'Look, I can explain,' he said.
Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the lettuce.
'Pray do,' he said, leaning back.
'We got a bit carried away,' said Moist. 'We were a bit too creative in our thinking. We encouraged mongooses to breed in the posting boxes to keep down the snakes...'
Lord Vetinari said nothing.
'Er... which, admittedly, we introduced into the posting boxes to reduce the numbers of toads...'
Lord Vetinari repeated himself.
'Er... which, it's true, staff put in the posting boxes to keep down the snails...'
Lord Vetinari remained unvocal.
'Er... These, I must in fairness point out, got into the boxes of their own accord, in order to eat the glue on the stamps,' said Moist, aware that he was beginning to burble.
'Well, at least you were saved the trouble of having to introduce them yourselves,' said Lord Vetinari cheerfully. 'As you indicate, this may well have been a case where chilly logic should have been replaced by the common sense of, perhaps, the average chicken. But that is not the reason I asked you to come here today.'
'If it's about the cabbage-flavoured stamp glue -- ' Moist began.
Vetinari waved a hand. 'An amusing incident,' he said, 'and I believe nobody actually died.'
Well I don't know about you but I was in India several years ago when they bombed Jaipur. Even then, returning at Delhi airport to go home, the screeners were shocked I took off my boots and put them on the conveyor belt. Also _everybody_ had a few 1 liter bottles of water. You can't really go long without water in the summer in India. Just to illustrate, at the same time, the USA and Great Britain were confiscating toothpaste and nail clippers.
Also, as an engineer, I can come up with 10 super effective ways to commit terror acts at the airport without even going through the screening process. Because as an engineer it's my job to find solutions to puzzles. And I'm not the smartest cookie in the jar. That means that any person who'd want to do real harm can just as easily come up with the same things I can come up with.
It's 100% theater. And knowing this, still being forced through the procedures just pisses me off as a law abiding citizen.
Doesn't WINE already have a reasonable Direct X implementation? And with that I mean it's still quite iffy for a lot of games, so it looks like it's pretty hard to get a good implementation done..
So they'll have snapshots of Kirk Johnson (aka Goatse.cx guy) showing his wares to the world? I mean why would I dangle my own privates on Chatroulette when Manycam makes it so easy to put much more interesting vista's on the screen?
Do they still enforce their bans with easily deleted flash cookies?
A lot of times you read in the paper that they rounded up a large number of pedophiles due to the fact that they paid with a credit card. How can people be so stupid to think that this is in some way untraceable?
To be honest, I see this as pure Darwinism. Disregarding the fact that they are pedophiles, I strongly believe that people who do such stupid things should not be in a job of consequence.
Reminds me of a test they are doing in Rotterdam atm with a length of road to clean micro particles out of the air (10 micrometers) that comes from the exhaust of cars. (http://www.wassendeweg.nl/)
Ah right.. I get it.. while previous statement is 100% correct and true, the Tuesday statement does put down restrictions on the second child and thus reducing the 50% chance..
While it's true that the Tuesday remark adds something to the dataset, it doesn't however influence the probability of the sex of the next child. Just like the sex of the first child doesn't affect the sex of the second child.
So in the end, it's going to be a 50% chance.
It's like asking, "I threw up a coin yesterday and it landed up heads. What is the chance it will land heads up today?"
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'Look, I can explain,' he said.
Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found
a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the lettuce.
'Pray do,' he said, leaning back.
'We got a bit carried away,' said Moist. 'We were a bit too creative in
our thinking. We encouraged mongooses to breed in the posting boxes to keep
down the snakes...'
Lord Vetinari said nothing.
'Er... which, admittedly, we introduced into the posting boxes to
reduce the numbers of toads...'
Lord Vetinari repeated himself.
'Er... which, it's true, staff put in the posting boxes to keep down
the snails...'
Lord Vetinari remained unvocal.
'Er... These, I must in fairness point out, got into the boxes of their
own accord, in order to eat the glue on the stamps,' said Moist, aware that
he was beginning to burble.
'Well, at least you were saved the trouble of having to introduce them
yourselves,' said Lord Vetinari cheerfully. 'As you indicate, this may well
have been a case where chilly logic should have been replaced by the common
sense of, perhaps, the average chicken. But that is not the reason I asked
you to come here today.'
'If it's about the cabbage-flavoured stamp glue -- ' Moist began.
Vetinari waved a hand. 'An amusing incident,' he said, 'and I believe
nobody actually died.'
*ring ring*
"Yes hello?"
"Excuse me, is your fridge running?"
"Yes, it has an uptime of over 3 months now."
"..."
*click*
I think I'm doing something wrong here..
Well I don't know about you but I was in India several years ago when they bombed Jaipur. Even then, returning at Delhi airport to go home, the screeners were shocked I took off my boots and put them on the conveyor belt. Also _everybody_ had a few 1 liter bottles of water. You can't really go long without water in the summer in India. Just to illustrate, at the same time, the USA and Great Britain were confiscating toothpaste and nail clippers.
Also, as an engineer, I can come up with 10 super effective ways to commit terror acts at the airport without even going through the screening process. Because as an engineer it's my job to find solutions to puzzles. And I'm not the smartest cookie in the jar. That means that any person who'd want to do real harm can just as easily come up with the same things I can come up with.
It's 100% theater. And knowing this, still being forced through the procedures just pisses me off as a law abiding citizen.
And thus the underwear arms race began.. .. did I tell you about the nuke I'm hiding in my boxers? *wink wink, nudge nudge*
Whoops.. link a site, see it get slashdotted..
Try this as an alternative link: http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/smithsonian.asp
Why does this remind so much of The Story of Barbie Head Archeology...
People underestimate the power of not being a dick.
Monster Cable spambot: "You know you need gold plated cables for it to work, right? I've gotta link here somewhere with some good ones.."
So when the siren sounds, start groping nearby females in search of a gasmask. :)
Doesn't WINE already have a reasonable Direct X implementation? And with that I mean it's still quite iffy for a lot of games, so it looks like it's pretty hard to get a good implementation done..
Recently on Penn & Teller's Bullshit, how the anti-vaccination movement is bullshit.
Part 1/2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aky-sRri-NQ
Part 2/2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnxci5tezZY
I strongly suggest you have a look at it.
>'The hard part has already been done for [script kiddies].'
Here, I fixed it for ya. No self-respecting coder would use a library like that.
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Is it wrong for me to get a bit hot under the collar, seeing a geek girl with such an impressive electronics workdesk?
So they'll have snapshots of Kirk Johnson (aka Goatse.cx guy) showing his wares to the world? I mean why would I dangle my own privates on Chatroulette when Manycam makes it so easy to put much more interesting vista's on the screen?
Do they still enforce their bans with easily deleted flash cookies?
Only a $100M fine? Shows that crime _does_ pay time and again..
A lot of times you read in the paper that they rounded up a large number of pedophiles due to the fact that they paid with a credit card. How can people be so stupid to think that this is in some way untraceable?
To be honest, I see this as pure Darwinism. Disregarding the fact that they are pedophiles, I strongly believe that people who do such stupid things should not be in a job of consequence.
If it really takes after Spore, galaxy upon galaxy, planets filled with walking cockmonsters..
I got yer PvP right here buddy...
20 fingers? Finally the input device needed for my Unchained Melody application..
*continues programming on his 3D pottery wheel*
I've used a program called Tunatic and it's been around for quite some time.. Is this prior art?
Even then I've got really old programs that do the same for images, so even that should work as prior art I think?
Reminds me of a test they are doing in Rotterdam atm with a length of road to clean micro particles out of the air (10 micrometers) that comes from the exhaust of cars. (http://www.wassendeweg.nl/)
Maybe a good thing to combine?
There's these cheap TV signal extenders you can get that work in the unregulated 2.4Ghz range. I'm betting it's something like that.
Drinking cups that are being held together with magnets? Oh ho ho! I smell an office prank with a degausser!
Ah right.. I get it.. while previous statement is 100% correct and true, the Tuesday statement does put down restrictions on the second child and thus reducing the 50% chance..
While it's true that the Tuesday remark adds something to the dataset, it doesn't however influence the probability of the sex of the next child.
Just like the sex of the first child doesn't affect the sex of the second child.
So in the end, it's going to be a 50% chance.
It's like asking, "I threw up a coin yesterday and it landed up heads. What is the chance it will land heads up today?"