No bloodlust, just a point of fact: Texas executed a a man of 26, not a child. They've executed an adult for a crime he committed as a juvenile. That's what I thought you meant, but since you phrased it incorrectly I wanted to clarify it.
Yes, it may seem an irrelevant point, but it's worth getting it right, if only to improve your credibility.
You know, I was thinking of sushi when I wrote that, but really, even that is hardly pulling out a fish and biting off the head. There's a lot of work that can really only be called "cooking", except that it doesn't involve heat, in that raw fish. After all, the guy behind the counter is a "sushi chef", not a "fishmonger".
Well, it probably should mean more efficient, but I'd hate to have to justify that in a courtroom. Certainly dictionary.com doesn't really make the case:
Economical or inexpensive to buy or use: an economy car; an economy motel
A half-empty cartridge, like a half-keg of beer or a split of champagne, is less expensive to buy, although not to use. (I know people, BTW, who swear that econoboxes cost more to operate -- cheaply built, they say, and requiring more maintenance than a full-size, full-price car, with its heavier and more durable parts.)
I haven't looked in quite a while, but printers used to say that they had "starter" carts, which certainly made the point that they were different from regular ones. Is that still the case?
"Economy" as a descriptor on a product package, is universally used to signify extra capacity, usually for a larger, but proportionally smaller, price. Except in cases of intentional deception, like this one, it never means lower payload.
Clearly the man who wrote this has never flown economy class, or spent the night at an Econo-Lodge.
A "liquid cup" is larger than a "solid cup"? What you talkin' bout, Willis?
Unless, of course, they were talking about the liquid ounce (volume, 16 / pint ) as opposed to the ounce weight, ((16 / lb). There's a rough approximation in use that "a pint's a pound the world 'round", which simply reflects the fact that most things used in cooking happen to have densities that make that correlation close enough for jazz -- 8 ounces by weight of flour will be roughly 8 ounce by volume. When the recipe calls for 8 ounces of flour, it's half a pound (bakers have scales), not a cup, but if you don't keep a kitchen scale, a cup will be close. A half-pint of iron, on the other hand, will weigh a good bit more than half a pound, so don't cast iron in your kitchen:)
Yes, I know what a demi-tasse is, and no, I was referring to a coffee cup. The cup on the side of a Maxwell House can is not a demi-tasse, it's a coffee cup, and it holds (about) 6 ounces. Here, look at this place setting -- see that cup? Find some like that, and measure their capacities.
A "measured cup" is of course 8 ounces, but that doesn't mean that every "cup" is or should be 8 ounces. The Stanley Cup is bigger, most bra cups are bigger, and the cup in a jock strap is usually smaller. Similarly, a coffee mug is smaller than a beer mug, even though they're both "mugs".
(Oh, and you'll get no laughter from me. Cooking is a necessary as well as noble art. It would be a hungry world if we had to eat everything raw off the ground.)
No, not a demi-tasse. Even my Mom only broke those out for special occasions, when we had Arabs over and needed the tiny cups of outrageously strong coffee.
Look at the side of a Maxwell House can. That's a coffee cup. It's also a tea cup, for that matter. Cups like these, typically holding five or six ounces are the standard for coffee, established back in the day (watch Lucy and Ricky or the Cleavers drink coffee -- back then mugs were for stevedores), even though most people these days use mugs. Goofy? Sure, but if they're refunding you it's because it's easier, not because they'd lose.
Oh, and the measured cup is, of course, eight ounces, but that's not the same thing -- the spoon you use to stir your tea isn't guaranteed to measure one teaspoon either, and my shoes don't have to accomodate twelve inch feet.
Remember those dinky little china things your Mom probably had, the kind you can only grip with two fingers and sip gently? That's a coffee cup, and it isn't very big -- five or maybe six ounces. The big clunky things that you and I grab with our whole hands and gulp from, that's a mug. Eight ounces is a measuring cup, and probably a mug, but not a coffee cup. You'll lose, I'm afraid.
What the hell -- I can't bathe in a butter tub either.
Why is it than we've not seen a legislative mandate that requires car manufacutrers to prevent drunk driving? How about limiters that prevent aggressive driving or speeding? Why have we not seen legislative mandates that require gun manufacturers to make guns that can't kill innocent people (or, at the very least, cannot be accidentally fired i.e. by a child)?
So I take it you've missed the campaigns for BreathAlyzers in cars, the various efforts for engine governors, and the "Smart Gun" that can only be fired by its registered owner?
Actually I was thinking of mules as well, which was my point. While they are unnatural, it can't be said that we've damaged a group that wouldn't exist except for our "damage" -- we haven't screwed up mules, we've created mules.
Individual mules may have a beef with us, but not the group as a whole, the "species" (which of course they are not).
Rather OT, and please don't take it as an insult, but I'm reminded of the book "When Did Wild Poodles Roam the Earth?". The title question, along with its introduction to the effect that "we all know that domestic species were once wild", was handed off to some good-natured museum type, whose response began, "There are no stupid questions...but this comes close!"
Different room, OK, but same circuit? Play with breakers in the basement -- my guess would be that your fridge is on the same AC line, and when it kicks in there's a voltage flucuation while it gets the pump started.
Hot air balloons, probably not -- the possibility of being becalmed directly over your enraged target would be sort of daunting. They were used for artillery spotting during the US Civil War.
Actually, there was an acoustic device, the name of which escapes me. The Something Charger, maybe?
It was going to be the Next Big Thing, downloading games over the phone into your Atari. It ended up being a niche product for fanatics.
We were developing, so the Apple was our host platform. Assemble the code into that stretch of RAM, flip the soft switch, and watch it fly -- or crash. The audio part would have been painful.
Yeah, and the early 80's was also when Honeywell stopped Multics development. FWIW, I'd describe MULTICS as a "timesharing" OS, rather than "server", which to me implies "client".
Well, I know a guy who built a card that rode inside an Apple II, with a ribbon cable and stub card-edge connector. The cart images lived on a floppy and were loaded into the RAM on the card, then a soft toggle switch (a write to $C000 or somesuch -- it's been quite a while) allowed the Atari to see the RAM as its own ROM. We used them for development, but we also surveyed the competition's work.
Of course, youi'd have to have a II+ kicking around...
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So if I experience chest pains, I should swallow a grenade? Seems like that might work once...
But shooting at it shuts it right up.
Yes, it may seem an irrelevant point, but it's worth getting it right, if only to improve your credibility.
Minor quibble, I suppose, but who executes minors?
Reread the last paragraph. It's more than a troll, it's a flatout joke.
You know, I was thinking of sushi when I wrote that, but really, even that is hardly pulling out a fish and biting off the head. There's a lot of work that can really only be called "cooking", except that it doesn't involve heat, in that raw fish. After all, the guy behind the counter is a "sushi chef", not a "fishmonger".
A half-empty cartridge, like a half-keg of beer or a split of champagne, is less expensive to buy, although not to use. (I know people, BTW, who swear that econoboxes cost more to operate -- cheaply built, they say, and requiring more maintenance than a full-size, full-price car, with its heavier and more durable parts.)
I haven't looked in quite a while, but printers used to say that they had "starter" carts, which certainly made the point that they were different from regular ones. Is that still the case?
Clearly the man who wrote this has never flown economy class, or spent the night at an Econo-Lodge.
Pabst? Where'd you go to college -- obedience school?
Unless, of course, they were talking about the liquid ounce (volume, 16 / pint ) as opposed to the ounce weight, ((16 / lb). There's a rough approximation in use that "a pint's a pound the world 'round", which simply reflects the fact that most things used in cooking happen to have densities that make that correlation close enough for jazz -- 8 ounces by weight of flour will be roughly 8 ounce by volume. When the recipe calls for 8 ounces of flour, it's half a pound (bakers have scales), not a cup, but if you don't keep a kitchen scale, a cup will be close. A half-pint of iron, on the other hand, will weigh a good bit more than half a pound, so don't cast iron in your kitchen :)
Oh, so that economy car in front of my house is a "jumbo"?
A "measured cup" is of course 8 ounces, but that doesn't mean that every "cup" is or should be 8 ounces. The Stanley Cup is bigger, most bra cups are bigger, and the cup in a jock strap is usually smaller. Similarly, a coffee mug is smaller than a beer mug, even though they're both "mugs".
(Oh, and you'll get no laughter from me. Cooking is a necessary as well as noble art. It would be a hungry world if we had to eat everything raw off the ground.)
Look at the side of a Maxwell House can. That's a coffee cup. It's also a tea cup, for that matter. Cups like these, typically holding five or six ounces are the standard for coffee, established back in the day (watch Lucy and Ricky or the Cleavers drink coffee -- back then mugs were for stevedores), even though most people these days use mugs. Goofy? Sure, but if they're refunding you it's because it's easier, not because they'd lose.
Oh, and the measured cup is, of course, eight ounces, but that's not the same thing -- the spoon you use to stir your tea isn't guaranteed to measure one teaspoon either, and my shoes don't have to accomodate twelve inch feet.
What the hell -- I can't bathe in a butter tub either.
Shakespeare in German? But it's so much better in the original Klingon!
So I take it you've missed the campaigns for BreathAlyzers in cars, the various efforts for engine governors, and the "Smart Gun" that can only be fired by its registered owner?
Individual mules may have a beef with us, but not the group as a whole, the "species" (which of course they are not).
Rather OT, and please don't take it as an insult, but I'm reminded of the book "When Did Wild Poodles Roam the Earth?". The title question, along with its introduction to the effect that "we all know that domestic species were once wild", was handed off to some good-natured museum type, whose response began, "There are no stupid questions...but this comes close!"
Now I'll think of you each time some nitwit jaywalks in front of me
Donkeys? Are you concerned that we've altered the donkey species? Boy, ligers better watch out!
Different room, OK, but same circuit? Play with breakers in the basement -- my guess would be that your fridge is on the same AC line, and when it kicks in there's a voltage flucuation while it gets the pump started.
Zeppelins were certainly used as bombers in WWI.
It was going to be the Next Big Thing, downloading games over the phone into your Atari. It ended up being a niche product for fanatics.
We were developing, so the Apple was our host platform. Assemble the code into that stretch of RAM, flip the soft switch, and watch it fly -- or crash. The audio part would have been painful.
Innovative marketing, maybe, but not the product.
Yeah, and the early 80's was also when Honeywell stopped Multics development. FWIW, I'd describe MULTICS as a "timesharing" OS, rather than "server", which to me implies "client".
Of course, youi'd have to have a II+ kicking around...