Your thinking of the the Ford Pinto which was prone to fires and explosions when hit in rear end collisions. It was first produced in 1971. Unsafe at any Speed was written by Ralph Nader in 1965 about the American Auto industries reluctance to fix safety problems. The car it talked about (among other things) was the Chevrolet Corvair.
Our equal employment policy is: hire smart people who work hard. Somehow, by paying no attention at all to diversity we now have a workforce of every sex, color, race, sexual orientation, and national origin imaginable. We plan to continue this policy.
Once upon a time there was a bully. He bullied a lot of kids. One day he bullied the outcast. He shoved the outcast from behind as he was walking by. The outcast was slammed into the lockers and split his lip. The bully walked away laughing. That evening the outcast and his one lone friend came back to the school with a hacksaw, a school issue combination lock and two large garbage bags. While the friend stood watch at the end of the hall the outcast sawed the lock off the bully's locker. It took no more than a minute to empty the bullies locker into the garbage bags. The outcast locked the locker back up with the lock he brought. The garbage bags were tossed into a dumpster behind the gas station.
The next morning the outcast watched from a distance while the bully tried to open his locker. The school locks all looked the same but his wouldn't open. Eventually the principal and the custodian came with some bolt cutters and the lock was cut. The locker was opened and inside was....nothing. No gym clothes, no textbooks, no almost complete woodwork project, no homework, no notes, no tennis racket, no leather jacket, no anything. The bully may have eventually realized that one of his victims had gotten even, but who it was, he never knew. He bullied a lot of kids.
Sorry, wrong. Freight trains are seldom derailed by collisions. As a person who works on and at Railways, I have had the chance to be on scene for a number of Car/Freight Train collisions. In the cases I saw, if the train was travelling at full speed (like about 60 mph) the car or truck it hit was annihilated. Shattered into junk, reduced to its component parts, spread out over a mile of track, every one on board instantly dead. The locomotives were almost always barely scratched. Never saw one derailed. Maybe a passenger train might derail if it hit a big truck, but a big freight locomotive weighs almost 200 tons and is scarcely going to notice hitting a car. The enginemen may get PTSD, but the trains are just fine.
Here's another example. Back a long time ago (late 70s) when I was at university we had a professor doing "Aids for the Blind". He was working on a computer system that could synthesize human speech. He had about $50,000 of DEC minicomputers plus another $20,000 of hand-built D-A converter boards in the lab, and was able to successfully read individual words from text files and convert them to almost recognizable speech. That summer TI released the Speak and Spell, which did better speech synthesis for $29.
Totally missed my point. I didn't say anything about hitting back, or somebody not being a man. My Point was: man hits woman (Chris->Rihana)=man gets arrested; woman hits man (Elin->Tiger)=no arrest. Violence is violence, rules should be the same no matter who is perpetrator and who is victim.
"Ripped from the headlines" example. - Tiger Woods and his wife Elin. If there roles had been reversed, if Elin had been the one with the cuts and bruises on her face, and Tiger the one swinging the club, he would have been arrested and charged just like Chris Brown was. So can somebody tell us why she isn't out on bail awaiting trial right now?
Right now, my sister's samick dreadnought acoustic. With the action so high I can stick a cigarrete under the strings at the 5th fret (well, almost). But under the Christmas tree is going to be a metallic red HHS Strat. "It will be mine. Oh yes, it will be mine."
No, not the one where some guy sneers "Why don't you man up and get a real guitar instead of playing with a plastic toy."
I actually did start learning to play a real guitar after playing guitar hero. What inspired me was not the thought that a real guitar would be cool (I already knew that). What I learned from guitar hero was that even though I sucked horribly at it at first, after about three months of playing just about every night for a half hour, I was starting to get reasonably good at it. I am now practicing every night on a real guitar. I still suck horribly at it, but I now have the hope that with steady practice I will improve.
You think that somebody who advocates joining a financial collective in order to reduce ones borrowing costs is a "Randroid". This both puzzles and amuses me.
First you define _exactly_ what you mean by sexism. Give me some concrete examples so I can understand.
Then tell me exactly how _I_ am being sexist.
I may agree with your definition of sexist and I may agree that my behaviour is sexist, and I may even decide to change that behaviour. This can only be a good thing.
However, if all you have is a vague and general accusation i.e "FOSS is sexist!!" don't be surprised if you get a whole lot of irate denial back at you.
Also if you state "only 1 % of FOSS devs are women, therefore FOSS must be sexist" you are making a logical leap that many of us will not follow.
In Canada - try NCIX.com. Disclaimer, I don't have any relationship with them other than to buy stuff there. Reviews appear to be mostly unfiltered. You will see 1 star and 2 star reviews, even for popular products.
"will it do everything that Windows will?" I explain that it will.
Awesome, I just nuked my old XP install and replaced it with Ubuntu. Firefox works great. Can you come over and help me install AutoCad, I got drawings I need to finish by Friday.
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Your thinking of the the Ford Pinto which was prone to fires and explosions when hit in rear end collisions. It was first produced in 1971. Unsafe at any Speed was written by Ralph Nader in 1965 about the American Auto industries reluctance to fix safety problems. The car it talked about (among other things) was the Chevrolet Corvair.
Our equal employment policy is: hire smart people who work hard. Somehow, by paying no attention at all to diversity we now have a workforce of every sex, color, race, sexual orientation, and national origin imaginable. We plan to continue this policy.
Once upon a time there was a bully. He bullied a lot of kids. One day he bullied the outcast. He shoved the outcast from behind as he was walking by. The outcast was slammed into the lockers and split his lip. The bully walked away laughing. That evening the outcast and his one lone friend came back to the school with a hacksaw, a school issue combination lock and two large garbage bags. While the friend stood watch at the end of the hall the outcast sawed the lock off the bully's locker. It took no more than a minute to empty the bullies locker into the garbage bags. The outcast locked the locker back up with the lock he brought. The garbage bags were tossed into a dumpster behind the gas station. The next morning the outcast watched from a distance while the bully tried to open his locker. The school locks all looked the same but his wouldn't open. Eventually the principal and the custodian came with some bolt cutters and the lock was cut. The locker was opened and inside was....nothing. No gym clothes, no textbooks, no almost complete woodwork project, no homework, no notes, no tennis racket, no leather jacket, no anything. The bully may have eventually realized that one of his victims had gotten even, but who it was, he never knew. He bullied a lot of kids.
Well aware of Selby. The post I was responding to said "Freight Trains". The train that derailed at Selby was, as you said, a passenger train.
Sorry, wrong. Freight trains are seldom derailed by collisions. As a person who works on and at Railways, I have had the chance to be on scene for a number of Car/Freight Train collisions. In the cases I saw, if the train was travelling at full speed (like about 60 mph) the car or truck it hit was annihilated. Shattered into junk, reduced to its component parts, spread out over a mile of track, every one on board instantly dead. The locomotives were almost always barely scratched. Never saw one derailed. Maybe a passenger train might derail if it hit a big truck, but a big freight locomotive weighs almost 200 tons and is scarcely going to notice hitting a car. The enginemen may get PTSD, but the trains are just fine.
Here's another example. Back a long time ago (late 70s) when I was at university we had a professor doing "Aids for the Blind". He was working on a computer system that could synthesize human speech. He had about $50,000 of DEC minicomputers plus another $20,000 of hand-built D-A converter boards in the lab, and was able to successfully read individual words from text files and convert them to almost recognizable speech. That summer TI released the Speak and Spell, which did better speech synthesis for $29.
I am shocked and amazed...to find TFA doesn't span 10 separate pages. Thanks, Engadget.
Yes, you were. I just realized that. I'll blame the new index and a lack of morning caffeine. Sorry.
Totally missed my point. I didn't say anything about hitting back, or somebody not being a man. My Point was: man hits woman (Chris->Rihana)=man gets arrested; woman hits man (Elin->Tiger)=no arrest. Violence is violence, rules should be the same no matter who is perpetrator and who is victim.
"Ripped from the headlines" example. - Tiger Woods and his wife Elin. If there roles had been reversed, if Elin had been the one with the cuts and bruises on her face, and Tiger the one swinging the club, he would have been arrested and charged just like Chris Brown was. So can somebody tell us why she isn't out on bail awaiting trial right now?
Right now, my sister's samick dreadnought acoustic. With the action so high I can stick a cigarrete under the strings at the 5th fret (well, almost). But under the Christmas tree is going to be a metallic red HHS Strat. "It will be mine. Oh yes, it will be mine."
No, not the one where some guy sneers "Why don't you man up and get a real guitar instead of playing with a plastic toy."
I actually did start learning to play a real guitar after playing guitar hero. What inspired me was not the thought that a real guitar would be cool (I already knew that). What I learned from guitar hero was that even though I sucked horribly at it at first, after about three months of playing just about every night for a half hour, I was starting to get reasonably good at it. I am now practicing every night on a real guitar. I still suck horribly at it, but I now have the hope that with steady practice I will improve.
2 words - Grow Op?
You think that somebody who advocates joining a financial collective in order to reduce ones borrowing costs is a "Randroid". This both puzzles and amuses me.
"returning them to the buxom of party censorship"
buxom ??? What word do you think they were aiming for?
"People will send things via gmail, I expect, that they wouldn't dream of entering into a search engine."
teenage....midget....llama...transexual....
How about this.
First you define _exactly_ what you mean by sexism. Give me some concrete examples so I can understand.
Then tell me exactly how _I_ am being sexist.
I may agree with your definition of sexist and I may agree that my behaviour is sexist, and I may even decide to change that behaviour. This can only be a good thing.
However, if all you have is a vague and general accusation i.e "FOSS is sexist!!" don't be surprised if you get a whole lot of irate denial back at you.
Also if you state "only 1 % of FOSS devs are women, therefore FOSS must be sexist" you are making a logical leap that many of us will not follow.
You say "energy" and then give the formula for force??? F=ma is for force. You want kinetic energy. Ek=(1/2)mv^2.
Stealth Godwin Sig - Sehr Gut!
In Canada - try NCIX.com. Disclaimer, I don't have any relationship with them other than to buy stuff there. Reviews appear to be mostly unfiltered. You will see 1 star and 2 star reviews, even for popular products.
1. Look up Rhinovirus and Influenza.
2. Notice that they are not the same thing.
And in British Columbia the Liberals are the conservatives. It's a bit complicated here, we are permitted to have more than 2 political parties.
Without googling, name 3 famous women mathematicians.
"will it do everything that Windows will?" I explain that it will.
Awesome, I just nuked my old XP install and replaced it with Ubuntu. Firefox works great. Can you come over and help me install AutoCad, I got drawings I need to finish by Friday.
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