That is your cerebellum and muscle memory kicking in. It is why you can walk and talk at the same time without having to think "left leg, right leg, left..". You have to do it a lot though to get it into your muscle memory though. Now try switching hands and playing it.;)
Curiously enough just imaginging doing something is mentally equivalent to actually doing it. If you trip up over a certain movement when actually performing you'll have the same problem when you visualize yourself doing it.
I was bummed when I had to get a new license plate and I went from my old one, which had a simple mathematical formula and a fun abbreviation to remember it by, to my current one which is gibberish.
I hate to break it to you but you don't need 50 years to memorize your address or phone number.
So when these people have their main gadget fail (as they all eventually do) I hope for their sake it happens at home, otherwise they'll just wander the streets like amnesiacs not knowing where they live.
"Maybe when indoor plumbing was invented, some academics wondered if not having to run outside in the middle of the night...would lead to a nation full of morbidly obese people that can no longer fit out their doors?"
But we are a nation of obese people. Maybe you've discovered the reason!
My solution to cleaning up is to not wait until I'm finished and to resuse things. I clean up one pot while another is cooking and will reuse the same pot or pan to cook something else (especially if they are going into the same dish) if possible. I usually end up with an easy cleaning job at the end.
The worst offenders are baking and broiling pans. Cleaning those will give you exercise.
Isn't corn used for cattle feed? Probably one of the reasons it is such a popular crop. Though I've read that corn doesn't make the best feed for cattle in the end, just cheap and fast.
"'passive fructose/sugar consumption'. In other words, if you smoke in an enclosed space, it directly affects me. If you eat crap, it doesn't."
I disagree. I took a bus ride home across the state once when I was in college. This obese woman sat down next to me (she was nice, she apologized first) and literally crushed the wind out of me for the rest of the trip. That falls under 2nd hand eating.
But if you try to kill off those subsidies where they aren't needed they'll respond by pulling out sad images of some guy in overalls with his family. They'll make it into a plea for the poor suffering family farm. You won't see images of (for examples) ADM or Monsanto of course, the ones who truly benefit from the government's teat.
"yuppies will have no place to go to get their overpriced fruits and vegetables!"
On a side note, I like to buy fruits & veggies from Whole Foods not because I'm some yuppie (even though I see working class folks there) but because the quality of their produce is much better than the regular supermarkets. I'm willing to pay a bit more for them because when I get them home I don't end up with produce that immediately goes bad or is completely flavorless.
If you consider privacy to be a trivial matter then why is the removal of privacy one of the first things done to prisoners, cult members, or hostages to break them down mentally? Forcing someone to strip is a form of this (that is why genitalia is referred to as "privates", right?). By removing privacy you break down the wall between a person's sense of self and those around him. You make them feel completely vulnerable and helpless. It is a form of abuse. Just because you have "nothing to hide" right now doesn't mean you always will or maybe you are just an exhibitionist by nature.
The only difference I can see is that the record industry is based on business practices that date back to the early 1900s whereas the movie business has only been selling to consumers since the 1980s. Probably a matter of historical baggage and bloated payment schemes that create the huge price difference.
I play the arcade emulator, MAME, pretty regularly (Rampage, Metal Slug series, 1943, Toobin, etc). Some of the classic arcade games are fun beyond their simpler graphics. The one thing MAME has shown me though is how many of the games had their excitement tied to the fact that losing would cost you a quarter. Once I got MAME and could play for free and endlessly continue I found that endless variations of mazes and ladders became boring fast (Pac Man, Burgertime, etc). You also don't have the fun of the competition to have your high score blinking for days in public.
My comment was about the use of the term "arbitrary", nothing else. My point is not that it has anything to do with great precision, or that it the best choice or anything like that. My point is that there was logic behind it and that it wasn't pulled out of thin air (as implied by the parent comment). Its origin is a matter of historical development, like bronze preceding iron. The use of a 360 degree system was also much more user friendly to the average person who didn't have a decimal system and it is easier to work with than an irrational number like pi.
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Finally, guilt free and risk free slaughter. Thanks DARPA!
I look forward to putting on a cowcatcher on the front of my car to deal with all of those fearless, headphone wearing pedestrians.
In further news, Fox News announced its last broadcast.
That is your cerebellum and muscle memory kicking in. It is why you can walk and talk at the same time without having to think "left leg, right leg, left..". You have to do it a lot though to get it into your muscle memory though. Now try switching hands and playing it. ;)
Curiously enough just imaginging doing something is mentally equivalent to actually doing it. If you trip up over a certain movement when actually performing you'll have the same problem when you visualize yourself doing it.
I was bummed when I had to get a new license plate and I went from my old one, which had a simple mathematical formula and a fun abbreviation to remember it by, to my current one which is gibberish.
I hate to break it to you but you don't need 50 years to memorize your address or phone number.
So when these people have their main gadget fail (as they all eventually do) I hope for their sake it happens at home, otherwise they'll just wander the streets like amnesiacs not knowing where they live.
"Maybe when indoor plumbing was invented, some academics wondered if not having to run outside in the middle of the night...would lead to a nation full of morbidly obese people that can no longer fit out their doors?"
But we are a nation of obese people. Maybe you've discovered the reason!
My solution to cleaning up is to not wait until I'm finished and to resuse things. I clean up one pot while another is cooking and will reuse the same pot or pan to cook something else (especially if they are going into the same dish) if possible. I usually end up with an easy cleaning job at the end.
The worst offenders are baking and broiling pans. Cleaning those will give you exercise.
They are missing the obvious way to do this: "To see hardcore adult action click on the button that best describes the galaxy pictured above."
Isn't corn used for cattle feed? Probably one of the reasons it is such a popular crop. Though I've read that corn doesn't make the best feed for cattle in the end, just cheap and fast.
"'passive fructose/sugar consumption'. In other words, if you smoke in an enclosed space, it directly affects me. If you eat crap, it doesn't."
I disagree. I took a bus ride home across the state once when I was in college. This obese woman sat down next to me (she was nice, she apologized first) and literally crushed the wind out of me for the rest of the trip. That falls under 2nd hand eating.
They also produce votes for candidates during caucuses in Iowa.
But if you try to kill off those subsidies where they aren't needed they'll respond by pulling out sad images of some guy in overalls with his family. They'll make it into a plea for the poor suffering family farm. You won't see images of (for examples) ADM or Monsanto of course, the ones who truly benefit from the government's teat.
You are assuming of course that spreading accusations on message boards to nudge stock prices isn't part of his job.
"yuppies will have no place to go to get their overpriced fruits and vegetables!"
On a side note, I like to buy fruits & veggies from Whole Foods not because I'm some yuppie (even though I see working class folks there) but because the quality of their produce is much better than the regular supermarkets. I'm willing to pay a bit more for them because when I get them home I don't end up with produce that immediately goes bad or is completely flavorless.
Sadly it is true that the /. crowd cares more than the general public.
You should have copywritten it then. ;)
If you consider privacy to be a trivial matter then why is the removal of privacy one of the first things done to prisoners, cult members, or hostages to break them down mentally? Forcing someone to strip is a form of this (that is why genitalia is referred to as "privates", right?). By removing privacy you break down the wall between a person's sense of self and those around him. You make them feel completely vulnerable and helpless. It is a form of abuse. Just because you have "nothing to hide" right now doesn't mean you always will or maybe you are just an exhibitionist by nature.
Then based on your logic a base 10 decimal system is totally arbitrary too.
The only difference I can see is that the record industry is based on business practices that date back to the early 1900s whereas the movie business has only been selling to consumers since the 1980s. Probably a matter of historical baggage and bloated payment schemes that create the huge price difference.
I play the arcade emulator, MAME, pretty regularly (Rampage, Metal Slug series, 1943, Toobin, etc). Some of the classic arcade games are fun beyond their simpler graphics. The one thing MAME has shown me though is how many of the games had their excitement tied to the fact that losing would cost you a quarter. Once I got MAME and could play for free and endlessly continue I found that endless variations of mazes and ladders became boring fast (Pac Man, Burgertime, etc). You also don't have the fun of the competition to have your high score blinking for days in public.
My comment was about the use of the term "arbitrary", nothing else. My point is not that it has anything to do with great precision, or that it the best choice or anything like that. My point is that there was logic behind it and that it wasn't pulled out of thin air (as implied by the parent comment). Its origin is a matter of historical development, like bronze preceding iron. The use of a 360 degree system was also much more user friendly to the average person who didn't have a decimal system and it is easier to work with than an irrational number like pi.
I thought hedge funds were games?
I was under the assumption that we were only talking about systems developed on planet earth and not alternate universes, aliens, Star Wars, etc.
What if your guest asks for a frozen drink with ground up marbles and ipod debris? THEN what would you do Mr Smarty Pants?