Y'know, it occurs to me that anti-evolutionists don't just have a problem with evolution, but also geology, cosmology, carbon dating, physics. Any I missed?
2. When the help desk guy was assigned to make the followup call, he didn't notice and find it odd that the original call came in 10 years ago? He didn't call his supervisor over and say, "hey I think somebody made a mistake here! Maybe we should just close this out."
You haven't talked to Microsoft tech support have you? If it's not on the script, it doesn't happen.
Harley riders don't do it because 1) they can't (the physics don't allow it), and,
That's not really true. It may be harder, but it's certainly possible. A quick search for "harley wheelie" on Google image search will give you all the evidence you need.
Finally, the VAST majority of sport bike riders do not engage in wheelies, stoppies, etc.
I've also seen guys doing wheelies on the highway, and standing on the seat. It seems to depend a lot on the kind of bike. The crotch-rocket folks tend to be the ones riding like idiots. I've never seen a guy on a Harley or a Goldwing doing anything stupid on the highway. I wonder if the accident / death rates confirm this...
Yay, great! Let's just sit around waiting for someone's dog to shit where's it's not supposed to with a camera at hand. Then, get all full of ersatz civic pride by ratting them out to the cops.
F*ck civic pride. I just want my kids to be able to play outside without stepping in poo.
If you want to make it better, do it yourself - bring a pooper scooper and do what really needs to be done.
Why the hell should I have to pick up somebody else's dog poo? That's not my responsibility, it's theirs. And why should I have to buy a pooper scooper?
Tickets *might* make it eventually go away, but your hand will do it instantly.
Actually, I've found that tickets work pretty well.
Or laws that don't adequately punish companies for losing personal data, or at least allow for civil suits. My SSN was lost twice last year, both by large organizations, and I had no choice in giving either of them my SSN. One of them had it for health insurance reasons from when I was a child, and the other one was a school I attended. I think it's ridiculous. There's no reason that companies, schools, and other organizations should be able to lose tens of thousands of social security numbers and basically just shrug and say "oops". I bet if they had to pay a $10,000 fine for every SSN they lose, they'd start encrypting the data really quickly. There's a great Chronology of Data Breaches here that shows some staggering numbers
One thing I can say for OpenArena and Nexuiz is that they're both really fun. They might not have top-shelf graphics, but the games are fast-paced, usually pretty free from cheaters and other asshats, and just a lot of fun to play. I play Nexuiz pretty frequently. I'm not a huge fan of Sauerbraten, but that's mostly because there's only a few servers, and I get tired of instagib. I'm really excited to try the others on the list...
Now my 3 year old son can't play in the park across the street any more because its is filled with dog shit everywhere
Just watch the spot for awhile, and take pictures of the people who don't pick up their poo. Then call the police. After a few tickets, they'll start learning to pick it up. Actually, I've found around my house that it's usually teenagers who don't pick it up. Sending a letter to their parents can be just as effective.
and every night I'm kept awake or woken at 3am because of all the barking around the neighborhood.
This one's often illegal too, depending on where you live...In my neighborhood, any neighborly complaint because of dog barking is ticketable. I've called the police on one particularly irresponsible neighbor a number of times. And if anybody thinks I'm a jerk for calling the police, I've never called because of barking during the daytime. Always well past midnight. Little yippie dogs should not be left outside barking all night long.
.... If there's a user friendly alternative to Windows server for Joe Enduser? I run a Debian box with Samba on a computer that does hardware RAID 1 for my file sharing needs (I also have an SCP turned on so I can shove files onto it from outside my network too).
I do the same thing, although with Ubuntu, and minus the RAID. It wasn't all that hard to set up. I forget if Samba comes with Ubuntu by default, but even if it doesn't, Synaptic makes it easy enough to install. If somebody sold Linux home-server boxes or something, it could easily just be a matter of plug it into your network, turn it on, and call it done.
If you are lucky enough to have a window, then orient your desk so you can look out.
I've always found windows in offices to be a problem. If you're facing it, you're squinting all day, and if you're facing away from it, you have glare on your monitor. Blinds aren't always available / adequate. I have one of those Japanese tri-fold screens behind my chair to block the window...
In USA there are only two parties, so it's not possible.
It's got its ups and downs. In a 2-party system you might get stuck choosing between Turd Sandwich and Giant Douche, but at least the winner usually has at least 50% of the vote (or, unfortunately, 49% of the vote and a lot of powerful friends). In a 3-party system, you may have a leader who has only >33% of the vote. That means a majority of the people are SOL. In a 4-party system, >25% and so on.
Yeah, I'm really not talking about traffic where you can actually be in 2nd gear. I think a lot of people who have been responding to this don't live in a city with very much traffic. It's when people are creeping along at 2mph that it's a real pain.
"Although special relativity makes some quantities relative, such as time, that we would have imagined to be absolute based on everyday experience, it also makes absolute some others that were thought to be relative."
With the really bad traffic days, it can be a problem, but my car can plod along in 1st at 5 mph just fine.
I was more referring to the folks who like to plod along under 5MPH in especially bad traffic by constantly riding the brake. It probably depends somewhat on how bad the traffic is in your area. I live in a big city with really bad traffic.
i'm one of these guys AND i have a stickshift... unless you're under 5 mph you should be fine, what the hell kind of car do you have?
It's just a Saturn SC2, but it's had a handful of performance enhancements (just a bit faster than stock...not louder or uglier). It idles a bit quick, but some folks like to just ride the brake in a traffic jam, going 1 or 2 MPH, well below the speed that I can go without riding the clutch. It's especially obnoxious when it's on a 2-lane road where you can't pass, so people can leave huge gaps in front of them without having to worry about being cut off.
sounds good to me, the solution I've always driven for (no pun intended), is to slow down at traffic jams to the point where you can plod along without actually stopping.
You folks are wondrously fun for those of us with a manual transmission, where it's impossible to drive below a certain speed without constantly riding the clutch.
Might I also add that, while Myth Busters is far from science, so far I'm the only one to have provided a source of any sort. If somebody has a published empirical study that debunks the thermite paint theory, I'd love to see it.
While they may prove something empirically (and some of their questions lend themselves well to this) their methods make it impossible to generalize to answer the question with authority.
Regardless, they demonstrated that the thermite paint on the skin had a clear effect on burn time, and thus, the OP comment that this has been "soundly debunked" is false.
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No, it did not take a genius; it took quite a few thousand idiots, and a sh*tload of money to realize it.
Well, those two things are pretty interchangeable. And idiots are a lot easier to find. 1 Genius = 3000 idiots + money
Y'know, it occurs to me that anti-evolutionists don't just have a problem with evolution, but also geology, cosmology, carbon dating, physics. Any I missed?
Logic?
As the creator of ZuluPad, I obviously recommend it as a desktop wiki...
2. When the help desk guy was assigned to make the followup call, he didn't notice and find it odd that the original call came in 10 years ago? He didn't call his supervisor over and say, "hey I think somebody made a mistake here! Maybe we should just close this out."
You haven't talked to Microsoft tech support have you? If it's not on the script, it doesn't happen.
Harley riders don't do it because 1) they can't (the physics don't allow it), and,
That's not really true. It may be harder, but it's certainly possible. A quick search for "harley wheelie" on Google image search will give you all the evidence you need.
Finally, the VAST majority of sport bike riders do not engage in wheelies, stoppies, etc.
Never said they did.
I've also seen guys doing wheelies on the highway, and standing on the seat. It seems to depend a lot on the kind of bike. The crotch-rocket folks tend to be the ones riding like idiots. I've never seen a guy on a Harley or a Goldwing doing anything stupid on the highway. I wonder if the accident / death rates confirm this...
I feel happy! I feel happy!
Yay, great! Let's just sit around waiting for someone's dog to shit where's it's not supposed to with a camera at hand. Then, get all full of ersatz civic pride by ratting them out to the cops.
F*ck civic pride. I just want my kids to be able to play outside without stepping in poo.
If you want to make it better, do it yourself - bring a pooper scooper and do what really needs to be done.
Why the hell should I have to pick up somebody else's dog poo? That's not my responsibility, it's theirs. And why should I have to buy a pooper scooper?
Tickets *might* make it eventually go away, but your hand will do it instantly.
Actually, I've found that tickets work pretty well.
I doubt it will ever arrive in the U.S., at least not at that price.
The vehicle is aimed at improving driving safety by getting India's masses off their motorbikes and into cars."
Hmm...the world's second most populous nation switching from motorcycles to cars. Yes, that should do wonders for gas prices / global warming.
Or laws that don't adequately punish companies for losing personal data, or at least allow for civil suits. My SSN was lost twice last year, both by large organizations, and I had no choice in giving either of them my SSN. One of them had it for health insurance reasons from when I was a child, and the other one was a school I attended. I think it's ridiculous. There's no reason that companies, schools, and other organizations should be able to lose tens of thousands of social security numbers and basically just shrug and say "oops". I bet if they had to pay a $10,000 fine for every SSN they lose, they'd start encrypting the data really quickly. There's a great Chronology of Data Breaches here that shows some staggering numbers
One thing I can say for OpenArena and Nexuiz is that they're both really fun. They might not have top-shelf graphics, but the games are fast-paced, usually pretty free from cheaters and other asshats, and just a lot of fun to play. I play Nexuiz pretty frequently. I'm not a huge fan of Sauerbraten, but that's mostly because there's only a few servers, and I get tired of instagib. I'm really excited to try the others on the list...
Now my 3 year old son can't play in the park across the street any more because its is filled with dog shit everywhere
Just watch the spot for awhile, and take pictures of the people who don't pick up their poo. Then call the police. After a few tickets, they'll start learning to pick it up. Actually, I've found around my house that it's usually teenagers who don't pick it up. Sending a letter to their parents can be just as effective.
and every night I'm kept awake or woken at 3am because of all the barking around the neighborhood.
This one's often illegal too, depending on where you live...In my neighborhood, any neighborly complaint because of dog barking is ticketable. I've called the police on one particularly irresponsible neighbor a number of times. And if anybody thinks I'm a jerk for calling the police, I've never called because of barking during the daytime. Always well past midnight. Little yippie dogs should not be left outside barking all night long.
.... If there's a user friendly alternative to Windows server for Joe Enduser? I run a Debian box with Samba on a computer that does hardware RAID 1 for my file sharing needs (I also have an SCP turned on so I can shove files onto it from outside my network too).
I do the same thing, although with Ubuntu, and minus the RAID. It wasn't all that hard to set up. I forget if Samba comes with Ubuntu by default, but even if it doesn't, Synaptic makes it easy enough to install. If somebody sold Linux home-server boxes or something, it could easily just be a matter of plug it into your network, turn it on, and call it done.
If you are lucky enough to have a window, then orient your desk so you can look out.
I've always found windows in offices to be a problem. If you're facing it, you're squinting all day, and if you're facing away from it, you have glare on your monitor. Blinds aren't always available / adequate. I have one of those Japanese tri-fold screens behind my chair to block the window...
I'd try flash memory or maybe even a punch-card-type system with machine readable data printed/stamped/cut on paper.
Yes, a punch-card system is perfect...until somebody drops the deck...
In USA there are only two parties, so it's not possible.
It's got its ups and downs. In a 2-party system you might get stuck choosing between Turd Sandwich and Giant Douche, but at least the winner usually has at least 50% of the vote (or, unfortunately, 49% of the vote and a lot of powerful friends). In a 3-party system, you may have a leader who has only >33% of the vote. That means a majority of the people are SOL. In a 4-party system, >25% and so on.
Well, they did recently make a little girl cry
Yeah, I'm really not talking about traffic where you can actually be in 2nd gear. I think a lot of people who have been responding to this don't live in a city with very much traffic. It's when people are creeping along at 2mph that it's a real pain.
If time turns out to be a non-constant, so goes everything we know about anything.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity
"Although special relativity makes some quantities relative, such as time, that we would have imagined to be absolute based on everyday experience, it also makes absolute some others that were thought to be relative."
With the really bad traffic days, it can be a problem, but my car can plod along in 1st at 5 mph just fine.
I was more referring to the folks who like to plod along under 5MPH in especially bad traffic by constantly riding the brake. It probably depends somewhat on how bad the traffic is in your area. I live in a big city with really bad traffic.
i'm one of these guys AND i have a stickshift... unless you're under 5 mph you should be fine, what the hell kind of car do you have?
It's just a Saturn SC2, but it's had a handful of performance enhancements (just a bit faster than stock...not louder or uglier). It idles a bit quick, but some folks like to just ride the brake in a traffic jam, going 1 or 2 MPH, well below the speed that I can go without riding the clutch. It's especially obnoxious when it's on a 2-lane road where you can't pass, so people can leave huge gaps in front of them without having to worry about being cut off.
sounds good to me, the solution I've always driven for (no pun intended), is to slow down at traffic jams to the point where you can plod along without actually stopping.
You folks are wondrously fun for those of us with a manual transmission, where it's impossible to drive below a certain speed without constantly riding the clutch.
Might I also add that, while Myth Busters is far from science, so far I'm the only one to have provided a source of any sort. If somebody has a published empirical study that debunks the thermite paint theory, I'd love to see it.
While they may prove something empirically (and some of their questions lend themselves well to this) their methods make it impossible to generalize to answer the question with authority.
Regardless, they demonstrated that the thermite paint on the skin had a clear effect on burn time, and thus, the OP comment that this has been "soundly debunked" is false.
We're quoting Mythbusters as an authoritative source now?
I wouldn't say they're authoritative, but they did pretty clearly show that a hydrogen blimp burns faster with thermite paint than it does without.