Mommy and Daddy still won't use it, they don't smoke any more. But they'll proudly put it on the coffee table (though it doesn't match the decor), and it'll collect paper clips and buttons and other assorted debris.
The biggest problem is fitting it into your backpack to take home from school.
It's especially annoying when the meter is indoors and nobody is home during the day. You get six months of extrapolated data, followed by the power company setting up an appointment, followed by a single ginormous bill because you've been running the air conditioner during the last four months.
"The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates"*. I've read both. I found Sun Tzu much more opaque than Schlock Mercenary. Also, The Art of War doesn't have as many explosions. Or jokes.
But what I find interesting is your implication that if something isn't superior (or at least equal) to Sun Tzu, then it's not worthy of being quoted. Or maybe just not in your august presence?
But if that's true, if something is superior to Sun Tzu, does that not lead to the conclusion that Sun Tzu is no longer worthy of being quoted? Or do you draw the line arbitrarily at Sun Tzu?
I also wonder: who made you the arbiter of such things? Do I need to look you up and ask approval before quoting any material? (I assume I have implicit permission to quote Sun Tzu, but then again, I don't know if you have standards to apply regarding context. So maybe I still need to ask permission?)
And one more thing: since you apparently have never read Schlock Mercenary (seeing as you referred to it as "whatever shit you're quoting", I think that's a valid assumption on my part), how is it that you can judge in the first place?
The mind is a-froth with wonder and curiosity!
* Howard gave into a C&D and renamed it. The C&D is bogus IMHO since this is clearly fair use, IMNAL etc. Howard is understandably reluctant to fight it since there's no money in doing so (except possibly massive losses, even if he wins), but I refuse to call it by its new name.
Oddly enough, this came up in a conversation I had earlier this week.
Why not pick... music? Birds singing? A waterfall?
Because the cue your mind is expecting is a car engine. Your subconscious is expecting a car to sound like a car, not like something else; if it hears something else, you might not realize that danger is approaching until it's too late. Or never. It's more important for pedestrians or other cars than inside the cab, and most important for the visually impaired.
As the parent of a non-autistic child I say: vaccinate. Statistically it is safer than not doing so. As the parent of an autistic child I say: correlation is not causation. Don't be a moron. Vaccinate yer damn kids.
Have you ever heard a hybrid approaching an intersection?... Neither have I.
Some of us use MORE THAN ONE SENSE to be aware of our surroundings, and we depend on certain cues to alert us to danger. Not all of us study the visual field in all directions 100% of the time. I'm glad you have eyes in the back of your head so you can, but not all of us are so equipped.
Of course your next snarky remark will be something along the lines of "I'm smart enough to look both ways before crossing the street". Yeah, I am too, I grew up in a small town in PA and I'm constantly bemused by the Californians (especially in Davis) who think that they can just walk across the street with their eyes closed and a "run me over, I'm stupid" sign taped to their backs. Meantime... yes, I look both ways, but sometimes things happen that you're not expecting, like cars pulling out or coming around a corner after you've checked for danger. And pedestrians are harder to spot than cars.
And if you don't understand that, I don't think you have a right to be snarky. Nor should you be permitted in traffic.
Being able to hear the engine means it's easier to know when a car is approaching and makes it easier to notice a car you might have missed IN SPITE OF having checked visually. Therefore it makes it more likely you'll avoid an accident.
By making the car virtually silent, an important cue is removed. It's actually kind of spooky to look up and see a car right next to you that you didn't hear approach.
I'm a T-Mobile customer and I'm whining against the merger.
a) I've been pretty satisfied with their customer service over the years. I've never heard anything good about AT&T's customer service (except from AT&T employees of course). None of my own experiences with AT&T have been particularly good. b) We need more competition, not less.
And I happen to think that b) is just as valid a reason to whine as a). So please -- if you're not a T-Mobile customer, feel free to whine against the merger all you want.
"Former student is defined as any person who was at one time a student at the school at which the teacher is employed and who is eighteen years of age or less and who has not graduated."
Ah, I finally got to read that part... I was thinking that being friended on Facebook to my former teacher from 1974 might endanger him.
Though since neither of us is in Missouri it wouldn't count. But still....
I am not an expert (or a pilot) and my airline-pilot-on-tap has gone home for the weekend (that's not sarcasm, I really do work with an airline pilot) but... a "stall" happens when you no longer have sufficient air movement to provide lift. The fastest way out of a stall is to tilt the nose down, which will pick up speed. Once you have sufficient speed you get your lift back, and *poof* no more stall.
The stall will be recoverable unless a) you're too close to the ground or b) you lose complete control of the airplane in some OTHER fashion and cannot recover in time.
Any maneuver you perform in a commercial jet is going to take some time. It's not like you could do a couple barrel rolls in the wink of an eye, or pull the yoke back and stand it on its tail. So that's probably something to take into consideration as well.
Except the fastest way out of a stall is... guess what?... point the nose down. If they're cruising chances are they're something like 30,000 feet in the air. Unless there's a handy mountain -- a possibility, but I figure we're picking a flight at random -- it'll take them a while to crash.
While the plane crashing after a stall is certainly a distinct possibility, you went directly from a stall at 30,000 feet to "the plane crashes" without covering the intervening time. There's quite a bit missing from your scenario. Care to fill it in?
"Knives are considered lethal weapons in some jurisdictions..."
In others, being stabbed to death isn't considered lethal? O_o Please tell me where a knife is not considered lethal. I REALLY want to stay as far away as I can. Wouldn't want to get any of that on me.
Slashdot Mirror
Or out to my garage.
I've got my home network set up to bypass my ISP's mediocre servers and use the fastest public DNS servers I could find.
Of course I also checked all our computers before D-Day happened. They were clean.
But my ISP doesn't get to decide how my DNS queries resolve.
“The best swordsman does not fear the second best, he fears the worst since there's no telling what that idiot is going to do.”
http://xkcd.com/84/
"...a 20 mile wide blue glass ashtray."
Mommy and Daddy still won't use it, they don't smoke any more. But they'll proudly put it on the coffee table (though it doesn't match the decor), and it'll collect paper clips and buttons and other assorted debris.
The biggest problem is fitting it into your backpack to take home from school.
"What can the U.S. government do against the whole of the E.U.?"
We can take off, and nuke them from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
Surely the brief initial surge of turning on a compact fluorescent bulb will be statistically insignificant when your resolution is 15 minutes.
It's especially annoying when the meter is indoors and nobody is home during the day. You get six months of extrapolated data, followed by the power company setting up an appointment, followed by a single ginormous bill because you've been running the air conditioner during the last four months.
I was very happy when they put in a smart meter.
"Surrender Dorothy"
Just because I'm paranoid it doesn't mean they aren't out to get me!
"The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates"*. I've read both. I found Sun Tzu much more opaque than Schlock Mercenary. Also, The Art of War doesn't have as many explosions. Or jokes.
But what I find interesting is your implication that if something isn't superior (or at least equal) to Sun Tzu, then it's not worthy of being quoted. Or maybe just not in your august presence?
But if that's true, if something is superior to Sun Tzu, does that not lead to the conclusion that Sun Tzu is no longer worthy of being quoted? Or do you draw the line arbitrarily at Sun Tzu?
I also wonder: who made you the arbiter of such things? Do I need to look you up and ask approval before quoting any material? (I assume I have implicit permission to quote Sun Tzu, but then again, I don't know if you have standards to apply regarding context. So maybe I still need to ask permission?)
And one more thing: since you apparently have never read Schlock Mercenary (seeing as you referred to it as "whatever shit you're quoting", I think that's a valid assumption on my part), how is it that you can judge in the first place?
The mind is a-froth with wonder and curiosity!
* Howard gave into a C&D and renamed it. The C&D is bogus IMHO since this is clearly fair use, IMNAL etc. Howard is understandably reluctant to fight it since there's no money in doing so (except possibly massive losses, even if he wins), but I refuse to call it by its new name.
My nuvi is positioned to block part of the dashboard. That is, the top of the dashboard. All I'm blocking is a view of some dusty black vinyl.
I got a Garmin nuvi with lifetime updates.
In. Your. Face.
Oddly enough, this came up in a conversation I had earlier this week.
Why not pick... music? Birds singing? A waterfall?
Because the cue your mind is expecting is a car engine. Your subconscious is expecting a car to sound like a car, not like something else; if it hears something else, you might not realize that danger is approaching until it's too late. Or never. It's more important for pedestrians or other cars than inside the cab, and most important for the visually impaired.
As the parent of a non-autistic child I say: vaccinate. Statistically it is safer than not doing so.
As the parent of an autistic child I say: correlation is not causation. Don't be a moron. Vaccinate yer damn kids.
Have you ever heard a hybrid approaching an intersection? ... Neither have I.
Some of us use MORE THAN ONE SENSE to be aware of our surroundings, and we depend on certain cues to alert us to danger. Not all of us study the visual field in all directions 100% of the time. I'm glad you have eyes in the back of your head so you can, but not all of us are so equipped.
Of course your next snarky remark will be something along the lines of "I'm smart enough to look both ways before crossing the street". Yeah, I am too, I grew up in a small town in PA and I'm constantly bemused by the Californians (especially in Davis) who think that they can just walk across the street with their eyes closed and a "run me over, I'm stupid" sign taped to their backs. Meantime... yes, I look both ways, but sometimes things happen that you're not expecting, like cars pulling out or coming around a corner after you've checked for danger. And pedestrians are harder to spot than cars.
And if you don't understand that, I don't think you have a right to be snarky. Nor should you be permitted in traffic.
Being able to hear the engine means it's easier to know when a car is approaching and makes it easier to notice a car you might have missed IN SPITE OF having checked visually. Therefore it makes it more likely you'll avoid an accident.
By making the car virtually silent, an important cue is removed. It's actually kind of spooky to look up and see a car right next to you that you didn't hear approach.
Well, it is for me. You might not notice.
Probably not much different results from an accident where two non-hybrid cars are involved.
"Judge Adams issued a statement asserting that his daughter released the tape to retaliate against him for withdrawing his financial support."
Oh, well, that makes the beating OK then.
I'm a T-Mobile customer and I'm whining against the merger.
a) I've been pretty satisfied with their customer service over the years. I've never heard anything good about AT&T's customer service (except from AT&T employees of course). None of my own experiences with AT&T have been particularly good.
b) We need more competition, not less.
And I happen to think that b) is just as valid a reason to whine as a). So please -- if you're not a T-Mobile customer, feel free to whine against the merger all you want.
Thank you.
Some. I have some Dynaco stuff I keep meaning to rebuild. It's a shame the good KT88s aren't available any more...
"Former student is defined as any person who was at one time a student at the school at which the teacher is employed and who is eighteen years of age or less and who has not graduated."
Ah, I finally got to read that part... I was thinking that being friended on Facebook to my former teacher from 1974 might endanger him.
Though since neither of us is in Missouri it wouldn't count. But still....
I am not an expert (or a pilot) and my airline-pilot-on-tap has gone home for the weekend (that's not sarcasm, I really do work with an airline pilot) but... a "stall" happens when you no longer have sufficient air movement to provide lift. The fastest way out of a stall is to tilt the nose down, which will pick up speed. Once you have sufficient speed you get your lift back, and *poof* no more stall.
The stall will be recoverable unless a) you're too close to the ground or b) you lose complete control of the airplane in some OTHER fashion and cannot recover in time.
Any maneuver you perform in a commercial jet is going to take some time. It's not like you could do a couple barrel rolls in the wink of an eye, or pull the yoke back and stand it on its tail. So that's probably something to take into consideration as well.
"And the plane crashes..."
Except the fastest way out of a stall is... guess what?... point the nose down. If they're cruising chances are they're something like 30,000 feet in the air. Unless there's a handy mountain -- a possibility, but I figure we're picking a flight at random -- it'll take them a while to crash.
While the plane crashing after a stall is certainly a distinct possibility, you went directly from a stall at 30,000 feet to "the plane crashes" without covering the intervening time. There's quite a bit missing from your scenario. Care to fill it in?
"Knives are considered lethal weapons in some jurisdictions..."
In others, being stabbed to death isn't considered lethal? O_o Please tell me where a knife is not considered lethal. I REALLY want to stay as far away as I can. Wouldn't want to get any of that on me.