Women and children are considered "more important" for a couple of reasons:
- children are mostly defenseless, targeting them is abhorrent. Using them is even worse.
- women tend to care for children's needs, so men like to protect both.
Agreed with you that terrorists targeting ALL innocents is horrific, but there are certain standards that most of civilized human society adheres to. Is it chivalry? Sexism? Wrong-headed preference for age or gender?
c6gunner: I have to admire your tenacity, but going deeper than superficial with self-important, history-ignorant youth, lefties and trolls usually degenerates into name-calling from the other side. I do salute your effort though!
Where are the collapsing ice shelfs, stranded polar bears and hovering penguins ('cause there's no surfaces left to land on, natch)? That's all I care about.
Not to be a language jerk or anything, but from where does this 'epic fail' term come? It was almost cute at first, but now it's getting really annoying.
"You're known for your long songs, have you ever written a song so epic that by the end of the song, you were actually influenced by yourself at the beginning of the song?"
Oddly enough, as a CAD user, I prefer using command line text input (or at least using the pull-down text menus) for that type of work because the commands typically don't change and it's usually faster. Pretty, graphical buttons can be changed by the software vendor in updates and people can usually move them around to their own preference.
As a CAD support-type person, deciphering what button someone clicked before the "boom" happened is almost always frustrating ("I clicked the 3 colour line thingie with the two dots and a circle, then it broke!").
So the next time you have a possibly problematic situation with a cop just feel sorry for him (but don't point this out, obviously). With your mighty, low 3 digit IQ this interpersonal, temporary relationship should be a no-brainer for you.
Is 'pig' a good description, or would 'jerk' or 'asshole' have sufficed?
Sounds to me like this was a traffic ticket. Was your hurry enough to cause you to be snarky?
Don't get me wrong, some cops ARE jerks. But for traffic stops I'm sure the delay would be understood by the person that was waiting for you. If it was a REAL emergency, I'm sure the same cop would have high-speed escorted you to your destination.
Anyway, with cheap videocams and memory cards these days it should be relatively easy to set one up discreetly with a foot trigger to record when necessary. Much better that thrusting an obvious camera in the face of law enforcement. Unless, of course, the whole point is to provoke.
If anything, we'll complain when others are coming in at 8am and not going home until 8pm.
I DO know some people that work long hours like this and actually are productive, but in my experience, those that work those long hours are very often in it for the overtime (clock-watching) or "have nothing better to do" (prefer work life to home life, bitch to the family and co-workers about having to have to work so hard).
Some guys I've seen show up at 4:30AM and make sure they send emails near that time so others can marvel at how dedicated they are. Doing this gives them a leg up on everyone else, as they've been bored for hours doing essentially nothing and jump on the eight-o'clockers first thing in the morning with demands and requests.
Pretty amusing, until one of these people start burning up the time of people who actually, like, do stuff during their day.
if you have your own domain, search for it and see what I am talking about
I typed in 'piping design' (without the quotes) and on the first Cuil results page, 5 of the 11 results returned were for sites I own and operate. They missed the new dot org site though.:(
This is an EXCELLENT search engine!
Do I get a +Funny or +Scumbag Shill for this comment?
I know a few people at Air Liquide in Montreal that think your idea is interesting and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Most nitrogen is vented-off after being used in the cooling cycles to distill O2 (and rarely Ar).
These days due to membrane technology it's cheaper/easier to on-site "produce" N2 gas at ~97% purity for most applications depending on volume required.
The chip makers need UHP, that's done (extremely inefficiently) by double distillation.
However, that's just an engineering problem, and for buried power lines inside presumably rigid pipes carrying the coolant, perhaps that's not even a difficult problem.
Do you know what "non-trivial" means in engineering terms? Various ASME B31 codes cover all pressure piping (for the safety of the population at large so that things don't blow up, kill people) and what you're describing is, uh, non-trivial. Not to mention horrendously expensive. Then again, if 845 billion dollars saves just one life, it will have been worth it - think of the children!
Please mod parent up. Inert gases can do some really interesting things (I could go on about R&D projects) and liquid cylinders are a great way to store large volumes as opposed to 3000 PSI gas cylinders.
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Women and children are considered "more important" for a couple of reasons:
- children are mostly defenseless, targeting them is abhorrent. Using them is even worse.
- women tend to care for children's needs, so men like to protect both.
Agreed with you that terrorists targeting ALL innocents is horrific, but there are certain standards that most of civilized human society adheres to. Is it chivalry? Sexism? Wrong-headed preference for age or gender?
c6gunner: I have to admire your tenacity, but going deeper than superficial with self-important, history-ignorant youth, lefties and trolls usually degenerates into name-calling from the other side. I do salute your effort though!
Do you buy MonsterCable also? Cause, like, some people CAN tell the difference...
Maybe I misunderstood what you're talking about, but by that logic I should be a billionaire.
I *almost* bought an iPhone so could brag about it, you insensitive clod.
If you're working in a field that is not solely IT-based, learn how things used to be done before software took over.
Where are the collapsing ice shelfs, stranded polar bears and hovering penguins ('cause there's no surfaces left to land on, natch)? That's all I care about.
Not to be a language jerk or anything, but from where does this 'epic fail' term come? It was almost cute at first, but now it's getting really annoying.
"You're known for your long songs, have you ever written a song so epic that by the end of the song, you were actually influenced by yourself at the beginning of the song?"
Oddly enough, as a CAD user, I prefer using command line text input (or at least using the pull-down text menus) for that type of work because the commands typically don't change and it's usually faster. Pretty, graphical buttons can be changed by the software vendor in updates and people can usually move them around to their own preference.
As a CAD support-type person, deciphering what button someone clicked before the "boom" happened is almost always frustrating ("I clicked the 3 colour line thingie with the two dots and a circle, then it broke!").
So the next time you have a possibly problematic situation with a cop just feel sorry for him (but don't point this out, obviously). With your mighty, low 3 digit IQ this interpersonal, temporary relationship should be a no-brainer for you.
You clearly do not belong in this cop-bashing party. Conform or go away!
Is 'pig' a good description, or would 'jerk' or 'asshole' have sufficed?
Sounds to me like this was a traffic ticket. Was your hurry enough to cause you to be snarky?
Don't get me wrong, some cops ARE jerks. But for traffic stops I'm sure the delay would be understood by the person that was waiting for you. If it was a REAL emergency, I'm sure the same cop would have high-speed escorted you to your destination.
Anyway, with cheap videocams and memory cards these days it should be relatively easy to set one up discreetly with a foot trigger to record when necessary. Much better that thrusting an obvious camera in the face of law enforcement. Unless, of course, the whole point is to provoke.
If anything, we'll complain when others are coming in at 8am and not going home until 8pm.
I DO know some people that work long hours like this and actually are productive, but in my experience, those that work those long hours are very often in it for the overtime (clock-watching) or "have nothing better to do" (prefer work life to home life, bitch to the family and co-workers about having to have to work so hard).
Some guys I've seen show up at 4:30AM and make sure they send emails near that time so others can marvel at how dedicated they are. Doing this gives them a leg up on everyone else, as they've been bored for hours doing essentially nothing and jump on the eight-o'clockers first thing in the morning with demands and requests.
Pretty amusing, until one of these people start burning up the time of people who actually, like, do stuff during their day.
if you have your own domain, search for it and see what I am talking about
:(
I typed in 'piping design' (without the quotes) and on the first Cuil results page, 5 of the 11 results returned were for sites I own and operate. They missed the new dot org site though.
This is an EXCELLENT search engine!
Do I get a +Funny or +Scumbag Shill for this comment?
And, amazingly, absolutely nothing gets accomplished besides money changing hands! Reminds me of carbon trading schemes and pollution credits!
Uh-oh, negative Karma coming in 5, 4, 3...
a price point nearly $0, with a better product, a good ad campaign, AND profit margins of nearly 100%
They'll make it up in volume.
Will it blink?
"But I don't want to go on the cart!"
There should be more links in the submitted article in order to guarantee that NO ONE RsTFAs. Not that RTFA is a tradition around here.
Is there (or will there be) a Squiggy?
"from the why-you-little dept."
My son and I used to do this all the time. Problem is, he's bigger and stronger than me now. Maybe I can trick him with a magic rock...
I know a few people at Air Liquide in Montreal that think your idea is interesting and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Most nitrogen is vented-off after being used in the cooling cycles to distill O2 (and rarely Ar).
These days due to membrane technology it's cheaper/easier to on-site "produce" N2 gas at ~97% purity for most applications depending on volume required.
The chip makers need UHP, that's done (extremely inefficiently) by double distillation.
However, that's just an engineering problem, and for buried power lines inside presumably rigid pipes carrying the coolant, perhaps that's not even a difficult problem.
Do you know what "non-trivial" means in engineering terms? Various ASME B31 codes cover all pressure piping (for the safety of the population at large so that things don't blow up, kill people) and what you're describing is, uh, non-trivial. Not to mention horrendously expensive. Then again, if 845 billion dollars saves just one life, it will have been worth it - think of the children!
Please mod parent up. Inert gases can do some really interesting things (I could go on about R&D projects) and liquid cylinders are a great way to store large volumes as opposed to 3000 PSI gas cylinders.