Yeah, while I don't appreciate all choices (technically, two quite disparate songs might share a lot of characteristics) I do appreciate most of them, and there are lots of bands I've never heard of ("The Vaselines"?) who apparently make music that appeals to me. As long as they keep this honest it's a great way to learn more about smaller bands.
The "Buy this song from iTunes" link is also a great idea, which I hope generates a lot of revenue for them.
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If you are confused because things don't happen the way you expect them to, how can you say that you "... really know what's going on"?:)
Something like it has happened before. I remember reading about an elementary school teacher who was proclaimed a pedophile. It was later proven false, but that didn't really matter. He was a decent teacher, but after you get your windows knocked in, your tyres slashed, etc often enough, you move somewhere else and hope noone 'warns' your next residence about your fictitious extra-curricular activities.
You can't stop this in private speech, but you can stop people from doing what the grandparent suggested.
I'd like to second this sentiment. I am not in any pain either, but I have 10 cavities according to my dentist. He counts the missing chunks of molar and tooth as cavities, apparently. Obviously, I have dental problems.
Reconstructive work in (slow) progress.
Do not trust your own judgement in this, but see a dentist.
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Because a byte is simply an 8-bit value, either -127 - 128 or 0 - 255. A char represents a character, and the number is the ASCII number for that character. ASCII numbers don't run into the negative, therefore a char is always unsigned.
We also have nuclear power plants. Tossing oil on plants will likely kill them. Natural gas can be mined separate from oil. Water covers 2/3 of our planet, I'm sure would could come up with a nuclear powered desalination plant.
No it isn't that simple. A powerful enough laser will still be able to damage missiles due to imperfect reflective surfaces. Also, there's always the engine of the missile to aim for if you happen to behind it.
So you'd choose butchered animal over non-animal? The ick-factor outweighs the fact that a life would be ended?
Given that attribute a moral value to the actual life of the critter (by not eating them at all, as opposed to finding free-ranged meat available in your area), this position seems morally indefensible. This is regardless of your statement that you do not plan of eating meat, of course.
Personally, I wouldn't mind eating vat-grown meat. It'd have an odd shape, not being used for things like locomotion, but it would be healthier, more plentiful (cheap!), potentially better tasting and more widely available.
When my GPU cooler started failing, I got recommended an Aerocool VideoMagic VM-101 cooler. It weighs only 220 grams (less than the 400-500 of a Zalman cooler, certainly) and cools my Radeon 9800 Pro stunningly. I can even overclock it by about 70 MHz easily, which I don't do, so it's most adequate.
Uses heatpipes to bring the heat to fins on the back of the card, which is where you typically have case fans to suck air out. I bought one with adjustable speed and set it to lowest, just in case.
So we can get them to ignore our satelites--the ones that have been absolutely vital to every war the U.S. has fought since 1988--by not weaponizing space? Please, explain more.
Good point, much like the one on the guy's head. The reason there is a 'rule' that says you don't attack satellites directly is that most nations don't have the technology to attack these things reliably. Another good reason is that systems like GPS are pretty much public utilities, and wiping that system out would be a setback for the private sector of any nation. (which would, incidentally, make it a good target for terrorist attack, except for the know-how needed to pull it off)
Spy satellites, of course, are a different matter and would be wiped out the instant the nation in question declares war on the US (or vice versa).
- It would not call Microsoft headquarters, but it would call Batman, were it not for the fact that... -... Batman prefers to be signalled using the Bat Signal, shining on some convenient cloudcover. - Regardless, Batman does not seem to use the Internet, and a website would therefore be utterly pointless. - Most important of all, however, the Bat Phone would be painted black, not red.
Okay, on reflection I see what you mean. And we're certainly in agreement on the pointlessness of the whole shebang.
TLDs, in my eyes, provide ways of making servers reachable. The.nl TLD provides access to (mostly) Dutch servers. End-users do not need to be reachable by hostname; reachability by IP is sufficient. Especially on mobile devices, where FTP servers or remote desktop access are not needed.
It's not a location, unless you foresee a great number of mobile webservers. I live in the Netherlands, but I don't just surf the.nl web. Just because I'm using a mobile device doesn't mean I should be restricted to.mobi. My laptop can render HTML just fine. So far, TLDs reflected the type of business, second-level-domains the name of the business, and third-level-domains the service offered by the business (e.g., mail., www., etc)
Now, all of a sudden, the device you use determines the which domain you must go to. So there's an http://www.icann.com/, but rather than having mobile.icann.com (which is appropriate in the old scheme) you now have either www.icann.mobi or just icann.mobi.
What does this do for businesses? Well, they'll have to register another domain, otherwise there will be squatting and problems when you finally DO want mobile services. And with a whole lot of businesses that's a whole lot of extra annual cash.
That will never fly with the courts. Anti-competitive behaviour, and such. Since HP makes its money off ink, they are a direct competitor of businesses like Pelikan. That's the reason Pelikan and the like can still make cartridges despite printer-makers' complaints.
"The first several hours of game play are incredibly lame. First you have the 5 Cd's you have to put in your computer."
This is why god invented the DVD, which fixes this problem.
"Then when you START the game you have to wait an hour for it to do something. What, no one knows, but you just get to watch dialogue box after dialogue box."
Your hyperbole is the worst thing ever.
"Then of course there is the TSR they put on your system that is always connected, whether you are playing or not. If MS did this, there's be lawsuits!!"
I stopped starting Steam, until the game is started. Works fine for me.
"And then, when you finally get past all that crap, the game tells you to download the latest Nvidia driver, WHICH DOESN'T SUPPORT THE GAME AND CAUSES IT TO CRASH INSTANTLY!"
That would be an NVIDIA problem, wouldn't it, not a Half-Life 2 problem?
I've installed the game, I played it happily, and it's a fantastic game. You have posted no problems with the game.
If you have a square manhole cover, you can turn it 45 degrees on a vertical axis and drop it in the manhole.
If you have a circular manhole cover, you cannot get it in there. So you never have to send people down to retrieve manhole covers and/or workers with cracked skulls.
Within six hours after a Boeing (747, I believe) plowed through an appartment building in the Netherlands (http://www.nrc.nl/W2/Lab/Profiel/Bijlmerramp/) there were jokes.
The same happened with 9/11. There's nothing wrong with it in principle. It's not like these folks are seeking out Brits and laughing in their faces. It's a way of coping with misery in the world.
In other words, lighten the fuck up. Folks reading this are okay, I hope their loved ones are okay, and I offer what sympathy they require, but that doesn't change a thing about how I'd respond to this.
Good lord, you mean thought about what you're calculating *is* required when using a calculator? I always thought calculators meant we could chuck our brains out the window!
Rounding off numbers to sane significance is less arduous than carrying around several sliderules for various tasks, I think.
As for thinking... Teacher at my Bachelor's institution had a question in some test which required the calculation of 15/4, without the use of a calculator. Actual answer written down: "I cannoy calculate the answer, because we are not allowed to use calculators". Humanity is doomed. I just know it.
As I said, whiskey is the only thing I've had that didn't make me gag eventually, except possibly wine. And then only white wine, and I'd prefer a wine cooler to plain wine. Quality makes a huge diff. Only ever had bad beer, so I'm willing to try good ones if I come across any, but I won't seek them out.
As for the smokey whiskey, that'd be scotch (I tried Johnny Walker Black Label in a tiny bottle, and while it was very drinkable, I didn't like the smokiness). Irish whiskey doesn't have a smokey taste.
As for cheap but decent Irish whiskeys, Jameson's standard stuff is pretty decent fare AFAICT, whereas something like Tullamore's Dew might work for someone just looking to get drunk and kill tastebuds. Will also try American whiskey or bourbon at some point. Recommendations?
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Gamers are also better at flipping out. So proves you and this guy.
Yeah, while I don't appreciate all choices (technically, two quite disparate songs might share a lot of characteristics) I do appreciate most of them, and there are lots of bands I've never heard of ("The Vaselines"?) who apparently make music that appeals to me. As long as they keep this honest it's a great way to learn more about smaller bands.
The "Buy this song from iTunes" link is also a great idea, which I hope generates a lot of revenue for them.
If you are confused because things don't happen the way you expect them to, how can you say that you "... really know what's going on"? :)
Something like it has happened before. I remember reading about an elementary school teacher who was proclaimed a pedophile. It was later proven false, but that didn't really matter. He was a decent teacher, but after you get your windows knocked in, your tyres slashed, etc often enough, you move somewhere else and hope noone 'warns' your next residence about your fictitious extra-curricular activities.
You can't stop this in private speech, but you can stop people from doing what the grandparent suggested.
I'd like to second this sentiment. I am not in any pain either, but I have 10 cavities according to my dentist. He counts the missing chunks of molar and tooth as cavities, apparently. Obviously, I have dental problems.
Reconstructive work in (slow) progress.
Do not trust your own judgement in this, but see a dentist.
Because a byte is simply an 8-bit value, either -127 - 128 or 0 - 255. A char represents a character, and the number is the ASCII number for that character. ASCII numbers don't run into the negative, therefore a char is always unsigned.
Makes sense to me.
Indeed, the first place I'd point an experimental device for killing small things would be at my testicles, too.
Good job, son, you're doing the genepool proud.
We also have nuclear power plants. Tossing oil on plants will likely kill them. Natural gas can be mined separate from oil. Water covers 2/3 of our planet, I'm sure would could come up with a nuclear powered desalination plant.
No it isn't that simple. A powerful enough laser will still be able to damage missiles due to imperfect reflective surfaces. Also, there's always the engine of the missile to aim for if you happen to behind it.
The attached power supply and food processor can be cumbersome, though.
Well duh, if they put the price on the site, they can't mark it up 30% for European sales without seeming suspicious.
So you'd choose butchered animal over non-animal? The ick-factor outweighs the fact that a life would be ended?
Given that attribute a moral value to the actual life of the critter (by not eating them at all, as opposed to finding free-ranged meat available in your area), this position seems morally indefensible. This is regardless of your statement that you do not plan of eating meat, of course.
Personally, I wouldn't mind eating vat-grown meat. It'd have an odd shape, not being used for things like locomotion, but it would be healthier, more plentiful (cheap!), potentially better tasting and more widely available.
When my GPU cooler started failing, I got recommended an Aerocool VideoMagic VM-101 cooler. It weighs only 220 grams (less than the 400-500 of a Zalman cooler, certainly) and cools my Radeon 9800 Pro stunningly. I can even overclock it by about 70 MHz easily, which I don't do, so it's most adequate.
Uses heatpipes to bring the heat to fins on the back of the card, which is where you typically have case fans to suck air out. I bought one with adjustable speed and set it to lowest, just in case.
Overall, recommended.
Spy satellites, of course, are a different matter and would be wiped out the instant the nation in question declares war on the US (or vice versa).
That's a silly statement on several levels.
... Batman prefers to be signalled using the Bat Signal, shining on some convenient cloudcover.
- It would not call Microsoft headquarters, but it would call Batman, were it not for the fact that...
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- Regardless, Batman does not seem to use the Internet, and a website would therefore be utterly pointless.
- Most important of all, however, the Bat Phone would be painted black, not red.
Please make the necessary adjustments.
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Okay, on reflection I see what you mean. And we're certainly in agreement on the pointlessness of the whole shebang.
.nl TLD provides access to (mostly) Dutch servers. End-users do not need to be reachable by hostname; reachability by IP is sufficient. Especially on mobile devices, where FTP servers or remote desktop access are not needed.
TLDs, in my eyes, provide ways of making servers reachable. The
Congratulations, consumer, you have been brainwashed successfully.
"Value": the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
doohickey.net is going to be less easily found if there's ten other TLDs than if there are only two.
It's not a location, unless you foresee a great number of mobile webservers. I live in the Netherlands, but I don't just surf the .nl web. Just because I'm using a mobile device doesn't mean I should be restricted to .mobi. My laptop can render HTML just fine. So far, TLDs reflected the type of business, second-level-domains the name of the business, and third-level-domains the service offered by the business (e.g., mail., www., etc)
Now, all of a sudden, the device you use determines the which domain you must go to. So there's an http://www.icann.com/, but rather than having mobile.icann.com (which is appropriate in the old scheme) you now have either www.icann.mobi or just icann.mobi.
What does this do for businesses? Well, they'll have to register another domain, otherwise there will be squatting and problems when you finally DO want mobile services. And with a whole lot of businesses that's a whole lot of extra annual cash.
That will never fly with the courts. Anti-competitive behaviour, and such. Since HP makes its money off ink, they are a direct competitor of businesses like Pelikan. That's the reason Pelikan and the like can still make cartridges despite printer-makers' complaints.
"The first several hours of game play are incredibly lame. First you have the 5 Cd's you have to put in your computer."
This is why god invented the DVD, which fixes this problem.
"Then when you START the game you have to wait an hour for it to do something. What, no one knows, but you just get to watch dialogue box after dialogue box."
Your hyperbole is the worst thing ever.
"Then of course there is the TSR they put on your system that is always connected, whether you are playing or not. If MS did this, there's be lawsuits!!"
I stopped starting Steam, until the game is started. Works fine for me.
"And then, when you finally get past all that crap, the game tells you to download the latest Nvidia driver, WHICH DOESN'T SUPPORT THE GAME AND CAUSES IT TO CRASH INSTANTLY!"
That would be an NVIDIA problem, wouldn't it, not a Half-Life 2 problem?
I've installed the game, I played it happily, and it's a fantastic game. You have posted no problems with the game.
If you have a square manhole cover, you can turn it 45 degrees on a vertical axis and drop it in the manhole.
If you have a circular manhole cover, you cannot get it in there. So you never have to send people down to retrieve manhole covers and/or workers with cracked skulls.
Really, people.
Within six hours after a Boeing (747, I believe) plowed through an appartment building in the Netherlands (http://www.nrc.nl/W2/Lab/Profiel/Bijlmerramp/) there were jokes.
The same happened with 9/11. There's nothing wrong with it in principle. It's not like these folks are seeking out Brits and laughing in their faces. It's a way of coping with misery in the world.
In other words, lighten the fuck up. Folks reading this are okay, I hope their loved ones are okay, and I offer what sympathy they require, but that doesn't change a thing about how I'd respond to this.
Good lord, you mean thought about what you're calculating *is* required when using a calculator? I always thought calculators meant we could chuck our brains out the window!
Rounding off numbers to sane significance is less arduous than carrying around several sliderules for various tasks, I think.
As for thinking... Teacher at my Bachelor's institution had a question in some test which required the calculation of 15/4, without the use of a calculator. Actual answer written down: "I cannoy calculate the answer, because we are not allowed to use calculators". Humanity is doomed. I just know it.
As I said, whiskey is the only thing I've had that didn't make me gag eventually, except possibly wine. And then only white wine, and I'd prefer a wine cooler to plain wine. Quality makes a huge diff. Only ever had bad beer, so I'm willing to try good ones if I come across any, but I won't seek them out.
As for the smokey whiskey, that'd be scotch (I tried Johnny Walker Black Label in a tiny bottle, and while it was very drinkable, I didn't like the smokiness). Irish whiskey doesn't have a smokey taste.
As for cheap but decent Irish whiskeys, Jameson's standard stuff is pretty decent fare AFAICT, whereas something like Tullamore's Dew might work for someone just looking to get drunk and kill tastebuds. Will also try American whiskey or bourbon at some point. Recommendations?