I don't remember the author, but I read a short story long ago about a man who invented time travel and only used it once a week to go back several decades and buy pork chops because they were really cheap.
I'm almost positive this is not what you were referring to, but in the Stephen King novel '11/22/63', the first guy to find the time portal back to 1958 used it to buy super cheap meat for his restaurant.
I'm not sure what they're really trying to accomplish. They're shoving their political opinion in everyone's face. Quite often, however, people like this end up generating a fair amount of animosity towards their cause and bring together opponents trying to stop them who otherwise wouldn't have enough ambition to do so. Their actions end up being counterproductive. I'm not sure why they insist on hurting their own cause but they're hell bent on doing it.
Many of us who enjoy responsible recreational and sport shooting really wish these idiots would shut up and go away because they bring unwanted attention to the subject and end up making it more difficult for the rest of us.
I think I'm finally starting to get a handle on this mindset. By "pushing" their agenda, they want to force the other side to push back. Presumably, then, they can say to all the other like-minded enthusiasts "Look, we were right, they are trying to take our guns!"
In other words, they're launching a war because they think they have the numbers to win, if only everyone on their side would 'wake up.'
This is offtopic, but if you can figure out how to edge the wall where it meets the ceiling, let me know. I don't have a problem with ladders, but I have a very large wall in my living room and I can't figure out to get up there to paint it without buying a super tall ladder.
Now, correlation is not causation. It's possible that the parent's strong marriage does not *cause* the child's good prospects and performance, but rather that both are caused by some of the same socioeconomic factors
I like the idea that it's actually a reverse correlation- that stupid children with poor prospects and bad grades cause their parents' divorces.
I remember reading, back when this was all a thing, that the failure rates for locked iPhones during an update was right about even with the failure rates for unlocked iPhones, implying that the update process itself was responsible for the failures, and whether or not you unlocked or jailbroke your phone was immaterial to whether or not it was bricked. Unfortunately, I can't find that information, so I don't know if that was some sort of urban legend or not.
Personally, I jailbroke my iPhone once, then ultimately decided it wasn't worth the hassle of keeping up with the break/update cycle. And once they released apps, I sort of forgot about it all together.
I know you were joking. But I thought I'd throw in what christians actually believe. The earth isn't destroyed in the rapture, directly anyway. In the rapture, the christians (from other humans' perspective) simply disappear. You non-christians are left to fend for yourselves.:-)
Holy crap, that sounds awesome. Please tell me what I can do to hasten the coming of this "rapture". Do you have a newsletter?
I personally define addiction as "continuing to do something despite negative consequences." It's not an addiction unless you know you need to stop, and find that you can't. Many gamers see that their relationships, their jobs, even their health is impacted by this, but continue to play anyway. As far as I'm concerned, that's an addiction.
The drink was called the Warp Core Breach, I think. If I was in Vegas for more than a day or two, I used to try hit that place for lunch. I haven't been there for a while, but even then the whole place was starting to look pretty run down.
1. Government starts installing cameras.
2. Regardless of whether or not the cameras actually work, the businesses see that the state/city is pouring some money into the area.
3. Companies start moving in, renovating exist properties or building new.
4. Property values go up, and the poor can no longer afford to live there.
5. The poor move away, and the crime rates go down.
Your making the assumption that the $10,000 dollar car is only being replaced becase of the development of whiz-bang robocars.
I'm no marketing genius, but I suggest that the first company to produce autonomous transport vehicles probably shouldn't use the name "Whiz-Bang". People are going to be concerned enough with the safety issue.
And that, of course, is also the fun of looking up something in a dead-tree encyclopedia. As you look up the article you need, you run across other interesting articles and end up learning all sorts of unexpected things.
In a dead-tree encyclopedia, sure, I might look up information about the Serengeti, and then learn all kinds of interesting things about spiders, shoelaces, and salmonella, but with Wikipedia I can learn about things that start with other letters.
Which version of WordPress are you running? I can't get the newest version, 2.6, to work with the wp-openid plugin.
Also, I believe there are additional WordPress plugins that allow your blog itself to act as a provider. So you can install WordPress on your own server, install the plugin, and then use your admin account as your openid authentication. I haven't played with it, so I don't know how well it works, but it sounds pretty good.
There's no clear reason given as to why it's being discontinued, but if it's due to lack of interest, it was probably lack of advertising; I wasn't even slightly aware of this project, and it sounds like something I would have been very interested in. I use Foxmarks religiously and have trouble functioning without it.
I sort of thought thats what cameras did - created a false sense of security. They don't PREVENT crime. They don't PROTECT you. All they do is help catch the guy later, after the harm has already occurred.
The idea is that the very presence of the camera helps to prevent the crime in the first place. Most people will think twice about committing a crime if they know they're going to be caught on tape. This is where the idea of putting up a fake camera comes from.
It seems reasonable to sue a store if you got mugged in front of a fake camera, but only if it could be proven that the store was somehow negligent in keeping the fact that the camera was fake a secret from the criminal. I can't think of a way that scenario could possibly happen, but I am not a lawyer.
I also do not use eNom, but when I transfered domains from register.com, I had to call them on the telephone to get an 8-10 digit "transfer key" for each domain to include in my transfer reques, in addition to the steps listed previously. The registrar I was transferring to had a required input field for this key, which led me to believe it was pretty standard procedure.
Except that preventing someone from buying weed isn't quite the same as listening in on their phone calls and reading their mail without a warrant. But would you really want to? All the conversations would sound like this:
A: Hello?
B: Duuude....
A:...Dude?
B:...what's up?
A: Nothin'...
B:... what?
A:... nothin'... what's up?
B: Just chillin'....
B:... you still there?
A:... yeah, I'm just watchin' TV... what're you doin'?
B:... what?
At several points I've taken assembly classes, and I've come away from them feeling like I learned some incredibly valuable information about how computers "actually" work, at their most fundamental level. The odd thing is, though, that I can't remember anything specific about assembly. Nothing. I know it informed some of my thinking about other things, and I probably have answers to questions I wouldn't otherwise have known, but I couldn't tell you what or why. That being said, I also recommend it for anyone who works with computers, for some reason.
I suffer from all the same ailments that have been listed previously: no artistic ability, slight colorblindness, etc. I bought this book because it sounded like exactly what I needed. Even after reading through one night (it's not that long), I still feel that way, although I have yet to actually sit down attempt to "build a beautiful site." (I'm also lazy). The section on color palettes alone was almost worth the price of admission, what with the easy to understand color wheels and the definitions of "shade" and "tint".
Rogues? I always liked using them to sneak around, scout things out ahead of times, climb up walls to sneak into castles, pick pockets to get information or just a little extra gold, and find myriads of other ways to use all these cool skills and abilities for the good of the party. But, really, the most important part is causing spikes of high damage?
This was one of (many) pet peeves that eventually drove me away from tabletop RPGs for good: the one guy who played a thief so he could sneak off and do "recon", monopolizing the GM's time with his own private game while the rest of were forced to sit around and pretend we were, I don't know, cooking or something. I'd completely forgotten about this until I read that line and had myself a good shudder.
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I don't remember the author, but I read a short story long ago about a man who invented time travel and only used it once a week to go back several decades and buy pork chops because they were really cheap.
I'm almost positive this is not what you were referring to, but in the Stephen King novel '11/22/63', the first guy to find the time portal back to 1958 used it to buy super cheap meat for his restaurant.
I'm not sure what they're really trying to accomplish. They're shoving their political opinion in everyone's face. Quite often, however, people like this end up generating a fair amount of animosity towards their cause and bring together opponents trying to stop them who otherwise wouldn't have enough ambition to do so. Their actions end up being counterproductive. I'm not sure why they insist on hurting their own cause but they're hell bent on doing it.
Many of us who enjoy responsible recreational and sport shooting really wish these idiots would shut up and go away because they bring unwanted attention to the subject and end up making it more difficult for the rest of us.
I think I'm finally starting to get a handle on this mindset. By "pushing" their agenda, they want to force the other side to push back. Presumably, then, they can say to all the other like-minded enthusiasts "Look, we were right, they are trying to take our guns!" In other words, they're launching a war because they think they have the numbers to win, if only everyone on their side would 'wake up.'
This is offtopic, but if you can figure out how to edge the wall where it meets the ceiling, let me know. I don't have a problem with ladders, but I have a very large wall in my living room and I can't figure out to get up there to paint it without buying a super tall ladder.
Now, correlation is not causation. It's possible that the parent's strong marriage does not *cause* the child's good prospects and performance, but rather that both are caused by some of the same socioeconomic factors
I like the idea that it's actually a reverse correlation- that stupid children with poor prospects and bad grades cause their parents' divorces.
I remember reading, back when this was all a thing, that the failure rates for locked iPhones during an update was right about even with the failure rates for unlocked iPhones, implying that the update process itself was responsible for the failures, and whether or not you unlocked or jailbroke your phone was immaterial to whether or not it was bricked. Unfortunately, I can't find that information, so I don't know if that was some sort of urban legend or not.
Personally, I jailbroke my iPhone once, then ultimately decided it wasn't worth the hassle of keeping up with the break/update cycle. And once they released apps, I sort of forgot about it all together.
I love that joke, but no one ever seems to get it.
I know you were joking. But I thought I'd throw in what christians actually believe. The earth isn't destroyed in the rapture, directly anyway. In the rapture, the christians (from other humans' perspective) simply disappear. You non-christians are left to fend for yourselves. :-)
Holy crap, that sounds awesome. Please tell me what I can do to hasten the coming of this "rapture". Do you have a newsletter?
I personally define addiction as "continuing to do something despite negative consequences." It's not an addiction unless you know you need to stop, and find that you can't. Many gamers see that their relationships, their jobs, even their health is impacted by this, but continue to play anyway. As far as I'm concerned, that's an addiction.
The drink was called the Warp Core Breach, I think. If I was in Vegas for more than a day or two, I used to try hit that place for lunch. I haven't been there for a while, but even then the whole place was starting to look pretty run down.
1. Government starts installing cameras. 2. Regardless of whether or not the cameras actually work, the businesses see that the state/city is pouring some money into the area. 3. Companies start moving in, renovating exist properties or building new. 4. Property values go up, and the poor can no longer afford to live there. 5. The poor move away, and the crime rates go down.
I hope that USAF has their drone skills maxed. It would suck to invest all that only to realize you need (Drones V) and Drone Interfacing maxed out.
I hate you so, so much.
So, WhiteKnight2... is that one ship, or two? Do they break apart, or something?
Your making the assumption that the $10,000 dollar car is only being replaced becase of the development of whiz-bang robocars.
I'm no marketing genius, but I suggest that the first company to produce autonomous transport vehicles probably shouldn't use the name "Whiz-Bang". People are going to be concerned enough with the safety issue.
They are mad because you get more points for making "Scrabulous" than for "Scrabble".
I don't think either is allowed because they're proper names.
And that, of course, is also the fun of looking up something in a dead-tree encyclopedia. As you look up the article you need, you run across other interesting articles and end up learning all sorts of unexpected things.
In a dead-tree encyclopedia, sure, I might look up information about the Serengeti, and then learn all kinds of interesting things about spiders, shoelaces, and salmonella, but with Wikipedia I can learn about things that start with other letters.
Which version of WordPress are you running? I can't get the newest version, 2.6, to work with the wp-openid plugin. Also, I believe there are additional WordPress plugins that allow your blog itself to act as a provider. So you can install WordPress on your own server, install the plugin, and then use your admin account as your openid authentication. I haven't played with it, so I don't know how well it works, but it sounds pretty good.
There's no clear reason given as to why it's being discontinued, but if it's due to lack of interest, it was probably lack of advertising; I wasn't even slightly aware of this project, and it sounds like something I would have been very interested in. I use Foxmarks religiously and have trouble functioning without it.
I sort of thought thats what cameras did - created a false sense of security. They don't PREVENT crime. They don't PROTECT you. All they do is help catch the guy later, after the harm has already occurred.
The idea is that the very presence of the camera helps to prevent the crime in the first place. Most people will think twice about committing a crime if they know they're going to be caught on tape. This is where the idea of putting up a fake camera comes from.
It seems reasonable to sue a store if you got mugged in front of a fake camera, but only if it could be proven that the store was somehow negligent in keeping the fact that the camera was fake a secret from the criminal. I can't think of a way that scenario could possibly happen, but I am not a lawyer.
Well, I haven't heard of planets sagging yet.
Are you saying that Venus can still pass the pencil test?
I also do not use eNom, but when I transfered domains from register.com, I had to call them on the telephone to get an 8-10 digit "transfer key" for each domain to include in my transfer reques, in addition to the steps listed previously. The registrar I was transferring to had a required input field for this key, which led me to believe it was pretty standard procedure.
A: Hello?
B: Duuude....
A:
B:
A: Nothin'...
B:
A:
B: Just chillin'....
B:
A:
B:
At several points I've taken assembly classes, and I've come away from them feeling like I learned some incredibly valuable information about how computers "actually" work, at their most fundamental level. The odd thing is, though, that I can't remember anything specific about assembly. Nothing. I know it informed some of my thinking about other things, and I probably have answers to questions I wouldn't otherwise have known, but I couldn't tell you what or why. That being said, I also recommend it for anyone who works with computers, for some reason.
Didn't Coffee Society end up buying Campbell Roasting a few years ago?
I suffer from all the same ailments that have been listed previously: no artistic ability, slight colorblindness, etc. I bought this book because it sounded like exactly what I needed. Even after reading through one night (it's not that long), I still feel that way, although I have yet to actually sit down attempt to "build a beautiful site." (I'm also lazy). The section on color palettes alone was almost worth the price of admission, what with the easy to understand color wheels and the definitions of "shade" and "tint".
This was one of (many) pet peeves that eventually drove me away from tabletop RPGs for good: the one guy who played a thief so he could sneak off and do "recon", monopolizing the GM's time with his own private game while the rest of were forced to sit around and pretend we were, I don't know, cooking or something. I'd completely forgotten about this until I read that line and had myself a good shudder.