"The tiny implant, about the size of a baby aspirin"
Is 'baby aspirin' supposed to be a unit of measure we are all familiar with? WTF is that even?
Baby aspirin is typically sold at a dose of 81mg per tablet. Converted to nanoseconds at the speed of light it's 8.1e-5 mm, or 72 trillionths of a furlong.
Close proximity to electrostatic or electromagnetic fields on a long-term basis is NOT good for you, period.
Really?
Yup, really.
There are three possibilities:
1) exposure to strong electrostatic or electromagnetic fields is no effect whatsoever on humans.
2) exposure to strong electrostatic or electromagnetic fields has a negative or deleterious effect on humans.
3) exposure to strong electrostatic or electromagnetic fields has a positive or beneficial effect on humans.
Which one is most likely? Remember, you're exposing a living creature to some strong (albeit non-ionizing) radiation.
What's the chance that it does have some effect? Electromagnetic radiation applied to mice it seems to produce harmful effects. It's likely that humans, especially infants and toddlers, would also be affected.
You can largely fix this by 'shaving' them. You don't have to use a razor or anything, just standard hair clippers and cut their hair shorter.
As enjoyable and rewarding as that sounds it still won't fully eliminate the hair, and there's still the problem of them walking through the litter box and then tracking the residue all over your counters, furniture, bed, etc etc etc.
I love cats but they just aren't allowed to live in my home.
"you have to not mind being in a room constructed mostly of aluminum, that includes the walls, ceiling and floor."
Which means you also have to not mind being in a room where you're bombarded with lots of intense electrostatic and electromagnetic fields, which I doubt is good for anyone, especially infants and toddlers. Close proximity to electrostatic or electromagnetic fields on a long-term basis is NOT good for you, period.
Cats are filthy animals. They shit and pee in the house. That tramp through the feces and urine in their little box. Then they hop on the kitchen counters, tables, furniture, and beds spreading their filth.
Yep, this is one of the main things that prompted the "no cats" rule in my home. If I want my plates and cups and counter tops covered with traces of shit and urine, I'll trowel it on myself.
Plus, the hair. Their hair gets EVERYWHERE, every-fucking-where. It ends up on your clothes, bedding, towels, food, furniture, carpets, bathroom- everywhere. You open the refrigerator and take out a plate of something, and there's cat hair in or on it. And let's not even get into the joy of servicing litter boxes.
I actually like cats but I won't have them in the house. No no no.
Based on the many, many women I've known (both biblically and otherwise) I can state without any question that there's a direct connection between cat ownership and mental illness.
Sure, there are exceptions, but they only serve to prove the rule.
It's still in the developmental stages so I don't want to reveal too much at this point. But I can say it involves water and a secret ingredient called "soap".
Let me make sure I got this right....a dating app wants to set me up on a date?
Wow, talk about finding novel uses unrelated to the original functionality, what motherfucking super genius came up with this brain-busting idea of using a DATING APP to set people up with DATES?
What's next, using a washing machine to clean your clothes?
Discoverability is an industry term that has apparently bled into pop culture. Those old drop down menus and toolbars (which are the shit btw) represent the height of UI 'discoverability.' It's been all downhill since then.
I'd agree...menus that group things into reasonably logical choices and where each item has a keyboard shortcut is arguably the cleanest most functional interface hands down. Some of the more recent UI designs for certain apps are just fucking miserable, truly egregious.
The only logical conclusion I can draw from some of these wretched interfaces is that the designers hate users and want us all to die in a fire.
Without ===, variable type conversion can cause a string containing numbers to be converted to an integer.
Yep, and as much as I like php, I'll be the first to say that php's "converting a string to an integer" as a default behavior is idiotic. It's just an accident waiting to happen.
A few times I had to turn off my ad blocking and script blocking, I was shocked at just how awful most people have it.
Bingo.
After several months of using Adblock I had occasion to use someone a friend's PC without Adblock....and I was blown away at how polluted the average web page is. Just loads of shit and ads and banners and fuck all. Ewwwwwwwwww. And it was slooooooooow as shit because of the megabytes of extra crap being loaded.
So I said, "Hey, wanna see something cool? There's this thing called 'Adblock', I think you'll like it...."
It's been over a year now and my friend still hasn't stopped thanking me.
"Snapchat has one of the better UI's around, really discoverable and quick,"
Every time I hear this "discoverable" thing I wonder, "Why the fuck should I have to 'discover' what the app does...shouldn't there be like, oh, I dunno, menus and shit that tell me? Why should I have to hunt through the *&%$# thing to figure out how to use it?"
But then I'm old and cranky, so who cares what I think, eh? I still expect apps and programs to have crazy shit like "menus" and labels" and "buttons" instead of hiding stuff behind hot spots and "magic corners" (I'm looking at you, Windows Fucking 10).
"English is a language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary."
--attributed to James D. Nicoll
The original, complete quote appears to be:
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
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"The tiny implant, about the size of a baby aspirin"
Is 'baby aspirin' supposed to be a unit of measure we are all familiar with? WTF is that even?
Baby aspirin is typically sold at a dose of 81mg per tablet. Converted to nanoseconds at the speed of light it's 8.1e-5 mm, or 72 trillionths of a furlong.
Close proximity to electrostatic or electromagnetic fields on a long-term basis is NOT good for you, period.
Really?
Yup, really.
There are three possibilities:
1) exposure to strong electrostatic or electromagnetic fields is no effect whatsoever on humans.
2) exposure to strong electrostatic or electromagnetic fields has a negative or deleterious effect on humans.
3) exposure to strong electrostatic or electromagnetic fields has a positive or beneficial effect on humans.
Which one is most likely? Remember, you're exposing a living creature to some strong (albeit non-ionizing) radiation.
What's the chance that it does have some effect? Electromagnetic radiation applied to mice it seems to produce harmful effects. It's likely that humans, especially infants and toddlers, would also be affected.
You can largely fix this by 'shaving' them. You don't have to use a razor or anything, just standard hair clippers and cut their hair shorter.
As enjoyable and rewarding as that sounds it still won't fully eliminate the hair, and there's still the problem of them walking through the litter box and then tracking the residue all over your counters, furniture, bed, etc etc etc.
I love cats but they just aren't allowed to live in my home.
"discrete high quality factor capacitors that separate the magnetic field from the electric field."
What the fuck? That's NOT the way this shit works. This is utter nonsense.
For the record, capacitors DO NOT "separate the magnetic field from the electric field". No. No no no.
This is so wrong I don't even know where to begin.
"you have to not mind being in a room constructed mostly of aluminum, that includes the walls, ceiling and floor."
Which means you also have to not mind being in a room where you're bombarded with lots of intense electrostatic and electromagnetic fields, which I doubt is good for anyone, especially infants and toddlers. Close proximity to electrostatic or electromagnetic fields on a long-term basis is NOT good for you, period.
Cats are filthy animals. They shit and pee in the house. That tramp through the feces and urine in their little box. Then they hop on the kitchen counters, tables, furniture, and beds spreading their filth.
Yep, this is one of the main things that prompted the "no cats" rule in my home. If I want my plates and cups and counter tops covered with traces of shit and urine, I'll trowel it on myself.
Plus, the hair. Their hair gets EVERYWHERE, every-fucking-where. It ends up on your clothes, bedding, towels, food, furniture, carpets, bathroom- everywhere. You open the refrigerator and take out a plate of something, and there's cat hair in or on it. And let's not even get into the joy of servicing litter boxes.
I actually like cats but I won't have them in the house. No no no.
Based on the many, many women I've known (both biblically and otherwise) I can state without any question that there's a direct connection between cat ownership and mental illness.
Sure, there are exceptions, but they only serve to prove the rule.
Maybe it's time for a brain implant because that son of a bitch can type faster than I can.
What's next, using a washing machine to clean your clothes?
You shouldn't post your ideas so lightly on public web boards. I just patented that idea. Sucks to be you
Damn, the it's a good idea I didn't post about my idea for a machine that uses hot air to dry freshly-washed clothes.
...using a washing machine to clean your clothes?
You've piqued my interest. Tell me more!
It's still in the developmental stages so I don't want to reveal too much at this point. But I can say it involves water and a secret ingredient called "soap".
Let me make sure I got this right....a dating app wants to set me up on a date?
Wow, talk about finding novel uses unrelated to the original functionality, what motherfucking super genius came up with this brain-busting idea of using a DATING APP to set people up with DATES?
What's next, using a washing machine to clean your clothes?
Would it be any different than taping the accelerator to the floor and letting it loose on the road?
It depends on the kind of tape you use, duh.
Next headline: College Student Arrested For Building Autonomous Car That Hit Something
Discoverability is an industry term that has apparently bled into pop culture.
Those old drop down menus and toolbars (which are the shit btw) represent the height of UI 'discoverability.' It's been all downhill since then.
I'd agree...menus that group things into reasonably logical choices and where each item has a keyboard shortcut is arguably the cleanest most functional interface hands down. Some of the more recent UI designs for certain apps are just fucking miserable, truly egregious.
The only logical conclusion I can draw from some of these wretched interfaces is that the designers hate users and want us all to die in a fire.
Without ===, variable type conversion can cause a string containing numbers to be converted to an integer.
Yep, and as much as I like php, I'll be the first to say that php's "converting a string to an integer" as a default behavior is idiotic. It's just an accident waiting to happen.
A few times I had to turn off my ad blocking and script blocking, I was shocked at just how awful most people have it.
Bingo.
After several months of using Adblock I had occasion to use someone a friend's PC without Adblock....and I was blown away at how polluted the average web page is. Just loads of shit and ads and banners and fuck all. Ewwwwwwwwww. And it was slooooooooow as shit because of the megabytes of extra crap being loaded.
So I said, "Hey, wanna see something cool? There's this thing called 'Adblock', I think you'll like it...."
It's been over a year now and my friend still hasn't stopped thanking me.
^^^^ This is it exactly. But in my case, 2 channels (Amazon and Netflix).
The rest could mostly go offline tonight and I wouldn't notice until one of the few websites I visit reported on it.
"Snapchat has one of the better UI's around, really discoverable and quick,"
Every time I hear this "discoverable" thing I wonder, "Why the fuck should I have to 'discover' what the app does...shouldn't there be like, oh, I dunno, menus and shit that tell me? Why should I have to hunt through the *&%$# thing to figure out how to use it?"
But then I'm old and cranky, so who cares what I think, eh? I still expect apps and programs to have crazy shit like "menus" and labels" and "buttons" instead of hiding stuff behind hot spots and "magic corners" (I'm looking at you, Windows Fucking 10).
And even in their IPO it literally states that it " ..may never achieve or maintain profitability"
Yeah, that sounds like a GREAT place to get rid of all that extra money I have laying around...
Reviving a 10,000 year old microorganism? I see nothing that could possibly go wrong with this.
Ya gotta admit, it's pretty fucking innovative to cancel the product before it's even launched.
Grammar Nazi here. When used in this context, "crackdown" is actually separated into two words, that is, "crack down".
If they're launching an initiative or describing a method or process , then it would be "Blah blah blah will institute a crackdown on piracy..."
We've known this since the 1980s...and the more dense/smaller the transistors get the greater the likelihood of it happening.
This is news, but it's literally from the previous century.
I assume you shoplift your batteries
Well you know what they say about "assuming", only in this case I think it only applies to you.
"English is a language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary."
--attributed to James D. Nicoll
The original, complete quote appears to be:
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."