This. And same here (well... a few years behind in the process).
It really annoys me too when they are referred to as "brothers". It annoys me more when people "correct" those people who CORRECT the people who refer to them as brothers. Though even that doesn't annoy me as much as when people refer to them as the Wachowskis and someone "corrects" them, proactively stating that they refusing to recognise her gender, or when people deliberately refer to them as brothers, with a snide footnote. Thankfully I have not seen much of the latter round these parts.
If they're going to compare a crash between two cars at 50 mph each to a car at 100 mph into an immovable object, what they should do next is a 100 mph unstoppable force into an immovable object.
That's not even true. Gmail pages have plenty of text advertisements.
What you are saying is true, but jthill is correct in saying that Google do not insert ads in your emails. Have you ever received an email from somebody with a Hotmail account? They always seem to end with something like:
New! Receive and respond to mail from other email accounts from within Hotmail Find out how.
THAT is the advert to which jthill was referring. Hotmail inserts these adverts into your emails. You have no control over them. Gmail does not do this.
"Since Disney just got around to featuring its first African-American princess this year, it's no shock that we may have to wait a while for a gay heroine."
Erm... when you consider the fact that many interpret Mulan as a film about a transsexual man... I don't think we're too far away from having gay Disney.
My hope is that this technology will be scrapped in favour of some sort of genetically modified animal capable of providing us with bacon, ham AND pork!
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Would have been a much more interesting article
This. And same here (well... a few years behind in the process).
It really annoys me too when they are referred to as "brothers". It annoys me more when people "correct" those people who CORRECT the people who refer to them as brothers. Though even that doesn't annoy me as much as when people refer to them as the Wachowskis and someone "corrects" them, proactively stating that they refusing to recognise her gender, or when people deliberately refer to them as brothers, with a snide footnote. Thankfully I have not seen much of the latter round these parts.
Sigh. I expected better from Slashdotters.
I was working on the logic that "the 90's" started in 1990, "the 80's" in 1980, and so on
Wait... have I travelled back in time again? I thought 2010 started almost a year ago.
I was unaware of this. This is, indeed, huge! ^_^
Yes and no.
She's not quite dead enough to be eligible.
If they're going to compare a crash between two cars at 50 mph each to a car at 100 mph into an immovable object, what they should do next is a 100 mph unstoppable force into an immovable object.
What about unobtainium?
I'd rather be knocked over by a bullet than dead.
...wake me up when they do this with a larynx. I know a significant subset of the population who'd pay good money for that.
My new gender is seven!
"Whereas mammals have a global static variable where SEXUAL_ORIENTATION = MALE or FEMALE."
Or both or neither or something else entirely :P
(I'm presuming by 'sexual orientation' you mean either sexual or gender identity, as opposed to who they are attracted to)
Much more complicated than that, but not a bad way of explaining it in simple terms :)
Just saying.
Of course, I haven't bothered to read any of the linked to pages. :P
MySpace still exists?
<insert joke about how 'getting in her pants' could be interpreted as cross-dressing here>
I claim to be a transgender lesbian :P
Any my personal favourite:
"Hey, Bob! This one's a tranny!"
Thankfully I don't expect to need to fly from Heathrow or Manchester.
What you are saying is true, but jthill is correct in saying that Google do not insert ads in your emails.
Have you ever received an email from somebody with a Hotmail account? They always seem to end with something like:
THAT is the advert to which jthill was referring. Hotmail inserts these adverts into your emails. You have no control over them. Gmail does not do this.
"Since Disney just got around to featuring its first African-American princess this year, it's no shock that we may have to wait a while for a gay heroine."
Erm... when you consider the fact that many interpret Mulan as a film about a transsexual man... I don't think we're too far away from having gay Disney.
Thank Codd I've already downloaded it!
My hope is that this technology will be scrapped in favour of some sort of genetically modified animal capable of providing us with bacon, ham AND pork!
long pork is long
Don't think it's that exceptional, tbh. I've seen my 4 year old half-brother do that on his laptop. Yes. HIS laptop.