the cars driving like maniacs. Do the drivers in your city drift into the bike lane while making right turns too?
In this state you're supposed to merge into the bike lane before making a right turn. Our drivers drift into the bike lane when they're on the straightaways looking at the scenery, which is a special feature hereabouts.
I have a friend who has no car in a city without much transit - bikes everywhere he needs to go. Despite pushing seventy years of age, he is in top physical condition.
Except that roughly every five years he gets nailed by some clueless driver wandering into the bike lane, pulling out of a mall entrance, or running a light. On each occasion, the medics have had to reassemble him from traces of DNA found at the accident scene. Somehow he survives, and after a few months in the hospital gets back on a bike again. It's fortunate that he never flies, because by now his body is mostly pins and braces.
There is no way you will get me on one of those things.
While we're implementing executive orders, why can't the US jump into the lead on an important technical issue by mandating that all plastic manufactured in this country have a specific gravity of at least 1.1 ? End of problem.
In the US we have about the same percentage of new chip readers masked off because the software to run them is not installed yet. The difference between our systems is that when the US readers are all working, they will support the same crappy chip-and-sign that does nothing to aadd security. You will have real chip-and-PIN.
Why is it a farce exactly? Works fine in europe and asia.
Because Europe and Asia don't use chip and sign. Chip and sign is for Americans getting odd looks from retail personnel when we present a credit card in those areas.
Millennials already work noticeably harder than we did, which is why they have jobs to hop. At their age, we still prided outselves no having tuned in and dropped out.
May they build everything that my generation was afraid to build.
Here is how to go about the research: identify at least one specific mental task that works better under the influence of each experimental substance, thereby establishing an objective standard for "higher consciousness." Then we can work backward and identify the changes in neutral activity that led to this improved performance on tasks.
As described, this project could be be made to use any of the popular smartphone virtual keyboard layouts as input. A QWERTY with three or four 'best choice' words at the top would be easy to use for someone already familiar with such a keyboard. As users gain skill in think-punching the virtual buttons, an option for reducing the size of the keys to avoid having multiple keyboards for special characters would be popular.
Please, designers, don't succumb to TV Remote Interface Disease, in which virtual keyboards are specifically designed to be as unlike any keyboard the user is familiar with as possible.
"Would I stay in a stranger's home? Not even if you paid me."
Then you would miss experiences like hiking through an ancient farm and village landscape, staying at a different B&B every night next to a village pub-restaurant, in an area with few conventional hotels. https://www.mickledore.co.uk/w...
It is possible to like both the De Laurentiis version (excellent production values but too much story crammed into the length of one feature, cramming the story into incomprehensibility) and the Czech miniseries (crappy production values but tells the whole story).
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Autocorrect really, really wants to make this mistake when you post from mobile.
If cancer research is affected by incidents like this, what's to say that climate science isn't similarly affected?
Pay no attention to the research assistant behind the curtain!
My exercise is mountain hiking two days a week. Yesterday was a nine-mile day with 2000' of elevation gain.
the cars driving like maniacs. Do the drivers in your city drift into the bike lane while making right turns too?
In this state you're supposed to merge into the bike lane before making a right turn. Our drivers drift into the bike lane when they're on the straightaways looking at the scenery, which is a special feature hereabouts.
I have a friend who has no car in a city without much transit - bikes everywhere he needs to go. Despite pushing seventy years of age, he is in top physical condition.
Except that roughly every five years he gets nailed by some clueless driver wandering into the bike lane, pulling out of a mall entrance, or running a light. On each occasion, the medics have had to reassemble him from traces of DNA found at the accident scene. Somehow he survives, and after a few months in the hospital gets back on a bike again. It's fortunate that he never flies, because by now his body is mostly pins and braces.
There is no way you will get me on one of those things.
While we're implementing executive orders, why can't the US jump into the lead on an important technical issue by mandating that all plastic manufactured in this country have a specific gravity of at least 1.1 ? End of problem.
In the US we have about the same percentage of new chip readers masked off because the software to run them is not installed yet. The difference between our systems is that when the US readers are all working, they will support the same crappy chip-and-sign that does nothing to aadd security. You will have real chip-and-PIN.
Why is it a farce exactly? Works fine in europe and asia.
Because Europe and Asia don't use chip and sign. Chip and sign is for Americans getting odd looks from retail personnel when we present a credit card in those areas.
Millennials already work noticeably harder than we did, which is why they have jobs to hop. At their age, we still prided outselves no having tuned in and dropped out.
May they build everything that my generation was afraid to build.
"On that note, why aren't baby boomers eating pho? [byrslf.co]"
Because it reminds us of Vietnam.
Decimate: Kill one in every ten
That doesn't sound very useful.
STEM training should be mandatory for all journalism students.
Here is how to go about the research: identify at least one specific mental task that works better under the influence of each experimental substance, thereby establishing an objective standard for "higher consciousness." Then we can work backward and identify the changes in neutral activity that led to this improved performance on tasks.
As described, this project could be be made to use any of the popular smartphone virtual keyboard layouts as input. A QWERTY with three or four 'best choice' words at the top would be easy to use for someone already familiar with such a keyboard. As users gain skill in think-punching the virtual buttons, an option for reducing the size of the keys to avoid having multiple keyboards for special characters would be popular.
Please, designers, don't succumb to TV Remote Interface Disease, in which virtual keyboards are specifically designed to be as unlike any keyboard the user is familiar with as possible.
"Just put a big fricken laser on the summit of Mauna Kea..."
If the Democrat volcano gods hate astronomy, they are really not going to like this idea.
AC science in all its glory! This is why we can only have nice things when China starts manufacturing them and selling them to us.
Forget walls: how about virtual shackles? I can see it now: a gaol where all the prisoners just sit on a single room wearing VR headsets.
And being made to re-experience crime, this time as victims.
Queue the idiots that put up straw men... Like you
Cue the morons who can't spell "cue." Buncha "loosers."
Lobbyist in the hotel lobby.
It's like orthotics controlled by Big Foot, the podiatry lobby.
"Would I stay in a stranger's home? Not even if you paid me."
Then you would miss experiences like hiking through an ancient farm and village landscape, staying at a different B&B every night next to a village pub-restaurant, in an area with few conventional hotels.
https://www.mickledore.co.uk/w...
Who has nominations for the best science fiction film that was never made?
The most inventive multilingual wordplay script ever for Russian speakers would be A Clockwork Orange.
He who controls the spice controls the universe!
It is possible to like both the De Laurentiis version (excellent production values but too much story crammed into the length of one feature, cramming the story into incomprehensibility) and the Czech miniseries (crappy production values but tells the whole story).
My personal tag line for Avatar would have been "Political correctness from beyond the stars."
The lack of vision in Starship Troopers is astonishing. The best weapon they can come up with is a machine gun?
No, that was cheaping out on the effects. That's why there was no power armor.
Bladerunner. The original with the overdubbing.
Seconded. When Blade Runner came out I had recently moved back home from Tokyo, so for me it was a nostalgia picture.