Yes, having the misfortune of having drunk methanol, you should a) get to the hospital ASAP b) get thoroughly sloshed.
As the quote said, ethanol is absorbed first, so you buy time while the gastric treatment is readied. Oh yes, it's best to have the entrails cleaned than being blind or dead, I'd say. Plus, you'll be too drunk to notice.
To be "fair", what they seem to be saying is that even though every existing song can be found on p2p, the money they're making is still increasing while p2p downloads aren't.
Hey, I'm talking about extensive use, and pointing out how a lot of people think. You're welcome to try and change every Latin american's mind. I'll be here waiting.
If we get to the sociopolitical definitions (necessary to define Europe, Africa and Asia as continents, where btw the main one is Eurasia to some, as you do point out), Latin-america and Anglo-america would be good separations. Or North-, Central- and South- (the latter separated by the Darien forest, the former by... the Rio Grande?). Or just South- and North-.
None of these take away the fact that, right or wrong, it's the way a lot of people think. When the continent was named, after Americo Vespucci, I don't think they meant "just the part under Canada and north of Mexico".
Lastly, the problem isn't so much that of the whole continent being called America or "Pineapplia". It's the USA calling themselves "America" as if the rest of the continent didn't exist. After all, if you're "America", what's "South America"? a colony? the bottom provinces?
I hope you see my point. I understand that you can use my points to say "but it's the same thing if you see it my way, after all, a lot of people here in the USA call this "America". It doesn't help a bit, though, to change the colonialistic and imperialistic traits we now associate with the USA.
You might want to read the Wikipedia definition for Continent and then meditate on why that appropriation of the term "American" doesn't exactly endear you to Latin-americans. We've grown thinking that America is one continent. Since a definition of Continent is "a large continuous landmass", I see no reason to consider all of the American continent as a continent on its own.
If you add to this the various nationalistic-colonialistic disputes ant troubles between the USA and Latin-american countries in the past two centuries, you'll see how you people aren't exactly loved there. Trying to deny us the word "America" based on string parsing isn't improving things.
Because of course here in Europe the books fly out of our asses at the start of each semester, the pixies pay for room and board, and other incidental expenses are covered by the boogeyman. Please.
I was trying to make the point, sadly ungotten so far, that people pay for their studies here too. If you want to compare the most expensive schools in the US to a random public college in Europe and show off how you can afford (or not) 1200 bucks a month for accommodation (as some other poster said), fine and dandy. There's possibly other colleges around Europe that'll be happy to charge you whatever you like, and cities more expensive than this one that'll be really glad to fleece you. I was talking about my particular college and city, which, admittedly, aren't MIT or Cambridge.
Besides, I could be comparing this to public Universities in Argentina, where I come from, which are free of tuition, and which seem to be plenty fine as far as the quality of graduates goes. 1200 euros is money, even if it seems like nothing to people going to MIT or Harvard or whatever, and the 500-600 a month I pay for living here are money too. I'm sure people in London pay a lot more.
Well, I could go to England, studying there at the University College or Imperial College in London would cost me, as a recent european immigrate, on the upside of 10000 british pounds. Happy now?
I count three posts of mine in this thread, now four with this one. The one you chose to quote was precisely the one I meant. If you wanted to prove me wrong, you could have done better than focus on the unimportant part of it.
No, not at all. The other post had nothing at all to say about bodies out of the elliptic plane.
I'll quote myself then: "That assumes that only bodies born within their star's circumstellar disk are planets. What if a body escapes the attraction of a star and orbits another?"
Then expand, since you didn't get it: "Then that body could find itself out of the elliptic plane. I'd still tend to call it a planet". I know it's hard, I don't think it's reason enough to avoid calling it a planet. Of course, it's just my opinion.
Reading my other posts in this thread, just a bit further down, would have helped you too before commenting. But yes, it's heresy here on Slashdot to suggest that actual reading should be done.
That assumes that only bodies born within their star's circumstellar disk are planets. What if a body escapes the attraction of a star and orbits another?
Granted, I don't really know what I'm talking about, but it seems at least possible.
This is very limited thinking. Basing the definition of planet only on our own solar system leaves lots of things to be desired. E.g., maybe other planetary systems have more planets out of the elliptical plane, if they even have one, and might have even more irregular orbits than that of Pluto.
You're an engineer, and you're shocked that not everyone wants to be an engineer. Why am I not surprised?
How many musical instruments can you play? How many countries are you an expert in their history? How many languages can you speak? How many crafts have you mastered? How many sports are you expert in? How many cooking disciplines are you expert in? How well can you sculpt? How good a hunter are you? How well can you farm? How well can you broker deals?
Respectively: 1 (guitar), 3 (Argentina, Italy, The USA, though "expert" is stretching a bit), 3 1/2 (Spanish, Italian, English, bits of French), at least 3 (painting, sculpting, building stuff), 2 (soccer, climbing), 2 (Spanish and Italian cuisines), I can sculpt not too terribly, I don't hunt, I can farm, I broker deals badly.
I study Software Eng. I don't see why people think "a basic grasp of maths" equals "wants to be an engineer". Every job I can think of needs at least a basic level of maths. Most important jobs require a good level of either statistics and economy or pure mathematics.
I agree that not everyone has to be an engineer, after all, that'd make finding a job a very difficult endeavour. Still, between that and knowing some maths there's a very wide river.
Basically, the PA guys are working with the ESRB, drawing and trying to revamp the ESRB categories to make them clearer to everyone. It looks like a nice effort.
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Them, too. I'm not trying to pick on MS in particular. Everyone now does it, and the worst beta-offender is Google.
Think it'll stop anyone? So was Vista until recently. Hell, Vista and MS have completely subverted what "alpha" and "beta" used to mean...
Or people from Crete, Cretins?
Or people from Mora (Sweden), Morons?
Or people from near Stup (Bosnia), Stupids?
Or maybe I should stop now.
Yes, having the misfortune of having drunk methanol, you should
a) get to the hospital ASAP
b) get thoroughly sloshed.
As the quote said, ethanol is absorbed first, so you buy time while the gastric treatment is readied. Oh yes, it's best to have the entrails cleaned than being blind or dead, I'd say. Plus, you'll be too drunk to notice.
Hic! oooohh nurse!
Hey, life ain't fair, sorry to break it to you. I don't claim people are reasonable. I just mention what I see.
To be "fair", what they seem to be saying is that even though every existing song can be found on p2p, the money they're making is still increasing while p2p downloads aren't.
Hey, I'm talking about extensive use, and pointing out how a lot of people think. You're welcome to try and change every Latin american's mind. I'll be here waiting.
... the Rio Grande?). Or just South- and North-.
If we get to the sociopolitical definitions (necessary to define Europe, Africa and Asia as continents, where btw the main one is Eurasia to some, as you do point out), Latin-america and Anglo-america would be good separations. Or North-, Central- and South- (the latter separated by the Darien forest, the former by
None of these take away the fact that, right or wrong, it's the way a lot of people think.
When the continent was named, after Americo Vespucci, I don't think they meant "just the part under Canada and north of Mexico".
Lastly, the problem isn't so much that of the whole continent being called America or "Pineapplia". It's the USA calling themselves "America" as if the rest of the continent didn't exist. After all, if you're "America", what's "South America"? a colony? the bottom provinces?
I hope you see my point. I understand that you can use my points to say "but it's the same thing if you see it my way, after all, a lot of people here in the USA call this "America". It doesn't help a bit, though, to change the colonialistic and imperialistic traits we now associate with the USA.
My bad: "I see no reason to consider" should read "I see no reason not to consider" in the above. But I guess it's understandable from the context.
You might want to read the Wikipedia definition for Continent and then meditate on why that appropriation of the term "American" doesn't exactly endear you to Latin-americans. We've grown thinking that America is one continent. Since a definition of Continent is "a large continuous landmass", I see no reason to consider all of the American continent as a continent on its own.
If you add to this the various nationalistic-colonialistic disputes ant troubles between the USA and Latin-american countries in the past two centuries, you'll see how you people aren't exactly loved there. Trying to deny us the word "America" based on string parsing isn't improving things.
Because of course here in Europe the books fly out of our asses at the start of each semester, the pixies pay for room and board, and other incidental expenses are covered by the boogeyman. Please.
I was trying to make the point, sadly ungotten so far, that people pay for their studies here too. If you want to compare the most expensive schools in the US to a random public college in Europe and show off how you can afford (or not) 1200 bucks a month for accommodation (as some other poster said), fine and dandy. There's possibly other colleges around Europe that'll be happy to charge you whatever you like, and cities more expensive than this one that'll be really glad to fleece you. I was talking about my particular college and city, which, admittedly, aren't MIT or Cambridge.
Besides, I could be comparing this to public Universities in Argentina, where I come from, which are free of tuition, and which seem to be plenty fine as far as the quality of graduates goes. 1200 euros is money, even if it seems like nothing to people going to MIT or Harvard or whatever, and the 500-600 a month I pay for living here are money too. I'm sure people in London pay a lot more.
And here I was, thinking I'd capped the "stupid" mark for today, when you arrive and completely pass me by. Thank you, sir!
No, it's in euros. But I see you had your laugh now. Don't let me hold you.
That is, more than 10000 BP per year. UC, if I recall correctly, asked for a 12K BP yearly tuition.
Well, I could go to England, studying there at the University College or Imperial College in London would cost me, as a recent european immigrate, on the upside of 10000 british pounds. Happy now?
Public universities here in Italy cost money too. I'm paying 1200 a year, for example, for a Software Eng. course.
I'll quote myself then: "That assumes that only bodies born within their star's circumstellar disk are planets. What if a body escapes the attraction of a star and orbits another?"
Then expand, since you didn't get it:
"Then that body could find itself out of the elliptic plane. I'd still tend to call it a planet".
I know it's hard, I don't think it's reason enough to avoid calling it a planet. Of course, it's just my opinion.
Reading my other posts in this thread, just a bit further down, would have helped you too before commenting. But yes, it's heresy here on Slashdot to suggest that actual reading should be done.
That assumes that only bodies born within their star's circumstellar disk are planets. What if a body escapes the attraction of a star and orbits another?
Granted, I don't really know what I'm talking about, but it seems at least possible.
This is very limited thinking. Basing the definition of planet only on our own solar system leaves lots of things to be desired.
E.g., maybe other planetary systems have more planets out of the elliptical plane, if they even have one, and might have even more irregular orbits than that of Pluto.
You're an engineer, and you're shocked that not everyone wants to be an engineer. Why am I not surprised?
How many musical instruments can you play? How many countries are you an expert in their history? How many languages can you speak? How many crafts have you mastered? How many sports are you expert in? How many cooking disciplines are you expert in? How well can you sculpt? How good a hunter are you? How well can you farm? How well can you broker deals?
Respectively: 1 (guitar), 3 (Argentina, Italy, The USA, though "expert" is stretching a bit), 3 1/2 (Spanish, Italian, English, bits of French), at least 3 (painting, sculpting, building stuff), 2 (soccer, climbing), 2 (Spanish and Italian cuisines), I can sculpt not too terribly, I don't hunt, I can farm, I broker deals badly.
I study Software Eng. I don't see why people think "a basic grasp of maths" equals "wants to be an engineer". Every job I can think of needs at least a basic level of maths. Most important jobs require a good level of either statistics and economy or pure mathematics.
I agree that not everyone has to be an engineer, after all, that'd make finding a job a very difficult endeavour. Still, between that and knowing some maths there's a very wide river.
$4.50 for an NES rom, which are extremely small, 256kB for the fancier NES games, is too much
hint: size is not important here. Content is. Super Mario World might not pack a DVD. It's still so much better than many brand new games.
I submitted this when it first appeared in their site. The story was rejected. Go figure.
You've got to look on the bright side: you'll be able to preorder the experience through an internet service, at least.
I submitted about the Penny Arcade efforts with the ESRB a few days ago, but the story was rejected. Enjoy.
Basically, the PA guys are working with the ESRB, drawing and trying to revamp the ESRB categories to make them clearer to everyone. It looks like a nice effort.
So? Fascism is not limited to Mussolini, and neither is corporatism. Did you even read the Wikipedia article?