I can still say on the Internet or out on the street "Fuck Australia, fuck Keven Rudd and fuck our troops serving in Afghanistan" and nobody will block me, nobody will arrest me and nobody will show up in a truck and kick my arse for being un-patriotic.
Unless you are at a sporting event against New Zealand. Supporting Australia against New Zealand IS your patriotic duty. Running down Australia in any other context is allowable, and even compulsory on occasion.
We... inherited the attitudes and structures of England.
Only in part. We have never had a true aristocracy, with dukes and earls and stuff. We left behind a lot of England's traditional baggage, just as America did in the 1700s. Consequently, we had a more flexible social structure without the full-on classes of British society, and with a more democratic political structure (we pioneered secret ballots, women's vote, etc).
Australia was never just a slice of England transplanted to the southern hemisphere. There was a degree of filtering going on, resulting in a simpler, more dynamic society than "back home" - and one more isolated from world affairs.
if Windows 7 tanks, they can always ask for bailout money like all the other companies that make crappy products.
Or the government could split Microsoft up and then the government could say that there has actually been an increase in the number of large software companies despite the current downturn.
There is a strong correlation between (A) the publication of studies that rely on correlation for inferring causation and (B) people saying that correlation is not causation.
No. The point is, vegemite jars gradually glue up real tight, and only octopuses can open them. That makes them smarter than us, because we make jars that we cannot open when the product is half used.
Nothing here says that the octopuses were eating the vegemite. Being smart creatures, they might have been feeding the vegemite to the scientists, or using it to grease their sport cars (vegemite looks surprisingly like automotive lubricant).
1) Where does the energy come from to spray this water?
Children having water fights.
But first we need LOTS of water pistols...
But back to the children. That is clearly a renewable source of energy. Whenever we run low on child power we... (um, do I really have to explain how we produce more children?)
The iPhone is not at the top of the Windows share, it is a non-Windows mobile phone that exceeds the Windows share.
If I top the class in a subject, I am the best student doing that subject. So if the iPhone tops the Windows share, it would be the highest-selling Windows-based mobile phone. Which is false.
We haven't succeeded until we have replaced all stories about Thanksgiving and Fall, etc with proper stories about Anzac Day, Two-Up, Autumn, and football codes that don't involve wearing wussy helmets.
It's an israeli company. They'll probably just calibrate it with everyone who passes through their borders. Everyone would get grouped in to two categories. Israeli or Terrorist.
AKA "Wants to blow up them" and "Wants to blow up us".
Two is pretty young, they need to know not to smash the screen
I know some 40-year-old-plus users with degrees who fail that test.
"Let's leave this pencil on the keyboard, close the lid, and then see what damage it does to the screen, shall we?" If only they had been that deliberate, there would have been an excuse.
Every time I sat at my computer to work, they would walk across the keyboard, and then curl up on it so that I wouldn't have to move in order to pay attention to them.
Cats are very thoughtful. They won't insist you come to them. They will come to you, find out what you are looking at, then lie on it so that you can have the superior experience of looking at them. They do that when you are reading a newspaper too.
And the amazing thing: when they walk across your keyboard, they manage to type Perl programs. Cats really are smart.
Soldiers rape - without being given orders. Robots won't unless specifically programmed to rape - AND built with sexual organs (which would be a give away that a nation *planned* sexual assault to be part of its soldiering. Currently, nations can just blame the lowly soldiers for acting out of line).
Half the world's population will consider the decline of rape in war to be a big improvement. The other half may not realise how extensive it is.
When I lived two years in America and attended elementary school, no teacher suggested that non-Americans were exempt from saying the pledge of allegiance.
Anyway, I used to substitute the names of other (no longer existing) nations when saying the pledge. Imagine saying "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the Peloponnesian League..." and such like.
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plunge global temperatures
Well, that would fix global warming.
Seriously... My stock market crashing device didn't even make the list!
Nor did my stock market crashing device turbo power booster.
I can still say on the Internet or out on the street "Fuck Australia, fuck Keven Rudd and fuck our troops serving in Afghanistan" and nobody will block me, nobody will arrest me and nobody will show up in a truck and kick my arse for being un-patriotic.
Unless you are at a sporting event against New Zealand. Supporting Australia against New Zealand IS your patriotic duty. Running down Australia in any other context is allowable, and even compulsory on occasion.
We ... inherited the attitudes and structures of England.
Only in part. We have never had a true aristocracy, with dukes and earls and stuff. We left behind a lot of England's traditional baggage, just as America did in the 1700s. Consequently, we had a more flexible social structure without the full-on classes of British society, and with a more democratic political structure (we pioneered secret ballots, women's vote, etc).
Australia was never just a slice of England transplanted to the southern hemisphere. There was a degree of filtering going on, resulting in a simpler, more dynamic society than "back home" - and one more isolated from world affairs.
if Windows 7 tanks, they can always ask for bailout money like all the other companies that make crappy products.
Or the government could split Microsoft up and then the government could say that there has actually been an increase in the number of large software companies despite the current downturn.
There is a strong correlation between (A) the publication of studies that rely on correlation for inferring causation and (B) people saying that correlation is not causation.
Coincidence?
No. The point is, vegemite jars gradually glue up real tight, and only octopuses can open them. That makes them smarter than us, because we make jars that we cannot open when the product is half used.
Nothing here says that the octopuses were eating the vegemite. Being smart creatures, they might have been feeding the vegemite to the scientists, or using it to grease their sport cars (vegemite looks surprisingly like automotive lubricant).
1) Where does the energy come from to spray this water?
Children having water fights.
But first we need LOTS of water pistols...
But back to the children. That is clearly a renewable source of energy. Whenever we run low on child power we ... (um, do I really have to explain how we produce more children?)
Yeah, you're right. I already transmit wireless messages over short distances.
It is called speaking.
Salient phrase in article: "they hope"
By the way, while we are on this topic, I am STILL waiting for my pony for Christmas.
The iPhone is not at the top of the Windows share, it is a non-Windows mobile phone that exceeds the Windows share.
If I top the class in a subject, I am the best student doing that subject. So if the iPhone tops the Windows share, it would be the highest-selling Windows-based mobile phone. Which is false.
So the title is misleading and/or confusing.
We haven't succeeded until we have replaced all stories about Thanksgiving and Fall, etc with proper stories about Anzac Day, Two-Up, Autumn, and football codes that don't involve wearing wussy helmets.
Forget the Alamo. Remember Gallipoli.
Microsoft called.
They want their marketing fileserver back.
Personally I think 2009's going to be the year of the Linux desktop. Seriously.
Look, let's just call it the Decade of the Linux Desktop and save ourselves all this year by year crap.
And then we can start arguing about more important issues like: when do decades begin?
It's an israeli company. They'll probably just calibrate it with everyone who passes through their borders. Everyone would get grouped in to two categories. Israeli or Terrorist.
AKA "Wants to blow up them" and "Wants to blow up us".
Two is pretty young, they need to know not to smash the screen
I know some 40-year-old-plus users with degrees who fail that test.
"Let's leave this pencil on the keyboard, close the lid, and then see what damage it does to the screen, shall we?" If only they had been that deliberate, there would have been an excuse.
My cats were very interested in computers.
Every time I sat at my computer to work, they would walk across the keyboard, and then curl up on it so that I wouldn't have to move in order to pay attention to them.
Cats are very thoughtful. They won't insist you come to them. They will come to you, find out what you are looking at, then lie on it so that you can have the superior experience of looking at them. They do that when you are reading a newspaper too.
And the amazing thing: when they walk across your keyboard, they manage to type Perl programs. Cats really are smart.
I bet two-year-olds are the same.
Just change your names.
The old employers will never know it was you who built the new product.
Soldiers rape - without being given orders. Robots won't unless specifically programmed to rape - AND built with sexual organs (which would be a give away that a nation *planned* sexual assault to be part of its soldiering. Currently, nations can just blame the lowly soldiers for acting out of line).
Half the world's population will consider the decline of rape in war to be a big improvement. The other half may not realise how extensive it is.
RTFA
He said the grid *is* barley taxed. So people are paying for their electricity with barley right now.
I guess the electricity companies use the barley to make beer, and the beer fuels all their slaves running on treadmills to generate more electricity.
Don't you know anything?
1 TB of SSD today = 17 * $150 = $2,550.
1 TB conventional storage = $95.
SSDs are still over 25 times as expensive. They will improve quickly, but they need to hit a moving target to kill conventional drives.
A perfect choice for RAVED - Redundant Array of Very Expensive Disks.
Arrrrr! We bound for Tahiti!
(The rest of the video is R rated)
Ye flipping gods! I've never been so glad GNU is Not Unix.
No, it's Gneu is Not Eunuchs
When I lived two years in America and attended elementary school, no teacher suggested that non-Americans were exempt from saying the pledge of allegiance.
Anyway, I used to substitute the names of other (no longer existing) nations when saying the pledge. Imagine saying "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the Peloponnesian League..." and such like.
Much more fun that way.
One of my favourite scientific cartoons:
Einstein is standing at a blackboard.
He has written a formula, and then crossed it out: e = ma^2
He has written another formula, and then crossed it out too: e = mb^2
And now he is staring at the blackboard and scratching his head puzzled.