I would most people watching the Olympics are interested in seeing the best athletes in the world competing against each other. Yes, back-stories can be interesting, but they don't need to be over-the-top 10 minute segments slathered in sappy music. There's usually enough downtime to simply mention "This athlete is inspired by his brother who has Down's Syndrome," similar to how they mentioned "This athlete has made a great comeback from breaking both of her ankles before the games in Salt Lake City." This only took a few seconds between runs, but gets the same point across.
Basically, it would be better if they simply mentioned athlete backgrounds, inserted some information on the scoring/background/etc of the sport without being condescending, and really focused on showing spectacular athletic achievement.
If you can be terrorized and that is their intent then they are terrorists. You do not have to be killed for it to be terrorism.
Furthermore, the point of terrorism is that terrorists don't have the means to directly attack everyone, but instead have the means to directly attack anyone.
I save all of my DVDs as iso, move them to an external drive, then play them through my netbook (MSI U210) which has 720p HDMI output.
The image quality is definitely superior to my DVD player hooked up directly to the TV, and better yet, it doesn't force me to watch with a 4" black border if I want to see the subtitles.
Honestly, if you told almost any American to add 0.25 oz of salt, they would just stare at you blankly.
If you instead asked them to add 2.25 tsp of salt, they would go grab the spoon labeled "1 tsp" and the spoon labeled "1/4 tsp," and measure it out (that is, unless they're lazy like me and realize that that 1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoons, so I can just mostly fill up the "1 tbsp" spoon).
Americans just use volume when measuring food instead of weight while cooking, except, for example, potatoes and meat.
Basically every American kitchen has a set of measuring spoons (usually 1/8 tsp, 1/4 tsp, 1/2 tsp, 1tsp, 1/2 tbsp, 1 tbsp), a set of measuring cups (1/4 cup, 1/2 cup, 1 cup), and a liquid measuring cup with scales in cups, fl oz and mL ( http://www.all-creatures.org/recipes/images/u-meascup-liq.jpg ).
Cups and quarts are measurements, yes. A cup is 8 fl oz, a quart is a quarter-gallon (tricky, huh?).
As for stick, butter here in the US can often be found in tubs, but usually we use standardized sticks. The sticks are almost always labeled with tick-marks at each tablespoon, with at least the 1/4 cup (4 tbsp) and 1/2 cup (8 tbsp = 1 stick) labeled.
And "Over there," the beverages come in small, medium, large, and FatFuck? Do your car companies offer Fat Fuck sized seats as an option? Is there a Fat Fucks clothing company for people who are fat fucks?
No? Well, then you've completely missed my point.
Then this is the most I've sword while proving someone wrong without swearing at anyone.
I would guess the assumption is that "disabled" may imply "useless."
Similarly, I would guess "persons of size" is a way of obviously referring to overweight people without alienating them from your business. Fat and overweight both have similar derogatory connotations, so businesses need to figure out something else.
In a similar vein, I'm sure that many would take the idiom "to call a spade a spade" racist, though it predates the racial slur by 300-400 years.
Yes, metric is easier to convert between different types of units (cups to ft^3, as in your example), and often different units within a single measure (inches to miles). This is why it's the customary measurement for scientific purposes.
However, in daily life, it's rare for any extremely difficult conversion to come up. Cooking is an example where it may prove difficult, but when I started cooking as a child I memorized "3 tsp to a tbsp, 4 tbsp to 1/4 cup," and "8 fl oz to a cup, 2 cups to a pint, two pints to a quart, four quarts to a gallon." As I know the powers of two, this means that, off the top of my head, there are 768 tsp in a gallon, which again is 128 fl oz.
Distance can be tricky, but I would say that, again, it works in practice. Also, I'll claim that it's much more interesting (to a certain kind of nerd, at least).
The history of Standard (US Customary) Units of course comes from Britain, and most of them are in some way organic. The foot, of course, should be fairly obvious. The inch has been postulated to derive from words meaning one-twelfth, or thumb. Either way, in English law, it was defined as three widths of a barleycorn. The yard is generally considered to be half a fathom (ie half a "wingspan").
The mile has a stranger history. It comes from the miles used by Ancient Romans, which was exactly 5000 Roman feet (which, with the increase in foot size over time, would be about 4500 feet today). However, the English compared a mile to eight furlongs, where a furlong is about how far a horse could pull a plow before needing to rest. The difference between common measures and measures used specifically for surveying led this to be 5280 ft.
Wikipedia finds it important to mention that Abe Simpson claims “My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!” That is, where a rod is 1/40 furlong, or 1/320 mi and a hogshead is roughly 63 gallons. This means that the fuel economy is.002 miles per gallon.
I have a desktop computer, which serves most functions while at home. Basically, it's my primary internet machine.
I have a netbook (MSi U210), and while its primary use is for note-taking at school (LaTeX in real-time is difficult, but not overly so), I also make good use of the HDMI output.
So basically, I like having the option of a highly portable system that is capable of playing HD video.
I really disagree, however, with the claim that a netbook is something that is not too painful when it is dropped. If you aren't concerned with a loss of a $200-$500 machine, why the hell aren't you buying an ultraportable instead of a netbook?
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Holy shit! Homeopathy is 99.999% water and sugar, and 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000% other things!
Sorry, I didn't see the segment, only relpied to GP.
I would most people watching the Olympics are interested in seeing the best athletes in the world competing against each other. Yes, back-stories can be interesting, but they don't need to be over-the-top 10 minute segments slathered in sappy music. There's usually enough downtime to simply mention "This athlete is inspired by his brother who has Down's Syndrome," similar to how they mentioned "This athlete has made a great comeback from breaking both of her ankles before the games in Salt Lake City." This only took a few seconds between runs, but gets the same point across.
Basically, it would be better if they simply mentioned athlete backgrounds, inserted some information on the scoring/background/etc of the sport without being condescending, and really focused on showing spectacular athletic achievement.
It if weren't for those meddling Americans...
The drugs don't necessarily have to be illicit. For example, Dayquil/Nyquil tabs viewed over a cheap webcam would appear similar to Mike & Ikes.
http://media.nowpublic.net/images//f1/b/f1b6b896b9c916f2b630080151d3d422.jpg
While they aren't illegal, it's possible that they have older pills/generic pills that still allow them to Robotrip.
(This is, of course, all besides the fact that the school obviously did something illegal, and it doesn't really matter either way)
If you can be terrorized and that is their intent then they are terrorists. You do not have to be killed for it to be terrorism.
Furthermore, the point of terrorism is that terrorists don't have the means to directly attack everyone, but instead have the means to directly attack anyone.
Actually, that's basically my process.
I save all of my DVDs as iso, move them to an external drive, then play them through my netbook (MSI U210) which has 720p HDMI output.
The image quality is definitely superior to my DVD player hooked up directly to the TV, and better yet, it doesn't force me to watch with a 4" black border if I want to see the subtitles.
But I was only recording the students' every action!
How could I have known they'd undress at some point?
How could the school have thought this wasn't a terrible idea.
That is, how could a school not in Florida or Texas have thought this wasn't a terrible idea.
Corporations are legally people in the US.
Honestly, if you told almost any American to add 0.25 oz of salt, they would just stare at you blankly.
If you instead asked them to add 2.25 tsp of salt, they would go grab the spoon labeled "1 tsp" and the spoon labeled "1/4 tsp," and measure it out (that is, unless they're lazy like me and realize that that 1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoons, so I can just mostly fill up the "1 tbsp" spoon).
Americans just use volume when measuring food instead of weight while cooking, except, for example, potatoes and meat.
Basically every American kitchen has a set of measuring spoons (usually 1/8 tsp, 1/4 tsp, 1/2 tsp, 1tsp, 1/2 tbsp, 1 tbsp), a set of measuring cups (1/4 cup, 1/2 cup, 1 cup), and a liquid measuring cup with scales in cups, fl oz and mL ( http://www.all-creatures.org/recipes/images/u-meascup-liq.jpg ).
Cups and quarts are measurements, yes. A cup is 8 fl oz, a quart is a quarter-gallon (tricky, huh?).
As for stick, butter here in the US can often be found in tubs, but usually we use standardized sticks. The sticks are almost always labeled with tick-marks at each tablespoon, with at least the 1/4 cup (4 tbsp) and 1/2 cup (8 tbsp = 1 stick) labeled.
http://www.thehungrymouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/dscn1169.jpg
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Goddamnit, I'm on Ubuntu! My Java can't support impropper gr
And "Over there," the beverages come in small, medium, large, and FatFuck? Do your car companies offer Fat Fuck sized seats as an option? Is there a Fat Fucks clothing company for people who are fat fucks?
No? Well, then you've completely missed my point.
Then this is the most I've sword while proving someone wrong without swearing at anyone.
I would guess the assumption is that "disabled" may imply "useless."
Similarly, I would guess "persons of size" is a way of obviously referring to overweight people without alienating them from your business. Fat and overweight both have similar derogatory connotations, so businesses need to figure out something else.
In a similar vein, I'm sure that many would take the idiom "to call a spade a spade" racist, though it predates the racial slur by 300-400 years.
Yes, metric is easier to convert between different types of units (cups to ft^3, as in your example), and often different units within a single measure (inches to miles). This is why it's the customary measurement for scientific purposes.
However, in daily life, it's rare for any extremely difficult conversion to come up. Cooking is an example where it may prove difficult, but when I started cooking as a child I memorized "3 tsp to a tbsp, 4 tbsp to 1/4 cup," and "8 fl oz to a cup, 2 cups to a pint, two pints to a quart, four quarts to a gallon." As I know the powers of two, this means that, off the top of my head, there are 768 tsp in a gallon, which again is 128 fl oz.
Distance can be tricky, but I would say that, again, it works in practice. Also, I'll claim that it's much more interesting (to a certain kind of nerd, at least).
The history of Standard (US Customary) Units of course comes from Britain, and most of them are in some way organic. The foot, of course, should be fairly obvious. The inch has been postulated to derive from words meaning one-twelfth, or thumb. Either way, in English law, it was defined as three widths of a barleycorn. The yard is generally considered to be half a fathom (ie half a "wingspan").
The mile has a stranger history. It comes from the miles used by Ancient Romans, which was exactly 5000 Roman feet (which, with the increase in foot size over time, would be about 4500 feet today). However, the English compared a mile to eight furlongs, where a furlong is about how far a horse could pull a plow before needing to rest. The difference between common measures and measures used specifically for surveying led this to be 5280 ft.
Wikipedia finds it important to mention that Abe Simpson claims “My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!” That is, where a rod is 1/40 furlong, or 1/320 mi and a hogshead is roughly 63 gallons. This means that the fuel economy is .002 miles per gallon.
Try buying a needle for your 60's record player now....
http://www.jr.com/category/audio/accessories/turntables/cartridges-and-stylii/
I believe that it is the French who enthusiastically applaud interesting farts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3%A9tomane
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No, I don't think you get it at all.
If it's Mobile, Apple, Your Rights or Idle, we're supposed to be angry.
Everything else has the potential to still be up to rational debate.
I think you clicked the wrong link on Tom's Hardware.
The question here is whether it can run Linux - followed shortly by a debate on how terrible Ubuntu is.
But when they sell you a book, they don't tell you that they're selling you a license and some ground up dead tree.
Buying a license is still buying something.
I almost fall into "D", but not quite.
I have a desktop computer, which serves most functions while at home. Basically, it's my primary internet machine.
I have a netbook (MSi U210), and while its primary use is for note-taking at school (LaTeX in real-time is difficult, but not overly so), I also make good use of the HDMI output.
So basically, I like having the option of a highly portable system that is capable of playing HD video.
I really disagree, however, with the claim that a netbook is something that is not too painful when it is dropped. If you aren't concerned with a loss of a $200-$500 machine, why the hell aren't you buying an ultraportable instead of a netbook?
I can't wait for a Sci-Fi movie to do that either, but idk about Cameron.