Penny: "Oh my god, I've got to go to the emergency room." Sheldon: "Well, assuming you're correct that your right humerus is no longer seated in the glenoid socket, I would certainly think so."
They could have replaced the words "humerus" and "glenoid socket" with gibberish and most wouldn't know the difference.
And that's the problem - the actual science isn't the joke, but the fact that they're talking about science is. Friction isn't funny, the reference to friction is funny.
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[In normal comedy] the joke is about the SUBJECT of X, not the mere reference to it. The reference imbues the joke with additional meaning, whereas The Big Bang Theory accomplishes the opposite. These jokes are at best lazy writing, and a worst, a small step towards the complete annihilation of reality.
2. TBBT without the laugh track shows just how bland and boring the show really is:
Does that mean I "hate" TBBT ? No. I just find it over-rated.
But please keep:
* placing people into a False Dilemma / dichotomy fallacy -- "You don't like the show so you MUST hate it.", and * using Ad Hominem fallacy -- "Haters going to hate"; whining about how people hate X without taking the time to LEARN _what_ and _why_ specifically it is they dislike about it.
--- There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -- Josh Billings
> FTR, my first distro was Yggdrasil, followed quickly by Slackware
Same! Did you have the Adaptec ASC-X9160 cards (e.g. 29160) or one of the AHA-29X0 variations (2940)? Did you also have a Zip or Jazz drive?:-) Slackware "just worked." Ah, the days of waiting for an hour+ to compile our kernel.
I had a Linux book that came with Yggdrasil on CD; downloaded Slackware from the university's T1 line unto ~11x 3.5" disks IIRC -- still remember the 4 "base" disks and the 7 "development" disks. After that I took a different path then you. Around ~2000 switched to Red Hat and then to Mandrake. Switched to OpenBSD due to the Linux ipfwadm / ipchains kerfuffle. I never ditched Windows though since I was both a hard-core gamer and professional game developer.
> CONSISTENCY
Do you mean how MS consistently shipped a shitty Notepad or Command shell for decades then yes, they were consistent at crap utilities! =P Microsoft is a total joke with how they constantly reshuffle the Control Panel icons and categories every version.
Joking aside, I agree with your point:
The difference is that there was only 1 version of Windows to learn for each (kernel) release -- once you knew where things were in Windows 2000 you could leverage that knowledge when you switched to Windows XP as opposed to the clusterfuck of every Linux distribution. Debugging why X11 failed to startup is definitely a good example of the Linux guys not understanding ease-of-use.
OSX, er, macOS, used to do consistency extremely well with the Apple System Menu.
But yes, 100% agree, Linux has never learnt this lesson.
> along with enabling developers of applications to have a single target platform - led to MS being what it is today
Well, that, and a few other things:
* Win32 -- stable API * DirectX -- providing a fast, unified API for games, and * MSVC -- Microsoft's C/C++ IDE was extremely popular * Microsoft strong arming OEMs that they would lose their special MS discount if they sold non MS OS's.
But that's probably a discussion for another day...
Agreed -- ignoring those 2+ billion Android devices (in 2017, no less) is strange.
If we ignore Android and look at the rest of the consumer space, then yes, we see Linux is a drop-in-the-bucket -- on the desktop it is estimated to roughly have only 2 %
However, Linux is dominating in other areas -- it is a wildly successful in the server space. 100% of the Top 500 Supercomputers in the world run Linux. Not bad for a "hobby" OS./sarcasm I wish I could "fail" like that. =P
Why does Linux need to upstage Windows before it is considered "successful" ??
Knowledge comes in two forms - intellectual and experiential.
Your fallacy is that you are looking for intellectual knowledge or intellectual proof - which you will NEVER find. E.g. 1+1=2.
You will have you experiential proof when you die and realize your consciousness is 100% independent of your dead physical body; that is, your physical body will be nothing more then an empty shell but your thoughts will continue. E.g. I know what red is and how it differs from green because I can SEE both of them. How would you know what colors even are if you were unable to experience them???
EVERY action causes Karma -- positive or negative. Whether you believe this or not is irrelevant. You WILL be self-judged in the afterlife. Hell is not a place, but a state of mind - a timeout "penalty" box where you reflect upon EVERYTHING negative you did while alive. Compassion and Forgiveness to others, and yourself, will minimize this time until you learn the lessons you failed to learn while alive.
But keep whining about how you have no proof of an afterlife -- it won't make a damn difference in the end (puns intended.)
* When you are offline DM (Direct Messages) are emailed to you * Chat saved server-side * Multi-Factor Authentication * Threads (can reply to someone and start a thread) * Multi-line code snippets using ```...``` and basic MarkDown * Editing of messages * Preview of links * Custom emoji
Yeah, most of those are fluff.
Now if there was only an auto-kick clueless noobs who can't fucking read the pinned messages and have to use @here in a channel of 500+ people...
Joking aside, is it REALLY that much a of a problem to keep Legacy extensions, sorry, "Add-Ons" on a different "space" of the website??? Are they afraid people will get "confused" and try to install them on the new version? Mozilla is losing out on the ability to see WHAT is popular and WHY it is popular. If they were smart they would provide alternative URLs for extensions that work in the new version. Too bad this "telemetry" data doesn't have any value for them.
I get it that they want to push everyone onto the latest shiny. Unfortunately, the harder they push, the more backlash there will be and people just go "Fuck it. I'll just use Pale Moon, etc." where their extensions continue to work.
Guess it is just another sign of Mozilla continuing to jump the shark / nuke the fridge / etc. on slowly becoming irrelevant and losing touch with what people want in a browser.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. -- Voltaire, aka Francois-Marie Arouet
When de facto "town squares" start censoring the danger is that WHO determines WHAT is acceptable? This is an extremely dangerous slippery slope where anything they don't like, be it ideology based on different political, religions, sexual, etc. options, slowly becomes censored.
Here, let me remind of a bit of history paraphrased by Martin Niemoller:
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me.
Uhm, Hello McFly! Aren't you paying ANY attention to how we are fucking up the planet? Oh wait, that's right, you would rather ignore the message and shoot the messenger with insecure humor:
> I'm not a native English speaker, but isn't churn supposed to mean reduction in something?
No. If you actually looked up the definition / etymology of the word you would see that churn is a machine or container in which butter is made by agitating milk or cream.
i.e. If 5% cut the cord but a different 5% start their cable subscription then the total number of current subscribershasn't changed. Churn is just another name for cyclical movement.
The cable industry with its subscribers, for the most part (*), has been holding steady for the past 20 years. i.e. Steady churn.
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You are dismissing people who dislike it without actually understanding WHY they dislike it.
1. Wisecrack recently did an analysis of WHY the humor in TBBT is so bland:
* The Big Bang Theory: What Went Wrong? - Wisecrack Edition
My bold emphasis added.
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2. TBBT without the laugh track shows just how bland and boring the show really is:
* The Big Bang Theory - No Laugh Track 1 (Avoiding the Shamy)
Does that mean I "hate" TBBT ? No. I just find it over-rated.
But please keep:
* placing people into a False Dilemma / dichotomy fallacy -- "You don't like the show so you MUST hate it.", and
* using Ad Hominem fallacy -- "Haters going to hate"; whining about how people hate X without taking the time to LEARN _what_ and _why_ specifically it is they dislike about it.
---
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -- Josh Billings
> FTR, my first distro was Yggdrasil, followed quickly by Slackware
Same! Did you have the Adaptec ASC-X9160 cards (e.g. 29160) or one of the AHA-29X0 variations (2940)? Did you also have a Zip or Jazz drive? :-) Slackware "just worked." Ah, the days of waiting for an hour+ to compile our kernel.
I had a Linux book that came with Yggdrasil on CD; downloaded Slackware from the university's T1 line unto ~11x 3.5" disks IIRC -- still remember the 4 "base" disks and the 7 "development" disks. After that I took a different path then you. Around ~2000 switched to Red Hat and then to Mandrake. Switched to OpenBSD due to the Linux ipfwadm / ipchains kerfuffle. I never ditched Windows though since I was both a hard-core gamer and professional game developer.
> CONSISTENCY
Do you mean how MS consistently shipped a shitty Notepad or Command shell for decades then yes, they were consistent at crap utilities! =P Microsoft is a total joke with how they constantly reshuffle the Control Panel icons and categories every version.
Joking aside, I agree with your point:
The difference is that there was only 1 version of Windows to learn for each (kernel) release -- once you knew where things were in Windows 2000 you could leverage that knowledge when you switched to Windows XP as opposed to the clusterfuck of every Linux distribution. Debugging why X11 failed to startup is definitely a good example of the Linux guys not understanding ease-of-use.
OSX, er, macOS, used to do consistency extremely well with the Apple System Menu.
But yes, 100% agree, Linux has never learnt this lesson.
> along with enabling developers of applications to have a single target platform - led to MS being what it is today
Well, that, and a few other things:
* Win32 -- stable API
* DirectX -- providing a fast, unified API for games, and
* MSVC -- Microsoft's C/C++ IDE was extremely popular
* Microsoft strong arming OEMs that they would lose their special MS discount if they sold non MS OS's.
But that's probably a discussion for another day ...
Agreed -- ignoring those 2+ billion Android devices (in 2017, no less) is strange.
If we ignore Android and look at the rest of the consumer space, then yes, we see Linux is a drop-in-the-bucket -- on the desktop it is estimated to roughly have only 2 %
However, Linux is dominating in other areas -- it is a wildly successful in the server space. 100% of the Top 500 Supercomputers in the world run Linux. Not bad for a "hobby" OS. /sarcasm I wish I could "fail" like that. =P
Why does Linux need to upstage Windows before it is considered "successful" ??
Knowledge comes in two forms - intellectual and experiential.
Your fallacy is that you are looking for intellectual knowledge or intellectual proof - which you will NEVER find. E.g. 1+1=2.
You will have you experiential proof when you die and realize your consciousness is 100% independent of your dead physical body; that is, your physical body will be nothing more then an empty shell but your thoughts will continue. E.g. I know what red is and how it differs from green because I can SEE both of them. How would you know what colors even are if you were unable to experience them???
EVERY action causes Karma -- positive or negative. Whether you believe this or not is irrelevant. You WILL be self-judged in the afterlife. Hell is not a place, but a state of mind - a timeout "penalty" box where you reflect upon EVERYTHING negative you did while alive. Compassion and Forgiveness to others, and yourself, will minimize this time until you learn the lessons you failed to learn while alive.
But keep whining about how you have no proof of an afterlife -- it won't make a damn difference in the end (puns intended.)
One time I remembered to take my placebo and I got better.
Yes, I should have mentioned that Slack is a bloated resource hog.
Probably because Slack is built with Electron
Because Slack is the latest "shiny" / fad.
"Benefits" include:
* When you are offline DM (Direct Messages) are emailed to you
* Chat saved server-side
* Multi-Factor Authentication
* Threads (can reply to someone and start a thread)
* Multi-line code snippets using ```...``` and basic MarkDown
* Editing of messages
* Preview of links
* Custom emoji
Yeah, most of those are fluff.
Now if there was only an auto-kick clueless noobs who can't fucking read the pinned messages and have to use @here in a channel of 500+ people ...
The latest re-incarnation is Slack. Before that was HipChat, etc.
Note: If you can't stand the amount of spam images in a channel and want to minimize the stupid GIF animations you can use the Slack command: /collapse
It is almost comical how every modern utility has been re-invented multiple times.
> It sure as fuck isn't because it tastes good.
You DO realize that there is good tasting alcohol, right?
Why would drink the stuff that tastes like crap??
WTF is "hate speech"? Who defines it?
How is calling someone a nagger hate speech?
Are we really that far removed from common sense?
*facepalm*
> bully pulpit
Before anyone else gets their panties in a knot, that's a horrible coining by Theodore Roosevelt. I doubt most people know the difference between:
* bully, the adjective; which means "fine; excellent; very good."
* bully, the noun; which means "a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person"
> Why would you be comparing differently typed items anyway?
You _never_ make typos in code?
You _never_ compare the wrong types by accident?
Good programming embraces Fail Fast. One of the advantages of static type checking is that you know instantly if what you are doing is nonsense.
PHP and JavaScript are crap because they embrace "Fail Whenever" -- a HORRIBLE practice for scalability, correctness, and robustness.
> PHP was the insane choice
FTFY.
PHP is shit.
The online manual is crap as well. Searching for true, TRUE, false, FALSE, all return:
*facepalm*
Why do two of shittiest programming languages around, PHP and JavaScript, drive much of the Web?
*double facepalm*
Wow, that's a horrible name.
Reality Winner
Really?
Looks like she just won some FPMITAP time.
Exactly. It gets absurd quickly.
Apparently the Chinese never heard the cliche:
Ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away.
> to the point of banning the term "63+1", or 6/4.
Wow, that's a new low for China.
What's that quote?
--
Only children censor.
Adults communicate and even laugh at taboo subjects.
/sarcasm Ouch, burn! (pun intended)
Joking aside, is it REALLY that much a of a problem to keep Legacy extensions, sorry, "Add-Ons" on a different "space" of the website??? Are they afraid people will get "confused" and try to install them on the new version? Mozilla is losing out on the ability to see WHAT is popular and WHY it is popular. If they were smart they would provide alternative URLs for extensions that work in the new version. Too bad this "telemetry" data doesn't have any value for them.
I get it that they want to push everyone onto the latest shiny. Unfortunately, the harder they push, the more backlash there will be and people just go "Fuck it. I'll just use Pale Moon, etc." where their extensions continue to work.
Guess it is just another sign of Mozilla continuing to jump the shark / nuke the fridge / etc. on slowly becoming irrelevant and losing touch with what people want in a browser.
First. World. Problems: We no longer waste paper to print archaic Mathematical tables /sarcasm OH NOES!
You know what else is "dead" ?
* Slide rule
* Tables of common Logarithms
* Tables of Trigonometric functions
Guess what, nobody is stopping you from buying those tables from old CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics which have them.
Apparently you didn't get the memo that a cheap calculator is "good enough."
What's next?
Whining that we don't have rotary telephones? Black and White televisions?
> Alex Jones ... To defend him makes you a nutter,
False equivalence much?
You are completely missing the point:
When de facto "town squares" start censoring the danger is that WHO determines WHAT is acceptable? This is an extremely dangerous slippery slope where anything they don't like, be it ideology based on different political, religions, sexual, etc. options, slowly becomes censored.
Here, let me remind of a bit of history paraphrased by Martin Niemoller:
But keep trying to conflate the issue.
> One of the MOST profound lessons I ever got was from a Philosophy professor: QUESTION EVERTHING... especially the motives for this lunacy!
*sigh*
You messed up the joke:
--
Who knew that in 2018 we'd watch:
* Mainstream Media (MSM) "news" for comedy, and
* Late-night talk shows for the actual news?
Get off your fucking high horse already.
Entertainment comes in many different mediums.
No one died and made you king to judge what is or isn't an "acceptable" form of entertainment.
--
Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex. -- Frank Zappa
Uhm, Hello McFly! Aren't you paying ANY attention to how we are fucking up the planet? Oh wait, that's right, you would rather ignore the message and shoot the messenger with insecure humor:
* Plastic found at the bottom of the Mariana Trench
* Only 40% of recycles are recycled
* 73% of fish in Atlantic have microplastic in their guts
* Artic full of mercury
* Mercury levels in fish
* 1/3 of coral in Great Barrier Reef is dead
* 50% of coral in Great Barrier Reed dead
* Monsanto 'Terminator' Seeds are contaminating farms by routine pollination by animals and acts of nature
I think you get the point. Instead of being proper stewards towards the the planet our consumption is unsustainable.
But keep whining about non-issues and ignoring the real issue of how we are polluting this planet.
> I'm not a native English speaker, but isn't churn supposed to mean reduction in something?
No. If you actually looked up the definition / etymology of the word you would see that churn is a machine or container in which butter is made by agitating milk or cream.
e.g. Butter Churn
i.e. If 5% cut the cord but a different 5% start their cable subscription then the total number of current subscribers hasn't changed. Churn is just another name for cyclical movement.
The cable industry with its subscribers, for the most part (*), has been holding steady for the past 20 years. i.e. Steady churn.
(*) Roughly 2%
+100. Can't believe I forgot that one.