the chances of getting picked up by another ship within those thirty seconds are two to the power of two hundred and sixty-seven thousand seven hundred and nine to one against. ...and falling!
Fairly typical Sun headlines are "Do Fellas Prefer Flirtier Females?", "Driven to suicide by websites", and "Immigrant got me pregnant at 14". These are *real* headlines from The Sun, I'm not making this up. I can believe the second two, but the level of alliteration is wrong in the first - there was a clear opportunity for more (and when it comes to alliteration in headlines, more is more is more!) It Could have been "Do Fellas Fancy Flirtier Females?" or even "Do Lads Like Lusty Ladies?".
What, while you sit on your fat arse and watch? Besides, what's to fix that could have stopped this?
Earthquakes happen. They sometimes happen in populous places and sometimes without much warning. (Mind you, the goldfish in the video seemed a touch agitated about two seconds before the people did)
I'm willing to be proven wrong, but I'm confident they are not caused by global warming, pollution, terrorism, war, drugs, the war on drugs, human rights abuses, GM crops, communism, fascism, totalitarianism (other), religious intolerance, litigious *AA's, closed source software, corrupt cops, or failing to tip your waiter!
Don't get me wrong, I've got nothing against fixing the world - I just don't see how a "fixed" world is relevant to this tragedy.
Well, no, I haven't. But you made me curious, so I went and looked it up. VMS, like many OSs from that period, assumed that the user might not have access to lower case, and ignored case in things like the command line and file names. But that's also true of DOS/Windows command line and file systems.
As recently as SunOS 4.2, if capslock was on during login, getty and login assumed no access to lower case. The resulting session would be case-insensitive, and presented in uppercase. ISTR though, that real uppercase was indicated by a preceding backslash.
Hmm, I think you have the adults/kids analogy all bass-ackwards.
This is more like the adult teaching a kid about sharing by playing with a toy with the child. Eventually, the kid's gonna snatch it off the adult, clutch it to his chest possessively and and yell "MINE!"
I solved that with my 3 YO daughter by taking the batteries out of her toy and telling her that the toy is hers, but the batteries were mine. When she realised that the toy didn't work without the batteries, she understood the meaning of sharing.
The device did not look like an IED and it clearly was not designed to look like an IED.
Really? Just what does an IED look like? What circuitry is under that tape? Is that really a 9V battery supplying power to a harmless circuit of LED's or is there a hidden battery behind the breadboard about to supply power to a small detonator embedded in a lump of C4 hidden inside the battery shell?
I know a little about electronics and I can't answer any of those questions after studying the photo. What chance has an electronically untrained guard of answering them after a glance?
She made no threats and followed all the directions...
You're kidding aren't you? She was asked about the device and walked away without responding. Wearing visble electronics, carrying a lump of play-doh, and failing to answer questions about the device, it seems to me she was trying to cause alarm - to scare people. Which is exactly the aim of terrorism. The people who die in terrorist activities are only the collateral damage. The real aim is fear in those who do not die.
So no, it was not a bomb - but yes, she is a terrorist.
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I don't think that's a cromulent use of Scrabulous.
You, good sir, are absolutely correct. The accepted adjectival form is "Scrabulicious".
a lingua franca (if you'll pardon the irony)
Pardon it? I relish it! I've always loved that little 3-way slice of irony.
Well of course he killed his opponent's supporters - if he hadn't done that, he might not have won the election!
I never said he won the election fairly.
And his country doesn't want him.
ORLY? Didn't he just win an election?
He looks a lot better than Keith Richards, who is dead. He died in 1972, only no-one told him.
No, you didn't.
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Google mail user1: "What does that URL mean?"
Google mail user2: "I don't know - he hasn't got to the verb yet!"
Westerners all look the same, anyway.
What's that? Ohh, you round-eyes got no sense of humour!
You're right, he is an incorrigible punster. But it's only because people keep incorriging him!
You mean like a Bio-Organic Organized Knowledgebase?
What, while you sit on your fat arse and watch? Besides, what's to fix that could have stopped this?
Earthquakes happen. They sometimes happen in populous places and sometimes without much warning. (Mind you, the goldfish in the video seemed a touch agitated about two seconds before the people did)
I'm willing to be proven wrong, but I'm confident they are not caused by global warming, pollution, terrorism, war, drugs, the war on drugs, human rights abuses, GM crops, communism, fascism, totalitarianism (other), religious intolerance, litigious *AA's, closed source software, corrupt cops, or failing to tip your waiter!
Don't get me wrong, I've got nothing against fixing the world - I just don't see how a "fixed" world is relevant to this tragedy.
He's either too ignorant to know the correct pronunciation, or to arrogant to care.
I don't know which is scarier!
This is more like the adult teaching a kid about sharing by playing with a toy with the child. Eventually, the kid's gonna snatch it off the adult, clutch it to his chest possessively and and yell "MINE!"
I solved that with my 3 YO daughter by taking the batteries out of her toy and telling her that the toy is hers, but the batteries were mine. When she realised that the toy didn't work without the batteries, she understood the meaning of sharing.
Calm down Nick, there's no need to get personal! (Although, I do suspect that's exactly why he posted as AC)
Another way of tallying votes? How quaint!
We Australians must be quite backward - we merely count them.
You're kidding aren't you? She was asked about the device and walked away without responding. Wearing visble electronics, carrying a lump of play-doh, and failing to answer questions about the device, it seems to me she was trying to cause alarm - to scare people. Which is exactly the aim of terrorism. The people who die in terrorist activities are only the collateral damage. The real aim is fear in those who do not die.
So no, it was not a bomb - but yes, she is a terrorist.
OTOH, would it really bother you if you were?