Or maybe sell them a few extra feet of wire for the probe...
Although, really, it sounds a bit apocryphal, like maybe you're misremembering it. Because I can't think of a situation where you'd want to have a scope that would be destroyed by the test, since to use a scope you need something to observe the scope, it being a scope, see...which means maybe what they weren't telling you is that a technician was being vaporized along with the scope, see...
(And at the point where we figure out what the real deal is here I'm going to have an "aha!" sort of recognition. I remember those late 70s Tektronix catalogs; I used to read them over and over like they were pr0n...)
And if the people who did make it into the Swedish Parliament have any sense, they'll modify that immunity clause to exclude deliberately dangerous criminal acts.
(See, I have a 90% chance of being right and you have a 10% chance of being right, so I win Monte Carlo testing, and I provided more evidence than you, so I win in a civil suit.)
You go to http://slashdot.org/firehose and look at the articles by clicking on their titles, maybe follow the links they contain to see if the summary is correct and the links work and aren't a trap or anything, then you click the + or the - and pick a category for your reasoning from the inadequate list.
The idea is that when stories like this one come up that are (a) dull, and (b) poorly written, and (c) so is the summary, you can have a voice in saying whether it's forced upon the rest of/. or just scrolls off the bottom of the Firehose, never to be seen again until the inevitable dupe is posted.
But clearly, that ratings system isn't doing a bit of good, because, dayum...
A lot of left handed people buy right-handed guitars when the guitar they want comes in left-handed.
That's just so they can claim to be just like this dude.
BTW, some right-handed people buy left-handed guitars for exactly the same reason, and you can even get right-handed guitars with inverted necks to fuel your pretense^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hhomage.
Just because we now do it with a computer or a cell phone doesn't somehow make it new
Well, yeah, it does, and the fact that you and I are communicating at all is proof of that. Our circle of observation and influence has increased by a couple of orders of magnitude for this.
We also don't have to keep one hand hidden under our robes because it's the one we wipe our asses with. I know the Saudis still do that sort of thing, but they're barely a full generation removed from having never seen a piece of paper, much less toilet paper.
And we have countries whose laws are not based on religion. It's hard to tell in some cases, but when it comes down to the final decision, it's the truth.
A third party only needs to get slightly over a third of the votes to get in, provided the other participants get fewer.
If a majority is needed, it's almost impossible to get a majority with more than two candidates anyway.
That said, I think all elections should be done by Approval Voting. But the political parties are both fearful that they won't be the one that more people approve of, so they resist that change, and until they accept it, things won't change.
The reason third parties don't do well is, as I said, the skill of the two parties that dominate American politics. They have not always been the two parties in power, but they have in the past century figured out the system and how to work it. They avoid radicalism that would alienate their bases, coopt outlying voting blocs as necessary to carve out wins from election to election, and apply tactical attacks to denigrate anyone but themselves. An inexperienced third party organization lacks an estiablished bases, is generally focussed on a special interest with a few allied issues, and withers under attack.
The only way a contending third party will form is if one of the major parties fractures, and somehow attracts a portion of the other major party. But like I said, the parties are careful to keep their bases coherent. The GOP made a move to the Right 15 years ago and it slapped them in 2008, so there's a chance they'll break over the Tea Party, but the Tea Party has no attraction for the left, and the GOP is not acting frightened enough to try to seal conservative democrats, as there are signs that they're still in control of the Tea Party and are now using it to manipulate opinion and appear more centrist. The TP will degrade over time, as the GOP eats away its membership, which will only happen faster if the GOP wins this year and in 2012.
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Um...how about a Final Fantasy title where your arm is swinging, instead of just your thumbs...
That's because the South also has things that eat them and keep their population relatively in check.
I'm not sure that Brooklyn wants to bring in snakes, raptors, and gators to deal with the problem they already have.
You're talking about politicians in Brooklyn making decisions about ecological balance. I can't think of a less ecologically balanced place.
It doesn't say that. It says he went on a date with her. And then that his marriage to her was elided from the canon preemptively.
So, really, you have to flash your table light at least a little for the protectors of the canon for this one.
[Obligatory "full of schist" joke goes here.]
Molten rock can have almost any chemical composition, just like solidified rock. So the answer is "yes".
Or maybe sell them a few extra feet of wire for the probe...
Although, really, it sounds a bit apocryphal, like maybe you're misremembering it. Because I can't think of a situation where you'd want to have a scope that would be destroyed by the test, since to use a scope you need something to observe the scope, it being a scope, see...which means maybe what they weren't telling you is that a technician was being vaporized along with the scope, see...
(And at the point where we figure out what the real deal is here I'm going to have an "aha!" sort of recognition. I remember those late 70s Tektronix catalogs; I used to read them over and over like they were pr0n...)
Larry means if you break it, you can un-break it again.
Sure, but sometimes you need privacy and control and ownership.
Of course, if this is the same Oracle it's always been, you won't get those things, but you will get a hefty bill.
the rastafarians got it right, by putting the I and the I together, as in "I and I", meaning one.
Then why did you check the "protect my name" box?
That would be fair use. As would "Dr. Ann De Wees Allen is a flaming egomaniac and snake-oil peddler."
And if the people who did make it into the Swedish Parliament have any sense, they'll modify that immunity clause to exclude deliberately dangerous criminal acts.
Modern mathematicians
If you're using 0, you're a modern mathematician, and not one of those Roman-numeral types.
I'm going to ask if you know what the word "brag" means...
Is it?
They aren't clear about that.
No it's not. Because I say so.
(See, I have a 90% chance of being right and you have a 10% chance of being right, so I win Monte Carlo testing, and I provided more evidence than you, so I win in a civil suit.)
Slashdot has a ratings system, too.
You go to http://slashdot.org/firehose and look at the articles by clicking on their titles, maybe follow the links they contain to see if the summary is correct and the links work and aren't a trap or anything, then you click the + or the - and pick a category for your reasoning from the inadequate list.
The idea is that when stories like this one come up that are (a) dull, and (b) poorly written, and (c) so is the summary, you can have a voice in saying whether it's forced upon the rest of /. or just scrolls off the bottom of the Firehose, never to be seen again until the inevitable dupe is posted.
But clearly, that ratings system isn't doing a bit of good, because, dayum...
Don't blow the ending in the headline. Do it like this:
"Are Cookies Infecting You?"
We don't carry cards any more. Not since McCarthy.
A lot of left handed people buy right-handed guitars when the guitar they want comes in left-handed.
That's just so they can claim to be just like this dude.
BTW, some right-handed people buy left-handed guitars for exactly the same reason, and you can even get right-handed guitars with inverted necks to fuel your pretense^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hhomage.
Parents already have control over their under-18 children.
Why would anyone have to pass a law to keep kids from getting information that parents don't want them to have?
Ohhhh... I get it. They already keep their kids from having it, and want to enforce that on your kids.
Never mind. Just another repudiation of the concept of America, perpetrated as an act of blatant tyranny, disguised as "family values".
Just because we now do it with a computer or a cell phone doesn't somehow make it new
Well, yeah, it does, and the fact that you and I are communicating at all is proof of that. Our circle of observation and influence has increased by a couple of orders of magnitude for this.
We also don't have to keep one hand hidden under our robes because it's the one we wipe our asses with. I know the Saudis still do that sort of thing, but they're barely a full generation removed from having never seen a piece of paper, much less toilet paper.
And we have countries whose laws are not based on religion. It's hard to tell in some cases, but when it comes down to the final decision, it's the truth.
Things change, and not in basic, subtle ways.
When China gets out of the 19th century in terms of human rights, we'll talk. Until then, you're hoist.
No, it's easier.
A third party only needs to get slightly over a third of the votes to get in, provided the other participants get fewer.
If a majority is needed, it's almost impossible to get a majority with more than two candidates anyway.
That said, I think all elections should be done by Approval Voting. But the political parties are both fearful that they won't be the one that more people approve of, so they resist that change, and until they accept it, things won't change.
The reason third parties don't do well is, as I said, the skill of the two parties that dominate American politics. They have not always been the two parties in power, but they have in the past century figured out the system and how to work it. They avoid radicalism that would alienate their bases, coopt outlying voting blocs as necessary to carve out wins from election to election, and apply tactical attacks to denigrate anyone but themselves. An inexperienced third party organization lacks an estiablished bases, is generally focussed on a special interest with a few allied issues, and withers under attack.
The only way a contending third party will form is if one of the major parties fractures, and somehow attracts a portion of the other major party. But like I said, the parties are careful to keep their bases coherent. The GOP made a move to the Right 15 years ago and it slapped them in 2008, so there's a chance they'll break over the Tea Party, but the Tea Party has no attraction for the left, and the GOP is not acting frightened enough to try to seal conservative democrats, as there are signs that they're still in control of the Tea Party and are now using it to manipulate opinion and appear more centrist. The TP will degrade over time, as the GOP eats away its membership, which will only happen faster if the GOP wins this year and in 2012.