Long before kitchen grease was used for biofuel, it was and still is used to make soap. 35 years ago when I started working in the restaurant business, the grease had always been collected in a barrel out back when it was time to change the fryers. and about once a month a company would collect the contents of the barrel to go towards the production of soap. Been that way for the last 35 years.
When I first read the above, I was horrified. Then I realized that it actually said soap, not soup like my mind substituted.
I used to have pages of notes in my calculator back in college. And this was over a decade ago.
If it is possible to actually cheat with a graphics calculator, you wrote the test wrong. For any math algebra and beyond, showing your work is far more important than what the actual answer is.
I am liking the trend (started primarily by Paizo) of role-playing companies that give Print + PDF bundles for their books. I love having access to reference PDFs on my laptop. When regular ebooks start coming bundled with hardcovers or at a more reasonable price, they will definitely take off. As it is, who wants to pay more than a softcover price for a novel?
Even worse is that many university bookstores will mark up prices above the MSRP. I remember once as a student I found the exact same book in both the Textbooks section and the normal bookstore area. The one in Textbooks was 20% more expensive. And they wonder why students started buying their books on Amazon.
There's a big difference between trying to force all porn sites to use.xxx (or any other specific term) and allowing people who wish to buy.xxx domains to do so.
Sounds like Hasbro wants to have a Monopoly on word games.
Nope. That's Parker Brothers.
Correct. Which is owned by Hasbro. Hasbro *has* a monopoly on board games. At least, on the board games that appear in general stores like Target or Walmart.
List of companies Hasbro owns, stolen shamelessly from Wikipedia:
* Avalon Hill (an imprint of Wizards of the Coast, see below)
* Claster Television
* Coleco
* Galoob
* Kenner
* Maisto
* Milton Bradley
* Parker Brothers
* Playskool
* Selchow and Righter
* Tiger Electronics
* Tonka
* Wizards of the Coast
* Wrebbit
It is a well known fact that textbooks at official university stores are overpriced. My favorite tale from the days of College textbooks: I found the exact same book as a textbook in the regular books section for around half the price as the one in the "textbooks for classes" section.
At the moment, the US spends $50 per person per year on education. This doesn't seem to be a whole lot. You'd certainly never reach the level of enlightenment required for a stable democracy. The US would also need more leisure time. That's when people get a chance to think and to mature. Besides, it's pretty well established that people will do more productive work on a 35-hour week than a 40+-hour one.
Reply: Mmm...sources on the $50 and 35-hour week statements?
Using the population from here and the Federal Education budget from here I calculate almost $300 spent per person. This is of course not counting State and local expenditures. Which of course is a very stupid number to look at in the first place, as you really ought to be more interested in per student, or at least, per person who should be a student (ie, minors.)
Stop spending so many programming and design hours doing the new fishing game that people are so excited about
Wait. What? There were people anywhere that were excited about a fishing mini-game? Sadly, it was probably planned long ago while it was still just a gamecube game.
Primaries were done with all the small states first, gradually growing, until California was at the very end. Perhaps not a bad idea.
I certainly wouldn't be opposed to trying this. Any kind of change from the mess we have now would be welcomed. However, I suspect all on one day seems more likely to occur. If all the states keeping pushing theirs up to be closer to the front, they'll gradually converge on the same day anyway. Assuming the "it can't be before X day" is stuck to. Otherwise we'll just keep getting primaries even further in advance.
Vote in Febuary 2010 for your candidate in the 2012 elections!
Holding the primaries the same day encourages candidates to zero in on big states and battleground states instead of addressing every state in turn. Candidates will campaign in North Dakota if its the only primary that week, but they'll be in California for National Primary Day. That's fine if you live in California, but it means they don't pay attention to you if you live somewhere else.
Except I grew up in Oregon, where we never got any attention ever. Only so many little states can go "first", by the time it gets to us, the race has been decided. I'd rather they all go at the same time so my vote at least matters a little bit, instead of the mess we have now. I usually know who I'm voting for long before my turn rolls around. The "message" they have for NH and other earlier states is usually sufficient. Hell, they start campaigning so far in advance these days. I knew six years ago Hillary was gearing up for a presidential campaign.
Ah, so there not fast enough to be convient for you. At least you buy the disks when they do come out, right..right?
That's what I do. If the show is something I want to keep around. For example: Doctor Who. I don't wait for the show to be released in the US to watch it. However, I've pre-ordered the UK release of all the season boxed sets as they came out. Other shows I might try and decide I don't really want to. I know it's not the way it is supposed to work, but I fully support the products that I believe deserve the money.
I'm a casual player as well and curious as to what you've been smoking.
Everyone has their own definition of hardcore vs casual, and most people tend to identify themselves as casual.
I would have to argue that casual players are not level 60. Level 60 requires a dedication of time that most of the casual players I know still aren't at. It may not be hard, but it is time consuming. Sure, playing weekly 40+ raids is even more hardcore. But how many hours does it take to get to level 60? How many weeks does that take for a casual player playing 2-4 hours a week? I'm fairly certain the grandparent post is one of the many casual players who will never see level 60. There are millions of them out there.
Joining Goonfleet takes one of two things: A something awful forum account or a sponsor in goonfleet that has a something awful account. I was sponsored in, so I can't help anyone join myself. www.goonfleet.com for more info.
LV should have known it was coming, they watched us destroy all of their allies over the last six months.;)
Big news this week was that there was a 1300+ player battle out in the low security space, and I get the impression that wars are going on all the time out there. Though I'm still too new to go see it for myself.
This is untrue. Not the 1300+ player part, that is true. The being still too new to see it for yourself, you should join a corp and get out there.
I'm in GoonFleet. We were in the 1000 side of the 1300+ battle. A good chunk of that fleet was less than a month old characters. It takes maybe a day to have the skills to fly a tackling frigate. I've been playing for almost 6 months and that is still what I sometimes fly in fleet battles. Any PvP gang needs tacklers to keep the enemy from repositioning or escaping. I hear all the time that people are going to 'wait' and do that when they can fly X. I say don't wait. Any smart alliance realizes it needs new pilots, and there is nothing more satisfying than getting on a battleship killmail because you in the smallest ship in the game held him there for your friends.
What I love about this game is the newest of players can make a difference. Get out there!
GenCon SoCal has been so-so out there compared with GenCon Indy, here in the heart of tabletop gamer land (as far as I can tell).
Being a resident of Cali, I don't think our location has anything to do with a lackluster GenCon SoCal. ComicCon is down here and attracts giant crowds of similar interest groups.
Having been to GenCon SoCal several times, here is why I think it isn't as good:
It's a lot newer. GenCon Indy has been going on for several years. It's basically the E3 of board games. So it just has more of everything. SoCal just feels like an after thought. All the really serious tournaments are at Indy. It will take a long time (or a lot more effort) to make SoCal as big as Indy. I've never had a chance to go to Indy so I don't know how it is different, but at SoCal you have to pay to play in every random board game. That isn't real conducive to casual players. Particularly for a new convention, it feels like they should make some types of games just free. I don't want to spend $3 to play a game of Carcasone with some random strangers. There should be a lot more pickup games to let people try out new games. If I know game X is very good, I or one of my friends have a copy and we have no problem getting some people together to play a game. When I go to a game convention, I want to be able to try some new games and see what I like. I already paid $50+ to get in, don't nickle and dime me for every little board game. Tournaments go ahead and charge for, and I happily pay to do True Dungeon. But have some free range gaming to attract more crowds in the first place. Exhibiters won't spend a lot of money at a convention until the crowds get big, so do a bunch to encourage more casual convention goers to draw the crows. You can't just slap the GenCon name on something and expect it to be big.
Ok, that wasn't as concise as I'd like, but you get the idea.
But my experience here in Orange County, CA with electronic voting was quite good. The click wheel interface looked the same as I remembered last election, and the device was easy to use. At the end of selection, it has you verify your votes on the screen in a final summary page. It then prints your votes on a sheet of paper and has you verify it again. Thusit has: ease of use, electronic counting, and paper trail for verification. I can't complain.
So while there may be a ton of voting systems that are flawed, it seems there are some excellent vendors out there. Now if only we could get more precincts to use the good systems.
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Long before kitchen grease was used for biofuel, it was and still is used to make soap.
35 years ago when I started working in the restaurant business, the grease had always
been collected in a barrel out back when it was time to change the fryers. and about once
a month a company would collect the contents of the barrel to go towards the production of soap.
Been that way for the last 35 years.
When I first read the above, I was horrified. Then I realized that it actually said soap, not soup like my mind substituted.
Gee, why wouldn't draconian policies, a confusingly half-baked interface and long load times be the path to a successful website?
That certainly is the secret to Facebook's success.
That's nice and all, but does anyone care?
I mean, I guess there are some legacy projects out there that are still being maintained, but I'm sure those developers bought VS a long time ago.
Or is there some secret in the VB6 code that the open source community can actually learn from?
I used to have pages of notes in my calculator back in college. And this was over a decade ago.
If it is possible to actually cheat with a graphics calculator, you wrote the test wrong. For any math algebra and beyond, showing your work is far more important than what the actual answer is.
Like Wave, right?
You realize that while they stopped development of further wave features, it is still available and functioning for anyone who wants to use it?
I am liking the trend (started primarily by Paizo) of role-playing companies that give Print + PDF bundles for their books. I love having access to reference PDFs on my laptop. When regular ebooks start coming bundled with hardcovers or at a more reasonable price, they will definitely take off. As it is, who wants to pay more than a softcover price for a novel?
Even worse is that many university bookstores will mark up prices above the MSRP. I remember once as a student I found the exact same book in both the Textbooks section and the normal bookstore area. The one in Textbooks was 20% more expensive. And they wonder why students started buying their books on Amazon.
There's a big difference between trying to force all porn sites to use .xxx (or any other specific term) and allowing people who wish to buy .xxx domains to do so.
In other news, who cares?
Did anyone else read the headline as "Emacs Verified In Quantum Chromodynamic Calculation" at first?
Sounds like Hasbro wants to have a Monopoly on word games.
Nope. That's Parker Brothers.
Correct. Which is owned by Hasbro. Hasbro *has* a monopoly on board games. At least, on the board games that appear in general stores like Target or Walmart.
List of companies Hasbro owns, stolen shamelessly from Wikipedia:
* Avalon Hill (an imprint of Wizards of the Coast, see below)
* Claster Television
* Coleco
* Galoob
* Kenner
* Maisto
* Milton Bradley
* Parker Brothers
* Playskool
* Selchow and Righter
* Tiger Electronics
* Tonka
* Wizards of the Coast
* Wrebbit
It is a well known fact that textbooks at official university stores are overpriced. My favorite tale from the days of College textbooks: I found the exact same book as a textbook in the regular books section for around half the price as the one in the "textbooks for classes" section.
At the moment, the US spends $50 per person per year on education. This doesn't seem to be a whole lot. You'd certainly never reach the level of enlightenment required for a stable democracy. The US would also need more leisure time. That's when people get a chance to think and to mature. Besides, it's pretty well established that people will do more productive work on a 35-hour week than a 40+-hour one.
Reply: Mmm...sources on the $50 and 35-hour week statements?
Using the population from here and the Federal Education budget from here I calculate almost $300 spent per person. This is of course not counting State and local expenditures. Which of course is a very stupid number to look at in the first place, as you really ought to be more interested in per student, or at least, per person who should be a student (ie, minors.)
Stop spending so many programming and design hours doing the new fishing game that people are so excited about
Wait. What? There were people anywhere that were excited about a fishing mini-game? Sadly, it was probably planned long ago while it was still just a gamecube game.
Primaries were done with all the small states first, gradually growing, until California was at the very end. Perhaps not a bad idea.
I certainly wouldn't be opposed to trying this. Any kind of change from the mess we have now would be welcomed. However, I suspect all on one day seems more likely to occur. If all the states keeping pushing theirs up to be closer to the front, they'll gradually converge on the same day anyway. Assuming the "it can't be before X day" is stuck to. Otherwise we'll just keep getting primaries even further in advance.
Vote in Febuary 2010 for your candidate in the 2012 elections!
Does anyone else find it strange that the beginning of the joke is modded down, but the punchline is modded up?
Holding the primaries the same day encourages candidates to zero in on big states and battleground states instead of addressing every state in turn. Candidates will campaign in North Dakota if its the only primary that week, but they'll be in California for National Primary Day. That's fine if you live in California, but it means they don't pay attention to you if you live somewhere else.
Except I grew up in Oregon, where we never got any attention ever. Only so many little states can go "first", by the time it gets to us, the race has been decided. I'd rather they all go at the same time so my vote at least matters a little bit, instead of the mess we have now. I usually know who I'm voting for long before my turn rolls around. The "message" they have for NH and other earlier states is usually sufficient. Hell, they start campaigning so far in advance these days. I knew six years ago Hillary was gearing up for a presidential campaign.
Ah, so there not fast enough to be convient for you. At least you buy the disks when they do come out, right..right?
That's what I do. If the show is something I want to keep around. For example: Doctor Who. I don't wait for the show to be released in the US to watch it. However, I've pre-ordered the UK release of all the season boxed sets as they came out. Other shows I might try and decide I don't really want to. I know it's not the way it is supposed to work, but I fully support the products that I believe deserve the money.
No results found for desaster.
Did you mean disaster (in dictionary)?
I'm a casual player as well and curious as to what you've been smoking.
Everyone has their own definition of hardcore vs casual, and most people tend to identify themselves as casual.
I would have to argue that casual players are not level 60. Level 60 requires a dedication of time that most of the casual players I know still aren't at. It may not be hard, but it is time consuming. Sure, playing weekly 40+ raids is even more hardcore. But how many hours does it take to get to level 60? How many weeks does that take for a casual player playing 2-4 hours a week? I'm fairly certain the grandparent post is one of the many casual players who will never see level 60. There are millions of them out there.
Joining Goonfleet takes one of two things: A something awful forum account or a sponsor in goonfleet that has a something awful account. I was sponsored in, so I can't help anyone join myself. www.goonfleet.com for more info.
;)
LV should have known it was coming, they watched us destroy all of their allies over the last six months.
Big news this week was that there was a 1300+ player battle out in the low security space, and I get the impression that wars are going on all the time out there. Though I'm still too new to go see it for myself.
This is untrue. Not the 1300+ player part, that is true. The being still too new to see it for yourself, you should join a corp and get out there.
I'm in GoonFleet. We were in the 1000 side of the 1300+ battle. A good chunk of that fleet was less than a month old characters. It takes maybe a day to have the skills to fly a tackling frigate. I've been playing for almost 6 months and that is still what I sometimes fly in fleet battles. Any PvP gang needs tacklers to keep the enemy from repositioning or escaping. I hear all the time that people are going to 'wait' and do that when they can fly X. I say don't wait. Any smart alliance realizes it needs new pilots, and there is nothing more satisfying than getting on a battleship killmail because you in the smallest ship in the game held him there for your friends.
What I love about this game is the newest of players can make a difference.
Get out there!
dubbed "murder simulators", isn't America's Army the most literal definition?
Killing cops is bad, killing terrorists and nazi's is good! Don't you get it?
Why do you hate America?
GenCon SoCal has been so-so out there compared with GenCon Indy, here in the heart of tabletop gamer land (as far as I can tell).
Being a resident of Cali, I don't think our location has anything to do with a lackluster GenCon SoCal. ComicCon is down here and attracts giant crowds of similar interest groups.
Having been to GenCon SoCal several times, here is why I think it isn't as good:
It's a lot newer. GenCon Indy has been going on for several years. It's basically the E3 of board games. So it just has more of everything. SoCal just feels like an after thought. All the really serious tournaments are at Indy. It will take a long time (or a lot more effort) to make SoCal as big as Indy. I've never had a chance to go to Indy so I don't know how it is different, but at SoCal you have to pay to play in every random board game. That isn't real conducive to casual players. Particularly for a new convention, it feels like they should make some types of games just free. I don't want to spend $3 to play a game of Carcasone with some random strangers. There should be a lot more pickup games to let people try out new games. If I know game X is very good, I or one of my friends have a copy and we have no problem getting some people together to play a game. When I go to a game convention, I want to be able to try some new games and see what I like. I already paid $50+ to get in, don't nickle and dime me for every little board game. Tournaments go ahead and charge for, and I happily pay to do True Dungeon. But have some free range gaming to attract more crowds in the first place. Exhibiters won't spend a lot of money at a convention until the crowds get big, so do a bunch to encourage more casual convention goers to draw the crows. You can't just slap the GenCon name on something and expect it to be big.
Ok, that wasn't as concise as I'd like, but you get the idea.
do them, you, and not least of all the poor animal a favor and get them a Wii instead.
Or at the very least, get them Nintendogs if you have to!
But my experience here in Orange County, CA with electronic voting was quite good. The click wheel interface looked the same as I remembered last election, and the device was easy to use. At the end of selection, it has you verify your votes on the screen in a final summary page. It then prints your votes on a sheet of paper and has you verify it again. Thusit has: ease of use, electronic counting, and paper trail for verification. I can't complain.
So while there may be a ton of voting systems that are flawed, it seems there are some excellent vendors out there. Now if only we could get more precincts to use the good systems.