Technically, if you share a desk, you either both possess all of it, and simply share the ownership, or you each possess an entire desk, and the two are attached by the proverbial massless string.
You cannot posses half a desk, if a desk is defined funtionally.
Mr. Hertz is "credited" with once-per-second. A great discovery. Mr. Karman is "credited" with 100km above sea level. Another innovation. Mr. Celsius is "credited" with a scale based on 0 to 100 for ice to steam. Yup, that's some mighty hard thinking. Mr. Farenheit is "credited" with a scale based on 0 to 100 for cold to hot, but he screwed up and got a scale based on 0 to 97.6 -- what a retard.
With all of these super-smart inventions, I'd better claim mine now.
Bryan's Law of Minimums: there is a minimum countable quantity of any possessable item; it is typically one (1). For example, it is impossible to *have* fewer than 1 passport office, without having nothing at all. You also cannot *have* fewer than 1 friend, 1 piece of apple, or 1 desk.
That's mine. No one else may have it. From now on, every time any scientist counts to 1 as the "necessary first" of a quantity, they must use my unit of measure -- "that given city must have a Bryan passport office", "only the Bryan apple a day keeps the doctor away" (since the second apple does absolutely nothing more), and "my BFF is my Bryan Friend Forever".
There. I can invent the number 1 too you know -- and my invented "1" has a philosophical level to it, so there!
There's a big-huge-enormous difference between teaching "students" something because they want to graduate and teaching Students something because they care to know.
I'd bet dollars to donuts that lectures are a fantastic method of exchanging information (i.e. teaching) between two persons (i.e. professor and student) who are passionate about the subject-matter. That used to be why people went to university. It isn't anymore. But it one-day will be again.
You let me know the first time someone chooses to electrocute their own brain for fun and convenience; then we can all declare Darwin the biggest idiot to ever live.
So between immigration, unemployment, on-the-job training, adult re-training, student jobs, low wages, and import duties, you can't seem to put together a system that doesn't screw yourselves?
Do you at least charge, a lot, for an imported worker? Like you would for imported-anything-else?
Perhaps you should try making visa free and clear and instant for anyone coming in to start their own business -- you know, to create new jobs instead.
The term doofus comes to mind. I'm not sure of the plural form.
Over the past decade, I've watched browsers get more and more non-browsing features. Really, I'm not at all interested. Yes I'm a web developer, no I don't need the development console; I don't need the developer tools; I don't need the javascript error console either. I don't need plug-ins, I don't need add-ons. I don't need network monitors. I don't need customizable toolbars; I don't need toolbars at all.
I need an address bar. Tabs still don't work the way I would find valuable, so I can take them or leave them. Smart address bars don't provide the features I'd want either, so I don't need that either. Spellcheck is also just as useless as it's always been for anyone working across multiple jargonous industries.
All I've ever wanted is a window, with a titlebar and a border, and the web page on the inside. The closest thing to stripped-down that I seem to be able to get is a stripped-down IE -- I can get it down to a fairly thin address bar with or without tabs. Everything else (safari, opera, chrome, firefox) is either slow, bloated with features, bloated with icons, or bloated with "usability"; or it takes ten seconds to open a new process, or you can't open a new process (process vs window), or it just eats memory.
I don't need a UI. The web-page is the UI. I don't need a UI to a UI. I have a mouse, and a keyboard, and a web-site. The browser ought to be transparent.
And they still don't show upload progress. It's been thirty years of download progress though. I'm just saying.
So let's see if I understand the situation -- I don't live in your country, so this is damned confusing.
Not so long ago, you had a huge military enemy. They were bigger than you. They were scary. Many lives were lost on both sides. Then there were decades of espionage. Movies, history books, and even comic book super-villians were written about your relationship.
Then, you finally became allies, working together against many things. Once again, movies, history books, and even comic book super-heroes were written about your relationship.
As a direct result, and probably actually the primary cause, you share technology for space exploration -- a laudible partnership and persuit.
And now your own civilians are upset with your friendly relationship? So much so that they are suing you (i.e. themselves) in an attempt to actually harm or hinder that friendship?
And, one of the excuses is that your friend is powerful? Poke the bear?
There's a comedian with a great joke about your country -- "the U.S. goes to all the wars, they love war. they had a civil war! no one left to fight? screw it:, two teams...".
...I mean, good luck with that. That's pretty old-school, not sure it'll catch on, even in places where in really should. But hey, friends have iphones that need more charging than my startac did, and that was in the days when phone chargers could charge a phone and a second battery concurrently. So what do I know?
I know absolutely nothing about these things; so I'm actually asking here. Why does the city, I'm not saying every city, but I am saying any city, need to support infinite growth? There's water, there're hills, maybe that's as many people as can fit. Period. You're welcome to live anywhere you like where there's room. I'm sorry, there's no more room here at the inn. Find another.
I've zero interest in my city becoming a huge metropolitan core. I left the one that I was in to find fresh air, less traffic, country driving roads, and farm fresh food. I don't want another 5 million people to move into my city. Quite frankly, if they do, I'll leave, but that's a different issue.
My appologies, I don't read anonymous replies. Without knowing if it's the same anonymous or a different anonymous, I simply cannot carry on a conversation with some unknown quantity of persons.
Yes, seriously, and in all honesty, I pay taxes under "holophrastic". Every year, for the past 15 years. As for the country, I wouldn't expect any country to deny you selection of your own name. Any sequence of letters within any of the official languages ought to suffice, especially if they are linguistically pronouncible.
What country does not allow this?
Actually, technically it's all a lie. I pay taxes under a nine-digit number, like everyone else in my country. But "holophrastic" appears elsewhere on the form too, and that nine-digit number also maps to holophrastic in some database somewhere.
Wow. Ok, first: parents give most first names first. There are countless ways to change one's official name without parental consent. I'm older than 18, and have been for a while.
Second, not all names are "official" in the sense of government-record. They are still names. Any name, by which one is known by most people, and consistently differentiated as so, is a name. The problem with "Anonymous Coward" is that it does not distinguish between individuals. For example, if everyone were named "qbast", I wouldn't know if your last two replies were both from the same one you, or different people. I can't carry on a conversation without knowing if each sentence is coming from a different person.
In my particular case "holophrastic" is my name under both of the above scenarios. Most of the people in my life know me as holophrastic (yes I also mean real-world people), it most certainly distinguishes me from others as there are very few other holophrastic's, and I pay my provincial taxes under the name holophrastic as well, so it's as government-record as it gets.
Not that it's at all relevant to this conversation, but why would you think that my parents gave me that name? Names come from many places. Seems rather narrow-minded of you to assume any single source.
I don't read anonymous posts. I simply can't have a conversation with someone when I can't tell if it's the same someone. If you don't feel that your argument is worth your name, then I don't feel that it's worth reading.
I've said it before, so I'll say it again. These murder counts are totally useless for anyone who doesn't work in a morgue.
I really don't worry about *all* of the murders. The vast majority of them can't possibly affect me. I want the real number of murders -- the ones of which I ought to be frightened.
I don't care about gang-on-gang violence, I'm not in a gang. I do care about caught-in-crossfire gang-shooting victims. I don't care about spouses killing spouses nor parents killing children. I don't fear my spouse nor my children.
What's left is a very small miniscule number, at least in my country, of intentional killings from random shootings, caught-in-crossfire, crazy co-workers, mistaken identities, and the like. But no one has ever presented those numbers.
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Bryan's Law of Minimums doesn't say anything about "have". It describes only the "counting of possessalbe items".
It has 15 words; read it again. This time, don't add any of your own.
Technically, if you share a desk, you either both possess all of it, and simply share the ownership, or you each possess an entire desk, and the two are attached by the proverbial massless string.
You cannot posses half a desk, if a desk is defined funtionally.
Mr. Hertz is "credited" with once-per-second. A great discovery.
Mr. Karman is "credited" with 100km above sea level. Another innovation.
Mr. Celsius is "credited" with a scale based on 0 to 100 for ice to steam. Yup, that's some mighty hard thinking.
Mr. Farenheit is "credited" with a scale based on 0 to 100 for cold to hot, but he screwed up and got a scale based on 0 to 97.6 -- what a retard.
With all of these super-smart inventions, I'd better claim mine now.
Bryan's Law of Minimums: there is a minimum countable quantity of any possessable item; it is typically one (1).
For example, it is impossible to *have* fewer than 1 passport office, without having nothing at all. You also cannot *have* fewer than 1 friend, 1 piece of apple, or 1 desk.
That's mine. No one else may have it. From now on, every time any scientist counts to 1 as the "necessary first" of a quantity, they must use my unit of measure -- "that given city must have a Bryan passport office", "only the Bryan apple a day keeps the doctor away" (since the second apple does absolutely nothing more), and "my BFF is my Bryan Friend Forever".
There. I can invent the number 1 too you know -- and my invented "1" has a philosophical level to it, so there!
There's a big-huge-enormous difference between teaching "students" something because they want to graduate and teaching Students something because they care to know.
I'd bet dollars to donuts that lectures are a fantastic method of exchanging information (i.e. teaching) between two persons (i.e. professor and student) who are passionate about the subject-matter. That used to be why people went to university. It isn't anymore. But it one-day will be again.
You let me know the first time someone chooses to electrocute their own brain for fun and convenience; then we can all declare Darwin the biggest idiot to ever live.
So between immigration, unemployment, on-the-job training, adult re-training, student jobs, low wages, and import duties, you can't seem to put together a system that doesn't screw yourselves?
Do you at least charge, a lot, for an imported worker? Like you would for imported-anything-else?
Perhaps you should try making visa free and clear and instant for anyone coming in to start their own business -- you know, to create new jobs instead.
The term doofus comes to mind. I'm not sure of the plural form.
Big ball of ice surprisingly vanished behind big ball of fire, analysis to follow.
Yup, we've come a long way in our understanding of the universe.
Over the past decade, I've watched browsers get more and more non-browsing features. Really, I'm not at all interested. Yes I'm a web developer, no I don't need the development console; I don't need the developer tools; I don't need the javascript error console either. I don't need plug-ins, I don't need add-ons. I don't need network monitors. I don't need customizable toolbars; I don't need toolbars at all.
I need an address bar. Tabs still don't work the way I would find valuable, so I can take them or leave them. Smart address bars don't provide the features I'd want either, so I don't need that either. Spellcheck is also just as useless as it's always been for anyone working across multiple jargonous industries.
All I've ever wanted is a window, with a titlebar and a border, and the web page on the inside. The closest thing to stripped-down that I seem to be able to get is a stripped-down IE -- I can get it down to a fairly thin address bar with or without tabs. Everything else (safari, opera, chrome, firefox) is either slow, bloated with features, bloated with icons, or bloated with "usability"; or it takes ten seconds to open a new process, or you can't open a new process (process vs window), or it just eats memory.
I don't need a UI. The web-page is the UI. I don't need a UI to a UI. I have a mouse, and a keyboard, and a web-site. The browser ought to be transparent.
And they still don't show upload progress. It's been thirty years of download progress though. I'm just saying.
So let's see if I understand the situation -- I don't live in your country, so this is damned confusing.
Not so long ago, you had a huge military enemy. They were bigger than you. They were scary. Many lives were lost on both sides. Then there were decades of espionage. Movies, history books, and even comic book super-villians were written about your relationship.
Then, you finally became allies, working together against many things. Once again, movies, history books, and even comic book super-heroes were written about your relationship.
As a direct result, and probably actually the primary cause, you share technology for space exploration -- a laudible partnership and persuit.
And now your own civilians are upset with your friendly relationship? So much so that they are suing you (i.e. themselves) in an attempt to actually harm or hinder that friendship?
And, one of the excuses is that your friend is powerful? Poke the bear?
There's a comedian with a great joke about your country -- "the U.S. goes to all the wars, they love war. they had a civil war! no one left to fight? screw it:, two teams...".
Damn, you guys really do look for fights.
Ha!
...I mean, good luck with that. That's pretty old-school, not sure it'll catch on, even in places where in really should. But hey, friends have iphones that need more charging than my startac did, and that was in the days when phone chargers could charge a phone and a second battery concurrently. So what do I know?
I know absolutely nothing about these things; so I'm actually asking here. Why does the city, I'm not saying every city, but I am saying any city, need to support infinite growth? There's water, there're hills, maybe that's as many people as can fit. Period. You're welcome to live anywhere you like where there's room. I'm sorry, there's no more room here at the inn. Find another.
I've zero interest in my city becoming a huge metropolitan core. I left the one that I was in to find fresh air, less traffic, country driving roads, and farm fresh food. I don't want another 5 million people to move into my city. Quite frankly, if they do, I'll leave, but that's a different issue.
My appologies, I don't read anonymous replies. Without knowing if it's the same anonymous or a different anonymous, I simply cannot carry on a conversation with some unknown quantity of persons.
Yes, seriously, and in all honesty, I pay taxes under "holophrastic". Every year, for the past 15 years. As for the country, I wouldn't expect any country to deny you selection of your own name. Any sequence of letters within any of the official languages ought to suffice, especially if they are linguistically pronouncible.
What country does not allow this?
Actually, technically it's all a lie. I pay taxes under a nine-digit number, like everyone else in my country. But "holophrastic" appears elsewhere on the form too, and that nine-digit number also maps to holophrastic in some database somewhere.
Wow. Ok, first: parents give most first names first. There are countless ways to change one's official name without parental consent. I'm older than 18, and have been for a while.
Second, not all names are "official" in the sense of government-record. They are still names. Any name, by which one is known by most people, and consistently differentiated as so, is a name. The problem with "Anonymous Coward" is that it does not distinguish between individuals. For example, if everyone were named "qbast", I wouldn't know if your last two replies were both from the same one you, or different people. I can't carry on a conversation without knowing if each sentence is coming from a different person.
In my particular case "holophrastic" is my name under both of the above scenarios. Most of the people in my life know me as holophrastic (yes I also mean real-world people), it most certainly distinguishes me from others as there are very few other holophrastic's, and I pay my provincial taxes under the name holophrastic as well, so it's as government-record as it gets.
Does that answer your question?
umm...yes? Says I?
I don't understand you reply.
Not that it's at all relevant to this conversation, but why would you think that my parents gave me that name? Names come from many places. Seems rather narrow-minded of you to assume any single source.
I don't read anonymous replies. Introduce yourself, or you're not worth any conversation.
I don't read anonymous replies. Put your name to your argument or neither the argument nor the name has any value.
I don't read anonymous replies.
Still anonymous, still not reading. Don't know if you're the same anonymous or a different one.
Not true. I can't tell the difference between 1 anonymous coward, and 8. So I can't have a conversation with words coming from random directions.
And what kind of crap is that "usually"? Bullshit you know why people do anything.
I don't read anonymous posts. I simply can't have a conversation with someone when I can't tell if it's the same someone. If you don't feel that your argument is worth your name, then I don't feel that it's worth reading.
I don't read anonymous comments. If you don't value them enough to put your name to your arguments, then they aren't worth reading.
I've said it before, so I'll say it again. These murder counts are totally useless for anyone who doesn't work in a morgue.
I really don't worry about *all* of the murders. The vast majority of them can't possibly affect me. I want the real number of murders -- the ones of which I ought to be frightened.
I don't care about gang-on-gang violence, I'm not in a gang. I do care about caught-in-crossfire gang-shooting victims.
I don't care about spouses killing spouses nor parents killing children. I don't fear my spouse nor my children.
What's left is a very small miniscule number, at least in my country, of intentional killings from random shootings, caught-in-crossfire, crazy co-workers, mistaken identities, and the like. But no one has ever presented those numbers.