Because Scottish people, on the whole, are not an oppressed minority. They live in a first-world country (heck, even the last Prime Minister and his 2nd-in-command, who were in power for over 10 years, were Scottish). So yeah, it is different.
But that's a totally inexact criterium - are Argentinians first-worlders ? Is Barack Obama black ? Aren't 'oppressed minorities' entirely subject to location ?
It's been my experience that most geeks have people skills.
The people skills that you think are people skills are not necessarily the kind of people skills that most people think of as people skills. The people skills that most people think of as people skills come with the notion of a real dress sense, being able to explain something to a rather stupid person without being condescending, and keeping your mouth shut at strategically important times.
'It is VERY possible for the foxes to eat all the rabbits.'
Yes, but it is also statistically anomalous. We're not talking about finding corner-cases, we're debating variations off of the middle of the spectrum.
"Genetically altered plants have been engineered in such a fashion that future generations of food bearing plants are *sterile* requiring you to *buy new seeds * every year."
I thought that was proven to be a myth. And that Monsanto simply relies on contract law, mostly.
Test Driven Development is fine, so long as *you* (the coder) isn't the one writing and performing the tests. Testing against yourself is a useless waste of time.
The first version needs to written with passion. You then throw it away, and write the second version seriously. Also, code for your next php-driven social-thingy must be written with passion. Code for the satellite, not so much.
That's because the show's main presenter has a (very eloquently) stated aversion to anything on public roads other than four-wheeled gas-guzzlers. Because it fits in his carefully crafted image. Women, cyclists, motorbikes, pedestrians and whatnot need to all fuck off and make room for his Clarksonness as he's underway to the filming of yet another cartoonish piece of amusing rubbish-for-boys-who-won't-grow-up. And like it is with the protection of any other brand: number two is always the most dangerous. That's why electric cars get a very special 'treatment'.
That's because at those places a new, third, marketing-driven system of units has taken the place of all others: large, extra large, super extra large, and ludicrously large.
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Why is little Johnny looking funny today ? A cornflake just fell through his head.
Clean Oil - It's So Clean, You Can Drink It
North Sea water. You drink it - it drinks you.
Because Scottish people, on the whole, are not an oppressed minority. They live in a first-world country (heck, even the last Prime Minister and his 2nd-in-command, who were in power for over 10 years, were Scottish). So yeah, it is different.
But that's a totally inexact criterium - are Argentinians first-worlders ? Is Barack Obama black ? Aren't 'oppressed minorities' entirely subject to location ?
Do you enjoy the tactile feedback that your finger tips provide? A super nerve dense area of skin that allows your hands to do delicate stuff.
And that in a circumcision thread.
Go on...
We're going to tell desert people how to keep cool...!
How about some air conditioned shoes...
You'd never get them past the TSA.
It's been my experience that most geeks have people skills.
The people skills that you think are people skills are not necessarily the kind of people skills that most people think of as people skills. The people skills that most people think of as people skills come with the notion of a real dress sense, being able to explain something to a rather stupid person without being condescending, and keeping your mouth shut at strategically important times.
...atmospheric lifetime for CO2 is estimated to be thousands of years...
Really ? With all those trees ?
Why do you insist on swearing ?
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You'd have to prove the concept here on earth. That'd never pass the ethics test.
'It is VERY possible for the foxes to eat all the rabbits.'
Yes, but it is also statistically anomalous. We're not talking about finding corner-cases, we're debating variations off of the middle of the spectrum.
Weren't there fungi growing on the *outside* of the windows of MIR at one point ? I seem to remember something like that being in the news.
"Genetically altered plants have been engineered in such a fashion that future generations of food bearing plants are *sterile* requiring you to *buy new seeds * every year."
I thought that was proven to be a myth. And that Monsanto simply relies on contract law, mostly.
They cost 10 Euros where I live.
'There have been reports' is bloggian for 'I'm talking out of my ass'. You should know that.
Probably safer to just inhale the sugar at the right time.
No I won't!
And in Soviet Russia, the TITLE is made in the joke!
Test Driven Development is fine, so long as *you* (the coder) isn't the one writing and performing the tests. Testing against yourself is a useless waste of time.
The first version needs to written with passion. You then throw it away, and write the second version seriously. Also, code for your next php-driven social-thingy must be written with passion. Code for the satellite, not so much.
That's because the show's main presenter has a (very eloquently) stated aversion to anything on public roads other than four-wheeled gas-guzzlers. Because it fits in his carefully crafted image. Women, cyclists, motorbikes, pedestrians and whatnot need to all fuck off and make room for his Clarksonness as he's underway to the filming of yet another cartoonish piece of amusing rubbish-for-boys-who-won't-grow-up. And like it is with the protection of any other brand: number two is always the most dangerous. That's why electric cars get a very special 'treatment'.
Wasn't there a special internet protocol developed for this in the early nineties: 'whiteboard' or something ?
That's because at those places a new, third, marketing-driven system of units has taken the place of all others: large, extra large, super extra large, and ludicrously large.
Lastly, who among the doubters are going to say with honesty, and integrity that soda, donuts, cookies and such things are actually healthy for us?
Yeah. And apples. And water melons. They are real killers. Fructose-bombs they are, watch out.
Yes, but it is something that the internet was *supposed* to be able to handle.