*Shrugs* I don't know, out of all the misuses of such phrases, at least "and" and "et" mean the same thing. Give him some slack, at least he didn't use "ecetera"...
I consider myself a geek, but I do try the simpler thing first, such as say, rinsing grime from the sponge with soap&water, then dipping&rinsing it with a roughly 10%/90% bleach/hot water solution. This tends to work better in my experience.
Ripped apart? Which mythos are you reading? I have Lovecraft's Necronomicon (though, cutely claimed to be by Alhazred), and the description of the battle seemed akin to the final confrontation between Brody and the Shark...
Hell, I live in Knoxville and I know a couple dozen people that would find it amusing. Just don't bad-mouth the Vols (or football in general), and people around here will accept just about anything.
I didn't refer to Connecticut as a state, I just asked if I remembered a quote from the film incorrectly. And yes, I do refer to Australia as a continent, because it, unless I was misinformed, is a continent. It just also happens to be a country that takes up the entire continent, so the two terms are interchangeable. Also, I refer to America as a continent, not a country.
I could've sworn Pay Pal did this sort of thing years ago. I certainly remember using it long before I got the Pay Pal card or could use my normal bank cards for debit.
I use Cingular, and it's good enough for me. I've had it for six months and haven't had any dropped calls or low signals. The only thing I've experienced with them is during two severe thunderstorms in the area this past summer, I'd recieve calls from a number that couldn't be dialed back. Unless it was some clever prankster, I could only explain it as recieving weird signals or something from the towers because of the storm.
It also fails to say "boom-stick", so anything with which a person can be armed would count. As a collector, I find it sad that there isn't (to my knowledge) a National Sword&Dagger Association, because, technically, these are arms as well.
I used to have a tiny program that ran in the system tray and would play a WAV file with each alpha-numeric key press (along with the ENTER key). The two wavs that came with it (and that the programer reccomended be the only ones used, to avoid hogging more memory) were "click" and "beep" (with an appropriate sound for a carriage return when ENTER was pressed). I let the program run in the background for about a week or so before I decided that my limited memory wasn't worth wasting on it. I'd provide a link if I could, but it's been years since I last saw the program on any Free/Crapware sites.
*Shrugs* Whatever. If combining a Monty Python joke with Adams' material isn't original enough for you, bite my ass. My post served mainly to suggest making obvious jokes *more* original by making them in less-than-obvious ways. Simply quoting the source material gets old rather fast, even if used in an otherwise clever manner.
I did not intend to offend the original poster. In fact, I chuckled lightly when I read his post, and said to myself "Well, I'm glad there's others out there that think like I do..." My post was simply advice, a tip, if you will, on how not to kill a good joke. But of course, we know where the joke is, as his neighbor has told us...
Cute. Too bad there isn't a -1 Obvious Joke mod, as that's pretty much the same thing I thought of when I saw the title. I can't say much myself, as I make numerous Adams' references here all the time. However, I try to make my references a tad more obscure and not as expected. "Nobody expects the Shoe Event Horizon! Our chief weapon is swollen ankles. And fallen arches. Our chief weapons are swollen ankles and fallen arches! And blisters..." - for example.
That said, I don't think our descendants will like the answer, but if we can get some clever agents and bicker back and forth about the answer, we'd be on the gravy train for life.
Granted heat-death is a bit far off (and only a theory at that), and yes, in a few trillion years scientific knowledge may reveal the secret to immortality. However, with no universe to live in (depending on what theory we're talking about, whether heat-death, Gnab Gib, what-have-you), that life may not be too comfortable. So, unless technological advancements can prevent any universe-wide destruction (or, possibly, sending people back in time to colonize then-uninhabited areas of the universe -but it's easy to see the problems with that idea) life everywhere will go poof in some form or another.
That said, yes, at the moment, the human race is threatening itself with extinction here, I suppose there's nothing wrong with trying.
It seems that many people here believe that using Polonium is "too easily traced" means that someone is setting-up Putin's government. Is it not possible that Putin's government used such a method in order to get people to say "It can't have been Putin, someone is trying to get us to attack faction-x...", thus attacking said faction and getting rid of Putin's enemies?
Of course, Putin's enemies may well have thought of this themselves. Perhaps it's faction-y, turning the world against both Putin and faction-x.
Mind explaining what quoting Floyd is supposed to mean in regards to this article? Is it some attempt at connecting 'blue sky' to 'blue screen'? Otherwise, I fail to see any connection between that song (or the entire album) and Gates potentially running for president.
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*Shrugs* I don't know, out of all the misuses of such phrases, at least "and" and "et" mean the same thing. Give him some slack, at least he didn't use "ecetera"...
I consider myself a geek, but I do try the simpler thing first, such as say, rinsing grime from the sponge with soap&water, then dipping&rinsing it with a roughly 10%/90% bleach/hot water solution. This tends to work better in my experience.
Simple solution: Cauterize certain neurons to segregate the non-altruistic portions of the brain.
Ahh, thanks guys. I was asking seriously as I was wondering how different Lovecraft's variation was from the traditional texts.
Ripped apart? Which mythos are you reading? I have Lovecraft's Necronomicon (though, cutely claimed to be by Alhazred), and the description of the battle seemed akin to the final confrontation between Brody and the Shark...
Hell, I live in Knoxville and I know a couple dozen people that would find it amusing. Just don't bad-mouth the Vols (or football in general), and people around here will accept just about anything.
Rather insightful idea, but if we're gonna have manned/unmanned beacons anyway, why not just use them to triangulate position?
To hell with the space dog, I'm more concerned with the mutant space goat.
*whoosh*
He was referencing what I thought was a commonly-known joke regarding Bush reacting to an article involving Brazilian nationals.
I didn't refer to Connecticut as a state, I just asked if I remembered a quote from the film incorrectly. And yes, I do refer to Australia as a continent, because it, unless I was misinformed, is a continent. It just also happens to be a country that takes up the entire continent, so the two terms are interchangeable. Also, I refer to America as a continent, not a country.
I thought they used Connecticut as the reference in the film...
I could've sworn Pay Pal did this sort of thing years ago. I certainly remember using it long before I got the Pay Pal card or could use my normal bank cards for debit.
That would explain the mysterious crystal bowl I found under my tree this morning.
If it's that far back in time, wouldn't "Zipo 5x10^6" be a touch more accurate?
That doesn't quite mean that some of the AL will deny any such creation.
I use Cingular, and it's good enough for me. I've had it for six months and haven't had any dropped calls or low signals. The only thing I've experienced with them is during two severe thunderstorms in the area this past summer, I'd recieve calls from a number that couldn't be dialed back. Unless it was some clever prankster, I could only explain it as recieving weird signals or something from the towers because of the storm.
It also fails to say "boom-stick", so anything with which a person can be armed would count. As a collector, I find it sad that there isn't (to my knowledge) a National Sword&Dagger Association, because, technically, these are arms as well.
I used to have a tiny program that ran in the system tray and would play a WAV file with each alpha-numeric key press (along with the ENTER key). The two wavs that came with it (and that the programer reccomended be the only ones used, to avoid hogging more memory) were "click" and "beep" (with an appropriate sound for a carriage return when ENTER was pressed). I let the program run in the background for about a week or so before I decided that my limited memory wasn't worth wasting on it. I'd provide a link if I could, but it's been years since I last saw the program on any Free/Crapware sites.
*Shrugs* Whatever. If combining a Monty Python joke with Adams' material isn't original enough for you, bite my ass. My post served mainly to suggest making obvious jokes *more* original by making them in less-than-obvious ways. Simply quoting the source material gets old rather fast, even if used in an otherwise clever manner.
I did not intend to offend the original poster. In fact, I chuckled lightly when I read his post, and said to myself "Well, I'm glad there's others out there that think like I do..." My post was simply advice, a tip, if you will, on how not to kill a good joke. But of course, we know where the joke is, as his neighbor has told us...
Cute. Too bad there isn't a -1 Obvious Joke mod, as that's pretty much the same thing I thought of when I saw the title. I can't say much myself, as I make numerous Adams' references here all the time. However, I try to make my references a tad more obscure and not as expected. "Nobody expects the Shoe Event Horizon! Our chief weapon is swollen ankles. And fallen arches. Our chief weapons are swollen ankles and fallen arches! And blisters..." - for example.
That said, I don't think our descendants will like the answer, but if we can get some clever agents and bicker back and forth about the answer, we'd be on the gravy train for life.
Granted heat-death is a bit far off (and only a theory at that), and yes, in a few trillion years scientific knowledge may reveal the secret to immortality. However, with no universe to live in (depending on what theory we're talking about, whether heat-death, Gnab Gib, what-have-you), that life may not be too comfortable. So, unless technological advancements can prevent any universe-wide destruction (or, possibly, sending people back in time to colonize then-uninhabited areas of the universe -but it's easy to see the problems with that idea) life everywhere will go poof in some form or another.
That said, yes, at the moment, the human race is threatening itself with extinction here, I suppose there's nothing wrong with trying.
Unless we start discovering alternate universes and the like, it's possible that Heat Death, or something similar will render all life dead anyway...
It seems that many people here believe that using Polonium is "too easily traced" means that someone is setting-up Putin's government. Is it not possible that Putin's government used such a method in order to get people to say "It can't have been Putin, someone is trying to get us to attack faction-x...", thus attacking said faction and getting rid of Putin's enemies?
Of course, Putin's enemies may well have thought of this themselves. Perhaps it's faction-y, turning the world against both Putin and faction-x.
It's a messy situation in any case.
Mind explaining what quoting Floyd is supposed to mean in regards to this article? Is it some attempt at connecting 'blue sky' to 'blue screen'? Otherwise, I fail to see any connection between that song (or the entire album) and Gates potentially running for president.
Is "icicle snow" Snow Type 232, or 136?