My old company was in the running to do some ads for a chicken company back in the late '90s. I pushed hard that they should go with, "Chicken, the original white meat." Nobody else bought it, though.
Yes, this gets quoted every time, but the analogy is a terrible straw man. It's not the length of the blanket, it's the positioning. If your toes are cold and exposed while the blanket is smothering your face, it's perfectly sensible to shift the blanket down a foot for more ideal coverage.
Get up and go to work earlier so you can leave sooner if it's that much of a concern.
Is it safe for me to assume that this is how you deal with your summers? You change your clock, but keep the original circadian schedule and just go in to work and do everything else an hour later for those 7 months?
True. But for a huge swath of the middle latitudes, which is probably most of the US, there's a lot of sense to be had by shifting morning and evening daylight with the seasons.
I think Pandora does okay starting with newer stuff and feeding in recommendations. But honestly, if you're starting with a style that's been around for 40-odd years, how much undiscovered material are they likely to turn up? They probably (and maybe rightfully) assume that if someone wants to listen to a hit from the 70's, they're mostly looking for other familiar hits from that era, and there should be very few surprises.
The main issue would be with the "Overrated" mod. Whilst I rarely down-mod (off the top of my head 3% of my mod points) this is the negative mod I use most frequently. I tend to use it on posts that are rated 4 or, more often, 5*, not because I disagree, per se, with the content of the post but because I don't think it warrants scoring that highly.
Is that a useful thing to do, pulling down a 5 when you think it only merits a 3? Does that help the community, or improve the shape of the discussion? That just seems odd to me.
Then again, I don't really know what it's for, either. My guess would have been really tired old jokes, except that seems to be most of what keeps the community going. The only very rare occasion I can think I've used Overrated is maybe in a case where somebody posts something factually wrong that got boosted to 5, before a bunch of other people replied with a correction.
I think you're right. I usually get the mix of mod-boxes partially present and partially missing if either I get the points before expanding threads, or the points expire while I'm reading/expanding.
I had a taxi driver try to take me to 94 instead of 90, because he didn't know which was which. Of course this was in Chicago, where they like to use names, like Eisenhower and Kennedy, for the expressways. I guess that's okay in general, but there's no excuse for a taxi driver not to know both.
Yes, this is key to the issue. I mean, I'd prefer to buy a game in one complete lump and don't *like* the idea of buying add-ons, but when you're rolling the dice for a chance at something and it could take tens, hundreds, or thousands of tries to get what you want--and worse, you may not even know what the odds are--that's really problematic.
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Some people consider Joyce the greatest Irish author...are you calling his work a failure?
3 of his 4 books are (mostly) intelligible.
If this doesn't become one of the leading VR apps in a few decades, I'll eat my coonskin cap.
Ah, yeah, I was assuming stateside. Sorry.
Huh? Fixed-rate mortgages are available everywhere. Sure, they also offer variable ones, but the fixed options exist.
which can be examined to discover that it is headed off to a compromised Wordpress site to pick up the latest targeted malware.
How do you know if Wordpress has been compromised without visiting the site, regardless of the format of the link?
I remember that episode, too. If I recall correctly (it's been 30 years), Woody had just said, "Ah, knuckles cracking, I hate that sound!"
Then the explanation is given.
Woody: "Ah, joint fluid imploding, I hate that sound!"
An object in motion ... unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
Unbalanced force? So, Anakin was supposed to help create a perpetual motion machine?
I believe Gary whatzisname (Johnson?) had multiple articles about him during the last election season, so odds are pretty good, yes.
Implement autonomous pedestrians first, maybe?
Bravo! And from an AC, no less.
"That's my two bits" is a common expression. A bit (in coin parlance) is half a quarter. Two bits is exactly $.25.
it's an animation bug... animation! Seriously. That's one of the most minor bugs you can have.
Mr. Bunny would like to have a word with you about that.
My old company was in the running to do some ads for a chicken company back in the late '90s. I pushed hard that they should go with, "Chicken, the original white meat." Nobody else bought it, though.
Yes, this gets quoted every time, but the analogy is a terrible straw man. It's not the length of the blanket, it's the positioning. If your toes are cold and exposed while the blanket is smothering your face, it's perfectly sensible to shift the blanket down a foot for more ideal coverage.
Get up and go to work earlier so you can leave sooner if it's that much of a concern.
Is it safe for me to assume that this is how you deal with your summers? You change your clock, but keep the original circadian schedule and just go in to work and do everything else an hour later for those 7 months?
If you have time zones, then solar noon is still only an approximation to within 60 minutes. The two concepts don't really go together.
True. But for a huge swath of the middle latitudes, which is probably most of the US, there's a lot of sense to be had by shifting morning and evening daylight with the seasons.
I think Pandora does okay starting with newer stuff and feeding in recommendations. But honestly, if you're starting with a style that's been around for 40-odd years, how much undiscovered material are they likely to turn up? They probably (and maybe rightfully) assume that if someone wants to listen to a hit from the 70's, they're mostly looking for other familiar hits from that era, and there should be very few surprises.
The main issue would be with the "Overrated" mod. Whilst I rarely down-mod (off the top of my head 3% of my mod points) this is the negative mod I use most frequently. I tend to use it on posts that are rated 4 or, more often, 5*, not because I disagree, per se, with the content of the post but because I don't think it warrants scoring that highly.
Is that a useful thing to do, pulling down a 5 when you think it only merits a 3? Does that help the community, or improve the shape of the discussion? That just seems odd to me.
Then again, I don't really know what it's for, either. My guess would have been really tired old jokes, except that seems to be most of what keeps the community going. The only very rare occasion I can think I've used Overrated is maybe in a case where somebody posts something factually wrong that got boosted to 5, before a bunch of other people replied with a correction.
I think you're right. I usually get the mix of mod-boxes partially present and partially missing if either I get the points before expanding threads, or the points expire while I'm reading/expanding.
Heh. Sorry. I've just got an odd sense of humor.
Either that or maybe sometimes people mis-click?
I had a taxi driver try to take me to 94 instead of 90, because he didn't know which was which. Of course this was in Chicago, where they like to use names, like Eisenhower and Kennedy, for the expressways. I guess that's okay in general, but there's no excuse for a taxi driver not to know both.
Hopefully at least one more.
(I will keep saying this until I get my billion dollar buyout. Then they can stop.)
Yes, this is key to the issue. I mean, I'd prefer to buy a game in one complete lump and don't *like* the idea of buying add-ons, but when you're rolling the dice for a chance at something and it could take tens, hundreds, or thousands of tries to get what you want--and worse, you may not even know what the odds are--that's really problematic.
is that where the expertsexchange.com is hosted?