Parody. When you purposely exaggerate certain aspects of a situation in order to show how ridiculous it is. The officer Bubbles video is textbook parody. No more no less.
The editors are undoubtedly volunteers. Or possibly they got their jobs through some sort of "hire the mentally challenged" program. If they were regular employees they would have all been fired 10 times by now.
No, not evil, just not thinking it all the way through. We first build a passive sonar targetting system. Set the discriminator circuit to only target vehicles emitting sound in excess of 110dB (BOOMP BOOMP BOOMP BOOMP....target locked) . A secondary optical targetting system verifies the target (16 inch chrome wheels with spinners...fire). Oh and the lifejacket, replace it with 5 kg of metal augmented thermobaric explosive.
The radio around here has nothing but FM light. Light FM, Smooth FM, Silk FM, EZ FM, how many god damned radio stations does Michael Bolton need? "Es ist zum kotzen"
Fair enough, if you assume the electric power comes from a fossil fuel generating plant then you have about 50% efficiency in the conversion from fuel to electricity and burning the fuel direct is more efficient. However 1. You didn't say that in the original post and 2. We get power from a hydroelectric generating plant (no fuel).
Sorry, but your numbers are way off and your conclusion is entirely wrong. Wikipedia, Electric Power Transmission. "Transmission and distribution losses in the USA were estimated at 7.2% in 1995 [13] and 6.5% in 2007[14]." This is an average over the entire NA grid. Transporting natural gas uses about 1.25% per 1000 km. If you pipe the gas from Texas to the Eastern US your losses will be in the 4 - 6 % range. Also as you say gas heat is about 90% efficient, where electric heat is by definition 100% efficient (OK 100% for resistive heater, maybe a little less for a light bulb)
I'm imagining a 5 year old at the dinner table, making faces and sticking out his tongue
I hate broccoli! How do you know if you haven't tried it? Broccoli is yucky! How do you know its yucky if you haven't tried it. I'm not going to try it because its broccoli and broccoli is yucky!
The first Alien movie was good, but the second one, Aliens, although completely different in tone, was better. There were no other sequels. Period. That is all.
A rousing "me too" to that. After 8 hours a day of AutoCAD and another 8 hours of Starcraft at home I was starting to get the warning signs of RSI. This freaked me out somewhat so I just grabbed the mouse left handed at work one day. To my surprise I was up to speed in about an hour and I mouse left at work ever since. The RSI tingles went away. Two other benefits, nobody borrows my computer for long, and I get a nice WTF from people who wonder if I'm left handed. I tell them I'm a lefty but the Nuns made me write with my right hand.
To everyone who just pointed out that I'm a thimblewit and that it does in fact work. - I just installed the new version and bugger me if it doesn't work. Either they just fixed this, or I hallucinated the whole thing. Well anyhow, hurray, it works.
"Sometimes I wonder how many people never tried a Mac because they experienced iTunes on Windows and assumed all Apple software must be that terrible."
Spot On. Agree 100%.
Itunes is the one Apple software that almost all Windows users will see. It could have been an opportunity to showcase the awesomeness of Apple software. Instead it is judged to be "meh" at best and in fact from other comments here, a lot of people think it is a bloated bugfest and actually hate it. Total fail on Apple's part.
I like to sort my music by Artist --> Album --> Track Number --> Song Name. (Madness; I know.) Apparently this is not what Apple wants. Although I can move any other column anywhere I want, I can't move the "song name" column in iTunes. Does anybody out there know why? Is there a logical reason for this that doesn't involve lazy programming or "because Steve Jobs said so"? I am genuinely puzzled by this.
If someone wants to pick up a rifle and go defend my cowardly arse, why would I care who or what he boinks on his days off?
1940 - We can't have negros in the military, it will reduce unit effectiveness! (The units got over it) 1980 - We can't have women in the military, it will reduce unit effectiveness! (The units got over it) 2010 - We can't have gays in the military, it will reduce unit effectiveness! (The units will get over it)
Q. User - How do I get (Linux/Apple device/whatever fanboi loves the most) to do $foo?
A. Fanboi who won't admit that his precious can't do $foo. - Why would you want to do that?
Why would you want to cut and paste on an iphone? Why would you want to print from an ipad? Why would you want your email client to integrate with your calendar? Why would you want to move the "song name" column in itunes..........
What do you know. All this time I thought you didn't have a shift key on your keyboard.
As far as the rant goes, why should we think any better of him now that he is dead then we did when he was still alive? Other than the fact that he can do us no further harm.
Hypothetically, I'd rather have a house, unless of course I already have a house. In that case what value would a second house have? I can only sleep under one roof at a time. Then I'd take the comic.
Are you saying things have "real value" only if that value still exists when you can no longer trade that thing for some other thing? In that case the idea of "value" is almost meaningless, since you have now replaced it with "utility". If I have no need or use for something it has no value.
It was not generally known in Canada that the Taliban had shot down some of our helicopters with heat seeking missiles. For some reason the Canadian Government never mentioned that when they talked about the helicopter "crashes".
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Parody. When you purposely exaggerate certain aspects of a situation in order to show how ridiculous it is. The officer Bubbles video is textbook parody. No more no less.
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The editors are undoubtedly volunteers. Or possibly they got their jobs through some sort of "hire the mentally challenged" program. If they were regular employees they would have all been fired 10 times by now.
No, not evil, just not thinking it all the way through. We first build a passive sonar targetting system. Set the discriminator circuit to only target vehicles emitting sound in excess of 110dB (BOOMP BOOMP BOOMP BOOMP....target locked) . A secondary optical targetting system verifies the target (16 inch chrome wheels with spinners...fire). Oh and the lifejacket, replace it with 5 kg of metal augmented thermobaric explosive.
The radio around here has nothing but FM light. Light FM, Smooth FM, Silk FM, EZ FM, how many god damned radio stations does Michael Bolton need? "Es ist zum kotzen"
Fair enough, if you assume the electric power comes from a fossil fuel generating plant then you have about 50% efficiency in the conversion from fuel to electricity and burning the fuel direct is more efficient. However 1. You didn't say that in the original post and 2. We get power from a hydroelectric generating plant (no fuel).
Sorry, but your numbers are way off and your conclusion is entirely wrong. Wikipedia, Electric Power Transmission. "Transmission and distribution losses in the USA were estimated at 7.2% in 1995 [13] and 6.5% in 2007[14]." This is an average over the entire NA grid. Transporting natural gas uses about 1.25% per 1000 km. If you pipe the gas from Texas to the Eastern US your losses will be in the 4 - 6 % range. Also as you say gas heat is about 90% efficient, where electric heat is by definition 100% efficient (OK 100% for resistive heater, maybe a little less for a light bulb)
I'm imagining a 5 year old at the dinner table, making faces and sticking out his tongue
I hate broccoli!
How do you know if you haven't tried it?
Broccoli is yucky!
How do you know its yucky if you haven't tried it.
I'm not going to try it because its broccoli and broccoli is yucky!
The first Alien movie was good, but the second one, Aliens, although completely different in tone, was better. There were no other sequels. Period. That is all.
They will not be very happy when you mess up the track circuits.
A rousing "me too" to that. After 8 hours a day of AutoCAD and another 8 hours of Starcraft at home I was starting to get the warning signs of RSI. This freaked me out somewhat so I just grabbed the mouse left handed at work one day. To my surprise I was up to speed in about an hour and I mouse left at work ever since. The RSI tingles went away. Two other benefits, nobody borrows my computer for long, and I get a nice WTF from people who wonder if I'm left handed. I tell them I'm a lefty but the Nuns made me write with my right hand.
To everyone who just pointed out that I'm a thimblewit and that it does in fact work. - I just installed the new version and bugger me if it doesn't work. Either they just fixed this, or I hallucinated the whole thing. Well anyhow, hurray, it works.
"Sometimes I wonder how many people never tried a Mac because they experienced iTunes on Windows and assumed all Apple software must be that terrible."
Spot On. Agree 100%.
Itunes is the one Apple software that almost all Windows users will see. It could have been an opportunity to showcase the awesomeness of Apple software. Instead it is judged to be "meh" at best and in fact from other comments here, a lot of people think it is a bloated bugfest and actually hate it. Total fail on Apple's part.
I like to sort my music by Artist --> Album --> Track Number --> Song Name. (Madness; I know.) Apparently this is not what Apple wants. Although I can move any other column anywhere I want, I can't move the "song name" column in iTunes. Does anybody out there know why? Is there a logical reason for this that doesn't involve lazy programming or "because Steve Jobs said so"? I am genuinely puzzled by this.
If someone wants to pick up a rifle and go defend my cowardly arse, why would I care who or what he boinks on his days off?
1940 - We can't have negros in the military, it will reduce unit effectiveness! (The units got over it)
1980 - We can't have women in the military, it will reduce unit effectiveness! (The units got over it)
2010 - We can't have gays in the military, it will reduce unit effectiveness! (The units will get over it)
The standard non-answer. Kind of sad.
Q. User - How do I get (Linux/Apple device/whatever fanboi loves the most) to do $foo?
A. Fanboi who won't admit that his precious can't do $foo. - Why would you want to do that?
Why would you want to cut and paste on an iphone? Why would you want to print from an ipad? Why would you want your email client to integrate with your calendar? Why would you want to move the "song name" column in itunes..........
Wut? "Nuclear explosions don't destroy anything" Tell that to the citizens of Hiroshima.
OK, I know that's not what you meant. But matter is destroyed in a nuclear explosion. To be precise, it is converted to energy.
What do you know. All this time I thought you didn't have a shift key on your keyboard.
As far as the rant goes, why should we think any better of him now that he is dead then we did when he was still alive? Other than the fact that he can do us no further harm.
Respect is earned.
RESPECT.
IS.
EARNED.
(or not, as the case may be)
"the anti-spam AI will realize the only solution to stop the spammers is to eliminate the people buying things from spam"
Help me out here. I'm not seeing a downside.
Hypothetically, I'd rather have a house, unless of course I already have a house. In that case what value would a second house have? I can only sleep under one roof at a time. Then I'd take the comic.
Are you saying things have "real value" only if that value still exists when you can no longer trade that thing for some other thing? In that case the idea of "value" is almost meaningless, since you have now replaced it with "utility". If I have no need or use for something it has no value.
I see. So this comic book clearly has "real value" since the family was able to trade it for shelter.
WTF? Is there another measure of "value" besides "what someone is willing to pay for it"?
It was not generally known in Canada that the Taliban had shot down some of our helicopters with heat seeking missiles. For some reason the Canadian Government never mentioned that when they talked about the helicopter "crashes".
He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!
"who is my next Arthur C. Clarke"
John Scalzi?