The Yankees threw out the imperialistic Limeys but kept their imperial system. Hilarious isn't it? At least I think so. But calling it a dumb system is rather a bit ignorant. Even the blue collar workers without any formal education are constantly calculating from 3/8th of an inch into feet, furlong per gallon into to pints per yard, barrel to firkin and so on. Compared to that shifting zeroes around is ab-so-lute childsplay! I think keeping imperial is just their way of saying: Hey dumbass, when you are past 8th grade give me a call and we'll do some real calculations!
Nevertheless I think that since nearly everyone uses metric... meh, why not them too huh?
I think that is true, no-one cares. NO ONE! If you're a tie, your job is (amongst many other things of course) making sure the people underneath you can rattle out the mission statement at your command. If you are working for a company and you earn a penny or two above minimum wage, you do what you are requested. That is:"Do your job and memorise the mission statement" so that if a tie is coming to you asking about it you are able to drone-it-up". You keep the tie happy, who in turn keeps the boss happy, you keep your job, everyone wins. And the mission statement? That is a statement like any other. Like: Stop cancer now Make love not war Do no evil Is this helping the company? (office space, the only film never seen by bosses it seems, or they did and they have their own:"is this pissing off my staff enough?")
To dissect the mission statement and stay on-topic:
1 > Open Governance & Free Software Isn't that what one can expect from a FOSS project? Really, is this news?
2 > Inclusivity and innovation That is inherent to FOSS imho, If you want something and it isn't there, you either make it yourself or ask the community. Big chance that you're not the only one wanting this, and so people help out other people.
3 > Common Ownership. GNU / GPL it is all there, we dont need this statement for that.
4 > End-User Focus to ensure our work is useful to all people. GOTO 2
And yes I have combined some, a technique I borrowed from George Carlin discussing the 10 commandments. Actually now I think about it, there is a nice mission statement that people who think up mission statement's should use:"DON'T!!!"
Language is wrong to. It should either be: Требуются: хакеры для крупномасштабных нападений на американские банки (Russian) Or 通缉：黑客大规模攻击美国银行 (Chinese)
You are right, maybe they are not as visual like us and they are more into smelling. And their interplanetary travel started with a new invention. It was made by a brilliant scientist and when he finished the new invention he asked his crew to come ponder upon it... > This is my new invention! I call it the smelloscope! With this device you can smell the planets and stars! > I hope I don't have to smell Urectum. Heheheh... > We changed the name of Urectum because of the stupid Urectum jokes. Now it is called Uranus.
Or maybe they don't have humour and the whole dialogue above is done without the Hehehe part.
That way they will be tricked into thinking that we look just like them and hopefully they wont be as hostile as some movies predict. Anyway, I for one, welcome our new gold prospecting overlords!
Hehehe! That reminds me of the fortune teller who grabbed hold of me on a busy market in Varanassi (India) this is basically what was said: I can see the future! Shall I predict yours? Ehh, are you really good? Yes sir! Then why didn't you predict me saying no to you? But I am very good sir! Yes, yes thank you and have a pleasant day!
Man he seemed surprised... It is always the same isn't it? Maybe it's a flaw in the educational system. Maybe we should have a fortune teller at the end of high-school as a sort of extra-exam. Option A: I see in the lines of your hand that you are being put back to the first year... Oh, no! Can that be true? But I studied so hard! (this is the one who should be put back to learn a little more)
Option B: I see in the lines of your hand that you are being put back to the first year... And I saw from the moment I stepped in here that you are a scam! (congrats, off to university with you!)
Well, not in my personal observations. about a quarter of the people from the US I know speak Spanish (to certain degree), about 50% of the people I met from Britain only speak English and about 95% of the French I met only speak French. Again, I do not judge that, it is a mere observation and then only a personal one.
I do hope that all the papers are published in English so the rest of the world can benefit from it as well. Usually the French are really not that proficient in English, and I am not talking about an accent, I am talking about not being able to communicate in English at all (or worse, they can but utterly refuse to do so altogether). With English there is a greater base of people who can benefit from the information.
B.t.w. I do not blame the French for not being able to communicate in any other language then their own. It is just an observation.
>> In Australia, New Zealand, Holland and quite a few other places, cycling is quite popular despite mandatory helmet laws. If by Holland you mean the Kingdom of the Netherlands you are wrong. There are no law's that oblige people to wear bicycle helmets in the Netherlands. Australia, New Zealand and quite a few others... I don't know about.
> In none of the countries where cycling is common it is required to where helmets and in every country where helmets are mandatory, cycling isn't very popular.
This is a correlation, not necessarily a causality. There is (for example) also the cultural difference to take into account. In (large parts of) Yurp nearly everyone had a bicycle, long before cars were common. So drivers were (from the beginning, say the 30's onwards) used to have cyclists and little mopeds / scooters sharing their road. In the US this was different.
Besides, I wonder if regulation alone would discourage people. Are there less people using a car since seatbelts and/or head restraints became mandatory? Although I must say that mandatory helmets would make me sell my bike (and I am a vivid cyclist)! FU to anyone trying to shove that down my throat!
To grandparent: >> It might take a generation to get fully adjusted [...]
I HOPE NOT!!! First of all a good driver is one who anticipates on all kind of situations. Besides, if a school is build somewhere (and there is the possibility of children darting off onto the road)... and it takes a whole generation before drivers are adjusted to the new situation in the neighbourhood... mmmnot so good!
I was thinking in the same lines I guess. And if it IS a solid physical body that is spinning, then one could suggest that there is slightly more gravity at the 'poles' and less at the 'equator' because of the spin (and the related centrifugal force) right? But we all learned that gravity should be equal at a black hole everywhere, otherwise it would collapse. So how does that work out? Or am I making a some sort of an obvious mistake here. (that is well possible)
1 - From the moment you wake up, and every hour after that, fire a blank from a firearm of choice 3 inches away from each ear. It goes without saying that it should be fired at a safe spot, not your forehead. 2 - Reverse the noise frequency's so it cancels out the noise. 3 - try meditating, if you go to a Vipanassa retreat and learn how to do some correct meditation you will be able to shut it that way. 4 - Go and live in New Delhi, Calcutta or Cairo for a year. After that your city will sound like an oasis of peaceful tranquillity (those cities have made it obligatory to have cruisecontroll... on the horns) 5 - combine 1, 2, 3 and 4 6 - if this doesn't work maybe moving to a quiet forest is an option, but mind the animals, they can be quite loud as well when mating season is about to start
Oh there is a canal at the other end of the street, I'll see if I can arrange a nice gator / crock for the attendees! It is supposed to be really like omg cool and whatever! http://weirdthings.com/2012/09/hot-new-kids-party-trend-live-alligator-pool-party/ But bigger=better of course! Here is a pica of me at the last party.... http://i.qkme.me/35tr21.jpg If it turns out to be too difficult, maybe sharks with frikkin lasers attached to their heads are a nice option.
The goal here is to find the future-hand-bag and get it out of the water. First one wins. Of course, this being a/. party tools, apparatus, gizmo's, gadgets and pick-up's with winches are more than welcome! (TNT... mmnot so cool)
At the junction Kerklaan - Grachtstraat there is a little café called 'de Bres'. Everyone from the whole of Yurp is welcome! Come and drink beers, and celebrate the anniversary of our digital overlords from across the pond! Bring some good vibes and a smile, and all will be fine!
Actually they did, but it was too little too late. http://www.rtvnoord.nl/artikel/artikel.asp?p=113882 (Dutch), translation here: http://translate.google.nl/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rtvnoord.nl%2Fartikel%2Fartikel.asp%3Fp%3D113882&act=url
Fun-fact: In order to confuse the youth, the municipality removed some of the streetsigns. They probably thought that a 20 year old with a smart-phone (with GPS, broadband internet to go to openstreetmaps / googlemaps) would be COMPLETELY lost without streetsigns XD
Sounds a little like the ProjetX we had here in Holland. A girl accidentally asked the whole FB community to join her on her birthday-party. She forgot to mention that it was for her friends and family only. Thousands gathered in a small village (pop. 20.000), rioted, plundered stores, burned cars, damage ~ 1 million total. A quick search on "projectX Haren" should suffice for more info.
USN-AC (United States Nasie?) I said PREFERABLY, I didn't say NECESSARILY. It depends on the mission I guess. Secondly, if you don't know how many carriers you got in stock, it doesn't make you credible now does it? We are talking carriers, not something completely trivial. A quick look-up on wikipedia tells this: 11 carriers, 9 vessels that can double as a carrier. You do the math... All that I have to put up with here... Lord have USS Mercy on me!
Or the film-industry... I for one welcome our now completely boneless overlords, without an ethical question whatsoever!
Actually I bought the one used in the matrix! It is a big clunker of a pod of some kind, and in there there is a guy called Zjeeanoo Reevez making my meter spin the wrong way round (the good one for me that is) and ever now and then he grows a nice leather jacket for me! And sunglasses in the summer as well!
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The Yankees threw out the imperialistic Limeys but kept their imperial system. Hilarious isn't it? At least I think so.
But calling it a dumb system is rather a bit ignorant. Even the blue collar workers without any formal education are constantly calculating from 3/8th of an inch into feet, furlong per gallon into to pints per yard, barrel to firkin and so on. Compared to that shifting zeroes around is ab-so-lute childsplay!
I think keeping imperial is just their way of saying: Hey dumbass, when you are past 8th grade give me a call and we'll do some real calculations!
Nevertheless I think that since nearly everyone uses metric... meh, why not them too huh?
I think that is true, no-one cares. NO ONE! If you're a tie, your job is (amongst many other things of course) making sure the people underneath you can rattle out the mission statement at your command. If you are working for a company and you earn a penny or two above minimum wage, you do what you are requested. That is:"Do your job and memorise the mission statement" so that if a tie is coming to you asking about it you are able to drone-it-up". You keep the tie happy, who in turn keeps the boss happy, you keep your job, everyone wins. And the mission statement? That is a statement like any other. Like:
Stop cancer now
Make love not war
Do no evil
Is this helping the company? (office space, the only film never seen by bosses it seems, or they did and they have their own:"is this pissing off my staff enough?")
To dissect the mission statement and stay on-topic:
1 > Open Governance & Free Software
Isn't that what one can expect from a FOSS project? Really, is this news?
2 > Inclusivity and innovation
That is inherent to FOSS imho, If you want something and it isn't there, you either make it yourself or ask the community. Big chance that you're not the only one wanting this, and so people help out other people.
3 > Common Ownership.
GNU / GPL it is all there, we dont need this statement for that.
4 > End-User Focus to ensure our work is useful to all people.
GOTO 2
And yes I have combined some, a technique I borrowed from George Carlin discussing the 10 commandments.
Actually now I think about it, there is a nice mission statement that people who think up mission statement's should use:"DON'T!!!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O
Anything else?
Hmmm... Cyrillic & Simplified Chinese dont show quite as I expected :-(
Language is wrong to. It should either be:
;-)
Требуются: хакеры для крупномасштабных нападений на американские банки (Russian)
Or
通缉：黑客大规模攻击美国银行 (Chinese)
These guy's can help you out
And that is all I have to say about this....
You are right, maybe they are not as visual like us and they are more into smelling. And their interplanetary travel started with a new invention. It was made by a brilliant scientist and when he finished the new invention he asked his crew to come ponder upon it...
> This is my new invention! I call it the smelloscope! With this device you can smell the planets and stars!
> I hope I don't have to smell Urectum. Heheheh...
> We changed the name of Urectum because of the stupid Urectum jokes. Now it is called Uranus.
Or maybe they don't have humour and the whole dialogue above is done without the Hehehe part.
That way they will be tricked into thinking that we look just like them and hopefully they wont be as hostile as some movies predict.
Anyway, I for one, welcome our new gold prospecting overlords!
Hehehe! That reminds me of the fortune teller who grabbed hold of me on a busy market in Varanassi (India) this is basically what was said:
I can see the future! Shall I predict yours?
Ehh, are you really good?
Yes sir!
Then why didn't you predict me saying no to you?
But I am very good sir!
Yes, yes thank you and have a pleasant day!
Man he seemed surprised... It is always the same isn't it? Maybe it's a flaw in the educational system. Maybe we should have a fortune teller at the end of high-school as a sort of extra-exam.
Option A:
I see in the lines of your hand that you are being put back to the first year...
Oh, no! Can that be true? But I studied so hard! (this is the one who should be put back to learn a little more)
Option B:
I see in the lines of your hand that you are being put back to the first year...
And I saw from the moment I stepped in here that you are a scam! (congrats, off to university with you!)
>> I lost that 4 digit userID [...]
,-)
You were Phoenix6666 back then?
Well, not in my personal observations. about a quarter of the people from the US I know speak Spanish (to certain degree), about 50% of the people I met from Britain only speak English and about 95% of the French I met only speak French. Again, I do not judge that, it is a mere observation and then only a personal one.
I do hope that all the papers are published in English so the rest of the world can benefit from it as well.
Usually the French are really not that proficient in English, and I am not talking about an accent, I am talking about not being able to communicate in English at all (or worse, they can but utterly refuse to do so altogether).
With English there is a greater base of people who can benefit from the information.
B.t.w. I do not blame the French for not being able to communicate in any other language then their own. It is just an observation.
>> In Australia, New Zealand, Holland and quite a few other places, cycling is quite popular despite mandatory helmet laws.
If by Holland you mean the Kingdom of the Netherlands you are wrong. There are no law's that oblige people to wear bicycle helmets in the Netherlands.
Australia, New Zealand and quite a few others... I don't know about.
> In none of the countries where cycling is common it is required to where helmets and in every country where helmets are mandatory, cycling isn't very popular.
This is a correlation, not necessarily a causality.
There is (for example) also the cultural difference to take into account. In (large parts of) Yurp nearly everyone had a bicycle, long before cars were common. So drivers were (from the beginning, say the 30's onwards) used to have cyclists and little mopeds / scooters sharing their road. In the US this was different.
Besides, I wonder if regulation alone would discourage people. Are there less people using a car since seatbelts and/or head restraints became mandatory?
Although I must say that mandatory helmets would make me sell my bike (and I am a vivid cyclist)! FU to anyone trying to shove that down my throat!
To grandparent:
>> It might take a generation to get fully adjusted [...]
I HOPE NOT!!! First of all a good driver is one who anticipates on all kind of situations. Besides, if a school is build somewhere (and there is the possibility of children darting off onto the road)... and it takes a whole generation before drivers are adjusted to the new situation in the neighbourhood... mmmnot so good!
I was thinking in the same lines I guess.
And if it IS a solid physical body that is spinning, then one could suggest that there is slightly more gravity at the 'poles' and less at the 'equator' because of the spin (and the related centrifugal force) right? But we all learned that gravity should be equal at a black hole everywhere, otherwise it would collapse.
So how does that work out?
Or am I making a some sort of an obvious mistake here. (that is well possible)
--
1 - From the moment you wake up, and every hour after that, fire a blank from a firearm of choice 3 inches away from each ear. It goes without saying that it should be fired at a safe spot, not your forehead.
2 - Reverse the noise frequency's so it cancels out the noise.
3 - try meditating, if you go to a Vipanassa retreat and learn how to do some correct meditation you will be able to shut it that way.
4 - Go and live in New Delhi, Calcutta or Cairo for a year. After that your city will sound like an oasis of peaceful tranquillity (those cities have made it obligatory to have cruisecontroll... on the horns)
5 - combine 1, 2, 3 and 4
6 - if this doesn't work maybe moving to a quiet forest is an option, but mind the animals, they can be quite loud as well when mating season is about to start
Oh there is a canal at the other end of the street, I'll see if I can arrange a nice gator / crock for the attendees!
/. party tools, apparatus, gizmo's, gadgets and pick-up's with winches are more than welcome! (TNT... mmnot so cool)
It is supposed to be really like omg cool and whatever! http://weirdthings.com/2012/09/hot-new-kids-party-trend-live-alligator-pool-party/
But bigger=better of course! Here is a pica of me at the last party.... http://i.qkme.me/35tr21.jpg
If it turns out to be too difficult, maybe sharks with frikkin lasers attached to their heads are a nice option.
The goal here is to find the future-hand-bag and get it out of the water. First one wins.
Of course, this being a
At the junction Kerklaan - Grachtstraat there is a little café called 'de Bres'.
Everyone from the whole of Yurp is welcome!
Come and drink beers, and celebrate the anniversary of our digital overlords from across the pond!
Bring some good vibes and a smile, and all will be fine!
Search under 'other' in the sign-up page.
Actually they did, but it was too little too late.
http://www.rtvnoord.nl/artikel/artikel.asp?p=113882 (Dutch), translation here: http://translate.google.nl/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rtvnoord.nl%2Fartikel%2Fartikel.asp%3Fp%3D113882&act=url
Fun-fact: In order to confuse the youth, the municipality removed some of the streetsigns. They probably thought that a 20 year old with a smart-phone (with GPS, broadband internet to go to openstreetmaps / googlemaps) would be COMPLETELY lost without streetsigns XD
Sounds a little like the ProjetX we had here in Holland. A girl accidentally asked the whole FB community to join her on her birthday-party. She forgot to mention that it was for her friends and family only.
Thousands gathered in a small village (pop. 20.000), rioted, plundered stores, burned cars, damage ~ 1 million total.
A quick search on "projectX Haren" should suffice for more info.
On the guy... that is well inconvenient mate!
USN-AC (United States Nasie?) I said PREFERABLY, I didn't say NECESSARILY. It depends on the mission I guess.
Secondly, if you don't know how many carriers you got in stock, it doesn't make you credible now does it? We are talking carriers, not something completely trivial.
A quick look-up on wikipedia tells this: 11 carriers, 9 vessels that can double as a carrier. You do the math...
All that I have to put up with here... Lord have USS Mercy on me!
Not?
mutated ill-tempered sea bass wont do!
TFA says it is done with LASERS!
So bring! In! The! SHARKS!
Bring in the sharks!
As someone already mentioned in the comments at this article: saying 'look it up' is not the same as an argument.
References or it didn't happen!
Or the film-industry...
I for one welcome our now completely boneless overlords, without an ethical question whatsoever!
Actually I bought the one used in the matrix! It is a big clunker of a pod of some kind, and in there there is a guy called Zjeeanoo Reevez making my meter spin the wrong way round (the good one for me that is) and ever now and then he grows a nice leather jacket for me! And sunglasses in the summer as well!