I also provided a heavily edited image of the planet w/everything but north america missing... she insisted that americans think N.A. is the whole world, so I showed her that it is...
God forbid that we should spell something the way it sounds...:) obvious flamebait ignored.
That said, it amuses me to use english spelling and watch americans (such as myself) get confused... they cannot accept that 'colour', 'centre', 'theatre' (this one is used here too) are valid words.
I have a running argument with a Kiwi friend that 'aluminium' is not an element... it's 'aluminum', and we get to say cuz we invented it...
I'm not quite sure how we measure 'most advanced', so I'll let that go. But what country has more infrastructure? Countries with more landmass and people are also mostly empty (i.e. Russia) or mostly low-tech (i.e. India, China).
The only countries that are similar sizes and tech levels are Australia and Canada, both of which are still mostly empty.
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Perhaps a scale for how bad the folks in washington missed the point...
Rob, RUN!!!! Your servers are about to have a meltdown....
Not to mention that it is a REALLY bad idea to cram a bunch of highly radioactive material in a relatively small space...
Also, does this include the cooland water? methinks not.
And the methane is cheap and easy to get as well... 99 cent menu at lunch means that you can drive home in the evening...
Damn! And you posted that as an AC? Mad props man!
Actually, yeah. It's not easy, but there's only 1 supplier (per country), and all cash (theoretically) flows through banks on a fairly regular basis.
I'm not quite sure that it's a relevant comparison, but what the hell...
ah, so correlations with existing standards don't matter when comparing to them? This is high-level logic :)
No, 'base 10' is not the definition of metric... decimal maybe. Metric has a definitive meaning, unless you talk to my director (rim shot)
Not at all... there's not correlation that I'm aware of between 1.2 inches and any metric unit.
TO make things worse, it takes a whole set of tools and adapters to install a fish...
I feel your pain man... for years I fought this very thing, before I more or less fled from the client side work and went to server programming.
My approach was to code 2 years behind the 'state o the art'. Even non-standard features tend to be more supported by then.
Unfortunately, with CSS and DHTML (especially if you code for 4.0+ browsers), you're pretty much SOL.
You're a brave man/woman posting that here... I agree with you, but you'd better duck the flames.
sigh...
What?!?! I don't think it's fair to change the name of our element... (burn karma burn...)
invented, of course... we invent everything...
I also provided a heavily edited image of the planet w/everything but north america missing... she insisted that americans think N.A. is the whole world, so I showed her that it is...
I'd have to look up 'poncy' as well...
This ain't off topic... 'tis a joke people...
If one really wanted to be a jerk, you could send out HTML spam containing some JavaScript code and take the title in a coupla weeks...
God forbid that we should spell something the way it sounds... :) obvious flamebait ignored.
That said, it amuses me to use english spelling and watch americans (such as myself) get confused... they cannot accept that 'colour', 'centre', 'theatre' (this one is used here too) are valid words.
I have a running argument with a Kiwi friend that 'aluminium' is not an element... it's 'aluminum', and we get to say cuz we invented it...
--spectre (nee' specter)
Not true, there is such a thing as unobtanium, I saw it in a movie a coupla months back. Sadly, it was lost when it fell through a hole in the plot...
um... I'd like to veto myself on grounds of stupidity... the earlier comment is incorrect, sorry.
'tis the unfortnate result of charlatans (a small sect of christians, to be sure) that are promoting 'creation science' and it's ilk.
I'd think the way to be most accurate (albeit rather unwieldy) is to quantify it as the mass equivalent to XXX units of energy, no?
I'm not quite sure how we measure 'most advanced', so I'll let that go. But what country has more infrastructure? Countries with more landmass and people are also mostly empty (i.e. Russia) or mostly low-tech (i.e. India, China).
The only countries that are similar sizes and tech levels are Australia and Canada, both of which are still mostly empty.
parsecs...
(and before anyone loses their mind... I know it's not a measure of time...)
'they' started 20 years ago... just takes a long damn time.