Personally, I was wondering what the case was that involved children's blood (sounds interesting!), what lead they found, and why a state of emergency was called because of it.
If I were an awful terrorist that really wanted to make the whole country go crazy, I'd *absolutely* call in "credible" bomb threats like this. I'd keep doing them randomly until someone told the superintendent that he *cannot* keep closing schools like this, it's making everyones' jobs impossible and losing millions of dollars of taxpayer money.
I was going to say that too, except, 16:10. I mean, more choice is always good, so I agree that it *would* be good if 4:3 screens also still existed for people who preferred them. Personally, the first time I got a 16:10 laptop, I fell in love instantly - I wouldn't want to go back to 4:3 in a laptop screen any more than I want to be forced to go to 16:9. So I was going to say bring back 16:10, but sure, bring back both while you're at it. Choice is good.
> "companies talking publicly about wanting to give employees a better work-life balance (complete with on-site gyms and unlimited vacation time and... stuff...)"
If I saw a company providing an on-site gym, I'd be worried that their goal was the *elimination* of work-life balance. Same with unlimited vacation time. On-site gym means "we want you to be at work as much as possible". Unlimited vacation time means "we will guilt you into not taking very much vacation, because there are no strict rules". I much prefer working for a place where the amount of vacation is explicitly stated (though I wish that number were higher, of course), because that means you know exactly how much it is expected that you will be able to take, and as long as you stay under that number, nobody in the company has any reason or excuse to complain if you take it.
I'm watching Master of None right now - it surprised me that they've so far mentioned Yelp once and Uber a couple times, but I don't think it was product placement; they're just going for actually feeling like real life, so if *we* would talk about yelping or ubering, why shouldn't characters of a similar demographic in a show also?
Yep - a few months ago, a package didn't show up when it was supposed to. I likewise waited a couple extra days just in case, then opened a chat. Got a new package with the same contents delivered the next day, a free month of Prime, and bonus: the original package *did* show up, about a week later, and they said I could keep it.
I dunno, but it is what I drink when one happens to drop and I need the mp. (And once upon a time, it was what you used if you needed to get beaten up to debuff yourself for some reason, via pop rocks explosion; these days it's better to just cheat at scratch 'n sniff stickering via url manipulation.)
Well, regular cloaca cola is. The diet stuff from the white citadel (diet, in this case, meaning, according to the source, that it has more ice in it than regular cloaca cola) wouldn't ever be worth it.
Sounds like fun! I want to go to a summit to get harassed all day! Then after that I can go take being-hit-on-the-head lessons at that argument clinic down the street.
Definitely - I'm sure a Maker *could* make pretty fantastic guns if they really tried, given some of the other engineering feats Alvin has pulled off, but being that their prime purpose is destruction of life, I feel like that'd really be more The Unmaker's territory.
The former is usually what people "who only need 6-7 hours!!" say. "But i feel great!". Yeah, but you'd do better if you slept more.
I'm not sure that's true - different people do seem to need different amounts of sleep. I know plenty of people who are totally happy on 6 hours, that sleeping more would be pointless for them, their brains are just better at that.
I think his point is exactly correct - you can measure how much sleep you need just by going to sleep when you want to, waking up when you want to, and then seeing, on average, how long that is. For me, it's just about *exactly* the average 8 hours, often down to the minute. (I know what it's like only getting 6-7 hours, and I can do it for a while, but I can tell the difference. Any more than 8 and I feel blah.)
"We have always been inspired by innovation and it seems peculiar that an industry revolutionized by a pioneer like Grace Hopper would remain so divided along gender lines."
So they're going to fix gender-division by... opening a new school and offering pretty substantial benefits, that you can only enjoy if you're one gender? That's a great way to make it not about gender... reminds me of the old joke, it seems kinda like screwing for virginity. Not that this is a new thing, but I haven't seen it so perfectly juxtaposed against a quote that says the total opposite so perfectly.
If it's honestly exactly the same taste, texture and nutrition, then why not? Meat is expensive, and kinda sucks for the environment. I don't have moral objections to eating meat in terms of the fact that an animal bred for the purpose is getting butchered, as long as it's done humanely, but I certainly have objections to it on environmental grounds, there just aren't any good alternatives. If there were, though... why not?
I read that as, "fuschia is mostly straight, but is attracted to purple anyway, despite both being male", which is far more entertaining a parse than what was meant.
There's probably already a rule 34 of that out there somewhere, anthropomorphized abstract concepts of colors screwing. >.>
Look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - while bro definitely does have other definitions, the most popular one these days basically makes it shorthand for "fratty douche". (Which is also the top entry on urban dictionary". (That said, I also don't see that as a reason to not name a file extension that, as they are clearly not related, and it's not like it's a racial epithet or anything.)
That and PCs are so good that we don't need to keep replacing them every year or two just to run software, as opposed to only replacing them when they're actually unfixably broken, which is not that frequently, since they're also generally pretty good at not breaking.
So basically Microsoft's mission to "reignite the PC sector", sale-wise, would have to be, "get PC manufacturers to sell us suckier computers that break more often". Great.
> "one of of our bridesmaids had to turn him down at a convention, and found out he hit on her mother before she was born. The man will pursue anything remotely feminine."... and is apparently also a time-traveller, hitting on someone before they were even born. That's an impressive feat.
Funny - I wouldn't call them "intersections", but I wouldn't call them "interchanges", either. To me, an "intersection" is where two non-freeways meet, and an interchange is where two *freeways* meet. I wouldn't call the intersection of a freeway and a non-freeway *either* of those terms (yes, it is certainly an intersection by the geometric definition, but that doesn't make it "an intersection" colloquially in the context of driving.) I would only ever call it an on-ramp, off-ramp, or if it's both next to each other, an on/off-ramp.
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Hey, Eric Posner, I just posted an interesting response to this idea here. Go ahead and click it! Or if you don't like that one, try this one instead!
Personally, I was wondering what the case was that involved children's blood (sounds interesting!), what lead they found, and why a state of emergency was called because of it.
If I were an awful terrorist that really wanted to make the whole country go crazy, I'd *absolutely* call in "credible" bomb threats like this. I'd keep doing them randomly until someone told the superintendent that he *cannot* keep closing schools like this, it's making everyones' jobs impossible and losing millions of dollars of taxpayer money.
*Then* I'd blow up a school.
Luckily, I'm not a terrorist.
I was going to say that too, except, 16:10. I mean, more choice is always good, so I agree that it *would* be good if 4:3 screens also still existed for people who preferred them. Personally, the first time I got a 16:10 laptop, I fell in love instantly - I wouldn't want to go back to 4:3 in a laptop screen any more than I want to be forced to go to 16:9. So I was going to say bring back 16:10, but sure, bring back both while you're at it. Choice is good.
> "companies talking publicly about wanting to give employees a better work-life balance (complete with on-site gyms and unlimited vacation time and... stuff...)"
If I saw a company providing an on-site gym, I'd be worried that their goal was the *elimination* of work-life balance. Same with unlimited vacation time. On-site gym means "we want you to be at work as much as possible". Unlimited vacation time means "we will guilt you into not taking very much vacation, because there are no strict rules". I much prefer working for a place where the amount of vacation is explicitly stated (though I wish that number were higher, of course), because that means you know exactly how much it is expected that you will be able to take, and as long as you stay under that number, nobody in the company has any reason or excuse to complain if you take it.
I was wondering: whose AMA was it, and why is slashdot linking directly to reddit now?
I'm watching Master of None right now - it surprised me that they've so far mentioned Yelp once and Uber a couple times, but I don't think it was product placement; they're just going for actually feeling like real life, so if *we* would talk about yelping or ubering, why shouldn't characters of a similar demographic in a show also?
No, pick me, I'll do it for 75!
Huh? Comcast doesn't own Charter... not yet, at least, I'm sure they'd like to...
Yep - a few months ago, a package didn't show up when it was supposed to. I likewise waited a couple extra days just in case, then opened a chat. Got a new package with the same contents delivered the next day, a free month of Prime, and bonus: the original package *did* show up, about a week later, and they said I could keep it.
Roku. Netflix. A decent tv. Probably your phone, so you don't have to get up to order a pizza. What else do you need?
Oh wait, not that kind of marathon.
I dunno, but it is what I drink when one happens to drop and I need the mp. (And once upon a time, it was what you used if you needed to get beaten up to debuff yourself for some reason, via pop rocks explosion; these days it's better to just cheat at scratch 'n sniff stickering via url manipulation.)
Well, regular cloaca cola is. The diet stuff from the white citadel (diet, in this case, meaning, according to the source, that it has more ice in it than regular cloaca cola) wouldn't ever be worth it.
Sounds like fun! I want to go to a summit to get harassed all day! Then after that I can go take being-hit-on-the-head lessons at that argument clinic down the street.
Definitely - I'm sure a Maker *could* make pretty fantastic guns if they really tried, given some of the other engineering feats Alvin has pulled off, but being that their prime purpose is destruction of life, I feel like that'd really be more The Unmaker's territory.
The former is usually what people "who only need 6-7 hours!!" say. "But i feel great!". Yeah, but you'd do better if you slept more.
I'm not sure that's true - different people do seem to need different amounts of sleep. I know plenty of people who are totally happy on 6 hours, that sleeping more would be pointless for them, their brains are just better at that.
I think his point is exactly correct - you can measure how much sleep you need just by going to sleep when you want to, waking up when you want to, and then seeing, on average, how long that is. For me, it's just about *exactly* the average 8 hours, often down to the minute. (I know what it's like only getting 6-7 hours, and I can do it for a while, but I can tell the difference. Any more than 8 and I feel blah.)
"We have always been inspired by innovation and it seems peculiar that an industry revolutionized by a pioneer like Grace Hopper would remain so divided along gender lines."
So they're going to fix gender-division by... opening a new school and offering pretty substantial benefits, that you can only enjoy if you're one gender? That's a great way to make it not about gender... reminds me of the old joke, it seems kinda like screwing for virginity. Not that this is a new thing, but I haven't seen it so perfectly juxtaposed against a quote that says the total opposite so perfectly.
And then disconnects itself and drives off!
> "(Stay off my lawn!)"
Literally! (Cause they'll be flying their drones onto your lawn by accident; see what I did there?)
If it's honestly exactly the same taste, texture and nutrition, then why not? Meat is expensive, and kinda sucks for the environment. I don't have moral objections to eating meat in terms of the fact that an animal bred for the purpose is getting butchered, as long as it's done humanely, but I certainly have objections to it on environmental grounds, there just aren't any good alternatives. If there were, though... why not?
I read that as, "fuschia is mostly straight, but is attracted to purple anyway, despite both being male", which is far more entertaining a parse than what was meant.
There's probably already a rule 34 of that out there somewhere, anthropomorphized abstract concepts of colors screwing. >.>
Look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - while bro definitely does have other definitions, the most popular one these days basically makes it shorthand for "fratty douche". (Which is also the top entry on urban dictionary". (That said, I also don't see that as a reason to not name a file extension that, as they are clearly not related, and it's not like it's a racial epithet or anything.)
That and PCs are so good that we don't need to keep replacing them every year or two just to run software, as opposed to only replacing them when they're actually unfixably broken, which is not that frequently, since they're also generally pretty good at not breaking.
So basically Microsoft's mission to "reignite the PC sector", sale-wise, would have to be, "get PC manufacturers to sell us suckier computers that break more often". Great.
> "one of of our bridesmaids had to turn him down at a convention, and found out he hit on her mother before she was born. The man will pursue anything remotely feminine." ... and is apparently also a time-traveller, hitting on someone before they were even born. That's an impressive feat.
Funny - I wouldn't call them "intersections", but I wouldn't call them "interchanges", either. To me, an "intersection" is where two non-freeways meet, and an interchange is where two *freeways* meet. I wouldn't call the intersection of a freeway and a non-freeway *either* of those terms (yes, it is certainly an intersection by the geometric definition, but that doesn't make it "an intersection" colloquially in the context of driving.) I would only ever call it an on-ramp, off-ramp, or if it's both next to each other, an on/off-ramp.
The interesting study would be, if given the choice between Styrofoam and broccoli, how many kids would choose the Styrofoam?