Are you seriously saying that news sources in other countries (e.g., the BBC) are not biased toward a particular range of views?
Not at all - my comment was more about the level of partisanship in the USA being so strong in the general populace that complete strangers will accost you in public based on what they see you reading. Your point about New York not being the US is well taken- although each of the states has it's own flavor...
The occasional article on an unimportant topic might slip through, but I'm yet to find a news source that can be considered unbiased.
This. Sweden has one of the most educated populations in the world - Tertiary education costs something like 200 euros a year, and so university degrees are not just for the wealthy.
In New York, people will peg you as being a democrat or a republican based on what paper you happen to be reading on the subway. Some of them will get angry about it. Swedish society is far more civil.
This was my first reaction too. Who would have thought that a pudgy child dictator who hasn't even lost his baby fat yet could order a competent strike?
+1 to this. I've been using Zotero for the last 3 years or so - moved to it after lots of frustration trying to run Endnote in wine, and haven't looked back.
Zotero exports the bibtex format quite nicely, so I have very few problems using it with LaTeX either.
Perhaps you play by this "has to happen before noon" rule, but this year is the first I have ever heard of that, in 30 years of living in this country and fucking with people's head on April 1st.
I'd say this is a stupid and not widely-followed rule for this pseudo-holiday.
In many cultures, tradition dictates that the pranking period must expire at noon on April 1 and any jokes attempted after that hour will bring bad luck to the perpetrator. ...
Such victims are, however, entitled to "turn the tables" after the hour of noon with the retort: "April Fool's gone past...and you're the biggest fool at last!"
Google is your friend.
I don't even go in to work until noon: How am I going to offend and torment my coworkers if I can't prank them during our normal office hours?
Well normally I'd suggest pranking your friends and/or family - but having been exposed to your winning personality, I'm guessing you don't want to push too hard in that direction.
... crying over timing and being butthurt...
I'm not butthurt - though I did eat some damn hot chillies on Sunday. For the record, I have tight butthole.
Well, actually It is 11:15 pm, April 1st 2013 as I type this (Central Time Zone, USA.) So, you are incorrect.
Emphasis mine. Since both you and the person who modded me down don't seem to understand, I'll explain, and then repeat myself: am is before noon, pm is after noon.
April fool's pranks must be performed before noon on April 1st to be considered as such. It was not before noon on April 1 in any timezone when that story was posted.
At the time this story was posted, there was no place on earth were it was still April 1st, and also the morning of April 1st. Both are requirements for an April fool's prank to be considered as such.
"jokes" that try to reduce human beings to white meat
Now, it totally eluded me how "jokes that try to reduce human beings to poultry breast meat" may gain a sexual connotation
Actually - I might know this! I think it is a pop culture reference - I remember that there was a tv pork campaign a long time ago with the slogans "get some pork on your fork" and "pork: the other white meat" which made use of the pork/porking, fork/forking double entendres in sexual and humorous ways. I found one of them here . But there were many more. Hopefully these commercials didn't run at PyCon anywhere - I'm guessing they would have been looked upon poorly.
But now that you say white meat is poultry meat, and all mammals are red meat, reducing humans to white meat seems like a like we might be stretching this pun to its breaking point.
>> If someone can come up with a disparaging name to call a female that is not sexist, please suggest one,
Since you asked: Jerk or asshole both fit the bill.
I don't think it is grammatically correct to use "jerk" to insult a woman. I believe jerk is short for jerk-off - which is a description of male masturbation. Women do not have a penis to jerk on when performing masturbation, so it cannot apply to them.
I don't know of a female specific term for masturbation in english - but if there was one, I am sure it would be a great insult!
"jokes" that try to reduce human beings to white meat.
Isn't this a bit racial? Akin to suggesting that attempting to reduce human beings to dark meat is not an issue and would be as acceptable as the jokes someone may not like but it's Ok to tell them?
OK, I'm confused how this could be considered racial. I thought all humans had white meat, and it was just the skin color that changed between races. Can anyone who has fried up a non-european human recently comment on the color of the meat? I don't have any experience in this area myself.
The current model Prius has an option for rooftop solar panels. On a very sunny day, they will generate just enough power to run the fan for the air conditioner. Note that is not nearly enough power for the air conditioner itself, let alone actually moving the car.
So I agree, we are not going to see solar powered cars any time soon.
Don't pretend you've never used youtube. If that's the case, why do you even need a color monitor or a graphics card?
Never said I didn't use youtube, but since you ask, I've certainly never watched an entire episode of a tv show using youtube.
The main reason I need a graphics card and a colour monitor at work is that the 3d mechanical and optical simulation software I use to design stuff requires an openGL capable graphics card to display some types of results.
I generally don't use my computer to watch video - I have a nice big flat screen tv at home to do that.
Yep, maybe I'm just old, but I've never used any of "Hulu, Netflix, Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Roku, iTunes, smartphone, tablet" to watch tv. I don't know who Hannah Horvath is (and no I'm not going to google it, and not interested in anyone responding to this post to enlighten me about who she is), I've never watched an episode of Downton Abbey, ever visited Tumblr, and I don't have a twitter account. Also, I have no idea what a "kibitz with Facebook friends" is.
because you're(assuming) stupid enough to buy the shit US operators sell you on partial payment plans on their quirky networks they like to choose quirky tech for so that it's harder for you to switch operators and harder to buy phones from open market.
Big assumption! it's been over 10 years since I last worked/lived in the US. I don't have the US sgs 3. and I always buy my phones unlocked and outright, not from carriers.
You are right on about the stuff you said about the stuff US telcos peddle though.
I use this every day - and most people in my office who see how useful it is also convert.
I'm not interested in the social integration/people following me/me following people that things like google takeout supply, just let me read my feeds in piece!
'I like the assumption that employees will do the right thing,' writes Alexis Madrigal. 'The swipe means that everyone's requests are tracked and I'm sure some algorithm somewhere is constantly sorting the data to see if anyone has pulled 10 sets of headphones out of the system.'
I do not think that the word "assumption" means what Alexis thinks it means.
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I guessing the wikipedia page on Chechnya is going to see an massive increase in the number of hits it receives...
Are you seriously saying that news sources in other countries (e.g., the BBC) are not biased toward a particular range of views?
Not at all - my comment was more about the level of partisanship in the USA being so strong in the general populace that complete strangers will accost you in public based on what they see you reading. Your point about New York not being the US is well taken- although each of the states has it's own flavor...
The occasional article on an unimportant topic might slip through, but I'm yet to find a news source that can be considered unbiased.
The mentality between countries are enormous.
This. Sweden has one of the most educated populations in the world - Tertiary education costs something like 200 euros a year, and so university degrees are not just for the wealthy.
In New York, people will peg you as being a democrat or a republican based on what paper you happen to be reading on the subway. Some of them will get angry about it. Swedish society is far more civil.
This was my first reaction too. Who would have thought that a pudgy child dictator who hasn't even lost his baby fat yet could order a competent strike?
+1 to this. I've been using Zotero for the last 3 years or so - moved to it after lots of frustration trying to run Endnote in wine, and haven't looked back.
Zotero exports the bibtex format quite nicely, so I have very few problems using it with LaTeX either.
Heh - recently in the UK - 1701 people applied for 8 barista jobs.
Perhaps you play by this "has to happen before noon" rule, but this year is the first I have ever heard of that, in 30 years of living in this country and fucking with people's head on April 1st.
I'd say this is a stupid and not widely-followed rule for this pseudo-holiday.
I suggest you educate yourself then:
In many cultures, tradition dictates that the pranking period must expire at noon on April 1 and any jokes attempted after that hour will bring bad luck to the perpetrator.
...
Such victims are, however, entitled to "turn the tables" after the hour of noon with the retort: "April Fool's gone past...and you're the biggest fool at last!"
Google is your friend.
I don't even go in to work until noon: How am I going to offend and torment my coworkers if I can't prank them during our normal office hours?
Well normally I'd suggest pranking your friends and/or family - but having been exposed to your winning personality, I'm guessing you don't want to push too hard in that direction.
... crying over timing and being butthurt ...
I'm not butthurt - though I did eat some damn hot chillies on Sunday. For the record, I have tight butthole.
Well, actually It is 11:15 pm, April 1st 2013 as I type this (Central Time Zone, USA.) So, you are incorrect.
Emphasis mine. Since both you and the person who modded me down don't seem to understand, I'll explain, and then repeat myself: am is before noon, pm is after noon.
April fool's pranks must be performed before noon on April 1st to be considered as such. It was not before noon on April 1 in any timezone when that story was posted.
So it is no longer an April fool's prank.
In some parts of the world it's still April 1st.
At the time this story was posted, there was no place on earth were it was still April 1st, and also the morning of April 1st. Both are requirements for an April fool's prank to be considered as such.
"jokes" that try to reduce human beings to white meat
Now, it totally eluded me how "jokes that try to reduce human beings to poultry breast meat" may gain a sexual connotation
Actually - I might know this! I think it is a pop culture reference - I remember that there was a tv pork campaign a long time ago with the slogans "get some pork on your fork" and "pork: the other white meat" which made use of the pork/porking, fork/forking double entendres in sexual and humorous ways. I found one of them here . But there were many more. Hopefully these commercials didn't run at PyCon anywhere - I'm guessing they would have been looked upon poorly.
But now that you say white meat is poultry meat, and all mammals are red meat, reducing humans to white meat seems like a like we might be stretching this pun to its breaking point.
>> If someone can come up with a disparaging name to call a female that is not sexist, please suggest one, Since you asked: Jerk or asshole both fit the bill.
I don't think it is grammatically correct to use "jerk" to insult a woman. I believe jerk is short for jerk-off - which is a description of male masturbation. Women do not have a penis to jerk on when performing masturbation, so it cannot apply to them.
I don't know of a female specific term for masturbation in english - but if there was one, I am sure it would be a great insult!
"jokes" that try to reduce human beings to white meat.
Isn't this a bit racial? Akin to suggesting that attempting to reduce human beings to dark meat is not an issue and would be as acceptable as the jokes someone may not like but it's Ok to tell them?
OK, I'm confused how this could be considered racial. I thought all humans had white meat, and it was just the skin color that changed between races. Can anyone who has fried up a non-european human recently comment on the color of the meat? I don't have any experience in this area myself.
The I.T. crowd star trek parody got the uniforms right...
The current model Prius has an option for rooftop solar panels. On a very sunny day, they will generate just enough power to run the fan for the air conditioner. Note that is not nearly enough power for the air conditioner itself, let alone actually moving the car.
So I agree, we are not going to see solar powered cars any time soon.
Don't pretend you've never used youtube. If that's the case, why do you even need a color monitor or a graphics card?
Never said I didn't use youtube, but since you ask, I've certainly never watched an entire episode of a tv show using youtube.
The main reason I need a graphics card and a colour monitor at work is that the 3d mechanical and optical simulation software I use to design stuff requires an openGL capable graphics card to display some types of results.
I generally don't use my computer to watch video - I have a nice big flat screen tv at home to do that.
Yep, maybe I'm just old, but I've never used any of "Hulu, Netflix, Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Roku, iTunes, smartphone, tablet" to watch tv. I don't know who Hannah Horvath is (and no I'm not going to google it, and not interested in anyone responding to this post to enlighten me about who she is), I've never watched an episode of Downton Abbey, ever visited Tumblr, and I don't have a twitter account. Also, I have no idea what a "kibitz with Facebook friends" is.
because you're(assuming) stupid enough to buy the shit US operators sell you on partial payment plans on their quirky networks they like to choose quirky tech for so that it's harder for you to switch operators and harder to buy phones from open market.
Big assumption! it's been over 10 years since I last worked/lived in the US. I don't have the US sgs 3. and I always buy my phones unlocked and outright, not from carriers.
You are right on about the stuff you said about the stuff US telcos peddle though.
sgs 3 is better than iphone5 in that chart
The international sgs 3 is better, the US sgs 3 isn't.
I was never sure why samsung put a slower soc in the phones that went to the US.
I was with you up until you mentioned the slivovitza. That old plum brandy is the devil.
With a five inch screen it's a small tablet! I wouldn't mind having one, but I'd still need a phone, my pocket isn't that big.
In terms of size - the S4 is actually smaller and lighter than the S3 - even though the S3 only has a 4.8" screen.
S3: 136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm, 133 g
S4: 136.6 x 69.8 x 7.9 mm, 130 g
The screen runs closer to the edges, and the buttons at the bottom are slimmer. All in all, some pretty neat engineering.
*peace*, damn.
Signed.
I use this every day - and most people in my office who see how useful it is also convert.
I'm not interested in the social integration/people following me/me following people that things like google takeout supply, just let me read my feeds in piece!
'I like the assumption that employees will do the right thing,' writes Alexis Madrigal. 'The swipe means that everyone's requests are tracked and I'm sure some algorithm somewhere is constantly sorting the data to see if anyone has pulled 10 sets of headphones out of the system.'
I do not think that the word "assumption" means what Alexis thinks it means.
You mean I didn't just win £750,000 in a lottery I never heard of and never entered????
Oblig. Coupling:
"When god gave us our asses, he had to stick them round the back just so that we wouldn't sit and stare at them all day..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdkfmUhZRh8