So those coronal mass ejections we hear about were the Sun exploring . . . mmmnnnn never mind, I won't go there.
Why not? That was starting to get pretty hot!
Get it? Hot? Like the sun or sexually?
Although I guess his description couldn't physically be hot... so this pun just doesn't work and it's just a telling revelation about my odd preferences...
Sure, but keep in mind the following: TV news seems to be getting worse and worse, wheras twitter seems to be improving. In a short time, you may be saying "News on TV is usually completely useless" and throwing your shoes at twitternews when they talk about TV. Unless the shoes you're wearing are iShoes and you're getting twitternews on them....the near future is pretty strange, but the present is also pretty strange.
Granted twitter has a long way to go before it gets there. Cable news however does not.
Seriously, stay out of it. The Iranian government is already accusing the US of interfering in internal issues, and has lodged an official complaint through diplomatic channels. This is mostly propaganda, but honestly the best thing we can do for them is to stay out of it.
So... because an authoritarian government might complain about it, we should stay out of it, for the sake of Iranians? That makes sense if we were talking about military force. TALKING about the situation, on the other hand, in no way hurts Iranians.
It will create diplomatic tension between the US and Iran? Hmm... That's new. Wait, no, not new, the other thing "pretty standard."
If I did have strong criticism of the Iranian government, you know what wouldn't make me want to keep it to myself? Knowing that they didn't want to hear it.
This means that if my employer pays me in nickels then I also must pay more in income tax to the feds as a nickel is worth more then five cents in pure metal value these days.
If that were true, that would still be less of an annoyance than dealing with all those nickels.
Console people have seriously got to get off their high horse
Wait... CONSOLE users get off their high horse? I think it's PC gamers with the false sense of superiority, (for instance suggesting that consoles are incapable of having map editors when they've been around since at least N64.)
Editing a map with thumbsticks? Just who do you think you're kidding? Really. Have you ever even made a map?
Yes. It wasn't a well done map by any stretch of the imagination, and any map editor takes some getting used to, but it would happen. People DO make maps using thumbsticks. Not the fastest way, but explain to me what you could design with a mouse and keyboard that you absolutely could not design with thumbsticks.
Also sounds suspiciously like an excuse for the basic failure of their system to detect infected cases.
When you think about it, it's not even an excuse. If the detector fails if you've taken normal steps to alleviate the symptoms, then yeah, that's basic failure.
Also the statements by the government quoted in TFA makes it sound a little like the passengers did it intentionally because they knew they were sick and would be detained for 7 days.
Sounds to me more like justification for making examples out of people who were feeling unwell. Punishing "cheaters" to send a message goes over much better than punishing "people who took asprin because they didn't feel well, not realizing they had swine flu"
Oh, good, yet another way to prevent me from selling back crappy games or games I'm done with. I'm all for destroying gamestop, but it seems to me that one of the best checks against a company profiting off of a game that is utter crap is the resale market.
If your game is terrible, you get many people buying your game because they don't bother reading reviews, many find out it's crappy sell them back, the next line of consumers who also don't read reviews buys the used copies. People who have a passing interest wait for it in the bargain bins or to buy used. You don't sell as many copies as you were hoping and you learn your lesson and don't make crap games.
Now though you buy it you're stuck with it, and all those gamers who don't bother making sure a game is good before wasting their money on it aren't getting any smarter or decreasing in numbers: shovelware is going to get rewarded even more.
That's better treatment than I got! The one time they called that I wasn't too busy to just hang up, all I got (after sitting through the message and waiting for the "sales rep") was a bored
"Hello?*click*"
They hung up on me before I said anything, before they even made any type of pitch. They just KNEW I wasn't going to send them money.
Another time I was in a seminar class, only 5 people and the professor. We were waiting for one of the other students to show up, when a phone on the wall of the classroom, previously unnoticed, rang. We all looked at each other, then the professor, who looked back at us, just as confused. Thinking there was a greater than zero chance it was something like an emergency announcement or something important, I answered the phone...
Yes, the classroom's auto factory warranty had run out.
I was actually joking with both of those, both of my suggestions were of course terrible ideas.
Of course, the real joke is on the michigan taxpayers and motorists, and is being told by the construction company that will be turning the roads into gravel and then back into asphalt, the government officials, and the lobbyists that connect the two.
Wii: Poor graphics, and lots of shovel ware -- this is the best console of this generation.
Poor graphics is relative, especially when you take price into account. What I don't understand though is how "lots of shovelware" is anything but neutral. There's too much shovelware on ALL the consoles (and equivalents for TV, movies, music...), and it shouldn't get in the way of buying the good stuff.
The 360 is reliable: you can rely on it breaking down.
I kid, I kid. I'm only on my third.
What though gives you any indication that next gen is going to be any better? For me it's all about a balance of price vs performance. If next gen has incrementally better graphics, and slightly better stability, but is 100-200 dollars -more- than the current generation, then delay it forever. The devil I know and have already paid for is better than the devil I don't know that is more expensive.
They're cheap to build, but they require a lot more maintenance that people think. They get rutting and nasty potholes pretty quickly if they're not consistently maintained (and they deteriorate a LOT faster than asphalt)
Simple: we'll just pave them over with asphalt! Next problem?
A well-maintained gravel road isn't so bad physically. Rain doesn't wash them out as bad as dirt roads and they stay passable in about any kind of weather. The main downside is that you just can't drive as fast on them as asphalt.
Another easy solution: raise the speed limit! And I do believe I already said we'd just pave the gravel roads. Geez, aren't you listening?
Also glass windows. Windows should definitely be transparent. If they aren't, you need some windex. Otherwise you'll run into hidden costs, like maybe there's a hundred dollars outside your house and you didn't see it because the window was too dirty and it blew away.
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You'd be better off siphoning a thimble of fuel from each car, selling it, and using the proceeds to buy electricity from the utility.
Where the hell would you get all those thimbles?
Then of course you'd have no problem spending a few hours in a room full of skunks would you.
Even if I weren't able to smell, others would, and I wouldn't want my friends and family to avoid me for the next week.
Also nothing in TFA indicated it was an abject loss of smell, could just be a significant reduction, in which case a skunk would still smell bad.
On the other hand, what would the damages be? Lost wages as a perfume smeller? Usually my sense of smell does but one thing: annoy me.
So those coronal mass ejections we hear about were the Sun exploring . . . mmmnnnn never mind, I won't go there.
Why not? That was starting to get pretty hot!
Get it? Hot? Like the sun or sexually?
Although I guess his description couldn't physically be hot... so this pun just doesn't work and it's just a telling revelation about my odd preferences...
Sure, but keep in mind the following: TV news seems to be getting worse and worse, wheras twitter seems to be improving. In a short time, you may be saying "News on TV is usually completely useless" and throwing your shoes at twitternews when they talk about TV. Unless the shoes you're wearing are iShoes and you're getting twitternews on them. ...the near future is pretty strange, but the present is also pretty strange.
Granted twitter has a long way to go before it gets there. Cable news however does not.
Seriously, stay out of it. The Iranian government is already accusing the US of interfering in internal issues, and has lodged an official complaint through diplomatic channels. This is mostly propaganda, but honestly the best thing we can do for them is to stay out of it.
So... because an authoritarian government might complain about it, we should stay out of it, for the sake of Iranians? That makes sense if we were talking about military force. TALKING about the situation, on the other hand, in no way hurts Iranians.
It will create diplomatic tension between the US and Iran? Hmm... That's new. Wait, no, not new, the other thing "pretty standard."
If I did have strong criticism of the Iranian government, you know what wouldn't make me want to keep it to myself? Knowing that they didn't want to hear it.
Posting of relevant Twitter messages to keep everyone informed.
It's been said before, but if this ends up working, we can't say twitter is completely useless anymore.
So wait.... We shouldn't have interfered in Iraq whenever almost the exact situation was going on, yet its perfectly ok to do the same thing in Iran?
Learning from history? What are you, NOT american?
This means that if my employer pays me in nickels then I also must pay more in income tax to the feds as a nickel is worth more then five cents in pure metal value these days.
If that were true, that would still be less of an annoyance than dealing with all those nickels.
If I say that George W. Bush should be tarred, feathered, and ridden out of the country on rails, that's not the same as threatening to assault him.
You didn't read the patriot act, did you?
Tsk tsk... You'll have time to do so at gitmo.
Console people have seriously got to get off their high horse
Wait... CONSOLE users get off their high horse? I think it's PC gamers with the false sense of superiority, (for instance suggesting that consoles are incapable of having map editors when they've been around since at least N64.)
Editing a map with thumbsticks? Just who do you think you're kidding? Really. Have you ever even made a map?
Yes. It wasn't a well done map by any stretch of the imagination, and any map editor takes some getting used to, but it would happen. People DO make maps using thumbsticks. Not the fastest way, but explain to me what you could design with a mouse and keyboard that you absolutely could not design with thumbsticks.
Actually, most of the comments seem to be jokes on disabilities. Which in many ways is worse...
TFA has a picture of adult hands holding a tiny premature baby, with the caption
Where we're going, we don't need hands
There's something disturbing about not only the caption by itself, but the combination that is brilliant.
Also sounds suspiciously like an excuse for the basic failure of their system to detect infected cases.
When you think about it, it's not even an excuse. If the detector fails if you've taken normal steps to alleviate the symptoms, then yeah, that's basic failure.
Regime Change!
Acutally Dr. Melbane doesn't count as a regime, Mr. Ahmadinejad.
H1N1 is a bit miffed about it.
Also the statements by the government quoted in TFA makes it sound a little like the passengers did it intentionally because they knew they were sick and would be detained for 7 days.
Sounds to me more like justification for making examples out of people who were feeling unwell. Punishing "cheaters" to send a message goes over much better than punishing "people who took asprin because they didn't feel well, not realizing they had swine flu"
Oh, good, yet another way to prevent me from selling back crappy games or games I'm done with. I'm all for destroying gamestop, but it seems to me that one of the best checks against a company profiting off of a game that is utter crap is the resale market.
If your game is terrible, you get many people buying your game because they don't bother reading reviews, many find out it's crappy sell them back, the next line of consumers who also don't read reviews buys the used copies. People who have a passing interest wait for it in the bargain bins or to buy used. You don't sell as many copies as you were hoping and you learn your lesson and don't make crap games.
Now though you buy it you're stuck with it, and all those gamers who don't bother making sure a game is good before wasting their money on it aren't getting any smarter or decreasing in numbers: shovelware is going to get rewarded even more.
Fuck.
Shit I forgot if you bad mouth FOX news on slashdot it is considered flamebait?
It's been that way ever since Rupert bought /. The moderation is now fair and balanced.
It was kinda obvious to me that this was a scam when they told me my warranty for the car was due to expire soon.
I don't have a car.
Okay, smartypants, if you don't have a car, how do you know when its warranty expires?
Moreover, why DON'T you have a car? Was it that the warranty expired and you couldn't afford to repair it?
Guess you should've taken the call.
"Hello, what's the make of your vehicle?"
"May I ask who I'm speaking to?"
*click*
That's better treatment than I got! The one time they called that I wasn't too busy to just hang up, all I got (after sitting through the message and waiting for the "sales rep") was a bored
"Hello?*click*"
They hung up on me before I said anything, before they even made any type of pitch. They just KNEW I wasn't going to send them money.
Another time I was in a seminar class, only 5 people and the professor. We were waiting for one of the other students to show up, when a phone on the wall of the classroom, previously unnoticed, rang. We all looked at each other, then the professor, who looked back at us, just as confused. Thinking there was a greater than zero chance it was something like an emergency announcement or something important, I answered the phone...
Yes, the classroom's auto factory warranty had run out.
Ads link to malware sites?!? YAWN!
That was quite a loud yawn.
"Anonymous Cowardon" restates his own question. Wierd.
I was actually joking with both of those, both of my suggestions were of course terrible ideas.
Of course, the real joke is on the michigan taxpayers and motorists, and is being told by the construction company that will be turning the roads into gravel and then back into asphalt, the government officials, and the lobbyists that connect the two.
Wii: Poor graphics, and lots of shovel ware -- this is the best console of this generation.
Poor graphics is relative, especially when you take price into account. What I don't understand though is how "lots of shovelware" is anything but neutral. There's too much shovelware on ALL the consoles (and equivalents for TV, movies, music...), and it shouldn't get in the way of buying the good stuff.
The 360 is reliable: you can rely on it breaking down.
I kid, I kid. I'm only on my third.
What though gives you any indication that next gen is going to be any better? For me it's all about a balance of price vs performance. If next gen has incrementally better graphics, and slightly better stability, but is 100-200 dollars -more- than the current generation, then delay it forever. The devil I know and have already paid for is better than the devil I don't know that is more expensive.
They're cheap to build, but they require a lot more maintenance that people think. They get rutting and nasty potholes pretty quickly if they're not consistently maintained (and they deteriorate a LOT faster than asphalt)
Simple: we'll just pave them over with asphalt! Next problem?
A well-maintained gravel road isn't so bad physically. Rain doesn't wash them out as bad as dirt roads and they stay passable in about any kind of weather. The main downside is that you just can't drive as fast on them as asphalt.
Another easy solution: raise the speed limit! And I do believe I already said we'd just pave the gravel roads. Geez, aren't you listening?
Privacy for individuals. Transparency for state.
Also glass windows. Windows should definitely be transparent. If they aren't, you need some windex. Otherwise you'll run into hidden costs, like maybe there's a hundred dollars outside your house and you didn't see it because the window was too dirty and it blew away.