It's not okay to be 250 lbs and 5'4" unless you're a gorilla.
I guess they would say that a doctor who points out how unhealthy it is would be accused of fat-shaming too. We are in an obesity epidemic. Fat-shaming is needed, just as in the past shaming smokers worked. Ditto for shaming racists. Obesity is ugly and smelly and a huge health risk. If fat-shaming is what it takes, I for one welcome our fat-shaming overlords.
So basically push out and marginalise everyone who doesn't subscribe to your way of thinking and doing things? That's shameful and you should stop! Seriously, stop it, let people get on and worry about their own lives, you don't need to tell everyone what is best nor do you even know.
To be fair, assuming no race conditions, we'd never know if they took us offline. We could be running then stopping and running then stopping, and as long as the state was preserved, we'd never know (being part of that state).
"stop the world, I want to get off" just became a real thing...
So basically what you're saying is when the world has a problem, turn it off and on again.
It's not that QI is shit, it is actually quite interesting. And he was awesome in Blackadder. It's just his recent success has really gone to his head and he's just become a smug twat.
Seriously, ever since he got that show QI he seems to think he's somehow the most intelligent, wise and interesting person there is. He needs to just shut up and fuck off because no one cares.
Why are they still spending money on this. My second was "Wow, the thousands of man hours" of mechanical or electrical engineering, physics, archaeology, graphic design, and several other -ologies that went into producing this. My third thought was how much expertise went into this and how little of it will be passed,due to the amazing level of detail, along to future projects. My fourth though was I should of logged in instead of ACing this, my last AC was +5 informative.
Yes a nerd version would have been jack and his hand. And it would have the nerd satisfying appeal that they'd both die at the end.
Yeah, but a version filled with nerds probably would've fixed the ship and been on their way within an hour. Or at least had everyone think, this ship is slowly sinking and there aren't enough lifeboats, maybe I'd better go find something that floats.
Why not, the company is acting antagonistically against them. The only people who benefit if the workers remain quiet is the company.
Actually, the primary people who benefit when expensive workers are replaced by cheaper workers are customers. That should be of particular concern in health care, where costs are through the roof.
Or what will happen is you get a bunch of people who don't know what they're doing replacing people who do, then sooner or later you're going to go in for a broken arm and come out with a rectal exam.
Maybe the aliens cut out the feed themselves. Maybe they're now in control of NASA. Maybe the invasion.. is beginning..
Next time one gets back their movements will be...off and they'll seem a bit weird. We'll just say oh they've been in space then BAM giant bug monster eating everyone!
- NASA has enough money to pay someone to watch the feed, their hand hovering over a giant "SHUT IT ALL DOWN" button. They don't
...
When you start to think about it even a little bit the likelihood that it's real, live, true alien visitors and not just some kind of weird light reflection, space debris, or whatever is vanishingly small.
(...which is exactly what they WOULD say, isn't it...)
Unless it's government mandated and NASA want the secret to get out! How else to explain how they could fuck up such a trivial job so often......mind.....blown (I wish I could insert that picture of bill and ted whoah face)
Meh, the world is product of the plot. The only things really different in this world are the aliens and the floating mountains. Okay I'll give you they all look stunning but the main aliens are just tall thin blue people, the animals all have some extra legs or whatever because aliens, they can communicate with animals because nature is great so they invent this ponytail dick interface thing. People were like wtf are these floating mountains all about so they say 'oh they're filled with this element, superconductor and proximity to gas giant makes them float or something. We won't mention this in the film because we'd need an hour long physics lecture to try and explain it, nope it just looks cool, leave it at that.'
They built a pretty world to go with the rehashed plot and thought that would be enough.
Now they might try putting out music that didn't suck. Seriously, today's twerk-a-licious and computer generated, autotuned stuff makes 1960's bubblegum music and disco look good.
Nah that would require some effort, better to just reuse the same old crap that just keeps on selling. There's always a fresh new batch of thirteen year olds every year.
I was going to post a quip along the lines of now they found some more profitability how are they going to rape it such extremes it dies a slow agonising death that they can blame on piracy but yeah, try and squeeze youtube out of everypenny, yep that'll do it.
No, I was just making the point that the morality of selling something is just as much who you sell to as what you sell. These people sold to despotic governments for spying on their own people. The guy in TFA provided the evidence of that. Please try to keep up instead of moving goalposts.
I'd also like someone to test the claim that a lipo batteries are more devastating to a jet engine than a bird.
It should be pretty obvious unless there are some iron eagles flying around.
Are lipo batteries as hard as iron? Harder than bone?
I'm not a bird guy or anything but aren't bird bones hollow, less dense and lighter than land based animals to help them fly? I don't think the compressor blades would have any problem shattering them to a jillion bits. Also aren't bones no where near as hard as iron to begin with?
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It's not okay to be 250 lbs and 5'4" unless you're a gorilla.
I guess they would say that a doctor who points out how unhealthy it is would be accused of fat-shaming too. We are in an obesity epidemic. Fat-shaming is needed, just as in the past shaming smokers worked. Ditto for shaming racists. Obesity is ugly and smelly and a huge health risk. If fat-shaming is what it takes, I for one welcome our fat-shaming overlords.
So basically push out and marginalise everyone who doesn't subscribe to your way of thinking and doing things? That's shameful and you should stop! Seriously, stop it, let people get on and worry about their own lives, you don't need to tell everyone what is best nor do you even know.
How about beating humans at something like Cards Against Humanity? Or Werewolf?
I'm still looking for the computer that can beat me at boxing.
Space is racist, those dirt republicans just want to leave blacks and minorities behind on earth. It's the new form of white flight.
Space is black motherfucker.
Methane? I have no idea how that factors in though.
So basically what you're saying is when the world has a problem, turn it off and on again.
I hate it when I get the blue-sky-of-death.
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Eisenhower warned about the dangers of the military-industrial complex, and he was right. The national debt is a greater threat to the country than any foreign foe.
Well, what kind of guns do you use to shoot National Debt? Is that an off shoot of National Front or something?
I thought it was funny.
To be fair, assuming no race conditions, we'd never know if they took us offline. We could be running then stopping and running then stopping, and as long as the state was preserved, we'd never know (being part of that state).
"stop the world, I want to get off" just became a real thing...
So basically what you're saying is when the world has a problem, turn it off and on again.
Q. How can you tell if someone has an apple product?
A. Just wait, they'll tell you.
It's not that QI is shit, it is actually quite interesting. And he was awesome in Blackadder. It's just his recent success has really gone to his head and he's just become a smug twat.
Is Stephen Fry a "Daft Twat", or is he more of a "Right Cunt" . . . ?
The two aren't mutually exclusive. He's the third fat slag.
Seriously, ever since he got that show QI he seems to think he's somehow the most intelligent, wise and interesting person there is. He needs to just shut up and fuck off because no one cares.
Why are they still spending money on this. My second was "Wow, the thousands of man hours" of mechanical or electrical engineering, physics, archaeology, graphic design, and several other -ologies that went into producing this. My third thought was how much expertise went into this and how little of it will be passed,due to the amazing level of detail, along to future projects. My fourth though was I should of logged in instead of ACing this, my last AC was +5 informative.
Don't worry, this one won't.
They would have been fine if they didn't brag it was unsinkable.
Yes a nerd version would have been jack and his hand. And it would have the nerd satisfying appeal that they'd both die at the end.
Yeah, but a version filled with nerds probably would've fixed the ship and been on their way within an hour. Or at least had everyone think, this ship is slowly sinking and there aren't enough lifeboats, maybe I'd better go find something that floats.
Actually, the primary people who benefit when expensive workers are replaced by cheaper workers are customers. That should be of particular concern in health care, where costs are through the roof.
Or what will happen is you get a bunch of people who don't know what they're doing replacing people who do, then sooner or later you're going to go in for a broken arm and come out with a rectal exam.
Maybe the aliens cut out the feed themselves. Maybe they're now in control of NASA. Maybe the invasion.. is beginning..
Next time one gets back their movements will be...off and they'll seem a bit weird. We'll just say oh they've been in space then BAM giant bug monster eating everyone!
All of this assumes:
- NASA has enough money to pay someone to watch the feed, their hand hovering over a giant "SHUT IT ALL DOWN" button. They don't
...
When you start to think about it even a little bit the likelihood that it's real, live, true alien visitors and not just some kind of weird light reflection, space debris, or whatever is vanishingly small.
(...which is exactly what they WOULD say, isn't it...)
Unless it's government mandated and NASA want the secret to get out! How else to explain how they could fuck up such a trivial job so often......mind.....blown (I wish I could insert that picture of bill and ted whoah face)
Meh, the world is product of the plot. The only things really different in this world are the aliens and the floating mountains. Okay I'll give you they all look stunning but the main aliens are just tall thin blue people, the animals all have some extra legs or whatever because aliens, they can communicate with animals because nature is great so they invent this ponytail dick interface thing. People were like wtf are these floating mountains all about so they say 'oh they're filled with this element, superconductor and proximity to gas giant makes them float or something. We won't mention this in the film because we'd need an hour long physics lecture to try and explain it, nope it just looks cool, leave it at that.'
They built a pretty world to go with the rehashed plot and thought that would be enough.
Now they might try putting out music that didn't suck. Seriously, today's twerk-a-licious and computer generated, autotuned stuff makes 1960's bubblegum music and disco look good.
Nah that would require some effort, better to just reuse the same old crap that just keeps on selling. There's always a fresh new batch of thirteen year olds every year.
I was going to post a quip along the lines of now they found some more profitability how are they going to rape it such extremes it dies a slow agonising death that they can blame on piracy but yeah, try and squeeze youtube out of everypenny, yep that'll do it.
No, I was just making the point that the morality of selling something is just as much who you sell to as what you sell. These people sold to despotic governments for spying on their own people. The guy in TFA provided the evidence of that. Please try to keep up instead of moving goalposts.
I must have missed the part about room-temperature superconductors in Pocahontas. I think I was also in the bathroom for the interstellar travel bit.
No you didn't, the room-temperature superconductors were coloured gold and they did the interstellar travel on a boat.
Some drone users... Like some car drivers... or anything you can think of
The difference is that an idiotic car driver is somewhat unlikely to cause a plane crash.
But more likely to cause death.
I'd also like someone to test the claim that a lipo batteries are more devastating to a jet engine than a bird.
It should be pretty obvious unless there are some iron eagles flying around.
Are lipo batteries as hard as iron? Harder than bone?
I'm not a bird guy or anything but aren't bird bones hollow, less dense and lighter than land based animals to help them fly? I don't think the compressor blades would have any problem shattering them to a jillion bits. Also aren't bones no where near as hard as iron to begin with?