The people preparing the fish should have known better. The problem is that the monkfish liver (known as "ankimo" in Japanese) is often referred to as the "foie gras" of the sea, and is prepared in a similar manner to its landlocked analog.
The liver(and gonads, and other organs) of the pufferfish("Fugu" in Japanese), in contrast, are highly toxic and are the reason why only skilled chefs should prepare it.
It's like going to a bar expecting to be served with Ethyl Alcohol and instead being served with Methyl alcohol. That extra "M" stands for "murder."
The food scene is like the art scene, it's full of pretentious yuppies saying shit like, "I love dungfish gonads, the texture is so ethereal it dances across my palate like Penn State football coaches dance around the allegations..." Of course they only believe that because they're parroting it word-for-word from the last restaurant review, every time they recommend dungfish gonads to their friends.
More to the point, fishes that were once considered garbage bait fish, like squid, are now haute cuisine and are on every damn menu. Salmon eggs are often sold as fish-bait, but you put 'em on sushi and their worth is jacked up by hundreds of percents.
I agree, and I don't know why protectionism and nationalism are such bad words here. Looking out for yourself and talking pride in yourself in a dog-eat-dog world are both actions of a healthy individual, but now we as a nation could be personified as a drug-addicted whore peddling our ass on the street, occasionally starting senseless fights.
There's a lot of money involved in our domestic and government work. If we can ban outsourcing (for example) at the expense of some executive's multi-million dollar bonus, so be it. A decent paycheck should be enough. Let the greedy fuckers move to Dubai if they want personal tennis courts and multi-million dollar bonuses.
As a proud native Californian, I say get the fuck out. You probably took that job from a Californian because you are cheap, and now you're just one of those inbred, cornfed assholes driving up the property costs.
This is something profound that deserves mention - on an early skit[ pre-skipped for your pleasure, so pay attention ] Dave Chappelle mentions Linux. This is profound, because that skit was shown on one of the most popular shows back then, in 2003!
And the sad part was, the reference flew right over everybody's heads.
I had a terrible experience with a Phillppines-based call center. My dad had purchased one of the HP laptops with the faulty Nvidia graphics chips, but is not techsavvy so he didn't know about it until I looked at it a month after its warranty had expired.
The short story is that they were rude and wouldn't help, so it was escalated to the supervisor (who had to walk over to the phone that the tech was using), and he was doubly rude. The best he was willing to do was sell me a new motherboard, which would be 250-300 dollars for something that was HP's fault. Both of us were becoming more and more belligerent, until I gave up and told him, "Fuck you, maganda [Tagalog for 'pretty lady'], you and your call center are all pond scum."
Domestically, I find that Phillipinos are great to work with as long as they are not a demographically dominating majority because of their tendency to be fervently strict, hateful, and judgemental Christians.
Every corporation has its resident professional shitter. The professional corporate shitter always an aging grumpy fat guy with health problems and a decent work ethic, who happens to be a slave to his bowel movements.
The professional shitter will spend no less than two hours per workday on the pot. Additionally, their bowel movements will be very pronounced - you walk into the commode and just know the professional shitter is in there. Signs of a good professional shitter are the heavy widespread stink of their bowel movements (people running out of the bathroom holding their shirts over their mouths and noses), the strained grunting and heavy breathing coming from the afflicted stall, and the professional shitters' enhanced appreciation for toilet humor while not in the restroom. Questions anyone?
Ethanol, I'm a professional shitter, and my co-workers are complaining about the time I'm spending in the restroom. What should I do?
An excellent question. If you are not on a prescription for opioid painkillers, get on one now. Doctors give them away like candy. Then, you can get a doctors note stating that the effects on such painkillers on the digestive system (constipation) are the causes of your long stays in the restroom. Your employer wouldn't dare fire anybody for medical reasons.
No way, bro. The genius of Apple's marketing is that everybody who buys an Apple gadget believes they are unique in owning one, despite the fact that everybody else owns an Apple gadget. Most importantly, though, is that Apple can and does give the public the impression that everything they do is top-notch, so they don't do a whole lot of it, even when its been done before.
Contrast that to Microsoft and Google's approach - Both brands are diluted - Microsoft buys up all its second-rate competitors and shills the fuck out of its second-rate competition(Bing and Silverlight are good examples). Google buys and produces good ideas, throws them all at the wall, and hopes that they stick so they either benefit from their competitors' ham-handed ineptitude (Microsofts' acquisition of Hotmail was a smart move until they tried to shoehorn social networking into it, and the bloat prompted their userbase to leave) or the fact that Google's very ad-supported services are free and have the best SPAM filter.
What they would be good for is trying to make money from the inventory of chips that were too defective to be part of a first-pass yield and sold with a more expensive name. I wonder if they were already written off as losses for tax purposes?
All your fancy math aside, I can state simply that Apple would not acquire Yahoo because that would cheapen their brand. The layperson assumes that everything Apple makes is totally proprietary, top-notch, justifying a higher price. Apple's purchase of Yahoo would be a Frankenstein-esque grafting of some ugly diseased limb. People will lose respect for Apple because they will believe that Apple is "going plebian" and becoming uncool.
I am not an Apple fanboy and will use any chance I can to ridicule Apple and its users, but I'm only being straight-up here. I know the feeling personally, because I lost a lot of respect for Java (then still overseen by SUN) when they started shoehorning the Yahoo Toolbar in with Java installs. The move was cheap, tacky, and a huge disappointment overall.
Which is a shame, because yahoo voice chat was the best trolling on the internet. There was a bug where, if you got ignored, you could simply leave the room and come back. Those who ignored you couldn't see your posts, but they could hear your audio.
My drunken friends and I spent many a night trolling the Christian chat rooms with pornographic recordings. Here's how we'd do it:
First, every Christian chat room had its own resident loudmouth who would spout bible verses all night without relinquishing the mic. We would get him off by starting a feedback loop, placing our microphone directly in front of our speakers, causing the feedback to be fed through the windbag's speakers into his mic. The feedback would be so horrible that the guy would get off the mic.
Next, with our mic at our speakers, we would play pornographic audio snippets from porn movies. The whole room would be exposed to those awful recordings and stir up into a frenzy of anger and disgust("I have kids in here listening to this with me!") and we would sit back and laugh, porn blaring, as they ignored us one by one. Then, thanks to the aforementioned bug, we'd leave the room and go back in.
The best part was when some asshole tried to grab the mic and wouldn't relinquish it, but he wouldn't turn his speakers down so even if the whole room had ignored us, our porno-audio was still going through his speakers, into his mic, and being fed back into the room. Since he was so desperate to keep control of the mic, he lost either way, and the room was forced to hear pornographic audio.
Finally, they would get smart and turn their speakers off. Then the person on the mic would start singing while the rest of the chat room fumed and ranted around him. It's like when a kid hears something he doesn't want to, cups his hands over his ears, and goes, "la-la-la-la-LAAAAAA."
People who participate in Black Friday are pathetic. Only in America are people willing to be herded like cattle, trampling and fighting each other over a fucking TV. Camping out in front of stores days in advance just to buy low-priced crap made in China is like begging to suck the cock of a person who steals your money and beats the shit out of you.
Pay the extra pennies and have some fucking dignity. If you're that hard-up to suck Chinese or Korean cock, then go move there and suck to your heart's content. The living expenses are real cheap over there, too.
You can argue that making and charging EV's just shifts the problem downstream to the power plants, many of which are coal-fired, but having all of the pollution more localized still makes a difference in the environment and quality of life.
Just sucks to be you if you happen to live near a coal plant or an unsafe nuke plant.
While you are just trolling, the ultimate goal of the "total information awareness" program is in fact to quantify data used to predict events before they happen. This especially applies to the concept of "pre-crime," where your data would be fed through an algorithm. If your actions are undesireable to the establishment, then you will be followed and arrested with the first excuse they can muster.
And a fact most appropriate to your user ID - Religious lobbying in America has increased 500%. Among the most important issues of religious lobbying groups are:
- The relationship between church and state (pissing on that thing we call the constitution)
- Civil rights and liberties for religious and other minorities(like the gays?)
- Bioethics and life issues, including abortion, capital punishment and end-of-life issues(force people to have kids they don't want and prevent people in constant paint to pass peacefully, generally impede scientific progress)
- Family/marriage issues, including definition of marriage, domestic violence and fatherhood initiatives(great job in the bible belt, with its higher rates of divorce)
So yes, this is all related, because Christians are in charge of America, and Christians believe that everybody else should be subject to the same overbearing parenting that Christians were subject to as children. Big brother is their way of foisting their so-called "morality" upon everybody else, willing or unwilling.
Your comment is the most trollishly naive bullshit I've ever read here. All of the above and/or their middlemen(the service providers) have motives to aggregate and quantify data collected from their users, and they can and will sell it. The only variables are type and amount of data they collect.
I remember when Android was first anounced and Slashdot was having big circle-jerks over it, saying that people were finally free to do whatever they wanted with their phones. I laughed and told you all, "you stupid fucks, the carriers will lock them down however they like."
But, but...CyanogenMod!
Voids your warranty, dumbasses. Not a smart thing to do with a contract either way.
But back to addressing the summary. Yeah. I'll stick with my dumbphone and have the patience and self-control to not fidget and shuffle until I can experience the 'net at home.
Microsoft are already aware of sex-themed software for Kinect, and have rejected licensing and support for that purpose. As others have pointed out ad-nauseum, it's very hypocritical - You can massacre a whole room full of innocent bystanders in Modern Warfare 2, but you can't pinch a virtual tittie?
It's a shame, because Microsoft and its licensees are missing out on so much potential revenue. Your idea would be well-suited to those minigames between stages where both players have to hammer both buttons as fast as they can, and the first one to inflate the balloon or destroy the car won. Except, instead of pressing the buttons, you're jacking off. Against another man, who is standing right next to you. That would be a cool arcade.
It was extremely problematic for people debating online...conservative friends...liberal friends.... It was the same exact story, but since nobody RTFAs, the headline was the most important piece of evidence in the debate.
Oh, yeah, "debating" online. A "debate" implies that all parties have at least some background information and are capable of critical thinking and intelligent discussion.
What you described in that case is just parroting. Like parrots, the two sides just repeat sound bites heard from people they happen to agree with. Liberals are all lazy homosexual communists, because Rush Limbaugh said so. Conservatives are dumb, cruel, racist Nazis because Keith Olbermann said so.
Parrots are the cause of America's inability to fix its own problems, especially when turned loose at the ballot box.
Not in a country where it's legal for a 60 year-old man to marry a 4 year-old girl, mate with her, then throw acid in her face and stone her to death for not wearing a burqa.
Lets say you're making a display, and you want to call yourself 'vivid' because well, you make displays that are vivid. (Or maybe you're HTC making a phone you want to brand that way, same deal) and someone else wants to equally correctly, but in a completely different context brand themselves 'vivid'.
Heh, dude. Vivid entertainment[NSFW] is one of the top porn producers in the United States. Either I've been subtly and cleverly trolled, or you are psychic.
It's possible that you have much more stored in your brain than you realize. Could you imagine the chaos in your head if it were to provide you with all of your brain's knowledge and wisdom on-demand? The Hollywood version would be cool because you'd be like a genius, but the downfalls to that ability are described in the Star Trek: TNG episode Tin Man. That guy who was born "gifted" was miserable, barely functional, and unstable because his telepathic mind had a low signal-noise ratio.
Take into account your dreams. How many of your dreams feature the most mundane, forgettable events you experienced that day? Do you believe that your psyche would delve into chaos if every little ass-wiping thoughout your life were constantly percolating to the surface of your conscious mind?
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The people preparing the fish should have known better. The problem is that the monkfish liver (known as "ankimo" in Japanese) is often referred to as the "foie gras" of the sea, and is prepared in a similar manner to its landlocked analog.
The liver(and gonads, and other organs) of the pufferfish("Fugu" in Japanese), in contrast, are highly toxic and are the reason why only skilled chefs should prepare it.
It's like going to a bar expecting to be served with Ethyl Alcohol and instead being served with Methyl alcohol. That extra "M" stands for "murder."
The food scene is like the art scene, it's full of pretentious yuppies saying shit like, "I love dungfish gonads, the texture is so ethereal it dances across my palate like Penn State football coaches dance around the allegations..." Of course they only believe that because they're parroting it word-for-word from the last restaurant review, every time they recommend dungfish gonads to their friends.
More to the point, fishes that were once considered garbage bait fish, like squid, are now haute cuisine and are on every damn menu. Salmon eggs are often sold as fish-bait, but you put 'em on sushi and their worth is jacked up by hundreds of percents.
I agree, and I don't know why protectionism and nationalism are such bad words here. Looking out for yourself and talking pride in yourself in a dog-eat-dog world are both actions of a healthy individual, but now we as a nation could be personified as a drug-addicted whore peddling our ass on the street, occasionally starting senseless fights.
There's a lot of money involved in our domestic and government work. If we can ban outsourcing (for example) at the expense of some executive's multi-million dollar bonus, so be it. A decent paycheck should be enough. Let the greedy fuckers move to Dubai if they want personal tennis courts and multi-million dollar bonuses.
As a proud native Californian, I say get the fuck out. You probably took that job from a Californian because you are cheap, and now you're just one of those inbred, cornfed assholes driving up the property costs.
U.S. out of California!
This is something profound that deserves mention - on an early skit [ pre-skipped for your pleasure, so pay attention ] Dave Chappelle mentions Linux. This is profound, because that skit was shown on one of the most popular shows back then, in 2003!
And the sad part was, the reference flew right over everybody's heads.
I had a terrible experience with a Phillppines-based call center. My dad had purchased one of the HP laptops with the faulty Nvidia graphics chips, but is not techsavvy so he didn't know about it until I looked at it a month after its warranty had expired.
The short story is that they were rude and wouldn't help, so it was escalated to the supervisor (who had to walk over to the phone that the tech was using), and he was doubly rude. The best he was willing to do was sell me a new motherboard, which would be 250-300 dollars for something that was HP's fault. Both of us were becoming more and more belligerent, until I gave up and told him, "Fuck you, maganda [Tagalog for 'pretty lady'], you and your call center are all pond scum."
Domestically, I find that Phillipinos are great to work with as long as they are not a demographically dominating majority because of their tendency to be fervently strict, hateful, and judgemental Christians.
The professional shitter will spend no less than two hours per workday on the pot. Additionally, their bowel movements will be very pronounced - you walk into the commode and just know the professional shitter is in there. Signs of a good professional shitter are the heavy widespread stink of their bowel movements (people running out of the bathroom holding their shirts over their mouths and noses), the strained grunting and heavy breathing coming from the afflicted stall, and the professional shitters' enhanced appreciation for toilet humor while not in the restroom. Questions anyone?
Ethanol, I'm a professional shitter, and my co-workers are complaining about the time I'm spending in the restroom. What should I do?
An excellent question. If you are not on a prescription for opioid painkillers, get on one now. Doctors give them away like candy. Then, you can get a doctors note stating that the effects on such painkillers on the digestive system (constipation) are the causes of your long stays in the restroom. Your employer wouldn't dare fire anybody for medical reasons.
No way, bro. The genius of Apple's marketing is that everybody who buys an Apple gadget believes they are unique in owning one, despite the fact that everybody else owns an Apple gadget. Most importantly, though, is that Apple can and does give the public the impression that everything they do is top-notch, so they don't do a whole lot of it, even when its been done before.
Contrast that to Microsoft and Google's approach - Both brands are diluted - Microsoft buys up all its second-rate competitors and shills the fuck out of its second-rate competition(Bing and Silverlight are good examples). Google buys and produces good ideas, throws them all at the wall, and hopes that they stick so they either benefit from their competitors' ham-handed ineptitude (Microsofts' acquisition of Hotmail was a smart move until they tried to shoehorn social networking into it, and the bloat prompted their userbase to leave) or the fact that Google's very ad-supported services are free and have the best SPAM filter.
What they would be good for is trying to make money from the inventory of chips that were too defective to be part of a first-pass yield and sold with a more expensive name. I wonder if they were already written off as losses for tax purposes?
*cough*
All your fancy math aside, I can state simply that Apple would not acquire Yahoo because that would cheapen their brand. The layperson assumes that everything Apple makes is totally proprietary, top-notch, justifying a higher price. Apple's purchase of Yahoo would be a Frankenstein-esque grafting of some ugly diseased limb. People will lose respect for Apple because they will believe that Apple is "going plebian" and becoming uncool.
I am not an Apple fanboy and will use any chance I can to ridicule Apple and its users, but I'm only being straight-up here. I know the feeling personally, because I lost a lot of respect for Java (then still overseen by SUN) when they started shoehorning the Yahoo Toolbar in with Java installs. The move was cheap, tacky, and a huge disappointment overall.
Microsoft would just be buying Yahoo's users.
Which is a shame, because yahoo voice chat was the best trolling on the internet. There was a bug where, if you got ignored, you could simply leave the room and come back. Those who ignored you couldn't see your posts, but they could hear your audio.
My drunken friends and I spent many a night trolling the Christian chat rooms with pornographic recordings. Here's how we'd do it:
First, every Christian chat room had its own resident loudmouth who would spout bible verses all night without relinquishing the mic. We would get him off by starting a feedback loop, placing our microphone directly in front of our speakers, causing the feedback to be fed through the windbag's speakers into his mic. The feedback would be so horrible that the guy would get off the mic.
Next, with our mic at our speakers, we would play pornographic audio snippets from porn movies. The whole room would be exposed to those awful recordings and stir up into a frenzy of anger and disgust("I have kids in here listening to this with me!") and we would sit back and laugh, porn blaring, as they ignored us one by one. Then, thanks to the aforementioned bug, we'd leave the room and go back in.
The best part was when some asshole tried to grab the mic and wouldn't relinquish it, but he wouldn't turn his speakers down so even if the whole room had ignored us, our porno-audio was still going through his speakers, into his mic, and being fed back into the room. Since he was so desperate to keep control of the mic, he lost either way, and the room was forced to hear pornographic audio.
Finally, they would get smart and turn their speakers off. Then the person on the mic would start singing while the rest of the chat room fumed and ranted around him. It's like when a kid hears something he doesn't want to, cups his hands over his ears, and goes, "la-la-la-la-LAAAAAA."
It was classic.
People who participate in Black Friday are pathetic. Only in America are people willing to be herded like cattle, trampling and fighting each other over a fucking TV. Camping out in front of stores days in advance just to buy low-priced crap made in China is like begging to suck the cock of a person who steals your money and beats the shit out of you.
Pay the extra pennies and have some fucking dignity. If you're that hard-up to suck Chinese or Korean cock, then go move there and suck to your heart's content. The living expenses are real cheap over there, too.
Agreed. It is significantly more complex than simply shoving a gerbil up one's ass.
Believe me, I'm an expert at it.
You can argue that making and charging EV's just shifts the problem downstream to the power plants, many of which are coal-fired, but having all of the pollution more localized still makes a difference in the environment and quality of life.
Just sucks to be you if you happen to live near a coal plant or an unsafe nuke plant.
While you are just trolling, the ultimate goal of the "total information awareness" program is in fact to quantify data used to predict events before they happen. This especially applies to the concept of "pre-crime," where your data would be fed through an algorithm. If your actions are undesireable to the establishment, then you will be followed and arrested with the first excuse they can muster.
And a fact most appropriate to your user ID - Religious lobbying in America has increased 500%. Among the most important issues of religious lobbying groups are:
- The relationship between church and state (pissing on that thing we call the constitution)
- Civil rights and liberties for religious and other minorities(like the gays?)
- Bioethics and life issues, including abortion, capital punishment and end-of-life issues(force people to have kids they don't want and prevent people in constant paint to pass peacefully, generally impede scientific progress)
- Family/marriage issues, including definition of marriage, domestic violence and fatherhood initiatives(great job in the bible belt, with its higher rates of divorce)
So yes, this is all related, because Christians are in charge of America, and Christians believe that everybody else should be subject to the same overbearing parenting that Christians were subject to as children. Big brother is their way of foisting their so-called "morality" upon everybody else, willing or unwilling.
GaaaahhhhhhhGH! Those filthy MOTHER FUCKERS!
I remember when Android was first anounced and Slashdot was having big circle-jerks over it, saying that people were finally free to do whatever they wanted with their phones. I laughed and told you all, "you stupid fucks, the carriers will lock them down however they like."
But, but...CyanogenMod!
Voids your warranty, dumbasses. Not a smart thing to do with a contract either way.
But back to addressing the summary. Yeah. I'll stick with my dumbphone and have the patience and self-control to not fidget and shuffle until I can experience the 'net at home.
I'm sure this says something about programming, just not what...
The Goatse guy was the inspiration for "Big-O" notation. Truly a pioneer in the field.
Microsoft are already aware of sex-themed software for Kinect, and have rejected licensing and support for that purpose. As others have pointed out ad-nauseum, it's very hypocritical - You can massacre a whole room full of innocent bystanders in Modern Warfare 2, but you can't pinch a virtual tittie?
It's a shame, because Microsoft and its licensees are missing out on so much potential revenue. Your idea would be well-suited to those minigames between stages where both players have to hammer both buttons as fast as they can, and the first one to inflate the balloon or destroy the car won. Except, instead of pressing the buttons, you're jacking off. Against another man, who is standing right next to you. That would be a cool arcade.
It was extremely problematic for people debating online...conservative friends...liberal friends.... It was the same exact story, but since nobody RTFAs, the headline was the most important piece of evidence in the debate.
Oh, yeah, "debating" online. A "debate" implies that all parties have at least some background information and are capable of critical thinking and intelligent discussion.
What you described in that case is just parroting. Like parrots, the two sides just repeat sound bites heard from people they happen to agree with. Liberals are all lazy homosexual communists, because Rush Limbaugh said so. Conservatives are dumb, cruel, racist Nazis because Keith Olbermann said so.
Parrots are the cause of America's inability to fix its own problems, especially when turned loose at the ballot box.
It's for the children! Right?
Not in a country where it's legal for a 60 year-old man to marry a 4 year-old girl, mate with her, then throw acid in her face and stone her to death for not wearing a burqa.
Lets say you're making a display, and you want to call yourself 'vivid' because well, you make displays that are vivid. (Or maybe you're HTC making a phone you want to brand that way, same deal) and someone else wants to equally correctly, but in a completely different context brand themselves 'vivid'.
Heh, dude. Vivid entertainment[NSFW] is one of the top porn producers in the United States. Either I've been subtly and cleverly trolled, or you are psychic.
Religious people watch just as much, if not more, porn than non-religious people.
They're just publicly obligated to speak out against it, along with all the other enjoyable things in life like smoking Marijuana and polyamory.
It's possible that you have much more stored in your brain than you realize. Could you imagine the chaos in your head if it were to provide you with all of your brain's knowledge and wisdom on-demand? The Hollywood version would be cool because you'd be like a genius, but the downfalls to that ability are described in the Star Trek: TNG episode Tin Man. That guy who was born "gifted" was miserable, barely functional, and unstable because his telepathic mind had a low signal-noise ratio.
Take into account your dreams. How many of your dreams feature the most mundane, forgettable events you experienced that day? Do you believe that your psyche would delve into chaos if every little ass-wiping thoughout your life were constantly percolating to the surface of your conscious mind?
Hayah.