I purchased breadmaker recently. An Australian model, marketing to the Australia and New Zealand marketplaces.
The manual / recipe book informed me that, in Australia, a tablespoon is 20ml, whereas in New Zealand it is 15ml. The book was standardised on the Australian system, so I had to convert all the measurements before I could use them...
(the moral of the story: if you want 20ml of something, just specify 20ml!)
If you think that's bad, check out the real world some time. I mean, can you believe people still play tennis? Or soccer? Hell, I tried a new sport a few years ago, one I'd never heard of, and it turns out they've been playing it in the Netherlands for a flipping hundred years.
Reminds me of the reserve bank governor here talking recently about the financial crisis. To "help" people get a sense of scale, he pointed out that one trillion dollar bills, end-to-end, would reach most of the way to the sun and back.
Because that's what you do, right? You look at your mortgage and think: "almost down to 1/5,000,000 of the distance from the earth to the sun.. maybe we can afford 1/500,000,000 to spend on a new TV."
I live in Wellington, NZ; theatres sometimes do unassigned seating and it's a real pain IMHO. Assigned seating means that if I plan ahead, I can pick up tickets for good seats when there's no queues, and then wander into the theatre 10 minutes after it "started" so that I miss the ads..
I was reading about the middle ages recently - apparently the black plague was great news for those who survived it. On the one hand, the labour shortage lead to increased wages for peasants, and on the other hand, there was a massive grain surplus so food prices dropped.
The government pays the prison a fixed fee per prisoner, based on the crime committed. The prison is free to do with the prisoner as they wish, including releasing them whenever they want. However, if the prisoner commits another crime within some specified period, the prison has to pay a large penalty fee.
(all fees would be negotiated, or perhaps the prisons would specify them in their tender for the contract and the government would choose)
The idea is that prisons have a financial incentive to turn prisoners into useful members of society as quickly as they can.
So, the standard way of programatically querying databases, which is easier than building and escaping your own queries, and which makes you completely immune to SQL injection, is generally unavailable in a very popular combination of website technologies?
Also, this could be interesting, if a bit different: Unit Polyhedron Origami by Tomoko Fuse. Basically, unit origami is about building large shapes by making many small modules and combining them. It can be quite fascinating from a geometry perspective: given a square piece of paper and no other tools, the book will show you how to construct an equilateral triangle, or a regular pentagon, or a regular hexagon. In fact, not only construct them, but with pockets and tabs so you can join them together.
The best place to bag a few is down at local clothing stores. Just watch out 'cause they camouflage amongst the real ones, and you can't even do catch-and-release with those.
Fallout 1&2 had drugs like buffout, mentats, psycho, etc. Bethesda announce that they're having problems getting F3 rated in Aus, because of the drug use. They announce a compromise has been reached, where they will change the drug names to made-up names like buffout, mentats, psycho, etc. Oh, and they're making the change world-wide.
Result: extra publicity for the game, and Bethesda get a rather violent game (it's R18 here in NZ) a low rating.
And can you imagine the fallout (no pun intended) amongst fans if they released the game and didn't use the canon drug names?
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I purchased breadmaker recently. An Australian model, marketing to the Australia and New Zealand marketplaces.
The manual / recipe book informed me that, in Australia, a tablespoon is 20ml, whereas in New Zealand it is 15ml. The book was standardised on the Australian system, so I had to convert all the measurements before I could use them...
(the moral of the story: if you want 20ml of something, just specify 20ml!)
Maybe god uses emacs in
If you think that's bad, check out the real world some time. I mean, can you believe people still play tennis? Or soccer? Hell, I tried a new sport a few years ago, one I'd never heard of, and it turns out they've been playing it in the Netherlands for a flipping hundred years.
And don't even get me started on chess...
Anita Blake. In particular.
I looked him up on wikipedia. Let's see. He's discovered:
Truly, this man is a genius!
Can you point to any examples of civilizations (either now or in history) where there is or has been no taxation?
I think I now know what it's like when Americans overhear people talking about cricket.
The whitespace is present in the source.
Perhaps more accurately demonstrates why restricted-html web pages as code repositories suck.
Mains voltage here is 230V. But
doesn't have the same flow, y'know?
All you need is a wall socket that can deliver 25,000W!
Note to self: pick up some 100A fuses on the way home.
Yeah, but how do you find them?
"Are you a liar?" "No."
"Is 'no' the answer to this question?"
Reminds me of the reserve bank governor here talking recently about the financial crisis. To "help" people get a sense of scale, he pointed out that one trillion dollar bills, end-to-end, would reach most of the way to the sun and back.
Because that's what you do, right? You look at your mortgage and think: "almost down to 1/5,000,000 of the distance from the earth to the sun.. maybe we can afford 1/500,000,000 to spend on a new TV."
I live in Wellington, NZ; theatres sometimes do unassigned seating and it's a real pain IMHO. Assigned seating means that if I plan ahead, I can pick up tickets for good seats when there's no queues, and then wander into the theatre 10 minutes after it "started" so that I miss the ads..
I was reading about the middle ages recently - apparently the black plague was great news for those who survived it. On the one hand, the labour shortage lead to increased wages for peasants, and on the other hand, there was a massive grain surplus so food prices dropped.
Ok, he made a mistake. But -1 Troll? WTF? There's nothing remotely trolling about this post.
What's more, it doesn't even make sense! The rover was designed in America; that means it will be specced for only 120 watts!
Remember, "traditional passwords" are things like "password", "123456", "1q2w3e" ...
An idea I had:
The government pays the prison a fixed fee per prisoner, based on the crime committed. The prison is free to do with the prisoner as they wish, including releasing them whenever they want. However, if the prisoner commits another crime within some specified period, the prison has to pay a large penalty fee.
(all fees would be negotiated, or perhaps the prisons would specify them in their tender for the contract and the government would choose)
The idea is that prisons have a financial incentive to turn prisoners into useful members of society as quickly as they can.
T+10 years: government bodies approve sea-sponge-enhanced antibiotics for use on humans.
T+12 years: patients start telling their doctor: "My friend told me regular antibiotics don't work. I want sea-sponge antibiotics!
T+17 years: sea-sponge resistent bacteria start to emerge because of patients not completing their courses.
But what about Ohm's Fourth Law, V/IR=1?
So, the standard way of programatically querying databases, which is easier than building and escaping your own queries, and which makes you completely immune to SQL injection, is generally unavailable in a very popular combination of website technologies?
WTF?
Martin Gardner's written a lot of amazing stuff. You could pick up a copy of The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems and then work through puzzles from it in groups.
Also, this could be interesting, if a bit different: Unit Polyhedron Origami by Tomoko Fuse. Basically, unit origami is about building large shapes by making many small modules and combining them. It can be quite fascinating from a geometry perspective: given a square piece of paper and no other tools, the book will show you how to construct an equilateral triangle, or a regular pentagon, or a regular hexagon. In fact, not only construct them, but with pockets and tabs so you can join them together.
Nah, you've gotta know their habits.
The best place to bag a few is down at local clothing stores. Just watch out 'cause they camouflage amongst the real ones, and you can't even do catch-and-release with those.
You ever wonder about Fallout 3?
Fallout 1&2 had drugs like buffout, mentats, psycho, etc. Bethesda announce that they're having problems getting F3 rated in Aus, because of the drug use. They announce a compromise has been reached, where they will change the drug names to made-up names like buffout, mentats, psycho, etc. Oh, and they're making the change world-wide.
Result: extra publicity for the game, and Bethesda get a rather violent game (it's R18 here in NZ) a low rating.
And can you imagine the fallout (no pun intended) amongst fans if they released the game and didn't use the canon drug names?