Us knitting purists prefer to refer to them as "Hookers."
However, if you ever catch me attaching such pretentiously assinine psuedointellectual claptrap to my knitting as this metroasexual nerdball somebody just fucking shoot me, ok?
Look, here's Knitting for Guys in a Nutshell (angora rabbit on the bookcover):
As a male member of a knitting circle (yes, I'm one of the Chicks with Sticks. Do not confuse this with a Chick With a Kickstand, which is something entirely different), I hate to break this to you, but. . .
Once again mom is right. Don'cha just hate when that happens?
Worst comes to worst you get a pair of funky socks out of the deal.
If people really wanted to know what's in their food, chains like McDonalds wouldn't be in business.
Yeah, those would be the people who blamed me for thinking that potatoes weren't a beef product. Silly me. I would have liked to have been informed otherwise.
Aside from vegetarians there are people with all sorts of food intolerances and allergies. I have a need to know exactly what is in every mouthful of food I eat, or I could end up in deep, deep shit. I am not alone.
How on earth some government worker being able to track where my food has been is going help me know what's in it before I eat it is beyond me. Nor will they give a damn about what's in it after the fact either. They already know and don't care.
Your post is well modded as insightful. I wish I could read it, but my ISP does not support your ISPs communications protocol for web posting, prefering their own, propriatary protocol.
I'm quite relaxed, but thank you for your concern.
Why don't they just make cars where you have to play a 10-second game of Simon before it starts?
A better solution, but they already have cars with ignition interlocks hooked up to more direct means of detecting the imbibing of alcohol. None of them are perfect, of course, as none of them ever will be.
A boy broke a rare, 400 year old teacup that belonged to his master. When he saw the master, he asked "Why does death happen?". The master said "It is natural. Everything lives and dies." The boy showed the broken cup and said "It was time for your cup to die".
By your measure I will soon become "perminate." I rather think, however, that despite any possible legislation to the contrary, I will become rather less "perminate" than I previously was.
The laws of physics have this nasty habit of ignoring orders from command.
Ya mean like a tombstone? It's a memorial. Publicity is inherent in their nature.
Those ashes aren't really going into space, just low-earth orbit. ..
i.e., space.
. ..their orbit will decay in a decade or so.
I canna change the laws of physics, Cap'n, but what better way to scatter a gram or seven of Jimmy's ashes upon the face of the earth Earth? That's one shooting movie star I'd like to see with my own eyes.
They can't. That's the whole point of performing terrorist acts in the first place. The promotion of terror. Evidence at hand seems to suggest that it's working.
Do the questions get any harder later on in the test? That one was too easy.
Government interferes with a free market in perfect working order to generate revenue.
Actually, $35 is probably the break even number for processing the license. Many licenses of this nature are so priced specifically to avoid legal censure over taxation issues.
The point being that a consignment seller is acting as attorney for the property owner and as an interested party. Such relationships are routinely, and perfectly legitimately, regulated and licensed. The license itself is a simply a registration of your doing business in such a manner for the purposes of accountability in case of dispute.
As a general rule I'm agin the licensing of individuals acting solely in their own behalf, particularly where issues of Constitutional rights are involved (such as, oooooh, say, the licensing of street musicians).
But this is an issue of registering commercial agents.
There ought to be a special catagory for online only "auctioneers" though. Making them learn to talk fast is silly. In fact, that isn't even a requirement of a RL auctioneer.
And amber is just resin. Certainly as with many resins a certain amount of heat and pressure can accelerate the dissipation of the volatile oils, which will also naturally occur in the low oxygen enviroment of a deep sand bed.
And the claim to have successfully extracted meaningful 15 mil. year old DNA has not stood up to independent verification - see the link to the literature in my other post.
Don't have time to do that right now, but I'm perfectly willing to stipulate. In any case there were no Tyranosaurs in the Miocene Era. Did I mention that the idea is goofy? If I did I'm not sure where our essential dispute arises. We would seem to be in essential agreement.
. ..in the presence of nasty stuff it drops a great deal
Nasty stuff that oxygen. The EPA should do something about it.
So did DOS, or Windows programs if you choose to write them that way. The code doesn't care where or how you store preferences, only that it tell where to find them.
No, it's not. I wish this old saw would go away. Its viscosity at room temperature is in the solid range. Since it lacks a crystaline structure it is classified as an amorphous solid. I have samples of naturally formed glass tens of thousands of years old. They don't show any sign of "melting" yet. Unless they get really, really hot they never will.
. ..given the pressures and temperatures needed to turn tree resin into amber.
Amber does not require heat and pressure to form. Tree resin polymerizes naturally through the dissipation of volative oils, although it will do this more readily in a low oxygen environment.
. ..over the time span in which fossils form DNA is completely chewed to bits. ..
And said nothing to dispute this and even avered that were any number of goofy ideas involved.
However, it takes a minimum of 10,000 years to create a fossil. DNA samples have been extracted from carcasses a bit older than this. DNA containing significant information has been extracted from Miocene Era plant fossils more than 15 million years old.
In the abscence of oxidizing agents (say, inside a lump of tree resin inside a sand deposit) the degradation of DNA is greatly retarded. The molecules need the opportunity to go to a lower energy state.
Fossilization occurs when carbon atoms are exchanged for silicon.
Well, of course they didn't use a fossil in Jurassic Park, they used a mummy. Even the Wikipedia article makes this confusion. Old and/or preserved does not mean fossil. Fossil is as you have stated, the replacement of the original tissues by a mineral (say, calcium carbonate or anything else capable of forming sedimentary rock. You don't often find large quantities of silicon in solution. Lots and lots of carbon though, as well as the carbon in the original tissues. Marble, for instance, is more than half CaO, less than 2% SiO2. Why do you think the carbon atoms get replaced by other minerals? What do you think coal is?).
Fossils are a casting. Mummies are the remains of the actual thing. A corpse.
. ..even if you managed to recover something that looked like a nucleic acid base, it would be decayed to the point that the information content is completely gone.
Jurassic Park didn't assume the information in the DNA was intact, although of course it didn't assume it was completely gone either. They spliced the recovered bits together with bits scavanged from frogs (amphibians, go figure), so, in fact, the dinosaurs in Jurassic park were simulated dinosaurs.
The result was still good enough to eat a lawyer, which makes them close enough in my book.
But yeah, the idea is a bit goofy for lots of reasons, just as the idea of Jurassic Park's literary predicessor was a bit goofy. Maybe even Abby Normal.
Is this thing anything more than a very expensive remote-control car minus the remote?
Well, it is only the second installment of a teaching series of articles, which ends by noting that this is not a complete robot, but only a prototype needing further development.
Without some sort of sensor/feedback mechanism, some sort of intelligent behavior, I wouldnt call it a robot.
Yep, a robot is as a robot does. You recognize them by their behavior.
And you've just described your home heating system's thermostat. They're already with us and working for us in our daily lives.
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Us knitting purists prefer to refer to them as "Hookers."
However, if you ever catch me attaching such pretentiously assinine psuedointellectual claptrap to my knitting as this metroasexual nerdball somebody just fucking shoot me, ok?
Look, here's Knitting for Guys in a Nutshell (angora rabbit on the bookcover):
1)Knit scarf
2)Give scarf to girl
3)Profit!
Life don't get much more macho than that.
KFG
As a male member of a knitting circle (yes, I'm one of the Chicks with Sticks. Do not confuse this with a Chick With a Kickstand, which is something entirely different), I hate to break this to you, but. . .
Once again mom is right. Don'cha just hate when that happens?
Worst comes to worst you get a pair of funky socks out of the deal.
KFG
. . . founded on fantasizing about sex.
And there we have it folks. The complete history of the world in only five words.
KFG
I would, but I can't afford to pay the license fee to the mob.
KFG
Books are too time wasting to consume.
Not to mention having little nutritional value. Taste like crap too.
That's why I just settle for reading 'em.
KFG
What exactly is a "potentially dangerous" animal?
You. Especially if you've got a pointy stick.
Don't come at me with a banana though. I've been trained how to deal with that.
KFG
Huh? Where are these 'people'?
Yo!
If people really wanted to know what's in their food, chains like McDonalds wouldn't be in business.
Yeah, those would be the people who blamed me for thinking that potatoes weren't a beef product. Silly me. I would have liked to have been informed otherwise.
Aside from vegetarians there are people with all sorts of food intolerances and allergies. I have a need to know exactly what is in every mouthful of food I eat, or I could end up in deep, deep shit. I am not alone.
How on earth some government worker being able to track where my food has been is going help me know what's in it before I eat it is beyond me. Nor will they give a damn about what's in it after the fact either. They already know and don't care.
KFG
Your post is well modded as insightful. I wish I could read it, but my ISP does not support your ISPs communications protocol for web posting, prefering their own, propriatary protocol.
Could ya email it to me?
KFG
Relax.
I'm quite relaxed, but thank you for your concern.
Why don't they just make cars where you have to play a 10-second game of Simon before it starts?
A better solution, but they already have cars with ignition interlocks hooked up to more direct means of detecting the imbibing of alcohol. None of them are perfect, of course, as none of them ever will be.
KFG
"Hey Bob, why don't we take your car?"
"Awwwww, can't. I dropped my phone."
It's possible to take this "convergence" thingy way too far. The failure of one system should not cause the failure of another, unrelated, system.
KFG
What goes into space is only a symbolic 1 or 7 gram sample. . .
See the paragraph after the one you quote.
KFG
. . .50 to 100 years is perminate.
You keep using that word. . .
A boy broke a rare, 400 year old teacup that belonged to his master.
When he saw the master, he asked "Why does death happen?".
The master said "It is natural. Everything lives and dies."
The boy showed the broken cup and said "It was time for your cup to die".
By your measure I will soon become "perminate." I rather think, however, that despite any possible legislation to the contrary, I will become rather less "perminate" than I previously was.
The laws of physics have this nasty habit of ignoring orders from command.
KFG
. . .just publicity
.
.their orbit will decay in a decade or so.
Ya mean like a tombstone? It's a memorial. Publicity is inherent in their nature.
Those ashes aren't really going into space, just low-earth orbit. .
i.e., space.
. .
I canna change the laws of physics, Cap'n, but what better way to scatter a gram or seven of Jimmy's ashes upon the face of the earth Earth? That's one shooting movie star I'd like to see with my own eyes.
So long Jimmy, and thanks for all the Trek.
KFG
How would they prevent against this?
They can't. That's the whole point of performing terrorist acts in the first place. The promotion of terror. Evidence at hand seems to suggest that it's working.
Do the questions get any harder later on in the test? That one was too easy.
KFG
Government interferes with a free market in perfect working order to generate revenue.
Actually, $35 is probably the break even number for processing the license. Many licenses of this nature are so priced specifically to avoid legal censure over taxation issues.
The point being that a consignment seller is acting as attorney for the property owner and as an interested party. Such relationships are routinely, and perfectly legitimately, regulated and licensed. The license itself is a simply a registration of your doing business in such a manner for the purposes of accountability in case of dispute.
As a general rule I'm agin the licensing of individuals acting solely in their own behalf, particularly where issues of Constitutional rights are involved (such as, oooooh, say, the licensing of street musicians).
But this is an issue of registering commercial agents.
There ought to be a special catagory for online only "auctioneers" though. Making them learn to talk fast is silly. In fact, that isn't even a requirement of a RL auctioneer.
KFG
. . .it just makes resin.
.in the presence of nasty stuff it drops a great deal
And amber is just resin. Certainly as with many resins a certain amount of heat and pressure can accelerate the dissipation of the volatile oils, which will also naturally occur in the low oxygen enviroment of a deep sand bed.
And the claim to have successfully extracted meaningful 15 mil. year old DNA has not stood up to independent verification - see the link to the literature in my other post.
Don't have time to do that right now, but I'm perfectly willing to stipulate. In any case there were no Tyranosaurs in the Miocene Era. Did I mention that the idea is goofy? If I did I'm not sure where our essential dispute arises. We would seem to be in essential agreement.
. .
Nasty stuff that oxygen. The EPA should do something about it.
KFG
MacOS Classic also had preferences files. . .
So did DOS, or Windows programs if you choose to write them that way. The code doesn't care where or how you store preferences, only that it tell where to find them.
KFG
yes, glass is a liquid
.given the pressures and temperatures needed to turn tree resin into amber.
.over the time span in which fossils form DNA is completely chewed to bits. . .
No, it's not. I wish this old saw would go away. Its viscosity at room temperature is in the solid range. Since it lacks a crystaline structure it is classified as an amorphous solid. I have samples of naturally formed glass tens of thousands of years old. They don't show any sign of "melting" yet. Unless they get really, really hot they never will.
. .
Amber does not require heat and pressure to form. Tree resin polymerizes naturally through the dissipation of volative oils, although it will do this more readily in a low oxygen environment.
. .
And said nothing to dispute this and even avered that were any number of goofy ideas involved.
However, it takes a minimum of 10,000 years to create a fossil. DNA samples have been extracted from carcasses a bit older than this. DNA containing significant information has been extracted from Miocene Era plant fossils more than 15 million years old.
In the abscence of oxidizing agents (say, inside a lump of tree resin inside a sand deposit) the degradation of DNA is greatly retarded. The molecules need the opportunity to go to a lower energy state.
KFG
What do you suggest we replace it with, INI files?
Well yes, actually. It's what all of my favorite Windows programs do and the only way I write them. The registry is a Redmond Clusterfuck.
OS X, for example, uses flatfiles to store most (if not all) preferences, but that's something they designed in from the start.
Thompson and Ritchie worked for Apple in the 60s? Go figure.
KFG
Fossilization occurs when carbon atoms are exchanged for silicon.
.even if you managed to recover something that looked like a nucleic acid base, it would be decayed to the point that the information content is completely gone.
Well, of course they didn't use a fossil in Jurassic Park, they used a mummy. Even the Wikipedia article makes this confusion. Old and/or preserved does not mean fossil. Fossil is as you have stated, the replacement of the original tissues by a mineral (say, calcium carbonate or anything else capable of forming sedimentary rock. You don't often find large quantities of silicon in solution. Lots and lots of carbon though, as well as the carbon in the original tissues. Marble, for instance, is more than half CaO, less than 2% SiO2. Why do you think the carbon atoms get replaced by other minerals? What do you think coal is?).
Fossils are a casting. Mummies are the remains of the actual thing. A corpse.
. .
Jurassic Park didn't assume the information in the DNA was intact, although of course it didn't assume it was completely gone either. They spliced the recovered bits together with bits scavanged from frogs (amphibians, go figure), so, in fact, the dinosaurs in Jurassic park were simulated dinosaurs.
The result was still good enough to eat a lawyer, which makes them close enough in my book.
But yeah, the idea is a bit goofy for lots of reasons, just as the idea of Jurassic Park's literary predicessor was a bit goofy. Maybe even Abby Normal.
KFG
we'll give it our best shot, ok?
Please.
And oh, yes, thank you. Thank you very much.
KFG
These things are just not important to the greater universe.
I do not buy personal mp3 players to be used by the greater universe. I buy them for my personal use.
No Vorbis support? No sale. I am the only arbiter of what is a huge issue in my purchases.
Neither I nor the OP give a damn about is and is not a huge issue to Apple or the greater universe. That's somebody else's problem.
KFG
I make sure and give written descriptions and model numbers so they can get it right.
I do this as well. Then a salesman helps them select the most expensive model in stock instead.
I'm an expert in the stuff. The salesman makes them forget that I'm the expert, because that's what he's expert at.
He's also away from home.
KFG
The important elements of that picture are both people. The carriage is merely a tool which can do nothing without them.
KFG
Is this thing anything more than a very expensive remote-control car minus the remote?
Well, it is only the second installment of a teaching series of articles, which ends by noting that this is not a complete robot, but only a prototype needing further development.
Without some sort of sensor/feedback mechanism, some sort of intelligent behavior, I wouldnt call it a robot.
Yep, a robot is as a robot does. You recognize them by their behavior.
And you've just described your home heating system's thermostat. They're already with us and working for us in our daily lives.
KFG