In 1996, after Santorum's pregnant wife delivered prematurely (the newborn survived for just two hours), the couple took the dead preemie home to meet the other siblings. Honest! (There is no calculating how traumatic this experience was for the young ones.)
Gabriel Michael's lifeless little body was shown to the three Santorum kids (aged six, four and one). For several hours the wigged- out parents encouraged them to cuddle with it, snapped photos, sang lullabies and held a private Mass at their former Pittsburgh residence. Santorum says he and Karen brought the corpse home so their children could "absorb and understand that they had a brother."
They add dimples to golf balls to increase their flight distance and straighten their flight trajectories specifically to disrupt laminar flow, because over a sphere, turbulent flow actually can work better, if the dimples are just the right size and have just the right irregularity.
National Geographic's "Ultimate Crocodile" has a segment where the surface of a crocodile's skin is found to have similar properties. Seems that a fish's reaction time is more than sufficient to avoid a croc's bite if the fish is alerted. A cast of a crocodile head was used in a tank to measure the way water flows around a crocodile in motion, and it was proven that the bumpy irregularities on the crocodile's skin produce lower water pressure and the crocodile's body and help it maintain stealth.
The fact that simply viewing the state alters the state is the most interesting part to me, because that means what we know about the natural world is gonna have to be shitcanned once we find out how everything is connected at the quantum level.
This is a perspective popularized by new-age crystal gazers who are:
A) too enlightened to be bothered with rational thought, and
B) tend to prefer wishing for a result to exerting effort to bring one about.
It is also incorrect, I am sorry that it is necessary to point out.
While our interpretation of the data might change, the data itself remains constant. Objects of differing masses accelerated downwards (in a vacuum, pedants) at the same speed before and after Newton. The only thing that changed was the increase in humanity's understanding.
The laws of motion and thermodynamics have unparalleled powers of prediction and explanation. Any theory of "how everything is connected at the quantum level" that can't be used to make predictions with equal (or, preferably, greater) accuracy will be rightly shitcanned.
The schools are public spaces, and the courts have ruled in favor of children having all of the constitutional rights of adults.
Which courts? I am pretty sure that students in public schools have to right to be secure in their papers and effects, and can be searched for any or no reason.
At least that's the posted policy at every public school I've ever attended.
While it's technically true that judges are elected, it is unusual for a sitting judge to lose an election.
This is because the candidates for judgeship are local lawyers.
If they lose the election, it is highly likely they will find themselves arguing a case in front of a judge they've campaigned against.
This tends to ensure that judges run unopposed. That's what I've observed, anyway.
To be fair, that does not seem to be true for this judge (yet), as he took office in 2006 and is just nearing the end of his first six-year term... but this article says that an overwhelming majority of sitting judges (90+%) run unopposed in California. I'd be surprised if Santa Clara county is the exception.
You might be unable to miss the Mac's menu on the y-axis, but in order to select a particular option, surely you must aim on the x-axis. Even if there's only one option (never the case, but for the sake of argument...), you then have to aim to choose your submenu option.
If you're already aiming for a menu item, aiming on a second axis is very little overhead, and gains the benefits mentioned earlier in this thread (multiple monitor support and increased clarity of which window the menu applies to).
I see no merit to the "infinite click zone" argument for having the menubar affixed to the top of the main desktop.
On Windows, AutoIt is the closest thing I've found to pipes for GUI programs.
It makes it possible to, for example, create a shortcut that a directory of word documents can be dragged onto, which will then produce a zipped directory of appropriately named PDF docs.
Whether this possesses the transcendent beauty of the command line is debatable, but it works, and it's pretty nifty to watch the windows fly around by themselves.
Yes, or Scroogle. Or, I suppose, just let the stupid thumbnail popup load and hit the cached link.
The point is not that there's no way to fix it, it's that it requires extra work to return the Google results to their former, nonbroken state.
Extending the browser to fix bad websites/designs is, in general, a poor solution, as it requires a change to be made on the user end for every person who wants the fix, and ends up requiring the user to keep track of a laundry list of extensions, browser version compatibility, etc.
I should mention that many users find Google's popup web previews on mouseover to be very obnoxious, and disable scripting just to avoid them, since Google does not provide an option to permanently disable them in search results.
Now, there's no way to avoid the popups without also making the cached search results inaccessible.
Now that the cache results have been made unusable, I anticipate Google eventually going, "No one uses the cache, so let's get rid of that functionality for the sake of usability."
Thought I'd also mention that Google Employee "Kelly F" has been called out in that thread for setting her reply (paraphrased, "We haven't gotten rid of the cache, just hidden it and made it difficult to access") as the "Best Reply" in that support thread.
This, in spite of her post being marked "42 of 142 people found this answer helpful." - A much lower helpfulness ratio than other posts in the same thread.
I'm more amused than bothered her deceit- just thought it bore remark since it would otherwise be easy to overlook.
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Damn, was not aware of this:
In 1996, after Santorum's pregnant wife delivered prematurely (the newborn survived for just two hours), the couple took the dead preemie home to meet the other siblings. Honest! (There is no calculating how traumatic this experience was for the young ones.)
Gabriel Michael's lifeless little body was shown to the three Santorum kids (aged six, four and one). For several hours the wigged- out parents encouraged them to cuddle with it, snapped photos, sang lullabies and held a private Mass at their former Pittsburgh residence. Santorum says he and Karen brought the corpse home so their children could "absorb and understand that they had a brother."
And he's worried about the google result?
No. The former has no trade value. As for the latter, those ideas are too inhumane to be human.
Cheer up; it'll soon be spring all over again.
I'll see your "Saudi Arabia is a sovereign state" and raise you a "humanity transcends borders".
I am a human being who believes murder is wrong no matter where it takes place.
Are you suggesting that capital punishment in the U.S. somehow excuses Saudi Arabia's behavior?
In addition to the fine qualities you listed, we Scorpios are also too smart to believe in astrology.
They add dimples to golf balls to increase their flight distance and straighten their flight trajectories specifically to disrupt laminar flow, because over a sphere, turbulent flow actually can work better, if the dimples are just the right size and have just the right irregularity.
National Geographic's "Ultimate Crocodile" has a segment where the surface of a crocodile's skin is found to have similar properties. Seems that a fish's reaction time is more than sufficient to avoid a croc's bite if the fish is alerted. A cast of a crocodile head was used in a tank to measure the way water flows around a crocodile in motion, and it was proven that the bumpy irregularities on the crocodile's skin produce lower water pressure and the crocodile's body and help it maintain stealth.
I can't find the clip, but it's referenced here.
The fact that simply viewing the state alters the state is the most interesting part to me, because that means what we know about the natural world is gonna have to be shitcanned once we find out how everything is connected at the quantum level.
This is a perspective popularized by new-age crystal gazers who are:
A) too enlightened to be bothered with rational thought, and
B) tend to prefer wishing for a result to exerting effort to bring one about.
It is also incorrect, I am sorry that it is necessary to point out.
While our interpretation of the data might change, the data itself remains constant. Objects of differing masses accelerated downwards (in a vacuum, pedants) at the same speed before and after Newton. The only thing that changed was the increase in humanity's understanding.
The laws of motion and thermodynamics have unparalleled powers of prediction and explanation. Any theory of "how everything is connected at the quantum level" that can't be used to make predictions with equal (or, preferably, greater) accuracy will be rightly shitcanned.
Clearly, the thing to do is produce a porn movie where the actors recite the Constitution during coitus.
The schools are public spaces, and the courts have ruled in favor of children having all of the constitutional rights of adults.
Which courts? I am pretty sure that students in public schools have to right to be secure in their papers and effects, and can be searched for any or no reason.
At least that's the posted policy at every public school I've ever attended.
While it's technically true that judges are elected, it is unusual for a sitting judge to lose an election.
This is because the candidates for judgeship are local lawyers.
If they lose the election, it is highly likely they will find themselves arguing a case in front of a judge they've campaigned against.
This tends to ensure that judges run unopposed. That's what I've observed, anyway.
To be fair, that does not seem to be true for this judge (yet), as he took office in 2006 and is just nearing the end of his first six-year term...
but this article says that an overwhelming majority of sitting judges (90+%) run unopposed in California. I'd be surprised if Santa Clara county is the exception.
And I'm an Asthmahound Chihuahua named 'Stimpy'.
...
I'm skeptical of this claim. You didn't call me an "eeeediot".
That'd be "Ren", not "Stimpy". Did Kricfalusi teach you nothing?
You must agree that it is change you can believe in.
Everything you need to know about marketing.
You might be unable to miss the Mac's menu on the y-axis, but in order to select a particular option, surely you must aim on the x-axis. Even if there's only one option (never the case, but for the sake of argument...), you then have to aim to choose your submenu option.
If you're already aiming for a menu item, aiming on a second axis is very little overhead, and gains the benefits mentioned earlier in this thread (multiple monitor support and increased clarity of which window the menu applies to).
I see no merit to the "infinite click zone" argument for having the menubar affixed to the top of the main desktop.
Like this, but less forthright.
In the meantime, use Firefox 3.6.
I was surprised to find that it still gets updates (3.6.x) and all the newest versions of my extensions still work with it. Your mileage may vary.
Maybe if netcraft reports that enough users are refusing to run their painted whore of a browser, the Firefox devs will see the light.
Why stop at executive and legislative branches?
I am sure that with the proper software resources could be extracted from citizens based on their ability and allocated to same based on their need... without a hint of prejudice.
It makes me wonder where this piece of memorabilia ended up.
Herman Melville - crazy uncle to the world, or,
Herman Melville - like an old folk's home for your bookshelf.
Due to Moore's law, most pawnshops won't accept PC's. They become obsolete too quickly to make a profit on the second hand market.
On Windows, AutoIt is the closest thing I've found to pipes for GUI programs.
It makes it possible to, for example, create a shortcut that a directory of word documents can be dragged onto, which will then produce a zipped directory of appropriately named PDF docs.
Whether this possesses the transcendent beauty of the command line is debatable, but it works, and it's pretty nifty to watch the windows fly around by themselves.
Yes, or Scroogle. Or, I suppose, just let the stupid thumbnail popup load and hit the cached link.
The point is not that there's no way to fix it, it's that it requires extra work to return the Google results to their former, nonbroken state.
Extending the browser to fix bad websites/designs is, in general, a poor solution, as it requires a change to be made on the user end for every person who wants the fix, and ends up requiring the user to keep track of a laundry list of extensions, browser version compatibility, etc.
I should mention that many users find Google's popup web previews on mouseover to be very obnoxious, and disable scripting just to avoid them, since Google does not provide an option to permanently disable them in search results.
Now, there's no way to avoid the popups without also making the cached search results inaccessible.
Now that the cache results have been made unusable, I anticipate Google eventually going, "No one uses the cache, so let's get rid of that functionality for the sake of usability."
Thought I'd also mention that Google Employee "Kelly F" has been called out in that thread for setting her reply (paraphrased, "We haven't gotten rid of the cache, just hidden it and made it difficult to access") as the "Best Reply" in that support thread.
This, in spite of her post being marked "42 of 142 people found this answer helpful." - A much lower helpfulness ratio than other posts in the same thread.
I'm more amused than bothered her deceit- just thought it bore remark since it would otherwise be easy to overlook.