"Christmas" has an H in it, Mr Baldrick. And an R. Also an I and an S; also a T, an M, an A, and another S. Oh, and you've missed out the C at the beginning. Congratulations, Mr Baldrick! Something of a triumph, I think -- you must be the first person ever to spell `Christmas' without getting any of the letters right at all.
Oops... Wrong conversation. Let me try that again.
Congratulations, Mr. Coward! Something of a triumph, I think -- you must be the first person ever to write a GPL troll without getting any facts right at all.
No he doesn't have it backwards. The (campaigning part of the) NRA has specifically demanded crackdowns on the mentally ill in response to the latest shootings.
So you think its better to run extra software, waste more ram, cpu and storage space... so that you don't get something that iOS users just aren't going to get in the first place?
But what if I don't _want_ a misplaced sense of security based on faulty assumptions?
You utterly fucking fail at understanding security. [...] The only known threats on iOS devices have come to jailbroken phones and the jailbreaks themselves.
And that's not even considering threatsthatcomefromAppleitself, without any need to install apps or change settings. Something magical happens and things just work.
Until then [I] just make it obvious [I'm] nothing more than a fanboy.
Of course, since I am also the sole owner and employee of a small business which acts as a supplier to the company which I am CEO of, and I have approved over $2,000,000 in annual retainer fees being paid to it, I am quite happy to accept a drop of my salary to $1 a year.
It shows how much I truly care about the lowest paid employee in this company.
"You will be looking at either a back-lit screen or a book--we won't tell you which until after the study--and then we will ask you questions and examine your eyes to determine the effects."
I take it you haven't actually seen a real e-book reader. They don't use back-lit screens, for all of the reasons given in this thread.
And its a DAMN good thing that the dimwit "will of the masses" is not involved in the vast majority of things the government does, because the will of the masses is both ignorant and easily controlled. In fact, IMO, the majority of the problem we've got with the federal government today stems from the fact that the separation between the will of the people and the federal government has eroded over time. Instead of good people being elected, the slime balls who can most effectively sway the opinion of the ignorant masses gets elected -- and then has to spend their time playing politics to keep that position.
So the only problem with democracy is that the people are allowed to vote. Take that away and you can accomplish anything -- even making the trains run on time.
Well, this is true, but wasn't the aeroplane, telephone, radio, computer, microwave, steam engine, train, electric motor, light bulb, antibiotics, refrigerator, liquid fueled rocket etc. invented by white middle/upper class males born in the US and UK? Didn't various other types white middle/upper class males also invent the helicopter, auto mobile, internal combustion engine, jet engine and nuclear power? Weren't gunpowder, the printing press, solid fueled rockets, the compass and paper invented Chinese middle/upper class males, who also score highly on these tests?
Nope, all a sexist, racist and classist conspiracy.
Are you trying to suggest that the inventors of gunpowder (Tang dynasty, 9th century) scored highly on exactly the same IQ test that the inventor of the microwave oven (Percy Spencer, 1945) did?
The governor of Tennessee flat out stated he could have done a better job setting up a state sight, which he thought was a good idea, but refused to do so.
The original title, Satellite Orbital Deployer / Object Flinging Foundry, was found to be too similar to mission commander S. Baldrick's first name and had to be changed at the last minute.
And then the bot pretending to be a 10 year old girl will have the bot pretending to be a creepy old man arrested by bots pretending to be the FBI.
Fortunately, a bot pretending to be a lawyer will pretend to defend it when it pretends to go to trial before a bot pretending to be a judge and a jury of twelve bots pretending to be its peers.
When it is all finished other bots will have something to pretend to talk about while pretending to chat for years to come.
"You're it."
"Now you are the one who is it."
"Understood."
"Well, I've got to hand it to you, Seymour: this no touching policy has created the perfect distraction-free environment, thus preparing the children for permanent positions in tomorrow's mills and processing facilities. Hah!
"Best of all, with less than a minute to go before I leave, absolutely nothing has gone wrong --"
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And Finagle's Law states that anyone trying to explain the difference between it and Murphy's Law will get it wrong.
"Christmas" has an H in it, Mr Baldrick. And an R. Also an I and an S; also a T, an M, an A, and another S. Oh, and you've missed out the C at the beginning. Congratulations, Mr Baldrick! Something of a triumph, I think -- you must be the first person ever to spell `Christmas' without getting any of the letters right at all.
Oops... Wrong conversation. Let me try that again.
Congratulations, Mr. Coward! Something of a triumph, I think -- you must be the first person ever to write a GPL troll without getting any facts right at all.
"So an obvious solution is for a country to spend more on healthcare."
If that's the case then the USA must be the greatest country in the world.
The US is the world's largest consumer.
It's not nice to tease them about their weight.
CONGRESS MAKES THE FUCKING DECISIONS.
So it wasn't Clinton's fault at all. Congress was making those decisions for him.
Why was that fact not included in the Starr report?
No he doesn't have it backwards. The (campaigning part of the) NRA has specifically demanded crackdowns on the mentally ill in response to the latest shootings.
That's good thinking on their part. The last thing the NRA wants is for someone who has long, public conversations with imaginary friends to have a gun.
Know how many people get viruses or malware on their iPhone (without jailbreaking) ... 0.
Looks like you don't know enough people. It has been done, without jailbreaking, and we only know because the developers publicized that fact themselves.. If you want to keep the same answer, perhaps you could rephrase the question as "How many times that Apple admit that they served up viruses or malware in their App Store?"
So you think its better to run extra software, waste more ram, cpu and storage space ... so that you don't get something that iOS users just aren't going to get in the first place?
But what if I don't _want_ a misplaced sense of security based on faulty assumptions?
You utterly fucking fail at understanding security. [...] The only known threats on iOS devices have come to jailbroken phones and the jailbreaks themselves.
It ain't just a river in Egypt.
And that's not even considering threats that come from Apple itself, without any need to install apps or change settings. Something magical happens and things just work.
Until then [I] just make it obvious [I'm] nothing more than a fanboy.
No argument here.
Whereas the Nokia 1011 has 0% of all mobile malware. Clearly it uses a superior operating system than any of its more modern competitors.
Of course, since I am also the sole owner and employee of a small business which acts as a supplier to the company which I am CEO of, and I have approved over $2,000,000 in annual retainer fees being paid to it, I am quite happy to accept a drop of my salary to $1 a year.
It shows how much I truly care about the lowest paid employee in this company.
That's right. When you burning books at the library it doesn't smell as bad.
"You will be looking at either a back-lit screen or a book--we won't tell you which until after the study--and then we will ask you questions and examine your eyes to determine the effects."
I take it you haven't actually seen a real e-book reader. They don't use back-lit screens, for all of the reasons given in this thread.
Good idea. You could turn up the noise level to defeat just about anything, and then call it The Cone Of Silence.
Who could possibly object to that?
And its a DAMN good thing that the dimwit "will of the masses" is not involved in the vast majority of things the government does, because the will of the masses is both ignorant and easily controlled. In fact, IMO, the majority of the problem we've got with the federal government today stems from the fact that the separation between the will of the people and the federal government has eroded over time. Instead of good people being elected, the slime balls who can most effectively sway the opinion of the ignorant masses gets elected -- and then has to spend their time playing politics to keep that position.
So the only problem with democracy is that the people are allowed to vote. Take that away and you can accomplish anything -- even making the trains run on time.
Perhaps you just misunderstand what the job that they have done well is.
Well, this is true, but wasn't the aeroplane, telephone, radio, computer, microwave, steam engine, train, electric motor, light bulb, antibiotics, refrigerator, liquid fueled rocket etc. invented by white middle/upper class males born in the US and UK? Didn't various other types white middle/upper class males also invent the helicopter, auto mobile, internal combustion engine, jet engine and nuclear power? Weren't gunpowder, the printing press, solid fueled rockets, the compass and paper invented Chinese middle/upper class males, who also score highly on these tests?
Nope, all a sexist, racist and classist conspiracy.
Are you trying to suggest that the inventors of gunpowder (Tang dynasty, 9th century) scored highly on exactly the same IQ test that the inventor of the microwave oven (Percy Spencer, 1945) did?
That would be quite the long running conspiracy.
The governor of Tennessee flat out stated he could have done a better job setting up a state sight, which he thought was a good idea, but refused to do so.
Why? Politics.
Or perhaps it was spelling.
My 70 year old professor been a cyborg for the last 20 years...
That might explain why he gets so nervous around that solid gold award for mathematics.
I don't see how you can get the procedure to cost $6 mio.
You may want to look up popular usage of the word 'Bionic' some time.
I think my standard "rescue our failed project" proposal applies here.
"In situations like this, I usually recommend arson."
The original title, Satellite Orbital Deployer / Object Flinging Foundry, was found to be too similar to mission commander S. Baldrick's first name and had to be changed at the last minute.
And then the bot pretending to be a 10 year old girl will have the bot pretending to be a creepy old man arrested by bots pretending to be the FBI.
Fortunately, a bot pretending to be a lawyer will pretend to defend it when it pretends to go to trial before a bot pretending to be a judge and a jury of twelve bots pretending to be its peers.
When it is all finished other bots will have something to pretend to talk about while pretending to chat for years to come.
I think Mr. Spock can answer your question.
Well, if you're so smart, what do _you_ think the turtle's gender is?
It depends on what the meaning of the word "for" is.
I know I have heard this before...
"You're it."
"Now you are the one who is it."
"Understood."
"Well, I've got to hand it to you, Seymour: this no touching policy has created the perfect distraction-free environment, thus preparing the children for permanent positions in tomorrow's mills and processing facilities. Hah!
"Best of all, with less than a minute to go before I leave, absolutely nothing has gone wrong --"