But... but... it's easier to remember when I get lumber that I need 2x4 boards than to remember to ask for 50.8x101.6....... or if I go grocery shopping, it's much easier to remember a pound of butter than 453.592 grams of butter....
Or a gallon of milk instead of 3.78541 liters....
Sheesh, I just don't understand how people can stand to use metric measurements for everything...
... the slippery slope argument is a logical fallacy.
Not if the slope actually is slippery, but the slipperiness of the slope needs to be shown, not just asserted.
Humor: If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time. --Thomas De Quincey, "Second Paper on Murder"
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> she is claiming a "right" which does not exist.
Progressives and liberals of various flavors have been paving the way for that for a long, long time.
But you'll be able to get by on 6 Rubles per day.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...
Yep. Proprietary seeds are the VxWorks of agriculture.
We need RTEMS kernels.
Nudes for Nerds! Stuff That Matters!
....so lets take advantage of that with a Super PAC.
Sounds legit.
Exactly!
No need for a girlfriend...
The wikipedia article uses lots of words to explain that a "meme" is just the same thing that used to be known as a "fad."
Well then, the 2nd phase of the project will be to outlaw manually driven cars.
... and plunged it deep into the VAX.
I just realized the article is TL;DR.
I think what that really means, is that Wyoming is a tad bit colder than California in the winter...
Whoosh.
"If you can't stand the (male-dominated workplace) heat, go back to the kitchen."
It's a play on the earlier saying, sure.
Yes, yuarite.
Meanwhile, the rest of us can whine about how "unfair" Facebook is to others who would like to use fake names.
The one thing most people won't do, no matter how pissed off they are, is quit Facebook... and Facebook knows that.
The great thing about standards are that there are so many to choose from!
But... but... it's easier to remember when I get lumber that I need 2x4 boards than to remember to ask for 50.8x101.6 .... ... or if I go grocery shopping, it's much easier to remember a pound of butter than 453.592 grams of butter....
Or a gallon of milk instead of 3.78541 liters....
Sheesh, I just don't understand how people can stand to use metric measurements for everything...
The metric system is a crutch for people who can't do any math except moving decimal points...
1) Those that use the Metric System; and
2) Those that have landed a man on the Moon.
Well, dammit!
Drawing conclusions from raw data is hard work. Whaddya think we have politicians for?
I just wanna watch TV and play video games, and read Slashdot...
> Maybe scientists would be friendlier if the 'average American' wasn't a proctologic habersashery.
Maybe the average American would be more trusting of scientists if scientists didn't think of the average American in this way.
> If they don't believe the science, then by the very definition they are not scientifically literate.
I see. Science is a faith-based system that you either believe or don't.
"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM."
> probably consumer protection in some way.
You mean estabished dealer protection.
de facto controller of all government land that isn't under direct and immediate control of another agency
I thought that was the BLM.
Not if the slope actually is slippery, but the slipperiness of the slope needs to be shown, not just asserted.
Humor:
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time.
--Thomas De Quincey, "Second Paper on Murder"