The voice over on that one is just terrible. Try this one. It's a lot funnier hearing him go apeshit in German with the subtitles.
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Thank the ancient Babylonians, who used a base 60 number system. They came up with the concept of 60 seconds to a minute, 60 minutes to an hour, 24 hours to a day.
This is the same government that allows low-level employees to take home vast amounts of personal taxpayer information unencrypted on their laptops. The government is absolutely stupid enough to get caught.
The government is vast and composed almost entirely of low-paid operatives. I have no problem believing they could try something like this and get caught. I have a hard time believing in the government as shadowy cabal that is capable of concealing vast conspiracies for years or decades at a time.
[citation needed]. I fail to see how having a dominant right eye would cause a higher accident rate. I not only have a dominant right eye, but my left eye is almost entirely blind. I drive on the right, and have no problem at all seeing oncoming traffic, and have never been in an accident. That sounds like one of those theories that "feels" right but probably isn't.
It's so you don't have 80 cars coming from the same ramp trying to merge onto the freeway at the same time. When you have that many cars merging at once, they are invariably going at a very slow speed because some jackass who is afraid of the freeway is slowing everyone down, and you end up with a mad scramble as people in the right lane try to get out of the way, and people in the next lane have to move out of their way, and so on. The result is a situation where you are either going to get a collision or the whole works are going to slow down dramatically.
In Denver, they have these lights too, but they only operate during heavy traffic times. I've found them a lot easier to deal with than mass merging, and the wait between greens is never more than a couple of seconds. I can't understand why the wait between greens would be set any longer than that, since the purpose of these should only be to spread out the traffic trying to merge onto the freeway.
I am elated by this news. I feel a great sense of triumph that this word has received such an honor. If only there were some word that could express my happiness at this victory for geek-kind, perhaps a word with numbers substituted for letters somewhere.
The Brontosaurus had a dispute with his record company, and the name change was his "first step toward the ultimate goal of emancipation from the chains that bound" him to that record label, since the label owned all the trademarks to the name. After first changing his name to an unpronounceable symbol, he later changed it to "the Artist Formerly Known as Brontosaurus" before finally settling on "Apatosaurus".
Honestly, didn't they teach you anything in school?
The reason is obvious: the game designers are part of the great liberal conspiracy. Sure, right now it's just "blue always wins," but the next thing you know Hillary's in the White House and we're all paying 95% tax rates for substandard health care and rising up against the proletariat.
The media and the government have worked for the past few decades to make sure that everyone lives in fear of everything all the time. These sex offender databases are part of that. There have been sexual predators for as long as there have been people. Attacks have always been relatively rare, and most people will never be victimized. However, you put these lists and databases out there, people see that a sex offender lives near them, and they freak out.
We are constantly bombarded with reports of what we should be afraid of this week ("find out about the new threat that could kill your children, tonight on 9 news at 10!"). We have also been conditioned through the use of these databases and sensationalist segments like "To Catch a Predator" to believe that everyone ever convicted (or even accused) of a sex crime of any kind is out to get our children. Given all this, it's not at all surprising that someone would snap and do something like this.
I think a good portion of Slashdot would object to the term "nanny state" used in just about any context as unnecessarily provocative, and I seriously doubt that all of Slashdot agrees with you on all of those points.
The only thing all of Slashdot can really agree on is that this^Wnext year is the Year of Linux on the Desktop. Anything else is just going to start an argument.
As for being fat. If you eat like a predator, you'll have a body like a predator. If you eat like a herbivore, you'll look like one. You're right. I eat just like a predator, meaning I hunt for days to find food, then chase it down for 2 hours before I finally catch it. Then, I tear through it with my pointed teeth and razor sharp claws, eating as much as possible while trying to fend off predators. As a result, I have a svelte physique and a thick, glossy coat.
If your job doesn't actually require you to physically move or manipulate something that can only exist locally, your job can be outsourced whether you work in an office or not.
Pounds of silver, of course. A pound sterling was originally worth 240 pence (which were originally silver pennies). The weight of these 240 coins was 1 pound.
Others pointed out that it was actually a +4, Redundant, although I was counting the karma bonus modifier to make it a +5. Since the karma bonus isn't part of the moderation, though, I guess technically it should be called a +4. Oh well, so close.
I played around with Google, and I found another post I made where I claim that it was actually "+5, Redundant" but I couldn't find anything using your method with "redundant" either, so maybe it was the drugs.
We know they were guilty because a jury said they were. These are very complex scientific arguments being presented. If you can't trust 12 people who were not smart enough to get out of jury duty to evaluate that evidence, then who can you trust?
It was quite a long time ago. I don't want to pay 5 bucks to get my subscription back to find it, but I assume it's back there somewhere. Either that or it was a bad acid trip, in which case I'm concerned that my drug-induced hallucinations are so geeky and boring.
Amateur. Thanks to the magic of the Underrated mod, you can (and I have!) end up at +5, Troll. Actually, I don't remember if I ended up at +5, Troll or +5, Flamebait or +5, Offtopic, but it was one of those.
Less difficult to achieve, due to widespread Overrated abuse, is -1, Insightful.
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The voice over on that one is just terrible. Try this one. It's a lot funnier hearing him go apeshit in German with the subtitles.
Thank the ancient Babylonians, who used a base 60 number system. They came up with the concept of 60 seconds to a minute, 60 minutes to an hour, 24 hours to a day.
It only seems like it was a year or 2 ago. Actually, you're just remembering this article from when you read it 10 minutes ago.
This is the same government that allows low-level employees to take home vast amounts of personal taxpayer information unencrypted on their laptops. The government is absolutely stupid enough to get caught.
The government is vast and composed almost entirely of low-paid operatives. I have no problem believing they could try something like this and get caught. I have a hard time believing in the government as shadowy cabal that is capable of concealing vast conspiracies for years or decades at a time.
[citation needed]. I fail to see how having a dominant right eye would cause a higher accident rate. I not only have a dominant right eye, but my left eye is almost entirely blind. I drive on the right, and have no problem at all seeing oncoming traffic, and have never been in an accident. That sounds like one of those theories that "feels" right but probably isn't.
It's so you don't have 80 cars coming from the same ramp trying to merge onto the freeway at the same time. When you have that many cars merging at once, they are invariably going at a very slow speed because some jackass who is afraid of the freeway is slowing everyone down, and you end up with a mad scramble as people in the right lane try to get out of the way, and people in the next lane have to move out of their way, and so on. The result is a situation where you are either going to get a collision or the whole works are going to slow down dramatically.
In Denver, they have these lights too, but they only operate during heavy traffic times. I've found them a lot easier to deal with than mass merging, and the wait between greens is never more than a couple of seconds. I can't understand why the wait between greens would be set any longer than that, since the purpose of these should only be to spread out the traffic trying to merge onto the freeway.
I am elated by this news. I feel a great sense of triumph that this word has received such an honor. If only there were some word that could express my happiness at this victory for geek-kind, perhaps a word with numbers substituted for letters somewhere.
Oh well, I guess I'll just go with "yay".
The Brontosaurus had a dispute with his record company, and the name change was his "first step toward the ultimate goal of emancipation from the chains that bound" him to that record label, since the label owned all the trademarks to the name. After first changing his name to an unpronounceable symbol, he later changed it to "the Artist Formerly Known as Brontosaurus" before finally settling on "Apatosaurus".
Honestly, didn't they teach you anything in school?
Yah, that was an error that I knew someone would call me on eventually. Just pretend I said "bourgeoisie".
The reason is obvious: the game designers are part of the great liberal conspiracy. Sure, right now it's just "blue always wins," but the next thing you know Hillary's in the White House and we're all paying 95% tax rates for substandard health care and rising up against the proletariat.
The media and the government have worked for the past few decades to make sure that everyone lives in fear of everything all the time. These sex offender databases are part of that. There have been sexual predators for as long as there have been people. Attacks have always been relatively rare, and most people will never be victimized. However, you put these lists and databases out there, people see that a sex offender lives near them, and they freak out.
We are constantly bombarded with reports of what we should be afraid of this week ("find out about the new threat that could kill your children, tonight on 9 news at 10!"). We have also been conditioned through the use of these databases and sensationalist segments like "To Catch a Predator" to believe that everyone ever convicted (or even accused) of a sex crime of any kind is out to get our children. Given all this, it's not at all surprising that someone would snap and do something like this.
True. That's why if I want a well-researched answer, I submit my question as an Ask Slashdot article.
I think a good portion of Slashdot would object to the term "nanny state" used in just about any context as unnecessarily provocative, and I seriously doubt that all of Slashdot agrees with you on all of those points.
The only thing all of Slashdot can really agree on is that this^Wnext year is the Year of Linux on the Desktop. Anything else is just going to start an argument.
You're correct. You have totally invalidated the points I brought up in my post. Good show.
I agree. Also, fry them in bacon fat and add pepper.
If your job doesn't actually require you to physically move or manipulate something that can only exist locally, your job can be outsourced whether you work in an office or not.
Pounds of silver, of course. A pound sterling was originally worth 240 pence (which were originally silver pennies). The weight of these 240 coins was 1 pound.
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Others pointed out that it was actually a +4, Redundant, although I was counting the karma bonus modifier to make it a +5. Since the karma bonus isn't part of the moderation, though, I guess technically it should be called a +4. Oh well, so close.
When I click on that link, it shows as +5, Redundant with the karma bonus modifier. So, I guess if you consider that part of the score, it's +5.
I played around with Google, and I found another post I made where I claim that it was actually "+5, Redundant" but I couldn't find anything using your method with "redundant" either, so maybe it was the drugs.
My son is in 3rd grade and plays violent video games almost constantly. He's struggling in math and reading, but he's killing at an 8th grade level!
We know they were guilty because a jury said they were. These are very complex scientific arguments being presented. If you can't trust 12 people who were not smart enough to get out of jury duty to evaluate that evidence, then who can you trust?
It was quite a long time ago. I don't want to pay 5 bucks to get my subscription back to find it, but I assume it's back there somewhere. Either that or it was a bad acid trip, in which case I'm concerned that my drug-induced hallucinations are so geeky and boring.
Amateur. Thanks to the magic of the Underrated mod, you can (and I have!) end up at +5, Troll. Actually, I don't remember if I ended up at +5, Troll or +5, Flamebait or +5, Offtopic, but it was one of those.
Less difficult to achieve, due to widespread Overrated abuse, is -1, Insightful.