[i]Snopes readers... Who are generally somewhat cautious, skeptical or suspicious sorts, if only because they're most likely there to debunk some urban legend that's been going around... Are going to blindly install a shady virus scanner from a pop-up window ad.[/i]
Um, I don't send people to Snopes because they were cautious, skeptical, or suspicious. I send them to Snopes because they forwarded me an email about how a little girl in Indiana went missing and if you just forward it to your friends some company will donate $1 to the save the little girl fund or some garbage like that.
These are EXACTLY the type of people who will click on the flashy icon that says "Click here"
It's entirely subjective, but the Galaxy does have eastern, western, northern, and southern "sides". You can't find them with a compass but when discussing the structure of the galaxy people have to be able to discern one part from another, and using words we already know makes sense.
"The formulas provided by Wolfram for these [44] rules are not minimal. Moreover for 8 of these cannot be minimal even by simple inspection since minimal formula sizes for 3-input Boolean functions over this basis never exceeds 5."
2. Since when did knowing about an alternative browser make you smart?
Knowledge of random facts is linked to intelligence all the time. It's the basis of the show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? and it pisses me off every time I see it (people linking knowledge of facts with intelligence. I wouldn't watch the show).
Considering the teacher reported it as ".exe" that leads me to believe there was some sort of process monitoring going on, and the teacher saw that this one computer, presumably in a lab (else how could they monitor a personal laptop) which leads me to believe that the student DID install Firefox on school property and therefore broke the rules and should be punished.
Any chance that I would be outraged by this, which was quite low to begin with, has faded.
I'm sure the student sat the teacher down and explained the pros and cons of Firefox vs IE in a clear and respectful manner, and didn't say "Shut up, hehe, I'm using Firefox. It's better than your crappy IE!"
If you are a jerk to a teacher, you get detention. I knew this when I was in school. When has it failed to be common knowledge?
I'd also like to know if the computer was the student's own or a school one. If it's a school computer, then all bets are off. If it's the student's, I would have said that I don't have IE.
But seemingly US and West pays now for their lack of involvement of helping Russia to scurb corruption, investigating old crimes and anything else.
I know. If only Russia had been a small Middle Eastern country we'd have gone in and fixed up their entire government. Maybe next time we'll do the right thing, assuming we're all done with this terrorist thing.
If I remember correctly, they claimed that without a large moon, Earth's rotational angle would wobble wildly at times and a single pole would point toward the sun all year round for millions of years, like Uranus. (Recent research suggests that Mars has done this in the past.) This allegedly would slow the formation of life.
Uranus doesn't point one pole at the sun year round. It points one pole at the same area in its "sky" year round.
Imagine if our north star wasn't Polaris, but instead, say, Aldebaran (Which is in Taurus). When the sun is in Taurus, the North pole would point at the sun. 6 months later, the South pole would point at the sun. In "spring" and "autumn" the sun would be over the equator.
So north and south of the equator, you'd have 6 months of darkness (read: COLD) and 6 months of light (read: HOT). On the equator, the sun would, over the course of a year, go from the southern horizon to the northern horizon, and back. When it was significantly above the horizon, it would rise and set in much the way it does now.
No idea if that'd be habitable or not, but it would assuredly not be "fairly stable"
I use Garageband.com which is a poor (but still present) substitute for mp3.com back when it was good.
I also listen to many many many podcasts that highlight great artists and link to their websites every week. If you listen to the right shows, you can be guaranteed that the music comes from indy bands (As the RIAA music is illegal to play on a podcast without paying, which most podcasters can't afford as they do their shows for free).
Christmas is a neverending chore as soon as you're perceived to be have enough disposable income to buy presents.
Which is why, as I get older, I feel more and more sorry for Scrooge at the beginning of A Christmas Carol. If everybody around me thought the entire month of December was a time where I should give them money and forgive their debts, despite the fact that they tease me both behind my back and to my face... I think I'd be a bit grumpy too.
When Coke realizes that nobody's watching their commercials, it may get expensive to watch Heroes.
I don't know how much advertising (that I don't watch, thanks to my DVR) subsidizes my TV watching, but I do know that I wouldn't pay that much more than I currently pay for TV. Does that mean the end of TV? I like a small number of shows. If they're too expensive for me to pay for (or worse, too expensive for enough people, but not me, so the shows go bankrupt even though I'd happily pay) will I lament the good old days when the corporations helped fund them?
Is that worse than it is now?
I don't know. But this post is brought to you by Gatorade, with the electrolytes that plants love.
I believe his point was that if you give someone a gun and a badge, the moon could be falling from the sky and they'd *still* try to pick on some innocent bystander.
Protip: When you use the I-am-a-political-tard word "quagmire", you raise a really, really big flag that more or less says you're a dipshit. The only people who use it are Democratic commentators and Cindy Sheehan types.
And current vice presidents back when they weren't in power.
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It's actually 13 inches per hogshead, which is what they expected.
No problems here.
I fully expect, as they're dragging him away, him to yell, "But.... but I'm INVINCIBLE!"
[i]Snopes readers... Who are generally somewhat cautious, skeptical or suspicious sorts, if only because they're most likely there to debunk some urban legend that's been going around... Are going to blindly install a shady virus scanner from a pop-up window ad.[/i]
Um, I don't send people to Snopes because they were cautious, skeptical, or suspicious. I send them to Snopes because they forwarded me an email about how a little girl in Indiana went missing and if you just forward it to your friends some company will donate $1 to the save the little girl fund or some garbage like that.
These are EXACTLY the type of people who will click on the flashy icon that says "Click here"
You wait a while and check again to see if it moved.
It's entirely subjective, but the Galaxy does have eastern, western, northern, and southern "sides". You can't find them with a compass but when discussing the structure of the galaxy people have to be able to discern one part from another, and using words we already know makes sense.
My problem isn't that he said it so much as realized it this year and changed his mind about it.
But I guess we all move at different speeds.
"The formulas provided by Wolfram for these [44] rules are not minimal. Moreover for 8 of these cannot be minimal even by simple inspection since minimal formula sizes for 3-input Boolean functions over this basis never exceeds 5."
Oh, SNAP!
I am not affiliated with Spreadshirt, but have talked with people who are and, according to them, Chuck Norris owns that shop.
So, not only should he not be suing, he can actually sue this publisher saying they're cutting into his profit using his IP.
And yeah, $20 for a text-only T-shirt is extreme.
2. Since when did knowing about an alternative browser make you smart?
Knowledge of random facts is linked to intelligence all the time. It's the basis of the show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? and it pisses me off every time I see it (people linking knowledge of facts with intelligence. I wouldn't watch the show).
Considering the teacher reported it as ".exe" that leads me to believe there was some sort of process monitoring going on, and the teacher saw that this one computer, presumably in a lab (else how could they monitor a personal laptop) which leads me to believe that the student DID install Firefox on school property and therefore broke the rules and should be punished.
Any chance that I would be outraged by this, which was quite low to begin with, has faded.
I'm sure the student sat the teacher down and explained the pros and cons of Firefox vs IE in a clear and respectful manner, and didn't say "Shut up, hehe, I'm using Firefox. It's better than your crappy IE!"
If you are a jerk to a teacher, you get detention. I knew this when I was in school. When has it failed to be common knowledge?
I'd also like to know if the computer was the student's own or a school one. If it's a school computer, then all bets are off. If it's the student's, I would have said that I don't have IE.
Amusing, the GP didn't say he was the one saying it. I assumed that she said it all the time, giggling each time.
It is possible to make a joke that uses puns and race, without being a horrible horrible racist.
Actually, W is approximately (to the nearest 1/10th) 9/10ths of Z, so WAA is the base-26 equivalent of 911.
QED.
Yeah, if you buy coke and a popcorn together, it's only $10.
And did they do a sister study about how paying $15 a ticket and $5 for popcorn makes you love movies even more?
Though, this would explain why I liked Star Wars Episode 1 better than Episodes 2 and 3.
I do! I learned it on YouTube!
But seemingly US and West pays now for their lack of involvement of helping Russia to scurb corruption, investigating old crimes and anything else.
I know. If only Russia had been a small Middle Eastern country we'd have gone in and fixed up their entire government. Maybe next time we'll do the right thing, assuming we're all done with this terrorist thing.
If I remember correctly, they claimed that without a large moon, Earth's rotational angle would wobble wildly at times and a single pole would point toward the sun all year round for millions of years, like Uranus. (Recent research suggests that Mars has done this in the past.) This allegedly would slow the formation of life.
Uranus doesn't point one pole at the sun year round. It points one pole at the same area in its "sky" year round.
Imagine if our north star wasn't Polaris, but instead, say, Aldebaran (Which is in Taurus). When the sun is in Taurus, the North pole would point at the sun. 6 months later, the South pole would point at the sun. In "spring" and "autumn" the sun would be over the equator.
So north and south of the equator, you'd have 6 months of darkness (read: COLD) and 6 months of light (read: HOT). On the equator, the sun would, over the course of a year, go from the southern horizon to the northern horizon, and back. When it was significantly above the horizon, it would rise and set in much the way it does now.
No idea if that'd be habitable or not, but it would assuredly not be "fairly stable"
I use Garageband.com which is a poor (but still present) substitute for mp3.com back when it was good.
I also listen to many many many podcasts that highlight great artists and link to their websites every week. If you listen to the right shows, you can be guaranteed that the music comes from indy bands (As the RIAA music is illegal to play on a podcast without paying, which most podcasters can't afford as they do their shows for free).
Among the shows I listen to:
PMC Top 10
Accident Hash
Insomnia Radio
RubyFruit Radio
The Chillcast
XY Rocks
Eclectic Mix
And, my own show (which is currently on an unplanned hiatus, but I'll be starting it again soon)
The Good Music Show
Christmas is a neverending chore as soon as you're perceived to be have enough disposable income to buy presents.
Which is why, as I get older, I feel more and more sorry for Scrooge at the beginning of A Christmas Carol. If everybody around me thought the entire month of December was a time where I should give them money and forgive their debts, despite the fact that they tease me both behind my back and to my face... I think I'd be a bit grumpy too.
When Coke realizes that nobody's watching their commercials, it may get expensive to watch Heroes.
I don't know how much advertising (that I don't watch, thanks to my DVR) subsidizes my TV watching, but I do know that I wouldn't pay that much more than I currently pay for TV. Does that mean the end of TV? I like a small number of shows. If they're too expensive for me to pay for (or worse, too expensive for enough people, but not me, so the shows go bankrupt even though I'd happily pay) will I lament the good old days when the corporations helped fund them?
Is that worse than it is now?
I don't know. But this post is brought to you by Gatorade, with the electrolytes that plants love.
Yeah! You can have your flying car. I want an armchair rocket!
I believe his point was that if you give someone a gun and a badge, the moon could be falling from the sky and they'd *still* try to pick on some innocent bystander.
What could possibly go wrong? I mean, I'd love my cruise ship to get checked out by the naval equivalent of ED-209.
"YOU HAVE 10 SECONDS TO COMPLY"
Protip: When you use the I-am-a-political-tard word "quagmire", you raise a really, really big flag that more or less says you're a dipshit. The only people who use it are Democratic commentators and Cindy Sheehan types.
And current vice presidents back when they weren't in power.