Stuff that sinks in the ocean tends to be lost for a long time. Absent a tedious, obsessive magnetometer scan of the Indian and Antarctic Oceans, I would expect the missing airliner to be undiscovered for rather longer than these British ships.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the best thing anybody could ever do for humanity is take every single religious text and destroy them, the evil they cause far outweighs the good.
Destroy History
I'd settle for moving all the religious texts to the proper section, i.e. Historical Fantasy. But they'd have a hard time competing with Conan The Barbarian.
So all things being equal, you're asking me who I trust with my best interests more, Nature or Monsanto?
Look, I dislike most of what Monsanto does as much as the rest of ya, but if I had to randomly select a bunch of mushrooms from nature vs. randomly selecting a bunch of GMO mushrooms from Monsanto, I think I know which group is less likely to kill me.
Much as I'd like to build up a self-navigating boat, that's above my skill level. But let me put in a plug here for Tippecanoe Boats . Will's kits are pretty easy to build, quite customizable, and a blast to sail.
I have engineering students in college who use the "10^x" button for scientific notation instead of "EE" (or whatever it's called on your calculator), and so when asked to calculate 4/(2e3) will end up with 2000 instead of 0.002 (because they type 4 / 2 x 10^3).
Which demonstrates their lack of understanding of that particular computer(calculator)'s syntax, and has nothing whatsoever to do with their understanding of engineering principles, engineering math, or engineering methodologies.
when i was in high school i wrote a short story about a girlfriends parents not liking me, so i killed them, and hid their bodies in snowmen so no one found them until spring.
Yes, but as was sensibly pointed out by J. Randi, most "tests" to date are invalid. Man goes out in field, picks spot, digs, behold water. Dowsing works!
Except that's not how a valid test goes. Challenge a dowser to find a spot which does NOT have water below. Dig there. Guess what'll happen.
If I read TFA correctly, this only stays submerged because the quad fans (ok, screws) are madly driving water vertically. Somehow I don't see this as enhancing the view, especially if one gets near the ocean floor and significant sand/sediment is stirred up.
If only there were some sort of software that would backup your Ipod and it's data including the music. We could call it I touch music or maybe Itunes or something.
Oh, please. You really never heard of software (hey, Microsoft Office, your ears burning?) which locks itself to the serial number of the CPU or equivalent hardware?
Murder is a bad thing (let's at least agree on that). So why is the beheading of one person so drastically more awful than the deliberate killing (usually with a gun) of thousands of people whose only crime was not practising the exact same brand of Islam as ISIS? Does nobody here, or at YouFaceTubeBook, care that ISIS is deliberately killing whole villages? Would it have been OK to kill a kidnapped journalist with a Kevorkian cocktail?
Instead of having software automatically remove every alleged infracting page, how about having the software automatically send a notice back informing the complainant of a lack of credible evidence, and dropping all the takedown notices into some summer intern's Inbox?
Let's face it, the Onion is a well known satyrical news site and there is no real confusion about it's satyrical[sic] nature for most open minded people with a well developed sense of humor.
This exact topic has been on/. several times. I will not be in the least surprised to see the exact same collection of wildass FUD claims in the comments.
/. may be a software-centric site, but those of us in mechanical, electrical, optical, materials, and other branches of engineering are in the same basic position. But sadly, even in businesses which promote engineers into senior roles end up respecting people primarily on the basis of how many direct reports (that's the term for peons whose salaries they determine) they control. Until you're able to rate people by the quality/quantity of output regardless of altitude in the org chart, this problem will continue.
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Golf would be my choice.
Show me how far I am from the next hole.
Ok, do you want the result in:
1) yards
2) meters
3) Libraries of Congress
4) Strokes
?
Stuff that sinks in the ocean tends to be lost for a long time. Absent a tedious, obsessive magnetometer scan of the Indian and Antarctic Oceans, I would expect the missing airliner to be undiscovered for rather longer than these British ships.
I don't suppose the patient's last name happens to be Picard?
No, heart replacement is not what is meant by The Picard Maneuver :-)
Go learn brainfuck and whitespace, and see how many jobs you can get with *those two* under your belt.
(and LolCode, too!)
Fine a baseball thrown by a varsity high school player
Is that a European school or a South African school?
(well, somebody had to ask!)
Dave's not here, man....
Yea, I know, he's on Europa, at least that's where he's been for the last 4 years or so.. Just go with the flow of the joke... ;)
You damn young kids getting WHOOSHED again by us seniors. Now get offa my C&C LP collection... err, I mean lawn.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the best thing anybody could ever do for humanity is take every single religious text and destroy them, the evil they cause far outweighs the good.
Destroy History
I'd settle for moving all the religious texts to the proper section, i.e. Historical Fantasy.
But they'd have a hard time competing with Conan The Barbarian.
And, yah, I should be careful about responding to a coffee thread with a comment about mushrooms.
Just leave it at: There may or may not be any toxic relatives of the coffee plant in nature.
Um, evolution in most plants is "trying to make them taste BAD", otherwise, they... get eaten.
You got any idea how / why there is yummy fruit surrounding a seed?
So all things being equal, you're asking me who I trust with my best interests more, Nature or Monsanto?
Look, I dislike most of what Monsanto does as much as the rest of ya, but if I had to randomly select a bunch of mushrooms from nature vs. randomly selecting a bunch of GMO mushrooms from Monsanto, I think I know which group is less likely to kill me.
Much as I'd like to build up a self-navigating boat, that's above my skill level. But let me put in a plug here for Tippecanoe Boats . Will's kits are pretty easy to build, quite customizable, and a blast to sail.
I have engineering students in college who use the "10^x" button for scientific notation instead of "EE" (or whatever it's called on your calculator), and so when asked to calculate 4/(2e3) will end up with 2000 instead of 0.002 (because they type 4 / 2 x 10^3).
Which demonstrates their lack of understanding of that particular computer(calculator)'s syntax, and has nothing whatsoever to do with their understanding of engineering principles, engineering math, or engineering methodologies.
You're testing the wrong thing.
when i was in high school i wrote a short story about a girlfriends parents not liking me, so i killed them, and hid their bodies in snowmen so no one found them until spring.
this was in 1999 after 4/20/1999
I got an A
So..... home-schooled, eh?
What does XKCD stand for actually? I always wondered.
The Xavier Kenneally College of Dentistry, natch!
(disclaimer: GLR wrote that somewhere, not me)
And if yr not an OTTer, you probably don't care anyway.
Dowsing is an objectively testable claim.
Yes, but as was sensibly pointed out by J. Randi, most "tests" to date are invalid. Man goes out in field, picks spot, digs, behold water. Dowsing works!
Except that's not how a valid test goes. Challenge a dowser to find a spot which does NOT have water below. Dig there. Guess what'll happen.
If I read TFA correctly, this only stays submerged because the quad fans (ok, screws) are madly driving water vertically. Somehow I don't see this as enhancing the view, especially if one gets near the ocean floor and significant sand/sediment is stirred up.
civilization existed prior to the rule of law. It was just less pleasant for the non-elites.
You're defining "law" too narrowly. Think of it more in Judge Dredd terms.
If only there were some sort of software that would backup your Ipod and it's data including the music. We could call it I touch music or maybe Itunes or something.
Oh, please. You really never heard of software (hey, Microsoft Office, your ears burning?) which locks itself to the serial number of the CPU or equivalent hardware?
Murder is a bad thing (let's at least agree on that). So why is the beheading of one person so drastically more awful than the deliberate killing (usually with a gun) of thousands of people whose only crime was not practising the exact same brand of Islam as ISIS? Does nobody here, or at YouFaceTubeBook, care that ISIS is deliberately killing whole villages?
Would it have been OK to kill a kidnapped journalist with a Kevorkian cocktail?
And who's inch? The Danish classic inch and the British aren't even the same.
Oblig: lose the damn apos'trophe there.
Anyway, it was Hedwig's .
Instead of having software automatically remove every alleged infracting page, how about having the software automatically send a notice back informing the complainant of a lack of credible evidence, and dropping all the takedown notices into some summer intern's Inbox?
I mean, jeez...
Take the what? Is this my browser? I don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Take the comma, ... please //rimshot
Thanks folks, I'll be here all week. Try the Snakehead.
Let's face it, the Onion is a well known satyrical news site and there is no real confusion about it's satyrical[sic] nature for most open minded people with a well developed sense of humor.
Which rules out most FB users. Have you not heard of http://literallyunbelievable.org?
This exact topic has been on /. several times. I will not be in the least surprised to see the exact same collection of wildass FUD claims in the comments.
/. may be a software-centric site, but those of us in mechanical, electrical, optical, materials, and other branches of engineering are in the same basic position. But sadly, even in businesses which promote engineers into senior roles end up respecting people primarily on the basis of how many direct reports (that's the term for peons whose salaries they determine) they control. Until you're able to rate people by the quality/quantity of output regardless of altitude in the org chart, this problem will continue.