Rather like people pointing out the 21st century began on Jan 1, 2001, not on Jan 1, 2000
I have a simple comeback for this. I ask them to count to ten, on their fingers if they need help. So they go 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10, happy ? Then I ask them to count 10 more, and then go 11, 12... and I stop them "See, you started at 11, same thing with centuries and millenia, they start at 1". Unless you are a C programmer.
Should we force employers to hire people with a criminal record?
No, but you shouldn't yell it from the rooftop. I'm astounded that in the US, once you have a criminal record, you hardly can be hired anywhere. In Europe, once you've paid your dues to society (jail), you are supposed to go back to normal, meaning employers are NOT allowed to ask for your criminal record, and you are not supposed to tell them, except in a few cases (working with kids, national security...), and even then, it depends on what you've done.
Actually one proposal was to put the waste in safe but rather standard containers right in front of the white house / Capitol so that the politicians wouldn't forget about them. You bet your ass that they would be inspected and well taken care of.
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There's dumping and dumping. If you put it in a drilled hole in a subduction zone, it won't ever come out. Or in the lava of volcanos in millions of years. But of course it's not politically correct because this solution involves putting it either in international waters or in front of countries who are not responsible for the radioactive waste.
Like they say, stop paying your taxes and see how much time it takes you to figure out that _your_ property has actually been the state's property all along, just loaned to you.
this makes the problem even worse as he continues to get negative results, test after test despite being infected.
Is this the case ? Or only the 1st time right after contamination when the body hasn't produced enough antibodies yet ? Can someone be (1) a carrier and (2) a spreader while (3) having no antibodies ?
Do you really think ads are that evil? Even billboard ads?
Abso-fucking-lutely. It's either one of those: either they work or they don't.. If they work, it means that they attract your attention and disturb you from driving; hence they make driving unsafe and they should be banned. If they don't work, then why keep those ugly things ? In both cases, ban them.
I know this is a different and potentially interesting system, but I had a crazy physics professor decades ago who added an infrared lamp to his headlights and he would drive in the fog with IR goggles (IR is less diffused than normal light). What was scary is that he would turn off the normal lights to avoid glare, so nobody could see him come...
That would roughly be why I'm so contemptuous of anyone who isn't a professional stunt driver who thinks they can do better.
Yeah, I live in the mountains and I often see young idiots plowed into walls of snow or ditches with brand new car which they obviously borrowed from daddy and took for a spin. It often happens in the large parking lots of the ski stations early in the season, when it's the 1st snow and there's no reason for anybody to be there.
When I was in Texas there was a month of that. Well, 70F at night, but 99% humidity every night, and never dropped below about 75% humidity. A mere handful of old people died. Whoop de doo.
Remove air conditioning from this, because of a long power outage due to a storm (like right now farther north) or big economic downturns and you'll see the death toll... And all the texans fleeing what is basically a non-livable area !
I'm glad that there are movies that cater to varied interests, otherwise there would be only the lowest common denominator. Like my granpa said: "if everybody like the same thing, the whole world would be after your granma".
I did find lost in translation a tad boring but I did like it. And I could identify with it, having lived 15 years in various foreign countries. As for Tree of Life, it's not that I found it boring, it's that I found it banal. The entire movie is shot in over-exposure and low-angle, which gets old FAST. Also it tries to make mysterious what is a simple story of family abuse. The special effect of the universe are cheap fractal algos I used to run on my Oric 30 years ago. The whole movie is incredibly arrogant, from the title down, and it makes me angry that people don't see it.
I've asked for a refund because a movie sucked a handful of times, but I left before the end, otherwise that wouldn't be fair. When watching Tree of Life, I stood up to leave at the instant the movie finished out of the blue. I thought there was another 2 hours of mind killing boredom still in the pipe at that point, but it finished with no point, no purpose, no explanation and truckloads of banality. Most overrated movie EVER.
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There was a paper couple years ago by a biologist who basically said that exterminating mosquitoes wouldn't change much. His reasoning was that nothing eats mosquitoes: they are too small. They are less than 5% of a bat's diet. Although in the paper he didn't say anything about larval mosquitoes which I'd think are eaten by fish/frogs in much larger quantities than adult ones.
I think he has a point. In archeology, and even more so in anthropology, it seems that every new discovery invalidates or parallelizes the previous one. One example pisses me off: every >1Myo humanoid skeleton found is used to define a new branch of humanity (see 'flores'). You don't see this happen with other animals: if it looks like a coelacanth and it's been in a rock for 110 million years, then it's a coelacanth and they don't build bridges on it.
Interpretation of artifacts and symbols is even more crazy: on my desk I have a paper illustrated by 'the oldest human carving': it's a circle with a vertical line on it. Comment from the article: "the oldest vagina representation" ! Omg, as soon as they invented carving, they drew porn with it, right, just like the internet!!! But think that only a cuople thousand years later when have the insanely developed Chauvet paintings ! So something is off.
. Closer to home, when I read R. Graves as a teen I kept shaking my head at how naive it all was. Very poetic, insightful and interesting, sure, but a complete pipe dream nonetheless. I wasn't surprised to read later articles saying that it was basically either horse manure or bull shit.
As for earbuds falling out, you can make your own custom earbuds.
As for the pain after freezing skin: it comes back to normal if you use it regularly. It took me 6 months for the pain to go away each time I froze my toes. But for an ear, which you don't touch often, I don't know. You should try massaging it when your hands are not on the keyboard... C;-)
So when you come to Europe and have a beer at 18, it's perfectly all right that you be arrested on setting foot in the US if they saw your vacation photos on Facebook ?!? Cancun is gonna close shop.
Yeah, land of the free, free expression and all that, but use a plastic head shapped like the worst president in history and everybody is offended and running around in circle crying for their mother. GROW UP!
Could you develop a feint move that looks as though you are going for one thing but actually going for the other?
That's the 1st thing that came to my mind. You pull your hand out as a rock, then halfway out you switch to cissors and cut your opponent's paper. It wouldn't work against a human, but in this case it would. Cheating a cheater is no cheating at all.
I tried awesome a couple of years ago. I had 2 problems with it:
- with such a stupid name it's simply impossible to search google for any help. Do you think you'll get any meaningful result for "awesome left window split" ?!?
- there was simply NO explanation on how it worked whatsoever. When I asked on the mailing list, it was all like "Oh, just edit the config file with your choice of keys and associated actions". What, you mean no default config ? And if there is, where are they documented ? And what are those actions ? What are the possibilities ? It was all a big blank and I gave up within a few hours to go back to KDE.
How about a test for sociopathy (or whatever they're calling it now) before being declared fit to run for public office?
Very simple. If you want the job, you're a sociopath.
This was already known at the time of the Ancient Greeks. One famed philosopher stated that nobody who wants the job of public office should be allowed to have it.
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Rather like people pointing out the 21st century began on Jan 1, 2001, not on Jan 1, 2000
I have a simple comeback for this. I ask them to count to ten, on their fingers if they need help. So they go 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10, happy ? Then I ask them to count 10 more, and then go 11, 12... and I stop them "See, you started at 11, same thing with centuries and millenia, they start at 1". Unless you are a C programmer.
Should we force employers to hire people with a criminal record?
No, but you shouldn't yell it from the rooftop. I'm astounded that in the US, once you have a criminal record, you hardly can be hired anywhere. In Europe, once you've paid your dues to society (jail), you are supposed to go back to normal, meaning employers are NOT allowed to ask for your criminal record, and you are not supposed to tell them, except in a few cases (working with kids, national security...), and even then, it depends on what you've done.
Their video player hasn't been working on Linux for at least 2 years and they don't give a shit about it. Simply ignore them.
Just bury the waste in open containers!
Actually one proposal was to put the waste in safe but rather standard containers right in front of the white house / Capitol so that the politicians wouldn't forget about them. You bet your ass that they would be inspected and well taken care of.
There's dumping and dumping. If you put it in a drilled hole in a subduction zone, it won't ever come out. Or in the lava of volcanos in millions of years. But of course it's not politically correct because this solution involves putting it either in international waters or in front of countries who are not responsible for the radioactive waste.
Like they say, stop paying your taxes and see how much time it takes you to figure out that _your_ property has actually been the state's property all along, just loaned to you.
Try going into a computer shop this time next year. See if you can buy a new PC/Laptop without Windows 8
There are currently shops doing good business selling new PCs with XP. I'm sure there will still be around next year.
this makes the problem even worse as he continues to get negative results, test after test despite being infected.
Is this the case ? Or only the 1st time right after contamination when the body hasn't produced enough antibodies yet ? Can someone be (1) a carrier and (2) a spreader while (3) having no antibodies ?
Do you really think ads are that evil? Even billboard ads?
Abso-fucking-lutely. It's either one of those: either they work or they don't.. If they work, it means that they attract your attention and disturb you from driving; hence they make driving unsafe and they should be banned. If they don't work, then why keep those ugly things ? In both cases, ban them.
I know this is a different and potentially interesting system, but I had a crazy physics professor decades ago who added an infrared lamp to his headlights and he would drive in the fog with IR goggles (IR is less diffused than normal light). What was scary is that he would turn off the normal lights to avoid glare, so nobody could see him come...
That would roughly be why I'm so contemptuous of anyone who isn't a professional stunt driver who thinks they can do better.
Yeah, I live in the mountains and I often see young idiots plowed into walls of snow or ditches with brand new car which they obviously borrowed from daddy and took for a spin. It often happens in the large parking lots of the ski stations early in the season, when it's the 1st snow and there's no reason for anybody to be there.
When I was in Texas there was a month of that. Well, 70F at night, but 99% humidity every night, and never dropped below about 75% humidity. A mere handful of old people died. Whoop de doo.
Remove air conditioning from this, because of a long power outage due to a storm (like right now farther north) or big economic downturns and you'll see the death toll... And all the texans fleeing what is basically a non-livable area !
I'm glad that there are movies that cater to varied interests, otherwise there would be only the lowest common denominator. Like my granpa said: "if everybody like the same thing, the whole world would be after your granma".
I did find lost in translation a tad boring but I did like it. And I could identify with it, having lived 15 years in various foreign countries. As for Tree of Life, it's not that I found it boring, it's that I found it banal. The entire movie is shot in over-exposure and low-angle, which gets old FAST. Also it tries to make mysterious what is a simple story of family abuse. The special effect of the universe are cheap fractal algos I used to run on my Oric 30 years ago. The whole movie is incredibly arrogant, from the title down, and it makes me angry that people don't see it.
I've asked for a refund because a movie sucked a handful of times, but I left before the end, otherwise that wouldn't be fair. When watching Tree of Life, I stood up to leave at the instant the movie finished out of the blue. I thought there was another 2 hours of mind killing boredom still in the pipe at that point, but it finished with no point, no purpose, no explanation and truckloads of banality. Most overrated movie EVER.
There was a paper couple years ago by a biologist who basically said that exterminating mosquitoes wouldn't change much. His reasoning was that nothing eats mosquitoes: they are too small. They are less than 5% of a bat's diet. Although in the paper he didn't say anything about larval mosquitoes which I'd think are eaten by fish/frogs in much larger quantities than adult ones.
I think he has a point. In archeology, and even more so in anthropology, it seems that every new discovery invalidates or parallelizes the previous one. One example pisses me off: every >1Myo humanoid skeleton found is used to define a new branch of humanity (see 'flores'). You don't see this happen with other animals: if it looks like a coelacanth and it's been in a rock for 110 million years, then it's a coelacanth and they don't build bridges on it.
Interpretation of artifacts and symbols is even more crazy: on my desk I have a paper illustrated by 'the oldest human carving': it's a circle with a vertical line on it. Comment from the article: "the oldest vagina representation" ! Omg, as soon as they invented carving, they drew porn with it, right, just like the internet!!! But think that only a cuople thousand years later when have the insanely developed Chauvet paintings ! So something is off.
. Closer to home, when I read R. Graves as a teen I kept shaking my head at how naive it all was. Very poetic, insightful and interesting, sure, but a complete pipe dream nonetheless. I wasn't surprised to read later articles saying that it was basically either horse manure or bull shit.
Any post that has a sole purpose of inciting a FLAME WAR is a troll
Wouldn't that be flamebait ?
As for earbuds falling out, you can make your own custom earbuds. As for the pain after freezing skin: it comes back to normal if you use it regularly. It took me 6 months for the pain to go away each time I froze my toes. But for an ear, which you don't touch often, I don't know. You should try massaging it when your hands are not on the keyboard... C;-)
So when you come to Europe and have a beer at 18, it's perfectly all right that you be arrested on setting foot in the US if they saw your vacation photos on Facebook ?!? Cancun is gonna close shop.
...and the fact that nobody could spell it right !
Yeah, land of the free, free expression and all that, but use a plastic head shapped like the worst president in history and everybody is offended and running around in circle crying for their mother. GROW UP!
Could you develop a feint move that looks as though you are going for one thing but actually going for the other?
That's the 1st thing that came to my mind. You pull your hand out as a rock, then halfway out you switch to cissors and cut your opponent's paper. It wouldn't work against a human, but in this case it would. Cheating a cheater is no cheating at all.
I tried awesome a couple of years ago. I had 2 problems with it: - with such a stupid name it's simply impossible to search google for any help. Do you think you'll get any meaningful result for "awesome left window split" ?!? - there was simply NO explanation on how it worked whatsoever. When I asked on the mailing list, it was all like "Oh, just edit the config file with your choice of keys and associated actions". What, you mean no default config ? And if there is, where are they documented ? And what are those actions ? What are the possibilities ? It was all a big blank and I gave up within a few hours to go back to KDE.
Why not make it simply very low frequency that is unlikely to affect any marine life ? Like 1Hz or something.
How about a test for sociopathy (or whatever they're calling it now) before being declared fit to run for public office?
Very simple. If you want the job, you're a sociopath.
This was already known at the time of the Ancient Greeks. One famed philosopher stated that nobody who wants the job of public office should be allowed to have it.