That's almost exactly my point. Although an alien bacterium would not have evolved to attack us specifically, it's possible that their very chemical make-up could itself be toxic.
Might be, but would it be likely that the chemical make-up of non-terran life be too different from our own to be of much threat aside from acting as a toxin rather than biological parasite?
Good point, but still, it's a far better show (or show-off) if you can balance one (or more) beers on the one while demonstrating the amazing feat. Imagine the awe of your friends as you are shot from the drain pipe-cannon in your attempt to kill the raccoon and not spill a drop of your beer.:P
Unless I'm mistaken, and I very well could be, but most of the pro-recycling information/propaganda I hear is that it takes less energy to recycle a material than to produce it from "scratch". To me, this makes some sense, as I'd imagine mining for metals takes more energy than hauling trash to a facility.
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But if we resort to dumping all of our trash into the sun, we'd soon run out of materials that could otherwise be recycled and the Earth would end up like Bethselamin. And you thought the receipt-whores at Walmart or BestBuy were bad...
"...Plenty of people get "just coffee" at Starbucks (obstensibly because it "tastes better")..."
Hardly. I've only had Starbucks coffee a few times, and each of those times it tasted horrible.
"...Starbucks' entire business is to deliver exactly what people want, even if some of it seems a bit silly or over the top..."
I suppose my "over the top" request for coffee that doesn't taste filthy is too silly. Also, unless I'm mistaken, doesn't "grande" mean BIG? Another thing, in what language does "venti" mean large? Last I knew it more or less mean "wind" in Latin. A windy cup of coffee? Gah.
Good point. However, are you taking into consideration that as the ice-sheet melts, it's surface-area decreases as well, thus (as I would imagine) make it melt faster as it got smaller?
It seems I've run out of trollfood, but here goes... AC//DC may not be the best band ever, but they are far from the worst. Need I mention such groups as Hootie and the Blowfish, KC and the Sunshine Band, or Oasis?
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." - DNA
Esitmated time to theatre: 30mins (Made-up estimate, but reasonable enough.)
Duration of film with camera in hand: 110 minutes (Accounting for pre-showcrapertisement, ads, previews et al, and of course the film itself.)
Drive back home: 30 mins (give or take, late-afternoon rush-hour or late-night traffic filled with late-night movie-goers, works out aboutt the same)
Time to encode video to hard-drive: 30 minutes (Rough estimate, varies based on system specs.)
Time to transfer via torrent/P2P: 1 hr (Again, rough estimate.)
This works out to a little more than four and a half hours.:P
You have equal hand in negotiating the contract of a ticket. Buy it or don't. If you don't, speak with a manager or contact the head of the theatre chain in question and tell them why.
1) That's actually what my point is, it's not so much the filter, it's the *implementation* -how it's done, how it works, etc- that is often the problem.
2) Note my tense, I *used* to use a chat-box.
3) To what are you refering when you say "poopake"? My original post mentioned "pooptake" as an example of what would happen to the spelling of a certain kind of mushroom when the filter cleaned it up.:P
I used to use a php-based chat-box on my site years back that I got from an amicable aquaintance. Both he and I found such words as "glbutt", "grbutt", "pooptake" etc. So I dived into the swearfilter.php file and found to my, horror (I was just beginning to work with PHP scripts, but I knew enough by looking at it how messed it was), that the filter used instances of character strings rather than word. So I edited the entries for "ass" and such with a space at both ends of the word, then tried to think of what words would pass this filter (" ass " would of course allow "hole" to be appended) and added them inidividually. Being the nice guy I was, I sent him a copy of the not-the-greatest-but-still-better version of the filter.
Filters aren't inherently bad, it's usually the implementation that is.
"...I do not care if you are using e-mail, IM or SMS, use that period and use that apostrophe..."
If I'm typing a simple one-sentance line or single word, I'll leave end-punctuation out most of the time. However, if I'm putting enough of my thought into a single [send], that warrants seperation, I'll use a period or an elipsis (which I usually use, even in the above mentioned case), both of which followed by appropriate spacing. I tend not to capatilize first words, but I do so with proper nouns. Also, when I'm quoting/paraphrasing/"putting words into one's mouth" another person or myself, I'll use quotes. Nothing is more annoying to me than someone who types: "i was like don't say that lol and he was alright I wont"
I'll be the first to admit that my grammar on IM is far from "proper", but at least what I type is legible. I follow a set of rules, and rarely deviate from them. In emails and forum posts, I follow a set of rules a bit closer to the form of proper grammar that I would use in an essay or novel.
"...The only way you are going to develop writing skills is by writing...
Fanfiction might not be taken seriously, but I currently have five semi-novel length, and according to nearly everyone that's read them, novel quality books over the last two and a half years. As a result, I've seen my skills and adherence to grammar rules (unorthodox as explained above, or otherwise) increase greatly.
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That's almost exactly my point. Although an alien bacterium would not have evolved to attack us specifically, it's possible that their very chemical make-up could itself be toxic.
Might be, but would it be likely that the chemical make-up of non-terran life be too different from our own to be of much threat aside from acting as a toxin rather than biological parasite?
Good point, but still, it's a far better show (or show-off) if you can balance one (or more) beers on the one while demonstrating the amazing feat. Imagine the awe of your friends as you are shot from the drain pipe-cannon in your attempt to kill the raccoon and not spill a drop of your beer. :P
Silly Texans. Real men hold their own beer while doing cool stunts.
Never had a rice-cake before, have you? :P
Unless I'm mistaken, and I very well could be, but most of the pro-recycling information/propaganda I hear is that it takes less energy to recycle a material than to produce it from "scratch". To me, this makes some sense, as I'd imagine mining for metals takes more energy than hauling trash to a facility.
But if we resort to dumping all of our trash into the sun, we'd soon run out of materials that could otherwise be recycled and the Earth would end up like Bethselamin. And you thought the receipt-whores at Walmart or BestBuy were bad...
"...Plenty of people get "just coffee" at Starbucks (obstensibly because it "tastes better")..."
Hardly. I've only had Starbucks coffee a few times, and each of those times it tasted horrible.
"...Starbucks' entire business is to deliver exactly what people want, even if some of it seems a bit silly or over the top..."
I suppose my "over the top" request for coffee that doesn't taste filthy is too silly. Also, unless I'm mistaken, doesn't "grande" mean BIG? Another thing, in what language does "venti" mean large? Last I knew it more or less mean "wind" in Latin. A windy cup of coffee? Gah.
I'll just brew my own
Fucking Starbucks. Screw the terminology, I just want a medium cup of coffee-flavoured coffee, not Advanced Coffee Substitute.
Of course. Haven't ya ever seen The Flintsones? :P
Good point. However, are you taking into consideration that as the ice-sheet melts, it's surface-area decreases as well, thus (as I would imagine) make it melt faster as it got smaller?
What if they used liccorice-flavoured dildos? Would that be sweet enough for you?
It seems I've run out of trollfood, but here goes... AC//DC may not be the best band ever, but they are far from the worst. Need I mention such groups as Hootie and the Blowfish, KC and the Sunshine Band, or Oasis?
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." - DNA
Esitmated time to theatre: 30mins (Made-up estimate, but reasonable enough.)
:P
Duration of film with camera in hand: 110 minutes (Accounting for pre-showcrapertisement, ads, previews et al, and of course the film itself.)
Drive back home: 30 mins (give or take, late-afternoon rush-hour or late-night traffic filled with late-night movie-goers, works out aboutt the same)
Time to encode video to hard-drive: 30 minutes (Rough estimate, varies based on system specs.)
Time to transfer via torrent/P2P: 1 hr (Again, rough estimate.)
This works out to a little more than four and a half hours.
You have equal hand in negotiating the contract of a ticket. Buy it or don't. If you don't, speak with a manager or contact the head of the theatre chain in question and tell them why.
I'll admit it was a lame joke, but it was still a joke. That was interesting though...
"...The painstaking procedure, called finite-element analysis..."
I wonder when we'll have infinite-element analysis... Of course, whoever manages this, will most likely be lynched for being a smartass.
If I say I hate U2, would that mean I'm Anti-Bono, or Pro-Plant?
1) That's actually what my point is, it's not so much the filter, it's the *implementation* -how it's done, how it works, etc- that is often the problem.
:P
2) Note my tense, I *used* to use a chat-box.
3) To what are you refering when you say "poopake"? My original post mentioned "pooptake" as an example of what would happen to the spelling of a certain kind of mushroom when the filter cleaned it up.
I have karma to burn (not that it really matters, points on a webiste, whoopie), so I'll answer that.
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I used to use a php-based chat-box on my site years back that I got from an amicable aquaintance. Both he and I found such words as "glbutt", "grbutt", "pooptake" etc. So I dived into the swearfilter.php file and found to my, horror (I was just beginning to work with PHP scripts, but I knew enough by looking at it how messed it was), that the filter used instances of character strings rather than word. So I edited the entries for "ass" and such with a space at both ends of the word, then tried to think of what words would pass this filter (" ass " would of course allow "hole" to be appended) and added them inidividually. Being the nice guy I was, I sent him a copy of the not-the-greatest-but-still-better version of the filter.
Filters aren't inherently bad, it's usually the implementation that is.
I've seen that in names since before 9/11 though.
Hmmm, I thought something didn't look right with my post, but I was a tad tired when I wrote it. Thanks.
"...I do not care if you are using e-mail, IM or SMS, use that period and use that apostrophe..."
If I'm typing a simple one-sentance line or single word, I'll leave end-punctuation out most of the time. However, if I'm putting enough of my thought into a single [send], that warrants seperation, I'll use a period or an elipsis (which I usually use, even in the above mentioned case), both of which followed by appropriate spacing. I tend not to capatilize first words, but I do so with proper nouns. Also, when I'm quoting/paraphrasing/"putting words into one's mouth" another person or myself, I'll use quotes. Nothing is more annoying to me than someone who types: "i was like don't say that lol and he was alright I wont"
I'll be the first to admit that my grammar on IM is far from "proper", but at least what I type is legible. I follow a set of rules, and rarely deviate from them. In emails and forum posts, I follow a set of rules a bit closer to the form of proper grammar that I would use in an essay or novel.
"...The only way you are going to develop writing skills is by writing...
Fanfiction might not be taken seriously, but I currently have five semi-novel length, and according to nearly everyone that's read them, novel quality books over the last two and a half years. As a result, I've seen my skills and adherence to grammar rules (unorthodox as explained above, or otherwise) increase greatly.