My hamster runs around in his own clear plastic sphere!
My cat has been nagging me to build her a go-kart.
My wife has her own bicycle...
My, my, my...
The vast majority of computer geeks who don't know the difference between the words "then" and "than".
Especially since on a daily basis they use IF/THEN statements and use the ">" symbol to denote "greater than". One would think that they'd have some sort of clue as to their grammatical missteps.
The first Earth Day (which took place at least twelve years before your birth... therefore I'll continue this answer with a nod to your nascent seriousness) had the hippies screaming about neither.
Those hippies (peers of _your_ parents who voted for Nixon-- an excellent environmentalist President he was-- troubled and dishonest but not a nutcase) knew only about the "Silent Spring" sort of problems.
The examples that you so glibly cite were NOT common knowledge.
I don't know what your "watermellon" reference means. I'm gonna bet that makes, at least, two of us.
Now, if you are being serious... (although from the rosy-hue of your many neck-flabs, I doubt it)... I suggest you do your own research into the time period in question.
I've provided you with a couple of clues which you might use as starting points in my second sentence above.
Only economists (or 2rd year students of the subject) believe that technological leaps can mitigate ecological disaster.
They are mostly wrong... and mostly (modern day--post Reagan nutcase example) Republican.
Econimists also like to plot an amazing amount of disparate data onto one graph and call the whole thing a "curve".
What this debate is about is NOT what MALTHUS was warning about. When are the young geeks gonna learn that a semester does not a philosopher/poet/thinker make?
Yes, indeed.
And they (People) should register each and every time they buy milk!
I don't want to hear folks belatedly whine that they are lactose intolerant-- and hence require free milk sugar reducing medicines-- without some clear evidence (a tattoo on the forehead, perhaps?) that they previously registered all cheese purchases.
What a bloody good idea. Registration. And forehead tatooing, too.
--I hope I never see my (this) post... 'cause ya'll are gonna mod the parent into "Not getting it" dimwit-oblivion!
We're comparing the work of SIX monkeys with the potential work of ALL monkeys (forever never ending) and we can't see just how amazing the accomplishment of those Six was?
Six monkeys as compared to infinite monkeys is pretty damned close to NO MONKEYS AT ALL!!!
Wow! Those few monkeys probably came up with the monkey equivalent of the human Romance Novel. Shakespeare it is not, but a hell of a start for practically no monkeys at all.
Someone should be funding a "Computers in Zoos and Rain Forests" initiative.
I lived in the U.S. of A. when the first Pong-clone games hit the market, and I begged my parents to buy me one! They said, "You're NOT screwing up OUR television with that stupid game!" Finally they got a 13 inch black&white set and on my 13th birthday in the United States they bought a Pong game.
What's interesting about this, though, is I'm quite a bit older than this fellow and I'm not English, but I have a greater command of the English language.
And I've NEVER been confused by the lack of coin slots on my home appliances.
What's interesting about this? Hmm... in fact nothing. I became confused as an adult.
That's the bit that jumped out at me, too. My imagination tells me the following scene will take place in the near future:
"Alright, he's asked to see the documents, better start opening the cages!"
:: Hundreds of well trained monkeys are let out to scamper amongst the file cabinets each armed with a red-inked stamp pad and a large rubber stamp which reads "LAITNEDIFNOC":: -----------
I have always thought that the whole point was:
It's a Rental Car.
LI> You buy the expensive insurance.
You abuse the heck out of the vehicle.
You return it with a big satisfied smile.
Rental Car company grumbles about its trashed car but won't do anything 'cause it's insured.
You eventually end up on some super secret "No Rent" blacklist-- but, hey, you've been able to wreck a lot of rental cars by then! Then again, I'm probably just one of those anti-social "Runs With Scissors" sort of people.
Uh... you could have them call you in Pleasant Hill? Of course even _you_ don't make your music easy to find.
The "We want to trade unknown bands' music!" argument is hooey. WE want free-beer.
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FYI: I think the script that makes TFA too irritating to read is the one that comes from
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...I know that I won't read any crap from PhysOrg ever again.
What's a "dog sky"?
It's much the same as a bird sky, which quite common. However a dog sky is a lot rarer than a even pig sky.
My hamster runs around in his own clear plastic sphere! My cat has been nagging me to build her a go-kart. My wife has her own bicycle... My, my, my...
Or... Serious damage. To my reputation. My tenure! Yikes! Mea Culpa.
The vast majority of computer geeks who don't know the difference between the words "then" and "than".
Especially since on a daily basis they use IF/THEN statements and use the ">" symbol to denote "greater than". One would think that they'd have some sort of clue as to their grammatical missteps.
Or was the preceding just ironic?
Those hippies (peers of _your_ parents who voted for Nixon-- an excellent environmentalist President he was-- troubled and dishonest but not a nutcase) knew only about the "Silent Spring" sort of problems.
The examples that you so glibly cite were NOT common knowledge.
I don't know what your "watermellon" reference means. I'm gonna bet that makes, at least, two of us.
Now, if you are being serious... (although from the rosy-hue of your many neck-flabs, I doubt it)... I suggest you do your own research into the time period in question.
I've provided you with a couple of clues which you might use as starting points in my second sentence above.
Only economists (or 2rd year students of the subject) believe that technological leaps can mitigate ecological disaster.
They are mostly wrong... and mostly (modern day--post Reagan nutcase example) Republican.
Econimists also like to plot an amazing amount of disparate data onto one graph and call the whole thing a "curve". What this debate is about is NOT what MALTHUS was warning about. When are the young geeks gonna learn that a semester does not a philosopher/poet/thinker make?
I don't want to hear folks belatedly whine that they are lactose intolerant-- and hence require free milk sugar reducing medicines-- without some clear evidence (a tattoo on the forehead, perhaps?) that they previously registered all cheese purchases.
What a bloody good idea. Registration. And forehead tatooing, too.
--I hope I never see my (this) post... 'cause ya'll are gonna mod the parent into "Not getting it" dimwit-oblivion!
We're comparing the work of SIX monkeys with the potential work of ALL monkeys (forever never ending) and we can't see just how amazing the accomplishment of those Six was? Six monkeys as compared to infinite monkeys is pretty damned close to NO MONKEYS AT ALL!!! Wow! Those few monkeys probably came up with the monkey equivalent of the human Romance Novel. Shakespeare it is not, but a hell of a start for practically no monkeys at all. Someone should be funding a "Computers in Zoos and Rain Forests" initiative.
What's interesting about this, though, is I'm quite a bit older than this fellow and I'm not English, but I have a greater command of the English language.
And I've NEVER been confused by the lack of coin slots on my home appliances.
What's interesting about this? Hmm... in fact nothing.
I became confused as an adult.
My imagination tells me the following scene will take place in the near future:
"Alright, he's asked to see the documents, better start opening the cages!"
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(No "That's not a mirror image" comments needed)
Umm... What exactly are they doing to folks down there that causes their knees to blow out?
Uh... you could have them call you in Pleasant Hill? Of course even _you_ don't make your music easy to find. The "We want to trade unknown bands' music!" argument is hooey. WE want free-beer.
It doesn't matter to me. I stopped wearing Dockers long ago.