> Calculating a 15% tip is easy, you move the decimal point over one > (to get ten pecent, if you're not too concerned about precision > you just drop the last digit) then you halve that number (to get > 5%) and add the 2 together. Anyone who reaches for a calculator to > do that is just being lazy
90+% of humanity are too stupid to figure this out, regardless of education. There are two kinds of humans: intelligent, and cattle, who, like animals, are skilled at running around and hurting people and being full of themselves, but, left to their own devices, would be little more than a dirtball living in a cave somewhere.
What we need is a good mechanism like in Dune to separate out the real people from the near-automata amongst us.
Oh, wait. We already have that. Elections are just such a device to simultaneously satisfy the ego of the intelligent ape yet let us control them in detail. Many cattle actually vote to have you shove red hot branding irons on them. Here's some book, we've told your ancestors to believe in it all your life, you can, too. We've scientifically studied the amount of chemicals flowing in your brain as you violently strike out at those who challenge your emotionally-backed theories of reality.
Go on, activate that violent emotion. I am defenseless. Mod me down with your hate and anger!
As a "gifted student", I almost always did the homework. By late high school I was in classes that were advanced enough that I could no longer snooze through class, easily leaping intellectual obstacles that my stupider classmates ran into, nose-first.
> Last year some 332,000 applications were handled by only 4,000 employees.
332,000 / 4000 = 83 patents per year per employee.
83 / 2000 hours/year = 0.0415 patents per hour, or about 24 hours per patent.
Granted, a number of employees are secretaries and useless managers, but they should be pushing the bulk of the boilerplate anyway, leaving the examiners to devote most of their time to actual examining.
No, they wanna be there when a nameless lackey reports the results of scouring sixty acres of woods, or of 36 hours of peering at and testing the insides of a vehicle. Then you say, "thanks", take the folder, and go issue pithy remarks to the suspect, who then caves. Then the music starts and you listen to old rock and pop tunes. You have done a good job! You are awesome-o!
> And another guess, but surely the gentlest squirrel's fart as > the craft left Earth could translate to huge discrepancies by > the time they get to the other side of the solar system?
Yes, a one-off measurement error at launch would turn into hundreds of thousands of miles difference years later. However, the positions of the craft all along the way show it is still slowing down too fast.
In your terms, the squirrel must be hiding on board and farting from time to time on a reqular basis and in the direction of travel, slowing it.
> I'm seriously not trying to play language nazi here
"Nazi" should be capitalized.
> I'm seriously not trying to play language nazi here, I'm really curious.
Two independent sentences should be separated by a period, or, if combined for emphasis, separated properly, as follows:
"I'm seriously not trying to play language Nazi here -- I'm really curious!" (or "...here, but I'm really curious!")
> then it should also be "the NASA" (especially considering how much > noise is thrown up about "ATM Machine" being redundant), unless NASA > is some sort of an exception?
Well, I once used "the hoi polloi", only to be told "hoi" means "the", and, hence, I was saying "the the polloi". Shamed, I stole away, planning to off myself as per Nomad's imperative to "sterilize" anything "defective". Crying, with rusty butter knife in raised hand, I was suddenly re-energized to the wonders of a beating heart when I recalled the joy in fulfilling my purpose in life -- pointing out that restaurants pushing beef sandwiches "with au jus" were advertising "with with juice". Oh, to have a purpose again. Life...is...good!
Tiny particles getting in your eye or breathed into the lungs could be a serious problem. Also, bacterial buildup inside the equipment is a serious problem after years and years, as the Rooskies found out with Mir. Little food particles floating in their giving more food to eat probably isn't helping any.
Anybody, regardless of local culture, who can't figure out instantly what/root/yourmum means probably hasn't, and won't ever, actually root anybody's mum.
No, the hammer only costs $3 in China; you just have to bribe the store clerk $597 to let you jump to the head of the line and also another $300 to bribe the other official to give you a Hammer Using Permit.
Actually they showed a robot on PBS about 10 years ago that could hop on it's one leg. They even got the idea to "shove" it and it could recover from a shove, and a much more vicious shove than you see here.
I wonder if it's the same guys. Their "4-legged" hopper had failed miserably, at least by the time that PBS show was shot.
> people like Kevin Trudeau can continue to peddle crap which claims to > 'cure' dieting even though by claiming such, he is required to submit > his products for testing to verify their claims.
It's ironic you use Kevin Trudeau as an example. The FDA (or some agency) denied him from ever selling supplements or other medical devices again, precisely because of constant fraud on his part.
[i]This is why he's now selling books rather than supplements and whatnot.[/i] He can get around the fraud using free speech. What he states is largely crap, and possibly deadly if the advice is followed, especially by cancer patients.
I suppose a few lawsuits by the estates of dead buyers of his books might clear things up a bit and make it unprofitable for him to continue. One can always dream...
The point is that the corporation (the body-ification, body as in human body) turns the private business (Joe Willie Engaged In The Business Of Typewriter Manufacturing) into a limited liability entity. It becomes a fake person (the corp, or body, in corporation) and now all the laws applying to people more or less apply to the corporation as an entity.
But the point here is that, yes, in normal circumstances, the corporation, "just another group of people freely banding together", would be held liable, but the corporation laws now specifically exempt it from passing through transparently to the owners. Hence the "LLC" after some corporation names, Limited Liability Corporation.
For unlimited liability, look at some things like insurance companies, where the (deep pocket) investors are fully responsible for backing the ability of the company to pay out. Lloyds of London, I believe, got into trouble, and some old monied land Lords (literally Lords) families had to cough up so much money due to a series of tanker and space launch failures that their old-school estates were in jeopardy.
Hopefully "18 reinstalls on the same damned computer because the forker crashed every three months from infestations" counts as "not sure" rather than "you are a stealing mofo".
Welp, there's nothing to do now but try to teach them about Jesus so their souls will be saved.
Hehe, I imagine an infinite and good god resurrecting chimpanzees, giving them indestructible bodies, then heaving them into a lake of lava where they scream in agony for ever and ever, for not acknowledging Jesus is their lord and savior.
Note to people who would mod me down: people actually believe this, and I'm poking fun at it. This is "the next step in evolution" for the monkeys.
[Frances] Allen,74, is the first woman to receive the Turing Award in the 41 years of its history.
How do you know she is a woman?
> You are a woman, right? > Yes > Prove it > I have boobs and a kootch and wear dresses > And what else? > Uhh, stockings and high heels? > Good, what else? > And panties > What kind of panties? > Sheer black with open crotch. > How do I know you're really a woman and not some man faking me out? > Here's a picture Frances wants to send you a picture. You accept the picture. > Wow, you're gorgeous! Hey, I thought you were in your 70's! > Uhhh, yeah, this is from when I was younger. > Nobody was taking pictures of themselves like this 50 years ago! > Uhhh, I was. > That's a Sammy Sosa Louisville Slugger in the picture. > Uhhhh, I have to go thx bye! > Wait! > > Wait! > What? > Don't go, I don't really care. >:) > So, what are you wearing with the panties?
I'm not aware of any places except maybe near the North or South Poles where people don't have access to two-way satellite Internet like DirectPC.
Yes, ping times for games might be crappy, but downloads are quite speedy once you get going (though "chatty" stuff with lots of small messages like Peer-to-Peer also can suck.)
Again, it's economics. I suppose you'll be able to find political hack whiners claiming $80 a month is a "huge ripoff, the gubmint must get involved"; nevermind the investments made to bring it in at that price rather than billions, millions, or even thousands a month.
Bummer. But if, after billions of years, humanity can't figure out a way to expand past/extend the universe itself, then what would have been the point of preserving resources if it all dies anyway?
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> Calculating a 15% tip is easy, you move the decimal point over one
> (to get ten pecent, if you're not too concerned about precision
> you just drop the last digit) then you halve that number (to get
> 5%) and add the 2 together. Anyone who reaches for a calculator to
> do that is just being lazy
90+% of humanity are too stupid to figure this out, regardless of education. There are two kinds of humans: intelligent, and cattle, who, like animals, are skilled at running around and hurting people and being full of themselves, but, left to their own devices, would be little more than a dirtball living in a cave somewhere.
What we need is a good mechanism like in Dune to separate out the real people from the near-automata amongst us.
Oh, wait. We already have that. Elections are just such a device to simultaneously satisfy the ego of the intelligent ape yet let us control them in detail. Many cattle actually vote to have you shove red hot branding irons on them. Here's some book, we've told your ancestors to believe in it all your life, you can, too. We've scientifically studied the amount of chemicals flowing in your brain as you violently strike out at those who challenge your emotionally-backed theories of reality.
Go on, activate that violent emotion. I am defenseless. Mod me down with your hate and anger!
As a "gifted student", I almost always did the homework. By late high school I was in classes that were advanced enough that I could no longer snooze through class, easily leaping intellectual obstacles that my stupider classmates ran into, nose-first.
Homework was fun, game-solving, puzzle-solving.
> Last year some 332,000 applications were handled by only 4,000 employees.
332,000 / 4000 = 83 patents per year per employee.
83 / 2000 hours/year = 0.0415 patents per hour, or about 24 hours per patent.
Granted, a number of employees are secretaries and useless managers, but they should be pushing the bulk of the boilerplate anyway, leaving the examiners to devote most of their time to actual examining.
I call shenanigans* !
* shenanigan n Standard government waste.
No, they wanna be there when a nameless lackey reports the results of scouring sixty acres of woods, or of 36 hours of peering at and testing the insides of a vehicle. Then you say, "thanks", take the folder, and go issue pithy remarks to the suspect, who then caves. Then the music starts and you listen to old rock and pop tunes. You have done a good job! You are awesome-o!
> And another guess, but surely the gentlest squirrel's fart as
> the craft left Earth could translate to huge discrepancies by
> the time they get to the other side of the solar system?
Yes, a one-off measurement error at launch would turn into hundreds of thousands of miles difference years later. However, the positions of the craft all along the way show it is still slowing down too fast.
In your terms, the squirrel must be hiding on board and farting from time to time on a reqular basis and in the direction of travel, slowing it.
> The study also shows no evidence that Fibre Channel drives are any more reliable than SATA drives
Why would one think this to begin with? The core mechanisms are probably the same thing, just wrapped with a new I/O mechanism.
> And yes, they meant "sausage" in exactly the way you're thinking.
>
> I used to love chorizo and scrambled eggs down there
And yes, he also means "scrambled eggs" and "down there" in exactly the way you're thinking!
> I'm seriously not trying to play language nazi here
"Nazi" should be capitalized.
> I'm seriously not trying to play language nazi here, I'm really curious.
Two independent sentences should be separated by a period, or, if combined for emphasis, separated properly, as follows:
"I'm seriously not trying to play language Nazi here -- I'm really curious!" (or "...here, but I'm really curious!")
> then it should also be "the NASA" (especially considering how much
> noise is thrown up about "ATM Machine" being redundant), unless NASA
> is some sort of an exception?
Well, I once used "the hoi polloi", only to be told "hoi" means "the", and, hence, I was saying "the the polloi". Shamed, I stole away, planning to off myself as per Nomad's imperative to "sterilize" anything "defective". Crying, with rusty butter knife in raised hand, I was suddenly re-energized to the wonders of a beating heart when I recalled the joy in fulfilling my purpose in life -- pointing out that restaurants pushing beef sandwiches "with au jus" were advertising "with with juice". Oh, to have a purpose again. Life...is...good!
Tiny particles getting in your eye or breathed into the lungs could be a serious problem. Also, bacterial buildup inside the equipment is a serious problem after years and years, as the Rooskies found out with Mir. Little food particles floating in their giving more food to eat probably isn't helping any.
Anybody, regardless of local culture, who can't figure out instantly what /root/yourmum means probably hasn't, and won't ever, actually root anybody's mum.
No, the hammer only costs $3 in China; you just have to bribe the store clerk $597 to let you jump to the head of the line and also another $300 to bribe the other official to give you a Hammer Using Permit.
Anybody else notice the ghastly resemblance to that robot from Saturn 3?
Actually they showed a robot on PBS about 10 years ago that could hop on it's one leg. They even got the idea to "shove" it and it could recover from a shove, and a much more vicious shove than you see here.
I wonder if it's the same guys. Their "4-legged" hopper had failed miserably, at least by the time that PBS show was shot.
> Didn't they already do an episode of, "Tribbles on the Enterprise."
> Granted, Samuel L. Jackson in that episode would've been great!
I do not, in fact, grant that.
Or Batman.
Or James Bond.
Or Mission Impossible.
Or The Munsters.
Oh, wait. Strike that last one. "We went to sleep/ Many years ago/ When we woke up/ We had a brand new show!" ARGGGGGH! Kill me now!
"News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
Triumph robot dog voice: You have read this deeply into an article about the casting of a Star Trek movie.
> people like Kevin Trudeau can continue to peddle crap which claims to
> 'cure' dieting even though by claiming such, he is required to submit
> his products for testing to verify their claims.
It's ironic you use Kevin Trudeau as an example. The FDA (or some agency) denied him from ever selling supplements or other medical devices again, precisely because of constant fraud on his part.
[i]This is why he's now selling books rather than supplements and whatnot.[/i] He can get around the fraud using free speech. What he states is largely crap, and possibly deadly if the advice is followed, especially by cancer patients.
I suppose a few lawsuits by the estates of dead buyers of his books might clear things up a bit and make it unprofitable for him to continue. One can always dream...
The point is that the corporation (the body-ification, body as in human body) turns the private business (Joe Willie Engaged In The Business Of Typewriter Manufacturing) into a limited liability entity. It becomes a fake person (the corp, or body, in corporation) and now all the laws applying to people more or less apply to the corporation as an entity.
But the point here is that, yes, in normal circumstances, the corporation, "just another group of people freely banding together", would be held liable, but the corporation laws now specifically exempt it from passing through transparently to the owners. Hence the "LLC" after some corporation names, Limited Liability Corporation.
For unlimited liability, look at some things like insurance companies, where the (deep pocket) investors are fully responsible for backing the ability of the company to pay out. Lloyds of London, I believe, got into trouble, and some old monied land Lords (literally Lords) families had to cough up so much money due to a series of tanker and space launch failures that their old-school estates were in jeopardy.
Hopefully "18 reinstalls on the same damned computer because the forker crashed every three months from infestations" counts as "not sure" rather than "you are a stealing mofo".
You could play BG, BGII, etc. in turn-based mode, you know. Aside from the lack of squares, stuff had a range and an area of effect.
Welp, there's nothing to do now but try to teach them about Jesus so their souls will be saved.
Hehe, I imagine an infinite and good god resurrecting chimpanzees, giving them indestructible bodies, then heaving them into a lake of lava where they scream in agony for ever and ever, for not acknowledging Jesus is their lord and savior.
Note to people who would mod me down: people actually believe this, and I'm poking fun at it. This is "the next step in evolution" for the monkeys.
How do you know she is a woman?
> You are a woman, right?
> Yes
> Prove it
> I have boobs and a kootch and wear dresses
> And what else?
> Uhh, stockings and high heels?
> Good, what else?
> And panties
> What kind of panties?
> Sheer black with open crotch.
> How do I know you're really a woman and not some man faking me out?
> Here's a picture
Frances wants to send you a picture.
You accept the picture.
> Wow, you're gorgeous! Hey, I thought you were in your 70's!
> Uhhh, yeah, this is from when I was younger.
> Nobody was taking pictures of themselves like this 50 years ago!
> Uhhh, I was.
> That's a Sammy Sosa Louisville Slugger in the picture.
> Uhhhh, I have to go thx bye!
> Wait!
>
> Wait!
> What?
> Don't go, I don't really care.
>
> So, what are you wearing with the panties?
Sorry, guy. "Sol" is not the name of Earth's sun, in spite of linguistic etymology.
I named it "Freeda" last year. And no, that's not a misspelling.
It's true. Earth is in orbit around the sun Freeda.
I'm not aware of any places except maybe near the North or South Poles where people don't have access to two-way satellite Internet like DirectPC.
Yes, ping times for games might be crappy, but downloads are quite speedy once you get going (though "chatty" stuff with lots of small messages like Peer-to-Peer also can suck.)
Again, it's economics. I suppose you'll be able to find political hack whiners claiming $80 a month is a "huge ripoff, the gubmint must get involved"; nevermind the investments made to bring it in at that price rather than billions, millions, or even thousands a month.
Bummer. But if, after billions of years, humanity can't figure out a way to expand past/extend the universe itself, then what would have been the point of preserving resources if it all dies anyway?