Sixty times hospital-grade disinfectant a day? My skin is close to suicide when I just read about it. Yeah, I can see how a short wash followed by a plasma bath would be greatly preferable.
Granted, I can't find a city with bad tap water right now (or neccessarily at all). As for optional sewers: Leach fields don't seem to be that unusual in the States. I seem to remember that my brother's house in Indianapolis has something similar.
First, glad to see that Europe still considers us just a bunch of peasants only good for giving them money. That re-enforces our "we don't give a shit" feelings toward you.
Er, what? Unless the USA are still thirteen British colonies, we don't. I have no idea where you got the notion that we still do.
Second, which imaginary country are you from that has more money than the the USA? The IMF, World Bank, and CIA all list the USA as having the largest GDP.
I never said "country". I said "we". The European Union is an entity, even though one consisting of several countries. Plus, there's countries in the world besides the EU and they aren't part of the USA, either.
With Big Brother in charge, you certainly all have become a whiny, entitled lot.
Unfortunately we can't get him completely out without the USA declaring non-war on us. Half of the spying done on European citizens is done by American agencies for bogus reasons. Besides, Big Brother's as firmly entrenched in the States as he is over here. And has been, for quite some time. Nothing new at all.
Americans are nice. Generally very open, sociable people who will be happy to strike up a conversation with you if they notice you're from a country they've been to or some such. The United States of America (and, by extension, the people making up the American government) is a sociopathic asshole of a country that constantly betrays the principle it was founded on and follows international law only when it feels like it (and tries to get the law amended so it can do whatever it wants).
Huge difference. I'd be happy to come over to the place where the Americans live and spend some time there - if only that place didn't happen to be America.
Ah, right. The old "the USA are the only first world country" adage again. The country that couldn't come up with clean diesel until a few years ago (and the junk you call diesel still wouldn't make it to market over here), has so ludicrously bad tap water that it's not neccessarily potable and still thinks that sewers are optional.
Then again, these are the same guys who proclaim themselves the paragon of democracy, yet have a surprisingly absolutist view of international politics (rules apply to everyone but them, cf. the American Service-Members' Protection Act) and recognize other nations' sovereignty only on paper (hello, extraordinary rendition).
Quite seriously, if you guys weren't so well-armed, nobody would give a shit about you. You use your power to force your terms on everyone else while refusing to be held accountable for anything... America is exactly as the British Crown was when there still were thirteen colonies: Those peasants across the pond are only good for giving you money and don't deserve anything but contempt.
Which might explain why the "peasants" currently see more value in trying to make China respect human rights than in trying to make America care about anything but themselves. Given that we have more money than the States and enough nukes to make outright war a bad idea, there's not much the States can do about it.
Except maybe miraculously elect leaders that aren't complete assholes and realize that the States need the rest of the world as their friends if they want to stay relevant. Given that such views would probably get them sued out of the office, I find that unlikely.
Surprised? This is what the interior ministers came up with. Judging by what I see those jokers usually do, the job of interior minister seems to be to minimize citizen rights wherever possible, whether it serves any purpose or not.
Plus, such a plant might interfere with migratory aquatic life (think salmons) that might pass through the area. I'd imagine that keeping fish out of the plant is not exactly a hard job to do but depending on how much of the river they use for power generation, this might have an impact on fish.
It's always a case-by-case thing. There might be rivers where this is an extremely bad idea and there might be rivers where it wouldn't have any noticeable impact at all. A local study would tell.
Pshh. You just need to be the right kind of fanboy.
With the first Pandoras likely getting shipped in early December, this is clearly going to be the best Christmas ever. I mean, screw recession, wars and the Apple rumor treadmill. Pandora fanboyism is like crack cocaine on more crack cocaine these days.
Well, it was a CNET Crave article. I think Crave is intended as a (not so stealthy) stealth parody of tech media. Either that or it's Slashdot's equivalent of Idle: So intentionally bad that it makes the rest of the website look much better in comparison.
I'd say that it owed more to the fact that it was post-war. Remember, the German economy was completely destroyed during and directly after the war, yet it went from zero to the world's envy in a few years. Why? Because Germany had been so thoroughly stripped that we had to replace all our machines with state-of-the-art ones (giving us a manufacturing advantage) and because everyone needed everything (giving us a thriving market once basic necessities were taken care of).
Coming out of a war can be great for one's economy, regardless of the outcome (as long as people are willing to give one credit).
So KDE Plasma Desktop is a DE what uses PDE Plasma kwin as a window manager to display KDE Plasma Plasma widgets and KDE Plasma applications (and, of course, KDE Plasma GNOME applications, too) on my KDE Plasma Computer...
Now when will the new version of Amarokde Plasma be out?
And like many performance hacks that aren't neccessary anymore it causes much trouble today.
Seriously, the Registry is by far the worst way to store system information I have ever seen. It's cryptic, normal users and even many advanced users can't reliably backup all of an applications' various scattered settings, it's prone to corruption when the system isn't shut down cleanly and it has a whole host of really obscure bugs like "every time I shut down the system, Windows puts several megabytes worth of zeroes into the registry hives until at some point they can't be loaded into memory anymore".
It's amazing that the Registry wasn't one of the things they deprecated or at least seriously overhauled in Vista. Per-application "hives" (really more.reg files that automatically get applied) and write functions that automatically flush to disk immediately would be a start to make the Registry both more user-friendly (enabling the backup and migration of application settings withoug having to play easter egg hunt) and more stable (no more registry corruption through pending writes).
Except if you use a device that uses XFCE because KDE and GNOME are too heavy. However, I do admit that most of those users would know how to handle issues themselves.
If fancruft is not appropriate, then please explain to me this. Or thesetwo. Optimus Prime has no less than three articles, two of which are much longer than the article on actual trucks.
Which fancruft is okay on Wikipedia and which isn't? Transformers fancruft is obviously notable, as are no less than six articles on The Simpsons merchandise and even one on "D'oh!". I looked at the discussion pages for "D'oh" and Simpsons Illustrated and nobody questioned their notability so either nobody noticed them yet (highly unlikely) or they're also obviously notable.
In short: Users are supposed to know that Wikipedia is seriously short on editors and are supposed to know how each editor wants their not explicitly defined piece of Wikipedia to be treated, while Wikipedia tells them that anyone can randomly edit any article and is, in fact encouraging them to do so.
If Wikipedia articles are only supposed to be edited through an editor then Wikipedia should have an appropriate mechanism in place that doesn't suggest to any user that they can edit the page. In short: Disable the edit functionality for anyone who's not an appointed editor of that specific part of Wikipedia. But don't tell people it's okay to randomly edit pages when it isn't.
Maybe this will convince some overprotective parents that their children will survive even if they aren't covered in antibacterial solution 24/7. I doubt they'll actually believe that it'll do their kids any good but it's already useful if they stop believing that all dirt is evil.
You can shower daily but never forget to apply body lotion immediately after showering. If your skin is very dry, use lotion with urea in it. It's more expensive but really great against exsiccation dermatitis.
For most people, the skin produces oils fast enough to replace those lost through showering. For others, it doesn't. We get to use body lotion (switching to shower oil instead of shower gel is recommended, too, but I never quite liked shower oil). Oh, and bathing is a bit less damaging to the skin as you take some of your oils with you when you get out. Still doesn't keep you from having to apply lotion, though.
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Sixty times hospital-grade disinfectant a day? My skin is close to suicide when I just read about it. Yeah, I can see how a short wash followed by a plasma bath would be greatly preferable.
Granted, I can't find a city with bad tap water right now (or neccessarily at all). As for optional sewers: Leach fields don't seem to be that unusual in the States. I seem to remember that my brother's house in Indianapolis has something similar.
Er, what? Unless the USA are still thirteen British colonies, we don't. I have no idea where you got the notion that we still do.
I never said "country". I said "we". The European Union is an entity, even though one consisting of several countries. Plus, there's countries in the world besides the EU and they aren't part of the USA, either.
Unfortunately we can't get him completely out without the USA declaring non-war on us. Half of the spying done on European citizens is done by American agencies for bogus reasons. Besides, Big Brother's as firmly entrenched in the States as he is over here. And has been, for quite some time. Nothing new at all.
Americans are nice. Generally very open, sociable people who will be happy to strike up a conversation with you if they notice you're from a country they've been to or some such. The United States of America (and, by extension, the people making up the American government) is a sociopathic asshole of a country that constantly betrays the principle it was founded on and follows international law only when it feels like it (and tries to get the law amended so it can do whatever it wants).
Huge difference. I'd be happy to come over to the place where the Americans live and spend some time there - if only that place didn't happen to be America.
Ah, right. The old "the USA are the only first world country" adage again. The country that couldn't come up with clean diesel until a few years ago (and the junk you call diesel still wouldn't make it to market over here), has so ludicrously bad tap water that it's not neccessarily potable and still thinks that sewers are optional.
Then again, these are the same guys who proclaim themselves the paragon of democracy, yet have a surprisingly absolutist view of international politics (rules apply to everyone but them, cf. the American Service-Members' Protection Act) and recognize other nations' sovereignty only on paper (hello, extraordinary rendition).
Quite seriously, if you guys weren't so well-armed, nobody would give a shit about you. You use your power to force your terms on everyone else while refusing to be held accountable for anything... America is exactly as the British Crown was when there still were thirteen colonies: Those peasants across the pond are only good for giving you money and don't deserve anything but contempt.
Which might explain why the "peasants" currently see more value in trying to make China respect human rights than in trying to make America care about anything but themselves. Given that we have more money than the States and enough nukes to make outright war a bad idea, there's not much the States can do about it.
Except maybe miraculously elect leaders that aren't complete assholes and realize that the States need the rest of the world as their friends if they want to stay relevant. Given that such views would probably get them sued out of the office, I find that unlikely.
Surprised? This is what the interior ministers came up with. Judging by what I see those jokers usually do, the job of interior minister seems to be to minimize citizen rights wherever possible, whether it serves any purpose or not.
You forgot "We are entited to your money!".
Fusion is lame, we should be working on anti-matter plants. How else are we going to get solar system-destroying hyperspace starships before 2050?
Plus, such a plant might interfere with migratory aquatic life (think salmons) that might pass through the area. I'd imagine that keeping fish out of the plant is not exactly a hard job to do but depending on how much of the river they use for power generation, this might have an impact on fish.
It's always a case-by-case thing. There might be rivers where this is an extremely bad idea and there might be rivers where it wouldn't have any noticeable impact at all. A local study would tell.
Oops. Don't know how I managed to confuse Apple and Shugart.
Pshh. You just need to be the right kind of fanboy.
With the first Pandoras likely getting shipped in early December, this is clearly going to be the best Christmas ever. I mean, screw recession, wars and the Apple rumor treadmill. Pandora fanboyism is like crack cocaine on more crack cocaine these days.
Well, it was a CNET Crave article. I think Crave is intended as a (not so stealthy) stealth parody of tech media. Either that or it's Slashdot's equivalent of Idle: So intentionally bad that it makes the rest of the website look much better in comparison.
And SCSI. And FireWire.
I'd say that it owed more to the fact that it was post-war. Remember, the German economy was completely destroyed during and directly after the war, yet it went from zero to the world's envy in a few years. Why? Because Germany had been so thoroughly stripped that we had to replace all our machines with state-of-the-art ones (giving us a manufacturing advantage) and because everyone needed everything (giving us a thriving market once basic necessities were taken care of).
Coming out of a war can be great for one's economy, regardless of the outcome (as long as people are willing to give one credit).
What? Windows 7 Alpaca Fetish Edition is a great edition.
So KDE Plasma Desktop is a DE what uses PDE Plasma kwin as a window manager to display KDE Plasma Plasma widgets and KDE Plasma applications (and, of course, KDE Plasma GNOME applications, too) on my KDE Plasma Computer...
Now when will the new version of Amarokde Plasma be out?
I just saw someone whoosh themself. My life is now complete.
And like many performance hacks that aren't neccessary anymore it causes much trouble today.
.reg files that automatically get applied) and write functions that automatically flush to disk immediately would be a start to make the Registry both more user-friendly (enabling the backup and migration of application settings withoug having to play easter egg hunt) and more stable (no more registry corruption through pending writes).
Seriously, the Registry is by far the worst way to store system information I have ever seen. It's cryptic, normal users and even many advanced users can't reliably backup all of an applications' various scattered settings, it's prone to corruption when the system isn't shut down cleanly and it has a whole host of really obscure bugs like "every time I shut down the system, Windows puts several megabytes worth of zeroes into the registry hives until at some point they can't be loaded into memory anymore".
It's amazing that the Registry wasn't one of the things they deprecated or at least seriously overhauled in Vista. Per-application "hives" (really more
Maybe in Windows 9 (kernel version 7.0).
Except if you use a device that uses XFCE because KDE and GNOME are too heavy. However, I do admit that most of those users would know how to handle issues themselves.
If fancruft is not appropriate, then please explain to me this. Or these two. Optimus Prime has no less than three articles, two of which are much longer than the article on actual trucks.
Which fancruft is okay on Wikipedia and which isn't? Transformers fancruft is obviously notable, as are no less than six articles on The Simpsons merchandise and even one on "D'oh!". I looked at the discussion pages for "D'oh" and Simpsons Illustrated and nobody questioned their notability so either nobody noticed them yet (highly unlikely) or they're also obviously notable.
Why hasn't this stuff been moved to Wikia?
[citation needed]. Also, I determine your post not to be noteworthy and request speedy deletion.
In short: Users are supposed to know that Wikipedia is seriously short on editors and are supposed to know how each editor wants their not explicitly defined piece of Wikipedia to be treated, while Wikipedia tells them that anyone can randomly edit any article and is, in fact encouraging them to do so.
If Wikipedia articles are only supposed to be edited through an editor then Wikipedia should have an appropriate mechanism in place that doesn't suggest to any user that they can edit the page. In short: Disable the edit functionality for anyone who's not an appointed editor of that specific part of Wikipedia. But don't tell people it's okay to randomly edit pages when it isn't.
Maybe this will convince some overprotective parents that their children will survive even if they aren't covered in antibacterial solution 24/7. I doubt they'll actually believe that it'll do their kids any good but it's already useful if they stop believing that all dirt is evil.
You can shower daily but never forget to apply body lotion immediately after showering. If your skin is very dry, use lotion with urea in it. It's more expensive but really great against exsiccation dermatitis.
For most people, the skin produces oils fast enough to replace those lost through showering. For others, it doesn't. We get to use body lotion (switching to shower oil instead of shower gel is recommended, too, but I never quite liked shower oil). Oh, and bathing is a bit less damaging to the skin as you take some of your oils with you when you get out. Still doesn't keep you from having to apply lotion, though.
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