I understand that and the metaphors that he used, but there's a limited amount of TV-generated teenage angst to go around. As the father of a 14 year-old boy, I want to see more media attention paid to growing up as a teenager.
So, how is "family member" defined by law? Would the civil union idea fix this?
As a bloodline relative or spouse. Civil Union would fix this but the conservatives will not allow it.
Then the course of action is clear - you need to have guys like Andrew Sullivan on TV to stifle the stereotype. "Your" fringe groups are battling with "their" fringe groups. Sometimes this can be a financially rewarding relationship that is self-perpetuating even though the "advocates" appear to be on different sides of an issue.
the right to see your romantic partner in the hospital is a "special" right
So, how is "family member" defined by law? Would the civil union idea fix this?
As for "forcing" things, then you are saying SCOTUS "forced" desegration onto the south as well because the majority there did not want it. The majority != infalibility.
Nice mix of obscure terms combined with programmer lingo there (not to mention the false, but convenient dramatic analogy). Care to explain the whole concept in a nutshell or are you going to provide twelve links to verbose web pages with a slant towards your viewpoint?
You Americans are quite amusing what with your black/white world viewpoints and everything.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, here's a little number I tossed off recently in the Caribbean.
Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis.
Isn't it frightfully good to have a dong.
It's swell to have a stiffy,
It's divine to own a dick.
From the tiniest little tadger,
To the world's biggest prick.
So three cheers for your willy or John Thomas.
Hooray for your one-eyed trouser snake.
Your piece-of-pork,
Your wife's best friend,
Your Percy or your cock.
You can wrap it up in ribbons,
You can slip it in your sock.
But don't take it out in public
Or they will stick you in the dock,
And you won't come back.
Do gays have no rights? They are citizens (as opposed to illegal immigrants) and enjoy the same rights as anyone else. To me, claiming "special rights" could be extended to nerds being picked-on at school.
What the most vocal gay rights activists seem to want is to force acceptance of their choices by the majority via legislation. Some people are understanding, others are not.
Recognized civil unions are the solution to the legal matter of non-"married" partners (what about an adult child living and caring for his/her infirm parent, brothers or sisters living together, etc,) but neither side wants to back down from their rhetoric.
Agreed. I've watched many of the Buffy series episodes as syndicated and some were really good. After the first couple seasons they were grasping for ideas and hyping-up the "character interactions" (AKA the soap opera phenomenon) with blood, guts and monsters thrown-in to appeal to the original fans.
It became a teen angsty show because, you know, kids are the market most easily influenced to buy useless stuff and repeat memes and smartassims they heard last night on TV.
I'm not an IT guy, but apparently one of our network computers failed a couple of weeks ago. From talking to one of the computer guys I learned that it was a really gruesome sight, with bits and bytes strewn all over the server room floor. Interestingly though, some of the bits landed vertically!
In true arrogant computer guy tradition, they made the office services people clean it all up and upon reflection we are wondering if important data has been stolen.
If a chose a password of "1tst00b4dth4t1c4ntyp3l33tsp3aks0w311", it may allow me to use it for 3 months.
This is just nostalgia of course, but not so long ago document integrity was implicitly safeguarded by easily-recognized, hard-to-duplicate handwriting style (at least for engineering drawings).
Nah, I think that the secret to a long life is to laugh a lot and not take things too seriously. Exercise is overrated and directly related to the "look good, feel good" mentality (which is mantra for movie stars, womens' magazines and musclemen wannabes).
All that extra physical movement wastes potential mental energy. I know this to be true because I haven't moved from this horizontal position (screen projected on the ceiling) for two years.
You want to be careful with LN2 and not just because it's so cold. Air is a bit heavier (no doubt someone will bring up dewpoints, density) than N2 but in a confined space liquid nitrogen will evaporate and displace oxygen.
The body needs oxygen, and inhaling gases that don't contain it causes the body to pull oxygen from other parts that do - this causes a system shutdown. You can't reboot, it is a true BSOD, no recovery possible (even if you use Linux).
They got caught with their pants down AGAIN in 1997 with the widespread acceptance of Java and the beginnings of true cross-platform computing. They pulled turning that event into a stillbirth and came out of it smelling like roses.
Don't forget that even in ancient times like 1997, the value of the internet was still being debated in most "establishment" circles. IIRC, Google came alive in 1998 and kept accelerating.
Like it or not, Microsoft has been in the driver seat for most computer technology (I mean widespread adoption of the technology).
This has been a HUGE change in the day-to-day work routine for the average employee and even now some people are not comfortable with the "new way". Sure, "death will eventually solve this problem", but that sentiment is not the best PR for people being forced to upgrade systems regularly without getting much in return.
Craig Morton claims he will pound a nail into a board with a banana.
He will undertake this folly tomorrow in front of an unforgiving audience: kids.
There is, of course, a secret that will prevent Morton from playing the fool. He will pretreat the banana with a component of air that has been compressed and expanded until it becomes liquid nitrogen. At minus-320 degrees, liquid nitrogen will star in several trick demonstrations all day tomorrow as part of COSI's "Strange Matters" exhibit.
I was recently trying to explain the humour in the following dialogue exchange from Army of Darkness to a friend, but he didn't get it. Maybe pasting together the two clips would work better.
Ash: Klaatu verrata nectu.
Wise man: Again.
Ash: Klaatu verrata nectu.
Wise man: Again.
Ash: I got it, I got it. I know your damn words, right?
[...time passes until the critical moment, Ash tries to remember...]
Ash: Klaatu verrata n... Necktie... Nickel... It's an "N" word, it's definitely an "N" word!
Ash: Klaatu verrata [under his breath] nekt agh agh ahh.
[The evil dead attack because of Ash's ignorance/arrogance/bluff]
I have the 512MB version c/w FM reception. I haven't used it much yet.
It comes with a belt clippy, semi-transparent rubber holder that is a bit difficult to fit/hold the device into. The sliding door that covers the battery compartment has a flimsy clasp that often refuses to "snap" closed, so the door is often loose. I still haven't figured out how to turn the thing off, so it drains the battery dead if the power button is accidentally pushed. The manual claims that you have to push and hold the power button for a few seconds to turn the device off, but that does not work with the one I bought. I open the battery compartment and remove the cell to shut it down.
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hydrogen is an element, but it floats around in the form of molecules...
Ow, one just poked me in the eye, ban hydrogen and all its derivatives!
It's rather nice. You might want to actually visit a city sometime; you'd probably be pleasantly surprised.
Ha! I'm in downtown Montreal, and I challenge you to find a more culturally and linguistically different city than that.
I agree with your second paragraph.
Maybe the key phrase in one of the TFAs is "electrically-assisted".
Finally, a good use for cell phones!
I understand that and the metaphors that he used, but there's a limited amount of TV-generated teenage angst to go around. As the father of a 14 year-old boy, I want to see more media attention paid to growing up as a teenager.
So, how is "family member" defined by law? Would the civil union idea fix this?
As a bloodline relative or spouse. Civil Union would fix this but the conservatives will not allow it.
Then the course of action is clear - you need to have guys like Andrew Sullivan on TV to stifle the stereotype. "Your" fringe groups are battling with "their" fringe groups. Sometimes this can be a financially rewarding relationship that is self-perpetuating even though the "advocates" appear to be on different sides of an issue.
Yes, I live in fantasyland.
the right to see your romantic partner in the hospital is a "special" right
So, how is "family member" defined by law? Would the civil union idea fix this?
As for "forcing" things, then you are saying SCOTUS "forced" desegration onto the south as well because the majority there did not want it. The majority != infalibility.
Nice mix of obscure terms combined with programmer lingo there (not to mention the false, but convenient dramatic analogy). Care to explain the whole concept in a nutshell or are you going to provide twelve links to verbose web pages with a slant towards your viewpoint?
You Americans are quite amusing what with your black/white world viewpoints and everything.
I'm in Montreal, fairly liberal and not gay.
The heteros counter-attack with:
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, here's a little number I tossed off recently in the Caribbean.
Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis.
Isn't it frightfully good to have a dong.
It's swell to have a stiffy,
It's divine to own a dick.
From the tiniest little tadger,
To the world's biggest prick.
So three cheers for your willy or John Thomas.
Hooray for your one-eyed trouser snake.
Your piece-of-pork,
Your wife's best friend,
Your Percy or your cock.
You can wrap it up in ribbons,
You can slip it in your sock.
But don't take it out in public
Or they will stick you in the dock,
And you won't come back.
These lyrics are from Monty Python Sings, 1989.
Do gays have no rights? They are citizens (as opposed to illegal immigrants) and enjoy the same rights as anyone else. To me, claiming "special rights" could be extended to nerds being picked-on at school.
What the most vocal gay rights activists seem to want is to force acceptance of their choices by the majority via legislation. Some people are understanding, others are not.
Recognized civil unions are the solution to the legal matter of non-"married" partners (what about an adult child living and caring for his/her infirm parent, brothers or sisters living together, etc,) but neither side wants to back down from their rhetoric.
You could have one persone that had a typical middle class suburban upbringing and the other is from an urban environment.
Isn't "urban" a whitey code word for "black"?
I surmise that this "PC" term was coined by big city real estate agents who have a financial interest in inflating prices and egos.
Agreed. I've watched many of the Buffy series episodes as syndicated and some were really good. After the first couple seasons they were grasping for ideas and hyping-up the "character interactions" (AKA the soap opera phenomenon) with blood, guts and monsters thrown-in to appeal to the original fans.
It became a teen angsty show because, you know, kids are the market most easily influenced to buy useless stuff and repeat memes and smartassims they heard last night on TV.
Repeat after me: we are all individuals.
I'm not an IT guy, but apparently one of our network computers failed a couple of weeks ago. From talking to one of the computer guys I learned that it was a really gruesome sight, with bits and bytes strewn all over the server room floor. Interestingly though, some of the bits landed vertically!
In true arrogant computer guy tradition, they made the office services people clean it all up and upon reflection we are wondering if important data has been stolen.
If a chose a password of "1tst00b4dth4t1c4ntyp3l33tsp3aks0w311", it may allow me to use it for 3 months.
This is just nostalgia of course, but not so long ago document integrity was implicitly safeguarded by easily-recognized, hard-to-duplicate handwriting style (at least for engineering drawings).
Since the sentence makes sense it is easy to remember.
It doesn't even have to make sense, just use the Hungarian Phrasebook as a guide:
-myh0vercraftisfullofee1s
-myn1pplesexplodewithdelight
-iwillnotbuythisrec0rditisscratched
That's true. Why not use a well-known (to you) phrase plus a (non-easily-guessed) number as a password?
I was ten times more productive than before.
Jarrod, does this 10x factor have anything to do with your income-earning ability since appearing in the commercials?
Subway is owned by Doctors Associates, but the shareholders are not doctors.
Nah, I think that the secret to a long life is to laugh a lot and not take things too seriously. Exercise is overrated and directly related to the "look good, feel good" mentality (which is mantra for movie stars, womens' magazines and musclemen wannabes).
All that extra physical movement wastes potential mental energy. I know this to be true because I haven't moved from this horizontal position (screen projected on the ceiling) for two years.
The choice of celibacy has its advantages until your other girlfriends figure out the scam.
OK, well, actually, at least that's the way it works in *my* fantasies.
That is a serious condition called gynecomastia.
That's odd, I thought the reference was this type of thing.
You want to be careful with LN2 and not just because it's so cold. Air is a bit heavier (no doubt someone will bring up dewpoints, density) than N2 but in a confined space liquid nitrogen will evaporate and displace oxygen.
The body needs oxygen, and inhaling gases that don't contain it causes the body to pull oxygen from other parts that do - this causes a system shutdown. You can't reboot, it is a true BSOD, no recovery possible (even if you use Linux).
Read this.
They got caught with their pants down AGAIN in 1997 with the widespread acceptance of Java and the beginnings of true cross-platform computing. They pulled turning that event into a stillbirth and came out of it smelling like roses.
Don't forget that even in ancient times like 1997, the value of the internet was still being debated in most "establishment" circles. IIRC, Google came alive in 1998 and kept accelerating.
Like it or not, Microsoft has been in the driver seat for most computer technology (I mean widespread adoption of the technology).
This has been a HUGE change in the day-to-day work routine for the average employee and even now some people are not comfortable with the "new way". Sure, "death will eventually solve this problem", but that sentiment is not the best PR for people being forced to upgrade systems regularly without getting much in return.
Yeah! That's how we took down Microsoft!!
Amusing, but Nikon does not have a 90% lock on cameras and people that spend over $1000 on camera equipment tend to not be ignorant consumers.
Craig Morton claims he will pound a nail into a board with a banana. He will undertake this folly tomorrow in front of an unforgiving audience: kids.
There is, of course, a secret that will prevent Morton from playing the fool. He will pretreat the banana with a component of air that has been compressed and expanded until it becomes liquid nitrogen. At minus-320 degrees, liquid nitrogen will star in several trick demonstrations all day tomorrow as part of COSI's "Strange Matters" exhibit.
More at: http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=
Cryogenics and the application of industrial gases is pretty interesting stuff.
I was recently trying to explain the humour in the following dialogue exchange from Army of Darkness to a friend, but he didn't get it. Maybe pasting together the two clips would work better.
Ash: Klaatu verrata nectu.
Wise man: Again.
Ash: Klaatu verrata nectu.
Wise man: Again.
Ash: I got it, I got it. I know your damn words, right?
[...time passes until the critical moment, Ash tries to remember...]
Ash: Klaatu verrata n... Necktie... Nickel... It's an "N" word, it's definitely an "N" word!
Ash: Klaatu verrata [under his breath] nekt agh agh ahh.
[The evil dead attack because of Ash's ignorance/arrogance/bluff]
I have the 512MB version c/w FM reception. I haven't used it much yet.
It comes with a belt clippy, semi-transparent rubber holder that is a bit difficult to fit/hold the device into. The sliding door that covers the battery compartment has a flimsy clasp that often refuses to "snap" closed, so the door is often loose. I still haven't figured out how to turn the thing off, so it drains the battery dead if the power button is accidentally pushed. The manual claims that you have to push and hold the power button for a few seconds to turn the device off, but that does not work with the one I bought. I open the battery compartment and remove the cell to shut it down.