A whole slew of stuff from Beethoven and Mozart comes readily to mind...
Mostly not 'songs' though. A Mozart opera might be a couple of hours long, but the majority of the individual arias are probably under 5 minutes, e.g.:
OK, you're not the guy we're looking for, you can go about your business. But wait! What's this? The 'GNU Manifesto'! Put the orange jumpsuit on and kneel with your hands behind your back!
To the list of excellent pressure-cooker related kitchen gadgets I'd like to add the Bialetti Brikka moka pot: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bialet... . It's one of those Italian stove top coffee makers with the addition of a weighted valve like an old-school pressure cooker. This raises the pressure beyond what you get with the conventional design, making a drink that's closer to a real espresso with a bit of crema. No terrorist applications have yet been reported, though coffee use is allegedly endemic amongst senior members of ISIS, Al Qaeda, and the FSF.
Harold Blumenthal at The Fat Duck restaurant found that stocks made with pressure cookers were both faster and better-tasting once they understood the effects of diffusion laws on stock making.
His brother Heston speaks very highly of them, too. Not sure I'd want to eat at his restaurants, though:
So you want to encourage people to think those of us using them are out to hurt someone?
You're doing the harm.
The risks of terrorism and illicit drug production are only two of the risks of allowing this dangerous 'dual use' technology to be sold on the open market! A far more insidious problem is the destruction of essential vitamins in the pressure cooking process. Some of these are required for higher brain functions, like the ability to parse textual data for abstract meaning. In one recent study, over 70% of regular pressure cooker users were unable to detect irony, satire or even obvious jokes in posts on internet forums. The end product may be delicious but, like cannabis or Snapchat, the long-term effects on the developing brain can be devastating.
In a fucking gasoline-powered car. Where do they find these geniuses?
Sure, but a pressure cooker? What is this, the 70s? Does anyone use them in 2015 for anything _except_ bomb construction and cooking meth?
"Presto Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker (Large) - Customers who bought this item also bought: 'The Al Qaeda Manual' (Kindle Edition) / Potassium Nitrate (5kg) / Casio F-91W Digital Watch / '100 Things to do Before you Die' (Paperback - used from $0.01) / Pseudoephedrine (100 tablets) / 'The Little Book of Calm' (1 Collectible from $9.96)."
'Well... in the unlikely event of it going seriously wrong, it... wouldn't just blow up the university, sir'
'What would it blow up, pray?'
'Er... everything, sir.'
'Everything there is, you mean?'
'Within a radius of about fifty thousand miles out into space, sir, yes. According to HEX it'd happen instantaneously. We wouldn't even know about it.'
'And the odds of this are... ?'
'About fifty to one, sir.'
The wizards relaxed.
'That's pretty safe. I wouldn't bet on a horse at those odds,' said the Senior Wrangler.
Because Tolkein was a Christian I would have thought that the humanist scientists would hate him and his books. I am sure that Bill Nye and Neil Degrasse Tyson hate him.
"Three very large persons sitting round a very large fire of beech-logs. They were toasting mutton on long spits of wood, and licking the gravy off their fingers. There was a fine toothsome smell. Also there was a barrel of good drink at hand, and they were drinking out of jugs. But they were trolls. Obviously trolls. Even Bilbo, in spite of his sheltered life, could see that: from the great heavy faces of them, and their size, and the shape of their legs, not to mention their language, which was not drawing-room fashion at all, at all."
You may want to read Norse mythology some time. Parts of it may seem strangely familiar.
Especially this bit, from Voluspa:
There was Motsognir | the mightiest made Of all the dwarfs, | and Durin next; Many a likeness | of men they made, The dwarfs in the earth, | as Durin said.
Nyi and Nithi, | Northri and Suthri, Austri and Vestri, | Althjof, Dvalin, Nar and Nain, | Niping, Dain, Bifur, Bofur, | Bombur, Nori, An and Onar, | Ai, Mjothvitnir.
Vigg and Gandalf | Vindalf, Thrain, Thekk and Thorin, | Thror, Vit and Lit, Nyr and Nyrath,-- | now have I told-- Regin and Rathsvith-- | the list aright.
Fili, Kili, | Fundin, Nali, Heptifili, | Hannar, Sviur, Frar, Hornbori, | Fraeg and Loni, Aurvang, Jari, | Eikinskjaldi*.
The race of the dwarfs | in Dvalin's throng Down to Lofar | the list must I tell; The rocks they left, | and through wet lands They sought a home | in the fields of sand.
There were Draupnir | and Dolgthrasir, Hor, Haugspori, | Hlevang, Gloin, Dori, Ori, | Duf, Andvari, Skirfir, Virfir, | Skafith, Ai.
Support for the current Government reaches EOL next week and currently seems unlikely to be renewed. However, it looks like an upgrade supported by multiple vendors for five years may be in place shortly after: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
At least now perhaps we can put to rest some of these awful trends in web design.
These guys have designed a really absurd parody site that mocks many of these design elements (I especially love the ridiculous horizontal scroll bar):
Wrong. They only tested 54 of the embryo's afterward. 28/54 is a 51.8% success rate.
Only if you ignore the 15/86 = 17.4% of the original series that didn't survive the process.
The off-target mutations in the remaining 26 embryos was not only expected, it was predicted about 16 years ago, when we first started experimenting with retroviral splicing vectors.
Microinjection with CRISPR/Cas9 constructs is a completely different technology to using retroviral vectors. The result is 'unexpected' because the off-target event frequency was apparently much lower when CRISPR was previously used to edit genes in mouse embryos or differentiated human cells. It's currently unclear if this result is due to some property of human embryos in general, or just of the non-viable 'tripronuclear' embryos used in this study.
We get the same nonsense in the UK, where they've set a '50% digital' listening threshold for analogue switch-off. Right now DAB accounts for under a quarter of radio listening, but they can boost that to over 1/3 by throwing in the other digital platforms. I don't really see the point of buying a DAB set for my home use - there are half a dozen devices around the house that already do a better job of it via IP or Freeview DTV (which carries the national radio channels).
I do have a pocket DAB radio, which drains batteries at an alarming rate and, while small by DAB standards, is much bulkier than the FM equivalent. It generally stays at home while I actually use the FM tuner in my (much smaller) mp3 player, or an IP radio app on my phone.
The powers that be have also decided that the UK will stick with the antiquated original DAB system rather than DAB+, so we have a lot of poor quality low bitrate broadcasts (often worse than FM). In 2015, it's a bit like decreeing that LPs will be phased out in favour of MiniDisc. Of course quality and 'choice' isn't the Government's real concern - they just want to shut off FM so they can sell off the radio spectrum to the highest bidder from the mobile phone/data industry.
Hardly a fair comparison. Scholarly editions of major religious texts are not secret, and their prices reflect their academic market (Reader's pass for the British Library or Library of Congress - free of charge). The Vatican doesn't ask for $380,000 just to read the standard version of the Book of Revelation. Even Lucasfilm only wants $90 for the Star Wars saga on Blu-ray, including the apocryphal prequels (though to be fair, the original master tapes of the Holiday Special are as closely guarded as OT IX and X).
The question, I believe, is whether the CoS really is a belief organization, or a financial scam.
Cost of reading the most sacred beliefs of all major religions: free online, or $10 for the paperback. Jedi may also need to invest in the DVDs.
Cost of reading the most sacred beliefs of CoS: $380,000 (2006 pricing: http://www.xenu.net/archive/pr... ). Discounts available by signing a billion year contract and working full time in return for food.
Other sources are reporting that the preset time can be anything from 5 to 20 minutes - not sure if we know the actual setting in this case. But given that everything was over in 10 minutes, it's probably only a question of whether he had to set the lock once or twice.
Reports emerged that the contract with the TV production company Endemol - which Mars One claimed could bring in up to $6 billion in revenue - was no longer in place and that the companies had gone their separate ways.
Interesting that they originally partnered with Endemol, who previously produced this:
"The series described itself as the most elaborate hoax perpetrated in television history...A group of twelve contestants (who answered an advert looking for "thrill seekers") were selected to become the first British televised space tourists, including going to Russia to train as cosmonauts at the "Space Tourist Agency of Russia" (STAR) military base, with the series culminating in a group of four embarking on a five-day space mission in low Earth orbit...However, the show was in fact an elaborate practical joke...Unknown to the "space cadets", they were not in Russia at all...and the "space trip" was entirely fake, complete with a wooden "shuttle" and actor "pilots".
In the last episode, I recall the presenter joking that the next series would be called 'Mission to Mars'...
So we would get to watch games that aren't highly subject to genetic differences, but ones purely based on training and skill? Tempting - where do I sign up?
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A whole slew of stuff from Beethoven and Mozart comes readily to mind...
Mostly not 'songs' though. A Mozart opera might be a couple of hours long, but the majority of the individual arias are probably under 5 minutes, e.g.:
https://www.youtube.com/playli...
Another win for this thread is that until now I had no idea there was such a thing as a 'paleo community'. You learn something every day on Slashdot!
OK, you're not the guy we're looking for, you can go about your business. But wait! What's this? The 'GNU Manifesto'! Put the orange jumpsuit on and kneel with your hands behind your back!
Me, if I were a politician, I'd tell my staff to have NOTHING to do with any Wikipedia pages
Personally, I'd have my staff whitewash my opponent's page, then leak that somebody had done this...
To the list of excellent pressure-cooker related kitchen gadgets I'd like to add the Bialetti Brikka moka pot: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bialet... . It's one of those Italian stove top coffee makers with the addition of a weighted valve like an old-school pressure cooker. This raises the pressure beyond what you get with the conventional design, making a drink that's closer to a real espresso with a bit of crema. No terrorist applications have yet been reported, though coffee use is allegedly endemic amongst senior members of ISIS, Al Qaeda, and the FSF.
And nobody cooks meth in a fucking pressure cooker. Read much?
https://www.erowid.org/archive...
Surely a meth recipe with that many exclamation marks can't be wrong?
Harold Blumenthal at The Fat Duck restaurant found that stocks made with pressure cookers were both faster and better-tasting once they understood the effects of diffusion laws on stock making.
His brother Heston speaks very highly of them, too. Not sure I'd want to eat at his restaurants, though:
2011: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...
2014: http://www.theguardian.com/lif...
So you want to encourage people to think those of us using them are out to hurt someone?
You're doing the harm.
The risks of terrorism and illicit drug production are only two of the risks of allowing this dangerous 'dual use' technology to be sold on the open market! A far more insidious problem is the destruction of essential vitamins in the pressure cooking process. Some of these are required for higher brain functions, like the ability to parse textual data for abstract meaning. In one recent study, over 70% of regular pressure cooker users were unable to detect irony, satire or even obvious jokes in posts on internet forums. The end product may be delicious but, like cannabis or Snapchat, the long-term effects on the developing brain can be devastating.
In a fucking gasoline-powered car. Where do they find these geniuses?
Sure, but a pressure cooker? What is this, the 70s? Does anyone use them in 2015 for anything _except_ bomb construction and cooking meth?
"Presto Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker (Large) - Customers who bought this item also bought: 'The Al Qaeda Manual' (Kindle Edition) / Potassium Nitrate (5kg) / Casio F-91W Digital Watch / '100 Things to do Before you Die' (Paperback - used from $0.01) / Pseudoephedrine (100 tablets) / 'The Little Book of Calm' (1 Collectible from $9.96)."
'Well ... in the unlikely event of it going seriously wrong, it ... wouldn't just blow up the university, sir'
'What would it blow up, pray?'
'Er ... everything, sir.'
'Everything there is, you mean?'
'Within a radius of about fifty thousand miles out into space, sir, yes. According to HEX it'd happen instantaneously. We wouldn't even know about it.'
'And the odds of this are ... ?'
'About fifty to one, sir.'
The wizards relaxed.
'That's pretty safe. I wouldn't bet on a horse at those odds,' said the Senior Wrangler.
-Terry Pratchett et al., The Science of Discworld
...non-Joulian magnets, how do they work?
And honestly, lord of the rings stinks as a piece of literature. Give me a good sci-fi (or even not-so-good) any day.
Here's what one great SF author thinks about Tolkien's literary style:
http://www.lordotrings.com/boo...
Because Tolkein was a Christian I would have thought that the humanist scientists would hate him and his books. I am sure that Bill Nye and Neil Degrasse Tyson hate him.
"Three very large persons sitting round a very large fire of beech-logs. They were toasting mutton on long spits of wood, and licking the gravy off their fingers. There was a fine toothsome smell. Also there was a barrel of good drink at hand, and they were drinking out of jugs. But they were trolls. Obviously trolls. Even Bilbo, in spite of his sheltered life, could see that: from the great heavy faces of them, and their size, and the shape of their legs, not to mention their language, which was not drawing-room fashion at all, at all."
You may want to read Norse mythology some time.
Parts of it may seem strangely familiar.
Especially this bit, from Voluspa:
There was Motsognir | the mightiest made
Of all the dwarfs, | and Durin next;
Many a likeness | of men they made,
The dwarfs in the earth, | as Durin said.
Nyi and Nithi, | Northri and Suthri,
Austri and Vestri, | Althjof, Dvalin,
Nar and Nain, | Niping, Dain,
Bifur, Bofur, | Bombur, Nori,
An and Onar, | Ai, Mjothvitnir.
Vigg and Gandalf | Vindalf, Thrain,
Thekk and Thorin, | Thror, Vit and Lit,
Nyr and Nyrath,-- | now have I told--
Regin and Rathsvith-- | the list aright.
Fili, Kili, | Fundin, Nali,
Heptifili, | Hannar, Sviur,
Frar, Hornbori, | Fraeg and Loni,
Aurvang, Jari, | Eikinskjaldi*.
The race of the dwarfs | in Dvalin's throng
Down to Lofar | the list must I tell;
The rocks they left, | and through wet lands
They sought a home | in the fields of sand.
There were Draupnir | and Dolgthrasir,
Hor, Haugspori, | Hlevang, Gloin,
Dori, Ori, | Duf, Andvari,
Skirfir, Virfir, | Skafith, Ai.
*Oakenshield
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ne...
Support for the current Government reaches EOL next week and currently seems unlikely to be renewed. However, it looks like an upgrade supported by multiple vendors for five years may be in place shortly after:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
At least now perhaps we can put to rest some of these awful trends in web design.
These guys have designed a really absurd parody site that mocks many of these design elements (I especially love the ridiculous horizontal scroll bar):
http://www.dhigroupinc.com/
It's a bit too silly to be believable (e.g., what are they actually supposed to be selling?!) but it'll still probably fool a fair number of people.
I'm not sure this one is entirely legal, though:
http://tiffzhang.com/startup/?...
Girlfriendable. The Evolution of the Girlfriend.
'Girlfriendable is a peerless girlfriend service that makes it easy to turn your girlfriends into cash.'
Wrong. They only tested 54 of the embryo's afterward. 28/54 is a 51.8% success rate.
Only if you ignore the 15/86 = 17.4% of the original series that didn't survive the process.
The off-target mutations in the remaining 26 embryos was not only expected, it was predicted about 16 years ago, when we first started experimenting with retroviral splicing vectors.
Microinjection with CRISPR/Cas9 constructs is a completely different technology to using retroviral vectors. The result is 'unexpected' because the off-target event frequency was apparently much lower when CRISPR was previously used to edit genes in mouse embryos or differentiated human cells. It's currently unclear if this result is due to some property of human embryos in general, or just of the non-viable 'tripronuclear' embryos used in this study.
The effects will last about 30 seconds, during which you will have all sorts of dreamy thoughts about how huge the universe is.
...and hopefully not die:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
We get the same nonsense in the UK, where they've set a '50% digital' listening threshold for analogue switch-off. Right now DAB accounts for under a quarter of radio listening, but they can boost that to over 1/3 by throwing in the other digital platforms. I don't really see the point of buying a DAB set for my home use - there are half a dozen devices around the house that already do a better job of it via IP or Freeview DTV (which carries the national radio channels).
I do have a pocket DAB radio, which drains batteries at an alarming rate and, while small by DAB standards, is much bulkier than the FM equivalent. It generally stays at home while I actually use the FM tuner in my (much smaller) mp3 player, or an IP radio app on my phone.
The powers that be have also decided that the UK will stick with the antiquated original DAB system rather than DAB+, so we have a lot of poor quality low bitrate broadcasts (often worse than FM). In 2015, it's a bit like decreeing that LPs will be phased out in favour of MiniDisc. Of course quality and 'choice' isn't the Government's real concern - they just want to shut off FM so they can sell off the radio spectrum to the highest bidder from the mobile phone/data industry.
Hardly a fair comparison. Scholarly editions of major religious texts are not secret, and their prices reflect their academic market (Reader's pass for the British Library or Library of Congress - free of charge). The Vatican doesn't ask for $380,000 just to read the standard version of the Book of Revelation. Even Lucasfilm only wants $90 for the Star Wars saga on Blu-ray, including the apocryphal prequels (though to be fair, the original master tapes of the Holiday Special are as closely guarded as OT IX and X).
The question, I believe, is whether the CoS really is a belief organization, or a financial scam.
Cost of reading the most sacred beliefs of all major religions: free online, or $10 for the paperback. Jedi may also need to invest in the DVDs.
Cost of reading the most sacred beliefs of CoS: $380,000 (2006 pricing: http://www.xenu.net/archive/pr... ). Discounts available by signing a billion year contract and working full time in return for food.
Other sources are reporting that the preset time can be anything from 5 to 20 minutes - not sure if we know the actual setting in this case. But given that everything was over in 10 minutes, it's probably only a question of whether he had to set the lock once or twice.
Reports emerged that the contract with the TV production company Endemol - which Mars One claimed could bring in up to $6 billion in revenue - was no longer in place and that the companies had gone their separate ways.
Interesting that they originally partnered with Endemol, who previously produced this:
'Space Cadets': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"The series described itself as the most elaborate hoax perpetrated in television history...A group of twelve contestants (who answered an advert looking for "thrill seekers") were selected to become the first British televised space tourists, including going to Russia to train as cosmonauts at the "Space Tourist Agency of Russia" (STAR) military base, with the series culminating in a group of four embarking on a five-day space mission in low Earth orbit...However, the show was in fact an elaborate practical joke...Unknown to the "space cadets", they were not in Russia at all...and the "space trip" was entirely fake, complete with a wooden "shuttle" and actor "pilots".
In the last episode, I recall the presenter joking that the next series would be called 'Mission to Mars'...
So we would get to watch games that aren't highly subject to genetic differences, but ones purely based on training and skill? Tempting - where do I sign up?
Tipoca City, Kamino.