I'm for staying with Standard Time year round. The sun should be at its highest at noon, not 1:00. 12:00 noon should be sun on the meridian, more or less - it depends on how far east or west you are from the center of your timezone.
First, let me start by saying that I'm with you, friend. Setting the high point of the sun permanently at 1:00 is like someone having a house full of misaligned picture frames and solving the problem by gluing them all to the wall... at an angle of 15 degrees clockwise of perpendicular.
"Four score and seven years ago, we the people set the sun's height permanently at 1pm, because we all agreed that changing the clocks every year was an idiotic atavism, but also because we all agreed that sleeping in that extra hour 88 years ago was TEH BOMB".
So questioning the existence of the Holocaust] instantly makes you a neo-nazi?
I understand how you feel. For years, I've been saying that there's no such thing as Calvin Coolidge. I mean, perhaps it's forgivable that people thought so at the time, but the preponderance of research done by the respected anticalvinologists at nottoocoolidge.biz has since proven conclusively not only that Calvin Coolidge was not the 30th president, but also that he was never even born, and indeed that there never even was a 30th president. We skipped directly from 29 to 31.
Everybody knows that. That's just basic leap year math, people. Get your heads out of the sand, denialists.
That explains why the US and Canada are overflowing with Chinese, Japanese, East Indians, and many other cultures. Because people don't like to move. Fucking moron.
You don't have an actual point until #5. For 1-4 Speak for yourself. Many people like to experience other places and cultures and foods. And I know people who change jobs and countries every few years just for the enjoyment of trying something new.
Not everyone is boring.
Sure. But most people are. That's what makes them boring, if you think about it. If everybody was a thrill-seeker, it's the homebodies who would be the exciting and exotic ones.
1. People don't like to move.
2. People especially don't like to move someplace far away.
3. People especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country.
4. People especially especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country where they don't speak the language and they have a completely different cuisine and culture.
5. People especially especially especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country where they don't speak the language and they have a completely different cuisine and culture.and where you have to live in a tiny apartment in an overcrowded city with really bad air pollution.
To me, that seems like that should be enough reasons. But okay, sure:
6. People especially especially especially especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country where they don't speak the language and they have a completely different cuisine and culture.and where you have to live in a tiny apartment in an overcrowded city with really bad air pollution AND the government won't let you go to all the internet sites you might want to.
Last sentence makes no sense. They have informed of what?
When they say "they informed... ad-buying strategies", they're saying that the erroneous metrics were used by companies to make strategic decisions, which may now turn out to be invalid.
All these marketroids work so damn hard to track where people are going and what they're looking at through painstaking forensic analysis of, like, picosecond differentials of access modalities and, like, transliminal modulation of ultrasonic speaker spectrum spreads.
And it's all completely fucking unnecessary, because the kind of people who are swayed by online ads will happily tell you what brands they like if you ask them. In fact, sometimes it's harder to get them to stop telling you about their commercial brand loyalties, as I have learned to my dismay at various Thanksgiving celebrations I've attended.
Instead of adding a single extra second to the end of the day, we'll run the clocks 0.0014% slower across the ten hours before and ten hours after the leap second, and "smear" the extra second across these twenty hours.
I wonder why they're "smearing" the time over 20 hours rather than 24, which would seem the more obvious solution.
But it doesn't mean these "medicines" will disappear from store shelves. The FTC only has the right to crack down on misleading marketing claims, and if the makers of homeopathic remedies clearly state that their products are based on no science, they can still sell them.
So essentially, you can still sell your homeopathic remedies as long you're willing to water down your claims as to their efficacy until those claims can no longer be detected.
But if watered-down homeopathy actually turns out to be the cure for homeopathy, won't that mean they were right all along?
To be honest, I've never messsed with PowerShell much, because previously, cmd, you know, was there, and, you know, works fine.
But in spite of knowing that you don't know what you're talking about, you feel free to make a bad suggestion on the topic and demand proof that you're wrong.
Yes. Because my point was that it's not exactly the height of usability to force the user to learn a magic incantation that they have to invoke before they can invoke any of the other magic incantations they need to invoke to get back to where they were before some jagweed at Microsoft decided to replace all the ancient, just-as-arbitrary-but-at-least-widely-understood incantations with a new set of incantations for no real reason.
I'm pretty sure I'm the last human left alive, that all the "people" I see every day are androids, and everything online, on TV, etc. is a simulation. The purpose, of course, is for the machine intelligence to study humanity.
"And that is why, my dear so-called roommate, I won't clean up the quote-kitchenette-unquote, no. No matter how many times you seem to ask."
In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan's administration sought to protect nascent private launch companies from subsidized foreign competition by setting up Commercial Space Launch Agreements. The idea was simple: In exchange for the chance to put U.S. satellites into space, foreign governments agreed to launch quotas and set fees. Both China and Russia signed such agreements. In 2005, India was asked to do the same. While the U.S. waited for an answer (it was and continues to be "no"), it imposed an export moratorium on satellites for Indian launch.
So it sounds like it was a trade deal that fell through. Like, the U.S. offered India the same terms as China and Russia, but they weren't interested. If that's indeed the case, well, China and Russia aren't really known for their laid-back attitude toward these things, so if India's requirements are even more stringent then perhaps we shouldn't be in business with them anyway.
Mind you, I don't know anything about the specifics. Can anyone provide more background on this?
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I'm for staying with Standard Time year round. The sun should be at its highest at noon, not 1:00. 12:00 noon should be sun on the meridian, more or less - it depends on how far east or west you are from the center of your timezone.
First, let me start by saying that I'm with you, friend. Setting the high point of the sun permanently at 1:00 is like someone having a house full of misaligned picture frames and solving the problem by gluing them all to the wall... at an angle of 15 degrees clockwise of perpendicular.
"Four score and seven years ago, we the people set the sun's height permanently at 1pm, because we all agreed that changing the clocks every year was an idiotic atavism, but also because we all agreed that sleeping in that extra hour 88 years ago was TEH BOMB".
"Forget Threat A! Focus all your attention on Threat B!"
Nice try, every scoundrel ever. I think we can comfortably stand to worry about two things.
"Self-Driving Car Pilot?" Man, and I thought my job was useless!
So questioning the existence of the Holocaust] instantly makes you a neo-nazi?
I understand how you feel. For years, I've been saying that there's no such thing as Calvin Coolidge. I mean, perhaps it's forgivable that people thought so at the time, but the preponderance of research done by the respected anticalvinologists at nottoocoolidge.biz has since proven conclusively not only that Calvin Coolidge was not the 30th president, but also that he was never even born, and indeed that there never even was a 30th president. We skipped directly from 29 to 31.
Everybody knows that. That's just basic leap year math, people. Get your heads out of the sand, denialists.
Choke on it, fascists.
Don't worry, they will. But, then, so will everyone else.
Snake putter!
So just between you and me, I count two-and-a-half instances.
Anybody have an over-under on how many times the phrase "Space Nutter" will appear in these comments?
That explains why the US and Canada are overflowing with Chinese, Japanese, East Indians, and many other cultures. Because people don't like to move. Fucking moron.
Cool, so you can help me move this weekend?
You don't have an actual point until #5. For 1-4 Speak for yourself. Many people like to experience other places and cultures and foods. And I know people who change jobs and countries every few years just for the enjoyment of trying something new.
Not everyone is boring.
Sure. But most people are. That's what makes them boring, if you think about it. If everybody was a thrill-seeker, it's the homebodies who would be the exciting and exotic ones.
Mind blown, right?
1. People don't like to move.
2. People especially don't like to move someplace far away.
3. People especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country.
4. People especially especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country where they don't speak the language and they have a completely different cuisine and culture.
5. People especially especially especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country where they don't speak the language and they have a completely different cuisine and culture.and where you have to live in a tiny apartment in an overcrowded city with really bad air pollution.
To me, that seems like that should be enough reasons. But okay, sure:
6. People especially especially especially especially especially don't like to move someplace far away in another country where they don't speak the language and they have a completely different cuisine and culture.and where you have to live in a tiny apartment in an overcrowded city with really bad air pollution AND the government won't let you go to all the internet sites you might want to.
Nothing takes a crap on creativity more consistently than age plus success.
Last sentence makes no sense. They have informed of what?
When they say "they informed... ad-buying strategies", they're saying that the erroneous metrics were used by companies to make strategic decisions, which may now turn out to be invalid.
Florida-based start-up
Wait, a scam in Florida? That's unpossible!
Yes, it turns out all the breathtakingly rendered 3D augmented-reality monsters in the demos were just the native fauna of Florida.
All these marketroids work so damn hard to track where people are going and what they're looking at through painstaking forensic analysis of, like, picosecond differentials of access modalities and, like, transliminal modulation of ultrasonic speaker spectrum spreads.
And it's all completely fucking unnecessary, because the kind of people who are swayed by online ads will happily tell you what brands they like if you ask them. In fact, sometimes it's harder to get them to stop telling you about their commercial brand loyalties, as I have learned to my dismay at various Thanksgiving celebrations I've attended.
Instead of adding a single extra second to the end of the day, we'll run the clocks 0.0014% slower across the ten hours before and ten hours after the leap second, and "smear" the extra second across these twenty hours.
I wonder why they're "smearing" the time over 20 hours rather than 24, which would seem the more obvious solution.
But it doesn't mean these "medicines" will disappear from store shelves. The FTC only has the right to crack down on misleading marketing claims, and if the makers of homeopathic remedies clearly state that their products are based on no science, they can still sell them.
So essentially, you can still sell your homeopathic remedies as long you're willing to water down your claims as to their efficacy until those claims can no longer be detected.
But if watered-down homeopathy actually turns out to be the cure for homeopathy, won't that mean they were right all along?
To be honest, I've never messsed with PowerShell much, because previously, cmd, you know, was there, and, you know, works fine.
But in spite of knowing that you don't know what you're talking about, you feel free to make a bad suggestion on the topic and demand proof that you're wrong.
Yes. Because my point was that it's not exactly the height of usability to force the user to learn a magic incantation that they have to invoke before they can invoke any of the other magic incantations they need to invoke to get back to where they were before some jagweed at Microsoft decided to replace all the ancient, just-as-arbitrary-but-at-least-widely-understood incantations with a new set of incantations for no real reason.
I'm pretty sure I'm the last human left alive, that all the "people" I see every day are androids, and everything online, on TV, etc. is a simulation. The purpose, of course, is for the machine intelligence to study humanity.
"And that is why, my dear so-called roommate, I won't clean up the quote-kitchenette-unquote, no. No matter how many times you seem to ask."
or you set it globally, once, and you're done with it
Interesting, if true. However: command text or it didn't happen.
To be honest, I've never messsed with PowerShell much, because previously, cmd, you know, was there, and, you know, works fine.
Every time you open a command prompt, don't forget you have to enter "set-executionpolicy unrestricted" before you can actually run anything.
Usable!
I don't think we will survive another 1000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet.
He seem to be rather optimistic. I gave it no more than a few hundred years
I'm thinking 3 months tops, some time after Jan. 21st.
Oooh, I want to play! I predict that humanity will go extinct before I finish this sentence.
Damn!
Fuck this guy.
Back off. I'm an actual Google Pornography Engineer, and I say when to fuck this guy.
Why should I trust the people you say I should trust to say who I should trust?
Exactly. I think a right to privacy is paramount; however, kids need to be watched.
So, in your view, a right to privacy isn't really paramount, more like para-paramount.
Or, come to think of it, parent-paramount.
From the article:
In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan's administration sought to protect nascent private launch companies from subsidized foreign competition by setting up Commercial Space Launch Agreements. The idea was simple: In exchange for the chance to put U.S. satellites into space, foreign governments agreed to launch quotas and set fees. Both China and Russia signed such agreements. In 2005, India was asked to do the same. While the U.S. waited for an answer (it was and continues to be "no"), it imposed an export moratorium on satellites for Indian launch.
So it sounds like it was a trade deal that fell through. Like, the U.S. offered India the same terms as China and Russia, but they weren't interested. If that's indeed the case, well, China and Russia aren't really known for their laid-back attitude toward these things, so if India's requirements are even more stringent then perhaps we shouldn't be in business with them anyway.
Mind you, I don't know anything about the specifics. Can anyone provide more background on this?