Federal investigators have released this video of a French citizen wanted in connection with an array of high-power green lasers aimed skyward.
Rumours that the "attack" was actually part of a concert were dismissed by US Federal Music Expert, Sam Confederate IV, who said "I know both types of music, and that there noise in the video ain't country *or* western."
However, attempts at having the suspect- known only as "Jimmy Shelljar"- deported from France to the United States have run into problems. A legal document, addressed to "Our bestest friend, Nicolas "L'Americaine" Sarkozy, The French White House, Paris, France" was returned marked "no longer at this address". In addition, scribbled underneath was a cartoon of a "cheese-eating surrender monkey" making an obscene gesture and the message, "Fuck you, arrogant Yankee scum! Signed President François "La Socialiste" Hollande".
Investigators believe that the suspect is motivated by frustration at not having released a worthwhile album in over ten years. More news as we get it.
I mean, they might have met, but the Pegomastax would have been really, really, *really* old by that time, and too set in his ways to accept this newfangled whippersnapper and his newfangled religion.
Er, dammit... I just rewatched it and hadn't realised that there was loads more animation after the "Who" titles (now that I know this, I Won't Get Fooled Again). The smaller egg thing actually made the same point anyway.:-(
My "multiple and repetitive posts" constituting a grand total of *two*, i.e. the minimum required for you to be technically correct, but not enough to avoid your response coming across as whiny exaggeration anyway.:-)
What is foursquare? I just looked and it looks like some cut-down facebook thingy
It's basically the most self-indulgent, navel-gazing, self-important-attention-whoring, up-their-own-arse and downright pointless aspects of social media distilled to a level of 100% pure worthlessness.
This is quite obviously another would-be public-attention-grabbing stunt along the lines of the Will.I.Am transmission a few weeks back, and it's open for debate which of the two are worse.
In fact why not rent rooms for an integer number of rotations
Your explicitly stating this implying that you thought some people might otherwise have considered renting them for a NON-integer number of rotations?!:-)
This might actually be fun.
More "interesting" than fun if one had stupidly rented a room for 4 1/2 rotations and they kicked you out of the room when your time was up:-O
Nothing wrong with Eurostile for what it is, just that in this case (where *any* tradeoff between legibility and style- however minor- might have an effect), it's probably not the best choice.
In fact, I'd say the fact that it's still "functional-looking" enough is how you could imagine car manufacturers using it in a dashboard whereas (e.g.) a black letter, or cursive/joined-up "handwriting" font would be much worse, but obviously so (and hence not likely to be chosen and hence not an issue here).
It seems that the closed letter forms of Grotesque type faces require slightly more time to read than open letter forms of Humanist type faces
This is true but incomplete; the study used Eurostile (apparently a Square Grotesque font), which is clearly less legible and a stronger example of those claimed issues than Helvetica. Helvetica is still a "Grotesque" type font).
I'm not saying that Helvetica is the perfect choice, or as good as a Humanist font, just that I suspect it doesn't suffer from this problem to anything like the same extent as Eurostile.
Or even just leather without physical imperfections, creases, etc.
Want to bet that if this lab-grown leather becomes successful, many people will latch on to those "imperfections" as a sign of "real" leather and it'll become more desirable?
This is harmless enough, but all that whimsy and old-worldiness tends to go to their heads, whereupon they take it upon themselves to behave like anti-fast-food fascists and try to kill the type of people who argue about the fine differences between Coke and Pepsi.
Er, actually, on second thoughts, I can't disagree with that;-)
Hell its worse than that, as we saw here a few months ago MSFT is paying $500+ in ads for every single user they get to pay $50 to take a Lumia on contract
Not defending what might still be a waste of money by MS, but comparing the supposed "$500+" cost of the ads to the $50 "cost" of the phone doesn't really say much since that $50 is the subsidised cost and can't meaningfully be considered in isolation from the obligatory contract.
I'd have paid $10 for some random piece of hardware I could say came from the space program
Yes, they should definitely be using eBay to target big spenders like you:-) Never mind, I'm sure your $10 will get you a couple of packs of officially-endorsed freeze-dried ice cream...
You realize paying for a prime membership is useless, since you can have 3 months for free with a a new account?
Just keep making new accounts every 3 months.
Have you actually done this yourself?
Surely they have something about this in the terms and conditions and a check in place to ensure that people don't keep doing this. My boss opened a second Merchant Account with Amazon.co.uk (under a slightly different name and email) some years after his first one had been closed following problems with customer service (*). Shortly afterwards they closed the new account claiming it was connected with an older one, but giving no explanation as to why. Given that (IIRC) this was shortly after we'd set up the bank details (or something similar), it was quite obvious that they had some sort of system set up to spot this sort of thing automatically.
(*) It should be made clear that this was Amazon's fault. I don't remember the exact details (I didn't work there at the time, and it was several years ago now), but apparently Amazon had repeatedly failed to notify us of orders that had been placed or pass on other essential details as they should have, with the result that we'd been given the blame. The new account was reinstated after we provided clear evidence to Amazon that the original problems had been due to their incompetence. Second time round I'm not saying it was perfect, but it wasn't that bad.
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No, no. That's *not* what the headline meant when it said "OS Upgrades Powered By Git".
I still think it's a bit rude to describe Linus as a "git", though.
Federal investigators have released this video of a French citizen wanted in connection with an array of high-power green lasers aimed skyward.
Rumours that the "attack" was actually part of a concert were dismissed by US Federal Music Expert, Sam Confederate IV, who said "I know both types of music, and that there noise in the video ain't country *or* western."
However, attempts at having the suspect- known only as "Jimmy Shelljar"- deported from France to the United States have run into problems. A legal document, addressed to "Our bestest friend, Nicolas "L'Americaine" Sarkozy, The French White House, Paris, France" was returned marked "no longer at this address". In addition, scribbled underneath was a cartoon of a "cheese-eating surrender monkey" making an obscene gesture and the message, "Fuck you, arrogant Yankee scum! Signed President François "La Socialiste" Hollande".
Investigators believe that the suspect is motivated by frustration at not having released a worthwhile album in over ten years. More news as we get it.
I wonder if Jesus ever saw one of these?
It's unlikely, as Jesus is of a species that only appeared in the late Cretaceous period, whereas Pegomastax (the "new" dinosaur) was found in rocks associated with the early Jurassic period.
I mean, they might have met, but the Pegomastax would have been really, really, *really* old by that time, and too set in his ways to accept this newfangled whippersnapper and his newfangled religion.
Wow, a new dinosaur. I thought they had been gone for many million years. Goes to show.
New as in "previously unidentified" not as in "recently appeared".
It's also believed that this particular dinosaur could fly, and made a distinctive "whoooooooshing" noise as it flew past. (^_^)
[My] 486DX-33Mhz cost me the equivalent of 12 weeks pay back in 92. The last PC I bought was a Dell Optiplex last year for about 2 days pay.
You make a good point, but can we also assume that you haven't accounted for the fact you were also (probably) getting paid a lot less back then?
For all you know, you were in your first "proper" job, or even 12 years old and delivering newspapers for $2 an hour!
Er, dammit... I just rewatched it and hadn't realised that there was loads more animation after the "Who" titles (now that I know this, I Won't Get Fooled Again). The smaller egg thing actually made the same point anyway. :-(
My "multiple and repetitive posts" constituting a grand total of *two*, i.e. the minimum required for you to be technically correct, but not enough to avoid your response coming across as whiny exaggeration anyway. :-)
Mayor of Mars? Or would it be more like God-Emperor by the time anyone else sets foot there?
I believe that the technically correct title for *any* Foursquare user is "Narcissistic, self-obsessed hipster scum". (^_^)
What is foursquare? I just looked and it looks like some cut-down facebook thingy
It's basically the most self-indulgent, navel-gazing, self-important-attention-whoring, up-their-own-arse and downright pointless aspects of social media distilled to a level of 100% pure worthlessness.
This is quite obviously another would-be public-attention-grabbing stunt along the lines of the Will.I.Am transmission a few weeks back, and it's open for debate which of the two are worse.
Surely he should have been shot *13* times for a real "Baker's Dozen"? :-O
Scotch Tape!
No, Scotch tape was created by the Americans. And you can tell- the damn stuff doesn't taste anything *like* a decent scotch.
In fact why not rent rooms for an integer number of rotations
Your explicitly stating this implying that you thought some people might otherwise have considered renting them for a NON-integer number of rotations?! :-)
This might actually be fun.
More "interesting" than fun if one had stupidly rented a room for 4 1/2 rotations and they kicked you out of the room when your time was up :-O
Laid-off guys can stop fretting about not being the one to "bring home the bacon", because nobody is
Pharamacists can get dihydrocodeinone enol acetate, which is fairly close.
Pissed-off weather balloon attacks CEO of LightSquared.
Orange juice is mostly water, so water is still the correct answer.
Human beings are mostly water, so I guess we can explain Mount Rushmore as "water erosion"? ;-)
This phenomenon has already been observed and even filmed for one creature, to the extent that the whole *body* was "regenerated".
I'm not sure whether or not this one is a "mammal" as we know it, though?
(Correction; second quote above is from article, not GP post)
Eurostile is a pretty terrible font
Nothing wrong with Eurostile for what it is, just that in this case (where *any* tradeoff between legibility and style- however minor- might have an effect), it's probably not the best choice.
In fact, I'd say the fact that it's still "functional-looking" enough is how you could imagine car manufacturers using it in a dashboard whereas (e.g.) a black letter, or cursive/joined-up "handwriting" font would be much worse, but obviously so (and hence not likely to be chosen and hence not an issue here).
It seems that the closed letter forms of Grotesque type faces require slightly more time to read than open letter forms of Humanist type faces
This is true but incomplete; the study used Eurostile (apparently a Square Grotesque font), which is clearly less legible and a stronger example of those claimed issues than Helvetica. Helvetica is still a "Grotesque" type font).
I'm not saying that Helvetica is the perfect choice, or as good as a Humanist font, just that I suspect it doesn't suffer from this problem to anything like the same extent as Eurostile.
Or even just leather without physical imperfections, creases, etc.
Want to bet that if this lab-grown leather becomes successful, many people will latch on to those "imperfections" as a sign of "real" leather and it'll become more desirable?
"If you EVERY see two people argue over which fastfood restaurant is the best, the Genevieve convention commands you to kill them both.
What the hell is the Genevieve convention??
It's where a bunch of people get together to watch an old British film about an even older French car.
;-)
This is harmless enough, but all that whimsy and old-worldiness tends to go to their heads, whereupon they take it upon themselves to behave like anti-fast-food fascists and try to kill the type of people who argue about the fine differences between Coke and Pepsi.
Er, actually, on second thoughts, I can't disagree with that
Hell its worse than that, as we saw here a few months ago MSFT is paying $500+ in ads for every single user they get to pay $50 to take a Lumia on contract
Not defending what might still be a waste of money by MS, but comparing the supposed "$500+" cost of the ads to the $50 "cost" of the phone doesn't really say much since that $50 is the subsidised cost and can't meaningfully be considered in isolation from the obligatory contract.
What surprised me from reading TFS was that Ubuntu only has 12.10 users.
What worries *me* is the ".10" of a user in there :-O
I'd have paid $10 for some random piece of hardware I could say came from the space program
Yes, they should definitely be using eBay to target big spenders like you :-) Never mind, I'm sure your $10 will get you a couple of packs of officially-endorsed freeze-dried ice cream...
You realize paying for a prime membership is useless, since you can have 3 months for free with a a new account? Just keep making new accounts every 3 months.
Have you actually done this yourself?
Surely they have something about this in the terms and conditions and a check in place to ensure that people don't keep doing this. My boss opened a second Merchant Account with Amazon.co.uk (under a slightly different name and email) some years after his first one had been closed following problems with customer service (*). Shortly afterwards they closed the new account claiming it was connected with an older one, but giving no explanation as to why. Given that (IIRC) this was shortly after we'd set up the bank details (or something similar), it was quite obvious that they had some sort of system set up to spot this sort of thing automatically.
(*) It should be made clear that this was Amazon's fault. I don't remember the exact details (I didn't work there at the time, and it was several years ago now), but apparently Amazon had repeatedly failed to notify us of orders that had been placed or pass on other essential details as they should have, with the result that we'd been given the blame. The new account was reinstated after we provided clear evidence to Amazon that the original problems had been due to their incompetence. Second time round I'm not saying it was perfect, but it wasn't that bad.
Hull.
Hull? Not going there, I'm afraid- it narrowly lost out to Los Angeles.