Yes. Last night my girlfriend was looking at booking hotels in Italy - she's a barrister, so definitely not short of intelligence.
She repeatedly mistyped domains and then totally failed to recognize that she was on a spam ad-farm site - my mother does the same. So does my housemate... People seem to really not notice this kind of thing in the slightest. It's the old 'I don't understand computers therefore I'll play dumb' routine.
My mother once phoned me, panicking that I'd broken her computer while visiting for the weekend - got an absolute earful. Turns out, she was trying to use the mouse upside down.
They think their 'unknown energy source' is magnetism - this would make sense, given that it's a z-pinch implosion - the changing flux due to the rapid movement of a high-temperature array of magnetic particles must be phenomenal. Essentially they've not violated CofE, but they have found a clever way of getting things very hot with minimal effort.
My mother included. I still have to explain to her that the laptop doesn't have the entire damn internet on it.... She's convinced, though - if they told her so at PC World, it *must* be true.
Couldn't convince her not to buy a computer there, either.
I was the only student in Quantum Mechanics last semester that could do Fourier series and integrals by hand because I had developed a good basic intuition in calculus in high school.
I did physics at Durham (UK) - if you had been unable to do either of these by hand even in the first year, you would have failed. Period. What kind of physics do they teach you where you don't have to be able to do calculus with your mind, rather than with a machine?!
This country is a crock - it makes more sense financially to be unemployed than have a low-paying job. Hence I'm emigrating. Britain is driving away business and intelligence, through their mindblowingly stupid benefits and taxation system.
On $100,000 you could live like the maharaja. I'm almost tempted to become an indian programmer. I like farm animals wandering on the roads. I wouldn't live in the states for 4x what I earn now. Have you joined the schutzstaffel^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H citizen corps yet?
Yeah, damnit, how am I meant to read my core memory now???!? Also, I demand an audio cassette drive! And an LP deck. How dare they remove my perfectly good ancient tech?!
True, but they'll still have difficulties if they try to sell it - trafficking of whale products isn't taken kindly to - if they do want to sell it they're best off contacting Givaudan-Delawanna, Incorporated and Van Amerigen-Haebler, both of New York City.
Almost true. Actually, all whales in the dominion are the property of the queen, and if there is one, the king - the tail of the whale is the queen's property (for her whalebone corsets) and the rest is the king's - for the meat and blubber.
In 1970 the queen voluntarily repealed her right to this law, however lords refused to pass the motion, so the queen does still own all whales.
That said, the natural history museum has first dibs on any marine animals to wash up on british coastline.
It's actually more often than not illegal to posess it - as it's a product of an endangered species - if they don't burn it, and soon, they could find themselves doing jail time.
You joke, but at the Dome C drilling site upon completion, everyone had whiskey on the rocks - on 1,000,000 year old ice - apparently it practically exploded in the glass due to the pressure of the gas trapped within.
They used the same for Red Bull railstorm - a snowboarding event in London - I won the ticket, then couldn't make it - so I gave it to a friend - it's designed to not be possible to transfer, but given 5 minutes, a bit of ingenuity, and some sticky backed plastic the ticket was happily on his phone, and he got in without issue.
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Yep. My old boss ran at 1920x1400 or whatever, at about 55Hz, under flourescent lights.... He now wears glasses like beer bottle bottoms.
When did whitehouse.com stop being pr0n?!
Yes. Last night my girlfriend was looking at booking hotels in Italy - she's a barrister, so definitely not short of intelligence.
She repeatedly mistyped domains and then totally failed to recognize that she was on a spam ad-farm site - my mother does the same. So does my housemate... People seem to really not notice this kind of thing in the slightest. It's the old 'I don't understand computers therefore I'll play dumb' routine.
No, due to redshift. We could look pretty much at any wavelength, and have a chance of getting something.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour
What about Gentoo? Wonderful community. And you end up with plenty of time to get to know them all, while you wait for it to build!
My mother once phoned me, panicking that I'd broken her computer while visiting for the weekend - got an absolute earful. Turns out, she was trying to use the mouse upside down.
They think their 'unknown energy source' is magnetism - this would make sense, given that it's a z-pinch implosion - the changing flux due to the rapid movement of a high-temperature array of magnetic particles must be phenomenal. Essentially they've not violated CofE, but they have found a clever way of getting things very hot with minimal effort.
More to the point, no plane is capable of lifting Chuck Norris. He now travels by supertanker.
My mother included. I still have to explain to her that the laptop doesn't have the entire damn internet on it.... She's convinced, though - if they told her so at PC World, it *must* be true.
Couldn't convince her not to buy a computer there, either.
I was the only student in Quantum Mechanics last semester that could do Fourier series and integrals by hand because I had developed a good basic intuition in calculus in high school.
I did physics at Durham (UK) - if you had been unable to do either of these by hand even in the first year, you would have failed. Period. What kind of physics do they teach you where you don't have to be able to do calculus with your mind, rather than with a machine?!
I use a 1950s ingersol mickey mouse pocket watch. It's awesome.
That was the last thing pushed through using the Parliament Act, and was the death-knell into obscurity for the House of Lords.
This country is a crock - it makes more sense financially to be unemployed than have a low-paying job. Hence I'm emigrating. Britain is driving away business and intelligence, through their mindblowingly stupid benefits and taxation system.
What, like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_channel
Unfortunate... www.expertsexchange.com can be read a few ways....
On $100,000 you could live like the maharaja. I'm almost tempted to become an indian programmer. I like farm animals wandering on the roads. I wouldn't live in the states for 4x what I earn now. Have you joined the schutzstaffel^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H citizen corps yet?
OO DNA. No wonder early man is from Java.
Yeah, damnit, how am I meant to read my core memory now???!? Also, I demand an audio cassette drive! And an LP deck. How dare they remove my perfectly good ancient tech?!
True, but they'll still have difficulties if they try to sell it - trafficking of whale products isn't taken kindly to - if they do want to sell it they're best off contacting Givaudan-Delawanna, Incorporated and Van Amerigen-Haebler, both of New York City.
Almost true. Actually, all whales in the dominion are the property of the queen, and if there is one, the king - the tail of the whale is the queen's property (for her whalebone corsets) and the rest is the king's - for the meat and blubber.
In 1970 the queen voluntarily repealed her right to this law, however lords refused to pass the motion, so the queen does still own all whales.
That said, the natural history museum has first dibs on any marine animals to wash up on british coastline.
It's actually more often than not illegal to posess it - as it's a product of an endangered species - if they don't burn it, and soon, they could find themselves doing jail time.
It's CTHULHU, not CTHULU. Christian Trolls Helping Unchristian Loser Heathens Understand.
You joke, but at the Dome C drilling site upon completion, everyone had whiskey on the rocks - on 1,000,000 year old ice - apparently it practically exploded in the glass due to the pressure of the gas trapped within.
They used the same for Red Bull railstorm - a snowboarding event in London - I won the ticket, then couldn't make it - so I gave it to a friend - it's designed to not be possible to transfer, but given 5 minutes, a bit of ingenuity, and some sticky backed plastic the ticket was happily on his phone, and he got in without issue. M