I knew it: Quantum physics and statistics are insanity.
The majority is always sane. That's what sane means.
The majority also has trouble understanding any physics more complicated than "gravity makes things go down" and, if the popularity of lotteries is any indication, isn't too good at subjects like statistics and probability either.
Therefore having an understanding of quantum physics and statistics means that you are, by definition, insane.
Next week we will discuss the relation between mental health and being able to read octal.
A new good guy is sent in from the BPRD to reign in our uncontrollable hero
While he's at it can he also rein in the use of that word? Or can we also look forward to a rain of terror followed by a veil of tears and, when worse comes to worse, a damp squid?
The story is just background for what actually is important news - namely that there could be precedent in the UK for holding news organizations accountable for publishing second hand information without fact checking.
Now if only there was also some way to hold the government in the UK accountable for passing laws without fact checking, then you'd be on to something.
...if it weren't for those pesky laws of Thermodynamics!
Okay, it's not a perpetual motion machine but the article glosses over or completely ignores a few important details about his ultra-secret process, like just how much energy is required to produce and refine this stuff. He could make the nicest bio-diesel around, but if it takes fire barrels of oil just to make one barrel of it then he's going to have some troubles making his power plant work.
"Our biggest problem is that we are too good to be true"
Yup, that would be one way of putting it. I'd be happy to see this project succeed, but it has been tried before and always run into the same problems.
tfa says it burns without generating any heat. i'll be taking a bath in this stuff every night, setting myself on fire, and running around the block screaming. i think the neighbors will get a real kick out of it.
Congratulations, you've just described something called 'alcohol'. Your neighbours already get a kick out of seeing you run around the block screaming after drinking a bathtub full of it.
It was very precise, but just had a way to go in being accurate.
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You could always read about exactly that in the TrueCrypt FAQ, or jump directly to the documentation on Traveller Mode. Other people have thought of this sort of thing before, you know.
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I have no hidden volume. I use truecrypt as a simple and easy way to keep my clients personal data secure.
No, I'm quite positive that you do have a hidden volume. It's where you're storing all of your terrorist secrets, and unless you reveal the password then this ballpeen hammer has a date with your fingers.
Still don't want to talk? Maybe you just need a little more electricity.
We'll stop when you are able to prove to the nice men who are protecting your country that you _don't_ have a hidden encrypted partition, and then they will let you go.
"The proof of the pudding is in the eating." (Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605)
Here "proof" is used in the sense of "test", so the phrase states that you have to eat the pudding to know how it tastes. The corrupted form of that phrase, "the proof is in the pudding", while not uncommon, is complete nonsense.
"So, would you like to trade your existing internet connection for a shiny connection that does exactly the same thing, only a little faster and costs five times as much?"
It's amazing how many people don't seem to think that that's a great deal.
My DSL service is $60/month for 20 down/1 up. $30/month gets you 3 down/1 up. I haven't even SEEN 256k advertised [...]
Ah. I think I see your problem there. You're looking at _advertised_ speeds, so naturally you would think that you were getting more than 256k. Try doing some objective speed tests and see how much of those twenty megabits you're paying for actually exist.
I'm sure that once you present your data to your ISP they will be happy to offer you a refund on the excess which they have been charging you for all this time.
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And two O's in Roloxx. You know it's the real thing because the dial on the watch face goes up to eleven.
You just need to capture people's interest.
How about calling the program "Mars Needs Urine"?
The majority is always sane. That's what sane means.
The majority also has trouble understanding any physics more complicated than "gravity makes things go down" and, if the popularity of lotteries is any indication, isn't too good at subjects like statistics and probability either.
Therefore having an understanding of quantum physics and statistics means that you are, by definition, insane.
Next week we will discuss the relation between mental health and being able to read octal.
To say nothing of the obvious error in step 4.
While he's at it can he also rein in the use of that word? Or can we also look forward to a rain of terror followed by a veil of tears and, when worse comes to worse, a damp squid?
Just anonymize it a bit. Translating into lolcode would be a good start.
HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!"
KTHXBYE
That's "They know it's the game that counts, not when they run out of money to pay everybody".
Not every studio has infinitely deep pockets.
Now if only there was also some way to hold the government in the UK accountable for passing laws without fact checking, then you'd be on to something.
Those tabloids are the best investigative reporting on the planet.
But go ahead, read the New York Times if you want. They get lucky sometimes.
True. And a lot of people here are attacked by ninjas on a regular basis, too.
All this and yet my suggestion that it was okay to drink a bathtub full of alcohol went completely unchallenged.
Sometimes I wonder about you people.
...if it weren't for those pesky laws of Thermodynamics!
Okay, it's not a perpetual motion machine but the article glosses over or completely ignores a few important details about his ultra-secret process, like just how much energy is required to produce and refine this stuff. He could make the nicest bio-diesel around, but if it takes fire barrels of oil just to make one barrel of it then he's going to have some troubles making his power plant work.
Yup, that would be one way of putting it. I'd be happy to see this project succeed, but it has been tried before and always run into the same problems.
Congratulations, you've just described something called 'alcohol'. Your neighbours already get a kick out of seeing you run around the block screaming after drinking a bathtub full of it.
Too right. You type "emerge configuremakemakeinstall" instead, and that's totally different.
I'll take "Things People Who Shop At Best Buy Do" for $200, Alex.
It was very precise, but just had a way to go in being accurate.
You could always read about exactly that in the TrueCrypt FAQ, or jump directly to the documentation on Traveller Mode. Other people have thought of this sort of thing before, you know.
No, I'm quite positive that you do have a hidden volume. It's where you're storing all of your terrorist secrets, and unless you reveal the password then this ballpeen hammer has a date with your fingers.
Still don't want to talk? Maybe you just need a little more electricity.
We'll stop when you are able to prove to the nice men who are protecting your country that you _don't_ have a hidden encrypted partition, and then they will let you go.
"The proof of the pudding is in the eating." (Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605)
Here "proof" is used in the sense of "test", so the phrase states that you have to eat the pudding to know how it tastes. The corrupted form of that phrase, "the proof is in the pudding", while not uncommon, is complete nonsense.
Now you know.
Scam. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
You appear to be engaged in a business that is based on lying to prospective customers. How can that not be a scam?
Links like that one work a lot better when they don't have trailing slashes.
"So, would you like to trade your existing internet connection for a shiny connection that does exactly the same thing, only a little faster and costs five times as much?"
It's amazing how many people don't seem to think that that's a great deal.
Come back Zinc! Come back!
Ah. I think I see your problem there. You're looking at _advertised_ speeds, so naturally you would think that you were getting more than 256k. Try doing some objective speed tests and see how much of those twenty megabits you're paying for actually exist.
I'm sure that once you present your data to your ISP they will be happy to offer you a refund on the excess which they have been charging you for all this time.
Between all the Diablos and World of Warcraft we're probably looking at "Wirt's Fifth Leg" by now.