Lisa: "Dad, can I take the bus downtown?" Homer: "No! Public transport is dangerous for a girl your age!"
Situation 2:
Lisa: "Dad, can I take a limo downtown?" Homer: "I'm not paying for a limo! Just take the bus!"
I look at this and think that they didn't actually expect to win, but it softens us up to the other stuff they do because it's not as bad. It's known as the Door-in-the-Face Technique http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique
The point of armor is to prevent penetration, not impact. That's not to say that good armor doesn't also distribute the force, but I'd much rather get a bad bruise from a stopped bullet than shot by a bullet I felt no impact from.
Uh, yes, exactly. Because the person I was replying to asked "Why are we discussing a point-to-point rail system when we could be discussing a distributed web where individual transport vehicles go where they please?" Given the price of an apple, the price of an orange, and the price of a crate of oranges, I can pretty well justify an estimate for the price of a crate of apples.
And everyone I know with drug issues hates alcohol but swears by weed. Gee, isn't it great that there's this thing called science to tell us whose anecdote better reflects reality?
I've never understood this joke, despite it being a staple of bad stand-up. Where the heck do you do your shopping? Dogs and buns both come in packs of 8, or you need to switch supermarkets.
How is this and the other (the 4th one from last year) still unnamed? One would think they'd just have a sheet of names ready to go at this point, like they do with hurricanes. Nyx is already up there as a moon of Pluto, we can't name her brother Erebus? Why not some of Pluto's assistants: Aeacus, Minos, or Rhadamanthus?
I am writing to you because your government is scheduled to soon receive an 'IP Attache' from my country's Commerce Department. Please be aware that despite the departmental title, this person DOES NOT represent my will, nor the will of the American people as a whole. The position he or she occupies was created through corrupt means and despite our vocal protests. I and my fellow Americans ask that you treat this representative as the corporate thug they are. They are not a diplomat. They have neither your best interests, nor ours, as their goal, only their own. I humbly ask that you treat them as you would any other hostile entity.
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And TFS also says it runs super-silent. So you'd have to give it an artifical noise, to warn passers-by that it's approaching. Like, I dunno, "Choo-choo!" or similar.
It was more like, "Hey! We've got that whole 'Siberia' thing, right? Wouldn't it be great if we could irrigate it and make it do something useful?"
"Well, sure, but all the major rivers skirt around it and head south. There's no way to redirect that much water-flow!"
"Sure there is! WITH NUKES!!"
Meanwhile, the Americans had Op. Plowshare, which was basically fracking. But with nukes.
You're really missing the point. He's not patting himself on the back (much). He's wondering why nobody he works with seems even to want to adapt to changing tech. He KNOWS it was an easy fix, and the fact that nobody else could get it is boggling his brain.
And I don't get how people can use the word "frack" unironically (and outside of the oil industry). But you learn to suppress the vitriol and just pass on by. Let the steamfolks be, because we all have our own quirky little vices.
That was how atomic nuclei were first detected, too. We could only find them by how they deflected other particles. And yet Gold Foil Experiment -> Hiroshima took just 36 years.
Rutherford's experiment discovering the atomic nucleus was in 1909. By 1945, we had weaponized it. By 1954, we had used it to revolutionize propulsion systems (nuclear submarines).
By that timetable, we should have the Higgsbomb in 2048 and Warp Drive in 2057. But we need to keep bombing more brown people to justify the funding along the way.
My iPod Nano is controlled by buttons, not a touchscreen (yes, it's not the latest generation). To me, this makes it infinitely superior to the iPod Touch.
Not all Youtube videos with soundtracks are unauthorized. There are videos that have paid the royalties, or are uploaded by the copyright holders themselves. This guy is enabling people (so the argument goes) to make unauthorized copies of the music from, say, the newest Lady Gaga music video, and he's making a profit off of it.
I'd rather have repeat names than annoyingly boring ones. Seriously, "Space Launch System"?! What, did we run out of deities? I mean, come on, it's a rocket similar in size and power to Saturn - why not Hyperion? It's a scaled-up version of Ares, why not Odin?
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Situation 1:
Lisa: "Dad, can I take the bus downtown?" Homer: "No! Public transport is dangerous for a girl your age!"
Situation 2:
Lisa: "Dad, can I take a limo downtown?" Homer: "I'm not paying for a limo! Just take the bus!"
I look at this and think that they didn't actually expect to win, but it softens us up to the other stuff they do because it's not as bad. It's known as the Door-in-the-Face Technique http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique
The point of armor is to prevent penetration, not impact. That's not to say that good armor doesn't also distribute the force, but I'd much rather get a bad bruise from a stopped bullet than shot by a bullet I felt no impact from.
They're just trying to compete with Wipeout. Don't judge too harshly for dumbing themselves down.
Uh, yes, exactly. Because the person I was replying to asked "Why are we discussing a point-to-point rail system when we could be discussing a distributed web where individual transport vehicles go where they please?" Given the price of an apple, the price of an orange, and the price of a crate of oranges, I can pretty well justify an estimate for the price of a crate of apples.
Possibly. But how are you going to build it in the first place? $100mil per mile * 3000 miles * 425 = $127.5 trillion.
And everyone I know with drug issues hates alcohol but swears by weed. Gee, isn't it great that there's this thing called science to tell us whose anecdote better reflects reality?
I've never understood this joke, despite it being a staple of bad stand-up. Where the heck do you do your shopping? Dogs and buns both come in packs of 8, or you need to switch supermarkets.
Are you sure you don't understand why a decentralized "pod" system wouldn't work?
How is this and the other (the 4th one from last year) still unnamed? One would think they'd just have a sheet of names ready to go at this point, like they do with hurricanes. Nyx is already up there as a moon of Pluto, we can't name her brother Erebus? Why not some of Pluto's assistants: Aeacus, Minos, or Rhadamanthus?
That's what you get when you leave valuable certificates near open flames.
"Dear Sir or Madam,
I am writing to you because your government is scheduled to soon receive an 'IP Attache' from my country's Commerce Department. Please be aware that despite the departmental title, this person DOES NOT represent my will, nor the will of the American people as a whole. The position he or she occupies was created through corrupt means and despite our vocal protests. I and my fellow Americans ask that you treat this representative as the corporate thug they are. They are not a diplomat. They have neither your best interests, nor ours, as their goal, only their own. I humbly ask that you treat them as you would any other hostile entity.
Sincerely, (name)"
Assemble our hottest astronauts!
And TFS also says it runs super-silent. So you'd have to give it an artifical noise, to warn passers-by that it's approaching. Like, I dunno, "Choo-choo!" or similar.
It was more like, "Hey! We've got that whole 'Siberia' thing, right? Wouldn't it be great if we could irrigate it and make it do something useful?" "Well, sure, but all the major rivers skirt around it and head south. There's no way to redirect that much water-flow!" "Sure there is! WITH NUKES!!"
Meanwhile, the Americans had Op. Plowshare, which was basically fracking. But with nukes.
You're really missing the point. He's not patting himself on the back (much). He's wondering why nobody he works with seems even to want to adapt to changing tech. He KNOWS it was an easy fix, and the fact that nobody else could get it is boggling his brain.
And I don't get how people can use the word "frack" unironically (and outside of the oil industry). But you learn to suppress the vitriol and just pass on by. Let the steamfolks be, because we all have our own quirky little vices.
That was how atomic nuclei were first detected, too. We could only find them by how they deflected other particles. And yet Gold Foil Experiment -> Hiroshima took just 36 years.
Rutherford's experiment discovering the atomic nucleus was in 1909. By 1945, we had weaponized it. By 1954, we had used it to revolutionize propulsion systems (nuclear submarines).
By that timetable, we should have the Higgsbomb in 2048 and Warp Drive in 2057. But we need to keep bombing more brown people to justify the funding along the way.
Nano's not as good as an Ipod touch,
My iPod Nano is controlled by buttons, not a touchscreen (yes, it's not the latest generation). To me, this makes it infinitely superior to the iPod Touch.
Not all Youtube videos with soundtracks are unauthorized. There are videos that have paid the royalties, or are uploaded by the copyright holders themselves. This guy is enabling people (so the argument goes) to make unauthorized copies of the music from, say, the newest Lady Gaga music video, and he's making a profit off of it.
She's the core of Google's AI, WolframAlpha's AI, and IBM's Watson.
What are you talking about? We didn't write her into WolframAlpha, they developed their own versio...I mean, uh... You heard nothing! /neuralizer
and doesn't side-swipe them on their way by.
Sounds like it's got a bug.
I'd rather have repeat names than annoyingly boring ones. Seriously, "Space Launch System"?! What, did we run out of deities? I mean, come on, it's a rocket similar in size and power to Saturn - why not Hyperion? It's a scaled-up version of Ares, why not Odin?
Yeah, but the next question in that line is "Do you have anything worth living for?" Then Facebook gets sued for causing a thousand suicides.
She'll make point five past lightspeed. She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid.