greenland was named by an outcast viking (i.e., well before the industrial age)
True enough.
who called it that to get people to come with him to settle it.
Also true enough. But given the population pressures in Norway and Iceland, as well as the global warming, it would probably have passed the advertising ethical review of the time.
they died, basically because the only food they could obtain was fish; they couldn't grow anything and shipments from the motherland were not reliably forthcoming.
The descendants several generations later of the original settlers died of starvation, while the original settlers died of old age, drowning, getting lost coming back from the privy in mid-winter and the other usual hazards of early-mediaeval life. However, to put their deaths in context, at the same time the local Inuit were thriving. What killed the Greenlanders was not the climate change, but their own bloody-minded refusal to change their practices in the face of changed circumstances. When Eirik Raude and Liev Eiriksson (I worked on that tub!) were setting up their colonies, a dairy-based farming lifestyle as practised in Norway and Iceland was possible, just. A century and a bit later, the cows died or starved, the fodder and crops were inadequate to grow them, and the locals were thriving on fishing and hunting sea mammals. For whatever reasons, most of the colonists chose to die of starvation instead of learning from their inferior neighbours. Good choice, that. The archaeology isn't clear, but it's possible that some of the colony survived. But they'd be archaeologically invisible because they survived by becoming culturally Inuit.
I'm not saying I believe one way or another, not that it matters when there is so much money to be made on scams like "carbon credits" but you do have to admit it would suck to blow all the billions and trillions of dollars
And this loss of billions or trillions of dollars differs from the collapse of the banking system just how ? Let us all kow-tow to the great god Capitalism, accompanied by his acolytes Greed and Deceit.
I read this story about 5 days ago, in an ink-on-paper magazine with a production cycle about 10 weeks long from another country. So it's a bit surprising to see it pop up on SlashDot like it's NEWS.
But then again, since the story is actually about how badly-done statistics can lead to unsupported claims (such as the beautiful people have more kids claim), maybe I'm not surprised that it took a week or so for the Slimes to read and misunderstand it.
a half cone of solar generators up top that will power
bit strange way to design things. You'll get relatively low power (because a lot of the cells won't be full-on to the sun), and relatively high weight because half of your cells will be in the shade. I'd have thought that you'd get a better power-weight ratio by pivoting a flat plate of cells. It's not as if the direction of the sun is either unpredictable or difficult to detect. Pivots may be a problem, but there are plenty of rotary joints in the machine already. [/self Rs TFA] Hmmm, not a lot of information, but the summary doesn't bear too much relation to the pictures. Not worth more attention.
As an after thought, I'm not sure how I feel about the compressed air canister. It would probably have to be metal or hard plastic. [...] it was NOT a comfortable thing to land on! If the above video, the canister is shown to be in a very similar rib-smashing position.
If it's not designed from the start using lifejacket equipment, it'll end up being manufactured using lifejacket parts if it ever gets beyond the prototype stage. It's an economy-of-scale thing - there are a lot of lifejackets made (and serviced) each year, many of them incorporating an inflation cylinder. One per seat for every commercial aviation seat, for a start. Every couple of years I have to do the "dump into the water, turn the aircraft upside-down, and climb out through the window" thing. Trust me, you don't notice the lifejacket's airbottle. I think I'll be onto my tenth or dozen-th repeat of the drill... and my ticket should be due in the next few months. Oh, joy! Other joy : about a quarter or a third of lifejacket airbottles don't go off when you call on them. Live with it, and pay attention to the bit in the pre-flight video about how to inflate your lifejacket if the bottle fails.
Uh, he has two kids. What more evidence do you need?
That's evidence that he (assuming it's a he, and that he is the father) has had unprotected sex with someone who was fertile and who chose to carry the foetuses to term. It's not evidence that the exercise was or will be worthwhile, nor is it evidence about his (assumptions as above) intentions prior to indulging in sex. The large majority of people simply grow up with an assumption of "I'll have children" without basing it on any evidence. Some people even think that they have a right to have children!
The presence of footprints and artefacts on the Moon is evidence of men travelling to the Moon and something about the engineering involved, but it isn't evidence of Kennedy's 196x speech as a motivation, of his assassination and subsequent canonisation, nor of the Cold War tensions leading to it. Since these artefacts are likely the longest-lasting evidence of the existence of H.sapiens, one wonders what putative aliens discovering them in a billion years from now would see.
To poke fun at the previous poster's assumption that "trips" are for the purpose of having sex, and at his assumptions that sex involves the risks of either pregnancy or disease. All of these assumptions are unstated and quite important, and none of them are universaly true, or even commonly true.
Most people don't look at the assumptions in their worldview, and won't until challenged on those assumptions. From your puzzlement you may have found your worldview challenged, but can't understand why you feel uncomfortable. That makes the exercise worthwhile.
anyone who designs or uses any kind of test designed to find the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack ought to learn some basic fscking statistics and how they apply to this situation. And yes, that includes police officers and screening personnel in the field, in my opinion.
Should happen. Won't happen. By the time that you've selected out applicants with the appropriate educational background, you won't have enough warm bodies to fill your roster. People with the appropriate level of training will be away to better paying jobs, except for a vanishingly small proportion who can afford to put their society ahead of themselves and any family they choose to procreate.
Better to just encrypt it and carry it through with the rest of your stuff. Hiding it in strange places is only going to pique security's interest.
What's "strange" about stuffing it up your hole? Make the ablative "survive fall from space" coating (see my comment up-thread) in a Caucasian pink, Asian brown, or African "black" ("umber" would be more appropriate? not that it's a precise colour) ; make the "aerodynamic drag" shape so that it won't disappear up your rectum. Carry a spare in your briefcase. [Security Guard] There appears to be a suspicious mass up your ass sir - I can see it on the scanner. [Data Smuggler] It's my butt-plug, ossifer ; I always travel with a plug up my butt. It make the endless hours standing in queues and eating rubber chicken much more bearable. I can fantasise about being butt-done by my favourite butt-doer. [SG] ! {speechless} [DS] In fact, ossifer, it might make your working day pass much more nicely too. Look, I've got a spare in my briefcase. you can try it just now. If you've never used one before, you'll need to lubricate it {spits, polishes, proffers rubber implement with legend "give it to me big boy!" clearly legible along the length.} a lot {spits} to get it all in.
Well, you might end up getting a lot more than you expected in a CIA Black Prison. But hey, that's been a hazard of travel for most of a decade now.
Did you notice that I slipped in (sorry!) a fictional whole body scanner that can discriminate the wiring in a USB stick? No? well, it is fictional.
it's entirely possible that Mercury will tidal lock to the sun before that. It's already spinning so slowly we thought it was tidal locked for a very long time. A day takes 2/3rds of its year, and it's just going to get longer and longer until it takes exactly one year.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v429/n6994/full/nature02609.html Abstract of the abstract : Mercury is tidally locked to the sun because of it's orbital eccentricity, and it has it's orbital eccentricity as the most-likely outcome (p=55%) from chaotic variations in orbital parameters in the formation of the solar system. So, unless Mercury evolves into a significantly different orbit (possible, but only a few % of probability), it's going to maintain it's tidal locking. It's credible (I'm not a sufficient mathematician to say either way) that the tidal locking will jump between 2:3 and 3:4 or 3:5 as the orbit evolves.
If the existence of too many people is a bad thing, then what gives you the right to conclude that you are not one of the "too many?"
You're making the false conflation between "it's not worthwhile making an X" and "it's worthwhile destroying an X that has already been made".
I've long since come to the same conclusion as the original poster - however unlike the poster I realised the way the world is going before I had created any children. So, prior to establishing a serious relationship with another person, I established a very solid and serious relationship between myself and my descendants - that of their non-existence.
It almost makes "parallel universe" stories interesting. Perhaps the non-existent ones would have been interesting ; perhaps they'd have been WOMBATs ; but that was my choice to make.
It might also be interesting to re-examine the decision when (not "if") we get to have full genetic control of the descendants.
I see no other reasonable legislative route than "though shall not engage in overly distracting behavior while driving.", and letting the police & judges handle the rest.
The charge is "driving without due care and attention", and it's as old as the hills. I wouldn't be surprised if it actually predates the internal combustion engine, because there are enough people who've been killed or injured by horse and cart. Or just horse alone. Case in point of which you should have heard : Pierre Curie. IIRC he got a coal cart that made his ears burn.
Many people use their laptops to work on projects for their employers,
Many fools use their laptops to work on projects for their employers, instead of using the corporate machine.
There, fixed that for you.
No, seriously. If you mix work and non-work on a machine, then you're just asking for trouble. Just get your boss into the habit of thinking "project X, laptop Y" when it comes to providing the necessary facilities for doing your job. It also makes your life considerably easier.
Don't forget to keep the receipts for your excess baggage etc. If you're on work, then it's a fully allowable expense. If you've got a boss that cavails about paying that sort of costs, then you've seriously got to get out of that job. Already.
Anyway, I notice a rather strong focus on English-speaking countries. Why only five sites in Germany?
It's SlashDot - what do you expect? At least they do acknowledge the existence of other languages, and indeed, continents. Though why they didn't combine their "location" for the Northern Lights with a visit to Northern Sweden or Norway?
As a geologist, I see that there's a definite under-representation of earth-science sites. They're not too hot on astronomical sites either. In the whole of Australia they record one site, the Parkes Radio Telescope but miss the whole of the Outback, the globally-important Ediacara fauna, the (disputed) oldest fossils on Earth (Apex Chert) and the (not disputed, though intermittently challenged) oldest rock grains in the world (Jack Hills). On Hawaii, slightly changing the direction of bias, they record what I think is a volcano (and I've closed that tab, so I can't check) but miss out the cluster of telescopes on the summit plateau of Mauna Loa. Looking locally, they have the Hunterian Museum (yes, that's appropriate), the Falkirk Wheel (appropriate, if new) and the Naperian Museum (WTF?), but miss all of "Hutton's unconformity" (where the depth of time in Earth's history started to become apparent), the Forth Rail Bridge (it's just an iconic bridge, probably more significant than the boring Japanese suspension bridge they do list) and the stumps of the Tay rail bridge (where lessons about resonances and unusual weather conditions were learned in the blood of 70 people).
All such books have to be arbitrary to a degree, but this one does seem to be more arbitrary than most.
(BTW : I watched the 1999 eclipse from Dachau KZ ; if I were writing such a book I'd include the gas chambers that were built there. Not because of their brutal efficiency - they only killed a few hundreds - but for their mute testimony to the deliberate engineering of death machines.)
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should be titled "trips that you'll come back with the same number of condoms you left."
Err, that would be all of them. Some of us don't have to worry about our children's deaths. Obviously you do have this worry.
Instead of spending money on bricks, why not spent it on driving lessons?
Probably they've discovered that many of their accidents are the result of other drivers hitting their vehicles from the sides or the rear, or trying to drive through them from the front when the bus is immobile in heavy traffic.
It's an near certainty that your own driving is not up to the standard necessary for getting a PCV license. If you are a PCV license-holder, you'l not have made this comment since you'd know just how difficult it is to drive one of these 15-long, 3m-wide on a road full of morons who can't handle a 3m.x.2m personal conveyance. (No, I'm not a PCV driver myself, but I have several friends who are.One has recently spent 8 months on gardening leave because of another driver's actions.)
Christians are just wimps, and easy pickings. And yet people fear them more than the Muslims.
Your choice of words indicates the answer that you're expecting. "the Muslims" are something "over there", a long way away, and by implication the Christians are (relatively) close by.
I had been considering Ireland as a potential recipient for my taxation (i.e., by emigrating) ; somehow I think not now. (Though the malign and pervasive influence of religion did not come as a surprise to me.)
I am now presented with the difficult problem of inventing a punctuation symbol that is interpreted to mean "spoken in the voice of a flesh-eating robotic overlord, sounding not at all apologetic". And I have to find one that SlashCode doesn't mangle. Let's use "%#", just to be utterly arbitrary.
Not to mention the forced breeding programs!
%#BEND OVER, FOODSTUFF. I NEED TO REFILL MY TURKEY BASTER. Oh, you need another hole for semen extraction. And you yourself aren't good enough. Guards, take this runt off to the feeding pits and get me some good breeding stock.%#
Haven't you had any interaction with industrial farming, except by eating the products?
It's in the open source definition and/or the free software definition, don't remember exactly.
[SIGH] Well, having just spent a half hour looking for "discriminatory" commentary in GPLv3 and in discussion on v2... and not finding it. It's your assertion ; defend it or drop it.
I goofed previously. I referred to my PDP-11's "magnificent 128MB of core memory" ; that was, of course, a typo for "128kB of core memory". About as much as could be fitted on one of the 8" diskettes.
Yeah, it's like all those hurricanes and droughts, there's always been as many as now, it's just that people back then just didn't notice or die from them.
Or, they died and didn't leave sufficient records for the 3 lethal hurricanes after they died to be interpreted.
All of this is just my anecdotal evidence, but I think you have to be pretty stubborn to ignore what's happening around you.
But, but, isn't your penis - I mean your SUV - threatened by not having enough oil to lubricate it while 20 other men are watching? You must be one of those pinko-commie-preverts who'se wanting to interfere with the purity of precious bodily fluids. You've gottas fight to protect Colendar County's right to pollutes the whole globe. It's not as if anyone important liveses outsides of Colander County, coulds it bes? (Sorry trying internets-speeks today. I used a chainsaw on my vocab- rul-, grammar, wurdz-list and I's trying to brace the saw so I can perform my first lobotomy.)
Your average slashdotter is not going to get a cheapy $550 computer.
Your average slashdotter is going to understand the concept of "fit for purpose".
I wrote the above. Then I thought "please dear FSM, let it be true that the average slashdotter is going to understand the concept of "fit for purpose" ; now that I pose the question, I'm less confident of the answer.
OK, it looks a bit funny-peculiar, and the advert has obviously been translated into English (?) by a famous Taiwanese firm of technical translators (who only employ native speakers of Qetchua and !Kung for their Chinese-English translations). But other than that, what's funny? Lifejacket technology (well, I recognise it as a lifejacket) for inflating the airbag has been re-shaped to protect head and neck from impact and bending forces. I'm a bit dubious about the efficacy of the breathing tube arrangement, but I'm also pretty dubious about the efficacy of the "Airpocket" which I have to wear travelling to and from my work. I'm more dubious about this being successfully deployed (or maintained) by amateur skiers who only slide around on planks for a week or so per year. Then again, I'd suspect that it's not aimed at amateur plankers, but at professional skiers - both those who shepherd the amateur plankers and those who have to ski to get to their work locations for a significant part of the year. Rescue workers would also be an obvious target market - no small number of people searching for avalanche victims have been hit by further avalanches from the same feeder slopes. Nope, sorry, I don't see anything funny about this. Should I make the traditional rude comparisons between SlashDot's "editors" and a pair of fetid dingo's kidneys?
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True enough.
Also true enough. But given the population pressures in Norway and Iceland, as well as the global warming, it would probably have passed the advertising ethical review of the time.
The descendants several generations later of the original settlers died of starvation, while the original settlers died of old age, drowning, getting lost coming back from the privy in mid-winter and the other usual hazards of early-mediaeval life. However, to put their deaths in context, at the same time the local Inuit were thriving. What killed the Greenlanders was not the climate change, but their own bloody-minded refusal to change their practices in the face of changed circumstances. When Eirik Raude and Liev Eiriksson (I worked on that tub!) were setting up their colonies, a dairy-based farming lifestyle as practised in Norway and Iceland was possible, just. A century and a bit later, the cows died or starved, the fodder and crops were inadequate to grow them, and the locals were thriving on fishing and hunting sea mammals. For whatever reasons, most of the colonists chose to die of starvation instead of learning from their inferior neighbours. Good choice, that.
The archaeology isn't clear, but it's possible that some of the colony survived. But they'd be archaeologically invisible because they survived by becoming culturally Inuit.
And this loss of billions or trillions of dollars differs from the collapse of the banking system just how ?
Let us all kow-tow to the great god Capitalism, accompanied by his acolytes Greed and Deceit.
I read this story about 5 days ago, in an ink-on-paper magazine with a production cycle about 10 weeks long from another country. So it's a bit surprising to see it pop up on SlashDot like it's NEWS.
But then again, since the story is actually about how badly-done statistics can lead to unsupported claims (such as the beautiful people have more kids claim), maybe I'm not surprised that it took a week or so for the Slimes to read and misunderstand it.
bit strange way to design things. You'll get relatively low power (because a lot of the cells won't be full-on to the sun), and relatively high weight because half of your cells will be in the shade. I'd have thought that you'd get a better power-weight ratio by pivoting a flat plate of cells. It's not as if the direction of the sun is either unpredictable or difficult to detect. Pivots may be a problem, but there are plenty of rotary joints in the machine already.
[/self Rs TFA] Hmmm, not a lot of information, but the summary doesn't bear too much relation to the pictures. Not worth more attention.
That's evidence that he (assuming it's a he, and that he is the father) has had unprotected sex with someone who was fertile and who chose to carry the foetuses to term. It's not evidence that the exercise was or will be worthwhile, nor is it evidence about his (assumptions as above) intentions prior to indulging in sex. The large majority of people simply grow up with an assumption of "I'll have children" without basing it on any evidence. Some people even think that they have a right to have children!
The presence of footprints and artefacts on the Moon is evidence of men travelling to the Moon and something about the engineering involved, but it isn't evidence of Kennedy's 196x speech as a motivation, of his assassination and subsequent canonisation, nor of the Cold War tensions leading to it. Since these artefacts are likely the longest-lasting evidence of the existence of H.sapiens, one wonders what putative aliens discovering them in a billion years from now would see.
To poke fun at the previous poster's assumption that "trips" are for the purpose of having sex, and at his assumptions that sex involves the risks of either pregnancy or disease. All of these assumptions are unstated and quite important, and none of them are universaly true, or even commonly true.
Most people don't look at the assumptions in their worldview, and won't until challenged on those assumptions. From your puzzlement you may have found your worldview challenged, but can't understand why you feel uncomfortable. That makes the exercise worthwhile.
Should happen.
Won't happen.
By the time that you've selected out applicants with the appropriate educational background, you won't have enough warm bodies to fill your roster. People with the appropriate level of training will be away to better paying jobs, except for a vanishingly small proportion who can afford to put their society ahead of themselves and any family they choose to procreate.
What's "strange" about stuffing it up your hole? Make the ablative "survive fall from space" coating (see my comment up-thread) in a Caucasian pink, Asian brown, or African "black" ("umber" would be more appropriate? not that it's a precise colour) ; make the "aerodynamic drag" shape so that it won't disappear up your rectum. Carry a spare in your briefcase.
[Security Guard] There appears to be a suspicious mass up your ass sir - I can see it on the scanner.
[Data Smuggler] It's my butt-plug, ossifer ; I always travel with a plug up my butt. It make the endless hours standing in queues and eating rubber chicken much more bearable. I can fantasise about being butt-done by my favourite butt-doer.
[SG] ! {speechless}
[DS] In fact, ossifer, it might make your working day pass much more nicely too. Look, I've got a spare in my briefcase. you can try it just now. If you've never used one before, you'll need to lubricate it {spits, polishes, proffers rubber implement with legend "give it to me big boy!" clearly legible along the length.} a lot {spits} to get it all in.
Well, you might end up getting a lot more than you expected in a CIA Black Prison. But hey, that's been a hazard of travel for most of a decade now.
Did you notice that I slipped in (sorry!) a fictional whole body scanner that can discriminate the wiring in a USB stick? No? well, it is fictional.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v429/n6994/full/nature02609.html
Abstract of the abstract : Mercury is tidally locked to the sun because of it's orbital eccentricity, and it has it's orbital eccentricity as the most-likely outcome (p=55%) from chaotic variations in orbital parameters in the formation of the solar system.
So, unless Mercury evolves into a significantly different orbit (possible, but only a few % of probability), it's going to maintain it's tidal locking. It's credible (I'm not a sufficient mathematician to say either way) that the tidal locking will jump between 2:3 and 3:4 or 3:5 as the orbit evolves.
You're making the false conflation between "it's not worthwhile making an X" and "it's worthwhile destroying an X that has already been made".
I've long since come to the same conclusion as the original poster - however unlike the poster I realised the way the world is going before I had created any children. So, prior to establishing a serious relationship with another person, I established a very solid and serious relationship between myself and my descendants - that of their non-existence.
It almost makes "parallel universe" stories interesting. Perhaps the non-existent ones would have been interesting ; perhaps they'd have been WOMBATs ; but that was my choice to make.
It might also be interesting to re-examine the decision when (not "if") we get to have full genetic control of the descendants.
Your evidence for this assertion is ... ?
The charge is "driving without due care and attention", and it's as old as the hills. I wouldn't be surprised if it actually predates the internal combustion engine, because there are enough people who've been killed or injured by horse and cart. Or just horse alone. Case in point of which you should have heard : Pierre Curie. IIRC he got a coal cart that made his ears burn.
Many fools use their laptops to work on projects for their employers, instead of using the corporate machine.
There, fixed that for you.
No, seriously. If you mix work and non-work on a machine, then you're just asking for trouble. Just get your boss into the habit of thinking "project X, laptop Y" when it comes to providing the necessary facilities for doing your job. It also makes your life considerably easier.
Don't forget to keep the receipts for your excess baggage etc. If you're on work, then it's a fully allowable expense. If you've got a boss that cavails about paying that sort of costs, then you've seriously got to get out of that job. Already.
It's SlashDot - what do you expect? At least they do acknowledge the existence of other languages, and indeed, continents. Though why they didn't combine their "location" for the Northern Lights with a visit to Northern Sweden or Norway?
As a geologist, I see that there's a definite under-representation of earth-science sites. They're not too hot on astronomical sites either. In the whole of Australia they record one site, the Parkes Radio Telescope but miss the whole of the Outback, the globally-important Ediacara fauna, the (disputed) oldest fossils on Earth (Apex Chert) and the (not disputed, though intermittently challenged) oldest rock grains in the world (Jack Hills). On Hawaii, slightly changing the direction of bias, they record what I think is a volcano (and I've closed that tab, so I can't check) but miss out the cluster of telescopes on the summit plateau of Mauna Loa.
Looking locally, they have the Hunterian Museum (yes, that's appropriate), the Falkirk Wheel (appropriate, if new) and the Naperian Museum (WTF?), but miss all of "Hutton's unconformity" (where the depth of time in Earth's history started to become apparent), the Forth Rail Bridge (it's just an iconic bridge, probably more significant than the boring Japanese suspension bridge they do list) and the stumps of the Tay rail bridge (where lessons about resonances and unusual weather conditions were learned in the blood of 70 people).
All such books have to be arbitrary to a degree, but this one does seem to be more arbitrary than most.
(BTW : I watched the 1999 eclipse from Dachau KZ ; if I were writing such a book I'd include the gas chambers that were built there. Not because of their brutal efficiency - they only killed a few hundreds - but for their mute testimony to the deliberate engineering of death machines.)
Err, that would be all of them.
Some of us don't have to worry about our children's deaths. Obviously you do have this worry.
Probably they've discovered that many of their accidents are the result of other drivers hitting their vehicles from the sides or the rear, or trying to drive through them from the front when the bus is immobile in heavy traffic.
It's an near certainty that your own driving is not up to the standard necessary for getting a PCV license. If you are a PCV license-holder, you'l not have made this comment since you'd know just how difficult it is to drive one of these 15-long, 3m-wide on a road full of morons who can't handle a 3m.x.2m personal conveyance.
(No, I'm not a PCV driver myself, but I have several friends who are.One has recently spent 8 months on gardening leave because of another driver's actions.)
Your choice of words indicates the answer that you're expecting. "the Muslims" are something "over there", a long way away, and by implication the Christians are (relatively) close by.
I had been considering Ireland as a potential recipient for my taxation (i.e., by emigrating) ; somehow I think not now. (Though the malign and pervasive influence of religion did not come as a surprise to me.)
I am now presented with the difficult problem of inventing a punctuation symbol that is interpreted to mean "spoken in the voice of a flesh-eating robotic overlord, sounding not at all apologetic". And I have to find one that SlashCode doesn't mangle. Let's use "%#", just to be utterly arbitrary.
%#BEND OVER, FOODSTUFF. I NEED TO REFILL MY TURKEY BASTER. Oh, you need another hole for semen extraction. And you yourself aren't good enough. Guards, take this runt off to the feeding pits and get me some good breeding stock.%#
Haven't you had any interaction with industrial farming, except by eating the products?
[SIGH] Well, having just spent a half hour looking for "discriminatory" commentary in GPLv3 and in discussion on v2 ... and not finding it. It's your assertion ; defend it or drop it.
I goofed previously. I referred to my PDP-11's "magnificent 128MB of core memory" ; that was, of course, a typo for "128kB of core memory". About as much as could be fitted on one of the 8" diskettes.
Or, they died and didn't leave sufficient records for the 3 lethal hurricanes after they died to be interpreted.
But, but, isn't your penis - I mean your SUV - threatened by not having enough oil to lubricate it while 20 other men are watching? You must be one of those pinko-commie-preverts who'se wanting to interfere with the purity of precious bodily fluids. You've gottas fight to protect Colendar County's right to pollutes the whole globe. It's not as if anyone important liveses
outsides of Colander County, coulds it bes?
(Sorry trying internets-speeks today. I used a chainsaw on my vocab- rul-, grammar, wurdz-list and I's trying to brace the saw so I can perform my first lobotomy.)
Your average slashdotter is going to understand the concept of "fit for purpose".
I wrote the above. Then I thought "please dear FSM, let it be true that the average slashdotter is going to understand the concept of "fit for purpose" ; now that I pose the question, I'm less confident of the answer.
Oh, and this being an avalanche-related topic, perhaps I should have remembered to claim "frost pist(e)"?
OK, it looks a bit funny-peculiar, and the advert has obviously been translated into English (?) by a famous Taiwanese firm of technical translators (who only employ native speakers of Qetchua and !Kung for their Chinese-English translations). But other than that, what's funny? Lifejacket technology (well, I recognise it as a lifejacket) for inflating the airbag has been re-shaped to protect head and neck from impact and bending forces. I'm a bit dubious about the efficacy of the breathing tube arrangement, but I'm also pretty dubious about the efficacy of the "Airpocket" which I have to wear travelling to and from my work. I'm more dubious about this being successfully deployed (or maintained) by amateur skiers who only slide around on planks for a week or so per year.
Then again, I'd suspect that it's not aimed at amateur plankers, but at professional skiers - both those who shepherd the amateur plankers and those who have to ski to get to their work locations for a significant part of the year. Rescue workers would also be an obvious target market - no small number of people searching for avalanche victims have been hit by further avalanches from the same feeder slopes.
Nope, sorry, I don't see anything funny about this. Should I make the traditional rude comparisons between SlashDot's "editors" and a pair of fetid dingo's kidneys?