Your Skype callers are gettting you to write their emails for them. I hope they are billed for the time this takes you. -- Write it down, and put it in your computer, so you can forget it.
It's standing right in the middle of the oven. Stick your head in there if you don't believe me. -- Hunter Thompson wouldn't describe somebody else's hangover.
Some people have a way of interacting with their environment that is distinct from the norm and easily identified in infant behaviour. These people ace a set of tests. Some game players ace the tests. (1) Easy part: False positive. Revise or discard tests. (2) Hard part: Produce reliable objective test for non-autism. (3) Extremely hard part: Don't Panic! -- Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. -R. Heinlein
Why is there a UV problem at NIGHT? Does the Arctic ozone hole reach to latitiudes where the sun rises at that time of year?
This is not an intentional troll. I just don't understand why this is considered to be a problem. -- Sometimes I stare into space and it doesn't recognize me. - P S Mueller
A lot of state and national governments are a bit short of income these days.
If intellectual property is property, why not tax it? If the copyright holders don't want to pay for each property every year they can relinquish the property to the public domain. Or have it seized for non-payment.
It won't happen in the US or EU, where law is bought and paid for, but there might be hope for some upstanding place like Antigua, Russia, or the People's Republic of China. And become the fatherland of son-of-project-gutenberg, -- In cyberspace, the earth is only one second wide.
If you want to kill civilians, you can play something like Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Or improve your driving skills with GTA.
I suppose this guy thinks military games are for boys who like to pose in fancy combat outfits. And shoot at each other. -- Almost everything is a lot less serious than you think.
Sorry to call you on this, but the rule is too much fun not to post. So thanks for the excuse:
For the better understanding of the underlying simplicity of English spelling:
"I before E except after C or when sounded like A as in NEIGHBOR and WEIGH and in weird words like WEIRD"
Wikipedia has a discussion of I/E ordering in English, but it lacks this particular mnemonic. -- Sometimes boldness is in fashion, at other times, italicism.
Wikipedia has become crap maintained by creeps. An encyclopedial LCD. Kind of like Myspace/Facebook/Google+.
I once had hope that it could be a general collection of all our external memories. There is no need to prune astroturf (people can figure that out and ignore or laugh at it), personal observations (hey, who says each individual is right, or wrong), and capture fleeting (auto)biographic knowledge.
Just stop editing. Maybe a slashdot-style random moderation could help for a while.
And you really, really need real name attribution for when the libel lawyers come to call.
God rest you merry, Jimbo. Sorry things didn't work out. -- The more project management you do the less likely your project is to succeed. - Google CIO Douglas Merrill
Why not focus on accelerating DNA/RNA repair? It could be easier to fix than to defend our bodies. -- On the eighth day, God created FORTRAN. Lucifer had already released COBOL.
Or you could pop over to Balloon Street in Manchester (across from Victoria Station) and open an account with the Co-operative Bank. Also available online for UK residents. -- I am not a pretentious idiot, but I play one on the internet.
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Book_Agreement
But how does one 'deface' an e-book? Remove the DRM?
Your Skype callers are gettting you to write their emails for them. I hope they are billed for the time this takes you.
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Write it down, and put it in your computer, so you can forget it.
The half life of Radon is 3.8 DAYS. My back-of-the envelope calculation
Assume entire initial universe made of Radon.
atomic/molecular weght of Radon = 222
mass of universe = 3e57 gr / 222 gr/mol * 6e23 molecules/mol = 8e78 nuclei
Number of nuclei after x days = 8e78*0.5^(x/3.825))
Number of nuclei after 999 days = 2
So if the initial universe were entirely Radon, it wouldn't last long.
I am not a chemist, but I married one.
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You have lost an important file. It is backed up on tape. You have lost an important tape drive.
... that microwave does NOT belong there.
It's standing right in the middle of the oven.
Stick your head in there if you don't believe me.
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Hunter Thompson wouldn't describe somebody else's hangover.
Some people have a way of interacting with their environment that is distinct from the norm and easily identified in infant behaviour.
These people ace a set of tests.
Some game players ace the tests.
(1) Easy part: False positive. Revise or discard tests.
(2) Hard part: Produce reliable objective test for non-autism.
(3) Extremely hard part: Don't Panic!
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. -R. Heinlein
I suspect whenever they refer to themselves as "indios" they are
(1) speaking ironicly, or
(2) filling out a government form, or
(3) both.
Y soy un gringo.
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If this is a war of wits, I'm a conscientious objector.
In my limited experience, older ears seem to lose the high frequencies more/first.
My hearing test charts show a simple linear roll-off (log-log) plot
Right - 6 dB/octave
Left - 8 dB/octave
Age - 66
My mother-in-law was worse. Above 3kHz, it just fell to nothing. She couldn't understand most female voices. Age 90.
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A POW in the war of wits
You might want to drink some lassi [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassi]
Or expect Amazon to hire editors.
Mod parent Funny
Why is there a UV problem at NIGHT? Does the Arctic ozone hole reach to latitiudes where the sun rises at that time of year?
This is not an intentional troll. I just don't understand why this is considered to be a problem.
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Sometimes I stare into space and it doesn't recognize me. - P S Mueller
Just require the evil bit to be zero for legal content.
It should be easy enough to monitor that.
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I think I just sprained my sarcasm tendon.
A lot of state and national governments are a bit short of income these days.
If intellectual property is property, why not tax it? If the copyright holders don't want to pay for each property every year they can relinquish the property to the public domain.
Or have it seized for non-payment.
It won't happen in the US or EU, where law is bought and paid for, but there might be hope for some upstanding place like Antigua, Russia, or the People's Republic of China. And become the fatherland of son-of-project-gutenberg,
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In cyberspace, the earth is only one second wide.
If you want to kill civilians, you can play something like Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Or improve your driving skills with GTA.
I suppose this guy thinks military games are for boys who like to pose in fancy combat outfits. And shoot at each other.
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Almost everything is a lot less serious than you think.
Absence of *RESULTS BASED FUNDING*.
When next year's budget is determined by this year's popularity, the quality of the science becomes suspect.
Consider Galileo, Darwin, Lysenko, ...
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Sometimes boldness is in fashion, at other times, italicism.
The tracking data at
http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atlantic/2011/IRENE/track.dat
shows
ADV LAT LON TIME WIND PR STAT
32A 41.80 -73.20 08/28/12Z 65 963 HURRICANE-1
33 41.40 -73.70 08/28/15Z 50 966 TROPICAL STORM
about 60 miles north of NYC
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Times have not become more violent, they have just become more televised.
Sorry to call you on this, but the rule is too much fun not to post. So thanks for the excuse:
For the better understanding of the underlying simplicity of English spelling:
"I before E
except after C
or when sounded like A as in NEIGHBOR and WEIGH
and in weird words like WEIRD"
Wikipedia has a discussion of I/E ordering in English, but it lacks this particular mnemonic.
--
Sometimes boldness is in fashion, at other times, italicism.
Wikipedia has become crap maintained by creeps. An encyclopedial LCD.
Kind of like Myspace/Facebook/Google+.
I once had hope that it could be a general collection of all our external memories. There is no need to prune astroturf (people can figure that out and ignore or laugh at it), personal observations (hey, who says each individual is right, or wrong), and capture fleeting (auto)biographic knowledge.
Just stop editing. Maybe a slashdot-style random moderation could help for a while.
And you really, really need real name attribution for when the libel lawyers come to call.
God rest you merry, Jimbo. Sorry things didn't work out.
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The more project management you do the less likely your project is to succeed. - Google CIO Douglas Merrill
Garfield minus Garfield - living artist, gets the joke, lends a hand.
Peanuts - dead artist, copyright vampires suck/spit blood.
Is there some kind of difference between these two cases?
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Valuable free advice -- worth every penny.
but not favorably.
Have you tried it with lynx?
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You get what you settle for.
Why not focus on accelerating DNA/RNA repair?
It could be easier to fix than to defend our bodies.
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On the eighth day, God created FORTRAN. Lucifer had already released COBOL.
We must harness the power of the tsunami.
Or you could pop over to Balloon Street in Manchester (across from Victoria Station) and open an account with the Co-operative Bank. Also available online for UK residents.
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I am not a pretentious idiot, but I play one on the internet.
You must be new here.
Sincere apologies, but it cried out to be said.
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How the road was paved doesn't matter if you're already in hell.
The pride and professionalism of our press operators.
These fine people make sure that black ink forms clear legible text on [somewhat] white paper.
Thank you, gentlemen of the press, for the clarity. You have no control of the veracity.
There might be a Native American somewhere who could have told you that.