"confused one" didn't specify the discount. I would hope it's a little better than "Buy 9, get 1 free."
Besides, for that price you could outsource to India or the Far East and have the helium atoms hand-assembled from protons, neutrons and electrons and still save a bundle.
That's not what the OP was trying to say. He was asking how to disguise "C21H30O2 in the form of..." in other words, "in the form of" modifies "C21H30O2".
Perhaps someone will find a way to disguise it as something benign like (6aR,9R)-N,N-diethyl-7-methyl-4,6,6a,7,8,9-hexahydroindolo-[4,3-fg]quinoline-9-carboxamide.
I just recently picked up "Simon the Sorcerer" from GOG.com to play with my kids... one, because those old games were clever and funny with great artwork, and two, because one of my kids is a huge Red Dwarf fan and the title role in that game was voiced by none other than Chris Barrie.
I'm hoping GOG.com can get ahold of the original "Monkey Island" game... we don't need no steenking 3D when the original VGA artwork was so beautifully made.
I've got the floppies somewhere, but that would be an adventure in itself to find them and transfer them to a machine and get them working with DOSBox.
There's this weird slider thing on the upper right that is apparently used to control which comments are visible and which aren't. It's a pretty pointless feature, IMO, and it's horribly broken. But, if you slide it over to the left, let it go, and then slide it all the way to the right again, the comments will show up.
When it's working, it shows your posts, the replies and the succession of parent posts all the way to the top.
I wouldn't mind it if it didn't take 20 seconds to show up. I don't know if that's Firefox or one of my plugins or the server or what, but it's been consistent on several machines over FiOS (which is screamingly fast).
Ditto here. That was the single most useful feature in/. and it's seriously broken.
I'm assuming it will be fixed soon, but it's really frustrating when something breaks that egregiously.
The Ajax-y comments are good (although they worked very slowly for me... pressing "Preview" sometimes takes forever... and getting rid of the 2 minutes between comments limitation is a huge win. It seems like the minimum is 1 minute, which is much more reasonable.... 2 minutes was ludicrous.
I also agree that ~username to ~username/comments was a bad change because I find ~username to be a completely useless page.
See, if you were right then the country would have descended into irrevocable anarchy when the Great Depression hit.
Can you imagine what would happen if there were 25-30% unemployment today? Many of our cities are a short power failure from anarchy as it is.
Deep moral tradition is typically the rallying cry of a totalitarian government, not the other way around.
You mean like the Founding Fathers? Um, I don't think so.
And yet Europe which is often criticized for being very socialist and demanding less personal responsibility than America doesn't have as big a problem with underage drinking as we do.
Perhaps not. I'm sure there are cultural aspects there, but is the fact that drunk European teenagers are not getting into cars and careening into a crowd of schoolchildren part of the reason? (Not being sarcastic, genuinely asking.)
Like I said, I understand why the laws exist, even though I think they are silly.
Well, to be fair, I really liked parts of both of them. My first comment coming out of "Revolutions" was there was no way that "Revenge of the Sith" was going to be anywhere near as cool. And I was right.
That said, the story was still a incomprehensible mess and what enjoyment could be had out of the movies lay almost exclusively in the awesome visuals and action.
But on the whole, I would rather rewatch "2001" or Tartovsky's "Solaris" (I haven't seen the remake yet).
The reason people hated it was because people who like physics based sci-fi are not comfortable with meta-physics and fantasy sci-fi or at least don't like it when expecting one and get served the other.
I disagree. People didn't dislike the sequels because of the metaphysics and fantasy elements, but because it was an incoherent mess that took random elements of various religions and mythologies, threw them all into a blender and turned them into an undigestable pinkish-grey loaf of eschatological babble.
It's an interesting way of thinking, but again the problem is that driving is simply much more necessary in most of the U.S. because we are so much spread out.
I think the age 21 laws in the U.S. are ridiculous although I understand the reasons for them being made. Amidst the increasing infantilization of our society and trends away from respecting and demanding personal responsibility, it pretty much becomes mandatory to keep absurd numbers of young people from self-destructing.
You can either have a libertarian society where the population is strongly rooted in moral tradition and people generally police themselves or you can have a libertine population without the deep moral roots, and your society will have to become more and more totalitarian in order to keep dissolving into anarchy.
The U.S. used to be the former, now it's the latter.
I think the problem is too many people here have overdosed on pedantic pills.
I enjoy the fact that "Fringe" comes up with outrageous explanations for pseudoscientific theories, and fits it all into an interesting story with great characters and an exciting story arc.
Let's face it, most "science" shows barely qualify as such, and a lot of them are complete garbage. I can't figure out how people can criticize "Fringe", a science fiction show for not being rigorously based on real science.
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Depends on how far you can drive in 2 microseconds.
Also, assuming too many things to count, if you made hydrogen less volatile, would it not also likely generate less energy when burned?
Your post made my brain sad.
"confused one" didn't specify the discount. I would hope it's a little better than "Buy 9, get 1 free."
Besides, for that price you could outsource to India or the Far East and have the helium atoms hand-assembled from protons, neutrons and electrons and still save a bundle.
There's quite a lot more of it quite a lot closer *wave in the direction of the Sun.
Although it might be a bit harder to get at.
That's not what the OP was trying to say. He was asking how to disguise "C21H30O2 in the form of ..." in other words, "in the form of" modifies "C21H30O2".
Perhaps someone will find a way to disguise it as something benign like (6aR,9R)-N,N-diethyl-7-methyl-4,6,6a,7,8,9-hexahydroindolo-[4,3-fg]quinoline-9-carboxamide.
Uh oh, I think you just stumbled onto the United States' long-term geopolitical strategy. I hope China isn't reading /.
I just recently picked up "Simon the Sorcerer" from GOG.com to play with my kids... one, because those old games were clever and funny with great artwork, and two, because one of my kids is a huge Red Dwarf fan and the title role in that game was voiced by none other than Chris Barrie.
I'm hoping GOG.com can get ahold of the original "Monkey Island" game... we don't need no steenking 3D when the original VGA artwork was so beautifully made.
I've got the floppies somewhere, but that would be an adventure in itself to find them and transfer them to a machine and get them working with DOSBox.
There's this weird slider thing on the upper right that is apparently used to control which comments are visible and which aren't. It's a pretty pointless feature, IMO, and it's horribly broken. But, if you slide it over to the left, let it go, and then slide it all the way to the right again, the comments will show up.
When it's working, it shows your posts, the replies and the succession of parent posts all the way to the top.
Let's hope it's less buggy and more snappy.
0 for 2, but I'll cut them some slack for a dot oh release. This is the 21st century after all where "dot oh" means "late alpha".
I wouldn't mind it if it didn't take 20 seconds to show up. I don't know if that's Firefox or one of my plugins or the server or what, but it's been consistent on several machines over FiOS (which is screamingly fast).
Ditto here. That was the single most useful feature in /. and it's seriously broken.
I'm assuming it will be fixed soon, but it's really frustrating when something breaks that egregiously.
The Ajax-y comments are good (although they worked very slowly for me... pressing "Preview" sometimes takes forever... and getting rid of the 2 minutes between comments limitation is a huge win. It seems like the minimum is 1 minute, which is much more reasonable.... 2 minutes was ludicrous.
I also agree that ~username to ~username/comments was a bad change because I find ~username to be a completely useless page.
And going back several posts, nobody looked up how to spell "nickel".
Sorry, couldn't resist.
See, if you were right then the country would have descended into irrevocable anarchy when the Great Depression hit.
Can you imagine what would happen if there were 25-30% unemployment today? Many of our cities are a short power failure from anarchy as it is.
Deep moral tradition is typically the rallying cry of a totalitarian government, not the other way around.
You mean like the Founding Fathers? Um, I don't think so.
And yet Europe which is often criticized for being very socialist and demanding less personal responsibility than America doesn't have as big a problem with underage drinking as we do.
Perhaps not. I'm sure there are cultural aspects there, but is the fact that drunk European teenagers are not getting into cars and careening into a crowd of schoolchildren part of the reason? (Not being sarcastic, genuinely asking.)
Like I said, I understand why the laws exist, even though I think they are silly.
See, I have to disagree. If it weren't meant to be taken seriously, why was it so confusing and laden with (even buried in) symbolism.
If it weren't taking itself so seriously, I think there would have been a whole lot less talking... not that any of them lacked for action.
However, I have to say your theory makes a lot more sense.
Yeah, that one occurred to me too. :-)
Well, to be fair, I really liked parts of both of them. My first comment coming out of "Revolutions" was there was no way that "Revenge of the Sith" was going to be anywhere near as cool. And I was right.
That said, the story was still a incomprehensible mess and what enjoyment could be had out of the movies lay almost exclusively in the awesome visuals and action.
But on the whole, I would rather rewatch "2001" or Tartovsky's "Solaris" (I haven't seen the remake yet).
...what else could you be doing on Friday night...?
What I always do... waiting for the next episode of "Fringe" to show up on Hulu. :-)
The reason people hated it was because people who like physics based sci-fi are not comfortable with meta-physics and fantasy sci-fi or at least don't like it when expecting one and get served the other.
I disagree. People didn't dislike the sequels because of the metaphysics and fantasy elements, but because it was an incoherent mess that took random elements of various religions and mythologies, threw them all into a blender and turned them into an undigestable pinkish-grey loaf of eschatological babble.
They cancelled "Firefly" after 13 shows, but this horrible "American Idol - Politics" keeps dragging on season after season.
You forgot Luke Skywalker, Elric and Lancelot Link....
Yeah, but most of us just call it "Congress".
It's an interesting way of thinking, but again the problem is that driving is simply much more necessary in most of the U.S. because we are so much spread out.
I think the age 21 laws in the U.S. are ridiculous although I understand the reasons for them being made. Amidst the increasing infantilization of our society and trends away from respecting and demanding personal responsibility, it pretty much becomes mandatory to keep absurd numbers of young people from self-destructing.
You can either have a libertarian society where the population is strongly rooted in moral tradition and people generally police themselves or you can have a libertine population without the deep moral roots, and your society will have to become more and more totalitarian in order to keep dissolving into anarchy.
The U.S. used to be the former, now it's the latter.
I'd watch the show for John Noble alone, but the whole cast is really excellent.
1920's upper-class English idiots? Check.
The Young Ones on University Challenge? Check.
A sketch show with Stephen Fry? Check.
Hugh Laurie makes everything better.
I think the problem is too many people here have overdosed on pedantic pills.
I enjoy the fact that "Fringe" comes up with outrageous explanations for pseudoscientific theories, and fits it all into an interesting story with great characters and an exciting story arc.
Let's face it, most "science" shows barely qualify as such, and a lot of them are complete garbage. I can't figure out how people can criticize "Fringe", a science fiction show for not being rigorously based on real science.