"... kill all Americans, wherever you find them"? Not the IRA making those threats.
Yeah, that's because it was the Americans, in some sort of misplaced green-beer-drinking nostalgia for their supposed Irish roots, that provided most of the funding for the IRA.
So maybe if you are Irish Catholic, it may give you a +2 or +3 to your risk assessment
The US is not at risk from the IRA, for the same reason that the Taliban didn't ever worry about the threat from Al Qua'eda.
But Skylab wasn't going as fast - Celestial mechanics isn't my strong point, but something falling from a gradully-decaying orbit around the Eath (eg Skylab) won't be going half as fast relative to the Earth as something aproaching perihelion on a huge elliptic orbit round the sun (eg an asteroid) - things on elliptic orbits go faster the closer they get to the thing they're orbiting. Conservation of angular momentum or something.
And as Skylab wasn't going as fast, it wasn't heated up so much in the atmosphere, so more bits of it reached the surface than most meteorites.
I don't know about this, I kind of like the ability to think before I speak. Imagine using it at your office or whatever:
"Yeah, sure I can got those spreadsheets done for you hey nice tits, yeah, I'll get them done by Tuesday God I've never noticed how much you look like a monkey, I mean, no problem. I'll prioritise that and have it on your desk by tuesday you retarded gibbon. Nice tits though..."
Yeah, but you can't get a negative value for Kelvin.
Unless the atoms making up a material are so cold that they're vibrating negatively, like moving backwards in time or something. Yeah, that would probably do it...
(Runs off to invent time machine powered by crystals of solid helium at subzero Kelvin temperatures)
Yeah, if we assume it's Latin-based, it sound a bit like "flying death", but if we assume it's French-based, it sounds like an elision of "Voleur de Mort" - thief of death.
Given that Rowling seems to have a penchant for giving her baddies French- or Norman-sounding names (Draco Malfoy, etc), the latter seems more likely to me.
Although having said that, all the spells and stuff are in Latin, so she's obviously capable of either. But she does seem to have a thing about the French.
Hey, I had something similar to that at my University! I went to the doctor about it and she gave the rest of the semester off. She said it was stress-related.
I knew a guy at school who managed to spray-paint his tag on a real cop (across the back of his body armour, during a rather rowdy demostration).Yeah sure, it took balls and a kind of self-destructive personality to attempt it, but it did show that it was possible. So even real cops are not immune.
Would have loved to have seen that guy's face when he got back to the staiton and took his body armour off. "Why, those.... those pesky kids!!!"
The bus in your link looks like the open-top version of the model which I was talking aboutthink - unfortunately the picture doesn't show the open platform, or lack thereof, at the back - i've seen some buses of this type with doors retro-fitted on the platform, which is a travesty!!!!
I do, however, get a "macho superiority trip" by riding the old-skool double decker buses we have here, with the open back platform from which you can hang out, feel the wind in your hear, and marvel at the potential for personal injury. Sadly, they will be phased out over the next ten years or so, mainly becuase:
1. The last one was built some time in the early seventies.
2. The current government seems to have an obeseesion with making dangerous stuff illegal.
I, for one, will be sad to see the old Leyland Routemasters go. Buses with doors? Pah! They're for girls!
"I'd never ask my wife to stand on the side of a US interstate with the hood up"
Well, no, not if I was in the car, too. I'd probably and stand there with her for a bit, before suggesting we close the bonnet, find a pub and call the AA (like your AAA, not like your AA) from there.
Seriously, though, I wasn't saying it was necessarily the best idea in the world, but she was just saying that in those cases when she was stranded at the side of the road with no-one to come to her aid, then she'd appreciate being able to raise the bonnet, if only for purely symbolic reasons.
I don't know if there are fewer serial killers/rapists/whatever in England than in the US, but, based on my limited knowledge of US culture (mainly informed by Hollywood), I think there might be a greater fear of them over your side of the pond.
I would have thought that, if tthey had any sense, they'd put a pair of terminals for jump-starts somewhere accessible, like with the fuel / windscreen-washer stuff.
In fact, I've often wondered why all cars don't have this feature. What's up with those giant crocodile clips? Why can't all cars just have a standard socket somewhere accessible that you can plug the jump leads into? And maybe an adaptor, as well, so you can recharge off the mains?
Sad but true: this is a Volvo "Concept Car" (ie automotive vaporware) that was designed "for women by women".
However, the whole article does read like something out of the Onion. Changable multi-coloured seat covers to match your clothes? If it wasn't true it would be a sexist joke.
I was talking with my wife about this and she said she likes having a bonnet that lifts up, as it acts as a kind of "distress flag" when she's waiting on the hard shoulder with a knackered car, hoping some good samaritan will pull over and help her out. I know that this, too, sounds like a sexist joke, but my wife said it first, and she's a woman, so that's OK, I guess.
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I agree with you, but one small correction:
In the UK, votes are counted by volunteers, for free. And there's like a big race to see which polling stations can get thier results in first.
candidates being voted in merely on coolness factor rather than any real political platform or experience.
Yeah, they might vote in movie stars for governor or president or whatever.
Quod, isn't it?
"... kill all Americans, wherever you find them"? Not the IRA making those threats.
Yeah, that's because it was the Americans, in some sort of misplaced green-beer-drinking nostalgia for their supposed Irish roots, that provided most of the funding for the IRA.
So maybe if you are Irish Catholic, it may give you a +2 or +3 to your risk assessment
The US is not at risk from the IRA, for the same reason that the Taliban didn't ever worry about the threat from Al Qua'eda.
But Skylab wasn't going as fast - Celestial mechanics isn't my strong point, but something falling from a gradully-decaying orbit around the Eath (eg Skylab) won't be going half as fast relative to the Earth as something aproaching perihelion on a huge elliptic orbit round the sun (eg an asteroid) - things on elliptic orbits go faster the closer they get to the thing they're orbiting. Conservation of angular momentum or something.
And as Skylab wasn't going as fast, it wasn't heated up so much in the atmosphere, so more bits of it reached the surface than most meteorites.
I don't know about this, I kind of like the ability to think before I speak. Imagine using it at your office or whatever:
"Yeah, sure I can got those spreadsheets done for you hey nice tits, yeah, I'll get them done by Tuesday God I've never noticed how much you look like a monkey, I mean, no problem. I'll prioritise that and have it on your desk by tuesday you retarded gibbon. Nice tits though..."
Insightful? Eh?
What part of "I'm single and have no kids or major commitments" do you (and the mods) feel requires futher elucidation?
I disagree. Ancient weapons and hokey religions are no match for a few mod points at your side, kid.
Yeah, but you can't get a negative value for Kelvin.
Unless the atoms making up a material are so cold that they're vibrating negatively, like moving backwards in time or something. Yeah, that would probably do it...
(Runs off to invent time machine powered by crystals of solid helium at subzero Kelvin temperatures)
Yeah, if we assume it's Latin-based, it sound a bit like "flying death", but if we assume it's French-based, it sounds like an elision of "Voleur de Mort" - thief of death.
Given that Rowling seems to have a penchant for giving her baddies French- or Norman-sounding names (Draco Malfoy, etc), the latter seems more likely to me.
Although having said that, all the spells and stuff are in Latin, so she's obviously capable of either. But she does seem to have a thing about the French.
Now some really old fart is going to come and tell us about storing his MP3 collection on punch cards
.mod file.
Well, my dad used to compose music by punching holes in blank pianola rolls with a knitting-needle. I guess that's closer to a
I bet you didn't think there was much of a tracker / sequencer scene in the late forties, did you?
Tell it to young people today, and they won't believe you.
In what possible way is NetHack educational? What are kids going to learn from playing it?
Throwing tripe at wild animals makes them love you?
Shopkeepers have powerful magical forces, and must never be pissed off?
It's okay to eat people if you tin them first?
Hey, I had something similar to that at my University! I went to the doctor about it and she gave the rest of the semester off. She said it was stress-related.
I knew a guy at school who managed to spray-paint his tag on a real cop (across the back of his body armour, during a rather rowdy demostration).Yeah sure, it took balls and a kind of self-destructive personality to attempt it, but it did show that it was possible. So even real cops are not immune.
Would have loved to have seen that guy's face when he got back to the staiton and took his body armour off. "Why, those.... those pesky kids!!!"
"High" in what sense? London's a pretty high city, on a Saturday night.
And a bunch of grad students to make you coffee. Cute grad students.
That was just Pound trying to make out that he was a great artist ;)
Oscar Wilde, I believe.
Thankyou.
The bus in your link looks like the open-top version of the model which I was talking aboutthink - unfortunately the picture doesn't show the open platform, or lack thereof, at the back - i've seen some buses of this type with doors retro-fitted on the platform, which is a travesty!!!!
I dunno about you guys, but I'm paranoid enough not to call local law enforcement. I would sooner trust a random stranger than a copper.
D'oh! Will rectify, and then write out a hundred times: "I must count my orders of magnitude more carefully". Cheers.
That's okay, I can't even drive.
I do, however, get a "macho superiority trip" by riding the old-skool double decker buses we have here, with the open back platform from which you can hang out, feel the wind in your hear, and marvel at the potential for personal injury. Sadly, they will be phased out over the next ten years or so, mainly becuase:
1. The last one was built some time in the early seventies.
2. The current government seems to have an obeseesion with making dangerous stuff illegal.
I, for one, will be sad to see the old Leyland Routemasters go. Buses with doors? Pah! They're for girls!
"I'd never ask my wife to stand on the side of a US interstate with the hood up"
Well, no, not if I was in the car, too. I'd probably and stand there with her for a bit, before suggesting we close the bonnet, find a pub and call the AA (like your AAA, not like your AA) from there.
Seriously, though, I wasn't saying it was necessarily the best idea in the world, but she was just saying that in those cases when she was stranded at the side of the road with no-one to come to her aid, then she'd appreciate being able to raise the bonnet, if only for purely symbolic reasons.
I don't know if there are fewer serial killers/rapists/whatever in England than in the US, but, based on my limited knowledge of US culture (mainly informed by Hollywood), I think there might be a greater fear of them over your side of the pond.
I would have thought that, if tthey had any sense, they'd put a pair of terminals for jump-starts somewhere accessible, like with the fuel / windscreen-washer stuff.
In fact, I've often wondered why all cars don't have this feature. What's up with those giant crocodile clips? Why can't all cars just have a standard socket somewhere accessible that you can plug the jump leads into? And maybe an adaptor, as well, so you can recharge off the mains?
Sad but true: this is a Volvo "Concept Car" (ie automotive vaporware) that was designed "for women by women".
However, the whole article does read like something out of the Onion. Changable multi-coloured seat covers to match your clothes? If it wasn't true it would be a sexist joke.
I was talking with my wife about this and she said she likes having a bonnet that lifts up, as it acts as a kind of "distress flag" when she's waiting on the hard shoulder with a knackered car, hoping some good samaritan will pull over and help her out. I know that this, too, sounds like a sexist joke, but my wife said it first, and she's a woman, so that's OK, I guess.