Maybe, just maybe, they were talking about 'bad gas mileage', not 'bad gas mileage'? Maybe the neon yellow car (a contradiction in terms, by the way, neon radiates a reddish-orange colour when excited) is modified to run off methane, and can get appreciable mileage from someone with a bad case of the beany burritos?;)
Is this that rare? I'd think that any household that could afford to buy an xbox rather than more pressing needs is probably solvent enough to have a stay-at-home partner. I know that when my fiancee and I get married and have kids, she plans to be a full time mum to our kids, and I'm happy to support that.
I was just referring to personal experience, where acquiring half an inch of flub suddenly halved the amount of time I could exercise at full pelt (given constant conditions) before overheating. Maybe I just lost condition, but I think it notable that most of my skin (barring the usual high blood flow areas, armpits/chest/head/neck) would be cold to the touch even while sweating profusely, and that this never used to be the case.:P
The blue M&M was not preferred. The monkey felt bad about being given what it didn't prefer. This bad feeling became associated with the blue M&M and the monkey therefore preferred any other colour. That relies on the monkey preferring a particular colour. Of course, monkeys may well prefer red (berry coloured) m&ms to blue (not so berry coloured unless the monkey's had blueberries) m&ms.
I think a simple alternative interpretation is just that monkeys, like most animals, are curious. Having seen both red and blue m&ms frequently, it can categorize both and knows what each tastes like. When it sees a green one next to a blue one it goes "ooh a new colour" and tries the green.
I'm willing to bet that the 'correct' weights were promulgated based upon an (incredibly unscientific) eyeballing of what looked good... If you had a nice, esthetic, flat body and no 'spare' fat anywhere, then you were declared 'healthy'. Physical attractiveness is determined directly by viability (health, capability, fertility). That's what it's FOR - assessing potential mates at a glance. I'd guess that if it looks good, it is good, more often than not.
Well, there is that. Men tend to age fairly linearly, whereas women look great until they get to 35ish, start looking pretty iffy around 38-40, and then rapidly turn into grandmas. Then again, the greatly decreased metabolic rate may contribute to their longer lives overall, I remember reading one theory that says our metabolisms slow as we get older to slow down cell division and thus decrease the chances of cancer.
Ouchies! I was around 66kg before I started working out, at 6'3, and I was a walking skeleton. It wasn't until I hit 80kg that I started feeling positive about my body shape. Even now at 90kg I'm sitting on around my target weight... now I just have to turn some of that back into muscle.;)
Most of the time a house is wrecked its from electrical fire (#1 thing they worry about, because its preventable), and then natural disasters and whatnot, and then its rare that the house is totaled. Also, most of the time houses are wrecked by natural disasters such as bushfires, insurance companies just turn around and say "nope, act of god, you suck, we no pay". One or two houses being burned down by a local fire will be covered, but if a whole street gets burned, there's a chance there'll be no payout. Car insurance doesn't turn around and say "oh, but you were in a 10-car pileup, we're not paying out".
The thing is, over weight people are built and in the same condition as you might be if you carried around 50 pounds of weight every day. The thing I've found (generally being in condition but having put on maybe 5-10kg over the last couple of years) is that wearing extra fat is a real problem thermally. Fat serves two purposes, food storage and insulation, and it's damn hard to exercise properly when even on a cold day a brisk walk makes you break out into a sweat. I can't imagine how much worse it is for someone with equivalent musculature to me but carrying another 20kg of fat... it'd be like exercising in a heavy coat that you can't take off.
Again, what's the difference? Unless you're positing some supernatural aspect to human intentionality, we're just following a vastly more complicated set of equations that evolved by chance and natural selection. The only difference in mechanism is one of scale.
At that point, if the Dolls in real life have technological or material lifespans, extended only by theft of a real human's DND/brain matter, then, at that point, it DEFINITELy should be illegal, whether the stolen matter is child or adult. Um... whaaa? You're saying it's fine to rape a paedobot but it's not ok to rape an EVIL MUTANT ZOMBIE paedobot?
The tie to Yeats is so loose it isn't funny. You know you've been reading Slashdot too long when... you read a quote like that and think "lose, idiot, it's... oh bother."
It's called voting. We even have the ability for third parties to run when everyone sucks. The problem we have is that the people on average don't care. They buy the line about how doing all this will save them from the terrorist threat which doesn't exist. The problem, to my mind, and the reason that people don't care, is that voting in a two-party system doesn't change policy a bit. There's no way for the populous to support their own views because politicians toe the party line, and the major parties run on a couple of headline issues while being otherwise very similar.
Even if the incumbent government IS thrown out, the network of advisors and upper-upper-middle management that actually runs the country tends to stay pretty much put, and the cogs keep turning as before.
Wine runs everything I've thrown at it faster than Windows does. I don't know what you're doing wrong. Admittedly I'm not using anything requiring DX9+ and ultra-bleeding-edge graphics hardware but still... for most things more than a year or so old it seems fine.
As for tracking outside the school, that's just a matter of time. The schoolbus will have one at the door, so you'll know he got on/off the bus. In cities (where school kids use public transit), ALL public busses could have a sensor at the door.
Bus stops, lamp posts, etc could all have sensors. 'For the safety of the children.'
Then it's trivial to start tracking other RFIDs, not just the school kid's. This raises an interesting question to me - how many of our clothes/shoes/backpacks etc. already have RFID tags built into them? They're everywhere in the retail industry. It seems to me that you could build up an identifiable profile of a person from 3-5 consistent tags in items that they regularly wear. From that point of view, distributed RFID sensors linked to a database could be a very interesting privacy issue.
Oh, but is it? And why? Knowing that some people innately prefer children, that humans find it almost impossible to completely control or suppress their sex drive, and that we can't just kill pedophiles out of hand when they are discovered - logically such a device would end up saving children from molestation? Let's assume a pedophile starts with a Roomba, and adds to it piece by piece until it resembles an animatronic underage Real Doll - at what point does it become illegal?
Seriously. It is. I live a mile (almost exactly) from a train station, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with spending 15 minutes walking to the station in the morning. If I'm in a hurry I can jog it in less than 10. Of course I drive most of the time because I'm lazy, but if (as is the case now, my fault for owning a borderline antique:P ) my car is off the road, the brisk walk doesn't go astray.:)
When did brief periods of physical exercise cease to be an option? The amount that we, as a society, would save on heart medication alone is probably reason enough.
People would pay the multiple of its actual value for the sheer convenience of using it. If you're renting a pair of roller skates that makes sense. You could easily pay the price of the skates, and get a refund less the rental fee when you return them. Anything approximating a car is going to be in the thousands of dollars, though - I can't see your average shopper wanting to maintain $5000 or more in available funds just to be able to take a taxi.
That was only one car, although it was admittedly pretty famous. Not only would a rear impact impale the petrol tank on a bolt on the differential, splashing petrol all over the hot exhaust, but the doors would jam shut. What a barrel o' laughs! Generally the only time cars explode during or after non-catastrophic collisions is when the film director's script commands them to.
Two words: Personal. Hygiene. It's not that hard to wash it every day or two, you should be doing that anyway. Maybe if you weren't so worried you'd go to hell for even touching it... Circumcision is primarily performed in in first-world countries among puritan-based societies because it makes masturbation more difficult. In my mind, aiding dogmatic repression of a harmless activity at the expense of utility and sensitivity is not just stupid, but highly unethical.
There was a recent decision in Australia to allow a 16-year-old girl smoking breaks while she was at school, on the basis that she was physically addicted to nicotine. Personally I'd say that's crazy but then I'm no fan of smoking in general.
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Maybe, just maybe, they were talking about 'bad gas mileage', not 'bad gas mileage'? Maybe the neon yellow car (a contradiction in terms, by the way, neon radiates a reddish-orange colour when excited) is modified to run off methane, and can get appreciable mileage from someone with a bad case of the beany burritos? ;)
Is this that rare? I'd think that any household that could afford to buy an xbox rather than more pressing needs is probably solvent enough to have a stay-at-home partner. I know that when my fiancee and I get married and have kids, she plans to be a full time mum to our kids, and I'm happy to support that.
I was just referring to personal experience, where acquiring half an inch of flub suddenly halved the amount of time I could exercise at full pelt (given constant conditions) before overheating. Maybe I just lost condition, but I think it notable that most of my skin (barring the usual high blood flow areas, armpits/chest/head/neck) would be cold to the touch even while sweating profusely, and that this never used to be the case. :P
I think a simple alternative interpretation is just that monkeys, like most animals, are curious. Having seen both red and blue m&ms frequently, it can categorize both and knows what each tastes like. When it sees a green one next to a blue one it goes "ooh a new colour" and tries the green.
Well, there is that. Men tend to age fairly linearly, whereas women look great until they get to 35ish, start looking pretty iffy around 38-40, and then rapidly turn into grandmas. Then again, the greatly decreased metabolic rate may contribute to their longer lives overall, I remember reading one theory that says our metabolisms slow as we get older to slow down cell division and thus decrease the chances of cancer.
Ouchies! I was around 66kg before I started working out, at 6'3, and I was a walking skeleton. It wasn't until I hit 80kg that I started feeling positive about my body shape. Even now at 90kg I'm sitting on around my target weight... now I just have to turn some of that back into muscle. ;)
Hans, Hans, Hans! We've been frew this a dozen times. I don't have any weapons of mass destwuction, OK Hans?
Again, what's the difference? Unless you're positing some supernatural aspect to human intentionality, we're just following a vastly more complicated set of equations that evolved by chance and natural selection. The only difference in mechanism is one of scale.
Even if the incumbent government IS thrown out, the network of advisors and upper-upper-middle management that actually runs the country tends to stay pretty much put, and the cogs keep turning as before.
I can't quite hear you! Did you say "flea dumb"?
Wine runs everything I've thrown at it faster than Windows does. I don't know what you're doing wrong. Admittedly I'm not using anything requiring DX9+ and ultra-bleeding-edge graphics hardware but still... for most things more than a year or so old it seems fine.
Then it's trivial to start tracking other RFIDs, not just the school kid's. This raises an interesting question to me - how many of our clothes/shoes/backpacks etc. already have RFID tags built into them? They're everywhere in the retail industry. It seems to me that you could build up an identifiable profile of a person from 3-5 consistent tags in items that they regularly wear. From that point of view, distributed RFID sensors linked to a database could be a very interesting privacy issue.
He's your plastic pal who's fun to be with!!
Oh, but is it? And why? Knowing that some people innately prefer children, that humans find it almost impossible to completely control or suppress their sex drive, and that we can't just kill pedophiles out of hand when they are discovered - logically such a device would end up saving children from molestation? Let's assume a pedophile starts with a Roomba, and adds to it piece by piece until it resembles an animatronic underage Real Doll - at what point does it become illegal?
Seriously. It is. I live a mile (almost exactly) from a train station, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with spending 15 minutes walking to the station in the morning. If I'm in a hurry I can jog it in less than 10. Of course I drive most of the time because I'm lazy, but if (as is the case now, my fault for owning a borderline antique
When did brief periods of physical exercise cease to be an option? The amount that we, as a society, would save on heart medication alone is probably reason enough.
That was only one car, although it was admittedly pretty famous. Not only would a rear impact impale the petrol tank on a bolt on the differential, splashing petrol all over the hot exhaust, but the doors would jam shut. What a barrel o' laughs! Generally the only time cars explode during or after non-catastrophic collisions is when the film director's script commands them to.
Two words: Personal. Hygiene. It's not that hard to wash it every day or two, you should be doing that anyway. Maybe if you weren't so worried you'd go to hell for even touching it... Circumcision is primarily performed in in first-world countries among puritan-based societies because it makes masturbation more difficult. In my mind, aiding dogmatic repression of a harmless activity at the expense of utility and sensitivity is not just stupid, but highly unethical.
There was a recent decision in Australia to allow a 16-year-old girl smoking breaks while she was at school, on the basis that she was physically addicted to nicotine. Personally I'd say that's crazy but then I'm no fan of smoking in general.
All about branding hey?
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