This is OT, regarding your sig: "There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now."
How am I supposed to use the Jury Box? Last time I went up, the judge asked me "how believable is a police officer's testimony?" I thought for a moment (likely my downfall) and then said "they're trained to observe, so probably a little better than the average, perhaps 55%, 60%?" I was dismissed as a juror.
Perhaps the case was one in which the judge wanted his friend to get off, and thus needed a jury of people who don't believe police officers. Or something else; I was dismissed, and I have a day job, so I have no idea how the case went.
GM/Ford/Chrysler manage to squeeze a few more MPG out of their gas-hogs, and then come out with new, more efficient models to balance out the hogs.
Thing is, my understanding is they're only going to squeeze a few more MPG out. I heard on NPR last night that although it did end up being only two MPG away from Obama's initial request, it also included lots of loopholes: a several-MPG "credit" for having "energy-efficient" LED headlights, and shit like that. (Wouldn't the "credit" in reality come from those headlights drawing less power, making the vehicle more efficient in actuality? I don't think these standards support truth...)
So the vehicles you buy in 2025 will not drive 54.5 miles for every gallon that you purchase.
This is why demonstrations are most often done en masse--one guy publicly violating the law is a nutjob or a nuisance; several hundred create a spectacle that is much harder to ignore
Also: it is harder to catch every one of the demonstrators, so there is some sense of "safety in numbers."
For the same reason, fish school. I really like that one, actually: the fish is not getting up close to his neighbor because he's being friendly; he's doing it so that when the predator comes, there's a greater chance of his neighbor gets eaten first.
We can learn a lot from nature.:)
(Similarly, the joke whose punchline is "I don't have to outrun the bear; I just have to outrun you.")
Yeah, I'm thinking of starting an organization, perhaps to be named "Fuck you, esse!" to hit both the Mexican drug war started by US policies, and also for the inverse LXPK-type reference. Anyway, the idea is this: produce devices that communicate with other devices, over whatever fucking infrastructure, with the communications being uninterceptable. Then, either laugh all the way to the bank -- or to the wrong side of the grass. (Which is why I'm no longer thinking of starting it.)
I watched "The Adjustment Bureau" recently, and they have a similar statement, although their "watchers/adjusters" were more supernatural than our (current) overlords. I liked that meme in the movie; however, your other responder is correct: technology will advance to a point where it is possible to watch everyone, 24/7, audio/video/multiple angles -- "and then there was nobody left to speak for me."
I now understand much better Celo Green's "Forget You"... (I consider it a work of art, even before knowing the Wal-Mart connection, simply because hearing the censored version on the radio, I sing the non-censored version to it, so it's somewhat viral.)
Oi, eu falo Portugese fluente (mais, de Brasil, nao de ai). I wanted to constructively say that the correct word is "designated". And also, that the root appears to be the same in both cases: "design"; it is something planned by a human, whether designing something (creating, drawing, etc); or designating something (classifying, demarcating, stating a time at which it will happen, etc).
Hi, I've found that in most menuing systems (Windows XP primarily, although I use Ubuntu exclusively at home and it works similarly), if you left-click the "menu button" to open the menu, and then left-click and drag on the menu, you'll end up choosing a menu item much more often than if you left-click to open the menu, then move the mouse, then left-click again.
I've found that often (30%?) when I do the latter, I'll end up clicking outside of the menu, and possibly causing a side-effect. Whereas, if I left-click and drag on the menu, if I happen to release "off-menu" it won't count it as a click; the menu just disappears, and I merely need to start the gesture over. Which is much better than clicking something unexpected, which might delete things... This behavior has provided me with reduced swearing at the computer; YMMV.
Not to affront the gods of XKCD, but: every time I see John Stuart, he's smooth. (Typo is a reference to an old episode where he got a book signed with his typoed name; Jon Stewart, Daily Show, for search engines and posterity/fart jokes.)
"The lunatic is on the grass" -- oh yeah, thanks for reminding me!:)
And, wow, lol at the fortune: "How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat? -- Pink Floyd" (The randomness of the universe continues to amaze me...)
With all due respect, yeah, okay, so your German translates to "Whereby one cannot speak, about that one must be quiet." So, you're saying I should shut up about things I cannot comprehend? I think it's really the other way around; the mystics should shut up about the things they can't comprehend, instead of inventing ridiculousness to show they have an answer, even if it's not provable (or probable).
Furthermore, science can explain the changes that happen within your brain when you experience religion. The opposite is not the case; this was the basis for my sig, which of course had to be reduced to fit into less than a tweet.
And I also thank my sibling respondent.
Also I love the weasel words, "all due respect", especially when one is crapping all over another; it's showing that "all due respect" is close to "zero respect".
Hi Alex, thanks. You might like another post of mine, the entirety of which was "you)fail)lisp" (in which I gave back the OP two closing parens that were left out of its post:) ).
Agreed, with above and also everything else you wrote. However: government should provide only a rating agency, not a sales preventative agency. In other words, government should be able to say, "Bob's chiropractic care is worse than a placebo". Government should not be able to say, "Bob can no longer practice chiropractic." There's a world of difference.
[...] the Church recognized that it probably didn't happen in 6 days as explained in Genesis. Something people must understand is that Genesis was written over 2500 years ago when scientific understanding what nothing compared to what we have today. The literary styles used back then were also quite different.
Yes, of course, because 2500 years ago they must have understood that the sun rising, and then falling, meant something other than a "day" to The Gods.
If man evolved from apes, then why do we still have apes? Why didn't all species evolve like man supposedly did?
Taking your question to the extreme, "Why do we still have bacteria?" Or, "Why do we still have minerals and vegetables, shouldn't it all be animal by now?" The answer is not all things evolve at the same time, and some things have found a "stable maximum" so they don't need to evolve to thrive in their (current) environment.
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Eventually we will have people comparing settlement offers with the cost of a hitman.
The old standard, "Never attempt to extort more money than it would cost to have you killed" fits nicely here.
I don't know what happened to Obama when he got elected, but all of the PR skill he demonstrated in the primaries seems to have evaporated.
I can field this one (see current sig): the Military Industrial Complex walked up to him and said, "play ball, or Kennedy."
This is OT, regarding your sig: "There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now."
How am I supposed to use the Jury Box? Last time I went up, the judge asked me "how believable is a police officer's testimony?" I thought for a moment (likely my downfall) and then said "they're trained to observe, so probably a little better than the average, perhaps 55%, 60%?" I was dismissed as a juror.
Perhaps the case was one in which the judge wanted his friend to get off, and thus needed a jury of people who don't believe police officers. Or something else; I was dismissed, and I have a day job, so I have no idea how the case went.
Halve the weight of every car, and you safe a lot of money on fuel, a lot of money on building the car, and you don't lose any safety.
I think you're going to need to halve the weight of every utility pole, mailbox, and wall if you're really going to say you don't lose any safety.
GM/Ford/Chrysler manage to squeeze a few more MPG out of their gas-hogs, and then come out with new, more efficient models to balance out the hogs.
Thing is, my understanding is they're only going to squeeze a few more MPG out. I heard on NPR last night that although it did end up being only two MPG away from Obama's initial request, it also included lots of loopholes: a several-MPG "credit" for having "energy-efficient" LED headlights, and shit like that. (Wouldn't the "credit" in reality come from those headlights drawing less power, making the vehicle more efficient in actuality? I don't think these standards support truth...)
So the vehicles you buy in 2025 will not drive 54.5 miles for every gallon that you purchase.
And in another fifty years how much money will NASA piss away?
Hopefully enough to deflect Apophis.
This is why demonstrations are most often done en masse--one guy publicly violating the law is a nutjob or a nuisance; several hundred create a spectacle that is much harder to ignore
Also: it is harder to catch every one of the demonstrators, so there is some sense of "safety in numbers."
For the same reason, fish school. I really like that one, actually: the fish is not getting up close to his neighbor because he's being friendly; he's doing it so that when the predator comes, there's a greater chance of his neighbor gets eaten first.
We can learn a lot from nature. :)
(Similarly, the joke whose punchline is "I don't have to outrun the bear; I just have to outrun you.")
Election machines are a worse system because accuracy and fairness of elections is not considered to be very important.
Exactly; the MIC is in charge, it doesn't matter who the meat votes in.
because your interpretation is totally what he meant instead of misspeaking like every one else on earth
There is truth in humor -- and also, often, in misstatements/Freudian slips.
Yeah, I'm thinking of starting an organization, perhaps to be named "Fuck you, esse!" to hit both the Mexican drug war started by US policies, and also for the inverse LXPK-type reference. Anyway, the idea is this: produce devices that communicate with other devices, over whatever fucking infrastructure, with the communications being uninterceptable. Then, either laugh all the way to the bank -- or to the wrong side of the grass. (Which is why I'm no longer thinking of starting it.)
I watched "The Adjustment Bureau" recently, and they have a similar statement, although their "watchers/adjusters" were more supernatural than our (current) overlords. I liked that meme in the movie; however, your other responder is correct: technology will advance to a point where it is possible to watch everyone, 24/7, audio/video/multiple angles -- "and then there was nobody left to speak for me."
Two years? I remember it as almost a decade ago, but sure, let's look it up: Wikipedia reports it was May 2006, so split the difference. :)
I now understand much better Celo Green's "Forget You"... (I consider it a work of art, even before knowing the Wal-Mart connection, simply because hearing the censored version on the radio, I sing the non-censored version to it, so it's somewhat viral.)
at designed times
Oi, eu falo Portugese fluente (mais, de Brasil, nao de ai). I wanted to constructively say that the correct word is "designated". And also, that the root appears to be the same in both cases: "design"; it is something planned by a human, whether designing something (creating, drawing, etc); or designating something (classifying, demarcating, stating a time at which it will happen, etc).
Cheers!
Or, "Buy ATI!"
Hi, I've found that in most menuing systems (Windows XP primarily, although I use Ubuntu exclusively at home and it works similarly), if you left-click the "menu button" to open the menu, and then left-click and drag on the menu, you'll end up choosing a menu item much more often than if you left-click to open the menu, then move the mouse, then left-click again.
I've found that often (30%?) when I do the latter, I'll end up clicking outside of the menu, and possibly causing a side-effect. Whereas, if I left-click and drag on the menu, if I happen to release "off-menu" it won't count it as a click; the menu just disappears, and I merely need to start the gesture over. Which is much better than clicking something unexpected, which might delete things... This behavior has provided me with reduced swearing at the computer; YMMV.
Not to affront the gods of XKCD, but: every time I see John Stuart, he's smooth. (Typo is a reference to an old episode where he got a book signed with his typoed name; Jon Stewart, Daily Show, for search engines and posterity/fart jokes.)
"The lunatic is on the grass" -- oh yeah, thanks for reminding me! :)
And, wow, lol at the fortune: "How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat? -- Pink Floyd" (The randomness of the universe continues to amaze me...)
Exactly. It's Futurama's claims of whalers on the moon that I suspect. (Impact hypothesis, from the wiki page, was originally proposed in 1946.)
Thanks, new friend. :)
With all due respect, yeah, okay, so your German translates to "Whereby one cannot speak, about that one must be quiet." So, you're saying I should shut up about things I cannot comprehend? I think it's really the other way around; the mystics should shut up about the things they can't comprehend, instead of inventing ridiculousness to show they have an answer, even if it's not provable (or probable).
Furthermore, science can explain the changes that happen within your brain when you experience religion. The opposite is not the case; this was the basis for my sig, which of course had to be reduced to fit into less than a tweet.
And I also thank my sibling respondent.
Also I love the weasel words, "all due respect", especially when one is crapping all over another; it's showing that "all due respect" is close to "zero respect".
Hi Alex, thanks. You might like another post of mine, the entirety of which was "you)fail)lisp" (in which I gave back the OP two closing parens that were left out of its post :) ).
"X(s) can't produce Y, and someone else thinks Z can produce Y?" You fail logic.
This. No one can be an expert on everything.
Agreed, with above and also everything else you wrote. However: government should provide only a rating agency, not a sales preventative agency. In other words, government should be able to say, "Bob's chiropractic care is worse than a placebo". Government should not be able to say, "Bob can no longer practice chiropractic." There's a world of difference.
[...] the Church recognized that it probably didn't happen in 6 days as explained in Genesis. Something people must understand is that Genesis was written over 2500 years ago when scientific understanding what nothing compared to what we have today. The literary styles used back then were also quite different.
Yes, of course, because 2500 years ago they must have understood that the sun rising, and then falling, meant something other than a "day" to The Gods.
If man evolved from apes, then why do we still have apes? Why didn't all species evolve like man supposedly did?
Taking your question to the extreme, "Why do we still have bacteria?" Or, "Why do we still have minerals and vegetables, shouldn't it all be animal by now?" The answer is not all things evolve at the same time, and some things have found a "stable maximum" so they don't need to evolve to thrive in their (current) environment.