Ammunition and pharmaceuticals. You can't go wrong with those two. And why trust the bank? You couldn't get at your assets at night, never mind weekends and holidays.
Remember, if you can't either pack it or leave it within ten minutes, it owns you.
In fact, reaching deep into my trove of useless trivia, I seem to recall that we in the US snitched the term from the Spanish, along with an arcane bit of slang: the Spanish dollar, circulated in the old West, was often broken into 8 pieces (it may even have been scored to facilitate this, but I may be making that up.) One quarter of a dollar was, therefore, two of these bits, leading to such Americanisms as "two-bit whore" and the ever-popular secret knock pattern, "Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits".
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You know, I have never, in 43 years, heard an American use "stone". That's a Brit thing.
And of course we inherited the whole system. As I recall, the "lb." abbreviation has something to do with the French "livre", and also led to the the "pound sterling" symbol, that fancy-schmancy "L" that featured so prominently on the Commodore keyboards of yore.
As for word width, well, there's nothing especially holy about multiples of 8. CDC used to make machines with a 60-bit word, because they mostly dealt with numbers, not text manipulation, and big fat words like that allow for big fat numbers, although storing an ASCII file in 60 bit words would be clumsy as hell (As a side note, I used to work with the CP1600, which was a real 16-bit machine. There was no way to address a byte, although there was an 8-bit shift so that you could pack ASCII into words to save space and slow down annoyingly fast programs.)
I think your last point -- "everything scientific thus far in the world has been explained by mathematics or logic" -- is tautological, inasmuch as we define as scientific those things that can be explained by mathematics or logic. It's a bit like saying that "everything we've been able to measure is measurable" -- one can't argue the point, but one hasn't really learned anything from the statement either.
Did he cause harm to my reputation? Maybe, but anyone who'd take a kook or troll's commentary to heart is a moron in the first place.
For a journalist, this seems a remarkably naive attitude. Have you never seen the effect of a rumour? The original source may be a known idiot, but once it gets a couple of steps away, people of some standing may start hearing it. Information has a way of getting laundered, like money, and pretty soon "everybody knows" that you put gerbils up your ass or whatever, without anybody really knowing where they heard it.
Besides, I'm not at all sure that using the law isn't a mature approach. It certainly beats going after the guy with a baseball bat, for instance, even though that's a long-standing manly approach, and it may be more effective than simply ignoring the problem and hoping that it will go away, or at least that he will get bored and move on to someone else. Litigation has a bad reputation, and obviously it can be abusive, but it's also a process of submitting a dispute to a disinterested third party.
Now me, I've got no reputation to speak of, so don't bother. People already hide their gerbils when they see me.:)
Your card comment reminded me of an incident when I worked at Sears. For some reason, our store had a remarkably high turnover of Brand Central managers, like 6 in the 5 years that I worked there. The fourth, I think it was, asked for cards and got a small box, say 250 instead of the 400 that I think we lowly salesdroids got, and they didn't even have his name, just "Brand Central Manager". It was like something out of a war movie -- you know, don't bother learning the newbie's name until he survives for at least a month.
Next time your sis-in-law has your head underwater, point out to her that the term "server" was coined to simplify life for her bosses by allowing them to ignore her gender or even her humanity. "Waitron" was going a little too far, but "server" worked nicely. Her dignity was never a factor in the decision.
If she waits on tables, and is a woman, then "waitress" seems highly appropriate. It's an honest title for an honest job (and I always tip 20%.)
Real journalists have never worked at Pravda. That it's become a sensationalist rag rather than a Soviet-government-mouthpiece rag might be a surprise, but it's always been a rag wonderfully suited to wrapping fish.
Not to be provocative, but just curious: how complex are typical Canadian ballots?
Down here we vote for Senatrons some years, Congresscritters every other year, Presidents every four, and Mayors, City Councilmen, Aldermen, Wizards, PooBahs, and whatnot whenever the spirit moves us. I don't really know the Canadian setup, but if it's like the UK, then it would be one Federal offcial (MP) and locals. Do you elect an upper house?
Plus, of course, I got to vote on 14 bond issues, half a dozen judges, and a couple of local charter amendments. I think we just enjoy voting....
There's also that keyword there, "malignant". There are benign, non-cancerous tumors as well, and while they aren't a good thing by anybody's definition, they're not cancerous either.
Hey, hurray for AmTote! I worked for them (well, technically for World Wide Wagering Systems, but we programed the systems for them and worked in the same building & stuff) back in the age of steam, around '83. Gotta' say, this wouldn't have happened on my watch, but then, I was doing the ontrack stuff, and it wouldn't even have occurred to us to hold a bet until after the race was run -- it went into the back-end immediately, performance and congestion be damned, for exactly this reason. Back then, men were men, and TIM's were TIM's, and Truth and Justice were Truth and Justice.
Any chance they can get OTB back, now that AutoTote has covered themselves with shit?
The Internet (or more properly speaking, Arpanet) was created as an experiment with DoD funding. The experiment was, in Defense terms, not particularly successful, and they moved on to other ways of getting their job done, leaving the Internet to academics and, well, fools and poltroons like us.
Did you really think that the Pentagon was letting us all play on their wires? This isn't War Games, and the military planners aren't brain-dead.
No, you're thinking of the Grace L. Fergusen Airline & Storm Door Company:
Uh... our airline was founded on the philosophy that what the American public was really looking for was a low cost overseas transportation. We have attempted to eliminate what we call in the airline business frills and extras like uh... maintenance, and... uh... radar, and a whole bunch of uh... uh... technical instruments up in the uh...
Oh, one of the reasons I came out here, I nearly forgot, uh... have any of you ever, ever been to Hawaii before ? This gentleman right here ? It's kind of liver shaped, isn't it, sir ?
Then clearly the answer is that everyone else should shut the hell up and let me talk! What is it with you people, anyway, nattering on about your petty problems...
Yes, of course I've used a manual typewriter (or maybe not "of course", but then, I used to dial the telephone and wind my watch, too, and I don't suppose most Slashdotters would say that.) Wish I still had my old Underwood, or even the little Olivetti. Thing is, I don't think any computer has ever used a manual typewriter, and I think that the 0D-0A sequence was that used by teletypes (I'm not sure about Decwriters.)
However, I have neither a TTY nor a TTY manual around here anywhere. Anybody?
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Sure. I think I copped it from Zelazney or somebody, though.
Remember, if you can't either pack it or leave it within ten minutes, it owns you.
Shower, although I have been known to clean my hands and face with a WetNap while driving.
In fact, reaching deep into my trove of useless trivia, I seem to recall that we in the US snitched the term from the Spanish, along with an arcane bit of slang: the Spanish dollar, circulated in the old West, was often broken into 8 pieces (it may even have been scored to facilitate this, but I may be making that up.) One quarter of a dollar was, therefore, two of these bits, leading to such Americanisms as "two-bit whore" and the ever-popular secret knock pattern, "Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits".
And of course we inherited the whole system. As I recall, the "lb." abbreviation has something to do with the French "livre", and also led to the the "pound sterling" symbol, that fancy-schmancy "L" that featured so prominently on the Commodore keyboards of yore.
As for word width, well, there's nothing especially holy about multiples of 8. CDC used to make machines with a 60-bit word, because they mostly dealt with numbers, not text manipulation, and big fat words like that allow for big fat numbers, although storing an ASCII file in 60 bit words would be clumsy as hell (As a side note, I used to work with the CP1600, which was a real 16-bit machine. There was no way to address a byte, although there was an 8-bit shift so that you could pack ASCII into words to save space and slow down annoyingly fast programs.)
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I think your last point -- "everything scientific thus far in the world has been explained by mathematics or logic" -- is tautological, inasmuch as we define as scientific those things that can be explained by mathematics or logic. It's a bit like saying that "everything we've been able to measure is measurable" -- one can't argue the point, but one hasn't really learned anything from the statement either.
For a journalist, this seems a remarkably naive attitude. Have you never seen the effect of a rumour? The original source may be a known idiot, but once it gets a couple of steps away, people of some standing may start hearing it. Information has a way of getting laundered, like money, and pretty soon "everybody knows" that you put gerbils up your ass or whatever, without anybody really knowing where they heard it.
Besides, I'm not at all sure that using the law isn't a mature approach. It certainly beats going after the guy with a baseball bat, for instance, even though that's a long-standing manly approach, and it may be more effective than simply ignoring the problem and hoping that it will go away, or at least that he will get bored and move on to someone else. Litigation has a bad reputation, and obviously it can be abusive, but it's also a process of submitting a dispute to a disinterested third party.
Now me, I've got no reputation to speak of, so don't bother. People already hide their gerbils when they see me. :)
Somebody has, and I'm grateful:
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Your card comment reminded me of an incident when I worked at Sears. For some reason, our store had a remarkably high turnover of Brand Central managers, like 6 in the 5 years that I worked there. The fourth, I think it was, asked for cards and got a small box, say 250 instead of the 400 that I think we lowly salesdroids got, and they didn't even have his name, just "Brand Central Manager". It was like something out of a war movie -- you know, don't bother learning the newbie's name until he survives for at least a month.
If she waits on tables, and is a woman, then "waitress" seems highly appropriate. It's an honest title for an honest job (and I always tip 20%.)
Real journalists have never worked at Pravda. That it's become a sensationalist rag rather than a Soviet-government-mouthpiece rag might be a surprise, but it's always been a rag wonderfully suited to wrapping fish.
Down here we vote for Senatrons some years, Congresscritters every other year, Presidents every four, and Mayors, City Councilmen, Aldermen, Wizards, PooBahs, and whatnot whenever the spirit moves us. I don't really know the Canadian setup, but if it's like the UK, then it would be one Federal offcial (MP) and locals. Do you elect an upper house?
Plus, of course, I got to vote on 14 bond issues, half a dozen judges, and a couple of local charter amendments. I think we just enjoy voting....
There's also that keyword there, "malignant". There are benign, non-cancerous tumors as well, and while they aren't a good thing by anybody's definition, they're not cancerous either.
Any chance they can get OTB back, now that AutoTote has covered themselves with shit?
I see your Keyser Soze, and I raise you C. S. Lewis.
Did you really think that the Pentagon was letting us all play on their wires? This isn't War Games, and the military planners aren't brain-dead.
We survived almost as long without airplanes. Maybe you should walk.
Then clearly the answer is that everyone else should shut the hell up and let me talk! What is it with you people, anyway, nattering on about your petty problems...
However, I have neither a TTY nor a TTY manual around here anywhere. Anybody?
Is this somehow related to driving on the left side of the road?
Well, he did say he has trouble breathing. Maybe that means he hasn't actually drawn a breath since 1972.
There, that's two right there.
I don't know about that. Sounds like he was smart enough to get you to stand there and spell words to a dog. :)