The point is to point and laugh at the fool that goes to the toilet immediately after preparing the hot sauce.
Even if the fool has a hand-wash before going to the toilet, they'll likely be doing a dance of discomfort shortly afterwards. I speak from experience with chopping scotch bonnets for a sauce; the hand-wash with soap proved inadequate. Luckily my GF of the time liked chile, as she said she could still taste it later in a BJ.
Escape velocity from the Earth is slightly over 11 km/sec at the surface of the Earth. At 38-54 km/sec, you could throw yourself at the ground and miss. In fact, escape velocity from the Sun at the Earth is just over 42 km/sec, so you might even head into interstellar space.
27 in the US. Mostly along the coasts. I live probably a good 1500 miles from the nearest one.
And a lot more than that in Europe. Finland alone has nine of them, six in or near Helsinki (metro pop. 1,300,000), and one each in Tampere (region pop. 300,000), outside Turku (region pop. 250,000), and in Kuopio (region pop.100,000).
Some people use their hands to perform surgery. Some use them to play the violin. Some use them to flip burgers. Nearly all, however, use their hands to jerk off.
Thus, jerking off is the most popular use for hands.
Seriously, friend. Can you tell me what a "pam stack" is? I'm having trouble understanding the google results. I'm half a moron, so if you could be gentle, I'd appreciate it.
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I am all for rethinking the desktop paradigm, but I'm not sure whether Gnome 3 is a complete rethink or a desperate attempt to break out of the Windows 95 mould (which I think most linux users, given the popularity of mint and pclinuxos, would grudgingly admit is a sensible way of organising a desktop).
The Windows 95 desktop was a giant leap backwards from the OS/2 WPS which was commercially released before it. In many ways, WPS still has not been matched.
Not that I doubt you're right, but out of curiosity, what did they take out now?
The maximize and minimize buttons, and the window menu which contained those and other actions. Only the close button remains as a common to all windows (although an application can make window-specific action buttons). Maximize and minimize functions are available still, in a non-intuitive way. This is one of the most irksome changes which has rubbed many people the wrong way. I'm delaying any decision on embracing/rejecting Gnome 3 until I've tried it out for a while.
Why can't I click any links in slashdot comments anymore? I'm using Firefox 4. Can't even right click.
Any why is that yellow box overlapping everything when I'm previewing a message? Slashdot seems a bit messed up
Same here in Chrome, FireFox 4, and IE 9 on Windows. Also does not work on Mac in Chrome.
A quick check of element in the inspector shows:
<a href="http://www.xfce.org/" title="xfce.org" rel="nofollow" id="aeaoofnhgocdbnbeljkmbjdmhbcokfdb-mousedown">Xfce</a>
That does not look right to me...
This is really a hassle. Can somebody that actually manages the site please at least try to read the comments here?
Curiously it all works fine in Opera and Chrome on XP.
And when's the last time you edited photos, video, or audio with a CLI?
I regularly do so, and have a number of simple scripts to select some or all image files (of specifiable types) in a directory and process them. The image processing is typically to resize to a specified percentage, unsharp using specified parameters, optionally stretch their histograms, and then apply a watermark and a given copyright text. Image processing by CLI cannot do everything, of course, but it does these mass modifications far faster than any GUI tool I know of. For things like red-eye removal, touching up blemishes, and so forth, a GUI tool is used, since these operations are unique to each image.
Here's a whole bunch of random people's BMIs plotted on a chart. If you squint your eyes you can clearly see the dots form a curve, not a straight line.
Clue: Humans are three dimensional, the power term in the equation should therefore be a 3, not a 2.
(...and that would only fix the 'height' problem, it still wouldn't take into account the muscularity of a person)./rant
Well, humans don't actually scale with width proportional to height, so it's supposed that the index should be something between 2 and 3 with a best estimate for the US population of 2.6, approximately. The balance between different tissues obviously would need to be described by other parameters (mass distribution: fat/muscle/bone vs full entrails). Don't expect something as simple as an tubby/normal/skinny result.
I'll queue up downloads 24/7 for the first six months, and that should probably take care of any music I, my family, and my friends wanted anyhow.
Assuming you've got a downlink which can sustain 2 Mbps on average (respectable enough for the UK), you could receive over 21 GByte in a single day. Exhausting the available repertory of music might take two or three days, if your choices are indiscriminate, and would not exhaust your ridiculously small usage cap.
More likely, there will be a separate cap imposed on the music downloads, and it won't be large. I suspect the "free" music will be at best 128kbps, and you'll be limited to downloading a few hours of playtime per day. That would make the cap for music a mere few hundred MByte per day, with all sorts of steep overage charges.
What exactly is going to bioaccumlate for decades? Iodine-131 has a half life of 8 days and decays into stable Xenon-131.
The question is whether or not they are detecting Iodine-129, which decays into Xenon-129, but has a half-life of 15.7 million years. I know nuke bombs and fission reactors create it, but haven't heard how much of this isotope has been found.
Unlike I-131, I-129 IS a problem in the environment over the long term.
On the other hand, to detect comparable rates of beta emission, you'd need about 700million times as much I-129 as I-131. The half-life determines not just the time scale of the emission process, but also its intensity per gram of material.
Hell, the best promotion for Satan appears to be the Catholic church itself.
Especially since the very concept of satanism or satan-worship is inseparable from the Christian mythos.
More generally, anything related to satan or shaitan is intrinsically an offshoot of one of the "religions of the book", and ultimately descended from Angra Mainyu who was the antagonist of Ahura Mazhda, whence those interrelated Abrahamic monotheisms derive several of their basic attributes.
The previous Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, was also embarrassed over this issue. In an interview he claimed that he mostly listened to The Beatles on his iPod. At the time, there was no digital download available for any Beatles songs, and ripping songs from a CD is illegal under UK copyright law. When this was subsequently pointed out, there was a hurried statement that Brown had mis-spoke and listened to the Beatles on his CD player, not the iPod. Hilarious.
If a corporation is a person for legal purposes, it should be a person for taxation purposes. Why is this not the case already?
Maybe scale up the personal exemption based on the number of full-time employees (or number equivalent to full-time employees, if part-timers). Then pay on the same sliding scale as the millions of actual persons in the USA. Effectively, the corporation would be treated like a person with a number of dependents/spouses/whatever equivalent to its number of full-time employees.
Actually, a tax on overly large sound systems could be a bonus.
I would not object to a fine being imposed on idiots with excessive volume in their cars. Roof down? Then put the volume down also!
However, it would be anathema for the music industry to collect a tax on playing music in a car, however loudly.
CIA wants them to store it for eternity. FTC wants them to get rid of it ASAP. Make up your mind, The Government!
There is no need to wonder whether the FTC rules would apply to the CIA or FBI or IRS or any other government agency. And don't bother worrying about it either, citizen, unless you have something to hide...
Why aren't they targeting taxis? The whole thing is stupidity in motion. The end result will be that the companies pull the radios out of the trucks and the drivers supply their own, either portable or clipped into the dash.
First, they came for the truckers. If successful, they'll be tempted to go for the tractors and cranes, and then the taxis, and then the company cars. So where is the logical ending? Private cars used for business trips? Or just any vehicle where the music is audible a few meters from the vehicle?
A 4 ton car wears the roads more than a 2 ton car.
Indeed, a 4-ton vehicle with load evenly distributed between two axles does sixteen times as much damage to the road as a 2-ton vehicle with load evenly distributed between two axles.
It gets far worse for heavier axle loads. From wikipedia: "A typical tractor-trailer weighing 80,000 pounds (36.287 t) with 8,000 pounds (3.6287 t) on the steer axle and 36,000 pounds (16.329 t) on both of the tandem axle groups is expected to do 7,800 times more damage than a passenger vehicle with 2,000 pounds (0.907 t) on each axle."
If a road usage tax were to represent the actual cost of wear and tear on the road, it would incorporate a formula such as sum_over_axles(axle_load^4). Compact cars would thus be taxed at a nugatory level per vehicle-mile, mid-size cars somewhat more, SUVs and pickups would pay at least an order of magnitude more again, and heavy trucks would pay by far the most per vehicle-mile. As others have noted, this road-usage tax should be independent of a fuel tax (of which the US does not have nearly enough). It is ludicrous to suppose that all cars would pay it equally.
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The point is to point and laugh at the fool that goes to the toilet immediately after preparing the hot sauce.
Even if the fool has a hand-wash before going to the toilet, they'll likely be doing a dance of discomfort shortly afterwards. I speak from experience with chopping scotch bonnets for a sauce; the hand-wash with soap proved inadequate. Luckily my GF of the time liked chile, as she said she could still taste it later in a BJ.
And the demographic which reads the Daily Mail is neither technically literate nor particularly well-informed or erudite.
which can range from 38 to 54 km/sec
Escape velocity from the Earth is slightly over 11 km/sec at the surface of the Earth. At 38-54 km/sec, you could throw yourself at the ground and miss. In fact, escape velocity from the Sun at the Earth is just over 42 km/sec, so you might even head into interstellar space.
Send PJ a red dress for the closing party!
27 in the US. Mostly along the coasts. I live probably a good 1500 miles from the nearest one.
And a lot more than that in Europe. Finland alone has nine of them, six in or near Helsinki (metro pop. 1,300,000), and one each in Tampere (region pop. 300,000), outside Turku (region pop. 250,000), and in Kuopio (region pop.100,000).
Some people use their hands to perform surgery. Some use them to play the violin. Some use them to flip burgers. Nearly all, however, use their hands to jerk off.
Thus, jerking off is the most popular use for hands.
FTFY. And improved the analogy with tablets, too.
Seriously, friend. Can you tell me what a "pam stack" is? I'm having trouble understanding the google results. I'm half a moron, so if you could be gentle, I'd appreciate it.
Duh, here.
I am all for rethinking the desktop paradigm, but I'm not sure whether Gnome 3 is a complete rethink or a desperate attempt to break out of the Windows 95 mould (which I think most linux users, given the popularity of mint and pclinuxos, would grudgingly admit is a sensible way of organising a desktop).
The Windows 95 desktop was a giant leap backwards from the OS/2 WPS which was commercially released before it. In many ways, WPS still has not been matched.
I just noticed that on gnome.org it says "Hosted by Canonical" at the bottom. Isn't it great how they're getting along, what with all the drama? :)
Yes, it is. Of course, I notice that there's no Ubuntu release on their download page ...
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Copyright © 20052011 The GNOME Project Optimised for standards. Hosted by Red Hat.
Hmmm. Which page was that on? The bottom of the Gnome 3 page says:
Copyright © 20052011 The GNOME Project
Free to share and remix: Creative Commons CC-BY. Optimised for standards. Hosted by Canonical.
Not that I doubt you're right, but out of curiosity, what did they take out now?
The maximize and minimize buttons, and the window menu which contained those and other actions. Only the close button remains as a common to all windows (although an application can make window-specific action buttons). Maximize and minimize functions are available still, in a non-intuitive way. This is one of the most irksome changes which has rubbed many people the wrong way. I'm delaying any decision on embracing/rejecting Gnome 3 until I've tried it out for a while.
Why can't I click any links in slashdot comments anymore? I'm using Firefox 4. Can't even right click.
Any why is that yellow box overlapping everything when I'm previewing a message? Slashdot seems a bit messed up
Same here in Chrome, FireFox 4, and IE 9 on Windows. Also does not work on Mac in Chrome.
A quick check of element in the inspector shows:
<a href="http://www.xfce.org/" title="xfce.org" rel="nofollow" id="aeaoofnhgocdbnbeljkmbjdmhbcokfdb-mousedown">Xfce</a>
That does not look right to me...
This is really a hassle. Can somebody that actually manages the site please at least try to read the comments here?
Curiously it all works fine in Opera and Chrome on XP.
And when's the last time you edited photos, video, or audio with a CLI?
I regularly do so, and have a number of simple scripts to select some or all image files (of specifiable types) in a directory and process them. The image processing is typically to resize to a specified percentage, unsharp using specified parameters, optionally stretch their histograms, and then apply a watermark and a given copyright text. Image processing by CLI cannot do everything, of course, but it does these mass modifications far faster than any GUI tool I know of. For things like red-eye removal, touching up blemishes, and so forth, a GUI tool is used, since these operations are unique to each image.
Here's a whole bunch of random people's BMIs plotted on a chart. If you squint your eyes you can clearly see the dots form a curve, not a straight line.
Clue: Humans are three dimensional, the power term in the equation should therefore be a 3, not a 2.
(...and that would only fix the 'height' problem, it still wouldn't take into account the muscularity of a person). /rant
Well, humans don't actually scale with width proportional to height, so it's supposed that the index should be something between 2 and 3 with a best estimate for the US population of 2.6, approximately. The balance between different tissues obviously would need to be described by other parameters (mass distribution: fat/muscle/bone vs full entrails). Don't expect something as simple as an tubby/normal/skinny result.
I'll queue up downloads 24/7 for the first six months, and that should probably take care of any music I, my family, and my friends wanted anyhow.
Assuming you've got a downlink which can sustain 2 Mbps on average (respectable enough for the UK), you could receive over 21 GByte in a single day. Exhausting the available repertory of music might take two or three days, if your choices are indiscriminate, and would not exhaust your ridiculously small usage cap.
More likely, there will be a separate cap imposed on the music downloads, and it won't be large. I suspect the "free" music will be at best 128kbps, and you'll be limited to downloading a few hours of playtime per day. That would make the cap for music a mere few hundred MByte per day, with all sorts of steep overage charges.
What exactly is going to bioaccumlate for decades? Iodine-131 has a half life of 8 days and decays into stable Xenon-131.
The question is whether or not they are detecting Iodine-129, which decays into Xenon-129, but has a half-life of 15.7 million years. I know nuke bombs and fission reactors create it, but haven't heard how much of this isotope has been found.
Unlike I-131, I-129 IS a problem in the environment over the long term.
On the other hand, to detect comparable rates of beta emission, you'd need about 700million times as much I-129 as I-131. The half-life determines not just the time scale of the emission process, but also its intensity per gram of material.
Hell, the best promotion for Satan appears to be the Catholic church itself.
Especially since the very concept of satanism or satan-worship is inseparable from the Christian mythos.
More generally, anything related to satan or shaitan is intrinsically an offshoot of one of the "religions of the book", and ultimately descended from Angra Mainyu who was the antagonist of Ahura Mazhda, whence those interrelated Abrahamic monotheisms derive several of their basic attributes.
The previous Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, was also embarrassed over this issue. In an interview he claimed that he mostly listened to The Beatles on his iPod. At the time, there was no digital download available for any Beatles songs, and ripping songs from a CD is illegal under UK copyright law. When this was subsequently pointed out, there was a hurried statement that Brown had mis-spoke and listened to the Beatles on his CD player, not the iPod. Hilarious.
If a corporation is a person for legal purposes, it should be a person for taxation purposes. Why is this not the case already?
Maybe scale up the personal exemption based on the number of full-time employees (or number equivalent to full-time employees, if part-timers). Then pay on the same sliding scale as the millions of actual persons in the USA. Effectively, the corporation would be treated like a person with a number of dependents/spouses/whatever equivalent to its number of full-time employees.
Actually, a tax on overly large sound systems could be a bonus.
I would not object to a fine being imposed on idiots with excessive volume in their cars. Roof down? Then put the volume down also!
However, it would be anathema for the music industry to collect a tax on playing music in a car, however loudly.
CIA wants them to store it for eternity. FTC wants them to get rid of it ASAP. Make up your mind, The Government!
There is no need to wonder whether the FTC rules would apply to the CIA or FBI or IRS or any other government agency. And don't bother worrying about it either, citizen, unless you have something to hide...
Why aren't they targeting taxis? The whole thing is stupidity in motion. The end result will be that the companies pull the radios out of the trucks and the drivers supply their own, either portable or clipped into the dash.
First, they came for the truckers. If successful, they'll be tempted to go for the tractors and cranes, and then the taxis, and then the company cars. So where is the logical ending? Private cars used for business trips? Or just any vehicle where the music is audible a few meters from the vehicle?
Well %$#^* Belgium! Pardon my French.
That should have been "Fuck B-----m!".
Mask the expletives according to their nastiness.
You may be surprised before the end of the year by some not-as-dead-as-you-think...
Indeed, there is life in RIM, yet! They will hold on for the foreseeable future as the third force in smartphones, against Apple and the Androids.
but everything else I said was 100% wikipedia accurate.
Other than being more than a century wrong on when Nokia came into being (founded in 1865).
A 4 ton car wears the roads more than a 2 ton car.
Indeed, a 4-ton vehicle with load evenly distributed between two axles does sixteen times as much damage to the road as a 2-ton vehicle with load evenly distributed between two axles.
It gets far worse for heavier axle loads. From wikipedia: "A typical tractor-trailer weighing 80,000 pounds (36.287 t) with 8,000 pounds (3.6287 t) on the steer axle and 36,000 pounds (16.329 t) on both of the tandem axle groups is expected to do 7,800 times more damage than a passenger vehicle with 2,000 pounds (0.907 t) on each axle."
If a road usage tax were to represent the actual cost of wear and tear on the road, it would incorporate a formula such as sum_over_axles(axle_load^4). Compact cars would thus be taxed at a nugatory level per vehicle-mile, mid-size cars somewhat more, SUVs and pickups would pay at least an order of magnitude more again, and heavy trucks would pay by far the most per vehicle-mile. As others have noted, this road-usage tax should be independent of a fuel tax (of which the US does not have nearly enough). It is ludicrous to suppose that all cars would pay it equally.