The second you cross the line into believing that laws don't apply to you because you're making boatloads of money and believe you can buy your way out of jail, you've crossed into sociopathic (if not psychopathic) territory.
I wonder how the ratio of murder-suicides to suicides contrast between CEOs and the average.
I don't know what the exact shape of the web will be when we find the right answer.
Here's my guess: the web, TV, movies, games, and other forms of "entertainment" will be riddled with product placements, product storylines, and an overall commercialized experience. The line between "feature" and "commercial" will blur and blur until it ceases to exist. Sometimes this will be well done and the entertainment value will be preserved. Sometimes it will come off as transparent shit, exposing both the "feature" and the advertised product(s) to public ridicule or boycott.
... but that's just my guess
That would be as ridiculous as not using Tide Color-Safe Bleach to keep your whites whiter and your colors bold!
Good info, but how did you get home from the mall?
Because whoever answered the phone at my parents' house would hear "This is a collect call from 'heyDadcanyoupickmeupI'matthemall?' will you accept the charges?"
They knew that I needed to be picked up, and by saying no to the collect call, it didn't cost either of us any money.
Letting it ring once or twice was common when I was a kid. For instance; when you had agreed to call somebody, but after they were supposed to be in bed. You would call and let it ring once, and they would call you back after the coast was clear.
Also, some girls had a system set up wherein you would call, let it ring twice, and then call back later. This gave them to opportunity to find a private place to call a call from a boy.
Although I do remember the collect call system: (robot voice) PLEASE ENTER THE NUMBER 555-1212 STATE YOUR NAME heyDadcanyoupickmeupI'matthemall? THE CALL HAS BEEN DECLINED
The French and Italians also tend to live healthier and longer lives, well past the retirement age, thanks to their health plans. I'm sure that contributes greatly to that number.
I had problems with headaches and focusing with earlier bulbs, and I found that an effective solution was to have at least one incandescent in a fixture, with the other spots occupied by CFLs. It helps to smooth out my perception of the flicker. Also, CFL have different color temperatures, and mixing them up makes things even better.
Whoa, skipper, reign in the nerd rage. I got it as part of a package that I bartered an old CRT for. It worked fine as an extra ethernet hub, but then I tried to hook a neighbor up on a wireless network for some Starcraft action. I just ended up creating another subnet on my dev system.
I had a D-Link DI-524. If I enabled Wi-Fi and DHCP at the same time, I can look forward to device failure within hours. Firmware updates have not addressed this. It aggravates me to no end.
It seems like routers, purpose-built with an embedded OS, should be the most stable devices on my network.
It's my understanding that cats are adept at mimicry, and will learn to vocalize what they think their environment sounds like. Specifically, a cat that learns early to hunt birds will make chirping noises, and cats that learn to hunt rodents will make little squeaks. Cats that meow loudly at intervals most likely grew up in a place with humans, and are mimicking them.
I have two cats, one who meows constantly to me, and one that rarely meows at all. The first will only meow at the other cat if she's caught by surprise, but the second only meows to the first cat and not myself.
It's my experience in general that cats will meow to each other to gain attention, whether it's a kitten mewling for its mother, or a male cat "singing" to a potential mate. It seems like they have a strange method of basic communication that focuses on facial expressions; licking their noses to share information on food, or increasingly long blinks to express reassurance.
I would like to add to that list "An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics" by Carroll and Ostlie. It's a very comprehensive book. Whenever I can't recall something, or need clarification, it's always the first book I grab. There's almost never a need to go to my second choice, Shu's "The Physical Universe" which covers a lot of odds and ends, but is a fantastic resource for anybody learning the basics of astrophysics. It spends several chapters covering the relevant portions of thermodynamics, E&M, QM, and mechanics in depth, and then it shows how they directly applied to the subject matter.
For an introduction to physics in general, I would recommend Halliday, Resnick, and Walker's "Fundamentals of Physics." It will walk you through the very basics right up to GR.
I always assumed that people who had sexual urges that were unacceptable in their society would be more likely to cloister themselves away in the priesthood.
Agreed; I don't see how this is terribly different from exchanging propane tanks at a carryout. We'd probably see a return to "full service" though, to avoid problems with the frail of body and frail of mind.
To do otherwise is to erect half a fence, and put a sign on the other half saying "it would be nice if you didn't enter", all the while claiming airtight security.
I believe that would fall under the jurisdiction of the TSA.
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The second you cross the line into believing that laws don't apply to you because you're making boatloads of money and believe you can buy your way out of jail, you've crossed into sociopathic (if not psychopathic) territory.
I wonder how the ratio of murder-suicides to suicides contrast between CEOs and the average.
Just to add a bit of fun to Batman vs. Bush:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/790644/
Beware of the Vril
Libel is libel, even on the Internet.
I don't know what the exact shape of the web will be when we find the right answer.
Here's my guess: the web, TV, movies, games, and other forms of "entertainment" will be riddled with product placements, product storylines, and an overall commercialized experience. The line between "feature" and "commercial" will blur and blur until it ceases to exist. Sometimes this will be well done and the entertainment value will be preserved. Sometimes it will come off as transparent shit, exposing both the "feature" and the advertised product(s) to public ridicule or boycott.
... but that's just my guess
That would be as ridiculous as not using Tide Color-Safe Bleach to keep your whites whiter and your colors bold!
Good info, but how did you get home from the mall?
Because whoever answered the phone at my parents' house would hear "This is a collect call from 'heyDadcanyoupickmeupI'matthemall?' will you accept the charges?"
They knew that I needed to be picked up, and by saying no to the collect call, it didn't cost either of us any money.
Letting it ring once or twice was common when I was a kid. For instance; when you had agreed to call somebody, but after they were supposed to be in bed. You would call and let it ring once, and they would call you back after the coast was clear.
Also, some girls had a system set up wherein you would call, let it ring twice, and then call back later. This gave them to opportunity to find a private place to call a call from a boy.
Although I do remember the collect call system:
(robot voice)
PLEASE ENTER THE NUMBER
555-1212
STATE YOUR NAME
heyDadcanyoupickmeupI'matthemall?
THE CALL HAS BEEN DECLINED
The French and Italians also tend to live healthier and longer lives, well past the retirement age, thanks to their health plans. I'm sure that contributes greatly to that number.
I had problems with headaches and focusing with earlier bulbs, and I found that an effective solution was to have at least one incandescent in a fixture, with the other spots occupied by CFLs. It helps to smooth out my perception of the flicker. Also, CFL have different color temperatures, and mixing them up makes things even better.
Spot the bug
The elseif block never runs, even if you put the brace back in? :)
Worse than that. This is essentially the birthday problem:
k=1 // =113 billion ^-1
p=8.85e-12
for i=1:6000000
k*=(1-i*p);
endfor
The result is that k=6.59e-70, or a very, very small chance that two people do not have a potential mixup.
Line 1: "Buy Viagra" (in Russian)
Line 2:
Lines 3-50: Surreal computer generated literature in any given language
The point of delivering Russian spam to people who speak English? I've never known.
Aww. It's like an animal gnawing off its arm to get out of a trap.
After all, it not rocket surgery.
So easy, even a caveman could do it?
Whoa, skipper, reign in the nerd rage. I got it as part of a package that I bartered an old CRT for. It worked fine as an extra ethernet hub, but then I tried to hook a neighbor up on a wireless network for some Starcraft action. I just ended up creating another subnet on my dev system.
And what is it about "asking for a medium #1 with blond hair blue eyes" that makes it "wrong"?
ZOMG Aryans!
I notice that nobody ever suggests that parents may want redheads. This is just an example of "Hitler would have used it, therefore it is wrong."
I had a D-Link DI-524. If I enabled Wi-Fi and DHCP at the same time, I can look forward to device failure within hours. Firmware updates have not addressed this. It aggravates me to no end.
It seems like routers, purpose-built with an embedded OS, should be the most stable devices on my network.
Word to your mother.
It's my understanding that cats are adept at mimicry, and will learn to vocalize what they think their environment sounds like. Specifically, a cat that learns early to hunt birds will make chirping noises, and cats that learn to hunt rodents will make little squeaks. Cats that meow loudly at intervals most likely grew up in a place with humans, and are mimicking them.
I have two cats, one who meows constantly to me, and one that rarely meows at all. The first will only meow at the other cat if she's caught by surprise, but the second only meows to the first cat and not myself.
It's my experience in general that cats will meow to each other to gain attention, whether it's a kitten mewling for its mother, or a male cat "singing" to a potential mate. It seems like they have a strange method of basic communication that focuses on facial expressions; licking their noses to share information on food, or increasingly long blinks to express reassurance.
I would like to add to that list "An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics" by Carroll and Ostlie. It's a very comprehensive book. Whenever I can't recall something, or need clarification, it's always the first book I grab. There's almost never a need to go to my second choice, Shu's "The Physical Universe" which covers a lot of odds and ends, but is a fantastic resource for anybody learning the basics of astrophysics. It spends several chapters covering the relevant portions of thermodynamics, E&M, QM, and mechanics in depth, and then it shows how they directly applied to the subject matter.
For an introduction to physics in general, I would recommend Halliday, Resnick, and Walker's "Fundamentals of Physics." It will walk you through the very basics right up to GR.
Yay, it's time for a class action lawsuit against McDonald's!
tonne != ton
1 tonne = 1,000 kg = 1,000,000 grams
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I always assumed that people who had sexual urges that were unacceptable in their society would be more likely to cloister themselves away in the priesthood.
Agreed; I don't see how this is terribly different from exchanging propane tanks at a carryout. We'd probably see a return to "full service" though, to avoid problems with the frail of body and frail of mind.
To do otherwise is to erect half a fence, and put a sign on the other half saying "it would be nice if you didn't enter", all the while claiming airtight security.
I believe that would fall under the jurisdiction of the TSA.