When your laptop goes kablooey all of a sudden, it's darned handy to have a few machines around as a backup so you can type your Important Paper. You don't need hundreds, sure, but what's a couple dozen computers to a big fancy university?
Yes... and for that matter, plenty of Economists and Analysts were predicting the impending doom. A few people even managed to make quite a tidy bundle off of it (real estate shorts, in essence). The problem wasn't that nobody knew, it's that nobody was listening because it wasn't what they wanted to hear.
(Especially the politicians. Nothing so resoundingly bipartisan as the willful ignorance of our impending doom this past decade...)
7. "Sigh." (Non-Protestant-Fundamentalist Christian groups who maintain any less-than-fully-metaphorical creation story but recognize that the proposal described is, in fact, nuts.)
Well, that's a nice idea, but it takes a finite nonzero amount of time to do so. And, during that time, if you already have a product which is out (as many people do), people may be exploiting it, and so the bugs they are most likely to exploit are probably worthy of being deemed more urgent to fix, and what bugs are more likely to be exploited than the ones you can find using automated tools?
(Well, actually, we don't, which is why you spy clueless doofuses still trying to set up shop there in some form of another. I wonder if the recession will aid in putting an end to such foolish waste...)
They're not addicted to seeing light, they'll be addicted to having light shined through a fiber-optic cable to a particular point of their brain where researchers have embedded light-sensitive proteins. Sizable difference.
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We almost had a metric time: "Internet Time", from Swatch. If they had bothered to place it on the GMT meridian like the rest of the world's time, people would have taken it seriously, instead of just as a marketing gimmick.
"look, the meridian goes right through our headquarters!". Yeah-huh.
Ookay, Herr Pedantic. If I can avail myself of a heavy winter coat, or shade and cool drinks, or even heating and air conditioning in my home, is that any better? *cough*
What about comments on the sustainability of the ongoing depletion of Midwestern aquifers?
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I like Farenheit. It maps very well to the range of habitable temperatures that a human is likely to experience. I realize Freezing Water isn't in the best place, sure, and will willingly concede it would be better if it were tweaked down to something rounder (30 or so, perhaps) but aside from that: 100 is (about) as hot as it gets normally, 0 is about as cold as it gets normally, and anything outside that range is sure to be obnoxious and waxing uninhabitable.
I don't care about how hot it needs to be to boil water, or how many gram-degrees-Celcius are in your calorie, or anything like that. And furthermore, if you're going to be Mr. Science, why not just break out the Kelvin and be done with it?
(The form factor's pretty terrible, though. Need to get one of those LilyPad Arduinos or something, and tiiny motors, and make it unnoticeable to the passerby...)
Seriously. It's really great to be able to buy a house that takes 30 years to pay for and get to live in it during those 30 years. It's really great to be able to buy a car that will take 3 years to pay for and drive it for those 3 years. (At least with a car, the lease isn't too terrible...) It's really handy to be able to have a few thousand dollars and stick it in a savings account or CD and get money back.
It's also really handy to be able to refinance your bubbled house to get tons of money... very unwise, but very handy.
Well, really, there already is a "tax" of sorts called the Uninsured Motorist premium. Look for it on your insurance next time it comes due. This one may be marginally more productive, if the enforcement isn't too obnoxious.
No, that's the thing. Everything they've told you is technically true... under certain conditions. Possibly even the conditions that they've listed in a small-print disclaimer (available upon request, if you can arm-wrestle the tiger and win).
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Uhm, let me guess: you're the Parent.
amiright amiright?
There's "what a law targets", and there's "what a law hits", and they can be two very different things indeed.
When your laptop goes kablooey all of a sudden, it's darned handy to have a few machines around as a backup so you can type your Important Paper. You don't need hundreds, sure, but what's a couple dozen computers to a big fancy university?
Why? Mostly because the building materials for those things are dirt cheap.
(Especially the politicians. Nothing so resoundingly bipartisan as the willful ignorance of our impending doom this past decade...)
Indeed! Sheep-human hybrids would have worked out sooo much better!
Oh, and also for that matter: Orthodox churches aren't Protestant or Catholic.
Yes, and they're not-(Protestant-Fundamentalists), now, are they? :P
7. "Sigh." (Non-Protestant-Fundamentalist Christian groups who maintain any less-than-fully-metaphorical creation story but recognize that the proposal described is, in fact, nuts.)
Tuz the Tasmanian devil has replaced Tux as the kernel mascot (for this release) to raise awareness of this endangered species (which is threatened with extinction due to a scientifically interesting but horrific transmissible facial cancer.).
Duh.
No? Um, how about a contrived wrench-things-back-on-topic suggestion of Tuz For President?
Far more so than on a motorcycle? Because that's the target market it'd be replacing, you know.
This is the point where we send you Gmail invites and suddenly you've blocked Gmail.
Well, that's a nice idea, but it takes a finite nonzero amount of time to do so. And, during that time, if you already have a product which is out (as many people do), people may be exploiting it, and so the bugs they are most likely to exploit are probably worthy of being deemed more urgent to fix, and what bugs are more likely to be exploited than the ones you can find using automated tools?
(Well, actually, we don't, which is why you spy clueless doofuses still trying to set up shop there in some form of another. I wonder if the recession will aid in putting an end to such foolish waste...)
They're not addicted to seeing light, they'll be addicted to having light shined through a fiber-optic cable to a particular point of their brain where researchers have embedded light-sensitive proteins. Sizable difference.
"look, the meridian goes right through our headquarters!". Yeah-huh.
Ookay, Herr Pedantic. If I can avail myself of a heavy winter coat, or shade and cool drinks, or even heating and air conditioning in my home, is that any better? *cough*
What about comments on the sustainability of the ongoing depletion of Midwestern aquifers?
I don't care about how hot it needs to be to boil water, or how many gram-degrees-Celcius are in your calorie, or anything like that. And furthermore, if you're going to be Mr. Science, why not just break out the Kelvin and be done with it?
(The form factor's pretty terrible, though. Need to get one of those LilyPad Arduinos or something, and tiiny motors, and make it unnoticeable to the passerby...)
Seriously. It's really great to be able to buy a house that takes 30 years to pay for and get to live in it during those 30 years. It's really great to be able to buy a car that will take 3 years to pay for and drive it for those 3 years. (At least with a car, the lease isn't too terrible...) It's really handy to be able to have a few thousand dollars and stick it in a savings account or CD and get money back.
It's also really handy to be able to refinance your bubbled house to get tons of money... very unwise, but very handy.
Well, really, there already is a "tax" of sorts called the Uninsured Motorist premium. Look for it on your insurance next time it comes due. This one may be marginally more productive, if the enforcement isn't too obnoxious.
Darn. My clearance is only 'Bouncy Bubble Beverage'. The good news is that roughly half the time it can double as a hand grenade.
No, that's the thing. Everything they've told you is technically true... under certain conditions. Possibly even the conditions that they've listed in a small-print disclaimer (available upon request, if you can arm-wrestle the tiger and win).