Offensive in what way? To geekdom? Sure, Sheldon's kind of a dick, Howard's kind of a dick, and Raj is kind of a dick (Leonard's alright though), but that quirkiness is what people find funny, I think (and the producers have stated repeatedly that Sheldon does not have Asperger's)
Because no taste is not all that hard to replicate -bazinga!;-p
so says the kid that has never brewed. preventing contaminants frmo fouling the batch is 99% of the work. doing that in vats the size of wisconsin is inconcievable.
That's an interesting set of unfounded assumptions you've made about me. I'm neither a kid, nor someone who has never brewed. I'm quite familiar with brewing, having made several batches of mead. I'm well aware of the importance of sanitization. A little Star San goes a long way. I think newbs tend to see it as more critical than it really is though. Not all strains of yeast are that vulnerable. I don't see what's so inconceivable about doing this in large vat though, especially with the industrial budget available to the big brewers.
They bottle all over the in the world, using water from hundreds of different hills, using hops from thousands of farms, and can make their product taste exactly the same, every time. You can fly all over the world, order one of these "crap lagers", and get precisely what you asked for every single time.
Because no taste is not all that hard to replicate -bazinga!;-p
And because also, if you distill the water first, you pretty much have pure hydrogen dioxide, without the other minerals and whatnot, so you level the playing field for the most part.
All this says to me is that their beer is overly filtered and processed, not unlike individually wrapped slices of Kraft cheese, which tend to feel and taste a little like sweet plastic.. and despite being made with milk from thousands of different cows, always tastes the same.
Well, I was thinking more along the lines of, "The Federation", not Ferengi specfically.. there's an episode of STtng where Picard runs across a guy who was cryogenic-frozen in the 20th century, and revived in theirs... when the guy inquires about his investments, Picard explains that the guy's savings are meaningless now.
Besides that, I think the Blackberry keyboard (at least on my Bold) is the most horrendous little PoS I've ever had to use (work). The keys are tiny. It's just not meant for man thumbs. I'll take a soft keyboard over that any day.
You've obviously never had a large bird of prey, say a falcon or eagle attack you. Not that many people have, but I've seen what they can do with those huge talons, and they can be pretty scary indeed.
Originally it was a nickname for the king of Babylon, one of Israel's enemies. But the passage was reinterpreted long afterward to refer to Satan.
True, but good luck convincing your average US Christian of that. Most have grown up hearing "lucifer=satan" their entire lives.
And he wouldn't be the first to get conflated with Ol' Scratch - there's Old Nick, Mephistopheles, Beelzebub, Baal, Cerunnos, Baphomet, and a load of other old pagan gods that got demonized. (Interestingly, they either got demonized as the devil or canonized as saints.. go figure)
How many of you immediately thought of Slaver Sunflowers?
(Ref: Larry Niven "Known Space" series. If you haven't read it, do...)
Holy crap, that takes me back. Those could be really useful for solar farms, if you could stop them from pointing at airborne objects on their own. OTOH, they make for a great "no fly" zone.
Sounding a little too much like the 9-11 era all over again (which was punctuated by the anthrax mailings) just on a much smaller scale, overall. Though I think it's likely to be totally domestic this time (including the "main event"; in this case, the Boston marathon).
Of course it matters. We need to know where it came from so the US Congress can pass a law against any of them landing in the US. Most of these Congressional "geniuses" don't believe that the Earth, Solar System, Universe, etc are billions of years old. They'll want to ban any physical evidence that can be used to challenge their ignorance.
This is a bizarre argument.
First, assuming that all liberals=enlightened and all conservatives=ignorant and superstitious, this would mean that:
1) The vast majority (thus able to ram their legislation through) of Congress is conservative. While it's true that currently Reps outnumber Dems overall, 289 vs 241,it's not all that wide a gap. Dems control the Senate.
2) All conservatives/ republicans are christian fundies and believe in the young earth theory. In fact it's only a very small fringe group of xtians that believe in that ridiculousness. Hell, not even Pat Robertson believes it.
The mentality between countries are enormous. For example Canada seems like the US but it isn't. Canada thinks the US are evil and sue-happy. They are very liberal because they don't want to become what the US is.
I agree with most everything you said, but this seems to indicate that the sue-happy demographic of the US is essentially conservative. It's not. Almost the entire US is sue-happy, regardless of affiliation.
Your math is terrible.;-p There are 86,400 seconds in a day. 1% of that 864 seconds, not 8,640. You calculated for 10%. 864/60 = 14.4. You'd only spend 14.4 minutes a day being wrong.
You may have confused Derren Brown with Danny Boyle...;-P
But if not, I wanna see that Derren Brown special, he does some seriously cool stuff. You know you're a good magician/mentalist when some people think you're the "real deal", (even when you admit you're not). I guess that makes him the Kreskin of the times.
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The opposite of acceptance is rejection, and vice versa.
Then what's the opposite of Hate?
Must be difference, I'm thinking.
lol.. you know, I almost put that in my reply
Offensive in what way? To geekdom? Sure, Sheldon's kind of a dick, Howard's kind of a dick, and Raj is kind of a dick (Leonard's alright though), but that quirkiness is what people find funny, I think (and the producers have stated repeatedly that Sheldon does not have Asperger's)
Then what's the opposite of Hate?
Because no taste is not all that hard to replicate -bazinga! ;-p
so says the kid that has never brewed. preventing contaminants frmo fouling the batch is 99% of the work. doing that in vats the size of wisconsin is inconcievable.
That's an interesting set of unfounded assumptions you've made about me. I'm neither a kid, nor someone who has never brewed. I'm quite familiar with brewing, having made several batches of mead. I'm well aware of the importance of sanitization. A little Star San goes a long way. I think newbs tend to see it as more critical than it really is though. Not all strains of yeast are that vulnerable. I don't see what's so inconceivable about doing this in large vat though, especially with the industrial budget available to the big brewers.
They bottle all over the in the world, using water from hundreds of different hills, using hops from thousands of farms, and can make their product taste exactly the same, every time. You can fly all over the world, order one of these "crap lagers", and get precisely what you asked for every single time.
Because no taste is not all that hard to replicate -bazinga! ;-p
.. and despite being made with milk from thousands of different cows, always tastes the same.
And because also, if you distill the water first, you pretty much have pure hydrogen dioxide, without the other minerals and whatnot, so you level the playing field for the most part.
All this says to me is that their beer is overly filtered and processed, not unlike individually wrapped slices of Kraft cheese, which tend to feel and taste a little like sweet plastic
Well, I was thinking more along the lines of, "The Federation", not Ferengi specfically.. there's an episode of STtng where Picard runs across a guy who was cryogenic-frozen in the 20th century, and revived in theirs... when the guy inquires about his investments, Picard explains that the guy's savings are meaningless now.
Right up there with warp drive, universal translators, and a non currency based economy, apparently.
..and the Vulcan neck pinch. Why isn't there a real Vulcan neck pinch? Every other kid I knew when I was a little kid bought into that.
Oh,
Deflect it with a phase shifter? ;D
Besides that, I think the Blackberry keyboard (at least on my Bold) is the most horrendous little PoS I've ever had to use (work). The keys are tiny. It's just not meant for man thumbs. I'll take a soft keyboard over that any day.
You've obviously never had a large bird of prey, say a falcon or eagle attack you. Not that many people have, but I've seen what they can do with those huge talons, and they can be pretty scary indeed.
Just to tick you off, I'm going to rename it "Bob" spelled backwards! Take that!
"boB" ... has a nice look to it ..
Originally it was a nickname for the king of Babylon, one of Israel's enemies. But the passage was reinterpreted long afterward to refer to Satan.
True, but good luck convincing your average US Christian of that. Most have grown up hearing "lucifer=satan" their entire lives.
And he wouldn't be the first to get conflated with Ol' Scratch - there's Old Nick, Mephistopheles, Beelzebub, Baal, Cerunnos, Baphomet, and a load of other old pagan gods that got demonized. (Interestingly, they either got demonized as the devil or canonized as saints.. go figure)
How many of you immediately thought of Slaver Sunflowers?
(Ref: Larry Niven "Known Space" series. If you haven't read it, do...)
Holy crap, that takes me back. Those could be really useful for solar farms, if you could stop them from pointing at airborne objects on their own. OTOH, they make for a great "no fly" zone.
Oh god, don't give developers ideas like that!
May as well put it all together now,
What do all your base are belong to us
(I'm waiting on someone else to modify the "In soviet russia" and "I welcome our new overlords" memes..)
I saw the Star Trek reboot in Hong Kong.The cinema was packed. And I saw about 50,000 Chinese kids wearing ST t-shirts around town that week.
*blows smoke from fingertip 'gun barrel'*
This should be modded both Informative and Funny,.
Maybe it's hard to breathe because you recently died.
http://www.tmz.com/2013/04/16/richard-leparmentier-darth-vader-choking-victim-dead-dies-star-wars/
Sounding a little too much like the 9-11 era all over again (which was punctuated by the anthrax mailings) just on a much smaller scale, overall. Though I think it's likely to be totally domestic this time (including the "main event"; in this case, the Boston marathon).
does it matter?
Of course it matters. We need to know where it came from so the US Congress can pass a law against any of them landing in the US. Most of these Congressional "geniuses" don't believe that the Earth, Solar System, Universe, etc are billions of years old. They'll want to ban any physical evidence that can be used to challenge their ignorance.
This is a bizarre argument.
First, assuming that all liberals=enlightened and all conservatives=ignorant and superstitious, this would mean that:
1) The vast majority (thus able to ram their legislation through) of Congress is conservative. While it's true that currently Reps outnumber Dems overall, 289 vs 241,it's not all that wide a gap. Dems control the Senate.
2) All conservatives/ republicans are christian fundies and believe in the young earth theory. In fact it's only a very small fringe group of xtians that believe in that ridiculousness. Hell, not even Pat Robertson believes it.
The mentality between countries are enormous. For example Canada seems like the US but it isn't. Canada thinks the US are evil and sue-happy. They are very liberal because they don't want to become what the US is.
I agree with most everything you said, but this seems to indicate that the sue-happy demographic of the US is essentially conservative. It's not. Almost the entire US is sue-happy, regardless of affiliation.
.. but no-one's actually forcing you to watch Jersey Shore.
LOL!
How does their mantra go, "Gym, Tan, Laundry, Braaaainss..."
Well, if you are what you eat, that can't be right.
Your math is terrible. ;-p There are 86,400 seconds in a day. 1% of that 864 seconds, not 8,640. You calculated for 10%. 864/60 = 14.4. You'd only spend 14.4 minutes a day being wrong.
You may have confused Derren Brown with Danny Boyle... ;-P
But if not, I wanna see that Derren Brown special, he does some seriously cool stuff. You know you're a good magician/mentalist when some people think you're the "real deal", (even when you admit you're not). I guess that makes him the Kreskin of the times.
"Ummm.. please reincarnate me as a Koala bear."
They have the life, sleeping nearly all day and getting high on eucalyptus.