Every time W calls it "nucular" (and he usualy does)
I think he always pronounces it "nucular" in public addresses. "Nucular" is an incorrect but very common pronounciation of "nuclear"; as this dictionary entry explains, it's common because so many other terms (circular, spectacular, molecular, ocular, vascular) end with a "-ular" sound, whereas "-lear" is comparatively unfamiliar.
An analogous word would be "minuscule", very commonly misspelled as "miniscule", because so many familiar words begin with "mini-".
...is being suckered into accepting the neutral "Climate Change" euphemism, which downplays its significance. I wonder who started that trend?...Hmm...
... people who realized that the process wouldn't result in uniformly higher temperatures all across the globe?
So, while the US government recognises the seriousness of global warming, they refuse to do anything about it as they claim it to be 'unfair'.
Well, the Bush administration is pushing hard for renewed development of nuclear power, which is the third recommendation urged by the panel of scientists in the linked article.
I actually got the "Captain N" comic books. They were about as juvenile as the cartoon... except for one issue.
I have no idea where this writer wandered in from, or whatever happened to them afterwards, but it was this really awesome "what if" story where Mother Brain's goons finally manage to capture and slay Princess Whatshername, and Captain N goes insane, journeys to Mother Brain's world, kills her, and sets himself up as the new Dark Overlord. The universe goes to hell, Kid Icarus and Simon Belmont go into hiding as outlaws as he turns on his old friends, and I can't even remember what all else happens. Finally Samus Aran realizes that she always loved him, and tries to redeem him before it's too late...
The next month, it was back to Goofy Nintendo Game Theater. I still can't figure out the deal was. It was like stumbling upon an episode of the Smurfs where Vanity murders Papa and establishes a Stalinist dictatorship, until his own demons torment him with the dark mirror of the Smurf psyche. WTF?
If the writers wanted to do it they could have could have come up with some drivel about an inverse tachyon force field that Wesley invented at the Academy. It would have been no less plausable that a lof of other stuff they did.
Or he could have turned evil and started misusing the Traveller's power, becoming a dangerous and complicated adversary for the Enterprise (for one thing, it's not clear that they'd have the heart to try to vaporize him). Come to think of it, this is what "Star Trek: Nemesis" should have been. Kind of like Syndrome showing up to challenge Mr. Incredible: "Hey, remember me? *zzzap*"
Apropos of nothing, I always thought that a much cooler thing to do with the Wesley Crusher character would have been this: Have him be so embittered by the whole Starfleet Academy thing that he and a group of fellow disgusted cadets stole a Starfleet ship and became pirates or mercenaries. Wesley Gone Evil would have been great - and probably would have been a lot more fun for Mr. Wheaton to play.
It's very difficult to get water to be at 100 degrees Celcius and at standard temperature simultaneously.:-)
I live on Venus, you insensitive clod!
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As a member of upper management, you do not, generally, perform any of the duties that actual make the company run on a day to day basis. Senior management positions can often be vacated for weeks or even months at a time without having any significant effect on the company.
So what you are saying, in a nutshell, is that you don't really have a very clear idea of what it is that corporate management does, or indeed what a corporation does or how. That is understandable, and no doubt you are deeply proud of your ignorance. What is amusing, however, is that despite sniping like yours, the idea that intellectual capital has value is the fundamental insight which built the software industry in the first place.
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This is depressing. It used to be we had both _technological_ AND _social_ progress. For the last ~30 years, the social progress has flattened out and we are now going backwards, turning into a paranoid fascist consumer/security state with a bunch of robber-barons at the helm.
Perhaps you could explain what you mean by "social progress". Do you believe that our society is in worse shape than it was in 1974?
Our country is now dumbed-down and medicated on a steady diet of poor public education, glorification of stupidity, media whores, and mind-numbing propaganda.
It is certainly true that the average American citizen is significantly worse educated than they were in 1904, when Latin and Greek were generally taught in high schools, and one had to take an entrance examination to be admitted to junior high. What do you think has changed over the past century that has brought us to our present situation?
The dark ages were brought about because innovation stagnated. Everyone ran out of ideas and got so concerned with today that they stopped worrying about tomorrow.
Well... actually, the Dark Ages were brought about because hordes of barbarians invaded Western civilization, killed a great many people, burned the cities, and completely destroyed the economy. People didn't "run out of ideas" - concepts like "using horses to pull plows" and the water wheel became popular during this period.
This "everybody was inexplicably stupid until about 1400" idea is a modern fantasy.
Go ahead, California; raise the gas tax to $1 a gallon. It's regressive taxation, admittedly, especially for contractors who have to drive vans and pickup trucks and the like, but overall it will help spur the adoption of alternative fuels
Overall it wil help spur the adoption of Nevada as the place where all of California's businesses moved to.
Actually, that was the second generationd definition of Third World, etc. The first was used during the French Revolution to describe the church, the royalty and everybody else.
You're thinking of the First, Second, and Third Estates, not Worlds.
Do you think it is because of environmental concerns or simply the logistical effort required to ship all the hardware to the midle of the Pacific?
Most likely the latter. Consider the logistical difficulties not merely with the space hardware itself, but with the fuel for the vessel, trans-shipping (for example) the Space Shuttle back from one of the continental landing strips, the accommodations for the large ground control and maintenance crews, the food and supplies for the personnel, etc. Florida is just easier to get all the stuff to.
USA Today reports that US Programmers are an 'Endangered Species' and expects them to be 'extinct' within the next few years, replaced by offshoring and H-1B visa holders. They suggest people will manage overseas projects, become self-employed, or switch to other fields.
You can't be a "programmer" and also be "self-employed"?
I, for, one, welcome our new resource-stealing thief overlords, and would like to remind them that as a trusted poster on Slashdot, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their 3/1 brick ports.
Slashdot Mirror
Level 6: The Power of Greyskull.
Since the Harvard library is so old, probably some of those 40,000 volumes are much rarer items than Michigan or Stanford are contributing.
I think he always pronounces it "nucular" in public addresses. "Nucular" is an incorrect but very common pronounciation of "nuclear"; as this dictionary entry explains, it's common because so many other terms (circular, spectacular, molecular, ocular, vascular) end with a "-ular" sound, whereas "-lear" is comparatively unfamiliar.
An analogous word would be "minuscule", very commonly misspelled as "miniscule", because so many familiar words begin with "mini-".
So, while the US government recognises the seriousness of global warming, they refuse to do anything about it as they claim it to be 'unfair'.
Well, the Bush administration is pushing hard for renewed development of nuclear power, which is the third recommendation urged by the panel of scientists in the linked article.
Nah, they should make a movie of "The Goonies II", where you rescue Annie the Mermaid.
And have a cameo by Konamiman! Remember him?
*sound of crickets*
I have no idea where this writer wandered in from, or whatever happened to them afterwards, but it was this really awesome "what if" story where Mother Brain's goons finally manage to capture and slay Princess Whatshername, and Captain N goes insane, journeys to Mother Brain's world, kills her, and sets himself up as the new Dark Overlord. The universe goes to hell, Kid Icarus and Simon Belmont go into hiding as outlaws as he turns on his old friends, and I can't even remember what all else happens. Finally Samus Aran realizes that she always loved him, and tries to redeem him before it's too late...
The next month, it was back to Goofy Nintendo Game Theater. I still can't figure out the deal was. It was like stumbling upon an episode of the Smurfs where Vanity murders Papa and establishes a Stalinist dictatorship, until his own demons torment him with the dark mirror of the Smurf psyche. WTF?
If the writers wanted to do it they could have could have come up with some drivel about an inverse tachyon force field that Wesley invented at the Academy. It would have been no less plausable that a lof of other stuff they did.
Or he could have turned evil and started misusing the Traveller's power, becoming a dangerous and complicated adversary for the Enterprise (for one thing, it's not clear that they'd have the heart to try to vaporize him). Come to think of it, this is what "Star Trek: Nemesis" should have been. Kind of like Syndrome showing up to challenge Mr. Incredible: "Hey, remember me? *zzzap*"
Apropos of nothing, I always thought that a much cooler thing to do with the Wesley Crusher character would have been this: Have him be so embittered by the whole Starfleet Academy thing that he and a group of fellow disgusted cadets stole a Starfleet ship and became pirates or mercenaries. Wesley Gone Evil would have been great - and probably would have been a lot more fun for Mr. Wheaton to play.
I heard they designed a car engine which could run off of silly conspiracy theories, but the Boy Scouts and Knights Templars suppressed it.
I live on Venus, you insensitive clod!
So what you are saying, in a nutshell, is that you don't really have a very clear idea of what it is that corporate management does, or indeed what a corporation does or how. That is understandable, and no doubt you are deeply proud of your ignorance. What is amusing, however, is that despite sniping like yours, the idea that intellectual capital has value is the fundamental insight which built the software industry in the first place.
Magnificent. I dearly wish that I had mod points.
This is depressing. It used to be we had both _technological_ AND _social_ progress. For the last ~30 years, the social progress has flattened out and we are now going backwards, turning into a paranoid fascist consumer/security state with a bunch of robber-barons at the helm.
Perhaps you could explain what you mean by "social progress". Do you believe that our society is in worse shape than it was in 1974?
Our country is now dumbed-down and medicated on a steady diet of poor public education, glorification of stupidity, media whores, and mind-numbing propaganda.
It is certainly true that the average American citizen is significantly worse educated than they were in 1904, when Latin and Greek were generally taught in high schools, and one had to take an entrance examination to be admitted to junior high. What do you think has changed over the past century that has brought us to our present situation?
Well... actually, the Dark Ages were brought about because hordes of barbarians invaded Western civilization, killed a great many people, burned the cities, and completely destroyed the economy. People didn't "run out of ideas" - concepts like "using horses to pull plows" and the water wheel became popular during this period.
This "everybody was inexplicably stupid until about 1400" idea is a modern fantasy.
Overall it wil help spur the adoption of Nevada as the place where all of California's businesses moved to.
Nintendo, unfortunately, begs to differ.
Spread the seed my breathren!
Q. What piece of bad advice from Darth Sidious to the rest of the Sith ensured their eventual downfall?
Actually, since it's British engineering, the voice box was the entire helmet.
You're thinking of the First, Second, and Third Estates, not Worlds.
Most likely the latter. Consider the logistical difficulties not merely with the space hardware itself, but with the fuel for the vessel, trans-shipping (for example) the Space Shuttle back from one of the continental landing strips, the accommodations for the large ground control and maintenance crews, the food and supplies for the personnel, etc. Florida is just easier to get all the stuff to.
You can't be a "programmer" and also be "self-employed"?
*rofl*