yeah i know. when i lived downtown in san diego i deliberately patterned my life so as to not need a car. it was great for lots of reasons. it sucked for lots of reasons. people often forget that time is a currency that you are constantly spending. you give up high fuel prices, insurance, repairs, registration, parking -- and then you live a lifestyle where you don't go very far because it takes too long, you decide not to go places because relying on public/friends' transportation is inconvenient, and your travel time is restricted to when the buses run... so forget driving yourself to the emergency room, the immediate emergency is finding that ride or calling a cab (for the scenic route to the ER).
i never realized how much i missed hiking and camping until i spent a few years not being able to fit them into my schedule without a car. all these little things are alleviated somewhat by rental cars, but owning a car is much like investing in your time. you spend the money on fuel, insurance, repairs, registration, parking, etc. so you don't have to spend more time going through the motions of working out transportation issues each time you need to venture father than your bus route. i also felt bad constantly asking for rides from friends and acquaintances just to carry stuff home that i couldn't fit on the bus or bike (or in my case, skateboard). for those who commute longer than half an hour by car, imagine how long it would take if you had to catch 2 to 3 buses or ride a bicycle the same distance and subtract that extra time from your daily schedule.
despite that is my opinion, i was still being facetious about the guy's car. i know first hand why it's desirable to not have one.
filing a patent that puts this guy's tech into a standard wall clock. happy now?
that'll be $49.95 plus shipping.
$59.95 for the harder-to-read binary version.
$79.95 for the version that automatically shares on facebook the time you left your house for which bus number, along with stated destination and links to the profiles of facially-recognized facebook members seen leaving the house with you. add an additional $19.95 for the clock to automatically post pictures of you looking at said clock before you leave.
$149.95 for the version that integrates a kinect and guesses your weight, health problems, objects in pockets, and amount of money in wallet or purse -- and posts all to facebook. will not tell your fortune, because we respect your privacy.
=/ it's how some folks make their bread and butter. speaking of which, how is this guy so smart and talented but doesn't have a job that pays well enough to afford a car?
but you did forget. you forgot about international treaties (which supercede constitutional laws) such as NAFTA, that allow companies like BP Canada to ignore California's environmental regulations on MTBE. take your ginseng, biatch!
i believe that. they took over the harcourt building in downtown san diego in the mid 2000s. i applied for a job there, and they were the rudest bunch of people i've ever met for interviews. was told i'd be contacted for a second interview, but it never came. i didn't even want the job soon enough, but i was expecting to either hear that i was turned down, or given an offer to turn down myself. nada. they couldn't be bothered to follow up. and the interview questions (for a tech related job) had nothing at all to do with anything tech but were 100% focused on how well i thought i could handle micro management. handle this!
i don't think they care about that either. the planes would have to fly pretty low to the ground while breaking the sound barrier to break glass or shake things off shelves. it does happen, but not that frequently if you're one who lives around these planes. living around air force bases, you'd be used to the sounds of sonic booms, but most of them occur too high up to do any physical damage. it just sounds like thunderclaps all day without the storm.
but we do agree, they don't care about noise pollution.
i grew up on air force bases. i could be wrong, but as frequently as the sonic booms occurred, i'd bet nobody got dressed down for that. if they gave a shit about sound pollution, they wouldn't put housing next to tarmacs where they keep their C-5s. i can't count how many times i feel asleep (or woke up) to their engines.
i do my part by driving a 52 gallon tank suv/monster truck everywhere i go. i figure if i help use up all the oil resources in the world, they, you know the powers that be, will be forced to think up eco-friendly solutions quicker. right? supply and demand.
one of my exes still works in a retirement nursing home. i probably interacted with more seniors during that 7 months than you have in your entire life. now go write your mommy a letter and tell her i love her, i mean, you love her.
why, god?! why?!?!?!? why coffee without caffeine? is it because you hate us? is it because i got a facebook account? take me, lord, just don't hurt the ones i care about.
60,000 - 75,000 words is the estimate i gave when considering total words one can recognize. this isn't necessarily compound words or extensions of words, as your source says. it's not simply recognizing that ablutophobia is some kind of fear based on the -phobia extension. if it's all of a sudden valid to use anecdotal "common experience" then my common experience is to stumble on a word i know but haven't used in years, use it for a while during its brief stay in short term memory, and then forget it again when the need to use it tapers off.
your source says estimates of 20,000 words for a college graduate is low. but i never said college graduate, i said average adult. only about 1/3 of adults in this country have a bachelor's degree or higher. i shouldn't have to point you back to your own source for this. this time semantics do matter.
lastly, i'm now convinced you think my initial reply was to you, but it was in fact to JigJag, who claimed 2000 words was only for the most literate people. he's the one i'm saying doesn't have a clue. but as it turns out he's french, so the only thing that matters now is that he's a bad tipper but pretends he doesn't know. if he's french-canadian that's even worse.
you think it's misdirected because you think it's directed at you. i may have been using a sarcastic tone, but i was on your side here. i understood your point about 1000-2000 words being low. i was agreeing with you.
the glass is liquid statement was extremely general, and i find it hard to take the semantics of this seriously when water itself can be a liquid, crystalline solid and amorphous solid. have you ever seen molten glass? it's like a syrup. it's really about picking and choosing which phases of temperature and pressure you prefer to use for nitpicking. i'm on the sidelines of this academic deathmatch, ready to tell the winner it didn't really matter in the end.
In terms of molecular dynamics and thermodynamics it is possible to justify various different views that it is a highly viscous liquid, an amorphous solid, or simply that glass is another state of matter that is neither liquid nor solid. The difference is semantic.
good idea. let's all stop having children. maybe we'll start up again when we're down to 10 million people worldwide, and maybe by then we'll have lost our parenting instincts, but we'll worry about that when the next natural disaster threatens a final extinction. genius. we'll cut out your uterus and castrate your relatives first, in honor.
and are even paid extra to fix their bugs after creating them.
this is the standard procedure when you, the client, approve work without kicking the tires. obviously there are some exceptional situations, and some legalese is required. if you don't want to pay for bugs to get fixed, either don't approve them or get a warranty. nobody writes bug-free code, that's a myth inherent in non-programmers. but on the whole, if you buy something without warranty, you get what you get. that's the whole point of charging extra for warranties.
if i'm a landscaper and i plant the trees you want me to plant, and later you find out they give you allergies, i'm not pulling the trees out for free. nor will i take shit off you for not knowing you're allergic. there are other analogies you could use to try to disprove me. my analogy doesn't prove me correct, but i believe i am and it helps illustrate why.
it's also hard to believe glass is a liquid or that oxygen is harmful. usually only to those who've never bothered to find out. i'm not really interested in someone's personal beliefs on the matter, this isn't religion.
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like, whatever bro, he's right. healthy activities like sports don't promote violence at all. like football or hockey. bro!
yeah i know. when i lived downtown in san diego i deliberately patterned my life so as to not need a car. it was great for lots of reasons. it sucked for lots of reasons. people often forget that time is a currency that you are constantly spending. you give up high fuel prices, insurance, repairs, registration, parking -- and then you live a lifestyle where you don't go very far because it takes too long, you decide not to go places because relying on public/friends' transportation is inconvenient, and your travel time is restricted to when the buses run... so forget driving yourself to the emergency room, the immediate emergency is finding that ride or calling a cab (for the scenic route to the ER).
i never realized how much i missed hiking and camping until i spent a few years not being able to fit them into my schedule without a car. all these little things are alleviated somewhat by rental cars, but owning a car is much like investing in your time. you spend the money on fuel, insurance, repairs, registration, parking, etc. so you don't have to spend more time going through the motions of working out transportation issues each time you need to venture father than your bus route. i also felt bad constantly asking for rides from friends and acquaintances just to carry stuff home that i couldn't fit on the bus or bike (or in my case, skateboard). for those who commute longer than half an hour by car, imagine how long it would take if you had to catch 2 to 3 buses or ride a bicycle the same distance and subtract that extra time from your daily schedule.
despite that is my opinion, i was still being facetious about the guy's car. i know first hand why it's desirable to not have one.
filing a patent that puts this guy's tech into a standard wall clock. happy now?
that'll be $49.95 plus shipping.
$59.95 for the harder-to-read binary version.
$79.95 for the version that automatically shares on facebook the time you left your house for which bus number, along with stated destination and links to the profiles of facially-recognized facebook members seen leaving the house with you. add an additional $19.95 for the clock to automatically post pictures of you looking at said clock before you leave.
$149.95 for the version that integrates a kinect and guesses your weight, health problems, objects in pockets, and amount of money in wallet or purse -- and posts all to facebook. will not tell your fortune, because we respect your privacy.
those are invisible facetious tags around my last statement
=/ it's how some folks make their bread and butter. speaking of which, how is this guy so smart and talented but doesn't have a job that pays well enough to afford a car?
but you did forget. you forgot about international treaties (which supercede constitutional laws) such as NAFTA, that allow companies like BP Canada to ignore California's environmental regulations on MTBE. take your ginseng, biatch!
but you're not first... so sorry
in a way they have. the convenience they bring us has convinced most of us to give up lifestyles that might include triathlons.
you're cut off.
you can say you boycott elsevier and all you got was this lousy t-shirt:
http://www.zazzle.com/boycott_elsevier_tshirt-235873216875680932
i believe that. they took over the harcourt building in downtown san diego in the mid 2000s. i applied for a job there, and they were the rudest bunch of people i've ever met for interviews. was told i'd be contacted for a second interview, but it never came. i didn't even want the job soon enough, but i was expecting to either hear that i was turned down, or given an offer to turn down myself. nada. they couldn't be bothered to follow up. and the interview questions (for a tech related job) had nothing at all to do with anything tech but were 100% focused on how well i thought i could handle micro management. handle this!
i don't think they care about that either. the planes would have to fly pretty low to the ground while breaking the sound barrier to break glass or shake things off shelves. it does happen, but not that frequently if you're one who lives around these planes. living around air force bases, you'd be used to the sounds of sonic booms, but most of them occur too high up to do any physical damage. it just sounds like thunderclaps all day without the storm.
but we do agree, they don't care about noise pollution.
i grew up on air force bases. i could be wrong, but as frequently as the sonic booms occurred, i'd bet nobody got dressed down for that. if they gave a shit about sound pollution, they wouldn't put housing next to tarmacs where they keep their C-5s. i can't count how many times i feel asleep (or woke up) to their engines.
moot point. obviously all PETA members are willing to undergo these tests themselves in order to spare the animals.
i do my part by driving a 52 gallon tank suv/monster truck everywhere i go. i figure if i help use up all the oil resources in the world, they, you know the powers that be, will be forced to think up eco-friendly solutions quicker. right? supply and demand.
"oh, our language engine sucks? uhh, you fix it!" yeah right.
thinking the same thing. before too long all they'll do is churn out refurbs.
cheers, buddy
one of my exes still works in a retirement nursing home. i probably interacted with more seniors during that 7 months than you have in your entire life. now go write your mommy a letter and tell her i love her, i mean, you love her.
why, god?! why?!?!?!? why coffee without caffeine? is it because you hate us? is it because i got a facebook account? take me, lord, just don't hurt the ones i care about.
3 things here:
60,000 - 75,000 words is the estimate i gave when considering total words one can recognize. this isn't necessarily compound words or extensions of words, as your source says. it's not simply recognizing that ablutophobia is some kind of fear based on the -phobia extension. if it's all of a sudden valid to use anecdotal "common experience" then my common experience is to stumble on a word i know but haven't used in years, use it for a while during its brief stay in short term memory, and then forget it again when the need to use it tapers off.
your source says estimates of 20,000 words for a college graduate is low. but i never said college graduate, i said average adult. only about 1/3 of adults in this country have a bachelor's degree or higher. i shouldn't have to point you back to your own source for this. this time semantics do matter.
lastly, i'm now convinced you think my initial reply was to you, but it was in fact to JigJag, who claimed 2000 words was only for the most literate people. he's the one i'm saying doesn't have a clue. but as it turns out he's french, so the only thing that matters now is that he's a bad tipper but pretends he doesn't know. if he's french-canadian that's even worse.
the glass is liquid statement was extremely general, and i find it hard to take the semantics of this seriously when water itself can be a liquid, crystalline solid and amorphous solid. have you ever seen molten glass? it's like a syrup. it's really about picking and choosing which phases of temperature and pressure you prefer to use for nitpicking. i'm on the sidelines of this academic deathmatch, ready to tell the winner it didn't really matter in the end.
In terms of molecular dynamics and thermodynamics it is possible to justify various different views that it is a highly viscous liquid, an amorphous solid, or simply that glass is another state of matter that is neither liquid nor solid. The difference is semantic.
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/Glass/glass.html
good idea. let's all stop having children. maybe we'll start up again when we're down to 10 million people worldwide, and maybe by then we'll have lost our parenting instincts, but we'll worry about that when the next natural disaster threatens a final extinction. genius. we'll cut out your uterus and castrate your relatives first, in honor.
and are even paid extra to fix their bugs after creating them.
this is the standard procedure when you, the client, approve work without kicking the tires. obviously there are some exceptional situations, and some legalese is required. if you don't want to pay for bugs to get fixed, either don't approve them or get a warranty. nobody writes bug-free code, that's a myth inherent in non-programmers. but on the whole, if you buy something without warranty, you get what you get. that's the whole point of charging extra for warranties.
if i'm a landscaper and i plant the trees you want me to plant, and later you find out they give you allergies, i'm not pulling the trees out for free. nor will i take shit off you for not knowing you're allergic. there are other analogies you could use to try to disprove me. my analogy doesn't prove me correct, but i believe i am and it helps illustrate why.
it's also hard to believe glass is a liquid or that oxygen is harmful. usually only to those who've never bothered to find out. i'm not really interested in someone's personal beliefs on the matter, this isn't religion.