While all you grammarians are pecking away here I thought I'd ask a question: why does Slashdot have a "commasplice" tag for stories like this? There doesn't seem to be a common denominator for the stories which have it, judging by their headlines. The secondary headline for this one does use a commasplice. But why have a tag for that? For the benefit of those with extra dog eared copies of Strunk and White?
Vocational schools and training programs are unpopular because they suffer from a low statue of four people from unsuccessful, poor, or peasant backgrounds.
That darn statue! Quit making those schools suffer, you, you...oooooh!
That's great, had been watching Onion stuff on YT as the video quality on their own site wasn't so hot in the past, and now I notice they didn't port all of their material to YT, like this one. They did some hilarious stuff in the past, not so much anymore IMO.
"Take care,young ladies,and value yousa wine. be watchful of young men in thesa velvet prime. deep thesa ll swallow from yousa finest kegs, then swift be gone,leav bitter dregs. ahh-ah-ah-ah,bitter dregs."
After applauding the scientists for coming forward, anthropologist Brent Wrigley suggested that the hatred of mice may be the single most important factor in the evolution of modern science.
"Despising mice may have pushed humanity out of the Stone Age," Wrigley said. "After all, the cave habitats of early man must have been infested with the horrific little monsters. The entire history of human advancement via the scientific method may be a byproduct of the higher forebrain's natural revulsion toward the nasty critters."
That would make for an interesting study in of itself. You could torture a lot of mice in the process, too.
Over the years I've assured people who complain about "Big Oil" that even in a fully renewable powered world we'd still complain about "Big Wind" etc; nice to have this rather obvious point confirmed again, eg Solyndra.
They created their fuel using a fermentation process that was first discovered in 1914, but which was then discontinued in 1965 when petroleum became the dominant source of fuel.
Ah, I see. Wait a minute, what? Was that written from the perspective of Lithuanians or something? In transport petroleum has been the dominant source of fuel for close to a century, for the developed world anyway. Maybe taking the world as a whole some turning point was passed in 1965, along with the first space walk, etc.
I'm ignorant of what Instagram is too - the name suggests freeze-dried coffee - but last week someone quipped that it's "Twitter for the illiterate," so I'm sticking with that. How their users could freak out after reading a TOS which they presumably can't read I'm not sure, though.
Some communities in eastern Oregon obtain water from interbeds between the basalt layers, that would be about the only way fracking could pose a risk, but as you said the Newberry Volcano is a long ways away from any sizable population. La Pine is a small town west of the mountain which is a bit closer than Bend but they get their water from shallow aquifers.
I'm certain the people doing this work are taking extra pains to insure they have good casing etc., wanting to avoid even the slightest possibility of public outcry over the drilling, hence their relabeling hydrofracking as "hydroshearing."
I bought a Nordictrack of some sort off Craigslist a few months ago; set up a monitor on a table to be eye level in front of me. As it happens this model of treadmill has a shelf that a keyboard sits on perfectly, although now it blocks the treadmill's fan. I also bought a USB numberpad with a spacebar key on its bottom left - I can tap this for Page Down, so I can read text while jogging along; I keep my hands on the handlebars that read your pulse. I set macros for the 1 key to be Page Up, 2 is now Next Track on my media player. Pretty neat setup, I can provide details if anyone's interested.
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"US Cities" seems about as straightforward a category as they come. Another would be whether the weapon has been dropped.
While all you grammarians are pecking away here I thought I'd ask a question: why does Slashdot have a "commasplice" tag for stories like this? There doesn't seem to be a common denominator for the stories which have it, judging by their headlines. The secondary headline for this one does use a commasplice. But why have a tag for that? For the benefit of those with extra dog eared copies of Strunk and White?
ASSMAN
They're worried about Blazers fans? Don't they know all Oregonians are quirky and harmless? Haven't they seen Portlandia?
Oh, and: RIP CITY!
No need to suck.
Oblig That's what she said.
Why stop at oxygen? FAA Considering Passenger Ban | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
You should get a load of my "additive eraser."
My guess:
Vocational schools and training programs are unpopular because they suffer from a low statue of four people from unsuccessful, poor, or peasant backgrounds.
That darn statue! Quit making those schools suffer, you, you...oooooh!
That's great, had been watching Onion stuff on YT as the video quality on their own site wasn't so hot in the past, and now I notice they didn't port all of their material to YT, like this one. They did some hilarious stuff in the past, not so much anymore IMO.
"Take care,young ladies,and value yousa wine. be watchful of young men in thesa velvet prime. deep thesa ll swallow from yousa finest kegs, then swift be gone,leav bitter dregs. ahh-ah-ah-ah,bitter dregs."
It's "Redd Foxx." Assuming you mean the comedian. "Stay in attack formation, dummy!"
Time travel is the weakest of all SciFi plot devices, reserved for authors who are completely out of ideas.
Please, Mr. Abrams, don't do that again.
"An even longer time ago, in a galaxy still further away..."
Sounds like something out of a Dougal Dixon book.
Now describe to me what Marsellus Wallace looks like!
After applauding the scientists for coming forward, anthropologist Brent Wrigley suggested that the hatred of mice may be the single most important factor in the evolution of modern science.
"Despising mice may have pushed humanity out of the Stone Age," Wrigley said. "After all, the cave habitats of early man must have been infested with the horrific little monsters. The entire history of human advancement via the scientific method may be a byproduct of the higher forebrain's natural revulsion toward the nasty critters."
That would make for an interesting study in of itself. You could torture a lot of mice in the process, too.
You are not a dumbass, therefore not all people are dumbasses.
QED
Feel free to disagree with my premise.
What does quantum electro-dynamics have to do with it?
Applying its principles to this discussion will result in the "Big Shock" referred to in the headline.
Dinosaurs lasted for 150 million years without brains to speak of, until they were nuked from orbit
Ack, frickin' Scientologists.
Over the years I've assured people who complain about "Big Oil" that even in a fully renewable powered world we'd still complain about "Big Wind" etc; nice to have this rather obvious point confirmed again, eg Solyndra.
One place I would like to see Baxter is at McDonalds or Starbucks. Now really how cool would that be!
Not a Xeelee Sequence fan, eh?
Ah, I see. Wait a minute, what? Was that written from the perspective of Lithuanians or something? In transport petroleum has been the dominant source of fuel for close to a century, for the developed world anyway. Maybe taking the world as a whole some turning point was passed in 1965, along with the first space walk, etc.
I with mod you up.
Spoon!
The Void Captain's Tale by Norman Spinrad has FTL powered by female orgasm. Anybody know of other unorthodox propulsion methods from SF?
Aside from whatever the hell was involved in moving the ships in Cordwainer Smith's stories. Cats fending off meta-dimensional dragons in Space3?
I'm ignorant of what Instagram is too - the name suggests freeze-dried coffee - but last week someone quipped that it's "Twitter for the illiterate," so I'm sticking with that. How their users could freak out after reading a TOS which they presumably can't read I'm not sure, though.
Some communities in eastern Oregon obtain water from interbeds between the basalt layers, that would be about the only way fracking could pose a risk, but as you said the Newberry Volcano is a long ways away from any sizable population. La Pine is a small town west of the mountain which is a bit closer than Bend but they get their water from shallow aquifers.
I'm certain the people doing this work are taking extra pains to insure they have good casing etc., wanting to avoid even the slightest possibility of public outcry over the drilling, hence their relabeling hydrofracking as "hydroshearing."
I bought a Nordictrack of some sort off Craigslist a few months ago; set up a monitor on a table to be eye level in front of me. As it happens this model of treadmill has a shelf that a keyboard sits on perfectly, although now it blocks the treadmill's fan. I also bought a USB numberpad with a spacebar key on its bottom left - I can tap this for Page Down, so I can read text while jogging along; I keep my hands on the handlebars that read your pulse. I set macros for the 1 key to be Page Up, 2 is now Next Track on my media player. Pretty neat setup, I can provide details if anyone's interested.
Those DIY treadmill desks are really cool, too.