Even a blind pig will find a truffle once in a while.
Especially since the truffles grow underground requiring pigs to use their sense of smell to find them and dig them up. If the truffles were just sitting around on the ground, why would they need to use pigs to find them?
(Although mine has never been through the wash - it stays in my wallet.)
Well my USB drive has been through the wash a couple times, and putting it my wallet wouldn't really help. You see, my wallet has made it through the wash a couple times on it's own. Once I forgot to take it out of my swimsuit pocket before jumping in the atlantic.
Have you ever heard of a little guy called Tom Thumb, or a gal called Thumbelina. In older English, the word Thumb often referred to diminutive size, especially when it was on the same order of size as a human thumb.
Not only is the device approximately the size of a thumb, but the next time you insert it into the USB port, look carefuly at your hand. What part of you hand is the most prominently used. (Don't answer this all of you poor victims of threshing machine accidents.) Some even have a kind of depression in them for a particular digit.
Incidentally, many "strange" phrases that the English believe to be American or sometimes Australian in origin, actually are British. It's just that we still use them, whereas they fell out of use in England itself. That's not true of them all of course, just some.
Now I'm going to get mean! I can't believe you actually couldn't figure this out, unless perhaps you're not a native speaker of either English or American;). I'm reminded of the SNL sketch of "Celebrity Jeopardy", where Will Ferrel asks the Minnie Driver character, "Are you English, or retarded?"
Most of the "stories" on slashdot are already a few days old anyway. If you read newscientist, you will get their science/technology stories a few days early. If you read Drudge, you will find the political/privacy articles a few days early too. I'm sure there are other sites as well that are more cutting edge for other types of stories.
Furthermore, all you people complaining about the dupes, what's the point. I think it's kind of stupid too, but if they don't even glance at the front page, will they bother reading the comments? Maybe each individual editor looks at the comments for their own stories, but I kinda doubt it.
I think the reason it makes people mad, is cause they feel like they're relying on this site for technical foresight, and if they don't seem to care enough to prevent this kind of simple oversight, then what are the chances their putting in the effort for any of the site's content. I guess they're just phoning it in. Does the New York Times ever due the same story twice, and act like it's brand new each time?
I do things similarly. I block Blinking annoying ads. I also started blocking flash, simply because I can't figure out how to keep it quiet. I listen to radio stations online most of the day, and I hate getting interrupted by weird noises coming from some stupid flash advertisment. Also I block anything that tries to mimic a UI but is really a just a link to their stupid website. That should be illegal. I know there was an attempt to make it so, but I don't know what happened to it. You know what I'm talking about the "Your computer appears to be running slow, Do you want to upgrade?" With a fake OK button, or a fake pulldown or checkbox.
I also hate those stupid punch the monkey games. If you purposely miss over and over again, the monkey or whatever jumps under your pointer. I also hate the "You're our winner" ones. I block porn ads to, if they show up on non porn sites.
I want to support websites that put up advertising by allowing their ads to load. In a way, I feel there IS a kind of social contract, in that they need the revenue for their site. If I don't think they do, then I shouldn't go to their site, it's their terms. But when they violate that contract by being jackasses as I've described above, I don't allow it. I'm not sure, but I think that the adservers can tell if you don't load their ad, so the underlying website doesn't get credit for it. That's why I only block it if it violates my trust or senses as above.
That seems like a rather large assumption. There are plenty of lazy people out there that might not update something like this, and who knows of the validity of their claim in the first place. Open source supports can be wrong sometimes too. This is over a year old now, with no updates. Maybe the busybox people found out they were wrong and forgot to update this page.
It would be cool to go to this Best Buy just to laugh at them. Just look at the cashiers and giggle until they ask you why. Or have a protest of sorts, where every body brings a 2 dollar bill and buys one small thing like a candy bar by the register or somethng. That would be really funny to make them take a few hundred dollars worth of 2 dollar bills to the bank themselves. Course, I guess they did that already once, unless they threw them away after they showed them to the SS agent. Is it funny that the US government has an agency with the initials SS.
How many feet do you have? I just have the front two here.
This is ummmm.... funny?
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... but the gold bugs should recognize that a Robert Mugabe who would fiddle with fiat currency would also be quite quite willing to send men with guns to take your gold or land away from you by force. Prudent, stable democratic government and modestly regulated free-market capitalism are the surest guarantors of a nation's prosperity.
Some would say that protections like the US Second Amendment are the only true gaurantor, or at least of property. I'm just saying this, cause really there is no gaurantee at all, is there. Someone may offer their gaurantee, but what is it worth. I guess you covered that with the "stable" bit, but I don't know if there ever will be a completely stable government. We're just barely holding entropy at bay with a little spike of order here, I believe at times.
say you pump gas at a place that lets you pay after pumping (rare these days, but it used to be common). Off Topic, I know but: I've lived in 3 different states and driven around a lot, and this isn't that rare at all. Some places stop doing it at night. I think in the big cities it might be rare, but there's a whole other more rural part of the world where people are much more trustworthy. It's an interesting bit of human nature to assume that how it is in your "neck of the woods" is the same everywhere else. I know I'm occasionally guilty of this too.
Well, I'm not sure. We were driving through Canda from Michigan to New York, merley as a short-cut. The 9/11 Attacks happened while we were in the vicinity of London, Ontario. I was thinking, "Oh Crap, are they gonna let us back in right away, or are we gonna be stuck here a day or two while things settle down."
Well, the US Border folks were looking in trunks of cars that were entering the US, and he found a big taped up box in the car in front of us. The guard said, "What's in the box?", and the owner of the car said "Books". Then the guard said OK, and shut the trunk. All they asked us was, if the children in the car were ours or not. I thought that was a very weird question. This was about 4-5 hours after the attacks had begun.
It seemed like they had started some kind of superficial attempts at being more vigilant, but when faced with any actual searching, just didn't bother.
is really helping the price of gasoline ain't it. I hope we don't start any more oil wars, or gas will go up to 4 dollars! The more free oil we take from bastians of peace like Iraq, the worse our oil situation seems to get.
Meanwhile, there seems to be a problem in Iraq. Civilians there are protesting the terrorists, and the mass graves of children have quit filling up, replaced by those of the terrorists. How much more mixed up can it get, I wonder?
By the way, Clinton gave a "no-bid" contract to Haliburton during the Kosovo war. Where's our exit strategy for winning the peace there? Hello.., Hello...?
but there was a time when the government had very little do to with the funding of nearly everything. In fact this is a new phenomena that has been created in the last 75 years or so.
Before that, our country managed to be phenomenally succesful, with very little government harrasment. How this is possible, I can't imagine, for clearly Government is the economic sludge that lubricates the wheels of progress.
My question to you is, where in the first 100 years of this country can you find evidence that the purpose of the Government is fund damn near everything, and lacking that evidence, why has it suddenly become a "good" idea?
You know. I hear this a lot, and it strikes me as a little odd. The catholic church is an organization, which has a set of rules. One of their rules is that disobeying certain rules prohibits membership. And yet, many people wish to continue calling themselves catholic, but say that it's OK not to follow those rules. It would seem to me, that you are no longer a Catholic then.
I say this as someone who is not a catholic, and opposed to that church in many ways. My opposition to that church is probably the major reason I don't go around saying, "I'm a Catholic." Now I never was a member of the Catholic church, either, but I'm not sure why that makes a difference.
Granted, Luther himself didn't want to start a new church, but to fix the existing one. But eventually, he realized that wasn't possible, and he was at least willing to risk his own excommunication to stand up for his beliefs, not sit around mumbling to himself that he was a member of a group he disagreed with.
American Football, or do you mean a pitch? And what is in the football field? Floppies stacked 100 high with 1 inch gaps around the stacks? Come on dude, let's be specific.
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Especially since the truffles grow underground requiring pigs to use their sense of smell to find them and dig them up. If the truffles were just sitting around on the ground, why would they need to use pigs to find them?
This might be a good squatter property. Of course, this will just inflate old Steve's ego even more.
I'm very afraid about what some sites that pop up will be like. www.Slashdot.xxx, anyone?
I saw a BBC story that called Rumsfeld the Secretary of Defence. What goes around, comes around, as they say over here.
You should instead apply ROT13 twice. If you're really paranoid, then 4 times.
Well my USB drive has been through the wash a couple times, and putting it my wallet wouldn't really help. You see, my wallet has made it through the wash a couple times on it's own. Once I forgot to take it out of my swimsuit pocket before jumping in the atlantic.
Not only is the device approximately the size of a thumb, but the next time you insert it into the USB port, look carefuly at your hand. What part of you hand is the most prominently used. (Don't answer this all of you poor victims of threshing machine accidents.) Some even have a kind of depression in them for a particular digit.
Incidentally, many "strange" phrases that the English believe to be American or sometimes Australian in origin, actually are British. It's just that we still use them, whereas they fell out of use in England itself. That's not true of them all of course, just some.
Now I'm going to get mean! I can't believe you actually couldn't figure this out, unless perhaps you're not a native speaker of either English or American ;). I'm reminded of the SNL sketch of "Celebrity Jeopardy", where Will Ferrel asks the Minnie Driver character, "Are you English, or retarded?"
Furthermore, all you people complaining about the dupes, what's the point. I think it's kind of stupid too, but if they don't even glance at the front page, will they bother reading the comments? Maybe each individual editor looks at the comments for their own stories, but I kinda doubt it.
I think the reason it makes people mad, is cause they feel like they're relying on this site for technical foresight, and if they don't seem to care enough to prevent this kind of simple oversight, then what are the chances their putting in the effort for any of the site's content. I guess they're just phoning it in. Does the New York Times ever due the same story twice, and act like it's brand new each time?
I don't know what kind of car it is, but if it isn't already a chick magnet, I bet it is now!
The CEO of Coca-Cola says that Pepsi is the dumbest idea ever!
I also hate those stupid punch the monkey games. If you purposely miss over and over again, the monkey or whatever jumps under your pointer. I also hate the "You're our winner" ones. I block porn ads to, if they show up on non porn sites.
I want to support websites that put up advertising by allowing their ads to load. In a way, I feel there IS a kind of social contract, in that they need the revenue for their site. If I don't think they do, then I shouldn't go to their site, it's their terms. But when they violate that contract by being jackasses as I've described above, I don't allow it. I'm not sure, but I think that the adservers can tell if you don't load their ad, so the underlying website doesn't get credit for it. That's why I only block it if it violates my trust or senses as above.
That seems like a rather large assumption. There are plenty of lazy people out there that might not update something like this, and who knows of the validity of their claim in the first place. Open source supports can be wrong sometimes too. This is over a year old now, with no updates. Maybe the busybox people found out they were wrong and forgot to update this page.
Remind me again, what the road to hell is paved with.
It would be cool to go to this Best Buy just to laugh at them. Just look at the cashiers and giggle until they ask you why. Or have a protest of sorts, where every body brings a 2 dollar bill and buys one small thing like a candy bar by the register or somethng. That would be really funny to make them take a few hundred dollars worth of 2 dollar bills to the bank themselves. Course, I guess they did that already once, unless they threw them away after they showed them to the SS agent. Is it funny that the US government has an agency with the initials SS.
This is ummmm.... funny?
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Some would say that protections like the US Second Amendment are the only true gaurantor, or at least of property. I'm just saying this, cause really there is no gaurantee at all, is there. Someone may offer their gaurantee, but what is it worth. I guess you covered that with the "stable" bit, but I don't know if there ever will be a completely stable government. We're just barely holding entropy at bay with a little spike of order here, I believe at times.
say you pump gas at a place that lets you pay after pumping (rare these days, but it used to be common).
Off Topic, I know but: I've lived in 3 different states and driven around a lot, and this isn't that rare at all. Some places stop doing it at night. I think in the big cities it might be rare, but there's a whole other more rural part of the world where people are much more trustworthy. It's an interesting bit of human nature to assume that how it is in your "neck of the woods" is the same everywhere else. I know I'm occasionally guilty of this too.
Well, the US Border folks were looking in trunks of cars that were entering the US, and he found a big taped up box in the car in front of us. The guard said, "What's in the box?", and the owner of the car said "Books". Then the guard said OK, and shut the trunk. All they asked us was, if the children in the car were ours or not. I thought that was a very weird question. This was about 4-5 hours after the attacks had begun.
It seemed like they had started some kind of superficial attempts at being more vigilant, but when faced with any actual searching, just didn't bother.
I believe they're Michiganders, you Canuck!
That the sound card won't work anymore. :(
Meanwhile, there seems to be a problem in Iraq. Civilians there are protesting the terrorists, and the mass graves of children have quit filling up, replaced by those of the terrorists. How much more mixed up can it get, I wonder?
By the way, Clinton gave a "no-bid" contract to Haliburton during the Kosovo war. Where's our exit strategy for winning the peace there? Hello.., Hello...?
Before that, our country managed to be phenomenally succesful, with very little government harrasment. How this is possible, I can't imagine, for clearly Government is the economic sludge that lubricates the wheels of progress.
My question to you is, where in the first 100 years of this country can you find evidence that the purpose of the Government is fund damn near everything, and lacking that evidence, why has it suddenly become a "good" idea?
I say this as someone who is not a catholic, and opposed to that church in many ways. My opposition to that church is probably the major reason I don't go around saying, "I'm a Catholic." Now I never was a member of the Catholic church, either, but I'm not sure why that makes a difference.
Granted, Luther himself didn't want to start a new church, but to fix the existing one. But eventually, he realized that wasn't possible, and he was at least willing to risk his own excommunication to stand up for his beliefs, not sit around mumbling to himself that he was a member of a group he disagreed with.
to Dejan "Vue" Levaja! Thank you, I'm here 'till Thursday.
American Football, or do you mean a pitch? And what is in the football field? Floppies stacked 100 high with 1 inch gaps around the stacks? Come on dude, let's be specific.