Yes, we all instinctively rotate out eyeballs 45 degrees when we see things in the corner of our eyes.
Oh, wait... We don't.
Oh wait, we do, so we can get a look at the possible snake as fast as possible. And then we move our heads as well. And if our heads are immobile or we're feeling lazy and not especially threatened, we might not even do that.
I'd say 30 degrees would be a quite normal range of everyday eyeball rotation.
Israel Helped the NSA Spy on Former French President According To Documents
Where does it say Israel helped the NSA? The French accused the US, the US denied it, asked everyone else about it (except the Israelis) and everyone else denied it as well. Right?
RTFA, the reporting is fine, you are doing a lousy job at reading.
The summary is lousy for not including the information that the flight was unmanned, especially given the "would have walked away" quote. Reading the article is supposed to be an option if you want more detail, not to clear up the ambiguity of a bad summary.
In particular, this remark is a ridiculous non sequitur.
Yes it is, and it's meant to be. The creationists' claim is ridiculous, the comparable claim is ridiculous and the comparison is also ridiculous. He's not trying to logically undermine creationism with that quote, he's just mocking it.
Agreed as far as the third paragraph goes, though.
Didn't you know? It's the law that if you don't already know enough to know what a story is about, then you're not allowed to ask questions and must remain silent lest you anger the gods by showing any curiousity within these hallowed pages.
people would rather face a daily one-in-a-million chance of dying due to their own mistake than a daily one-in-a-billion chance of dying due to a machine failure.
Who is this "people" you refer to? Last time I checked, everyone was an individual with their own independent opinions on these things.
If you're going to use such specious reasoning, your driver could have driven you into the path of a falling meteorite that an autonomous car would have missed by being slower.
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Yes, we all instinctively rotate out eyeballs 45 degrees when we see things in the corner of our eyes.
Oh, wait... We don't.
Oh wait, we do, so we can get a look at the possible snake as fast as possible. And then we move our heads as well. And if our heads are immobile or we're feeling lazy and not especially threatened, we might not even do that.
I'd say 30 degrees would be a quite normal range of everyday eyeball rotation.
Just don't get him confused with the "funny" uncle.
The headline:
Firefox ... Will Soon EOL On XP
From the article
Johnathan Nightingale, VP of Firefox at Mozilla stated, "We have no plans to discontinue support for our XP users."
You're a freakin' genius, y'idiot.
You've got all the right words, but not necessarily in the right order.
His summaries are so despised. Why? For being inaccurate.
Your eyes can move in their sockets.
With eyeball rotation of about 90(deg) (head rotation excluded, peripheral vision included), horizontal field of view is as high as 270(deg).
What colour is the Kool-Aid?
Descend From Apes. interestingly, it's one thing man didn't do either. we do share a common ancestor.
Which was an ape.
here's a scene in Return of the Jedi in which Luke goes mano a mano with a storm trooper riding one of those cycles used to zip around Endor.
Luke knocks the guy's helmet off, revealing a dark haired guy with a rather skinny face.
Yeah, and there's that scene in ANH where he throws the grappling hook twice... except it didn't happen.
I don't recall if I saw this scene
You can probably stop right there. Human memory is ridiculously unreliable.
I used to have a perfect example of this from my own life, but I've forgotten it.
Yeah. So?
...is apparently for obnoxious douchebags.
Israel Helped the NSA Spy on Former French President According To Documents
Where does it say Israel helped the NSA? The French accused the US, the US denied it, asked everyone else about it (except the Israelis) and everyone else denied it as well. Right?
RTFA, the reporting is fine, you are doing a lousy job at reading.
The summary is lousy for not including the information that the flight was unmanned, especially given the "would have walked away" quote. Reading the article is supposed to be an option if you want more detail, not to clear up the ambiguity of a bad summary.
Dickie Attenborough
He's only trying to make sure his brother never runs out of animals to narrate.
In particular, this remark is a ridiculous non sequitur.
Yes it is, and it's meant to be. The creationists' claim is ridiculous, the comparable claim is ridiculous and the comparison is also ridiculous. He's not trying to logically undermine creationism with that quote, he's just mocking it.
Agreed as far as the third paragraph goes, though.
But let's say I assert that I'm no terrorist
Exactly what a terrorist would say. You're going on the super-duper snoop list.
If the astronaut would be very small he might notice nothing.
Or if the black hole was very big. Which most of the ones we know about are.
I love how we treat blackholes specially.
Why shouldn't we? They're extremely interesting.
For some reason, we teach kids and adults that blackholes are "evil" and suck up everything
At least that's less wrong than declaring that:
getting mass to 1/3 the speed of light is absolutely impossible.
yet no one can challenge the action because they were not directly affected.
Al-Awlaki's father [still alive] and civil rights groups challenged the order in court.
They have the power to fix it, if they care enough.
By... not voting for Bush?
I wonder how that'll turn out.
You also didn't say "some people." Or "60% of people." Or "10% of people."
You might be right; I don't think you are, but I'm not going to state my opinion as fact.
Arr from aye seems more likely to me.
Didn't you know? It's the law that if you don't already know enough to know what a story is about, then you're not allowed to ask questions and must remain silent lest you anger the gods by showing any curiousity within these hallowed pages.
people would rather face a daily one-in-a-million chance of dying due to their own mistake than a daily one-in-a-billion chance of dying due to a machine failure.
Who is this "people" you refer to? Last time I checked, everyone was an individual with their own independent opinions on these things.
The plural of "anecdote" is not "data".
If you're going to use such specious reasoning, your driver could have driven you into the path of a falling meteorite that an autonomous car would have missed by being slower.
Arghhh ... matey!
Unless the pirate in question is dying (and trying to scrawl a message on a cave), it's just "Arr."