When the news of the possibly FTL neutrino came out, a lot of scientists in the field thought it was irresponsible to let the news out for this reason. Pretty sad state of affairs if they're right, that's just how science works. I think a lot of people are looking for absolute, irrefutable certainty in science when it doesn't exist, and see it as a failing of science when this reality plays out. In fact for someone who thinks scientifically the kind of certainty they're looking for is hard to understand, it's a strange, cosmic, religious sort of certainty, not just "we're pretty sure based on everything we know so far" which is the most you get in science.
"My uncle had a big huge thing growin' on his neck, and, fine, then he goes to the doctor? Cancer. Bing, bang, boom, hair out, hamburger time [death]." - William Murderface unintentionally explaining the GP's mindset.
- Person who didn't die while being born or from a host of other Science-preventable diseases, took a car to work today with not a care in the world for predators and is now speaking to you through the Internet.
"Conservatism and science are not at odds" he writes before delving into the standard International Scientist Conspiracy theory to explain his distrust of science.
The meaning of "reality has a liberal bias" is only that conservatives like to call very solid facts and well-established science biased, rejecting reality. Agree or not, that's the meaning. See: Conservapedia.
Actually, it would be an asshole thing to do, but the US could have played a longer con than China just like this to set themselves up. China sells underpriced panels believing they're ruining the US solar panel industry. The US buys them all up like good little capitalists, crashing their own solar industry but establishing solar power in the process. US now has cheap, clean energy while China has coal power, depleted rare earth mines and expensive solar panels. To add insult to injury, the US could push hard for a carbon trading scheme to nail China right in the ass.
But seriously I don't think the US would survive another Cold-War-Esque game of economic chicken.
I knew this guy who's a crazy metalhead, he'd crank up the metal and answer the door naked while holding meat and yammering a bunch of gibberish when the JWs showed up. And he lived in a shack in the middle of nowhere so it must have looked perfect.
The other day I was working on my car and was re-tuning the engine, some JW woman comes over, sticks her head under the hood and tries to yell over the engine screaming near the redline. Can't fault them for effort.
I heard the story of a teacher who had once worked in Utah, and whenever she had the kids do a free-topic essay, every story was about Jesus. Every...single...one. When she moved, she laid out a rule that stories could not be about Jesus, for this reason. Probably happened back in the '90s when people mostly just laughed off Christians' cries of persecution. Nowadays she'd become the latest media chew-toy.
When I was a kid we had a swimming pool, and we were fuckin' poor by first-world standards. It was about 15ft wide, made of plastic, and rolled up when you weren't using it. Worst case scenario, redneck pools are even cheaper (and dammit, that looks just like one of the neighborhoods I lived in as a kid...but less racially diverse).
Don't mod him down so quick. Which group loves to homeschool their kids these days to keep them away from them durn lib'rul teachers and their perverted sex ed. classes? Which group wants to pretend evolution and climate change aren't real things? Which group throws a shit-fit at any school subjects that might stir up white guilt? It's the pot calling the kettle black at the very least.
Oh I know that stone knives are sharp...sharper than the sharpest metal knives by a factor of 5 IIRC thanks to the edges left by the shearing action of flintknapping.
Not wrapped around the wheel, but in most types of racing the thumbs normally rest on the wheel's spokes at 9 and 3 for better control (F1 wheels even have *holes* for the driver's thumbs so they can't move too easily, although they only have a range of motion around 270 degrees total).
The thumbs are kept out of the wheel entirely only in offroad racing, due to the likelihood of unexpectedly hitting an obstacle that could rip the wheel out of your hands (and through your thumbs if necessary).
I'm confused. Are you saying that typical guys don't have girlfriends, wives, and/or mistresses who they typically buy sexy gifts for?
That is apparently what Amazon thinks, yes, which only adds to the hilarity. You see, *SPOILERS* Amazon will then recommend you a deluge of fishnet stockings, feather boas, super-high-heels and other typical transvestite wear, apparently completely forgetting the video games, PC parts, tools and auto accessories that made up the whole rest of your shopping history, and possibly the majority of the same order that one bit of women's clothes came in.
And actually I did know that most transvestites are straight.
I don't know where you get this idea that I was arguing that sexuality is binary or anything like that. And yes IMO there's something very homoerotic about "2 dicks in 1 hole" and, although to a lesser extent, other threesome scenes where guys aren't rubbing their dicks together.
Anyways, I'll try not to speak for other straight guys this time so we stay on topic, but to me a masculine body and/or penis on a sex partner is a massive turn-off. It's that simple. A good-looking feminine body with a dick on it is just a mix of a big turn-on and a big turn-off that somehow is still a huge turn-off, like a tasty cupcake with a tarantula embedded in the base. A man's body with a vagina I find to be an even bigger turn-off, as a vagina alone is nowhere near as appealing as a feminine body to me.
If you have an Amazon account that you normally buy typical guy stuff with, buy women's clothes and see what happens, ideally something like a sexy women's halloween costume.
To make it stop, go into your recommendations section and tag the item as a gift.
Yeah it's all fun and games until you see that she has a dick, and yours goes soft instantly, and then feels like it's retracting into your body. Well, that's how it works for me and most guys who call themselves straight anyways. There's a reason guys prank each other with galleries of "hot women" who are revealed to have a dick in the final pic.
It will ask for your passphrase if the keyfile is passphrased. If it's not, then it won't, and indeed it would be more dangerous if lost or stolen than a keyfile alone.
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When the news of the possibly FTL neutrino came out, a lot of scientists in the field thought it was irresponsible to let the news out for this reason. Pretty sad state of affairs if they're right, that's just how science works. I think a lot of people are looking for absolute, irrefutable certainty in science when it doesn't exist, and see it as a failing of science when this reality plays out. In fact for someone who thinks scientifically the kind of certainty they're looking for is hard to understand, it's a strange, cosmic, religious sort of certainty, not just "we're pretty sure based on everything we know so far" which is the most you get in science.
You're bullshitting us with acronyms, aren't you?
Very insightful and informative post, mod up, it's totally true.
"My uncle had a big huge thing growin' on his neck, and, fine, then he goes to the doctor? Cancer. Bing, bang, boom, hair out, hamburger time [death]." - William Murderface unintentionally explaining the GP's mindset.
They don't have a point |:-|
- Person who didn't die while being born or from a host of other Science-preventable diseases, took a car to work today with not a care in the world for predators and is now speaking to you through the Internet.
"Conservatism and science are not at odds" he writes before delving into the standard International Scientist Conspiracy theory to explain his distrust of science.
The meaning of "reality has a liberal bias" is only that conservatives like to call very solid facts and well-established science biased, rejecting reality. Agree or not, that's the meaning. See: Conservapedia.
Vast farming fields - don't need 'em. Let each family work their backyard.
Chairman Mao? I thought you were dead!
Actually, it would be an asshole thing to do, but the US could have played a longer con than China just like this to set themselves up. China sells underpriced panels believing they're ruining the US solar panel industry. The US buys them all up like good little capitalists, crashing their own solar industry but establishing solar power in the process. US now has cheap, clean energy while China has coal power, depleted rare earth mines and expensive solar panels. To add insult to injury, the US could push hard for a carbon trading scheme to nail China right in the ass.
But seriously I don't think the US would survive another Cold-War-Esque game of economic chicken.
Mix up your Onion news with the rest of your RSS feeds, it's highly entertaining.
I knew this guy who's a crazy metalhead, he'd crank up the metal and answer the door naked while holding meat and yammering a bunch of gibberish when the JWs showed up. And he lived in a shack in the middle of nowhere so it must have looked perfect.
The other day I was working on my car and was re-tuning the engine, some JW woman comes over, sticks her head under the hood and tries to yell over the engine screaming near the redline. Can't fault them for effort.
I heard the story of a teacher who had once worked in Utah, and whenever she had the kids do a free-topic essay, every story was about Jesus. Every...single...one. When she moved, she laid out a rule that stories could not be about Jesus, for this reason. Probably happened back in the '90s when people mostly just laughed off Christians' cries of persecution. Nowadays she'd become the latest media chew-toy.
When I was a kid we had a swimming pool, and we were fuckin' poor by first-world standards. It was about 15ft wide, made of plastic, and rolled up when you weren't using it. Worst case scenario, redneck pools are even cheaper (and dammit, that looks just like one of the neighborhoods I lived in as a kid...but less racially diverse).
Don't mod him down so quick. Which group loves to homeschool their kids these days to keep them away from them durn lib'rul teachers and their perverted sex ed. classes? Which group wants to pretend evolution and climate change aren't real things? Which group throws a shit-fit at any school subjects that might stir up white guilt? It's the pot calling the kettle black at the very least.
Oh I know that stone knives are sharp...sharper than the sharpest metal knives by a factor of 5 IIRC thanks to the edges left by the shearing action of flintknapping.
Not wrapped around the wheel, but in most types of racing the thumbs normally rest on the wheel's spokes at 9 and 3 for better control (F1 wheels even have *holes* for the driver's thumbs so they can't move too easily, although they only have a range of motion around 270 degrees total).
The thumbs are kept out of the wheel entirely only in offroad racing, due to the likelihood of unexpectedly hitting an obstacle that could rip the wheel out of your hands (and through your thumbs if necessary).
D'oh, beaten. Mod parent up.
People said the same thing about MS and Apple, the problem is that most consumers have a nasty case of beaten wife syndrome.
I'm confused. Are you saying that typical guys don't have girlfriends, wives, and/or mistresses who they typically buy sexy gifts for?
That is apparently what Amazon thinks, yes, which only adds to the hilarity. You see, *SPOILERS* Amazon will then recommend you a deluge of fishnet stockings, feather boas, super-high-heels and other typical transvestite wear, apparently completely forgetting the video games, PC parts, tools and auto accessories that made up the whole rest of your shopping history, and possibly the majority of the same order that one bit of women's clothes came in.
And actually I did know that most transvestites are straight.
I don't know where you get this idea that I was arguing that sexuality is binary or anything like that. And yes IMO there's something very homoerotic about "2 dicks in 1 hole" and, although to a lesser extent, other threesome scenes where guys aren't rubbing their dicks together.
Anyways, I'll try not to speak for other straight guys this time so we stay on topic, but to me a masculine body and/or penis on a sex partner is a massive turn-off. It's that simple. A good-looking feminine body with a dick on it is just a mix of a big turn-on and a big turn-off that somehow is still a huge turn-off, like a tasty cupcake with a tarantula embedded in the base. A man's body with a vagina I find to be an even bigger turn-off, as a vagina alone is nowhere near as appealing as a feminine body to me.
I admit, only on the Internet. Maybe I'd feel different if it happened in real life but I can't imagine not being irked at all by it.
If you have an Amazon account that you normally buy typical guy stuff with, buy women's clothes and see what happens, ideally something like a sexy women's halloween costume.
To make it stop, go into your recommendations section and tag the item as a gift.
Yeah it's all fun and games until you see that she has a dick, and yours goes soft instantly, and then feels like it's retracting into your body. Well, that's how it works for me and most guys who call themselves straight anyways. There's a reason guys prank each other with galleries of "hot women" who are revealed to have a dick in the final pic.
No seriously though, NoScript doesn't prevent plain-HTTP tracking, which is gaining more and more popularity again these days and is used by Facebook.
It will ask for your passphrase if the keyfile is passphrased. If it's not, then it won't, and indeed it would be more dangerous if lost or stolen than a keyfile alone.