In new research, scientists offered conservative rats and liberal rats a choice between Rudy Giuliani, Hillary Clinton, and a piece of cheese. The outcome surprised no one.
Oh, it is easy if you define normal arithmetic as the product of an erroneous system of mathematics. It is only your trapped engrams that restrict you to that flawed logic. Once you accept the gospel of L Ron there is no limiting you, and you are free to accept that 1, 1q8, 3 is the proper integer sequence. Can you not see it? No? You need auditing. Possibly you were scared by your mother while learning to count as a baby. Free the trapped engrams! Use this handy power drill and open your skull. That'll be $5000 for this arithmetic lesson, please pay at the door or we'll kill your sister...What? How dare you tell us we're fruitcakes! You're the sick one, not us!
From the beginning this did not smell like any accident. As for careers getting ruined, there are plenty of people in power to whom this would be acceptible collateral damage, as long as they achieved their objective. So perhaps somehow a setup. But what, indeed, was the objective? My gut says it could be used as an excuse for some new scandal, wherein we find other nukes missing somewhere, setting up the possibility of internal terrorists. Which would be a perfect excuse to clamp down, especially if someone now pops a dirty bomb in an American city. Remember, they never did find out who mailed all the anthrax, but it was Ames genome, meaning it came from a US military lab. So someone inside the military. And now, the potential of missing nukes as an inside job? That can't be good, if it becomes real.
Oy, for what do we need this new technology and wait ten years? My refrigerator, now there's artificial life. My wife, she puts the cheese in and goes away for a week. Open the door, it's a whole civilization! You scientists, always making a big thing of nothing. Meh. I tell you. Meh.
I'm confused. Does this mean I have to worry about Mark Foley, Larry Craig, Ken Mehlman, Karl Rove, and... oh, anyone whose phone is tapped by the Middle-Eastern country that does US phone records processing. Yeah, them. The ones we're sending $30 billion of tax payer money to. Makes one wonder whose arms got twisted and how.
Oh, it's you bloody peasants with the torches again? All right. Take the right fork to Frankenstein, the left fork to Dracula, now get off my land and you - YOU! - that's my ram, not a female, and he doesn't like what you're trying to do! Now pull up your britches and go AWAY, you sodding bastards.
Note, the scientists involved are Spanish, and possibly Italian, and their hypothesis that some asteroids are made of meat can only lead to one thing: Space Spaghetti and Meatballs.
NASA flunky: "Hello, is this Canaveral Auto Body?"
CAB: "Speaking."
NASA: "Yes, well, we've kind of thinking about having some body work done on the shuttle. It's in orbit right now. Do you do mobile repairs?"
CAB: "Yeah, we have Bruce Willis. Okay, what you do you need?"
NASA: "Well, we have a little shuttle gouge."
CAB: "Teenage drivers again?"
NASA: "No. What do you think it'll cost?"
CAB: "Insurance?"
NASA: "All State."
CAB: "How big's the gouge?"
NASA: "Couple inches."
CAB: "Let me see (taps calculator keys) Okay, on-site repair mission, estimate $30,000,000. We're kind of booked up right now, but we can do it for you by.. lemme see.. next opening is after Labor Day. And... you want clearcoat?"
NASA: "!!!!!! (spits coffee) B..b..b.but we have some guys waiting on this."
CAB: "Sorry. Why don't you try Wing Chang's Golden Auto Repair down the street. He's cheaper but he can do it fast. Cuts costs by not having his crew come back. Gotta tell you, that Chinese body putty doesn't hold up for too many missions."
NASA: "I gotta ask my boss... he ain't gonna like this..." (whimper)
Don't be absurd, sir. You're trying to frame this as being unfair to gays. I instead say it is about honor and trust in a marriage. So, a married gay guy, who cheats on his wife, but keeps it covered up, has a family in the conventionally accepted use of the term? I guess your definition of family and mine might differ. Now an honest gay family - two men, or two women who love each other - I have no problem with that. But a mixed mode family IS fundamentally dishonest. It involves lies and cheating of trust. Lies are a poor underpinning for security of a married relationship. I am not anti-gay; I AM anti-liar. If Rove cheated on his wife with Jeff Gannon, or anyone else, it is the epitome of hypocrisy to proclaim he's leaving the administration to be with his family. My position is neither liberal nor conservative; it is based on recognizing lies.
Whoever modded parent a troll is wrong. It is very relevant to Rove's drives and motivations. Also, the question of Rove's preferences is indeed backed by observations by the Washington press corps, which dares not bring it up in print, but does talk about it as an open secret in private. The stories about Jeff Gannon spending many overnights in the White House as documented by Secret Service logs have never been correlated with the comings and goings of Rove and his office in the White House. Gannon's cover as a member of the press would have provided a perfect cover story for liasons with Rove, also. In these contexts, Rove 'leaving for his family' is yet another example of the constant lies coming out of this administration.
Well, *I* thought that the Saturday morning kids show, Tux Invaders, was awesome. I mean, who could have predicted that a story about five penguins from another planet who transform into operating system components and then load themselves into a giant PC to do battle with a giant Steve Ballmer robot would win so many awards?
...Cindi Lou? WTF did you put in my COFFEE this morning, you bitch! There appear to be enormous spiders on the ceiling, writing code, and I for one am not amused.
I agree. Parent was funny, not a troll, and the above comment was not offtopic either. Somebody got an itchy trigger finger, I guess. So, these two blind men walk into a bar. The bartender says "what'll you have?" The first blind guy says "Anything but another laser pointer, frankly..."
In other news, researchers were puzzled by the discovery of a 9 million-year-old bacterium, until they realized they'd accidently sampled food from Taco Bell.
Yes, of course they don't succeed. That's why the ad industry spends literally billions advertising. Because they're all stupid and waste money on something that doesn't work. cough * Intel Inside * cough
I offer as evidence that MRI scans show that people do not truly ignore ads. It turns out that the brain does indeed devote some part of its attention to them, and no one claiming they're ignoring them, is really ignoring them. The brain is complex, and much of what a 'common-sense' view of brain operation says is actually not correct. By this I mean that, if one thinks they are not paying attention to something in their perceptual 'field', in fact they are in part focused on it. Obviously, this then applies to drivers. Plus, the psychology of novelty indicates that the novelty of hearing an ad the first couple of times will highly distract a cellphone user. They may later acclimate themself to ads a bit, but the effect at the beginning is even more likely to distract a teenage driver and raise probability of accident.
Sure, some advertising 'rules' are only gut feelings, but a large part of key knowledge is backed by documented, repeatable research. Hard numbers out of lab work. The psychology of persuasion is hugely researched and by no means a ratty collection of witchcraft.
Also, one cannot shoot down some researchers' results on the basis of claims that other researchers are bogus. That is invalid reasoning, like saying 'all foreigners eat cats, because we found a starving peasant who ate a cat.'
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In new research, scientists offered conservative rats and liberal rats a choice between Rudy Giuliani, Hillary Clinton, and a piece of cheese. The outcome surprised no one.
I fail to see how this can hurt our satellites, because in space, no one can smell garlic.
Oh, it is easy if you define normal arithmetic as the product of an erroneous system of mathematics. It is only your trapped engrams that restrict you to that flawed logic. Once you accept the gospel of L Ron there is no limiting you, and you are free to accept that 1, 1q8, 3 is the proper integer sequence. Can you not see it? No? You need auditing. Possibly you were scared by your mother while learning to count as a baby. Free the trapped engrams! Use this handy power drill and open your skull. That'll be $5000 for this arithmetic lesson, please pay at the door or we'll kill your sister...What? How dare you tell us we're fruitcakes! You're the sick one, not us!
From the beginning this did not smell like any accident. As for careers getting ruined, there are plenty of people in power to whom this would be acceptible collateral damage, as long as they achieved their objective. So perhaps somehow a setup. But what, indeed, was the objective? My gut says it could be used as an excuse for some new scandal, wherein we find other nukes missing somewhere, setting up the possibility of internal terrorists. Which would be a perfect excuse to clamp down, especially if someone now pops a dirty bomb in an American city. Remember, they never did find out who mailed all the anthrax, but it was Ames genome, meaning it came from a US military lab. So someone inside the military. And now, the potential of missing nukes as an inside job? That can't be good, if it becomes real.
Next: IvanOnMars
He doesn't need tanks. He has Holy Hand Grenades.
Alberto, what the hell are you doing posting on Slashdot?
Oy, for what do we need this new technology and wait ten years? My refrigerator, now there's artificial life. My wife, she puts the cheese in and goes away for a week. Open the door, it's a whole civilization! You scientists, always making a big thing of nothing. Meh. I tell you. Meh.
I'm confused. Does this mean I have to worry about Mark Foley, Larry Craig, Ken Mehlman, Karl Rove, and ... oh, anyone whose phone is tapped by the Middle-Eastern country that does US phone records processing. Yeah, them. The ones we're sending $30 billion of tax payer money to. Makes one wonder whose arms got twisted and how.
Hey! Stop insulting decent religious people! Mormons are GOOD! You cut that out. (what? .. oh ..morons.. never mind.)
I'm going crazy trying to figure out what the software would do for the phrase "bork bork bork".
Oh, it's you bloody peasants with the torches again? All right. Take the right fork to Frankenstein, the left fork to Dracula, now get off my land and you - YOU! - that's my ram, not a female, and he doesn't like what you're trying to do! Now pull up your britches and go AWAY, you sodding bastards.
You're just lucky I didn't go for an asteroid made of matzoh joke... oy, would I have been in trouble.
Note, the scientists involved are Spanish, and possibly Italian, and their hypothesis that some asteroids are made of meat can only lead to one thing: Space Spaghetti and Meatballs.
--- There's a problem with that?
Also note: the prototype auto-erotic version of this arm was involved in a tragic accident.
And whatever rightwinger modded me a troll is merely showing your immense stupidity. Thank you for showing the quality of your concern for America.
NASA flunky: "Hello, is this Canaveral Auto Body?"
CAB: "Speaking."
NASA: "Yes, well, we've kind of thinking about having some body work done on the shuttle. It's in orbit right now. Do you do mobile repairs?"
CAB: "Yeah, we have Bruce Willis. Okay, what you do you need?"
NASA: "Well, we have a little shuttle gouge."
CAB: "Teenage drivers again?"
NASA: "No. What do you think it'll cost?"
CAB: "Insurance?"
NASA: "All State."
CAB: "How big's the gouge?"
NASA: "Couple inches."
CAB: "Let me see (taps calculator keys) Okay, on-site repair mission, estimate $30,000,000. We're kind of booked up right now, but we can do it for you by .. lemme see .. next opening is after Labor Day. And... you want clearcoat?"
NASA: "!!!!!! (spits coffee) B..b..b.but we have some guys waiting on this."
CAB: "Sorry. Why don't you try Wing Chang's Golden Auto Repair down the street. He's cheaper but he can do it fast. Cuts costs by not having his crew come back. Gotta tell you, that Chinese body putty doesn't hold up for too many missions."
NASA: "I gotta ask my boss... he ain't gonna like this..." (whimper)
Don't be absurd, sir. You're trying to frame this as being unfair to gays. I instead say it is about honor and trust in a marriage. So, a married gay guy, who cheats on his wife, but keeps it covered up, has a family in the conventionally accepted use of the term? I guess your definition of family and mine might differ. Now an honest gay family - two men, or two women who love each other - I have no problem with that. But a mixed mode family IS fundamentally dishonest. It involves lies and cheating of trust. Lies are a poor underpinning for security of a married relationship. I am not anti-gay; I AM anti-liar. If Rove cheated on his wife with Jeff Gannon, or anyone else, it is the epitome of hypocrisy to proclaim he's leaving the administration to be with his family. My position is neither liberal nor conservative; it is based on recognizing lies.
Whoever modded parent a troll is wrong. It is very relevant to Rove's drives and motivations. Also, the question of Rove's preferences is indeed backed by observations by the Washington press corps, which dares not bring it up in print, but does talk about it as an open secret in private. The stories about Jeff Gannon spending many overnights in the White House as documented by Secret Service logs have never been correlated with the comings and goings of Rove and his office in the White House. Gannon's cover as a member of the press would have provided a perfect cover story for liasons with Rove, also. In these contexts, Rove 'leaving for his family' is yet another example of the constant lies coming out of this administration.
I agree. Parent was funny, not a troll, and the above comment was not offtopic either. Somebody got an itchy trigger finger, I guess. So, these two blind men walk into a bar. The bartender says "what'll you have?" The first blind guy says "Anything but another laser pointer, frankly..."
In other news, researchers were puzzled by the discovery of a 9 million-year-old bacterium, until they realized they'd accidently sampled food from Taco Bell.
Wait, I'm confused. Are we talking about an average Microsoft customer, or a mugging victim? (possibly one and the same)
Yes, of course they don't succeed. That's why the ad industry spends literally billions advertising. Because they're all stupid and waste money on something that doesn't work. cough * Intel Inside * cough
Sure, some advertising 'rules' are only gut feelings, but a large part of key knowledge is backed by documented, repeatable research. Hard numbers out of lab work. The psychology of persuasion is hugely researched and by no means a ratty collection of witchcraft.
Also, one cannot shoot down some researchers' results on the basis of claims that other researchers are bogus. That is invalid reasoning, like saying 'all foreigners eat cats, because we found a starving peasant who ate a cat.'