Actually, Murphy's Law was originally:
"If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it."
Commonly mistaken for Murphy's Law, "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong" is actually Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives.
I don't have any links (don't feel like googling for it), but I'm sure someone else will post a few.
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Funny, at first I thought all the words were just backwards. When I started to read them as such, it made a lot more sense.
An experiment like this might be better performed with single words instead of entire sentences, as the human mind excels at finding and deciphering patterns.
Personally I always thought the German version was better -- the words fit the melody better and the song makes a little more sense (well, duh, it was written in German).
Yeah, the German version's better than the literal translation, but I think that the recorded English version that is better than the German.
Here's the full text, courtesy of The Jazz Messengers: A television viewer's guide to Cowboy Bebop:
Once upon a time, in New York City in 1941... at this club open to all comers to play, night after night, at a club named "Minston's Play House" in Harlem, they play jazz sessions competing with each other. Young jazz men with a new sense are gathering. At last they created a new genre itself. They are sick and tired of the conventional fixed style jazz. They're eager to play jazz more freely as they wish then... in 2071 in the universe... The bounty hunters, who are gathering in the spaceship "BEBOP", will play freely without fear of risky things. They must create new dreams and films by breaking traditional styles. The work, which becomes a new genre itself, will be called... COWBOY BEBOP
--Henry Jones, Jr.
I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagitarian and we're skeptical. --Arthur C Clark
In the US, you're charged for calls you receive on a cell phone, regardless of where the call originated.
This is exactly why it's illegal for telemarketers to call you on your cell phone, whether or not they have your number.
That's about the only reason I'm against "the caller pays" method of charging for wireless. Make the pricing fair, and the floodgates open for millions of telemarkers. Keep it the way it is, and you keep a little piece of mind.
why is that computer keyboards have the 1-3 row on the number pad at the bottom...while telephones have it at the top?
Telephones have it 123 on the top because rotary-dial telephones had 123 at the top of the dial.
I believe the answer is more specific than that. The reason dial-tone phones have 123 on the top is so that the alphabet remains...well...alphabetic.
If telephones companies never put letters with the numbers, we'd probably have a mix of "normal" and "upside" phones. Which one predominate? I think I'll leave that one for the philosophers...
I just tried both links, and while the Jaguar link worked (I use Netscape 7.0), the Mazda site claims to be "optimized for Internet Explorer versions 4.x and 5.x and Netscape 4.x." (my emphasis)
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"If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it."
Commonly mistaken for Murphy's Law,
"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong"
is actually Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives.
I don't have any links (don't feel like googling for it), but I'm sure someone else will post a few.
It says it all.
Funny, at first I thought all the words were just backwards. When I started to read them as such, it made a lot more sense.
An experiment like this might be better performed with single words instead of entire sentences, as the human mind excels at finding and deciphering patterns.
One of the least effective ways of getting something to stop is telling people to stop doing it (especially on /.)
Yeah, the German version's better than the literal translation, but I think that the recorded English version that is better than the German.
Here's a comparsion
Watch it here(10.7mb quicktime)
I've got a lot of fond memories of that dog....
if we left mother nature in charge the kid would die and the defective genes would not be passed on
Some genetic diseases don't manifest until later in life, allowing for offspring that can carry the disease.
I've heard a few answers for this, such as:
--A square one (or any other shape, for that matter) can fall through if placed diagonally in the hole.
--So you can roll it.
--Most people are round, so it's more efficient.
But, like most things, the best answer I've heard so far is the simplist:
--So it will fit on the manhole!
Henry Jones, Jr.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' --Don Marquis
Here's the full text, courtesy of The Jazz Messengers: A television viewer's guide to Cowboy Bebop :
Once upon a time, in New York City in 1941... at this club open to all comers to play, night after night, at a club named "Minston's Play House" in Harlem, they play jazz sessions competing with each other. Young jazz men with a new sense are gathering. At last they created a new genre itself. They are sick and tired of the conventional fixed style jazz. They're eager to play jazz more freely as they wish then... in 2071 in the universe... The bounty hunters, who are gathering in the spaceship "BEBOP", will play freely without fear of risky things. They must create new dreams and films by breaking traditional styles. The work, which becomes a new genre itself, will be called... COWBOY BEBOP
--Henry Jones, Jr.
I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagitarian and we're skeptical. --Arthur C Clark
In the US, you're charged for calls you receive on a cell phone, regardless of where the call originated.
This is exactly why it's illegal for telemarketers to call you on your cell phone, whether or not they have your number.
That's about the only reason I'm against "the caller pays" method of charging for wireless. Make the pricing fair, and the floodgates open for millions of telemarkers. Keep it the way it is, and you keep a little piece of mind.
why is that computer keyboards have the 1-3 row on the number pad at the bottom...while telephones have it at the top?
Telephones have it 123 on the top because rotary-dial telephones had 123 at the top of the dial.
I believe the answer is more specific than that. The reason dial-tone phones have 123 on the top is so that the alphabet remains...well...alphabetic.
If telephones companies never put letters with the numbers, we'd probably have a mix of "normal" and "upside" phones. Which one predominate? I think I'll leave that one for the philosophers...
I just tried both links, and while the Jaguar link worked (I use Netscape 7.0), the Mazda site claims to be "optimized for Internet Explorer versions 4.x and 5.x and Netscape 4.x." (my emphasis)
So it's not incompatible, just obsolete.