Does it strike anyone else as odd that you can go from Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport to Secretary of State for Health in a day, or from Transport to Defence? Do any of these people have any actual experience or qualification in the departments they get dumped on? It's all just a load of old bollocks, isn't it?
Frankly, I suspect that the NHS could save a substantial amount of money with this sort of treatment to the daily sundry of ills of the homemakers and saturnine types who are so fond of a visit to the physician to tend to their latest "ailments".
Sadly quite possibly true, but that doesn't make it right, especially when you've got the homeopaths with their degrees in baloney in the middle raking in the public cash. On the plus side, there's some evidence the placebo effect works even if you explain it to the patient, so we might get to cut them out of the loop!
In what is likely to be a historic moment in science
I'm not knocking the achievement, but wouldn't it be a more truly historic moment when they've nailed down the function of 100% of the genome? Where was the big celebration when they got to 64.576%?
Can someone explain to me (because I don't own any Ubisoft PC games) how this is different than being forced to log into Battle.net even if I only want to play Diablo 3 single player?
Because "this" is a story about how Ubisoft have ditched the requirement. When Blizzard do the same, Slashdot will no doubt run a similar story about them and we can all have a good dig at them, too.
IANAH, but I'm pretty sure the communal toilet facilities (which were also uni-sex) in Roman baths had a shared sponge-on-a-stick. It's been mooted as an etymology for "getting the wrong end of the stick."
I don't think we ever used # to represent pounds (weight)
That was its origin - it came from "lb" with a line through it.
"!" is/was a "pling" to me, for computing purposes (RISC OS treats directories beginning with ! as applications - double clicking executes the !Run file inside) and $ is "string".
I wonder if the GP's just having a go (poorly) at the writer for using "45,000 pounds," which you never really see in written British English. We have this nifty little £ symbol for such occasions.
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Dum, da dum-dum!
Using archaic word ordering doesn't make a comment more insightful ;)
The virgin Connie Swail?
Because it's not the kind teleportation you're thinking of. You still need a classical channel.
Or to put it another way, it is.
Yes, what's the phrase? Something like "those who would seek power least deserve to wield it"?
Imagine having to shop for a family's three-year supply of groceries all at once and having enough meals planned in advance for that length of time.
Then forget that idea, because it's nothing like that.
Does it strike anyone else as odd that you can go from Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport to Secretary of State for Health in a day, or from Transport to Defence? Do any of these people have any actual experience or qualification in the departments they get dumped on? It's all just a load of old bollocks, isn't it?
Frankly, I suspect that the NHS could save a substantial amount of money with this sort of treatment to the daily sundry of ills of the homemakers and saturnine types who are so fond of a visit to the physician to tend to their latest "ailments".
Sadly quite possibly true, but that doesn't make it right, especially when you've got the homeopaths with their degrees in baloney in the middle raking in the public cash. On the plus side, there's some evidence the placebo effect works even if you explain it to the patient, so we might get to cut them out of the loop!
In what is likely to be a historic moment in science
I'm not knocking the achievement, but wouldn't it be a more truly historic moment when they've nailed down the function of 100% of the genome? Where was the big celebration when they got to 64.576%?
Can someone explain to me (because I don't own any Ubisoft PC games) how this is different than being forced to log into Battle.net even if I only want to play Diablo 3 single player?
Because "this" is a story about how Ubisoft have ditched the requirement. When Blizzard do the same, Slashdot will no doubt run a similar story about them and we can all have a good dig at them, too.
IANAH, but I'm pretty sure the communal toilet facilities (which were also uni-sex) in Roman baths had a shared sponge-on-a-stick. It's been mooted as an etymology for "getting the wrong end of the stick."
Left hand, jug of water, attention to handwashing
It's the Roman wet-sponge-on-a-stick or nothing, for me.
slowly but steadily pushing through the heliosheath
Phwoar!
I don't think we ever used # to represent pounds (weight)
That was its origin - it came from "lb" with a line through it.
"!" is/was a "pling" to me, for computing purposes (RISC OS treats directories beginning with ! as applications - double clicking executes the !Run file inside) and $ is "string".
All hail the interrobang!
Partisan Food Fight
What does this mean? Is "food fight" a well-known metaphor for something? This situation doesn't sound like good-natured, if creamy, horseplay.
Now, one organization is throwing fuel on the political fire.
Okay, which idiot brought fuel to a food fight?
It's about time everyone put their battleaxes back in the scabbard. They've made their cake, and now they have to lie in it.
robots already have limited rights by virtue of the fact that they're private property
Those "rights" are the owners', not the robots'.
I wonder if the GP's just having a go (poorly) at the writer for using "45,000 pounds," which you never really see in written British English. We have this nifty little £ symbol for such occasions.
Yeah, but... a PDF? C'mooooooon.
so it is clear that they are taking the negative publicity surrounding the incident seriously.
FTFY.
I think this one is more apposite!
No, it requires time.
But I find somthing a lot more arrogant: people who absolutely want a reason for their existence.
Wanting a reason isn't arrogant; thinking you already know the reason is.
No, the rest of us saw it years ago and have got all the references out of our system now.
The suit would be a degree safer
Is that more or less than a "smidge"?
While a puncture of scrape
I'll assume that's meant to be "or scrape." What constitutes a scrape in a spacesuit, anyway?