you mean confusion like "does midnight Tuesday mean 12:00 AM as Monday turns into Tuesday, or as Tuesday turns into Wednesday"? With you there. Heard some people refer to 11:59 PM or 12:01 AM to route around that issue.
However, 24 hour clocks seem to use 0:00 for midnight, routing around that issue more elegantly.
snarkiness about the Feds and the rickroll aside, for once the Feds may be clearly Constitutional here "The Congress shall have power to... fix the standard of weights and measures" (including standards for measuring time?)
I was trying to reference the linking-to-the-obligatory-XKCD phenomenon without quite doing it myself. And xkcd.com/number is pretty straightforward.:)
a relative who once lived in LA for awhile said something similar, that a 5.9 would have been noticeable even in an area where earthquakes are more common.
Saw that already; both funny and informative seem appropriate.
I'm working in one of DC's Virginia suburbs this summer, and I definitely noticed my office walls shake for a few seconds in a couple bursts around 2 PM. However, I admit I _am_ kinda in "no big deal" mode about the whole thing.
The building evacuations were more annoying. (of my office building, my highrise apartment building and assorted retail facilities where I may have run errands.)
Building security hustled us out, but I had already picked up most of my stuff. We waited around a bit before finding out that we were headed home for the day as opposed to going back in and finishing the day after the building was cleared. (I was reminded of school fire drills that ran 15 to 30 minutes or so.)
I live less than half a mile from the office, and took my bicycle like usual. Most people were trying to get out by car, and I was reminded of a crowd leaving a concert/sporting event - the vehicle traffic was bad enough that walking or bicycle riding was actually a quicker way out.
However, the apartment complex’s staff still had the elevators turned off, so I rode the bicycle around a bit to kill time/blow off steam, and eventually had dinner at a nearby fast food place that hadn’t closed down for the day.
I ended up back in the apartment by about the time I would have retuned from a normal work day.
However, I do need to deal with the fact that my phone’s texting keypads were coincidentally on the fritz.
I'm leery of committing the "reductio ad Hitlerum" ("it's wrong just because Hitler did it") fallacy here. (However, "Hitler did this, and this is wrong because X, so Hitler was wrong in this regard” is perfectly logical; you do seem to take that approach.
This particular discussion also doesn't get into other things the Nazis did, or other things that China is doing.
However, I wonder if eugenics based on things like severe mental/physical disability is different in a practical sense from racial/ethnic/religious purges. I wonder if it would make any sense to take a genetic approach to the issue of genetic disabilities; please note that this specifically excludes nongenetic disabilities.
context was clearly about books not for children in general, as opposed to pornographic books in particular, but your kind of response is to be expected the way the quote/summary was worded.
By the way, you could easily have sexually explicit text-only works.
you saying there's some really good stuff amidst all the dreck 4chan is known for? I wouldn't be surprised; I think the "there's a silver lining in every cloud" metaphor is actually quite accurate.
In all seriousness, the Playboy issues I've read really do have some good articles, it's just kinda odd to have that kind of material and the pictures of nekkid women int he same magazine.
I don't think this is specific to pop per se. (though maybe that depends on how you define "pop": "a specific genre" or "anything besides classical, opera, et cetera.")
Yes, there are many oldschool musicians that are still active. (whether or not they stayed active all this time). Yes, some still "have it", some don't.
Also, even those who are still around and still good sometimes shy away from their old material
As part of the deal to get out of his record contract, Fogerty offered up the publishing rights to his CCR-era songs, so although composition copyright and master-recording copyright are separate entities, this is one case where they ended up more closely associated than usual. (Something similar might happen right off the bat on a 360-degree-deal.)
Even with local pizzerias accessible, I still take the cheap and easy option of heating up a frozen pizza. I do like slathering pizza stuff on plain bagels though. In general, I'd agree that there's plenty of decent stuff that's reasonably easy to cook yourself, so why take the lazy and expensive way out?
yeah, that site drove me nuts real quick. that much txt-speak is inexcusable if you're well under the character limit you'd think that it would be easy to type out full words if you're that good at working a tiny keyboard
sure, it's the Daily Fail and it's to be expected, but the summary (drawing form the article?) clearly seems to be trying to get customers mad at the workers.
I do listen to some of the older songs in that area and heck, you even have Dropkick Murphys making new ones. However, even if I like the music, I'm not automatically going to agree with the political opinions embodied within. It can be good for helping to bring the topic to one's attention and for rallying the base, though.
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you mean confusion like "does midnight Tuesday mean 12:00 AM as Monday turns into Tuesday, or as Tuesday turns into Wednesday"?
With you there.
Heard some people refer to 11:59 PM or 12:01 AM to route around that issue.
However, 24 hour clocks seem to use 0:00 for midnight, routing around that issue more elegantly.
snarkiness about the Feds and the rickroll aside, for once the Feds may be clearly Constitutional here ... fix the standard of weights and measures" (including standards for measuring time?)
"The Congress shall have power to
Google Translate reports "verhuur-zoekend-gedrag" as Dutch for "rent-seeking behavior".
I was trying to reference the linking-to-the-obligatory-XKCD phenomenon without quite doing it myself. :)
And xkcd.com/number is pretty straightforward.
somebody beat you to the punch with a similar joke about Detroit.
evacuating the building in case of an aftershock?
Knowing Slashdot, this information was expressed in the form of an obligatory XKCD (#723). :)
a relative who once lived in LA for awhile said something similar, that a 5.9 would have been noticeable even in an area where earthquakes are more common.
True, I saw bars but didn't get through
I tried texting, but that was a pain because of a coincidental hardware issue with my phone's keypads.
Saw that already; both funny and informative seem appropriate.
I'm working in one of DC's Virginia suburbs this summer, and I definitely noticed my office walls shake for a few seconds in a couple bursts around 2 PM.
However, I admit I _am_ kinda in "no big deal" mode about the whole thing.
The building evacuations were more annoying. (of my office building, my highrise apartment building and assorted retail facilities where I may have run errands.)
Building security hustled us out, but I had already picked up most of my stuff. We waited around a bit before finding out that we were headed home for the day as opposed to going back in and finishing the day after the building was cleared. (I was reminded of school fire drills that ran 15 to 30 minutes or so.)
I live less than half a mile from the office, and took my bicycle like usual. Most people were trying to get out by car, and I was reminded of a crowd leaving a concert/sporting event - the vehicle traffic was bad enough that walking or bicycle riding was actually a quicker way out.
However, the apartment complex’s staff still had the elevators turned off, so I rode the bicycle around a bit to kill time/blow off steam, and eventually had dinner at a nearby fast food place that hadn’t closed down for the day.
I ended up back in the apartment by about the time I would have retuned from a normal work day.
However, I do need to deal with the fact that my phone’s texting keypads were coincidentally on the fritz.
I'll spell out the apparent XKCD reference: http://xkcd.com/356/
I'm leery of committing the "reductio ad Hitlerum" ("it's wrong just because Hitler did it") fallacy here. (However, "Hitler did this, and this is wrong because X, so Hitler was wrong in this regard” is perfectly logical; you do seem to take that approach.
This particular discussion also doesn't get into other things the Nazis did, or other things that China is doing.
However, I wonder if eugenics based on things like severe mental/physical disability is different in a practical sense from racial/ethnic/religious purges. I wonder if it would make any sense to take a genetic approach to the issue of genetic disabilities; please note that this specifically excludes nongenetic disabilities.
context was clearly about books not for children in general, as opposed to pornographic books in particular, but your kind of response is to be expected the way the quote/summary was worded.
By the way, you could easily have sexually explicit text-only works.
looks you could use a whole fucking lot of new fuckin' words your-fuckin'-self: maybe you should take fuckin' advantage of this fucking release.
you saying there's some really good stuff amidst all the dreck 4chan is known for?
I wouldn't be surprised; I think the "there's a silver lining in every cloud" metaphor is actually quite accurate.
In all seriousness, the Playboy issues I've read really do have some good articles, it's just kinda odd to have that kind of material and the pictures of nekkid women int he same magazine.
Yes, access to the original master is something the owner could exert some control over via some method besides copyright law.
I don't think this is specific to pop per se. (though maybe that depends on how you define "pop": "a specific genre" or "anything besides classical, opera, et cetera.")
Yes, there are many oldschool musicians that are still active. (whether or not they stayed active all this time).
Yes, some still "have it", some don't.
Also, even those who are still around and still good sometimes shy away from their old material
As part of the deal to get out of his record contract, Fogerty offered up the publishing rights to his CCR-era songs, so although composition copyright and master-recording copyright are separate entities, this is one case where they ended up more closely associated than usual. (Something similar might happen right off the bat on a 360-degree-deal.)
Yes, Zappa certainly did try to have his thorn firmly in the side of the mainstream music industry; this is just oen example
That "_my_ rep isn't the problem" attitude also messes up state legislatures as surely as it does the national one.
Even with local pizzerias accessible, I still take the cheap and easy option of heating up a frozen pizza.
I do like slathering pizza stuff on plain bagels though.
In general, I'd agree that there's plenty of decent stuff that's reasonably easy to cook yourself, so why take the lazy and expensive way out?
yeah, that site drove me nuts real quick.
that much txt-speak is inexcusable if you're well under the character limit
you'd think that it would be easy to type out full words if you're that good at working a tiny keyboard
sure, it's the Daily Fail and it's to be expected, but the summary (drawing form the article?) clearly seems to be trying to get customers mad at the workers.
I do listen to some of the older songs in that area and heck, you even have Dropkick Murphys making new ones.
However, even if I like the music, I'm not automatically going to agree with the political opinions embodied within.
It can be good for helping to bring the topic to one's attention and for rallying the base, though.