The jokes started long before WWII. Blue and Gray Laughing, a book about the humor of soldiers during the American Civil War, has a number of them scattered throughout (end shameless plug for a book written by my relative).
During the war, the "Dutch", a catch-all term for Germanic and similar-enough-to-Germanic-that-Americans-didn't-care European immigrants (Germans, Dutch, Finns, etc.) were generally derided by both sides. Their communities seemed generally disinterested in the war, and their corps in the Union army collapsed spectacularly at both Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, inviting frequent and harsh ridicule. It's very possible that the Poles got swept up in that sentiment, though Polish immigration to the US really didn't kick into gear until decades later.
You could always call tech support and see how much of their time you can waste.
"We have detected a sharp increase in the number of lengthy tech support calls following the game's release. For our next game, as a pre-emptive measure, we have included the 'Help me!' button, which will instantly connect you to one of our SimCity helpfriends, who will aid you with whatever you need! To reduce call waiting time, your phone will be dialed when you log into the game, and the call will remain active until you sign out."
Imagine a conference room with a salesman, a CEO and a bunch of politicians. Who do you propose they use to check whether the machine is actually capable of giving a negative?
The schmuck they had to pull into the room to help them find the "on" button.
The Glorious Leader once destroyed the childhoods of an entire generation of Americans singlehandedly. His tell-all memoir, "The Manchurian Film Director", remains unpublished.
It's the outermost one. TFA is disappointing because it reads more like a beg for funding than an informative look at the new belt. Here's yesterday's NBC article on the subject.
The third belt has not always been there, nor is it there now. It was blasted away by a solar shock wave a few weeks after they noticed it. The guess is that a solar shock wave is what created it in the first place, too.
What I was describing was a layman's perspective of dark matter. Or are you saying that dark matter doesn't explain galactic rotation or other "dark matter" stuff? Not snark, I honestly can't tell.
In addition to what the AC said below, it's my understanding that the galaxy rotation problem is a matter of mass distribution, rather than just plain missing mass. Adding more mass to the black hole in the center would make all the stars orbit more quickly, but it wouldn't affect the relative rotational speed from one star to another. In a system where most of the mass is clustered in the center, the outer orbits should have a lower rotational velocity - simply changing the amount of mass at the center won't change that general idea. To explain the uniform speeds going outward from the center, you have to add mass to the edge of the system, rather than the center.
But that's not equivalent to having a backdoor to the device. If I catch a courier, who never knew the key code, no prison, gun or court order will do me any good. With a backdoor, however...
What about fake back doors? How do you determine which back door is the real door?
The unsafe ones often have tramp stamps above them.
To summarize the Ada Initiative's argument, "You should never talk about sex, because if you do, you'll give women traumatizing rape flashbacks and turn all men in the audience into pathological rape-machines. Especially techies, because everyone knows techies are super-rape-happy already. So no talking about sex."
I hate it when I have to agree with people who think "feminist" is a dirty word, but in this case Ada's "Think of the children!"-esque rationale just seems absurd.
Unfortunately not - he likes to use his own proprietary equipment for the manufacturing. You just pay him the fee and introduce him to your wife, and he'll handle all the hard work for you.
But I will be damned if I let you have the final post on this thread. No way no how. I do not cut and run. Never give up. Never surrender. And now back to dancing. Boom chicka wow huh huh yeah. Booty shakin yall.
This term struck me as odd. The side of me that cares about meaningless pedantry wants to know why it's "asteroseismology" and not "astroseismology", but Google isn't helping much. Anyone happen to know?
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Well, he did just get sentenced to a year in prison.
The dream of being able to punch someone through the internet took a step forward today.
The jokes started long before WWII. Blue and Gray Laughing, a book about the humor of soldiers during the American Civil War, has a number of them scattered throughout (end shameless plug for a book written by my relative).
During the war, the "Dutch", a catch-all term for Germanic and similar-enough-to-Germanic-that-Americans-didn't-care European immigrants (Germans, Dutch, Finns, etc.) were generally derided by both sides. Their communities seemed generally disinterested in the war, and their corps in the Union army collapsed spectacularly at both Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, inviting frequent and harsh ridicule. It's very possible that the Poles got swept up in that sentiment, though Polish immigration to the US really didn't kick into gear until decades later.
His son took over, though. Did you at least know that he had Un?
You could always call tech support and see how much of their time you can waste.
"We have detected a sharp increase in the number of lengthy tech support calls following the game's release. For our next game, as a pre-emptive measure, we have included the 'Help me!' button, which will instantly connect you to one of our SimCity helpfriends, who will aid you with whatever you need! To reduce call waiting time, your phone will be dialed when you log into the game, and the call will remain active until you sign out."
Imagine a conference room with a salesman, a CEO and a bunch of politicians. Who do you propose they use to check whether the machine is actually capable of giving a negative?
The schmuck they had to pull into the room to help them find the "on" button.
I don't know about UK law, but in the US it's only libel if actual harm can be proven.
The Glorious Leader once destroyed the childhoods of an entire generation of Americans singlehandedly. His tell-all memoir, "The Manchurian Film Director", remains unpublished.
Are you sure about that?
19-22 thousand km. I'm really bad at this today.
Er...or not. I actually just checked the numbers, and the altitude given for the newfound belt (19-22km) would put it as the middle one. Bah.
It's the outermost one. TFA is disappointing because it reads more like a beg for funding than an informative look at the new belt. Here's yesterday's NBC article on the subject.
The third belt has not always been there, nor is it there now. It was blasted away by a solar shock wave a few weeks after they noticed it. The guess is that a solar shock wave is what created it in the first place, too.
You're not going to entice a kid to do anything with the promise of "math in motion".
In that case Joe is the original inventor/assignee and thus exempt from the law.
George Washington could TOTALLY beat up Mao Zedong.
What I was describing was a layman's perspective of dark matter. Or are you saying that dark matter doesn't explain galactic rotation or other "dark matter" stuff? Not snark, I honestly can't tell.
In addition to what the AC said below, it's my understanding that the galaxy rotation problem is a matter of mass distribution, rather than just plain missing mass. Adding more mass to the black hole in the center would make all the stars orbit more quickly, but it wouldn't affect the relative rotational speed from one star to another. In a system where most of the mass is clustered in the center, the outer orbits should have a lower rotational velocity - simply changing the amount of mass at the center won't change that general idea. To explain the uniform speeds going outward from the center, you have to add mass to the edge of the system, rather than the center.
But that's not equivalent to having a backdoor to the device. If I catch a courier, who never knew the key code, no prison, gun or court order will do me any good. With a backdoor, however...
What about fake back doors? How do you determine which back door is the real door?
The unsafe ones often have tramp stamps above them.
To summarize the Ada Initiative's argument, "You should never talk about sex, because if you do, you'll give women traumatizing rape flashbacks and turn all men in the audience into pathological rape-machines. Especially techies, because everyone knows techies are super-rape-happy already. So no talking about sex."
I hate it when I have to agree with people who think "feminist" is a dirty word, but in this case Ada's "Think of the children!"-esque rationale just seems absurd.
Unfortunately not - he likes to use his own proprietary equipment for the manufacturing. You just pay him the fee and introduce him to your wife, and he'll handle all the hard work for you.
Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, Fort Worth, El Paso (#s 4,7,9,13,16,19 on the list of largest US cities).
I'm pretty sure I can find some nice open spaces in Texas.
No problem. He'll sell you a ruggedized kid for $2500.
But I will be damned if I let you have the final post on this thread. No way no how. I do not cut and run. Never give up. Never surrender. And now back to dancing. Boom chicka wow huh huh yeah. Booty shakin yall.
Oh, God! MY EYES!
This term struck me as odd. The side of me that cares about meaningless pedantry wants to know why it's "asteroseismology" and not "astroseismology", but Google isn't helping much. Anyone happen to know?