles and their anti-particles

[T]hese spontaneous births and deaths of so-called “virtual particle” pairs are known as “quantum fluctuations.”

I suppose when you define the word nothing you actually intend to convey the idea of “sort of nothing,” or perhaps, “partially nothing?” Define the word nothing so I can follow along with this idea. The absurdity is difficult to believe. Perhaps something is there we all don’t perceive, because cause and effect dictates otherwise.

Because of Hubble and that redshift modern science has actually pinned back the beginning of time to a single reference point, and your implying what was before the beginning, all that force and energy, possibly came from nothing. Attempting to bolster and justify the idea for how it should be common sense for everyone to think and believe any thing can come from nothing, and that cause and effect rationals can sometimes take a dip in the pool is pedantic … sophistry. You’ll have to do better with this one particular line of thought.

:grin: IT’s out of the trees, and you’re hoping to push IT out of the universe. Good thought; never heard it said like that. I’ll remember it. But I’ll be watching for the results of those super-colliders they’re building. That initial force is obviously a very important idea to some. They stopped referring to the thing as the God Particle too … :evil:

Yah, the result of the super-colliders
may just cause the next big bang…… too?

Yes I do drive and talk on the phone when i get a phone call, and yes i think it should be illegal.

roadrunrnch, actually the fear of some physicists is that smashing the protons together with such high force and energy may create a small but ever growing blackhole. If we do this then the blackhole will begin to eat everything in the solar system unless we can quickly find a way to contain it, and then send it out and into a trajectory towards the void of deep, cold space.

I think my caustic tone may cause prospero811 to stop commenting, first I use sophist and then pedantic, though he is up on the facts of physics, more so than I am and could probably write a bit more detail on this blackhole fear of certain physicists when they do smash the particles together.

Hey Marina,
You want wifi on your bus. Sorry but LA is not progressive as Kirkland, Wa is or even San Francisco, Ca. But I can show you some photos that yes we do have wifi on our buses and even in downtown Kirkland.
Wifi on city buses in King County. A county fit only for Kings!

Where do I live? Your kidding right? I live on the planet they call Earth. Mostly on all waters of the world. Just find any ocean and thats my home. Next time your at the beach just look out to the sea, thats where you will find me. :smile:

If you really want to know then just ask any of the clowns here on the blog. They know. :mrgreen: And don’t go to my website, your not going to find any incriminating evidence there. :mrgreen:

Yes I do drive and talk on the phone :lol: and i think is a good law :???: :???:

Hi, I am from Michigan Detroit. It’s wear I talk on the phone when I drive in summer because I have a Convertible so I am enjoying the ride and it’s very hard to hear both side of the phone and winters are here a crazy so need more pay attention to the road then ever, actually anytime need very carefully drive, it’s not me bad driver it’s always someone else on the phone or doing something stupid. So please drive safe anywhere at anytime…

can’t remember if I did homework or not, but I say “HANG UP AND DRIVE”
I can’t count how many times I have benn almost hit/run over because someone was on the phone while driving.

I wonder if the person who wrote this bill in California has any connections ($$$$) with a company who sold hands free phones.

“You look stupid with that bluetooth thing in your ear!” And actually they’ve done studies that proved it doesn’t matter how you are on the phone when you drive it’s all just as bad. Like HFW and HFP are just as hot!

why does it cost to upgrade the version of Blue Soleil? how stingy it is!! who would want to pay???

Gadgets of today have many uses. As important is communication, I think too many users are hooked on their poindextering ways. Laws make people crawl; cravenly, craving mass comunications, with an ear, phoning and not texting. Lazy became cool. Selfish minds with words. good art……….thanks for this educational practicing of “Air Reality” …bless you hOTfORwORDS (OWLS)-word request :oops: :arrow: :lol:

WEll, NO! I think cell phone use should not be allowed in a vehicle. most people do not know how to drive responsibly the way it is now.

I did wonder where the name bluetooth came from and now I know. Cool.

Hang up and drive!!! Not that most people can drive anyway…