"mental retardation" used to be the politically-correct term. over time, the association catches up with it, and it becomes the pejorative term.
same deal with racial terms. only a matter of time before abuse by people who simply have a bad attitude towards other colors of skin make any words assocaited with it sound like slurs.
the solution is to stop changing the name of it and start changing the attitude of those who observe it.
If this thing got smaller, it's not nearly Pluto, so Pluto isn't nearly it (the reflexive property is how I roll), so those who campaigned to demote Pluto are full of retroactive spacecrap.
That may be one of the stupidest things I've ever read. I can infer that you were the victim of a keying in the past, and are using this argument to avoid admitting you created the situation where someone felt justified in doing it. If you didn't create such a situation, and your car was vandalized randomly, you'd be a lot more indignant. If you haven't been keyed at all, then you wouldn't be judging others so definitively for doing it. And if you haven't been keyed, but you came up with this "defective character" thesis ab initio, then that's the case where this becomes one of the stupidest things I've ever read.
Here's the thing: Steve Jobs, tying up handicapped parking spaces at his own company, instead of FILLING THEM WITH HANDICAPPED WORKERS AND ISSUING HIMSELF A SPACE OF HIS OWN, is about the douchiest thing I've ever heard of. I'd fucking FILM myself keying his car, then email it to him. Let him try to collect for the repairs. The Streisand Effect would be the coup de grace in that plot. It's not treating him all that well now, anyway.
Avast reports the Microsoft Security Essentials AV as a virus about 180 times, because a running MSE has a bunch of virus signatures embedded within it in plaintext...
Hmm. Once you join, your Account management page has a Change Membership option that includes all the different levels up to 8-DVDs-out-at-a-time-plus-unlimited-streaming ($61/month with Blu-Ray, $52 without).
The scaling is bizarre, though. Adding another DVD-at-a-time sometimes costs $4, sometimes $6, and sometimes $5. And the prices listed aren't in whole dollars (they all end in.98) so there's no reason not to charge in partial dollars other than suckerization...
The blu-ray up-charge is consistently $1+1*number of DVDs at a time, which is exhorbitant.
Frankly, it's clear from this sort of stuff that Netflix never did think much of its customers' intelligence.
Note the huge holes in both their DVD and streaming catalogs.
Any content provider can just walk across the street to Blockbuster or Redbox, or set up their own streaming website.
Netflix has to convince them to give it content. It may have crumbled the bricks-and-mortar-video-store business model, but it's not all-powerful over media, yet.
Apple did it because in order to play your music you had to have an iPod. That created a non-fungible market. If content providers wanted into those ears, they had only Apple to work with.
That's not photoshop. It's simply keeping a 20-year-old picture on file.
For what it's worth, she's still not unattractive in the newer photo.
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Can you sustain 16 people from your acre?
Because there are 7 billion of us, so far. And given the total arable land on the planet (not total farmed, total farmable), that's how much we have to use per person. 1/16th of an acre.
Just handing everyone a rake and a deed won't get us there.
Logistically, it's impossible to run the human race without economies of scale, division of labor, and pooled resources.
Discovery thought so too, which is why they started running shows that were primarily veiled attempts at just that.
All of which sucked. A lot. Because the sort of person who's more interested in blowing shit up than figuring things out is usually not the sort of personality that makes for good TV. In many cases they're the sort of personality that makes you go watch a shopping channel to get the moronicity out of your eyes. Same reason I can't stand watching the Punkin' Chunkin' thing. Cool toys, but almost always operated by mouth-breathers you wouldn't want to discuss mechanics over a beer with. The sad part of nerdiness is realizing how many nerds are assholes, too.
Mythbusters owes at least half of its success to the fact that we like the folks doing it.
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"mental retardation" used to be the politically-correct term. over time, the association catches up with it, and it becomes the pejorative term.
same deal with racial terms. only a matter of time before abuse by people who simply have a bad attitude towards other colors of skin make any words assocaited with it sound like slurs.
the solution is to stop changing the name of it and start changing the attitude of those who observe it.
If you knew that an oval is a plane figure, then the third dimension would be nonexistent, not redundant.
I think you mean ovoid or ellipsoid or prolate or cylindrical or bonelike.
Which is what 99% of scientific and non-scientific minds would assume.
The other 1% would be smartasses who would try to slip oblate, flattened, or disclike past us, but we ain't buying any of that weak sauce today.
And Miles Cowperthwaite.
If this thing got smaller, it's not nearly Pluto, so Pluto isn't nearly it (the reflexive property is how I roll), so those who campaigned to demote Pluto are full of retroactive spacecrap.
I want Pluto back where it belongs.
That may be one of the stupidest things I've ever read. I can infer that you were the victim of a keying in the past, and are using this argument to avoid admitting you created the situation where someone felt justified in doing it. If you didn't create such a situation, and your car was vandalized randomly, you'd be a lot more indignant. If you haven't been keyed at all, then you wouldn't be judging others so definitively for doing it. And if you haven't been keyed, but you came up with this "defective character" thesis ab initio, then that's the case where this becomes one of the stupidest things I've ever read.
Here's the thing: Steve Jobs, tying up handicapped parking spaces at his own company, instead of FILLING THEM WITH HANDICAPPED WORKERS AND ISSUING HIMSELF A SPACE OF HIS OWN, is about the douchiest thing I've ever heard of. I'd fucking FILM myself keying his car, then email it to him. Let him try to collect for the repairs. The Streisand Effect would be the coup de grace in that plot. It's not treating him all that well now, anyway.
Where's yours?
Especially since it's a strategy of the GOP to attract the stupid and crazy away from the left.
Ever run two at once?
Avast reports the Microsoft Security Essentials AV as a virus about 180 times, because a running MSE has a bunch of virus signatures embedded within it in plaintext...
/. detects the / in your .
And, as it's a lease, it's probably paid for by his shareholders, and gets a tax deduction besides...
Seen the design for their new one?
Unless it's got an integrated garage, most of the parking looks like it's hundreds of yards from the building.
You're not the only one. Isaacson's book is being reprinted on the Interwebs, one factoid at a time.
Man.
How frickin' cool would it be to know you were one of the people who keyed Steve Jobs' 500 SL?
I'd take a picture of it and use it as my logo.
Hmm. Once you join, your Account management page has a Change Membership option that includes all the different levels up to 8-DVDs-out-at-a-time-plus-unlimited-streaming ($61/month with Blu-Ray, $52 without).
The scaling is bizarre, though. Adding another DVD-at-a-time sometimes costs $4, sometimes $6, and sometimes $5. And the prices listed aren't in whole dollars (they all end in .98) so there's no reason not to charge in partial dollars other than suckerization...
The blu-ray up-charge is consistently $1+1*number of DVDs at a time, which is exhorbitant.
Frankly, it's clear from this sort of stuff that Netflix never did think much of its customers' intelligence.
They used to. Looking at the website, it looks like they tried to kill DVD entirely already. They really bury the DVD option.
Or Nortel. Which almost took Netgear with it.
And none of it is in 1920x1080 resolution.
Netflix was not in the same boat.
Note the huge holes in both their DVD and streaming catalogs.
Any content provider can just walk across the street to Blockbuster or Redbox, or set up their own streaming website.
Netflix has to convince them to give it content. It may have crumbled the bricks-and-mortar-video-store business model, but it's not all-powerful over media, yet.
Apple did it because in order to play your music you had to have an iPod. That created a non-fungible market. If content providers wanted into those ears, they had only Apple to work with.
Now we're talking.
A little. If it's steep enough. If it's gradual and there's interstitial unevenness, you'll never know which way is up or down.
Any nerd can fap to scat pr0n.
This woman has the power to order the upgrade of Watson to achieve sapience.
"because of advances in soil building, de-desertification, and hydro-/aqua-ponics"
And just who is going to do all of that for us while we're intensively farming our land?
For that matter, how are we going to get this land? It's not free, and we're not born with money.
That's not photoshop. It's simply keeping a 20-year-old picture on file.
For what it's worth, she's still not unattractive in the newer photo.
Can you sustain 16 people from your acre?
Because there are 7 billion of us, so far. And given the total arable land on the planet (not total farmed, total farmable), that's how much we have to use per person. 1/16th of an acre.
Just handing everyone a rake and a deed won't get us there.
Logistically, it's impossible to run the human race without economies of scale, division of labor, and pooled resources.
Discovery thought so too, which is why they started running shows that were primarily veiled attempts at just that.
All of which sucked. A lot. Because the sort of person who's more interested in blowing shit up than figuring things out is usually not the sort of personality that makes for good TV. In many cases they're the sort of personality that makes you go watch a shopping channel to get the moronicity out of your eyes. Same reason I can't stand watching the Punkin' Chunkin' thing. Cool toys, but almost always operated by mouth-breathers you wouldn't want to discuss mechanics over a beer with. The sad part of nerdiness is realizing how many nerds are assholes, too.
Mythbusters owes at least half of its success to the fact that we like the folks doing it.