Not to argue with your main point, but it wasn't only the US that had record snowfalls this year. The UK was uncharacteristically buried in snow this winter as well.
Between North America (US and Canada) and parts of Europe, that's actually a pretty big geographical scope. For one year, anyway.
FWIW.
Umm.. you're the moron. Borowitz's blog is a joke. Literally. He's a comedian and writer, not a journalist.
Look again, it's under the "Comedy" section of the HuffingtonPost.
The only thing the tea party is against from what I've read is that Michelle Obama wants to take away "Happy Meal" toys and their ilk because they "encourage" children to eat poorly. It's not so much the crappy toys, it's the parent's who are too lazy to cook, and drive their kids to a fast food place that are to blame. And of course, all the HFC in everything. Maybe.
Ain't that the truth. I think the grossest example of this is premade chocolate milk. It's even in that. When's the last time you grabbed a glass of milk, and some Nestle's mix, and then decided to dump in a shot of Karo too? Eww.
I've been complaining about HFC for years, everyone thought I was nuts.
Whoever tagged this article 'Guitarhero' was absolutely correct.
The man's influence on music cannot be stated highly enough.
Between the design (and implementation of the electric guitar) to multitrack recording to delay effects, he really was a renaissance man.
Indeed he was.
RIP, Les Paul.
Visionaries like him are few and far between.
Leo Fender may have come out with the Broadcaster in '48, but Les was decades ahead of him. Problem was, Gibson didn't "get" it back then. That had to be frustrating. At least the industry saw the value in multitracking right away.
Geez, the obvious person to mention, who's name is synonymous with the Les Paul is Jimmy Page.
Pete has played with the LP for a bit, but, has never been quite as associated with any one guitar like Jimmy Page.
Page == Les Paul (and a telecaster in early days)
Jimi Hendrix == Strat
To me...I always picture Pete mostly with a Gibson SG during the 60's.
Maybe, but you did know that Page used a Telecaster (given to him by Jeff Beck) on the first Led Zeppelin album, right?
I often think of that Gibson SG doubleneck when I think of Page too.
I think maybe a more "solid" but modern iconic figure would be Slash from GnR. He never used *anything* else, as far as I know.
Or maybe Peter Frampton with his classic 3 pickup Custom Black Beauty.
Your biased.
Look it up, there ahve been many glitches on both sides of the fence. People getting account credited with too much money, checks getting sent for 100million times the amount that should actually be made.
If you mean, I'm "biased" due to personal experience, guilty as charged. Verizon, Comcast, banks, everytime there's been some kind of "computer glitch" with any of them, it resulted in an overcharge, or a charge for some service I don't even have.
I have never, ever, been undercharged or sent a check for monies that weren't mine. Just because 3 guys out of 200 million experienced otherwise doesnt' invalidate the lopsided reality of it.
Still, isn't it funny how these kinds of "computer glitches" always seem to benefit the company, never the customer? Pretty interesting odds at play here.
"We need a clear, unambiguous policy that alcohol is absolutely forbidden for every state with no double standards. Only then will anyone take Prohibition seriously."
Or substitute marijuana, tobacco, fast food, etc.
Cat's out of the bag, friend. Pretending that it's possible to simply ban nuclear weapons by fiat is catastrophically naive. Deal with the world as it is, not how you would pretend it to be.
Actually, isn't the satellite simply intercepting the energy that would have made it to the Earth anyhow?
If this system has about a 50% efficiency, then isn't this satellite actually blocking the other 50% of said energy from actually ever reaching the earth?
Not at all. Depending on where the solar cells/satelites are situtated, they may well be collecting sunlight that would have otherwise missed the Earth entirely. Think of a triangle, with Sun, satelite, and Earth as each point.
I'm right handed but have always heard better and more clearly from my left ear. Consequently, I use my left ear to talk on the phone, and so do the majority of people I know.
But then, my hemispheres are also supposedly uncommonly well balanced, according to the popular Internet test, "brain.exe". FWIW.
It makes a person wonder just how long ago music was enjoyed (besides whistling or singing) or did we just grunt our way around?
The more I learn about the subject, the more convinced I am that the ancients were not the unsophisticated primitives that we often imagine them to be.
They really weren't. Well, at least, some of them weren't. That's why you should respect your elders.;-)
Get rid of most of the cow/pig/chicken altogether. Use special meat vats that grow cloned tissue in a special nutrient. No more digestion means no more burps and farts. Place the meat factories in all cities to save on transport. In the long term you could even add infrastructure to pipe liquified meat product directly to restaurants and homes where it could be formed and flavored.
Welcome to the world of the future!
Y'know, that really is probably the answer and the future, but for some reason, the concept just grosses me out. As if slaughtering a living animal isn't gross, right? Go figure. I'm probably not alone in this thought though, I think there'd be quite a lot of public resistance to it, just on principal - especially with all the "organic" nuts around.
500 years from now though, things willl probably have turned around 180 degrees. People will be horrified and grossed out at the idea of actually eating the meat of a once-living, breathing, fully developed animal.
I wonder if they'll try to synthesize "real" cow's milk too? (Not a soy byproduct)
This doesn't make sense to me. Homeopathic is nothing but water, usually (or some other base, like alcohol), and as we all know - everything is diluted to ridiculous proportions - maybe one molecule of "cure" within billions of water.
So how can it be dangerous? How much zinc is actually in there? There's nothing actually in it, it's homeopathic!
I have a pretty open mind when it comes to metaphysical stuff and wortcunning and all that, but the one thing I just can't buy is homeopathy. It doesn't even have good psuedo-logic behind it. Water has no "memory", period. It's such a scam.
What Justin Opinion said, only he said it better than I would've.
In short, you can't just observe "strings" under a microscope, when you're discussing the actual "fabric" of reality, you can only speak in mathematical terms, because we're stuck inside this reality and can't remove ourselves from it to study it more objectively.
But that's the way science works; you tweak your theory/math to better accommodate new observations (physical or mathematical); to either remove that which is "proven" false, or to bolster that which appears to be on track.
String theory might be getting "close to the money" or it might be totally off track. Either way, they're doing what they should be doing, unless or until something better comes along, or some superior alien race decides to pay us a visit and enlighten us with their superior grasp of physics.
Unfortunately (for the US), it'll be in restrospect, because China or some other eastern or mideastern country will rule the world.
They won't rule the world anymore than the United States currently rules the world or the UK ruled it a few decades ago. They will be an economic force to be reckoned with and will have the military might to back up their interests but we'll still be the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Democracy has seen pretty dark times before and managed to survive. And that was before the advent of nuclear deterrence. I don't think we are going anywhere.
I didn't mean to get quite so literal, but I meant "lead" the world, in much the way the US has since WWII, and the UK did during the Victorian era, and so on. You're right though, any country that has traditionally had a powerful economy has also had a mighty military machine behind it as well.
It's not that I think China is inherently "evil" or anything (I don't) but they're still overpopulated, and as their standard of living increases along with their need for resources, as well as their increased manufacturing and world presence, I think the clout they'll possess will give way to aggression at some point - maybe a few decades down the road.
Manifest Desitny? Surely you jest.
Tanks for the reading comprehension fail. Also, you need to get out of your ghetto more. Head on over to the GOP base HQ and find out all kinds of interesting things about your country.
Oh, snappy comeback with the tired and cliched/. "fail". You forgot to throw "profit" in there somewhere.
I don't get all my "info" from a single website or blog; so who needs to get out of their ghetto more?
Maybe they'll even come to realize that the US wasn't so bad after all, in spite of our flaws.
No, most of us who routinely "bash" the US know that already.
Where people such as yourself get confused is when we reply to some typical asshat who, perspective-free, claims some kind of superiority, either real or imagined, like those who subscribe to whatever warped "Manifest Destiny" meme is floating around the jingosphere at any given time.
Manifest Desitny? Surely you jest. That old schtick is over a hundred years old, no one believes in that anymore, and it was never relevent outside our slice of the northwestern hemisphere anyway. "Containment", the policy of the Cold War, was something else.
I don't see that many "typical (Amercian) asshats" claiming any sort of superiority, honestly, I see a hell of a lot more of that attitude coming from the EU, than the US, usually in terms of "intelligence", scope, geography or history.
I think Shakrai had it about right. 100 years from now, the US is going to look pretty good. Unfortunately (for the US), it'll be in restrospect, because China or some other eastern or mideastern country will rule the world.
It'd be nice if next Bloomsbury could convince JK Rowling to release her Harry Potter books in an e-format, even PDF.
Not for free, necessarily, but at least eBooks are great for searchable reference. She has a serious hangup about releasing her work in electronic format.
This is about ethics, and I for one am glad that the medical research profession takes ethics into consideration.
Great, you're all for ethical research. Then what do you call Bush's decision to not federally fund any new lines?
Many critics attacked that decision as based solely on "religious" views, but that was also a matter of ethics, because at what point in development do you consider a human being (or a zygote or an embryo) officially a human being, the issue of a "soul" aside?
I don't think anyone can definitely, scientifically answer that question.
And actually, I'm playing devils' advocate here, as personally I'm pro choice, but I also understand and appreciate the other side's viewpoint.
I just think it's funny that conservatives support capital punishment but oppose abortion, and liberals support abortion but oppose capital punishment. It's sorta hypocritical on both sides.
The perennial war cry of the crank is "If this one thing is wrong, then nothing they say can be trusted!"
Y'know, everyone pretty much does this. I'll bet you've even used that argument at one time or another, might've been a different subject, maybe not.
It doesn't make someone a "crank", although it is a logical fallacy.
I have an open enough mind that some people might claim my brain could fall out sometimes, but the last thing on earth I could ever believe in is homeopathy - particularly it's secondary notion that diluting and succussing a substance makes it stronger.
What a racket. You can milk the tiniest amounts of herbal or medicinal supplies over and over and make a fortune.
I totally agree with that. Frankly, I hate reading ebooks, it's just not comfortable to me to sit at a monitor and read for a length of time, and there are no ebook readers out there yet that cut it yet, IMO.
The Kindle is getting close, but why not have an ebook reader with a few flexible e-ink display "pages" on top that allow you to instantly flip back or forth a number of pages. Just 3 or 4 that's all I ask. Well, that, and the ereader has to be the right size, not too big and bulky, yet not so small that a "page" only consists of a single paragraph or that you need a magnifier to see the text.
For this reason, I don't think ebooks are a seriuous threat to copyright at this point. Maybe in the future though, if they design a reader like I just described.
For now, I only use ebooks for quick reference. The PDF search feature is very handy, but I'm really going to read a book, I buy the paper version.
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Queue the theme from Jaws:
Cue. It's cue. As in "This is my cue to pipe in the theme for Jaws". Granted, queue can make sense in a CS-type queuing up the theme, but....
Ah, fuck it. Go mangle the English language. I'll be curled up in bed, sucking on my language-nazi thumb.
Godwin's Law alert!
;-)
Wait.. does it count if you apply it to yourself?
Not to argue with your main point, but it wasn't only the US that had record snowfalls this year. The UK was uncharacteristically buried in snow this winter as well.
Between North America (US and Canada) and parts of Europe, that's actually a pretty big geographical scope. For one year, anyway.
FWIW.
And clearly you didn't get *my* sarcasm either.
Gee, see how easy that is to do?
Umm.. you're the moron. Borowitz's blog is a joke. Literally. He's a comedian and writer, not a journalist.
Look again, it's under the "Comedy" section of the HuffingtonPost.
The only thing the tea party is against from what I've read is that Michelle Obama wants to take away "Happy Meal" toys and their ilk because they "encourage" children to eat poorly. It's not so much the crappy toys, it's the parent's who are too lazy to cook, and drive their kids to a fast food place that are to blame. And of course, all the HFC in everything. Maybe.
Ain't that the truth. I think the grossest example of this is premade chocolate milk. It's even in that. When's the last time you grabbed a glass of milk, and some Nestle's mix, and then decided to dump in a shot of Karo too? Eww.
I've been complaining about HFC for years, everyone thought I was nuts.
Whoever tagged this article 'Guitarhero' was absolutely correct.
The man's influence on music cannot be stated highly enough.
Between the design (and implementation of the electric guitar) to multitrack recording to delay effects, he really was a renaissance man.
Indeed he was.
..and yep, I own a Les Paul ;-)
RIP, Les Paul.
Visionaries like him are few and far between. Leo Fender may have come out with the Broadcaster in '48, but Les was decades ahead of him. Problem was, Gibson didn't "get" it back then. That had to be frustrating. At least the industry saw the value in multitracking right away.
Geez, the obvious person to mention, who's name is synonymous with the Les Paul is Jimmy Page.
Pete has played with the LP for a bit, but, has never been quite as associated with any one guitar like Jimmy Page.
Page == Les Paul (and a telecaster in early days)
Jimi Hendrix == Strat
To me...I always picture Pete mostly with a Gibson SG during the 60's.
Maybe, but you did know that Page used a Telecaster (given to him by Jeff Beck) on the first Led Zeppelin album, right? I often think of that Gibson SG doubleneck when I think of Page too. I think maybe a more "solid" but modern iconic figure would be Slash from GnR. He never used *anything* else, as far as I know. Or maybe Peter Frampton with his classic 3 pickup Custom Black Beauty.
Your biased. Look it up, there ahve been many glitches on both sides of the fence. People getting account credited with too much money, checks getting sent for 100million times the amount that should actually be made.
If you mean, I'm "biased" due to personal experience, guilty as charged. Verizon, Comcast, banks, everytime there's been some kind of "computer glitch" with any of them, it resulted in an overcharge, or a charge for some service I don't even have.
I have never, ever, been undercharged or sent a check for monies that weren't mine. Just because 3 guys out of 200 million experienced otherwise doesnt' invalidate the lopsided reality of it.
Still, isn't it funny how these kinds of "computer glitches" always seem to benefit the company, never the customer? Pretty interesting odds at play here.
"We need a clear, unambiguous policy that alcohol is absolutely forbidden for every state with no double standards. Only then will anyone take Prohibition seriously."
Or substitute marijuana, tobacco, fast food, etc.
Cat's out of the bag, friend. Pretending that it's possible to simply ban nuclear weapons by fiat is catastrophically naive. Deal with the world as it is, not how you would pretend it to be.
Don't forget guns.
Actually, isn't the satellite simply intercepting the energy that would have made it to the Earth anyhow?
If this system has about a 50% efficiency, then isn't this satellite actually blocking the other 50% of said energy from actually ever reaching the earth?
Not at all. Depending on where the solar cells/satelites are situtated, they may well be collecting sunlight that would have otherwise missed the Earth entirely. Think of a triangle, with Sun, satelite, and Earth as each point.
I'm right handed but have always heard better and more clearly from my left ear. Consequently, I use my left ear to talk on the phone, and so do the majority of people I know.
But then, my hemispheres are also supposedly uncommonly well balanced, according to the popular Internet test, "brain.exe". FWIW.
It makes a person wonder just how long ago music was enjoyed (besides whistling or singing) or did we just grunt our way around?
The more I learn about the subject, the more convinced I am that the ancients were not the unsophisticated primitives that we often imagine them to be.
They really weren't. Well, at least, some of them weren't. That's why you should respect your elders. ;-)
Get rid of most of the cow/pig/chicken altogether. Use special meat vats that grow cloned tissue in a special nutrient. No more digestion means no more burps and farts. Place the meat factories in all cities to save on transport. In the long term you could even add infrastructure to pipe liquified meat product directly to restaurants and homes where it could be formed and flavored.
Welcome to the world of the future!
Y'know, that really is probably the answer and the future, but for some reason, the concept just grosses me out. As if slaughtering a living animal isn't gross, right? Go figure. I'm probably not alone in this thought though, I think there'd be quite a lot of public resistance to it, just on principal - especially with all the "organic" nuts around.
500 years from now though, things willl probably have turned around 180 degrees. People will be horrified and grossed out at the idea of actually eating the meat of a once-living, breathing, fully developed animal.
I wonder if they'll try to synthesize "real" cow's milk too? (Not a soy byproduct)
This doesn't make sense to me. Homeopathic is nothing but water, usually (or some other base, like alcohol), and as we all know - everything is diluted to ridiculous proportions - maybe one molecule of "cure" within billions of water.
So how can it be dangerous? How much zinc is actually in there? There's nothing actually in it, it's homeopathic!
I have a pretty open mind when it comes to metaphysical stuff and wortcunning and all that, but the one thing I just can't buy is homeopathy. It doesn't even have good psuedo-logic behind it. Water has no "memory", period. It's such a scam.
What Justin Opinion said, only he said it better than I would've.
In short, you can't just observe "strings" under a microscope, when you're discussing the actual "fabric" of reality, you can only speak in mathematical terms, because we're stuck inside this reality and can't remove ourselves from it to study it more objectively.
But that's the way science works; you tweak your theory/math to better accommodate new observations (physical or mathematical); to either remove that which is "proven" false, or to bolster that which appears to be on track.
String theory might be getting "close to the money" or it might be totally off track. Either way, they're doing what they should be doing, unless or until something better comes along, or some superior alien race decides to pay us a visit and enlighten us with their superior grasp of physics.
Unfortunately (for the US), it'll be in restrospect, because China or some other eastern or mideastern country will rule the world.
They won't rule the world anymore than the United States currently rules the world or the UK ruled it a few decades ago. They will be an economic force to be reckoned with and will have the military might to back up their interests but we'll still be the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Democracy has seen pretty dark times before and managed to survive. And that was before the advent of nuclear deterrence. I don't think we are going anywhere.
I didn't mean to get quite so literal, but I meant "lead" the world, in much the way the US has since WWII, and the UK did during the Victorian era, and so on. You're right though, any country that has traditionally had a powerful economy has also had a mighty military machine behind it as well.
It's not that I think China is inherently "evil" or anything (I don't) but they're still overpopulated, and as their standard of living increases along with their need for resources, as well as their increased manufacturing and world presence, I think the clout they'll possess will give way to aggression at some point - maybe a few decades down the road.
Best you got?
Yep! I'm moving on, we're both drifting way off topic now anyway. Unless you'd like to continue arguing something more on topic? ;)
Manifest Desitny? Surely you jest. Tanks for the reading comprehension fail. Also, you need to get out of your ghetto more. Head on over to the GOP base HQ and find out all kinds of interesting things about your country.
Oh, snappy comeback with the tired and cliched /. "fail". You forgot to throw "profit" in there somewhere.
I don't get all my "info" from a single website or blog; so who needs to get out of their ghetto more?
Maybe they'll even come to realize that the US wasn't so bad after all, in spite of our flaws. No, most of us who routinely "bash" the US know that already. Where people such as yourself get confused is when we reply to some typical asshat who, perspective-free, claims some kind of superiority, either real or imagined, like those who subscribe to whatever warped "Manifest Destiny" meme is floating around the jingosphere at any given time.
Manifest Desitny? Surely you jest. That old schtick is over a hundred years old, no one believes in that anymore, and it was never relevent outside our slice of the northwestern hemisphere anyway. "Containment", the policy of the Cold War, was something else.
I don't see that many "typical (Amercian) asshats" claiming any sort of superiority, honestly, I see a hell of a lot more of that attitude coming from the EU, than the US, usually in terms of "intelligence", scope, geography or history.
I think Shakrai had it about right. 100 years from now, the US is going to look pretty good. Unfortunately (for the US), it'll be in restrospect, because China or some other eastern or mideastern country will rule the world.
It'd be nice if next Bloomsbury could convince JK Rowling to release her Harry Potter books in an e-format, even PDF.
Not for free, necessarily, but at least eBooks are great for searchable reference. She has a serious hangup about releasing her work in electronic format.
This is about ethics, and I for one am glad that the medical research profession takes ethics into consideration.
Great, you're all for ethical research. Then what do you call Bush's decision to not federally fund any new lines?
Many critics attacked that decision as based solely on "religious" views, but that was also a matter of ethics, because at what point in development do you consider a human being (or a zygote or an embryo) officially a human being, the issue of a "soul" aside?
I don't think anyone can definitely, scientifically answer that question.
And actually, I'm playing devils' advocate here, as personally I'm pro choice, but I also understand and appreciate the other side's viewpoint.
I just think it's funny that conservatives support capital punishment but oppose abortion, and liberals support abortion but oppose capital punishment. It's sorta hypocritical on both sides.
The perennial war cry of the crank is "If this one thing is wrong, then nothing they say can be trusted!"
Y'know, everyone pretty much does this. I'll bet you've even used that argument at one time or another, might've been a different subject, maybe not.
It doesn't make someone a "crank", although it is a logical fallacy.
Don't knock it, people have made millions by working with similar concentrations.
I have an open enough mind that some people might claim my brain could fall out sometimes, but the last thing on earth I could ever believe in is homeopathy - particularly it's secondary notion that diluting and succussing a substance makes it stronger.
What a racket. You can milk the tiniest amounts of herbal or medicinal supplies over and over and make a fortune.
I totally agree with that. Frankly, I hate reading ebooks, it's just not comfortable to me to sit at a monitor and read for a length of time, and there are no ebook readers out there yet that cut it yet, IMO.
The Kindle is getting close, but why not have an ebook reader with a few flexible e-ink display "pages" on top that allow you to instantly flip back or forth a number of pages. Just 3 or 4 that's all I ask. Well, that, and the ereader has to be the right size, not too big and bulky, yet not so small that a "page" only consists of a single paragraph or that you need a magnifier to see the text.
For this reason, I don't think ebooks are a seriuous threat to copyright at this point. Maybe in the future though, if they design a reader like I just described.
For now, I only use ebooks for quick reference. The PDF search feature is very handy, but I'm really going to read a book, I buy the paper version.