Dubya: we need to kill Hubble. We have more, erhm.., pressing needs for money Hubble astronomers: No wait! We found another Pluto moon ! NASA: come on, we can't kill the thing, it's useful Dubya: hmm, I dunno... Astronomers: Wait! wait! anOTHER moon!! NASA: Wow Dubya: stop that... Astronomers: Hold on... HOLY CRAP, TEN MORE MOONS! and a black hole inside Jupiter too!!! Dubya: We're closing guys, you need to go home now... Astronomers: NO REALLY! LOOK! ALL THESE MOONS!!!...
Okay then: "two big asteroids are known to be orbiting around each other beyond Neptune, but two more are presumed to have joined the party, which incidentally pisses Neptune off to high heavens".
In America, television is emasculated to suit the whims of puritanical christians and crazy neocons.
Or were you extremely sarcastic?
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There's a movie in France called "Les visiteurs" (the visitors). It's a hilarious movie about some middle-age french aristocrat and his servant time-travelling into our age and messing things up right and left. The movie is very funny... in France, because it relies almost exclusively on twists of the French language, and on French cultural references. I heard this movie was adapted to the US market and did a perfect flop there.
Well I believe it'll be the same for Omar Simpson: the original Homer is funny because it deforms and amplifies flaws in the US society. It's reasonably funny in many western countries, because the american culture is kind of universal, and even when it's dubbed, it's not too hard to understand half of the jokes (many very US-centric jokes are lost in France, Sweden or Spain though, particularly those involving famous personalities known only to the US public).
But in countries far from westerm values, and not as developed, with different and sometimes stricter sets of moral values, adapting the Simpsons to suit these people will suck the marrow out of the bone. It'll the arab version of the US "the visitors" flop. Either give them the full unabridged, ashamedly US version of Homer and let half of them love it and the other half hate it, or give them Omar and let all of them hate it.
within 3 days, 20% of the fish start exhibiting signs of mental retardation
I really must ask: did they give the fishies SAT tests or something? because I have to say, all fish look retarded to me, especially when they see me hook and pull their friends out of the water one by one, yet keep coming at the same floating dead worm over and over again...
why asbestos causes harm. Is the the morphology (shape) of it that is the key?
A doc friend of mine told me asbestos particles are long and pointy and act as minute glass shards inside the lung alveoles, and they pierce cells over and over as the lungs open and collapse during respiration. Cells repair themselves all the time, but under these repeated micro-stresses, they have to do it a whole lot more, and eventually fail to do it correctly and turn into cancer cells.
There are even smaller things than nanoparticles and they get into our lungs all the time. O2 comes to mind, it's such a small molecule it even permeates the lung tissues and dissolves into the blood ferchrissake!
isolate people from one another, make them sedentary and homebound, render many hours of their days sterile and counterproductive,...
Great, that's all we need, 4 simultaneous screens filled with crap. If only they could raise the level of current programs and take commercials away, I'd pay dearly for such television. In the meantime, I'll stick to my books thank you very much.
Most of these "true audiophiles" are the kind who swear by valve amps, separate elements stereo systems and expensive gold cables. The truth is, there's no reason why well-designed TCP/IP-based speakers would be less good than analog ones, especially over 2m from the amplifier.
This is so ridiculously wasteful. Because someone is too lazy to drive a couple miles and return a video, they buy a disposable DVD instead? How idle can someone honestly be?
You mean wasteful as in driving only a couple of miles instead of cycling or walking the distance?
Funny how you deem self-destruct DVDs wasteful, but somehow wasting oil to avoid a bit of exercise is perfectly okay to you...
a new technique for power distribution that might provide electricity using a series of small "microgrids", in a manner similar to peer-to-peer software.
And you can bet on countless participants finding ways to not share at a 1:1 ratio, just like on most P2P networks...
I guess you don't recall too good, and whoever modded you informative is an idiot.
The Quetzalcoatl (without -us at the end) is a mythical Aztec feathered-snake god. Whether it had a large wingspan or not is irrelevant, as the key word here is "mythical"...
A Spitfire has a wingspan of 11m and has to be powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine," Martill said. "Pterosaurs did it on a diet of fish and a superb ability to utilise air currents, thermals and ground effects.
Muscles are the most efficient actuation devices for small sizes. Mechanical equivalents are either power-hungry, awkward (too large, too small, too limited in the ways they output their power...) or not flexible enough.
Muscles produce powerful, fine-grained motion, with only ridiculous amounts of sugar and oxygen. I'm not sure comparing a big dinosaur with a big airplane means anything, as one is the result of millions of years of evolution, and the other only 50 years.
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I've never tried Emacs, but then again I don't do a huge amount of text editing.
Hey you know what? I really like Birkensocks, but then again I'm a double leg amputee...
Don't forget:
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- Detergent
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otherwise don't bother to come home.
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You're right, with this, Emacs rocks.
Dubya: we need to kill Hubble. We have more, erhm.., pressing needs for money
Hubble astronomers: No wait! We found another Pluto moon !
NASA: come on, we can't kill the thing, it's useful
Dubya: hmm, I dunno...
Astronomers: Wait! wait! anOTHER moon!!
NASA: Wow
Dubya: stop that...
Astronomers: Hold on... HOLY CRAP, TEN MORE MOONS! and a black hole inside Jupiter too!!!
Dubya: We're closing guys, you need to go home now...
Astronomers: NO REALLY! LOOK! ALL THESE MOONS!!!
Okay then: "two big asteroids are known to be orbiting around each other beyond Neptune, but two more are presumed to have joined the party, which incidentally pisses Neptune off to high heavens".
Pluto now officially has three moons
More like "four big asteroids are gravitating around each other beyond the orbit of Neptune".
No, nobody's doing it because it's stupid.
>>Can anyone give an Arabic translation of this? the English equivalent would be something like "Oh my fucking god" only a little less vulgar.
Oh my fucking Allah?
In America, television is emasculated to suit the whims of puritanical christians and crazy neocons.
Or were you extremely sarcastic?
There's a movie in France called "Les visiteurs" (the visitors). It's a hilarious movie about some middle-age french aristocrat and his servant time-travelling into our age and messing things up right and left. The movie is very funny... in France, because it relies almost exclusively on twists of the French language, and on French cultural references. I heard this movie was adapted to the US market and did a perfect flop there.
Well I believe it'll be the same for Omar Simpson: the original Homer is funny because it deforms and amplifies flaws in the US society. It's reasonably funny in many western countries, because the american culture is kind of universal, and even when it's dubbed, it's not too hard to understand half of the jokes (many very US-centric jokes are lost in France, Sweden or Spain though, particularly those involving famous personalities known only to the US public).
But in countries far from westerm values, and not as developed, with different and sometimes stricter sets of moral values, adapting the Simpsons to suit these people will suck the marrow out of the bone. It'll the arab version of the US "the visitors" flop. Either give them the full unabridged, ashamedly US version of Homer and let half of them love it and the other half hate it, or give them Omar and let all of them hate it.
within 3 days, 20% of the fish start exhibiting signs of mental retardation
I really must ask: did they give the fishies SAT tests or something? because I have to say, all fish look retarded to me, especially when they see me hook and pull their friends out of the water one by one, yet keep coming at the same floating dead worm over and over again...
why asbestos causes harm. Is the the morphology (shape) of it that is the key?
A doc friend of mine told me asbestos particles are long and pointy and act as minute glass shards inside the lung alveoles, and they pierce cells over and over as the lungs open and collapse during respiration. Cells repair themselves all the time, but under these repeated micro-stresses, they have to do it a whole lot more, and eventually fail to do it correctly and turn into cancer cells.
There are even smaller things than nanoparticles and they get into our lungs all the time. O2 comes to mind, it's such a small molecule it even permeates the lung tissues and dissolves into the blood ferchrissake!
The cuts reflect a change in emphasis away from robotic technology and toward human exploration of space.
The cuts reflect the tremendous cost of warmongering around the world...
isolate people from one another, make them sedentary and homebound, render many hours of their days sterile and counterproductive,...
Great, that's all we need, 4 simultaneous screens filled with crap. If only they could raise the level of current programs and take commercials away, I'd pay dearly for such television. In the meantime, I'll stick to my books thank you very much.
true audiophiles will not accept them.
You misspelled audio poseur...
Most of these "true audiophiles" are the kind who swear by valve amps, separate elements stereo systems and expensive gold cables. The truth is, there's no reason why well-designed TCP/IP-based speakers would be less good than analog ones, especially over 2m from the amplifier.
The thing is amazingly small, but it looks as though worries about the screen being too small and too dim aren't true.
Look at the bright side: if they had called it GameBoy Nano, it would have a scratch-prone screen, so it's not so bad...
our favorite geek hero has trascended beyond the realms of our known universe
I think what you mean is that Linus fork()ed and got 3 new processes going...
This is so ridiculously wasteful. Because someone is too lazy to drive a couple miles and return a video, they buy a disposable DVD instead? How idle can someone honestly be?
You mean wasteful as in driving only a couple of miles instead of cycling or walking the distance?
Funny how you deem self-destruct DVDs wasteful, but somehow wasting oil to avoid a bit of exercise is perfectly okay to you...
Hush, hush, Don't tell them!
a new technique for power distribution that might provide electricity using a series of small "microgrids", in a manner similar to peer-to-peer software.
And you can bet on countless participants finding ways to not share at a 1:1 ratio, just like on most P2P networks...
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I guess you don't recall too good, and whoever modded you informative is an idiot.
The Quetzalcoatl (without -us at the end) is a mythical Aztec feathered-snake god. Whether it had a large wingspan or not is irrelevant, as the key word here is "mythical"...
Aerobrake?
A Spitfire has a wingspan of 11m and has to be powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine," Martill said. "Pterosaurs did it on a diet of fish and a superb ability to utilise air currents, thermals and ground effects.
Muscles are the most efficient actuation devices for small sizes. Mechanical equivalents are either power-hungry, awkward (too large, too small, too limited in the ways they output their power...) or not flexible enough.
Muscles produce powerful, fine-grained motion, with only ridiculous amounts of sugar and oxygen. I'm not sure comparing a big dinosaur with a big airplane means anything, as one is the result of millions of years of evolution, and the other only 50 years.