We've known about this for years. All the fucking diamonds are radioactive as hell.
That's not too hard for deBeers to to spin. "Our New-Clear(TM) diamonds don't just give her a wonderfully radiant glow, they have a glow all of their own." Hell, they could even add a fifth "C" to the classic 4 - Cut, Clarity, Colour, Carat, and now Candlepower.
Does this mean if I want an abortion, I need permission from whoever owns the genetic material of my womb? I guess that would be the fertility pill corporation.
No, that would mean your son/daughter; and as soon as they are old enough to legally grant you permission to do so, you can get that abortion.
No, that would be an aggressive uterine tumour which should be excised as early as possible in order to prevent many years of mental, emotional and financial trauma. Such tumours are the primary cause of many chronic social ills, including SUV's, sitcoms and stick-figure-family rear window stickers.
I don't include ACs in the discussion generally. They are beneath my attention threshold.
Then it is you and not the AC, who risks looking like an ass due to ignoring context previously established by someone that chose not to log in. But it's your reputation and your choice, and you are free to make it.
Maybe Toxoplasma gondii merely causes its hosts to engage in higher risk behaviours. In the wild, for small prey animals such as rats and mice, that is likely to be lethal and result in being eaten by a suitable carrier, but in this artificial environment we live in, perhaps it manifests in other ways. For example, flouting controlled substance laws to gamble 20-30 IQ points against a little temporary euphoria - then bragging about it - that sort of thing.
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Yeah, but the problem is that the introduced pest is a yucky insect.
If only a bunch of cute Koala Bears had been introduced to eat the California eucalyptus tress, all would be forgiven!
Trust me, you wouldn't think that way if you heard them snorting and grunting and growling in the middle of the night!
And I'm sure the reality is that the future of this device is somewhere between your two hyperbole-laden extremes - but that's not quite as exciting now, is it?
Nope, not in history either. Teach creation myths in sociology, where they may actually be relevant to the way cultures behave and what values they have adopted.
And by a curious coincidence, not only does the pebble meet each of the askslashdotter's criteria, funding for this particular project on kickstarter closes less than 24 hours after the article was posted here. Is that the foul stench of astroturf assaulting my olfactory system?
Cool idea, but really, does it need a slashvertisement?
I think you're being overly generous. Anyone can make a simple error, but it takes a special kind of person to screw up in such spectacular fashion as in that post. This writer wrote but fourteen words, and in so doing, made one blindingly obvious grammatical error (the aforementioned "an writer"), one capitalisation error (self-publishing is NOT a proper noun), one style error (one may place a space on both sides or on neither side of the "/"), and one logical construction error (the statement and question were linked by punctuation, but bore no contextual relationship to each other).
Protip: when claiming - in writing - to be a writer, it's usually a good idea to proofread one's own work prior to publication.
Disclaimer: Sigg3.net may not be a native speaker of English. If that be the case, it's not such a spectacular screw up, as I am quite certain that his command of English is far better than my command of his native language.
Most, if not all x86-based computers these days, boot first into 25 rows by 80 columns text mode before switching to another display mode. Now, that number was not arbitrarily chosen - 25x80 characters has been a standard for text consoles for decades. But even that was not arbitrarily chosen - guess how many characters the punch card could represent. (Really? You need to be told it's 80?) That's right folks, even if indirectly, most of us use a hangover from punch card technology every day and often we don't even realise it. Of course, the backward compatibility links go right back through the Hollerith Census Tabulator cards to Jacquard Loom pattern cards, if I remember the story correctly, but I'm too lazy to look it up.
Always shoot my hard drives with 9mm hollow point before disposing them. Good luck recovering my files. Really, I can't understand why people don't think something so obvious as the need to shoot some holes in your hard drives before disposing them.
Wrong tool for the job.
A couple of decent blows with a hammer or the back of an axe will do the same job. There's no need to break out the firearms.
Celebs do it all the time on public TV. (promote products they probably don't use let alone like).
Uh huh, and they get paid to do just that. If I were asked to do this, I'd ask if I have permission to use company resources to do so - including time, bandwidth and online reputation. If the answer's no, I'd ask for compensation for using my personal resources to do this work for them. I'd also consider asking to have my job description altered.
Tell your friends you're astroturfing outside of the social networking sites and move on with your life.
That's not necessary if his glowing endorsement of "Acme Widgets' stunning new app ParaWidget-X" comes from employee@acme.com
My advice to the OP? Face facts. Your employers are asking you to do unpaid work for them. Change the deal to a paid one by conducting this advertising campaign on their time. Protect your personal online reputation by creating a twitter/facebook/whatever account under your employee email address. Then spam away, my friend.
If I encounter a rattlesnake in the wild, I might be alarmed which would rais the tempature in my face. Does that mean I am communicating something to the snake Just because the snake can detect the thermal changes?
Yes. Yes, that's exactly what it means. You are communicating among other things, your level of fear and your size, upon which information the aforementioned serpent can determine your candidacy as prey and your threat to base its subsequent actions.
Think about this - would you doubt that the rattling snake communicates something to you, just because you can detect the air pressure changes? Communication need not be verbal nor even does it need to be intentional. Even simple colour combinations are sufficient to communicate danger or a foul taste.
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You'd better believe it!
But seriously, fuck Australia's beaches. Blue bottles, box jellies, Portuguese man o wars, shark central and crocks.
Dude, you forgot the blue-ringed octopus, stonefish, sea-snakes and cone snails (yes folks, there are even fuckin' snails that can kill ya!).
Welcome to Australia!
We've known about this for years. All the fucking diamonds are radioactive as hell.
That's not too hard for deBeers to to spin. "Our New-Clear(TM) diamonds don't just give her a wonderfully radiant glow, they have a glow all of their own." Hell, they could even add a fifth "C" to the classic 4 - Cut, Clarity, Colour, Carat, and now Candlepower.
Is the active ingredient by any chance Oxygen Dihydride? That stuff can sometimes counteract the harmful effects of DHMO,
It appears you have missed a key word in the parent AC's post. Try reading the post again, this time with comprehension enabled.
All life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light would be bad.
How so? I'm pretty sure that no-one I know would be even slightly bothered by such an event.
Does this mean if I want an abortion, I need permission from whoever owns the genetic material of my womb? I guess that would be the fertility pill corporation.
No, that would mean your son/daughter; and as soon as they are old enough to legally grant you permission to do so, you can get that abortion.
No, that would be an aggressive uterine tumour which should be excised as early as possible in order to prevent many years of mental, emotional and financial trauma. Such tumours are the primary cause of many chronic social ills, including SUV's, sitcoms and stick-figure-family rear window stickers.
I don't include ACs in the discussion generally. They are beneath my attention threshold.
Then it is you and not the AC, who risks looking like an ass due to ignoring context previously established by someone that chose not to log in. But it's your reputation and your choice, and you are free to make it.
6) Thinkpad style eraser head control (somebody should do that).
The technical term is clit mouse. Nipple mouse is also acceptable.
Well, that's kind ofenvironment-dependent.
Oh, come on - you just knew someone was going to do it!
Maybe Toxoplasma gondii merely causes its hosts to engage in higher risk behaviours. In the wild, for small prey animals such as rats and mice, that is likely to be lethal and result in being eaten by a suitable carrier, but in this artificial environment we live in, perhaps it manifests in other ways. For example, flouting controlled substance laws to gamble 20-30 IQ points against a little temporary euphoria - then bragging about it - that sort of thing.
Yeah, but the problem is that the introduced pest is a yucky insect. If only a bunch of cute Koala Bears had been introduced to eat the California eucalyptus tress, all would be forgiven!
Trust me, you wouldn't think that way if you heard them snorting and grunting and growling in the middle of the night!
And I'm sure the reality is that the future of this device is somewhere between your two hyperbole-laden extremes - but that's not quite as exciting now, is it?
Nope, not in history either. Teach creation myths in sociology, where they may actually be relevant to the way cultures behave and what values they have adopted.
N/T
Oh, come on now - Razorback was alrig-
I'm sorry, I can't even keep a straight face while typing that!
This. Well, for subjective values of "no one", anyway.
Lager men than he would overcome that character defect.
And by a curious coincidence, not only does the pebble meet each of the askslashdotter's criteria, funding for this particular project on kickstarter closes less than 24 hours after the article was posted here. Is that the foul stench of astroturf assaulting my olfactory system?
Cool idea, but really, does it need a slashvertisement?
And then when you go to pay, the cashier ask you to bend over.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I think you're being overly generous. Anyone can make a simple error, but it takes a special kind of person to screw up in such spectacular fashion as in that post. This writer wrote but fourteen words, and in so doing, made one blindingly obvious grammatical error (the aforementioned "an writer"), one capitalisation error (self-publishing is NOT a proper noun), one style error (one may place a space on both sides or on neither side of the "/"), and one logical construction error (the statement and question were linked by punctuation, but bore no contextual relationship to each other).
Protip: when claiming - in writing - to be a writer, it's usually a good idea to proofread one's own work prior to publication.
Disclaimer: Sigg3.net may not be a native speaker of English. If that be the case, it's not such a spectacular screw up, as I am quite certain that his command of English is far better than my command of his native language.
Most, if not all x86-based computers these days, boot first into 25 rows by 80 columns text mode before switching to another display mode. Now, that number was not arbitrarily chosen - 25x80 characters has been a standard for text consoles for decades. But even that was not arbitrarily chosen - guess how many characters the punch card could represent. (Really? You need to be told it's 80?) That's right folks, even if indirectly, most of us use a hangover from punch card technology every day and often we don't even realise it. Of course, the backward compatibility links go right back through the Hollerith Census Tabulator cards to Jacquard Loom pattern cards, if I remember the story correctly, but I'm too lazy to look it up.
Perhaps, but gently, m'kay?
Always shoot my hard drives with 9mm hollow point before disposing them. Good luck recovering my files. Really, I can't understand why people don't think something so obvious as the need to shoot some holes in your hard drives before disposing them.
Wrong tool for the job.
A couple of decent blows with a hammer or the back of an axe will do the same job. There's no need to break out the firearms.
Celebs do it all the time on public TV. (promote products they probably don't use let alone like).
Uh huh, and they get paid to do just that. If I were asked to do this, I'd ask if I have permission to use company resources to do so - including time, bandwidth and online reputation. If the answer's no, I'd ask for compensation for using my personal resources to do this work for them. I'd also consider asking to have my job description altered.
Tell your friends you're astroturfing outside of the social networking sites and move on with your life.
That's not necessary if his glowing endorsement of "Acme Widgets' stunning new app ParaWidget-X" comes from employee@acme.com
My advice to the OP? Face facts. Your employers are asking you to do unpaid work for them. Change the deal to a paid one by conducting this advertising campaign on their time. Protect your personal online reputation by creating a twitter/facebook/whatever account under your employee email address. Then spam away, my friend.
If I encounter a rattlesnake in the wild, I might be alarmed which would rais the tempature in my face. Does that mean I am communicating something to the snake Just because the snake can detect the thermal changes?
Yes. Yes, that's exactly what it means. You are communicating among other things, your level of fear and your size, upon which information the aforementioned serpent can determine your candidacy as prey and your threat to base its subsequent actions.
Think about this - would you doubt that the rattling snake communicates something to you, just because you can detect the air pressure changes? Communication need not be verbal nor even does it need to be intentional. Even simple colour combinations are sufficient to communicate danger or a foul taste.