Much of the excitement in football (as in all sports) comes from watching humans with tremendous talent
But in pretty well all other sports, the action is not constrained to set plays that are over in a matter of seconds, with significant time between plays to allow regrouping of the team to modify tactical plays. The USA's version of football is more akin to chess that any other countries version of football.
I'm not a huge football fan, but I recognize... a team of people who are fatigued, injured, and withstanding adverse weather conditions, pushing themselves to the utmost limit not only for themselves, but for their team and the millions of people cheering them on towards victory.
Compare the USA's version of football with the European's Soccer. In the US the game lasts hours, yet the actual time in play of the ball is significantly less, but there will almost be a 100% chance of a win or loss, and you have the luxury of swapping offensive and defensive lineups. In Soccer the ball is in play for 90 minutes and the players have to keep going knowing that in all likely hood they game could end in a draw and all the players are on the field for the entire time. How much more mental dedication do you need to stay focussed for 90 minutes compared to a game where you have downtime every couple of minutes and only half your team is playing at any one time?
And on another topic which is really a pet peeve of mine (and nothing to do with your post). IMHO - Sport is something you play. Entertainment is something you watch.
I'd find it hilarious if other countries protested by grabbing a few domains that violated laws Americans think are kooky, e.g. Germany confiscating domains that sold Nazi memorabilia.
Its kind of like when Brazil started finger printing all US citizens who arrived in their country. Which upset said citizens until it was pointed out the the US was doing that to all foreign nationals arriving in the US. At least some people in the world still have balls.
well maps have this thing called a 'legend' that visually indicates that the road is gravel or paved or divided highway.
Years ago I wanted to drive to the top of a particular mountain. I had two maps from different companies. On one map the road was marked as a normal dirt road. On the other map it was marked as a 4WD track. I decided to believe the former rather than the latter because I wanted to get to the top of the mountain. It turned out the the road was more of a 4WD track and I bounced up and down on it in my station wagon. Fortunately I didn't get stuck and only had to replace the exhaust system on my car due to all the dents it got.
No map, be it paper or electronic is going to be perfect. And at some point you have to make a judgement call between the map yo have and the reality you are looking at.
They are incorrect, as the most abused word is f!ck Back in the day, it was to have sex. Now, it is abused to where it can replace any other type of word.
Fuck you have weird ideas on avoiding to actually say fuck while implying that you are saying fuck. Fuck is a perfectly good word and in no fucking way should you shy away from using it when it is fucking required. For fucks sake grow a pair and stop being childish. And as you have fucking well pointed out, words change - and its fucking great that you can read about its etymology on the World fucking Wide Web. So stop trying to fuck with people by saying fuck is more abused than app and be fucking happy that at least they didn't say B*lgium
I always wondered why the cartels haven't invested in UAVs. It must be pretty simple now days to build a GPS guided device with enough payload to make the more expensive drugs worthwhile to ship
Well, I wrote a bit about it, but then I deleted it because it had too many spoilers.
Suffice to say that I think the LA show was a bit of a Candid Camera stunt, with the punters as the stooges.
Thats what I mean about Thiery taking the Andy Warhol theme and running with it to the extreme (and I think even that point was basically covered in the film). I can see that LA show playing out exactly as shown and people reacting exactly as they did, and spending all their $$$
But let's not assume too much about its veracity, eh?
I don't think that that film had a budget big enough to fake Thiery's "accomplishments", or the line of people waiting to see his "art". But Banksy is pretty well documented
I saw this recently and was astounded by 2 things: 1) How a weird guy (Thiery) could convince a bunch of people to basically give him a boatload of money for questionable "art" - he seemed to out-Warhol Warhol! and 2) Seeing Banksy hanging his work in the Tate and nobody realizing that they had an extra image or two on their walls!
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And in the winrumors link you supplied, it says that MS took this route ".. days after Tivo brought a lawsuit against close Microsoft partner, AT&T". Surprise!
... Second, there is a shortcut for absolutely every function, not just a few....
I have Excel 2007 open in front of me (I know, not a true comparison) with its ribbon. I can see all the lovely options, but how do I see all the shortcut keys? With a menu system at least you could look at a menu and associate an action with a shortcut. This sort of learning seems to be lacking from every program I have used that has a Ribbon interface. Yes I know in Excel I can see the short cuts in the help system, but that is not the optimal place for me to see them when I using the program.
Well they expect to raise $50 billion from the new $5000 "untidy yard" fine that will automatically be added to people's property tax when the drone starts taking pictures of people's yards.
In Henrico county, in VA, they have an ordanace that says you can't use inside furniture outside of your home. The idea is apparently to stop people putting couches on the front porch. However a local couple got into trouble for having a bathtub in their backyard used as a planter. I believe it was not visible from the street, and the pics I saw showed that it was very nicely done (not a rusted out heap used as a planter by default). They ended up in court over this. So your joke is not very far from reality
It is honestly no different that police forces using helicopters to patrol high crime areas.
I'd disagree. One of the reasons the military uses drones is that they are more stealthy than helicopters or planes, so the "enemy" has less chance of detecting them. But to give you an (obvisously imaginary example) if you heard/saw a chopper flying around the neighborhood, you wouldn't have sex on your roof top in the middle of the day. However you are likely to miss the presence of a drone, and I can guarantee that a drone operator would certainly take a diversionary break for a bit of peeping tom foolery. And yes I agree that the crims would also hide if they saw a chopper or drone, but if you know of new stealthy drones in the area you would start to modify your *legal* behavior or face potential embarrasment and humiliation. Once that happens you are one step closer to the police state.
If you are in your own house, you can't expect privacy from people in the street if your curtains are not drawn. With a drone you can't expect privacy if you are outdoors even if you are in your own backyard - but it is rather hard to draw a curtain over your backyard.
Do people actually still give credit card numbers over the phone?
When I pay my CC I can call up the companies automated phone line to authorise a transfer from a known bank account. In doing so they want me to give them the CC number. So thats another reason you could give your CC number over the phone.
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Much of the excitement in football (as in all sports) comes from watching humans with tremendous talent
But in pretty well all other sports, the action is not constrained to set plays that are over in a matter of seconds, with significant time between plays to allow regrouping of the team to modify tactical plays. The USA's version of football is more akin to chess that any other countries version of football.
I'm not a huge football fan, but I recognize ... a team of people who are fatigued, injured, and withstanding adverse weather conditions, pushing themselves to the utmost limit not only for themselves, but for their team and the millions of people cheering them on towards victory.
Compare the USA's version of football with the European's Soccer. In the US the game lasts hours, yet the actual time in play of the ball is significantly less, but there will almost be a 100% chance of a win or loss, and you have the luxury of swapping offensive and defensive lineups. In Soccer the ball is in play for 90 minutes and the players have to keep going knowing that in all likely hood they game could end in a draw and all the players are on the field for the entire time. How much more mental dedication do you need to stay focussed for 90 minutes compared to a game where you have downtime every couple of minutes and only half your team is playing at any one time?
And on another topic which is really a pet peeve of mine (and nothing to do with your post). IMHO - Sport is something you play. Entertainment is something you watch.
Is it really the teams themselves or is it just one playbook pitted against another and the players are just there to provide some colour?
It seems as if the NFL could just be replaced by a large D&D session with the refs as the DMs
Are we any closer to our goal of being able to sneak into women's locker rooms undetected?
You already can .. all it requires is a minor sex change operation. Unless of course you already are female.
I'd find it hilarious if other countries protested by grabbing a few domains that violated laws Americans think are kooky, e.g. Germany confiscating domains that sold Nazi memorabilia.
Its kind of like when Brazil started finger printing all US citizens who arrived in their country. Which upset said citizens until it was pointed out the the US was doing that to all foreign nationals arriving in the US. At least some people in the world still have balls.
well maps have this thing called a 'legend' that visually indicates that the road is gravel or paved or divided highway.
Years ago I wanted to drive to the top of a particular mountain. I had two maps from different companies. On one map the road was marked as a normal dirt road. On the other map it was marked as a 4WD track. I decided to believe the former rather than the latter because I wanted to get to the top of the mountain. It turned out the the road was more of a 4WD track and I bounced up and down on it in my station wagon. Fortunately I didn't get stuck and only had to replace the exhaust system on my car due to all the dents it got.
No map, be it paper or electronic is going to be perfect. And at some point you have to make a judgement call between the map yo have and the reality you are looking at.
web sites? you mean web apps?
These are cloud-based apps, harnessing the synergy of mobile wireless smartdevices and anywhere/anytime access.
I think my market-speak thesaurus just paid for itself.
But...is it green?
Well in the US at least the generated revenue stream from the grass roots community subscription scheme is.
They are incorrect, as the most abused word is f!ck Back in the day, it was to have sex. Now, it is abused to where it can replace any other type of word.
Fuck you have weird ideas on avoiding to actually say fuck while implying that you are saying fuck. Fuck is a perfectly good word and in no fucking way should you shy away from using it when it is fucking required. For fucks sake grow a pair and stop being childish. And as you have fucking well pointed out, words change - and its fucking great that you can read about its etymology on the World fucking Wide Web. So stop trying to fuck with people by saying fuck is more abused than app and be fucking happy that at least they didn't say B*lgium
loop quantum gravity .... It too may be wrong, but it has a certain attraction in its own right.
Hmmm .. gravity? .. attraction? ... You may be on to something there!
Terrorist 1 builds bomb in remote location in a "clean room". Hermetically seals it and drops it off at location A.
Terrorist 2 picks the bomb from location A and and chemically cleans/sterilizes the outside. Then drops it off at location B
Terrorist 3 picks the bomb up at location B and then delivers it to the target.
Oh and BTW Terrorist 3 detonates it in the crowd waiting to get to the security checkpoint before any testing for explosives will be done.
I always wondered why the cartels haven't invested in UAVs. It must be pretty simple now days to build a GPS guided device with enough payload to make the more expensive drugs worthwhile to ship
Well, I wrote a bit about it, but then I deleted it because it had too many spoilers.
Suffice to say that I think the LA show was a bit of a Candid Camera stunt, with the punters as the stooges.
Thats what I mean about Thiery taking the Andy Warhol theme and running with it to the extreme (and I think even that point was basically covered in the film). I can see that LA show playing out exactly as shown and people reacting exactly as they did, and spending all their $$$
But let's not assume too much about its veracity, eh?
I don't think that that film had a budget big enough to fake Thiery's "accomplishments", or the line of people waiting to see his "art". But Banksy is pretty well documented
[Most Hollywood Action Flicks] are logically inconsistent, and the action sequences were just a bunch of guys shooting each other with mundane guns.
FTFY
I saw this recently and was astounded by 2 things: 1) How a weird guy (Thiery) could convince a bunch of people to basically give him a boatload of money for questionable "art" - he seemed to out-Warhol Warhol! and 2) Seeing Banksy hanging his work in the Tate and nobody realizing that they had an extra image or two on their walls!
You can find confirmation from Microsoft's mouth here.
And in the winrumors link you supplied, it says that MS took this route ".. days after Tivo brought a lawsuit against close Microsoft partner, AT&T". Surprise!
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OK .. but still .. how is this obvious?
... Second, there is a shortcut for absolutely every function, not just a few. ...
I have Excel 2007 open in front of me (I know, not a true comparison) with its ribbon. I can see all the lovely options, but how do I see all the shortcut keys? With a menu system at least you could look at a menu and associate an action with a shortcut. This sort of learning seems to be lacking from every program I have used that has a Ribbon interface. Yes I know in Excel I can see the short cuts in the help system, but that is not the optimal place for me to see them when I using the program.
Well they expect to raise $50 billion from the new $5000 "untidy yard" fine that will automatically be added to people's property tax when the drone starts taking pictures of people's yards.
In Henrico county, in VA, they have an ordanace that says you can't use inside furniture outside of your home. The idea is apparently to stop people putting couches on the front porch. However a local couple got into trouble for having a bathtub in their backyard used as a planter. I believe it was not visible from the street, and the pics I saw showed that it was very nicely done (not a rusted out heap used as a planter by default). They ended up in court over this. So your joke is not very far from reality
It can't come soon enough.
If you're doing nothing wrong, you shouldn't mind being watched by cops
The simplistic refutation of this simplistic argument is: Why do you have curtains on your windows?
It is honestly no different that police forces using helicopters to patrol high crime areas.
I'd disagree. One of the reasons the military uses drones is that they are more stealthy than helicopters or planes, so the "enemy" has less chance of detecting them. But to give you an (obvisously imaginary example) if you heard/saw a chopper flying around the neighborhood, you wouldn't have sex on your roof top in the middle of the day. However you are likely to miss the presence of a drone, and I can guarantee that a drone operator would certainly take a diversionary break for a bit of peeping tom foolery. And yes I agree that the crims would also hide if they saw a chopper or drone, but if you know of new stealthy drones in the area you would start to modify your *legal* behavior or face potential embarrasment and humiliation. Once that happens you are one step closer to the police state.
If you are in your own house, you can't expect privacy from people in the street if your curtains are not drawn. With a drone you can't expect privacy if you are outdoors even if you are in your own backyard - but it is rather hard to draw a curtain over your backyard.
psh. you can do pretty much everything with computers as far as music goes...you're stuck 20 years in the past my friend.
The trouble is that there's an old adage that says something like "You can give a kid a steinway grand piano, but that won't make him Beethoven"
Yes it is a scam. The very idea of "paying for the right to pollute" is simply bad and wrong.
what do think an EPA permit is? It is actually a permit to emit pollution to the current standards. It is not a permit that stops you from polluting.
Do people actually still give credit card numbers over the phone?
When I pay my CC I can call up the companies automated phone line to authorise a transfer from a known bank account. In doing so they want me to give them the CC number. So thats another reason you could give your CC number over the phone.