Thanksgiving is always the last Thursday in November.
No, it's not. It's the 4th Thursday in November. Usually that is the last, but occasionally there are 5 Thursdays (like there was in 2007). Thanksgiving will always fall in the range of Nov 22nd to 28th.
Lol. What an idiot. Mong is a slang word having a number of meanings, none of them racist or having ANYTHING whatsoever to do with Mongols. The only way in which it is at all politically incorrect is that it short for Mongolism, which is another name for Down Syndrome. That, taken with the word mong's general meaning of retarded/idiotic/etc, is probably offensive to some people (essentially saying Down Syndrome babies are retardeds). You might have figured this out if you had even bothered to read the wiki page you linked to, since it had a link to the Down Syndrome page at the very top.
Do not imagine for a second that the people who create images of Michelle Obama that make her look more monkey like are doing it simply because they noticed the striking similarity between humans and monkeys. They are doing it because they are racists.
I suppose it was racism that drove them to turn the photo of Sara Palin into an ape, right? Yep...those fucking racists, always using derogatory terms like "monkey" whenever they see a white person.
You did get one thing right....racism is still alive in this country/world, and unfortunately it will always be there, especially when people like you are right there to jump on the bandwagon and cry "racism" before you've even seen what has really happened. Good job stirring the pot up for no good reason.
If you think it's bad that you read it as "Magneto", just think how I feel. I read it properly as "Magento" and thought "good job, editors***...you misspelled Magneto".
Give the underdog with twenty times the annual sales a chance! Preserve competition!
The question is how much profit, though. Wal-Mart operates a huge number of brick-and-mortar stores.
Did I read that right? Are you asking how much profit Walmart makes? It almost sounds like you are suggesting maybe their margins are so slim, they aren't really getting rich over it. Take a look at the richest people. Jeff Bezos is #68. The Walton family is #11, #12, #13, and #14 (as a family combined, they're richer than Bill Gates). Yeah, they've certainly got a bit of profit there.
can't sort by prices or anything else unless you pick a department. Is a GPS in electronics or outdoor goods? You have to pick one.
While your general complaint may be right, you picked a bad example. Go to amazon, search for "GPS", choose "Amazon GPS & Navigation Store" from the search results, then pick a group to look at (ex: "All Vehicle GPS") and then you can sort by price.:-)
1) Apparently you failed to comprehend that Bluefin tuna is the type most commonly used in sushi/sashimi. That, by its very definition, means that yes, most people obviously are willing to pay for it
In that article, a guy whose "family has been bidding on top quality bluefin for seven generations" bought a "450 pounder for $8,500". Thats only $20 a pound (minus whatever inedible parts there are), which is only a bit higher than a good steak. And that's only for a "top quality" bluefin.
And remember, even with a high price, sushi/sashimi is often an indulgence food, and it is usually sold in very small portions. If you put an ounce of bluefin on it (which is probably around a typical portion) and then charge $5 for it (not a ridiculous price in that market), that's $80 from a $20 pound of the tuna (plus a small cost for the other ingredients) which is a pretty respectable markup.
Again, that was high end bluefin. Looking at average bluefin, here's an article from last week quoting bluefin at $6-9/lb
If only there were an ocean closer to New York. It would be even better if that ocean had tuna of its own. Best of all would be if the tuna there was one of the most delicious varieties around, such that it was the most used tuna for sushi/sashimi. Wow...one can dream.
Exactly. If this sort of thing is every possible, it won't so much the thawing part that we need to perfect but the freezing process. This would be like holding onto corrupt data in case we ever come up with a better error correction algorithm. Chances are it will be pointless because the better algorithm would have to have been applied before the problem occurred.
Lol. Look...I'm an atheist. I'm sure about that. I have no questions. I don't need your church pastor to answer any questions. I have none. It was a hypothetical question, and I was just answeing it hypothetically. If somebody were to say "what if you suddenly discovered that the world was in fact square and not round" and then you answered the question just for fun and amusement, does that mean you suddenly are uncertain about your belief in a round Earth?
Everything to gain from Christianity? Sorry, but I had that crap pushed on me the first 18 years of my life, and it took me the next 10 years to finally come to the realization of what my beliefs really were. I've heard all of the stories, read the book front to back, and heard more interpretations than I care to remember. The stories were fascinating when I was 10, but as I got older and thought about it more, and really started to critically analyze it, the less sense any of it made, and the more I realized it was all just a work of fiction.
Or you had every intention to repent that night when you got home but didn't plan on the bus which hit you or that stray bullet to the head?
Wow, now that's REALLY procrastination. "Oh my....I've been wrong ALL these years. There actually IS a God. Well, I need to fix this. I need to make things right by him........buuuuut....I'm a little busy right now. Maybe my secretary can work in an appointment with Him....maybe 6:30 ish?"
In response to everything else you said, even if I realize it before I die but for some reason God turns me away, then the second of my 2 scenarios still applies.
Lol, yeah well most likely in a 1,000 years you'll be saying, "Crap! It was real - all of it was in that Book! Now what do I do?"
If I'm alive in 1000 years, I'll be happy to have lived so long (assuming it wasn't 900 years bedridden), and if I find I'm wrong (I'm currently an atheist), I'll gladly change my ways (God says you only need to repent before death to be accepted in to the kingdom of Heaven).
On the other hand, if I'm dead before I realize I was wrong, then either: 1) I'm in heaven. I'd like to think this it what would happen. I live a good life (I'm kind, honest, generous, fair, etc), and I'd like to think God is more interested in rewarding good people that in stroking his ego over not being worshipped (however, the bible gives evidence to suggest that may not be the case). 2) I'm in hell (or someplace else that's not heaven). If I end up there, despite the type of life I lived, then I'd have to think that heaven was run by a spiteful and vengeful God on a power trip. He'd be a brutal dictator, punishing anyone who doesn't do exactly as he says. He's more concerned about being treated with reverence than he is that his people are treated well. In that case, despite the popular depiction, I'd have to believe the place I ended up was the better option.
I routinely use my live account on 2 different consoles. They can't just cancel an account because it was used on a modded system. If I went to my friends house and logged onto his 360, and then they cancelled my account because he modded his system without me knowing, I'd be pissed.
What? That's terrible. Considering the many horror stories out there about damaged disk from moving the system while it's powered on, I've made it a habit to copy games to the hard drive before playing them. When my friend comes over with his daughter, sometimes she'll walk up and mess with the 360 before we can stop her. At least with the disc ripped to the drive, our only risk is her hitting the power or eject button (I'm not worried about her moving it enough to damage the spinning hard drive).
It's not a.01 increment. In myth, the 0. denotes that this is still what they consider prerelease (ie: not ready for the mass market), and beyond that it's just version numbers. This is version 22, previous version was 21. The numbering works perfectly fine for me.
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For OTA signals, sure. If you're on cable, ClearQAM is almost dead.
Uhhh, perhaps you misread, but he was talking about the HD-PVR. It does component input capture. Encryption doesn't matter at that point, as your cable box has already decrypted it.
No, not really. If anything, it would be closer to a tsunami than a flood. It would be a enormous amount of water moving very rapidly...enough to transform the landscape, doing way more damage than a tsunami. Further more, a tsunami is the water being pushed by displacement, where as these type of events have a massive surge of water moving under the force of gravity (much like an avalanche does).
I suppose the definition of flood does cover such an event, but it's on a scale much larger than what we typically think of as a flood. Typically a flood is associated with rising water levels, where as that's not the case with this sort of thing.
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>>Lives were at risk due to the lack of efficiency
>What part of "money" did you not understand?
I guess I've always had this silly idea in my head that "patient life at risk" = "hospital at risk of losing money in lawsuit".
Thanksgiving is always the last Thursday in November.
No, it's not. It's the 4th Thursday in November. Usually that is the last, but occasionally there are 5 Thursdays (like there was in 2007). Thanksgiving will always fall in the range of Nov 22nd to 28th.
Lol. What an idiot. Mong is a slang word having a number of meanings, none of them racist or having ANYTHING whatsoever to do with Mongols. The only way in which it is at all politically incorrect is that it short for Mongolism, which is another name for Down Syndrome. That, taken with the word mong's general meaning of retarded/idiotic/etc, is probably offensive to some people (essentially saying Down Syndrome babies are retardeds). You might have figured this out if you had even bothered to read the wiki page you linked to, since it had a link to the Down Syndrome page at the very top.
Do not imagine for a second that the people who create images of Michelle Obama that make her look more monkey like are doing it simply because they noticed the striking similarity between humans and monkeys. They are doing it because they are racists.
They are doing it because they are racists? It appears the photo came from celebrityapes.com, and they did this same treatment to a number of famous people. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/awful-links/celebrity-apes.php
I suppose it was racism that drove them to turn the photo of Sara Palin into an ape, right? Yep...those fucking racists, always using derogatory terms like "monkey" whenever they see a white person.
You did get one thing right....racism is still alive in this country/world, and unfortunately it will always be there, especially when people like you are right there to jump on the bandwagon and cry "racism" before you've even seen what has really happened. Good job stirring the pot up for no good reason.
If you think it's bad that you read it as "Magneto", just think how I feel. I read it properly as "Magento" and thought "good job, editors***...you misspelled Magneto".
***no, I'm not new here.
Give the underdog with twenty times the annual sales a chance! Preserve competition!
The question is how much profit, though. Wal-Mart operates a huge number of brick-and-mortar stores.
Did I read that right? Are you asking how much profit Walmart makes? It almost sounds like you are suggesting maybe their margins are so slim, they aren't really getting rich over it. Take a look at the richest people. Jeff Bezos is #68. The Walton family is #11, #12, #13, and #14 (as a family combined, they're richer than Bill Gates). Yeah, they've certainly got a bit of profit there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_billionaires_(2009)
can't sort by prices or anything else unless you pick a department. Is a GPS in electronics or outdoor goods? You have to pick one.
While your general complaint may be right, you picked a bad example. Go to amazon, search for "GPS", choose "Amazon GPS & Navigation Store" from the search results, then pick a group to look at (ex: "All Vehicle GPS") and then you can sort by price. :-)
1) Apparently you failed to comprehend that Bluefin tuna is the type most commonly used in sushi/sashimi. That, by its very definition, means that yes, most people obviously are willing to pay for it
2) $300/lbs? What? Where the fuck did you make up that bullshit from? Here's a 60 minutes article from just over a year ago.:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/11/60minutes/main3700644.shtml
In that article, a guy whose "family has been bidding on top quality bluefin for seven generations" bought a "450 pounder for $8,500". Thats only $20 a pound (minus whatever inedible parts there are), which is only a bit higher than a good steak. And that's only for a "top quality" bluefin.
And remember, even with a high price, sushi/sashimi is often an indulgence food, and it is usually sold in very small portions. If you put an ounce of bluefin on it (which is probably around a typical portion) and then charge $5 for it (not a ridiculous price in that market), that's $80 from a $20 pound of the tuna (plus a small cost for the other ingredients) which is a pretty respectable markup.
Again, that was high end bluefin. Looking at average bluefin, here's an article from last week quoting bluefin at $6-9/lb
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091112/NEWS/911120322/-1/NEWSMAP
If only there were an ocean closer to New York. It would be even better if that ocean had tuna of its own. Best of all would be if the tuna there was one of the most delicious varieties around, such that it was the most used tuna for sushi/sashimi. Wow...one can dream.
Exactly. If this sort of thing is every possible, it won't so much the thawing part that we need to perfect but the freezing process. This would be like holding onto corrupt data in case we ever come up with a better error correction algorithm. Chances are it will be pointless because the better algorithm would have to have been applied before the problem occurred.
Lol. Look...I'm an atheist. I'm sure about that. I have no questions. I don't need your church pastor to answer any questions. I have none. It was a hypothetical question, and I was just answeing it hypothetically. If somebody were to say "what if you suddenly discovered that the world was in fact square and not round" and then you answered the question just for fun and amusement, does that mean you suddenly are uncertain about your belief in a round Earth?
Everything to gain from Christianity? Sorry, but I had that crap pushed on me the first 18 years of my life, and it took me the next 10 years to finally come to the realization of what my beliefs really were. I've heard all of the stories, read the book front to back, and heard more interpretations than I care to remember. The stories were fascinating when I was 10, but as I got older and thought about it more, and really started to critically analyze it, the less sense any of it made, and the more I realized it was all just a work of fiction.
The Book of Mormon?
No, I'm very certain in my stance (and no, agnostic doesn't apply). However, I'm fully capable of playing hypothetical games.
Wow, now that's REALLY procrastination. "Oh my....I've been wrong ALL these years. There actually IS a God. Well, I need to fix this. I need to make things right by him........buuuuut....I'm a little busy right now. Maybe my secretary can work in an appointment with Him....maybe 6:30 ish?"
In response to everything else you said, even if I realize it before I die but for some reason God turns me away, then the second of my 2 scenarios still applies.
Lol, yeah well most likely in a 1,000 years you'll be saying, "Crap! It was real - all of it was in that Book! Now what do I do?"
If I'm alive in 1000 years, I'll be happy to have lived so long (assuming it wasn't 900 years bedridden), and if I find I'm wrong (I'm currently an atheist), I'll gladly change my ways (God says you only need to repent before death to be accepted in to the kingdom of Heaven).
On the other hand, if I'm dead before I realize I was wrong, then either:
1) I'm in heaven. I'd like to think this it what would happen. I live a good life (I'm kind, honest, generous, fair, etc), and I'd like to think God is more interested in rewarding good people that in stroking his ego over not being worshipped (however, the bible gives evidence to suggest that may not be the case).
2) I'm in hell (or someplace else that's not heaven). If I end up there, despite the type of life I lived, then I'd have to think that heaven was run by a spiteful and vengeful God on a power trip. He'd be a brutal dictator, punishing anyone who doesn't do exactly as he says. He's more concerned about being treated with reverence than he is that his people are treated well. In that case, despite the popular depiction, I'd have to believe the place I ended up was the better option.
Memory implants, to prevent you from remembering exactly what you've seen.
There are some that would argue this isn't such a bad idea.
I routinely use my live account on 2 different consoles. They can't just cancel an account because it was used on a modded system. If I went to my friends house and logged onto his 360, and then they cancelled my account because he modded his system without me knowing, I'd be pissed.
What? That's terrible. Considering the many horror stories out there about damaged disk from moving the system while it's powered on, I've made it a habit to copy games to the hard drive before playing them. When my friend comes over with his daughter, sometimes she'll walk up and mess with the 360 before we can stop her. At least with the disc ripped to the drive, our only risk is her hitting the power or eject button (I'm not worried about her moving it enough to damage the spinning hard drive).
It's not a .01 increment. In myth, the 0. denotes that this is still what they consider prerelease (ie: not ready for the mass market), and beyond that it's just version numbers. This is version 22, previous version was 21. The numbering works perfectly fine for me.
For OTA signals, sure. If you're on cable, ClearQAM is almost dead.
Uhhh, perhaps you misread, but he was talking about the HD-PVR. It does component input capture. Encryption doesn't matter at that point, as your cable box has already decrypted it.
Well, we already took the land from the "Indians", so why not the Ocean too?
avalanche of water = flood?
No, not really. If anything, it would be closer to a tsunami than a flood. It would be a enormous amount of water moving very rapidly...enough to transform the landscape, doing way more damage than a tsunami. Further more, a tsunami is the water being pushed by displacement, where as these type of events have a massive surge of water moving under the force of gravity (much like an avalanche does).
I suppose the definition of flood does cover such an event, but it's on a scale much larger than what we typically think of as a flood. Typically a flood is associated with rising water levels, where as that's not the case with this sort of thing.
Your joke would have been funnier if you said you were using RAID 0 for your backup.
Except for the calls to their ISPs...
I have VOIP, you insensitive clod!
No story to speak of. You just broke the rules! Ssh.
DELETE! DELETE! Oh crap...DAMN YOU SLASHDOT!!!!