cry me a river. your mom doesn't want that shit, she wants what people like her did back before we had all this hi-tech: to write and receive hand written letters.
you don't have a clue. there's a difference between words you know and words you use. the average high school student knows about 10,000 words and uses about 3000-5000 per week. the average adult knows about 20,000 words and uses about 2000 per week. that's not necessarily the same 2000 words. there are also differences between reading, listening, and speaking vocabularies. reading vocabularies are always much higher than spoken ones, and i'm pretty sure no one will disagree that our speaking vocabs are larger than our listening ones. if you count the words we don't know but are able to recognize based on other words we do know, we have vocabs capable of 65,000-75,000 words. what you do with those words is up to you.
In the early days of the Internet, there was hope that the unprecedented tool for global communication would lead to thoughtful sharing and discussion on its most popular sites.
just like when television first came out we thought it had potential as an unprecedented tool for learning. HA!
i'm not affiliated with them in any way, just a bystander. but i hate to see awesome sites like this discredit themselves perceptually by looking like a geocities site.
agreed, this headline is absolutely stupid. the real story was a day-in-the-life of facebook's engineering team, and in passing, toward the end, Takei is briefly mentioned. and he's only mentioned because this particular engineer recognized Takei apart from the other millions of users. and if it wasn't Takei it would have been some other celebrity. as he said, they were already aware of the issue. this headline is a cheap pandering to sci-fi tastes to get attention, because any headline with the word facebook in it better be justified. this one wasn't. notice how the blog's headline doesn't mention Takei at all. without reading it you'd never know, and probably still don't care.
unfortunately, it took eugenics to kill off the stupid idea that black people are 3/5 human. so there's that. we now also have the human genome decoded. so there's that too.
this entire discussion has been offtopic, spinning off my patent joke. it looks like i whooshed the entire slashdot population. the joke was about patents, not measurement units. i never declared nor implied standard to be "standard" or in any way superior (or inferior for that matter) to metric. apart from this comment i'm making now, not a single person has commented anything outside of the joke's thread. if you want proof that you are all morons, my first joke was modded a Troll and my instant comment to myself was modded Funny.
at no point in any of your rambling, incoherent responses were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. everyone on this site is now dumber for having read them. i award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul.
i had no idea there was a zealous metric religion out there. you should all catch the next comet out of here, seriously.
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cry me a river. your mom doesn't want that shit, she wants what people like her did back before we had all this hi-tech: to write and receive hand written letters.
you don't have a clue. there's a difference between words you know and words you use. the average high school student knows about 10,000 words and uses about 3000-5000 per week. the average adult knows about 20,000 words and uses about 2000 per week. that's not necessarily the same 2000 words. there are also differences between reading, listening, and speaking vocabularies. reading vocabularies are always much higher than spoken ones, and i'm pretty sure no one will disagree that our speaking vocabs are larger than our listening ones. if you count the words we don't know but are able to recognize based on other words we do know, we have vocabs capable of 65,000-75,000 words. what you do with those words is up to you.
they're just publishing so they don't get fired.
say hello to my leetle eenjunction!
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In the early days of the Internet, there was hope that the unprecedented tool for global communication would lead to thoughtful sharing and discussion on its most popular sites.
just like when television first came out we thought it had potential as an unprecedented tool for learning. HA!
ladies and gentlemen, i present to you, Jedi Grandmaster Flynn Michael
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPj6viIBmU
so then a fishing boat is going to take out the enterprise?
i'm an organ donor, and i would gladly be "snuffed" to give you an organ transplant that would save your life. don't take it like that.
if only. they're not just people. there is a world of difference between joe six-pack and a NATO officer in terms of privacy.
put LSD in beer. or legalize it for sale at bars. brilliant. give me a nobel prize.
yep. what a horrible analogy, this clock. it only serves to elevate fear.
take the fluoride out of the drinking water, and replace it with this stuff
if(mySyntax == yourSyntax){ Anonymous Coward = loser; }
FTFY (notice it's not a strict comparison)
we're counting on it, sucker.
-- every asshole on earth
exactly. all this says is Wallet can't compete with the other payment systems. so rather than try, google's gonna take its ball and go home.
cutting off your nose to spite your base
in other news, the sale of claw-foot bathtubs and bagged ice has seen a dramatic increase
i'm not affiliated with them in any way, just a bystander. but i hate to see awesome sites like this discredit themselves perceptually by looking like a geocities site.
(Score:10, Funny)
FTF/.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#National_corporatism.2C_socialism_and_syndicalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
right about the year 1819 is when the idea started to form the avalanche that really got going in the late 1800s.
also somebody please donate your leet web design skillz to this site: http://reclaimdemocracy.org/personhood/
now there's a slashdot meme i haven't seen in a while.
agreed, this headline is absolutely stupid. the real story was a day-in-the-life of facebook's engineering team, and in passing, toward the end, Takei is briefly mentioned. and he's only mentioned because this particular engineer recognized Takei apart from the other millions of users. and if it wasn't Takei it would have been some other celebrity. as he said, they were already aware of the issue. this headline is a cheap pandering to sci-fi tastes to get attention, because any headline with the word facebook in it better be justified. this one wasn't. notice how the blog's headline doesn't mention Takei at all. without reading it you'd never know, and probably still don't care.
unfortunately, it took eugenics to kill off the stupid idea that black people are 3/5 human. so there's that. we now also have the human genome decoded. so there's that too.
this entire discussion has been offtopic, spinning off my patent joke. it looks like i whooshed the entire slashdot population. the joke was about patents, not measurement units. i never declared nor implied standard to be "standard" or in any way superior (or inferior for that matter) to metric. apart from this comment i'm making now, not a single person has commented anything outside of the joke's thread. if you want proof that you are all morons, my first joke was modded a Troll and my instant comment to myself was modded Funny.
at no point in any of your rambling, incoherent responses were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. everyone on this site is now dumber for having read them. i award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul.
i had no idea there was a zealous metric religion out there. you should all catch the next comet out of here, seriously.