I made the bad choice to trust my high school girlfriend.
WTF!? Your girlfriend had to drug you to get laid? You gotta be trollin'. How awful for you. And here is me having sympathy, thinking it was your schoolteacher or something.
Oh wait, BronsCon... you must be just telling a parable that is going over my head again.
Would it help to know that it is largely an urban legend?
Drink spiking with Rohypnol and GHB on a large scale that people are imaging is not real. In my city, a study was done on a large number of young people arriving at the city hospital (free A&E) with suspected drink-spiking. Not one had any traces in their blood. Maybe some had been spiked with extra alcohol, but mostly is was young women not taking responsibility for their own excessive drinking (or pills).
The point is, you were being sarcastic, but unwittingly stating a truth among the pointless absurdity. Wring "gun" on a piece of paper can be very dangerous - especially in the scenario of a bank. But not in a school essay - so there is no connection. Context is vital.
I dunno, I robbed a bank once by walking in, unarmed, writing "gun" on a piece of paper,
Worst analogy ever. Handing the teller a piece of paper with "gun" on it will get you done for armed robbery. It will reasonably be construed as a threat. Same as hands in pockets with finger extended. Threatening to have a gun or knife is enough to have you locked up for years.
But the kid did not make any threats, so what on earth is your point?
Sir Humphrey: Russians? Who's talking about the Russians? Hacker: Well, the independent deterrent. Sir Humphrey: It's to protect us against the French! Hacker: The French?! But that's astounding! Sir Humphrey: Why? Hacker: Well they're our allies, our partners. Sir Humphrey: Well, they are now, but they've been our enemies for the most of the past 900 years. If they've got the bomb, we must have the bomb! Hacker: If it's for the French, of course, that's different. Makes a lot of sense. Sir Humphrey: Yes. Can't trust the Frogs. Hacker: You can say that again!
> In the city, I have to travel 20 minutes to the grocery store/hardware store,
How is that possible? Are you in some soul-less unserviced satellite town? Within a 20 minute driving radius of me (in Australia) is the CBD, half a dozen suburban shopping malls, and numerous other supermarkets. Its hard to imagine anyone living in an urban area more than 5 minutes drive from a supermarket.
No, we know "peak stupid" has been reached when the password gropers are getting more intelligent, reversing the previous trend of increasing stupidity.
Either that, or the submitter is too stupid to know the difference between a record high, and a peak.
Why should the US Government offer any help in an illegal act? That would have legitimised Wikileaks actions.
Why should wikileaks offer any redaction to the US government or its collaborators? That would legitimise their actions.
A bit late to take the moral high ground when you have illegally invaded a foreign country, killed countless thousands, destroyed their infrastructure and covered up the crimes.
Yes, but is it 1000 times bigger or 1024 times bigger? That's the important part!
Thats what I keep telling the USB standards committee. A micro-B connector should be 15 nanometres wide. But they whine that this would cause mechanical problems.
Actually, the root of the problem was England and France being quick to give the land back to the Jews after WWII.
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History tl;dr: After the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Palestine became a British Mandate. After WWII, in 1947, the brits announced it was all too hard and they were leaving. The UN tried to divide it between Arabs and Jews, but the Arabs wanted everything and the Arab nations invaded the day the British mandate expired. When the fighting stopped, the Jews had all of Palestine, except for Gaza and the West Bank. And that became Israel.
Fellow Australian here. What rights would they be and in what founding document can I find them?
Those rights mostly existed before the founding of the colonies, let alone the federation of the nation. The documents are many, starting with the Magna Carta.
So this is how scientists research intelligence without hurting the feelings of people
No. This is how the commoners discuss scientific results. Scientists have published similar results on humans many times before. There is a mountain of published data on heritability, and on national, racial, and gender differences. We might not be able to talk about it in polite circles, but the science is there.
GCHQ is one of those things known better by the acronym than their full name. Even their homepage does not tell you what it stands for. I could tell you, but then... you know.
Last I heard, it cost around $20k/kg to lift cargo to orbit. Add in the extra weight of beans vs instant, and the world will finally see (albeit from a distance) coffee even more overpriced than Starbucks'.
But normal TVs give the appearance of 3D just as well, without the stupid glasses or headaches. Neither TV is truly 3D (holographic), one just adds stereoscopic vision to the other depth cues.
3D would be more useful in still photos, where important motion cues are missing, yet 3D still cameras are still seen as a gimmick.
Not only does 3D have some utility, but most of the time you just turn it off and it does no harm. You can't turn off the curvature of your silly new curved TV.
Even audio-freq headphones and line-level cables use shielded cable. Its only for speakers where wire does not matter - so long as the impedance is low compared to the speaker, hence the coat-hanger theoretical example. Of course the comparison in only in sound quality. There are mechanical disadvantages.
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I made the bad choice to trust my high school girlfriend.
WTF!? Your girlfriend had to drug you to get laid? You gotta be trollin'. How awful for you.
And here is me having sympathy, thinking it was your schoolteacher or something.
Oh wait, BronsCon ... you must be just telling a parable that is going over my head again.
Would it help to know that it is largely an urban legend?
Drink spiking with Rohypnol and GHB on a large scale that people are imaging is not real.
In my city, a study was done on a large number of young people arriving at the city hospital (free A&E) with suspected drink-spiking.
Not one had any traces in their blood. Maybe some had been spiked with extra alcohol, but mostly is was young women not taking responsibility for their own excessive drinking (or pills).
Similar data from the UK:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
The point is, you were being sarcastic, but unwittingly stating a truth among the pointless absurdity. Wring "gun" on a piece of paper can be very dangerous - especially in the scenario of a bank.
But not in a school essay - so there is no connection. Context is vital.
I dunno, I robbed a bank once by walking in, unarmed, writing "gun" on a piece of paper,
Worst analogy ever. Handing the teller a piece of paper with "gun" on it will get you done for armed robbery. It will reasonably be construed as a threat. Same as hands in pockets with finger extended.
Threatening to have a gun or knife is enough to have you locked up for years.
But the kid did not make any threats, so what on earth is your point?
Sir Humphrey: Russians? Who's talking about the Russians?
Hacker: Well, the independent deterrent.
Sir Humphrey: It's to protect us against the French!
Hacker: The French?! But that's astounding!
Sir Humphrey: Why?
Hacker: Well they're our allies, our partners.
Sir Humphrey: Well, they are now, but they've been our enemies for the most of the past 900 years. If they've got the bomb, we must have the bomb!
Hacker: If it's for the French, of course, that's different. Makes a lot of sense.
Sir Humphrey: Yes. Can't trust the Frogs.
Hacker: You can say that again!
> In the city, I have to travel 20 minutes to the grocery store/hardware store,
How is that possible? Are you in some soul-less unserviced satellite town?
Within a 20 minute driving radius of me (in Australia) is the CBD, half a dozen suburban shopping malls, and numerous other supermarkets.
Its hard to imagine anyone living in an urban area more than 5 minutes drive from a supermarket.
It is a good thing that intelligence is not determined by genetics.
Citation needed --- and not to a stupid failed experiment that drew the wrong conclusion.
I think the GP was being ironic. Pretty sure, but if only there were some markup convention, some HTML tag equivalent to a sarcastic voice tone ...
Or we could just put a woosh tag on the parent post ... unless I am missing Dragon Bait's sarcam? Damn this written communication.
No, we know "peak stupid" has been reached when the password gropers are getting more intelligent, reversing the previous trend of increasing stupidity.
Either that, or the submitter is too stupid to know the difference between a record high, and a peak.
So why not install suitable corrective lenses in the VR headset, as is commonly done for scuba-diving masks?
Why should the US Government offer any help in an illegal act? That would have legitimised Wikileaks actions.
Why should wikileaks offer any redaction to the US government or its collaborators? That would legitimise their actions.
A bit late to take the moral high ground when you have illegally invaded a foreign country, killed countless thousands, destroyed their infrastructure and covered up the crimes.
I think they want to keep it in the United States for tax reasons. And not paying protection money to the drug cartels.
According to Tesla, it will have as much production capacity as all current li-ion battery factories combined.
So, are there currently a billion factories?
Yes, but is it 1000 times bigger or 1024 times bigger? That's the important part!
Thats what I keep telling the USB standards committee.
A micro-B connector should be 15 nanometres wide. But they whine that this would cause mechanical problems.
Actually, the root of the problem was England and France being quick to give the land back to the Jews after WWII.
.
History tl;dr: After the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Palestine became a British Mandate. After WWII, in 1947, the brits announced it was all too hard and they were leaving.
The UN tried to divide it between Arabs and Jews, but the Arabs wanted everything and the Arab nations invaded the day the British mandate expired. When the fighting stopped, the Jews had all of Palestine, except for Gaza and the West Bank. And that became Israel.
Not sure why you blame France.
Show me another country in the region that has a single Jew or Christian in office.
Iraq's second-in-command was a Christian, before the US invasion. (Tariq Aziz)
Fellow Australian here. What rights would they be and in what founding document can I find them?
Those rights mostly existed before the founding of the colonies, let alone the federation of the nation.
The documents are many, starting with the Magna Carta.
So this is how scientists research intelligence without hurting the feelings of people
No. This is how the commoners discuss scientific results. Scientists have published similar results on humans many times before.
There is a mountain of published data on heritability, and on national, racial, and gender differences.
We might not be able to talk about it in polite circles, but the science is there.
The capacity to become intelligent is.
Pointless word-play. You could say the same about height or hair-colour.
An apt description of a common people's who migrated bravely across miles of ocean to populate a host of islands.
And also to de-populate them. Tough warriors, those guys.
GCHQ is one of those things known better by the acronym than their full name. ... you know.
Even their homepage does not tell you what it stands for. I could tell you, but then
Last I heard, it cost around $20k/kg to lift cargo to orbit. Add in the extra weight of beans vs instant, and the world will finally see (albeit from a distance) coffee even more overpriced than Starbucks'.
You drive on the pavement?!
He must be American. Americans have no word for footpath because they drive everywhere.
But normal TVs give the appearance of 3D just as well, without the stupid glasses or headaches.
Neither TV is truly 3D (holographic), one just adds stereoscopic vision to the other depth cues.
3D would be more useful in still photos, where important motion cues are missing, yet 3D still cameras are still seen as a gimmick.
Not only does 3D have some utility, but most of the time you just turn it off and it does no harm. You can't turn off the curvature of your silly new curved TV.
Even audio-freq headphones and line-level cables use shielded cable.
Its only for speakers where wire does not matter - so long as the impedance is low compared to the speaker, hence the coat-hanger theoretical example.
Of course the comparison in only in sound quality. There are mechanical disadvantages.
Besides. $3Billion is cupboard change to Apple. I'm betting they make $10Billion off of it in 2 years.
Most of Apple's money is from hardware. $3G is many months gross revenue from iTunes.