I've not figured out if this is intentional, or if they've been so ingrained with "foo" and "bar" from their college days that they just can't tear themselves away from it?
I've noticed a lot of people who write statements, but then put question marks on the end. It's a bit confusing?
It's so sad and pathetic that the metric being used by people is amount of "friends".
FTFY. It likely has nothing at all to do with Facebook specifically.
"Number of friends" is probably a very useful metric when it comes to determining how useful it would be to have someone as a friend.
That we now can gauge this using a website instead of real-world interaction, and are living in apartments instead of mud huts, makes little difference.
So, no, it's not "sad and pathetic" at all. It's an instict, and like all instincts it can be gamed.
t turns out that an antiparticle going back in time is exactly the same as a regular particle going forward in time.
I thought determining the truth of that is what this experiment is all about.
I am STILL stymied by a question he asked once:
"Why does a mirror reverse left-and-right but not up-and-down?"
It doesn't. It reverses back-and-front.
Hold up a print-out of writing on paper you can see through, so that you can read it. Do so with a mirror beyond the paper, and you'll be able to read the writing (through the back of the paper) just fine.
'I know that if the water does overwhelm me I can always open the helmet,' wrote Parmitano about making it to the airlock. 'I'll probably lose consciousness, but in any case that would be better than drowning inside the helmet.'
I must go now as I can no longer breathe, yours sincerely, astronaut dude.
Reminds me of Eddie Izzard's take on Pliny the Elder's letters from Pompeii.
Dear friends,
Fookin' top's come off the mountain! Ahhhh! Send ships and big ships, send ducks, send anything!
Woah, easy there tiger. I'm not exactly sure why you chose here and now to explain your unusual, possibly damaging from an evolutionary point-of-view feelings on the subject of family, but no-one actually asked or needed you to.
Family is nothing to me.
FTFY. It's something to most people.
It's an invented construct.
Really? Who invented it? Because familial relations have been in existence since long before us apes. It's a biological instinct.
Besides which, invention has little to do with relevance or usefulness. money is an invented construct. Can I have yours?
There's this idea that...
Sorry, is there? Some people may well continue to feel loyalty to abusive family members (due to the aforementioned biological instinct, largely), but so what? That doesn't mean everyone does. You act like it's some vast conspiracy that everyone sat down and signed up to. It's not. It's just the way some people are.
Why are you so apoplectic that other people are different to you?
Well, that's stupid, and I can only assume most people are stupid.
Or you could assume that most people aren't mistreated by their parents. That would seem to be the more sensible position.
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have a look to Australia and UK, whose rate of violent crime has never been so high*, while they have utter strict gun law.
Right! And since the US, Australia, and UK are absolutely identical in all other aspects of their society, it can only be down to the gun laws!
Wait...
(*not true in the case of the UK)
move on with your life.
Move on to what? Berating strangers on the internet for having hobbies?
I've not figured out if this is intentional, or if they've been so ingrained with "foo" and "bar" from their college days that they just can't tear themselves away from it?
I've noticed a lot of people who write statements, but then put question marks on the end. It's a bit confusing?
No, for fuck's sake, don't be so stupid. You've missed the point entirely.
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Unbreakable? That's a strong boast. Is it true? And even if it's only partly true...
...then it's false.
a) Bitcoins don't work that way.
b) The internet doesn't work that way.
To do what, exactly?
Sorry, you're clearly not cynical enough and therefore, as GP has asserted, an idiot.
It's so sad and pathetic that the metric being used by people is amount of "friends".
FTFY. It likely has nothing at all to do with Facebook specifically.
"Number of friends" is probably a very useful metric when it comes to determining how useful it would be to have someone as a friend.
That we now can gauge this using a website instead of real-world interaction, and are living in apartments instead of mud huts, makes little difference.
So, no, it's not "sad and pathetic" at all. It's an instict, and like all instincts it can be gamed.
A virus isn't living in the first place.
Says you and most people, but there's room for doubt.
Besides, GP never said viruses were alive.
Hayes compatible, anyone?
%b6viaby5i+++NO CAFETIERE+++
t turns out that an antiparticle going back in time is exactly the same as a regular particle going forward in time.
I thought determining the truth of that is what this experiment is all about.
I am STILL stymied by a question he asked once:
"Why does a mirror reverse left-and-right but not up-and-down?"
It doesn't. It reverses back-and-front.
Hold up a print-out of writing on paper you can see through, so that you can read it. Do so with a mirror beyond the paper, and you'll be able to read the writing (through the back of the paper) just fine.
This has been blown up out of all proportion to the actual likelyhood of anyone getting exposed
Which will likely, and hopefully, remain true. But what if it doesn't? And wouldn't it be exactly this sort of test which would bring it to attention?
Excuse for being anal, but - an Anonymous Coward on Slashdot who thinks he knows everything about fossilised poop? Something's wrong here.
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We're just nuts for boobs.
That's nothing. Here's Ubuntu running on an 8-bit machine.
Is this horrendously upscaled JPEG all we're going to get?
'I know that if the water does overwhelm me I can always open the helmet,' wrote Parmitano about making it to the airlock. 'I'll probably lose consciousness, but in any case that would be better than drowning inside the helmet.'
I must go now as I can no longer breathe, yours sincerely, astronaut dude.
Reminds me of Eddie Izzard's take on Pliny the Elder's letters from Pompeii.
Dear friends,
Fookin' top's come off the mountain! Ahhhh! Send ships and big ships, send ducks, send anything!
Love and kisses,
Pliny the Elder
Woah, easy there tiger. I'm not exactly sure why you chose here and now to explain your unusual, possibly damaging from an evolutionary point-of-view feelings on the subject of family, but no-one actually asked or needed you to.
Family is nothing to me.
FTFY. It's something to most people.
It's an invented construct.
Really? Who invented it? Because familial relations have been in existence since long before us apes. It's a biological instinct.
Besides which, invention has little to do with relevance or usefulness. money is an invented construct. Can I have yours?
There's this idea that...
Sorry, is there? Some people may well continue to feel loyalty to abusive family members (due to the aforementioned biological instinct, largely), but so what? That doesn't mean everyone does. You act like it's some vast conspiracy that everyone sat down and signed up to. It's not. It's just the way some people are.
Why are you so apoplectic that other people are different to you?
Well, that's stupid, and I can only assume most people are stupid.
Or you could assume that most people aren't mistreated by their parents. That would seem to be the more sensible position.
So that's why I want to kill all humans.
American-looking PC chassis
As opposed to the foreign-looking ones they have in other countries?
Well, pardonneeeeez-moi.
The 00's called. They want their "the 90's called" joke back.
Wouldn't just about everyone who comes here know what netflow is?
Not that I disagree that this isn't particularly newsworthy, but why would you assume most people who come here would know what netflow is?
There was no entrance exam when I registered...