Read "Fallen Angels" by Niven 'n' Pournelle. It is a real eye opener about how chicken-little fads and bad science can have unintended consequences when no one really knows what is going on. As part of the premise, a new ice rolls in real quick because we have stopped the greenhouse gas emissions. Those emissions, it turns out (in the fictional premise), were the only thing holding back the new ice age for centuries. It is fictional, yes, but no less or more likely than current global warming fad theories.
You will find this book free online at the publisher's site.
Use dihydrogen oxide. That will do the trick. Administered in very small quantities into the lungs, or in large quantities through injection, it can render any human being incapable of any action...including murder.
No. I just prefer not to mske cash transactions with someone who thinks it is cool to use the word "meme" when the word "idea" will do. That's just meme...er me.
If I take him at what he meant, he comes across as a religious bigot who is intolerant and insulting of those who do not share his faith. I gave him the benefit of a doubt that he wasn't a jerk.:)
"On American keyboards, # is shift-3, which is pound on UK keyboards (right?)"
Then, what is Shift-4 on the UK keyboard? Is it still $ like on the US keyboard? Also, if there is nota # on the UK keyboard, what do you use for number-sign, like if you want to type "#1, #2, #3"? Do you have to type "No. 1, No. 2"? Or nothing at all?
"My question is why Americans insist on calling the '#' pound when it looks nothing like '£'? I know what it is called, anyone else know? "
No idea. I was raised as an American to call that the "number sign". It took quite a while to get used to someone calling it a "pound sign". No idea where it came from. They should go back to calling it a number sign because as you said there already is that L-like thing which is a pound sign and ONLY a pound sign.
You might find someone with a grey-haired grandfather who spends a lot of time in airplanes. That would come pretty close to what you described. However, if he is too old, he won't even be remembering his own birthday.
"Blame the scientists. They dazzled us with their fancy fossils, their radiocarbon dating and their tens of thousands of peer-reviewed journal articles"
Damn FDR and his secret WPA project that had young men bury thousands of fake dino skeletons all over the country.
When the global warming fad cycles back in 10 or 20 years to a "new ice age!" fad like we had back in the 1970s, all of the recent global warming articles in SciAm will make the issues all look like April Fools.
I've got a screwdriver and am removing the joystick and power adaptor ports from my old Sega Genesis right now. I wonder if old Gameboy link adaptors count as "game ports" for this contest?
I have no idea what they will do with all these millions of ports everyone will mail them. I suppose we will get some sort of iMac in the future bristling with all kinds of game control ports.
"Don't forget about the random people who come into your house to edit it."
There is nothing like trying to sleep through the nightly gunfire coming from the den as editors duke it out over details of the George W. Bush entry. And there are always bits of burnt paper from the "G" volume all over the floor the next day.
If you narrow your search enough, you will see the desired link on the first page because there will not be any more links.
As for link order, that is something I do not care about at all in my Google results. That is why, IMHO, paying for high rank is harmless. I would be bothered, however, if they had it where you had to pay Google to be linked at all. Some have said this is already occuring.
"Some people equate non-living wages (the $5000 per year that could be paid out to such seasonal migrant workers in a free market) with slave labor. They can't live on it, but they also can't find anything else"
They can't equate it with slavery. One is the free exchange of work for pay. The other is being owned by someone. The term "living wage" should be factored out entirely: this is subjective. If you have a large migrant family where 3 or 4 of the members make this $5000 a year and they don't waste it on DVDs, they are already above the designated poverty level.
"She's white and pretending to be Asian - worst of both worlds"
Depending on where you are in Asia, that is white and pretending to be white. Ever hear of the Caucasian race? The Caucasus region is located at the Euro/Asian border, actually. A huge number of Asians are white: much of the north and west of the continent. Asia is not just China. Check a continent map.
Hopefully, Google will buy and greatly enhance the Ask Jeeves technology soon. It would make it most useful if you could enter "find car keys" into Google, and minutes later a butler taps you on the shoulder and hands them to you.
"Only because of the pedantic assholes that didn't take the obvious meaning of his statements"
The obvious meaning of his statement was that he created something that someone else had actually created before he was on the scene. Read the statement. You can't get anything else out of it. The meaning is blatantly obvious.
"and instead intentionally pretend that he was claiming something that is obviously not possible."
He did claim something that was not possible, given the actual years of Gore's actions in Congress and actual years of Internet creation. There is no pretending necessary. He said he made the thing. Read his statement. It is only "pretending" when you get pedantic and either:
Insist that he really did invent the Internet (usually using as justification the help he did after it was invented.)
Insist that he never said he created it, by taking Gore's actual quote and changing it to look better (replace the word "Create" with "Promote"), or insist that Gore's quote was really made up by right-wingers.
"If you have a plot of land in the 1970s, and build a house on it in the eighties, would you be correct in refering to that action as "creating the house"? Er, yes"
Your analogy is BAD. You are referring to creating one of many houses, and many are already created. This is not the same as Gore's claim of having created/invented THE Internet (a false claim, since it existed for years before his involvement)
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You will find this book free online at the publisher's site.
Use dihydrogen oxide. That will do the trick. Administered in very small quantities into the lungs, or in large quantities through injection, it can render any human being incapable of any action...including murder.
No. I just prefer not to mske cash transactions with someone who thinks it is cool to use the word "meme" when the word "idea" will do. That's just meme...er me.
If I take him at what he meant, he comes across as a religious bigot who is intolerant and insulting of those who do not share his faith. I gave him the benefit of a doubt that he wasn't a jerk. :)
Then, what is Shift-4 on the UK keyboard? Is it still $ like on the US keyboard? Also, if there is nota # on the UK keyboard, what do you use for number-sign, like if you want to type "#1, #2, #3"? Do you have to type "No. 1, No. 2"? Or nothing at all?
except I remember it always being called a number sign. "Pound" appeared to be more recent, and seemed odd since I always saw "lbs" used for pounds.
No idea. I was raised as an American to call that the "number sign". It took quite a while to get used to someone calling it a "pound sign". No idea where it came from. They should go back to calling it a number sign because as you said there already is that L-like thing which is a pound sign and ONLY a pound sign.
I'd do that, but chances are there will not be a monetary system by 2015 due global chaos caused by complete ice-cap meltdown.
You might find someone with a grey-haired grandfather who spends a lot of time in airplanes. That would come pretty close to what you described. However, if he is too old, he won't even be remembering his own birthday.
Damn FDR and his secret WPA project that had young men bury thousands of fake dino skeletons all over the country.
When the global warming fad cycles back in 10 or 20 years to a "new ice age!" fad like we had back in the 1970s, all of the recent global warming articles in SciAm will make the issues all look like April Fools.
Since "$1" is pronounced "one dollar", is "1$" pronounced "dollar one"?
I have no idea what they will do with all these millions of ports everyone will mail them. I suppose we will get some sort of iMac in the future bristling with all kinds of game control ports.
"Don't forget about the random people who come into your house to edit it." There is nothing like trying to sleep through the nightly gunfire coming from the den as editors duke it out over details of the George W. Bush entry. And there are always bits of burnt paper from the "G" volume all over the floor the next day.
As for link order, that is something I do not care about at all in my Google results. That is why, IMHO, paying for high rank is harmless. I would be bothered, however, if they had it where you had to pay Google to be linked at all. Some have said this is already occuring.
They can't equate it with slavery. One is the free exchange of work for pay. The other is being owned by someone. The term "living wage" should be factored out entirely: this is subjective. If you have a large migrant family where 3 or 4 of the members make this $5000 a year and they don't waste it on DVDs, they are already above the designated poverty level.
Haha. Yet another funny April Fools hoax news story. This one is funnier than some of the others.
Politics: "Through a glitch between Zimbabwe's election computers and Slashdot, Cowboy Neal was elected president of Zimbabwe yesterday."
I look forward to a salesman knocking on my door and selling me a 6 foot wide stack of Wikipedia volumes to fill my shelves.
I hope they fry that bastard who creamed him with a minivan. Now we'll never see the last Dark Tower books!!!!!
Depending on where you are in Asia, that is white and pretending to be white. Ever hear of the Caucasian race? The Caucasus region is located at the Euro/Asian border, actually. A huge number of Asians are white: much of the north and west of the continent. Asia is not just China. Check a continent map.
Hopefully, Google will buy and greatly enhance the Ask Jeeves technology soon. It would make it most useful if you could enter "find car keys" into Google, and minutes later a butler taps you on the shoulder and hands them to you.
This is great. Now I can go to google and enter "find my lost car keys" and get a nice picture. Thanks again, Big G!
The obvious meaning of his statement was that he created something that someone else had actually created before he was on the scene. Read the statement. You can't get anything else out of it. The meaning is blatantly obvious.
"and instead intentionally pretend that he was claiming something that is obviously not possible."
He did claim something that was not possible, given the actual years of Gore's actions in Congress and actual years of Internet creation. There is no pretending necessary. He said he made the thing. Read his statement. It is only "pretending" when you get pedantic and either:
Insist that he really did invent the Internet (usually using as justification the help he did after it was invented.)
Insist that he never said he created it, by taking Gore's actual quote and changing it to look better (replace the word "Create" with "Promote"), or insist that Gore's quote was really made up by right-wingers.
Your analogy is BAD. You are referring to creating one of many houses, and many are already created. This is not the same as Gore's claim of having created/invented THE Internet (a false claim, since it existed for years before his involvement)