If you don't tell them, then their going to fail continuously.
Another thing they taught us in the fifties was the difference between continuous and continual. Essentially, continuous means 'without a break' while continual means 'repeatedly'. A more detailed explanation can be found here.
the movie was released in the late 60's -- 1968, one year before the Summer of Love.
I know they say that if you can remember the 60s you weren't really there, but for the sake of historical accuracy, I have to point out that 1968 was one year after the Summer of Love; perhaps you are confusing it with Woodstock, or maybe you just took too much of the brown acid.
Hmmmm - no punchcards and no 12" album covers - that explains why students today can't roll spliffs worth smoking despite the availability of vastly superior grass.
Paddy Power's annual turnover is in the region of two billion euros; they have a huge internet presence and a healthy telephone business; they run 248 betting shops including 187 in Ireland, where gambling is virtually a religion and religion is actually taken seriously.
After two months trading, they have taken only five thousand pounds on this book. They take more than that in five minutes for a low-grade dog race on a wet Wednesday afternoon.
This is just a publicity stunt by a bookmaker known for this sort of thing.
And THEN I thought about the guy who created the word "orange" specifically so you couldn't write a poem about oranges and THAT pushed me over the edge.
I saw Rich Hall attempt 'door hinge' in a Louisiana accent as a rhyme for orange (on an episode of QI), which was later ripped off by Drake and Josh, but it doesn't really work.
There is a mountain in Wales which does rhyme with orange, although how you work that into a poem is up to you. (Actually, I suppose it's no more a stretch than using 'orange' in the first place).
Chip-and-pin has been theoretically ubiquitous in the UK since 14th February 2006. (There was a big, Valentine's-themed ad campaign for it).
Since there were still a large number of unexpired pre-chip cards in circulation at that date, the transition actually dragged out for about a year.
If you are a retailer in the UK in 2008, you won't be able to get an Authorisation Code based on signature for an enabled card, although obviously for US-style cards the old telephone procedure is still in place.
I was in Australia early in 2006, and needed some cash. I walked into a bank with my cheque-book, passport and bank cards and asked at the foreign-exchange type window what the procedure was for transferring and withdrawing funds, expecting a day or two's wait. (I hadn't made any prior arrangements with my bank). The cashier just said "Oh, is the ATM not working then?". I nipped outside, and sure enough was able to withdraw Aussie dollars with my UK card and PIN. Since then I've used ATMs in Germany, France and Spain, all without a problem.
I realise that the US banking system is probably as big as the rest of the world put together, but it does seem to be lagging behind - pretty soon it will just be you, Burma and Liberia holding out.
Yeah, but that's the only time they are generally used. I doubt I write (or receive) more than half a dozen cheques a year nowadays - twenty-five years ago it was closer to a hundred.
Back in 1957, even the word 'pasta' wasn't widely used in the UK. There was only 'spaghetti' and that came in tins with tomato sauce (generally served on toast or with fry-ups as an alternative to Baked Beans). This was decades before full ingredients had to be displayed on packaged food, so all the tins used to say was 'Ingredients - Spaghetti, Tomato Sauce'. Widespread use of dried pasta (popularised by the ubiquitous Spaghetti Bolognaise beloved by students) didn't occur until the '70s, and fresh pasta was uncommon until the '90s.
The unfamiliarity with anything remotely resembling 'real' spaghetti, and the fact that the story was broadcast by the BBC on it's flagship documentary programme in it's normal time-slot years before television April Fools pieces were common makes the fact that it was widely believed much less surprising than it would appear to 21st century pasta-eaters with a healthy skepticism towards TV news.
Three Letter Acronym. You know, FBI, NSA, CIA. <pedantic>I suppose MI6 works, although technically, it's not an acronym</pedantic>
<pedantic lvl=2>Technically, none of those are acronyms; an acronym is specifically a set of initial letters pronounced as a word, for example BIOS or SCSI.</pedantic>
The appeal of gambling is the gambler's love of money.... Hence, I find gambling rather boring.
Perhaps it is because you find gambling rather boring that you fail to understand it's appeal. It's not about money, it's about winning; money is just how we keep score.
This doesn't seem like a serious forecasting project, just a bit of topical advertising fluff thrown together by a couple of Wolfram staffers. It might be fun to download and play with if you have Mathematica already, but it doesn't make me want to rush out and blow two and a half grand on propriety software.
The laws are pretty loose regarding the actual length (90m - 120m) and width (45m - 90m) of the field, and state that the touch line must be longer than the goal line, but not by how much. An exactly square pitch is therefore prohibited, but one measuring 90.00m x 89.99m would be allowed.(International pitches have closer tolerances, 100m x 75m is as square as they get.)
You cannot seriously think that this knife was designed for any purpose other than killing human beings. A great deal of work went into perfecting it, and quite honestly it sucks as a general purpose tool.
A generic cutting tool would look more like this, which due to it's clever little locking collar is considered every bit as illegal as the Fairburn-Sykes in the UK. (3" non-locking pocket knives are still OK for the time being, but who knows what fresh lunacy lies in the near future)
by Niels Bohr. (Possibly apocryphal, but often attributed to him)
When asked by a friend why he had a horseshoe hanging over his door, he replied "Of course I don't believe in it, but I understand it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not"
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A car isn't a bad choice of tool for this - they make a pretty good faraday cage.
If you don't tell them, then their going to fail continuously.
Another thing they taught us in the fifties was the difference between continuous and continual. Essentially, continuous means 'without a break' while continual means 'repeatedly'. A more detailed explanation can be found here.
the movie was released in the late 60's -- 1968, one year before the Summer of Love.
I know they say that if you can remember the 60s you weren't really there, but for the sake of historical accuracy, I have to point out that 1968 was one year after the Summer of Love; perhaps you are confusing it with Woodstock, or maybe you just took too much of the brown acid.
Hmmmm - no punchcards and no 12" album covers - that explains why students today can't roll spliffs worth smoking despite the availability of vastly superior grass.
..Iain Banks' Inspector Rebus novels are superb...
Just a slip, I imagine, but the Inspector Rebus books are written by Ian Rankin, not Iain Banks.
Ok, I admit I had to wtf PFY, but at least I knew enough to use wtf.
Paddy Power's annual turnover is in the region of two billion euros; they have a huge internet presence and a healthy telephone business; they run 248 betting shops including 187 in Ireland, where gambling is virtually a religion and religion is actually taken seriously.
After two months trading, they have taken only five thousand pounds on this book. They take more than that in five minutes for a low-grade dog race on a wet Wednesday afternoon.
This is just a publicity stunt by a bookmaker known for this sort of thing.
And THEN I thought about the guy who created the word "orange" specifically so you couldn't write a poem about oranges and THAT pushed me over the edge.
I saw Rich Hall attempt 'door hinge' in a Louisiana accent as a rhyme for orange (on an episode of QI), which was later ripped off by Drake and Josh, but it doesn't really work.
There is a mountain in Wales which does rhyme with orange, although how you work that into a poem is up to you. (Actually, I suppose it's no more a stretch than using 'orange' in the first place).
Chip-and-pin has been theoretically ubiquitous in the UK since 14th February 2006. (There was a big, Valentine's-themed ad campaign for it).
Since there were still a large number of unexpired pre-chip cards in circulation at that date, the transition actually dragged out for about a year.
If you are a retailer in the UK in 2008, you won't be able to get an Authorisation Code based on signature for an enabled card, although obviously for US-style cards the old telephone procedure is still in place.
I was in Australia early in 2006, and needed some cash. I walked into a bank with my cheque-book, passport and bank cards and asked at the foreign-exchange type window what the procedure was for transferring and withdrawing funds, expecting a day or two's wait. (I hadn't made any prior arrangements with my bank). The cashier just said "Oh, is the ATM not working then?". I nipped outside, and sure enough was able to withdraw Aussie dollars with my UK card and PIN. Since then I've used ATMs in Germany, France and Spain, all without a problem.
I realise that the US banking system is probably as big as the rest of the world put together, but it does seem to be lagging behind - pretty soon it will just be you, Burma and Liberia holding out.
Yeah, but that's the only time they are generally used. I doubt I write (or receive) more than half a dozen cheques a year nowadays - twenty-five years ago it was closer to a hundred.
Back in 1957, even the word 'pasta' wasn't widely used in the UK. There was only 'spaghetti' and that came in tins with tomato sauce (generally served on toast or with fry-ups as an alternative to Baked Beans). This was decades before full ingredients had to be displayed on packaged food, so all the tins used to say was 'Ingredients - Spaghetti, Tomato Sauce'. Widespread use of dried pasta (popularised by the ubiquitous Spaghetti Bolognaise beloved by students) didn't occur until the '70s, and fresh pasta was uncommon until the '90s.
The unfamiliarity with anything remotely resembling 'real' spaghetti, and the fact that the story was broadcast by the BBC on it's flagship documentary programme in it's normal time-slot years before television April Fools pieces were common makes the fact that it was widely believed much less surprising than it would appear to 21st century pasta-eaters with a healthy skepticism towards TV news.
Pretty universal sentiment; this one is my favourite take on it:-
It is best for man to be middle-wise,
Not over cunning and clever:
The fairest life is led by those
Who are deft at all they do.
It is best for man to be middle-wise,
Not over cunning and clever:
No man is able to know his future,
So let him sleep in peace.
It is best for man to be middle-wise,
Not over cunning and clever:
The learned man whose lore is deep
Is seldom happy at heart.
Havamal (W. H .Auden & P. B. Taylor Translation )
Still bollocks though, I want to know everything.
Ah... so a parachute is required for skydiving. Thanks for letting us know.
Three Letter Acronym. You know, FBI, NSA, CIA. <pedantic>I suppose MI6 works, although technically, it's not an acronym</pedantic>
<pedantic lvl=2>Technically, none of those are acronyms; an acronym is specifically a set of initial letters pronounced as a word, for example BIOS or SCSI.</pedantic>
If gambling is a sin, how come God plays dice?
The appeal of gambling is the gambler's love of money. ... Hence, I find gambling rather boring.
Perhaps it is because you find gambling rather boring that you fail to understand it's appeal. It's not about money, it's about winning; money is just how we keep score.
... it has a craptastic Intel GMA 950 graphics chipset instead of a proper video card ...
So no Spore for you, then. (alt text)
This doesn't seem like a serious forecasting project, just a bit of topical advertising fluff thrown together by a couple of Wolfram staffers. It might be fun to download and play with if you have Mathematica already, but it doesn't make me want to rush out and blow two and a half grand on propriety software.
The laws are pretty loose regarding the actual length (90m - 120m) and width (45m - 90m) of the field, and state that the touch line must be longer than the goal line, but not by how much. An exactly square pitch is therefore prohibited, but one measuring 90.00m x 89.99m would be allowed.(International pitches have closer tolerances, 100m x 75m is as square as they get.)
I don't know what 'regulation' you are referring to, but :
the field of play must be rectangular. The length of the touch line must be greater than the length of the goal line.
Length: minimum 90m (100yds), maximum 120m (130yds)
Width: minimum 45m (50yds), maximum 90m (100yds)
(From FIFA laws; International matches have a closer tolerance: 100m - 110m x 64m - 75m)
You cannot seriously think that this knife was designed for any purpose other than killing human beings. A great deal of work went into perfecting it, and quite honestly it sucks as a general purpose tool.
A generic cutting tool would look more like this, which due to it's clever little locking collar is considered every bit as illegal as the Fairburn-Sykes in the UK. (3" non-locking pocket knives are still OK for the time being, but who knows what fresh lunacy lies in the near future)
Maybe Man U can get Uncle Sam to assign an Apache gunship to defend their goal during matches.
One gunship? You do know they're playing Chelsea on Sunday, and Drogba is fit?
... google for perl fragments (along with (/usr/bin/perl OR /usr/local/bin/perl))..
Aren't we supposed to be using '#!/usr/bin/env perl' nowadays?
This clearly shows that someone built a LHC sometime between 130 and 11 billion years before us.
by Niels Bohr. (Possibly apocryphal, but often attributed to him)
When asked by a friend why he had a horseshoe hanging over his door, he replied "Of course I don't believe in it, but I understand it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not"