I'd rather take the airplane flight be more sure that I'm not getting bugged.
And then the bastards will install a 3 year-old to kick your seat from behind, an incessant talker who loves chatting about lolcats next to you and a screaming infant in the seat in front just to bug you. You can't possibly win and they'll all be wearing a wire.
BRL-CAD and Google will probably take it slow. I can't wait to see what it develops into in 2-3 years. The big boys in the CAD market have had their way for far too long - let's see what a few thousand developers can make this into.
If nothing else, it should light a fire under some asses.
In Canada, where lawyer advertising is not existent (illegal?) we are now seeing TV ads promoting pardons from specialty companies. The ads more often than not play upon people's fears of possibly not being able to travel outside of the country due to past legal transgressions.
I somehow doubt that violent or sex offenders would be able to successfully use the services but I can see where the FUD is embedded and hopefully taken advantage of for profit.
was he just indulging in the traditional military fondness for capital letters?
The closest thing to programmers and detail-obsessed, white collar tech software workers before computers came along were draftsmen (your heritage) and we used to write in all caps because *everything* we carefully inked-out on treated, bleached mammoth skin was important. I don't mean to boast, but I did one of the first revisions on the drawings for the original trebuchet. Mariano was quite pissed when I erased flaming turds as the projectile.
Don't forget BRL-CAD (open-source 3D solids modeling) which now has been added to Google's Summer of Code program. Not easy to get into or understand, but excellent potential, given its origins (core not written by amateurs).
An ad hominem attack is no more valid in a scientific political discussion than any other discussion.
The words you replied to was not an ad hominem attack. You just dismissed his statement with a, "it's no fair calling me names"-type statement. You ARE right though, in that this is a political matter, not a scientific one.
We only have a hope of preparing for it if we start early.
Which of course means that trillions of dollars must be spent (or committed to be spent) now, to stave-off a possible catastrophic future which may or may not occur in 50 or so years, all the while relying on iffy, vague empirical data collection methods to track our "progress" during the project.
Surely the cost of gasoline these days is encouraging and welcome, as it will eventually wean people off oil dependence and even higher taxes on polluting power sources should be implemented. So what if it impacts the economy of the western world for a few generations, we have to SAVE THE PLANET even though emerging industrial societies with much larger populations don't go along with the effort.
But until some evidence of that is uncovered, I'm going to trust the nice, testable, repeatable climate models
[Here I'm assuming you are referring to computer/software models being accurate in their prediction of the scariness, inevitability and possible catastrophe of "the-science-is-settled" AGW]
You: why don't ordered and unordered lists work anymore?
Very amusing, was that intentional or irony or both?
Isn't it amazing how there are now so many "experts on everything" (especially those selling doom'n'gloom; there must be a profit motive and/or knee-jerk reaction to the Evils of Western Society in there somewhere)?
It's doubled in the past ten years. Either it was grossly underfunded before -- a possibility -- or it's administered in a grossly inefficiently fashion now.
Have you factored-in aging "baby boomers" into this evaluation? My understanding is that's a very large consideration.
I avoid all these pesky security problems by ensuring that all information I transmit electronically is full of spelling and grammatical errors (so as to fly under the filters of spies) and is also full of nonsense, gobbledygook, wrongly interpreted statements and assumptions and is factually inaccurate to boot.
The sneaky would-be interceptors of my super important internet communications have yet to notice this clever defense. What fools!
Yeah, why not? At the very least it'll tie a show directly to a sponsor and not a shady, secretive, manipulative, hard-to-reach advertising agency. Go for it, I say.
As Seinfeld demonstrated, you can probably get at least 2 episodes out of that concept. And refer back to it at least 7 times successfully using the laugh track.
I honestly thought there was a monster under my bed last night during the initial shake.
The last time I experienced an earthquake was, oh, 25 or so years ago in Montreal while I was in a bank guy's office co-signing a loan. Both parties on either side of the desk thought the other party had a "nervous leg" and was vibrating the desk. No recoverable coins fell out of the banker, unfortunately, but the loan went through.
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Everybody hates a mime.
That's a meme.
I'd rather take the airplane flight be more sure that I'm not getting bugged.
And then the bastards will install a 3 year-old to kick your seat from behind, an incessant talker who loves chatting about lolcats next to you and a screaming infant in the seat in front just to bug you. You can't possibly win and they'll all be wearing a wire.
What about the whales that are lefty, or even wrong?
What terrible spelling and word use. I assume that since it's after 5PM, you have already slipped your brains through slot in door.
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They are definitley not to the level of Battlestar, but that's really high-end compared
Yet BG still seems to hire exclusively hungover camera operators with delirium tremens.
math is high stress occupation (try having as your job to push your mind to the very limit of its ability every day)
What, don't you have a calculator?
BRL-CAD and Google will probably take it slow. I can't wait to see what it develops into in 2-3 years. The big boys in the CAD market have had their way for far too long - let's see what a few thousand developers can make this into.
If nothing else, it should light a fire under some asses.
In Canada, where lawyer advertising is not existent (illegal?) we are now seeing TV ads promoting pardons from specialty companies. The ads more often than not play upon people's fears of possibly not being able to travel outside of the country due to past legal transgressions.
I somehow doubt that violent or sex offenders would be able to successfully use the services but I can see where the FUD is embedded and hopefully taken advantage of for profit.
was he just indulging in the traditional military fondness for capital letters?
The closest thing to programmers and detail-obsessed, white collar tech software workers before computers came along were draftsmen (your heritage) and we used to write in all caps because *everything* we carefully inked-out on treated, bleached mammoth skin was important. I don't mean to boast, but I did one of the first revisions on the drawings for the original trebuchet. Mariano was quite pissed when I erased flaming turds as the projectile.
Don't forget BRL-CAD (open-source 3D solids modeling) which now has been added to Google's Summer of Code program. Not easy to get into or understand, but excellent potential, given its origins (core not written by amateurs).
Are you an American?
An ad hominem attack is no more valid in a scientific political discussion than any other discussion.
The words you replied to was not an ad hominem attack. You just dismissed his statement with a, "it's no fair calling me names"-type statement. You ARE right though, in that this is a political matter, not a scientific one.
We only have a hope of preparing for it if we start early.
Which of course means that trillions of dollars must be spent (or committed to be spent) now, to stave-off a possible catastrophic future which may or may not occur in 50 or so years, all the while relying on iffy, vague empirical data collection methods to track our "progress" during the project.
Surely the cost of gasoline these days is encouraging and welcome, as it will eventually wean people off oil dependence and even higher taxes on polluting power sources should be implemented. So what if it impacts the economy of the western world for a few generations, we have to SAVE THE PLANET even though emerging industrial societies with much larger populations don't go along with the effort.
But until some evidence of that is uncovered, I'm going to trust the nice, testable, repeatable climate models
[Here I'm assuming you are referring to computer/software models being accurate in their prediction of the scariness, inevitability and possible catastrophe of "the-science-is-settled" AGW]
You: why don't ordered and unordered lists work anymore?
Very amusing, was that intentional or irony or both?
Isn't it amazing how there are now so many "experts on everything" (especially those selling doom'n'gloom; there must be a profit motive and/or knee-jerk reaction to the Evils of Western Society in there somewhere)?
Please mod parent up.
It's doubled in the past ten years. Either it was grossly underfunded before -- a possibility -- or it's administered in a grossly inefficiently fashion now.
Have you factored-in aging "baby boomers" into this evaluation? My understanding is that's a very large consideration.
underware = 0xyoudontwannaknow
OT: I went through a department store today where I saw a sign directing me to "Men's Underfashions".
WTF? Are they insinuating that my Homer Simpson boxers are not trendy enough?
I avoid all these pesky security problems by ensuring that all information I transmit electronically is full of spelling and grammatical errors (so as to fly under the filters of spies) and is also full of nonsense, gobbledygook, wrongly interpreted statements and assumptions and is factually inaccurate to boot.
The sneaky would-be interceptors of my super important internet communications have yet to notice this clever defense. What fools!
Yeah, why not? At the very least it'll tie a show directly to a sponsor and not a shady, secretive, manipulative, hard-to-reach advertising agency. Go for it, I say.
You had me there, right up to the point where you wrote, "I used to write regular parodies of The Young and the Restless".
Perhaps my assumption that you were actually *watching* that show for fodder to write your parodies is wrong though.
Now the show will be abut toothpaste, as a topic.
As Seinfeld demonstrated, you can probably get at least 2 episodes out of that concept. And refer back to it at least 7 times successfully using the laugh track.
I honestly thought there was a monster under my bed last night during the initial shake.
The last time I experienced an earthquake was, oh, 25 or so years ago in Montreal while I was in a bank guy's office co-signing a loan. Both parties on either side of the desk thought the other party had a "nervous leg" and was vibrating the desk. No recoverable coins fell out of the banker, unfortunately, but the loan went through.
That's likely because you're wearing the tinfoil hat these days.
Joking aside, that's a good idea.
Ever heard Steve Martin's 'Googlephonics' stand-up bit? Come to think of it, doesn't this use of the word, "Google" predate the search engine?