foresting sahara? 10 feet tigers are a small price to pay for that!
Are you insane? Man, tigers are bad enough with only 4 feet! Imagine the carnage they might wreak with an extra 6 feet. No, I fear 10 feet tigers are far too high a price to pay regardless of the benefits.
All guns need smart owners. But gun owners are human. Not all are smart, and those that are, are not always so. That is the real problem.
Of course, the word "smart" is completely interchangeable with "educated", "sane", "law-abiding", "sober", and any number of characteristics desirable in those entrusted with the responsibility of owning a lethal weapon.
Peasant: What I object to is you automatically assume superiority.
WillAdams: Well I do write with a fountain pen!
Peasant: Oh, fountain pen? Very nice! An why do you do that, then?
WillAdams: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft MontBlanc from the bosom of the water. Signifying by divine providence that I, WillAdams, shall be placed above the hordes of Bic-toting plebeians. That is why I am your better!
Peasant: You can't expect to become an elevated being just because some watery tart threw a pen at you.
WillAdams: Be quiet!
Peasant: Strange women lying in ponds distributing writing implements is no basis for a system of class distinction.
WillAdams: Shut up!
Peasant: I mean, if I went round saying I was enlightened because some moistened bint had lobbed a Schaeffer at me, they'd put me away!
Yes, and unlike you, I also used my brain: Chopping something that's lighter than water in half doesn't change the fact that it's still lighter than water. Repeating a process a thousand more times and expecting a different result isn't just wrong... it's the very definition of insanity.
Brain use is good, but things aren't always as simple as you think. Some plastics are heavier than water, but float anyway. Polystyrene is a classic example. It is actually slightly heavier than seawater (around 1.05 gm/cm3 vs 1.03 gm/cm3) therefore, it sinks. Expanded polystyrene (aka styrofoam) is comprised of exactly the same polymer, but has minute cells of air incorporated into its physical structure, thereby reducing its effective density to as little as 0.035 gm/cm^3. Now, that stuff floats. The more finely you divide a piece of styrofoam, the more cells you rupture and the closer you will get to each piece being solid polystyrene which will, as we have established, sink.
Perhaps the iPlanter? It'll look fahhh-bulous next to the Macquarium! But remember to place it to the East or West or it will block the chi from the North.
British people have sexual fetishes involving urine (so called "golden showers") at the highest rate per capita in the world. Most Brits have engaged in it at least once in their lives. Something with such a strong cultural association is bound to creep into slang eventually, that's all.
Do you really want to play that card without citation?
Consider the number of uses of "ass" and "butt" that have not just crept in, but become firmly lodged in US slang. I'll get you started...
Shove it up your ass
Blow it our your ass
Kiss my ass
I'll kick / whoop your ass
His ass is grass / toast / history
His ass is mine
That chaps my ass / burns my butt
I'll have his ass in a sling
Big-ass (house, car, whatever)
Asshole
Asswipe
Asshat
Ass-clown
Butthurt / buttsore
... to name but a few (pun intended).
Now consider the strength of the cultural association that let to such popularity of usage. Finally, consider again whether you really want to tug at that thread.
Exactly. The term "girlfriend" suggests a lack of maturity (either in the person or in the relationship), "lover" suggests a clandestine arrangement and "fuckbuddy" suggests a lack of emotional attachment (additionally, in most circles, use of the term is frowned upon). "Partner" is the only word I can think of which conveys a relationship with the maturity and completeness of a marriage without actually being a marriage.
I was always amused and scared at that. Running the country, doesn't know how to properly use a cigarette.
Yes he does. He just doesn't know how to tell the truth.
And yet it seems he does not know how to lie properly either. People would have believed him if he had said "I never smoked marijuana", but instead he went with "Yeah, but I didn't inhale". I don't think I know anybody that believed that. What a goose!
I believe that doing anything like this would be only for emergency evacuations without a proper craft. I can't see this being a standard way of coming back to earth.
Of course it would become the standard - just as low-altitude skydiving has become the standard manner of returning airplane passengers to the ground.
PROTIP: That whooshing sound you can hear is not made by Felix Baumgartner.
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foresting sahara? 10 feet tigers are a small price to pay for that!
Are you insane? Man, tigers are bad enough with only 4 feet! Imagine the carnage they might wreak with an extra 6 feet. No, I fear 10 feet tigers are far too high a price to pay regardless of the benefits.
by John Brunner, predates cyberpunk by half a decade and features strong themes of government secrecy and surveillance.
RTFA, newb!
Exactly. A week from now, this will be one of the hottest phenomenons on the web.
Ahh, but a month from then, it will be passé.
Smart guns need smart owners, that's the problem.
All guns need smart owners. But gun owners are human. Not all are smart, and those that are, are not always so. That is the real problem.
Of course, the word "smart" is completely interchangeable with "educated", "sane", "law-abiding", "sober", and any number of characteristics desirable in those entrusted with the responsibility of owning a lethal weapon.
What if I have blue balls?
In that case, Scuzzlebutt's *Rim shot* may help.
Peasant: What I object to is you automatically assume superiority.
WillAdams: Well I do write with a fountain pen!
Peasant: Oh, fountain pen? Very nice! An why do you do that, then?
WillAdams: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft MontBlanc from the bosom of the water. Signifying by divine providence that I, WillAdams, shall be placed above the hordes of Bic-toting plebeians. That is why I am your better!
Peasant: You can't expect to become an elevated being just because some watery tart threw a pen at you.
WillAdams: Be quiet!
Peasant: Strange women lying in ponds distributing writing implements is no basis for a system of class distinction.
WillAdams: Shut up!
Peasant: I mean, if I went round saying I was enlightened because some moistened bint had lobbed a Schaeffer at me, they'd put me away!
WillAdams: Shut up, will you. Shut UP!
Better yet that it says "No, that outfit does not make you look fat. It's all the goddamn donuts that do!"
If you lived in the other supercontinent and had to crank out some code, you'd be out of luck.
Not really. The Laurasians simply outsourced all their code-cutting to Gondwana - part of which would later become known as...
(Finishing that sentence is left as an exercise for the reader)
Agreed. USA 237 years old? Does April 9th, 1865 ring a bell?
Yes, and unlike you, I also used my brain: Chopping something that's lighter than water in half doesn't change the fact that it's still lighter than water. Repeating a process a thousand more times and expecting a different result isn't just wrong... it's the very definition of insanity.
Brain use is good, but things aren't always as simple as you think. Some plastics are heavier than water, but float anyway. Polystyrene is a classic example. It is actually slightly heavier than seawater (around 1.05 gm/cm3 vs 1.03 gm/cm3) therefore, it sinks. Expanded polystyrene (aka styrofoam) is comprised of exactly the same polymer, but has minute cells of air incorporated into its physical structure, thereby reducing its effective density to as little as 0.035 gm/cm^3. Now, that stuff floats. The more finely you divide a piece of styrofoam, the more cells you rupture and the closer you will get to each piece being solid polystyrene which will, as we have established, sink.
I had intended to point out what I feared was a major flaw in your plan. I then realised that with sufficient thrust, grad students fly just fine.
Perhaps the iPlanter? It'll look fahhh-bulous next to the Macquarium! But remember to place it to the East or West or it will block the chi from the North.
British people have sexual fetishes involving urine (so called "golden showers") at the highest rate per capita in the world. Most Brits have engaged in it at least once in their lives. Something with such a strong cultural association is bound to creep into slang eventually, that's all.
Do you really want to play that card without citation?
Consider the number of uses of "ass" and "butt" that have not just crept in, but become firmly lodged in US slang. I'll get you started...
Now consider the strength of the cultural association that let to such popularity of usage. Finally, consider again whether you really want to tug at that thread.
Exactly. The term "girlfriend" suggests a lack of maturity (either in the person or in the relationship), "lover" suggests a clandestine arrangement and "fuckbuddy" suggests a lack of emotional attachment (additionally, in most circles, use of the term is frowned upon). "Partner" is the only word I can think of which conveys a relationship with the maturity and completeness of a marriage without actually being a marriage.
Ah, my old friend Rule 43! I was wondering how long it would be before you showed up.
... that a man layer down his life ...
Holed on a moment...
I was always amused and scared at that. Running the country, doesn't know how to properly use a cigarette.
Yes he does. He just doesn't know how to tell the truth.
And yet it seems he does not know how to lie properly either. People would have believed him if he had said "I never smoked marijuana", but instead he went with "Yeah, but I didn't inhale". I don't think I know anybody that believed that. What a goose!
Europe's Mexico? You are kidding, aren't you?
Perhaps the joke was just too subtile.
Sunspots. You forgot sunspots. Just what kind of BOFH are you, anyway?
Ummm, what about Syringe? I'm pretty sure that rhymes with orange.
Only if you cheat by putting the em-FAH-sis on the wrong syll-AH-ble.
In that case, I have to say that my favourite solution to the orange rhyming problem is Tom Lehrer's (even though it too, is a cheat).
Eating an orange
While making love
Makes for bizarre enj-
-oyment thereof
<SIGH> Go and listen to Pink Floyd's "The Wall" again.
Keep the following in mind...
pun
Noun: A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
...for God's sake, lets get samples and clone Keith Richards before its too late!?!?!?
It's already too late. He died in 1983, but no-one had the heart to tell him.
I believe that doing anything like this would be only for emergency evacuations without a proper craft. I can't see this being a standard way of coming back to earth.
Of course it would become the standard - just as low-altitude skydiving has become the standard manner of returning airplane passengers to the ground.
PROTIP: That whooshing sound you can hear is not made by Felix Baumgartner.