I didn't realize the CREATOR of the show could make Oregon border Ohio, Maine, and Kentucky. I stand corrected.
Given that Groening only is the creator of the show in so far as it was him who wrote the story down, I wouldn't put to much weight on these inconsistencies. Who knows what else he got wrong when he first tried to turn the true inspirations into TV episodes. And since the original golden tablets are lost we might never know.
Regarding the location of Springfield I personally would rather trust Lisa Simpson than Matt Groening.
I'm a dental student, and I have been taught that - with modern equipment - exposure to radiation from 2 bitewings is about the same as half a day of ski holiday.
Yes. But whenever they do that kind of comparison they talk about body equivalent.
Meaning, the additional cancer risk from dental X ray is comparable to a ski holiday. Or: someone not protecting their skin at high altitude might just as likely get skin cancer from skiing as they get brain cancer from dental X-rays.
Will somebody please tell these two yahoos you use a forward slash to close a tag?
It is confusing you know. The forward slash leans to the right, while the backslash leans to the left. The left leaning forward-slashdot has an icon leaning to the right. <\P>
You're not forced into these contracts. No one is forcing you to buy their product.
Don't like that arbitration clause in your DSL contract? No one is forcing you to use the internet.
Don't like all the crap in credit card contracts? No one is forcing you to use credit cards.
Don't like the security theater at the airports and the secret no-fly lists? No one is forcing you to fly anywhere.
Don't like censored and white washed social media? No one is forcing you to go to these places.
Getting kicked out of the mall for wearing the wrong T-Shirt? No one is forcing you to go to any of the stores there.
Don't like the new right-to-work legislation? No one is forcing you to ask for higher wages.
Don't like employers spying on your private life? No one is forcing you to work for your living.
Or you could stop being a stool and stop criticizing other countries for having better protections of individuals.
I know someone too. Not a technophobe, but an audiophile. After spending thousands on the sound system, he doesn't want to chance it with the cheaper cables, "just in case".
But if anyone hasn't heard of "improv everywhere" , or if you just would like to see what happens if you dress up in khakis and a blue polo and wander into a Best Buy: imagine a flash mob doing just that!
Google "Jaundice", which can be a result of dumping too much blood into the kid.
That's the carp you hear from doctors who are unwilling to change the way they have always done things.. It's just that there is no study showing that. On the contrary. While there is no significant increase of jaundice, delayed clamping might lead to healthier babies a few months later and might give the baby a boost right after birth.
My suggestion: read up on delayed cord clamping (decent sources, like parent-to-be-books from your local library written by MDs and maybe medical journals) and include it in your birth plan. With the money saved from cord blood banking buy something like this binary Infant Bodysuit
I know that, whenever I see a garden gnome, I feel a powerful urge to use it to test gravity. Especially if there's a large asphalt or cement driveway nearby.
Understandable. But not a very efficient way to deal with a gnome infestation. The Extension Office of Utah State University actually has a video on Gnome Management in the Garden
... it contradicts a bunch of fairy tales written thousands of years ago by sand people.
Oh, the typical black and white/. thing. Believing that there is a purpose to it all (theist), and that Jesus expressed that and reminded people to love each other (Christian) or that there might be even a particular group (denomination) that could be helpful as a community, doesn't make you one of these fairy tale people. Worldwide, most Christians even aren't.
Now for the brain washed blank stare. Yes, indeed a very special bunch. You can find them in religious, political, and ideological flavors. Any doubt just proves that you aren't 100% committed. Any outside criticism or ridicule just helps to prove that you are better than all these blind people.
Jesus would have just loved them..
Jesus: "Follow me"
Literalists form a conga line.
Jesus: "That's not what I meant."
As the content to advertising ratio keeps getting worse, it makes me want to spend even less time in front of the tube.
There are many things I wouldn't be fully aware of, if my quality entertainment were not augmented by informative but yet entertaining advertisement. How can you not pay attention, while women in white pants enjoy horse back riding on the beach, while couples finally find a solution to his little problem, and house wifes discover new products, that create the clean world they deserve?
But of course they wouldn't have to show that many commercials if it weren't for all those freeloaders that don't pay any attention during the commercial breaks and instead go to the bathroom, the fridge, or even talk loudly to other people over the commercial. I'm glad someone is finally doing something about those freeloaders.
Why were you passing someone on the left when they were trying to turn? Either they were in the wrong lane, or you were.
I "passed on the left" because I was walking on the sidewalk on the other side of the road and as I crossed a side street someone going in the same direction turned left into that side street. He held his head in position with a cell phone on his ear, looked at the oncoming traffic but never at the road he was turning into.
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I didn't realize the CREATOR of the show could make Oregon border Ohio, Maine, and Kentucky. I stand corrected.
Given that Groening only is the creator of the show in so far as it was him who wrote the story down, I wouldn't put to much weight on these inconsistencies.
Who knows what else he got wrong when he first tried to turn the true inspirations into TV episodes. And since the original golden tablets are lost we might never know.
Regarding the location of Springfield I personally would rather trust Lisa Simpson than Matt Groening.
I'm a dental student, and I have been taught that - with modern equipment - exposure to radiation from 2 bitewings is about the same as half a day of ski holiday.
Yes. But whenever they do that kind of comparison they talk about body equivalent.
Meaning, the additional cancer risk from dental X ray is comparable to a ski holiday. Or: someone not protecting their skin at high altitude might just as likely get skin cancer from skiing as they get brain cancer from dental X-rays.
.. and now claims that "it had it coming"
We cannot stand by and allow this "planet gap" to continue! Earthlings unite!
We once had nine planets too. Till some @*&! just had to kill Pluto.
Right. Everybody's percolating coffee machines wouldn't work. Death would be a welcome reprieve should this horrible reality come into being.
Not to mention the screen tilt on your iPad!
Will somebody please tell these two yahoos you use a forward slash to close a tag?
It is confusing you know.
The forward slash leans to the right, while the backslash leans to the left. The left leaning forward-slashdot has an icon leaning to the right. <\P>
You're not forced into these contracts. No one is forcing you to buy their product.
Don't like that arbitration clause in your DSL contract? No one is forcing you to use the internet.
Don't like all the crap in credit card contracts? No one is forcing you to use credit cards.
Don't like the security theater at the airports and the secret no-fly lists? No one is forcing you to fly anywhere.
Don't like censored and white washed social media? No one is forcing you to go to these places.
Getting kicked out of the mall for wearing the wrong T-Shirt? No one is forcing you to go to any of the stores there.
Don't like the new right-to-work legislation? No one is forcing you to ask for higher wages.
Don't like employers spying on your private life? No one is forcing you to work for your living.
Or you could stop being a stool and stop criticizing other countries for having better protections of individuals.
I know someone too. Not a technophobe, but an audiophile. After spending thousands on the sound system, he doesn't want to chance it with the cheaper cables, "just in case".
Okay, this is an old one (2006)
But if anyone hasn't heard of "improv everywhere" ,
or if you just would like to see what happens if you dress up in khakis and a blue polo and wander into a Best Buy:
imagine a flash mob doing just that!
Best Buy
Sears used to do that. You could even order your house through them. But I think that was earlier during the move-west bubble.
You've got to be kidding. User reviews are one of the best things about online shopping
I can't believe this. No xkcd link yet.
Well, since you think that user reviews are a good thing, yesterday's xkcd actually fits.
Google "Jaundice", which can be a result of dumping too much blood into the kid.
That's the carp you hear from doctors who are unwilling to change the way they have always done things..
It's just that there is no study showing that. On the contrary. While there is no significant increase of jaundice, delayed clamping might lead to healthier babies a few months later and might give the baby a boost right after birth.
The effect of timing of cord clamping on neonatal venous hematocrit values and clinical outcome at term: a randomized, controlled trial.
Delayed Cord Clamping in Very Preterm Infants Reduces the Incidence of Intraventricular Hemorrhage and Late-Onset Sepsis: A Randomized, Controlled Trial
Late vs Early Clamping of the Umbilical Cord in Full-term Neonates
My suggestion:
read up on delayed cord clamping (decent sources, like parent-to-be-books from your local library written by MDs and maybe medical journals) and include it in your birth plan. With the money saved from cord blood banking buy something like this binary Infant Bodysuit
Are we going to get stories about Slashdot posters getting tired of their supermodel girlfriends interrupting their Battlefield 3 matches?
She doesn't.
Because she lives in Canada. Want to see a picture?
Look here. A 51st stater who thinks his country is actually sovereign. Hard to believe.
Hey! Don't insult the Canadians. I really like their state quarter.
Nothing a roll of duct tape couldn't fix.....
Isn't that true for most things in life?
I know that, whenever I see a garden gnome, I feel a powerful urge to use it to test gravity. Especially if there's a large asphalt or cement driveway nearby.
Understandable. But not a very efficient way to deal with a gnome infestation.
The Extension Office of Utah State University actually has a video on Gnome Management in the Garden
With all the people gone, the rest may as well share a common office now.
Oh, the typical black and white /. thing. Believing that there is a purpose to it all (theist), and that Jesus expressed that and reminded people to love each other (Christian) or that there might be even a particular group (denomination) that could be helpful as a community, doesn't make you one of these fairy tale people. Worldwide, most Christians even aren't.
Now for the brain washed blank stare. Yes, indeed a very special bunch. You can find them in religious, political, and ideological flavors. Any doubt just proves that you aren't 100% committed. Any outside criticism or ridicule just helps to prove that you are better than all these blind people.
Jesus would have just loved them..
Jesus: "Follow me"
Literalists form a conga line.
Jesus: "That's not what I meant."
- And I am afraid we will see more of that.
Its amazing that she could get a degree in biology without "believing" in evolution. It's a bit like a physicist that doesn't believe in gravity.
I stopped believing in gravity. I just have been hurt by it too many times. Earth just sucks.
As the content to advertising ratio keeps getting worse, it makes me want to spend even less time in front of the tube.
There are many things I wouldn't be fully aware of, if my quality entertainment were not augmented by informative but yet entertaining advertisement. How can you not pay attention, while women in white pants enjoy horse back riding on the beach, while couples finally find a solution to his little problem, and house wifes discover new products, that create the clean world they deserve?
But of course they wouldn't have to show that many commercials if it weren't for all those freeloaders that don't pay any attention during the commercial breaks and instead go to the bathroom, the fridge, or even talk loudly to other people over the commercial. I'm glad someone is finally doing something about those freeloaders.
You became a bad example for fruit flies!
Why were you passing someone on the left when they were trying to turn? Either they were in the wrong lane, or you were.
I "passed on the left" because I was walking on the sidewalk on the other side of the road and as I crossed a side street someone going in the same direction turned left into that side street. He held his head in position with a cell phone on his ear, looked at the oncoming traffic but never at the road he was turning into.
I'm an exception to the rule
Not on the internet.
I don't know about the other user, but my Axim X30 is doing just fine without an app store. I just installed opera and it runs better than ever.
"Virii" and "Priii" is what people like to type when they want to appear smart (using the Latin plural).
Except, that "virii" would mean the singular is "virius". And "viri"is the plural of "vir" man.
By golly, these commoners trying to appear smart..