Hmm, maybe this mutation is enough of a net "good thing" to be noticeable as such, but not strong enough of an advantage to have significant evolutionary influence...
...Never got around to watching much Futurama, but glad to hear that they're presumably not trying a recycle-just-the-name thing.
For some reason, the idea of post-crash Lynyrd Skynyrd comes to mind here. (Maybe someone who's further into that type of music could enlighten me on that particular example?)
Yes, fighters are the only things that can initiate an attack on bombers. However, when a bomber attacks, the unit with the best defense value is figured into a battle calculation like usual, and it might win on defense, even if it couldn't initiate the attack.
"They're gonna have 'Existential Blues' by Tom 'T-Bone' Stenkus?"
Maybe. The Dr. Demento compilations, which include "Existental Blues" are released on Rhino, which is associated with Warner: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_Records
For those not into Dr. Demento, here's another example: Mothership, a Led Zep (they were on Atlantic which is now Warner) greatest-hits album, has the Rhino insignia on the case.
USPS's online label-printing options ("Click 'n' Ship"), which I like in large part because I don't have to dick around writing addresses & customs info, are only appropriate for large packages; you can't really print a 44c click-n-ship label.
Anyway, I often use my printer to print an address right on the envelope, to save time handwriting and to make sure there are no OCR issues (Happen to use black-ink 16pt Times New Roman)
FedEx already does a lot of the back-end processing/moving-of-stuff for the USPS's Express Mail options A more visible-to-the-end-user sign of this may be FedEx drop boxes right next to a Post Office location, maybe because the FedEx people are making pickups anyway?
Normal communication? You're right, probably not. However, moving around physical merchandise (in my case trading cards), yes. Can't email that stuff quite yet.:)
"Google ads don't appear in my browser when I'm running Ubuntu?" Indeed they don't. . . . . They don't appear when I'm running XP either - thank you AdBlock Plus.:P
Though in all seriousness, there's probably a significant skew of something like that somewhere.
That's a situation for Google, not Microsoft, to handle anyways.
Can't stand your "government shouldn't do much of anything [especially things I don't want it to do]" attitude, no matter what the reason for it is.
The Bible = work of fiction? Well, you're talking some sense there.:P Ah, here's the analogy I was attempting to draw there: arguing something based on what The Document says rather than focusing on the merits of the thing in question. Also, the mistaken assumption that it's a (near-)perfect document...
The Tenth Amendment, eh? Often seems to be invoked when states/people wish to be more backward than the Feds, i.e. as a roadblock to progress That's the Catch-22 of federalism: states would in many ways have to consent to reducing their own power, so it can't really be done even if it would make sense to do so.
I suppose I admit to the same thing I see you doing: interpretation of the Constitution affected by what I want to see done.
" I'd rather have my son watch a video of two people making love than two people trying to kill one another" My Carlin the comedic genius rest in peace.
Don't fetishize that document like it's the Gospel...not that I interpret THAT document literally, restrictively and to-the-letter either
You seem to think "Let them do it only if Article 1 Section 8 (and such) specifically says they can" I'm more along the lines of "Let them do it unless Article 1 Section 9 (or some other section)" says they can't.
I get the "Congress can do this" part, but not the "Congress can do *only* this" conclusion.
Seems like this is something *you don't want done*, and you're making an appeal to authority as to "you can't do that" rather than discussing whether or not doing $foo is a good idea
(There are some sections of the document that lay out the procedure for carrying out a specific task; those parts are of course obvious.)
Hadn't heard about that for English, but I do remember from foreign-language classes that they're (Spanish is at least) is clear on the male form being used as the default for a mixed group.
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Hmm, maybe this mutation is enough of a net "good thing" to be noticeable as such, but not strong enough of an advantage to have significant evolutionary influence...
tagging this "starcraftforever" was my first thought/action upon seeing the summary.
http://xkcd.com/570/
the alt text of this one is relevant here too...
...Never got around to watching much Futurama, but glad to hear that they're presumably not trying a recycle-just-the-name thing.
For some reason, the idea of post-crash Lynyrd Skynyrd comes to mind here. (Maybe someone who's further into that type of music could enlighten me on that particular example?)
Yes, fighters are the only things that can initiate an attack on bombers. However, when a bomber attacks, the unit with the best defense value is figured into a battle calculation like usual, and it might win on defense, even if it couldn't initiate the attack.
"They're gonna have 'Existential Blues' by Tom 'T-Bone' Stenkus?"
Maybe.
The Dr. Demento compilations, which include "Existental Blues" are released on Rhino, which is associated with Warner:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_Records
For those not into Dr. Demento, here's another example: Mothership, a Led Zep (they were on Atlantic which is now Warner) greatest-hits album, has the Rhino insignia on the case.
shitty techno (a redundancy?)
http://xkcd.com/411/
I'm not sure if GP was aiming at a Jew reference (would *definitely* be "not cool") or something else (Mafia?)
http://xkcd.com/281/
USPS's online label-printing options ("Click 'n' Ship"), which I like in large part because I don't have to dick around writing addresses & customs info, are only appropriate for large packages; you can't really print a 44c click-n-ship label.
Anyway, I often use my printer to print an address right on the envelope, to save time handwriting and to make sure there are no OCR issues (Happen to use black-ink 16pt Times New Roman)
FedEx already does a lot of the back-end processing/moving-of-stuff for the USPS's Express Mail options
A more visible-to-the-end-user sign of this may be FedEx drop boxes right next to a Post Office location, maybe because the FedEx people are making pickups anyway?
Normal communication? You're right, probably not. :)
However, moving around physical merchandise (in my case trading cards), yes. Can't email that stuff quite yet.
Except for the references to Baywatch and 90210, that sounded kind of like a Tom Lehrer...
damn it ... that was supposed to be a "blink" tag in plaintext...
"" - does that mean he wins his own contest? :P
"Google ads don't appear in my browser when I'm running Ubuntu?" :P
Indeed they don't.
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They don't appear when I'm running XP either - thank you AdBlock Plus.
Though in all seriousness, there's probably a significant skew of something like that somewhere.
That's a situation for Google, not Microsoft, to handle anyways.
looks like jcr's friends got a lot of mod points recently...;)
Can't stand your "government shouldn't do much of anything [especially things I don't want it to do]" attitude, no matter what the reason for it is.
The Bible = work of fiction? Well, you're talking some sense there. :P
Ah, here's the analogy I was attempting to draw there: arguing something based on what The Document says rather than focusing on the merits of the thing in question. Also, the mistaken assumption that it's a (near-)perfect document...
The Tenth Amendment, eh?
Often seems to be invoked when states/people wish to be more backward than the Feds, i.e. as a roadblock to progress
That's the Catch-22 of federalism: states would in many ways have to consent to reducing their own power, so it can't really be done even if it would make sense to do so.
I suppose I admit to the same thing I see you doing: interpretation of the Constitution affected by what I want to see done.
" I'd rather have my son watch a video of two people making love than two people trying to kill one another"
My Carlin the comedic genius rest in peace.
some of the RFCs are obviously sarcastic (like IP over Avian Carriers), so I wouldn't have been entirely surprised if that one was in there
Read *what I said*
Don't fetishize that document like it's the Gospel...not that I interpret THAT document literally, restrictively and to-the-letter either
You seem to think "Let them do it only if Article 1 Section 8 (and such) specifically says they can"
I'm more along the lines of "Let them do it unless Article 1 Section 9 (or some other section)" says they can't.
I get the "Congress can do this" part, but not the "Congress can do *only* this" conclusion.
Seems like this is something *you don't want done*, and you're making an appeal to authority as to "you can't do that" rather than discussing whether or not doing $foo is a good idea
(There are some sections of the document that lay out the procedure for carrying out a specific task; those parts are of course obvious.)
Yes, very nice concept, good illustrated examples. Just trying to see pitfalls. :)
Hadn't heard about that for English, but I do remember from foreign-language classes that they're (Spanish is at least) is clear on the male form being used as the default for a mixed group.
He lives in a datacenter under the sea...
Agile, Corporate Gray and a non-porous firewall has he...
The closed captioning I'm used to seeing is blocky white text inside a black bar, plastered over the bottom of the images, whereas the subtitles appear under the image (in the black bar that's there anyway when widescreen stuff is being played on a normal TV)