If only her character were a real person. Not only is she beautiful, but if you remember she got genuinely excited over Unix. My guess is that she'd have a three-digit/. ID, at most.
I'd suggest watching Stephen Fry: Out There and Stephen Fry: HIV and Me. They give a lot of information about both homosexuality and HIV/AIDS around the world.
One startling point is that South Africa does not believe that there is a connection between HIV and AIDS.
So, this is really just an example of what we all (should have) learned when taught logic:
False premises lead to whatever conclusion you want.
In order for the statement "If only cyclical changes influence climate, then the effect on the climate of Nebraska will be ________," to even be worth asking, there has to be a good reason to assume that only cyclical changes influence climate, or a good reason not to assume other influences.
Also, for people who don't resell their games, it makes no difference.
As someone who has been playing video games since the early 1990s, the only games that have left my collection are ones I've misplaced, and ones that I let someone borrow but never had returned (either because of the friend misplacing it, or losing contact with them).
Plus, I bought Skyrim for $40 on sale a few months after it came out, when the regular price was still $60. If I had bought the game new at $60, then traded it in for MAYBE $20, I would still be out the same $40.
As someone who got into e-cigs relatively early (2009) and still vapes, it's important to note that they are NOT really meant for quitting. Sure, it's possible to quit using them, but they are more intended to be a replacement device. It's only quitting in the sense that you're not using traditional cigarettes anymore.
Why are they catching on?
1. They are (likely to be) healthier. Sure, some will say that e-cigs contain ingredients present in anti-freeze. These same ingredients, though, are also found in rescue inhalers, fog machines, and Twinkies. Mostly, though, they don't contain all of the tar and poisonous substances we all know are present in other cigarettes.
2. You don't smell like burnt paper, and don't make you smell like burnt paper for the rest of the day. Pretty self-explanatory.
3. (Or 2a) You can vape indoors, and stealth-vape. Smoking outdoors is fine eight months of the year here in Upstate NY. The other four months - and all of the days it's raining - having to go outdoors sucks. Not only in homes and apartments, but at bars. Also, if I'm in a place where I don't want people to know I vape, I can just go into the bathroom or a toilet stall, and nobody is the wiser. Not the same for a cigarette.
4. Much easier to maintain a constant buzz. I recently had the charger I've had since the start decide to stop working, so I switched back to traditional cigarettes. I absolutely hated that I felt like hell or got enough of a buzz to make my legs weak.
And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when [...] movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!"
Let's assume that someone owns a house with unbreakable windows, walls, doors, and locking mechanisms. The doors have an electronic lock that requires a passkey to open. Also, assume that the police have a warrant to search this house.
If the police arrives with a warrant, you don't have to open the door for them.
If we take this as true, then the police will be unable to access the house unless they guess the passkey or catch the person entering his own house.
Doing science is about making mistakes, but her mistake wasn't anything to do with science.
Her mistake was creating an explosion on school property, during school hours, without any supervision, and without any school employee even being aware of her intent to create said explosion.
It's been about eight years since I graduated high school, and back then, it was basic procedure for anything potentially dangerous to find a teacher willing to supervise the experiment or do it for you, then explain the risks of the experiment and list the safety precautions used to the principal, then get her to sign off on it, then get a parent/guardian to sign off on it.
Sure, it was annoying to go through all those steps, but the more often we followed the rules, the more often we proved ourselves to be trustworthy, the more we were trusted, and the more often we were told yes.
Also, if you watch Mythbusters, it really isn't all that different from what professional experimenters have to go through when doing something dangerous.
*car drives into hangar, stops, and passengers get out*
President: Professor? Professor: You should not be here! This is private property!
*Professor turns around*
Professor: Mr. President! I'm so sorry. President: Ah, good evening professor. This is Major Agnew. Major Agnew, Professor. Professor: Mr. President, this is indeed an honor. I had no idea. President: Well, our country has been pouring a lot of money into this secret research of yours. I thought we should find out what we've been paying for. Professor: Indeed. It so happens you are here just in time. Mr. President, Major Agnew, I do not think you will be disappointed. Behold then! The Giant Death Ray!
*dramatic unveiling, Professor turns device on on*
President: Well I'll be! Agnew: Professor, is that a laser? Professor: Yes, Major Agnew, the Giant Death Ray is indeed a laser. And now perhaps you'll be so good as to place this simple tin of peaches into the path of my laser's beam. Agnew: What!? President: Do it, Major. Professor: Please.
*Grimacing, Agnew places the tin of peaches in front of the laser*
*beep*
Professor: Gentlemen, the price of those peaches has just been ascertained electronically, and stored in the information banks of my Giant Death Ray. And thank you. Any questions. Agnew: Well, one question obviously leaps to mind, Professor... uh... Professor...? Professor: Death. Agnew:...Professor Death, is why on Earth you elected to name this contraption of yours the Giant Death R- oh I see. President: Professor Death. Professor: Mr. President. President: I have a question. This laser of yours... Professor: Death Ray, yes. President: If you were to increase the intensity of its beam... Professor: Yes, intensity, yes. President: Could your Death Ray not also be used to... Professor: Perform delicate eye surgery!? Yes! President: No, what I'm asking Professor, is might this Death Ray not also have some, well, military application? Professor: Giant Death Ray? A military application? President: Yes. Professor: Oh, yes, of course. A military application. Yes, I, why, I'll just go check.
*Professor grabs hammer, and starts pounding on the Giant Death Ray*
Professor: No! Agnew: Professor Death! President: Professor Death, you're destroying it! Professor: Forgive me Mr. President, but I am a man of science not of war! I intended the Giant Death Ray to be used for good, not evil!
Of course the tablet market isn't dying. It could possibly be described as a bubble at the moment, but that doesn't mean that that sales are going to disappear within the next five years.
The issue is more that tablets are essentially as powerful as they'll need to be for the next five years, if not longer. They're designed to be highly portable devices that can access the internet and be used as ebook readers, but are large enough to be easier to read from than a smartphone. Aside from the people who need to have the new shiny, most people who own or are thinking of buying a tablet will only upgrade when it can no longer handle their needs, much like Windows XP computers.
He's not on HBO because the Renaissance fair crowd is a very small segment of society.
Your average person doesn't find mildly rude poems to be that funny.
And, yes, I did say mildly rude. Not "some of the most obscene NSFW and hilarious comedy I've seen in a long while." There is more obscene, NSFW, and hilarious period comedy in Blackadder - a prime time TV show that first aired 30 years ago this June - than in the clips that I've been able to find of him. We live in an era where "offensive" comedians turn to necrophilia jokes to shock audiences because pedophilia, incest, and rape jokes aren't seen as being all that shocking anymore. A sonnet about a knothole that looks like a vagina is the work of your average high school drama club member, not your average professional comedian.
This guy is exactly where he belongs; doing niche fairs.
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If only her character were a real person. Not only is she beautiful, but if you remember she got genuinely excited over Unix. My guess is that she'd have a three-digit /. ID, at most.
Why fix the few existing issues when you can create whole new ones?
We all know how much /. loves Canonical and Gnome.
I keep hearing the argument that CFLs start out dim and are slow to produce full light, and they die quicker.
This argument is just flat out wrong. I've been using General Electric CFL bulbs for years, and I've had zero issues with warmup or dying.
They come on instantly, and I only replace a bulb when one of the incandescent ones that came with the apartment dies.
It is better to let nine innocent men be extorted than to let one guilty man go free.
Or something along those lines.
Personally, I've been saving parts from old computers I've built for years with the intention of building a HTPC.
Using this year's Christmas presents, I'll finally have enough parts to build one. So, for me, Valve has perfect timing.
I'd suggest watching Stephen Fry: Out There and Stephen Fry: HIV and Me. They give a lot of information about both homosexuality and HIV/AIDS around the world.
One startling point is that South Africa does not believe that there is a connection between HIV and AIDS.
I know that a lot of people hated the original Xbox controller, but I liked it better than any other Xbox controller.
Even at 14 when it came out, it fit my hands perfectly.
So, this is really just an example of what we all (should have) learned when taught logic:
False premises lead to whatever conclusion you want.
In order for the statement "If only cyclical changes influence climate, then the effect on the climate of Nebraska will be ________," to even be worth asking, there has to be a good reason to assume that only cyclical changes influence climate, or a good reason not to assume other influences.
And will they accept Visa?
Also, for people who don't resell their games, it makes no difference.
As someone who has been playing video games since the early 1990s, the only games that have left my collection are ones I've misplaced, and ones that I let someone borrow but never had returned (either because of the friend misplacing it, or losing contact with them).
Plus, I bought Skyrim for $40 on sale a few months after it came out, when the regular price was still $60. If I had bought the game new at $60, then traded it in for MAYBE $20, I would still be out the same $40.
The next one gets called the Aleph One.
As someone who got into e-cigs relatively early (2009) and still vapes, it's important to note that they are NOT really meant for quitting. Sure, it's possible to quit using them, but they are more intended to be a replacement device. It's only quitting in the sense that you're not using traditional cigarettes anymore.
Why are they catching on?
1. They are (likely to be) healthier. Sure, some will say that e-cigs contain ingredients present in anti-freeze. These same ingredients, though, are also found in rescue inhalers, fog machines, and Twinkies. Mostly, though, they don't contain all of the tar and poisonous substances we all know are present in other cigarettes.
2. You don't smell like burnt paper, and don't make you smell like burnt paper for the rest of the day. Pretty self-explanatory.
3. (Or 2a) You can vape indoors, and stealth-vape. Smoking outdoors is fine eight months of the year here in Upstate NY. The other four months - and all of the days it's raining - having to go outdoors sucks. Not only in homes and apartments, but at bars. Also, if I'm in a place where I don't want people to know I vape, I can just go into the bathroom or a toilet stall, and nobody is the wiser. Not the same for a cigarette.
4. Much easier to maintain a constant buzz. I recently had the charger I've had since the start decide to stop working, so I switched back to traditional cigarettes. I absolutely hated that I felt like hell or got enough of a buzz to make my legs weak.
To be fair, the summary does say that $500 is the minimum.
According to the Forbes article posted by jovius, Facebook's average payout is a few thousand.
And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when [...] movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!"
Let's assume that someone owns a house with unbreakable windows, walls, doors, and locking mechanisms. The doors have an electronic lock that requires a passkey to open. Also, assume that the police have a warrant to search this house.
If the police arrives with a warrant, you don't have to open the door for them.
If we take this as true, then the police will be unable to access the house unless they guess the passkey or catch the person entering his own house.
I think that you're grossly underestimating the size and weight required of a battery to carry the 300 mile range.
Swapping out a 600lb battery pack isn't going to be as easy as pumping gas.
There is still the option to send the forms by mail.
That might make sense if the men only got 15 weeks, and that didn't start until one week after the birth.
Doing science is about making mistakes, but her mistake wasn't anything to do with science.
Her mistake was creating an explosion on school property, during school hours, without any supervision, and without any school employee even being aware of her intent to create said explosion.
It's been about eight years since I graduated high school, and back then, it was basic procedure for anything potentially dangerous to find a teacher willing to supervise the experiment or do it for you, then explain the risks of the experiment and list the safety precautions used to the principal, then get her to sign off on it, then get a parent/guardian to sign off on it.
Sure, it was annoying to go through all those steps, but the more often we followed the rules, the more often we proved ourselves to be trustworthy, the more we were trusted, and the more often we were told yes.
Also, if you watch Mythbusters, it really isn't all that different from what professional experimenters have to go through when doing something dangerous.
Albertans love burning oil so much that their two professional sports teams are called the Oilers and the Flames.
Horseshit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdhwTXwhA4c
Professor: It works! It works!
*car drives into hangar, stops, and passengers get out*
President: Professor?
Professor: You should not be here! This is private property!
*Professor turns around*
Professor: Mr. President! I'm so sorry.
President: Ah, good evening professor. This is Major Agnew. Major Agnew, Professor.
Professor: Mr. President, this is indeed an honor. I had no idea.
President: Well, our country has been pouring a lot of money into this secret research of yours. I thought we should find out what we've been paying for.
Professor: Indeed. It so happens you are here just in time. Mr. President, Major Agnew, I do not think you will be disappointed. Behold then! The Giant Death Ray!
*dramatic unveiling, Professor turns device on on*
President: Well I'll be!
Agnew: Professor, is that a laser?
Professor: Yes, Major Agnew, the Giant Death Ray is indeed a laser. And now perhaps you'll be so good as to place this simple tin of peaches into the path of my laser's beam.
Agnew: What!?
President: Do it, Major.
Professor: Please.
*Grimacing, Agnew places the tin of peaches in front of the laser*
*beep*
Professor: Gentlemen, the price of those peaches has just been ascertained electronically, and stored in the information banks of my Giant Death Ray. And thank you. Any questions. ...Professor Death, is why on Earth you elected to name this contraption of yours the Giant Death R- oh I see.
Agnew: Well, one question obviously leaps to mind, Professor... uh... Professor...?
Professor: Death.
Agnew:
President: Professor Death.
Professor: Mr. President.
President: I have a question. This laser of yours...
Professor: Death Ray, yes.
President: If you were to increase the intensity of its beam...
Professor: Yes, intensity, yes.
President: Could your Death Ray not also be used to...
Professor: Perform delicate eye surgery!? Yes!
President: No, what I'm asking Professor, is might this Death Ray not also have some, well, military application?
Professor: Giant Death Ray? A military application?
President: Yes.
Professor: Oh, yes, of course. A military application. Yes, I, why, I'll just go check.
*Professor grabs hammer, and starts pounding on the Giant Death Ray*
Professor: No!
Agnew: Professor Death!
President: Professor Death, you're destroying it!
Professor: Forgive me Mr. President, but I am a man of science not of war! I intended the Giant Death Ray to be used for good, not evil!
Of course the tablet market isn't dying. It could possibly be described as a bubble at the moment, but that doesn't mean that that sales are going to disappear within the next five years.
The issue is more that tablets are essentially as powerful as they'll need to be for the next five years, if not longer. They're designed to be highly portable devices that can access the internet and be used as ebook readers, but are large enough to be easier to read from than a smartphone. Aside from the people who need to have the new shiny, most people who own or are thinking of buying a tablet will only upgrade when it can no longer handle their needs, much like Windows XP computers.
As far as I can tell, this is another "[X] on the internet!" story.
He's not on HBO because the Renaissance fair crowd is a very small segment of society.
Your average person doesn't find mildly rude poems to be that funny.
And, yes, I did say mildly rude. Not "some of the most obscene NSFW and hilarious comedy I've seen in a long while." There is more obscene, NSFW, and hilarious period comedy in Blackadder - a prime time TV show that first aired 30 years ago this June - than in the clips that I've been able to find of him. We live in an era where "offensive" comedians turn to necrophilia jokes to shock audiences because pedophilia, incest, and rape jokes aren't seen as being all that shocking anymore. A sonnet about a knothole that looks like a vagina is the work of your average high school drama club member, not your average professional comedian.
This guy is exactly where he belongs; doing niche fairs.