Well, in the first place, before reading comments I searched the page for 'good news' to see if someone else had already done this as it was the first thing I thought of -- there wasn't one so I did it.
In the second place, you got a +5 so why are you griping?
In the third place, mine runs closer to the geico ads.
> What do you hope to achieve here?
Achieve? Hey man, I'm just posting comments, you know? If it gets modded down, so be it. What's _your_ deal?
>Do you violate the ruling or does Google for accepting your business?
RTFA, that has yet to be decided:
According to GEICO, the court has stayed the trial for 30 days to give the parties an opportunity to settle. If the parties do not settle, the trial will continue on the question of damages and on the issue of who is liable: Google or Google's advertisers.
Lovely little nursery rhyme, that Did you ever think, as a hearse goes by, That you might be the next to die? They wrap you up in a big white sheet, And bury you down about six feet deep
They put you in a big black box, And cover you up with dirt and rocks, And all goes well, for about a week, And then the coffin begins to leak!
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, The worms play pinochle on your snout. They eat your eyes, they eat your nose, They eat the jelly between your toes.
A great big worm with rolling eyes, Crawls in your stomach and out your eyes, Your stomach turns a slimy green, And pus pours out like whipping cream.
You spread it on a slice of bread, And that's what worms eat when you're dead.
Alternate / Additional Lines:
They wrap you up in a long white shirt And cover you up with rocks and dirt
They put you in a long pine box And cover you over with dirt and rocks
The worms that crawl in are lean and thin The worms that crawl out are fat and stout
Your eyes fall in and your hair falls out Your brains come pouring out your snout
They use your bones as telephones and call you up but you're no longer at home
Your eyes pop out, your teeth decay and that's the end of a peaceful day
You turn the color of sickening green And pus comes out like butter and cream You wipe it up with a piece of bread And that's what you eat when you are dead
They eat your eyes, they eat your nose They eat the jelly between your toes
Your stomach turns a mossy green And pus comes out like fresh whipped cream You wipe it up with a piece of bread And that's what you eat when you are dead
>not guilty by reason of a genetic predisposition towards X
Yep - guy was accused of rape. He was the child of rape. His rapist father was in prison and was shown to have a specific genetic "abnormality" that had been "linked" to violent crime. The rape-child also had this inherited gene and the defense tried to argue that he was not-guilty because he was genetically programmed to rape.
McCoy: Are there others with this same generic abnormailty? Witness: Yes, of course. My study... McCoy: Are _all_ of these people rapists? Witness: Eh, no, but my study shows a strong correlation between... McCoy: So, just because you have the gene does not automatically mean you commit rape, does it? Witness: Well, no -- but again... McCoy: Thank you. No further questions for this witness.
On CNN the commentator was pointing those out as Auxiliary Power Units that provide the hydraulic power for the aerodynamic control surfaces, rocket engine gimballing, landing gear, and brakes. The APUs are fueled by hydrazine, and what you were seeing were thermal plumes from the exhaust, both during the approach and on the ground.
>they could just declassify Pluto as a planet and reclassify it as just some Kuiper belt object
Good idea, but it will never happen. There have already been "save Pluto!" campaigns from people and groups emotionally attached to the idea that Pluto is a "planet".
Thoughts that Pluto might be "demoted" to non-planet status created an emotional response in certain sectors of the public. Such news outlets as the BBC News Online, the Boston Globe, and USA Today all printed stories noting that the International Astronomical Union was considering dropping Pluto's planetary status. "Save Pluto" websites sprang up, and school children sent letters to astronomers and the IAU.
On February 3, 1999, Brian Marsden of the Minor Planet Center inadvertently fueled the debate when he issued an editorial in the Minor Planet Electronic Circular 1999-C03 noting that the 10,000th minor planet was about to be numbered and this called for a large celebration (the IAU celebrates every thousandth numbered minor planet in some way). He suggested that Pluto be honored with the number 10,000, giving it "dual citizenship" of sorts as both a major and a minor planet.
Between the media reports and the Minor Planet Electronic Circulars, IAU General Secretary Joannes Anderson issued a press release that same day, stating there were no plans to change Pluto's planetary status. Eventually, the number 10,000 was assigned to an "ordinary" asteroid, 10000 Myriostos.
The debate centers on how a "planet", from the Greek for "wanderer", is an appellation that depends upon an object's particular size, formation, or orbit. Some argue that not only is Pluto a major planet but also some moons like Titan, Europa or Triton, or even the larger asteroids. Some argue that an astronomical object more than about 360 km in diameter, at which point the object has a tendency to become round under its own gravity, should be known as a major planet; this would include several moons and a handful of asteroids. Isaac Asimov suggested the term mesoplanet be used for planetary objects intermediate in size between Mercury, the smallest terrestrial planet with a diameter of 4879.4 km and Ceres, the largest known asteroid with a mean diameter of 950 km, which would include Pluto but not most moons.
Apparently this is a big problem with Lotus Notes -- this kind of thing happens often at my office.
Note will go out to some notes group/list with at least a couple dolts who really shouldn't be on the list, but reply-to-all asking to be removed. Pretty soon, the other dolts come out of the woodwork and also reply to the entire list asking to be removed. Then people on the list start complaining that they don't want to get all these messages, please take me off too.
This will go on for quite a while, with a couple people asking everyone to stop replying to the entire list, please contact so and so to have your name removed, sorry for the inconvenience, etc, etc. At least once they had to just delete the list from public notes groups (and then re-create it later) to stop the morons who never figured out that when they his reply-to-all they were sending mail to a couple hundred people.
Yes, I agree that timezones are not geograpically uniform. But, people within a geograpically-based timezone can more or less count on 'standardized' timekeeping within the established area.
If you know where someone is located on the timezone map, you can reasonably expect to know what time they think it is there (except, of course, where they choose to ignore which side of the zone line they are or the complications that arise when they don't observe DST).
What I was getting at was no geographic standardization. Smallville is the next town east, and they keep their clocks 25 minutes faster. Their standard for what is 12:00 is when the sun is highest in the sky. The next town beyond that is 43 minutes, they like it that 7:00 is sunrise, all year round. In between is dorkville, where they happen to decide that they will keep the exact same time as Paris, France -- why? Because the mayor says so -- he was elected on that platform
I don't disagree that timezones are a pain in the ass, but my point was that there aren't many viable alternatives. One universal standard time for everyone to use is logical, but will probably never happen while humans live on a planet that rotates as it revolves around the sun
People are not going to easily move to a universal time and adjust their concept of 'local time'. Lots of social inertia there. How many times would the clocktower chime!? When I roll over in the morning to hit the snooze alarm, how am I going to get a sense of what time it is when it says '22:35'?
a> everyone keeps the same time the world over - "hey what time is the meeting? At 19:00 UTC. Ok, that's like in the morning, right?" b> everyone keeps whatever time they please - "the meeting is @ 8, but in smallvile. So that's like 7:35 our time." c> no clocks, no calendars, anarchy! "When is the meeting? What, are you fucking stupid!? I'm going to beat you to death with your own shoe!"
Slashdot Mirror
are you copping to a first post? ;-)
Yeah, I didn't see it until after posting my redundant comment and was promptly rewarded with a -1 for my trouble.
Well, in the first place, before reading comments I searched the page for 'good news' to see if someone else had already done this as it was the first thing I thought of -- there wasn't one so I did it.
In the second place, you got a +5 so why are you griping?
In the third place, mine runs closer to the geico ads.
> What do you hope to achieve here?
Achieve? Hey man, I'm just posting comments, you know? If it gets modded down, so be it. What's _your_ deal?
>Do you violate the ruling or does Google for accepting your business?
RTFA, that has yet to be decided:
According to GEICO, the court has stayed the trial for 30 days to give the parties an opportunity to settle. If the parties do not settle, the trial will continue on the question of damages and on the issue of who is liable: Google or Google's advertisers.
I just saved a bunch of money on car insurance by switching to Geico!
(sorry, couldn't resist. That Speed Racer spot really made me crack up.)
Lovely little nursery rhyme, that
Did you ever think, as a hearse goes by,
That you might be the next to die?
They wrap you up in a big white sheet,
And bury you down about six feet deep
They put you in a big black box,
And cover you up with dirt and rocks,
And all goes well, for about a week,
And then the coffin begins to leak!
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out,
The worms play pinochle on your snout.
They eat your eyes, they eat your nose,
They eat the jelly between your toes.
A great big worm with rolling eyes,
Crawls in your stomach and out your eyes,
Your stomach turns a slimy green,
And pus pours out like whipping cream.
You spread it on a slice of bread,
And that's what worms eat when you're dead.
Alternate / Additional Lines:
They wrap you up in a long white shirt
And cover you up with rocks and dirt
They put you in a long pine box
And cover you over with dirt and rocks
The worms that crawl in are lean and thin
The worms that crawl out are fat and stout
Your eyes fall in and your hair falls out
Your brains come pouring out your snout
They use your bones as telephones
and call you up but you're no longer at home
Your eyes pop out, your teeth decay
and that's the end of a peaceful day
You turn the color of sickening green
And pus comes out like butter and cream
You wipe it up with a piece of bread
And that's what you eat when you are dead
They eat your eyes, they eat your nose
They eat the jelly between your toes
Your stomach turns a mossy green
And pus comes out like fresh whipped cream
You wipe it up with a piece of bread
And that's what you eat when you are dead
>anything else that might affect their work performance?
Don't think they care nearly as much about performance as the costs of disability insurance.
>not guilty by reason of a genetic predisposition towards X
Yep - guy was accused of rape. He was the child of rape. His rapist father was in prison and was shown to have a specific genetic "abnormality" that had been "linked" to violent crime. The rape-child also had this inherited gene and the defense tried to argue that he was not-guilty because he was genetically programmed to rape.
McCoy: Are there others with this same generic abnormailty?
Witness: Yes, of course. My study...
McCoy: Are _all_ of these people rapists?
Witness: Eh, no, but my study shows a strong correlation between...
McCoy: So, just because you have the gene does not automatically mean you commit rape, does it?
Witness: Well, no -- but again...
McCoy: Thank you. No further questions for this witness.
On CNN the commentator was pointing those out as Auxiliary Power Units that provide the hydraulic power for the aerodynamic control surfaces, rocket engine gimballing, landing gear, and brakes. The APUs are fueled by hydrazine, and what you were seeing were thermal plumes from the exhaust, both during the approach and on the ground.
or, my favorite: why don't they just launch it into the sun?
>they could just declassify Pluto as a planet and reclassify it as just some Kuiper belt object
Good idea, but it will never happen. There have already been "save Pluto!" campaigns from people and groups emotionally attached to the idea that Pluto is a "planet".
Thoughts that Pluto might be "demoted" to non-planet status created an emotional response in certain sectors of the public. Such news outlets as the BBC News Online, the Boston Globe, and USA Today all printed stories noting that the International Astronomical Union was considering dropping Pluto's planetary status. "Save Pluto" websites sprang up, and school children sent letters to astronomers and the IAU.
On February 3, 1999, Brian Marsden of the Minor Planet Center inadvertently fueled the debate when he issued an editorial in the Minor Planet Electronic Circular 1999-C03 noting that the 10,000th minor planet was about to be numbered and this called for a large celebration (the IAU celebrates every thousandth numbered minor planet in some way). He suggested that Pluto be honored with the number 10,000, giving it "dual citizenship" of sorts as both a major and a minor planet.
Between the media reports and the Minor Planet Electronic Circulars, IAU General Secretary Joannes Anderson issued a press release that same day, stating there were no plans to change Pluto's planetary status. Eventually, the number 10,000 was assigned to an "ordinary" asteroid, 10000 Myriostos.
The debate centers on how a "planet", from the Greek for "wanderer", is an appellation that depends upon an object's particular size, formation, or orbit. Some argue that not only is Pluto a major planet but also some moons like Titan, Europa or Triton, or even the larger asteroids. Some argue that an astronomical object more than about 360 km in diameter, at which point the object has a tendency to become round under its own gravity, should be known as a major planet; this would include several moons and a handful of asteroids. Isaac Asimov suggested the term mesoplanet be used for planetary objects intermediate in size between Mercury, the smallest terrestrial planet with a diameter of 4879.4 km and Ceres, the largest known asteroid with a mean diameter of 950 km, which would include Pluto but not most moons.
if Pluto's a dog, what the hell is Goofy?
k, but I still want to count my chickens after that! :-)
I always thought 'burning a hole in your pocket' meant that you had money, and were anxious to spend it?
as in:
Look at him, he just got paid and that $20 is burning a hole in his pocket.
> Yeah, wouldn't a factory printing books have been a better investment here?
depends on if there are enough readily available, cheap raw materials around (trees).
Don't you mean Republic Credits?
Republic Credits are-a no good-a out-a here. I need something more real!
or hockey (duh)
Think that's the sound at the end of 'good vibrations', isn't it?
Jimmy Page uses one in 'whole lotta love'.
probably other obvious examples of 'contemporary' recordings...
interesting link tho, didn't know what it was called or the history of the thing
Apparently this is a big problem with Lotus Notes -- this kind of thing happens often at my office.
Note will go out to some notes group/list with at least a couple dolts who really shouldn't be on the list, but reply-to-all asking to be removed. Pretty soon, the other dolts come out of the woodwork and also reply to the entire list asking to be removed. Then people on the list start complaining that they don't want to get all these messages, please take me off too.
This will go on for quite a while, with a couple people asking everyone to stop replying to the entire list, please contact so and so to have your name removed, sorry for the inconvenience, etc, etc. At least once they had to just delete the list from public notes groups (and then re-create it later) to stop the morons who never figured out that when they his reply-to-all they were sending mail to a couple hundred people.
Yes, I agree that timezones are not geograpically uniform. But, people within a geograpically-based timezone can more or less count on 'standardized' timekeeping within the established area.
If you know where someone is located on the timezone map, you can reasonably expect to know what time they think it is there (except, of course, where they choose to ignore which side of the zone line they are or the complications that arise when they don't observe DST).
>Isn't that basically the current system?
What I was getting at was no geographic standardization. Smallville is the next town east, and they keep their clocks 25 minutes faster. Their standard for what is 12:00 is when the sun is highest in the sky. The next town beyond that is 43 minutes, they like it that 7:00 is sunrise, all year round. In between is dorkville, where they happen to decide that they will keep the exact same time as Paris, France -- why? Because the mayor says so -- he was elected on that platform
I don't disagree that timezones are a pain in the ass, but my point was that there aren't many viable alternatives. One universal standard time for everyone to use is logical, but will probably never happen while humans live on a planet that rotates as it revolves around the sun
People are not going to easily move to a universal time and adjust their concept of 'local time'. Lots of social inertia there. How many times would the clocktower chime!? When I roll over in the morning to hit the snooze alarm, how am I going to get a sense of what time it is when it says '22:35'?
>they sometimes get it wrong leading to mutations
great - that would serve us right, have a bunch of angry, mutated Iraqis using their heat vision, super strength or invisibility against us!
and the alternatives being?
a> everyone keeps the same time the world over - "hey what time is the meeting? At 19:00 UTC. Ok, that's like in the morning, right?"
b> everyone keeps whatever time they please - "the meeting is @ 8, but in smallvile. So that's like 7:35 our time."
c> no clocks, no calendars, anarchy! "When is the meeting? What, are you fucking stupid!? I'm going to beat you to death with your own shoe!"
yes, as others have pointed out, the Indiana State Legislature tried to pass a law in 1897
;-)
I obviously confused this with another story (think it was Kansas or Alabama) which turns out to be urban legend
you have my humble apologies for *gasp* making a misstatement on slashdot
>That's due to the physics [...] and can't be changed.
;-)
Maybe the state legislature in Indiana will have something to say about that.
*yes, I know that thing about PI was a hoax
k, how many are dead now?
DeForest Kelley and now Doohan -- all the other main characters still alive at this point?
Shatner, Nimoy, Nichols, Takei, Koenig, Barrett, etc?
wonder who will go next?