Iran, on the other hand, has repeatedly declared it's desire for the total annihilation of the the nation of Israel (among others).
That old canard. You don't find that threat overstated? A country with no nuclear weapons uses harsh rhetoric against a country like Israel that actually does have them? Maybe you're the type who takes rhetoric at face value. If that's the case, then you should be in agreement with Iranians taking all steps necessary to protect them from world superpowers who declare them to be part of an axis of evil, yes?
That's not to say that all the bluster and posturing by all sides isn't dangerous. That includes the US who hasn't gotten over the events of 1979, the Iranians who haven't gotten over the events leading up to 1979, and Israelis who have mastered the art of influencing US public opinion into conflating the security of the US with the security of Israel, but elect as many right wing nutjobs as anywhere else.
Quite frankly, I see a nuclear Iran as inevitable. If it doesn't happen, it will be because of the Russians. But we're still fighting tired rhetorical battles with them, aren't we?
I blame your protestant heritage on laws, on both, the laws concerning "public moral", the proper (austere) way of life (No sex, no drugs)... Strangely enough, I've heard the same about the US-populace rejection of health care, as it promotes the conviction, that everyone is responsible for his/her own fate (health).
If a great percentage of Americans owned passports (more than the current 20-22%) and travelled outside their country, it would be redundant to suggest they would have a better understanding of the country they live in. Regrettably, that won't happen any time soon. That leaves us with "foreigners" such as yourself to offer any real insight.
As for your comments, I'd add suggest they're pretty much spot on, but it's worth noting there's two additional factors at play.
First, there's also a fierce culture of independence that plays a role. Mostly mythic, of course, as the days when people lived on isolated farms and relied on guns to protect their family and property from Indians, redcoats and assorted threats are long gone. Regrettably, that culture of independence translates into an irrational fear of government which, in turn, leads to a government of the kind they deserve (dsyfunctional and with competing interests), and a general distrust of foreigners and their ideas. Why can't the US have a Canadian-style, for example, health care system? Simple. It's not American enough.
Second, there's the Constitution. An inspired document that balances competing interests but engages everyone in a perpetual fight about the nature of that balance. Americans, as a result, want things both ways. Instead of addressing real world problems and forming coherent and sensible policies, most devote their efforts to fighting an idealogical war of words, pausing every few years to complain about all the fighting.
Also if you look at a 50's car, the bumpers are massive but held up by a couple thin pieces of mild steel stock-- a strong toddler could bend them out of place.
That's a feature!;-)
Seriously, though, there's still something to be said for older cars that don't require $1000 worth of work to fix a bumper damaged in a 15mph collision.
The bank screwed up, the bank should be held accountable. Anything less is yet another miscarriage of justice.
Miscarriage of justice?
A reasonable enough opinion, but equally reasonable would be to expect a judge in Federal court to be concerned with matters of law, and not personal opinions of bystanders espousing vague notions of right and wrong.
Unless there's a lawyer in the house, or someone has a link to the actual order, I don't see any value in offering up any opinions or comments, other than adding to the collective WTF reaction to the outcome of the case.
I was born in June, and received a Ph.D by the time I was 27, with a 3.95 GPA. Luckily for me, part of that Ph.D training involved learning that the word data is not the plural of anecdote.
Bah.
Everyone knows Geminis are a smart lot (I'm one, too) so your accomplishments, while impressive, shouldn't be considered surprising. As for the OP, Sagittarius is a fire sign, so if he's anything like the Sagittarians I've known, he's probably dumb as a brick, but has the capacity to work harder than everyone else.
Whether the above is science, myth, anecdote or a case of "it's on the internet so it must be true", you be the judge.;-)
Using an apostrophe to pluralize a number, acronym, or capital letter is a style choice, and perfectly acceptable, even if some people dislike it.
Language evolves blah blah blah...
Using a construct that doesn't involve numbers, acronyms, abbreviations, contractions, neologisms, or slang is also a style choice. Or is thinking and some extra typing really that difficult?
Whatever your opinion of the current state of English usage, non-native speakers rarely make the mistakes that litter the pages of Slashdot. Or seek to justify them.
Then again, maybe you write for your own amusement and not for the benefit of the reader.
Actually, according the Wikipedia article, Idaho is home to the world's largest process-cheese manufacturing plant. I'd link to the article, but when you're famous for process-cheese, it's all downhill from there.
When I first moved to Idaho, I commented to a local about the high proportion of pregnant teenage girls in the high school. Her comment was "It's Idaho, there is nothing to do but your neighbor."
Not necessarily a bad way to spend your time, but my understanding is that if you really want to blend in, you'll want to take your neighbour four-wheeling, and then add shooting rodents (prairie dogs?) to mix.
Because that's the job of a reporter -- to investigate, analyse, interpret and explain the information. Otherwise, the reporter is adding no value and simple economic theory would suggest that his/her job should disappear.
Ideally, yes. The problem, however, is that most non-investigative types of news stories originate from some kind of announcement, be it a speech, event, or press release. And most of those don't come with handout that lists of the names of people to call for more information. You get what you get.
If you're a professional enough reporter have a few names and numbers in your rolodex, you'll have a few names of people who know something, but rarely talk to reporters, and the names of people who are only too happy to talk but are responsible for writing the same press release you're covering. Which is where you started. The deadline is an hour away. What do you do? Report the story, or postpone until someone can devote more time to it, or cover it based on the information you have? The reader is impatient, and he's waiting.
And newspaper owners wonder why they are losing business?
Sure. We're all turning to bloggers. For their investigative skills.
I run my master DNS on my own server, but my pay like $10 a year for my secondaries, which slave to the master. Under no circumstances will I ever give up control of my DNS, or use some shitty web app to manage my DNS records, and that's why I insist that the master (even if invisible) sit squarely on my end.
I do the same, but I'm lucky in that ATT provides free secondaries.
Out of curiosity, though, whose service do use that will allow you to be master? The few companies I looked at offered nothing other than a "shitty web app" approach, and required that I slave from them.
Turning down the brightness, adjusting contrast, selecting a good font, and ensuring the right level of ambient light, those are all good things to do regardless. They do mitigate the problems of LCD screens, but "no different [than] reading from a printed page"? Hardly.
I think for you, things may be fine, or you may simply not notice enough to care. CRT users (even those with monitors set to a 60Hz refresh rate) said similar things. That Kindle users unanimously rave about the readability of their e-Ink display I think is evidence enough that they're as close to ideal as we can get.
Me, I'm still holding off on buying a Kindle. Until Amazon or someone else can come up with a better version, Microsoft and everyone else can continue to market as many new "readers" as they want and I'll ignore all of them. That's not to say I don't get a chuckle out of seeing a mockup that consists primarily of thumbnail images with some text thrown in.
The OP was dead-on. These devices are for people who don't read.
I'm sure someone else can suggest a more JS intensive site, but that's all I got right now.
Slashdot.
Perhaps not as intensive as ebay.com, but without javascript enabled, Slashdot loads faster and generally works better. You could say it's "less filling".
The gray color indicates that this was a U.S. Navy unit. U. S. Army units are black, with extra nomenclature plates. Commercial units vary in color, with green being the standard.
Just green?
Better described as a "depressing shade of Eisenhower-era government-issue putty green mandated or otherwise commonly used on walls, ceilings, floors, furniture, and equipment".
You'll need a proper desk to display that teletype. Preferrably one that's steel and so heavy you need a forklift to move it. And to go with the desk, you'll need a wooden or steel swivel chair. And a rotary telephone. Black and heavy enough to kill someone. And index cards. Lots of index cards.;-)
A prime rib is a prime rib regardless of whether it comes from USDA Prime beef; it's an exception.
And "USDA Prime" is an indication of quality?
The food that gets distributed to schools, prisons and food banks is labelled similarly. If there's value to the USDA branding, it's that the quality of what you're getting is one step above most commercial brands of dog food.
Cursive deserves to die -- it often results in illegible scrawl.
Drawing tends to result in stick figures, painting often causes people to apply paint outside the lines, playing an instrument results in dissonance, and dancing, well, that just makes people look silly.
If that's your argument, I'd suggest you re-examine your view of the arts. To be fair, though, I suspect you've never seen beautiful handwriting, or its effect on the addressee.
I learned standard cursive in grade school. Typing I learned in high school. Classes in architecture and engineering taught me the value of "printing". In later years, I took up calligraphy (all forms) and modified my own handwriting, moving from "cursive" to an italic.
Throughout all those years, I never questioned the value or the utility of what I was learning, or the work required to master it, typing included. Does that mean I can stick to using a keyboard for all forms of communication? Sure. But I but don't. Life is much richer (for everyone involved) when you don't opt for the lowest common denominator. In that sense, it's a lot like like music. Why learn to play when you can just buy it and have your computer play it?
A handwritten note or letter, irrespective of whether it's to a girlfriend you're looking to woo, a boss you want to thank, an interviewer you want to impress, or to a family member with whom you want to share something personal, is far more effective (and meaningful) than a piece of paper spit out of a laserjet printer.
A common mistake made in discussions of taxonomy is overlooking the issue of whether closely related species taste the same. In this case, you omitted the fact that all of them are great when grilled. With a slice of lemon on the side.
Does the scientific method for biologists exclude barbeques?
'B-line' is actually 'bee-line', meaning the way a bee meanders all over the place on its way from one point to another.
Actually "bee line" (or "bee-line", "beeline") means the exact opposite, namely that after collecting nectar, bees don't meander, but return directly to their hive using the most direct route possible (i.e. in a straight line).
You could say the idiom is synonymous with "as the crow flies", but that would invite confusion on the part of some Slashdot users as soon as a budding ornithologist offers the comment that that crows prefer shiny objects over sweet and sticky ones, and the discussion devolves into a series of unrelated comments on the relative airspeeds of African, European and American bees, laden or otherwise.
Now as to whether our anthophilous overlords do actually fly in straight lines when returning to the hive, I don't know.
actually have a friend of mine that's still running Windows Me and - get this - accesses the Internet via an AOL dial-up account. When I asked him why he doesn't just get DSL or some other form of broadband, he said, "If I do that, I'll get viruses faster!" I really couldn't argue with that.
True story.
I have an acquaintenance in a similar situation. He progressed from WebTV to some related dialup service to DSL, the latter choice being forced on him due to modem problems.
A week after getting DSL, he called me up and told me he how miserable he was, how he hadn't slept for a week, that DSL wasn't for him and how much he regretted signing up. When I asked him why, he described how he'd been looking at porn non-stop. I suggested watching less of it, but he replied that was "impossible", before going on to moan about how great WebTV was, and how he'd have to go back to dialup to get his life back to normal.
He's claimed on several talk shows that it's "tricked out" with lots of communications gear. Hardly a geek's role model, but I'd like to think the article submitter may be able to find lots on Google given his celebrity status.
No doubt you believe that buying a house/land and receiving a deed is a grant of sovereignty over your homestead?
You might want to brush up on your history, and enroll in a Law 101 type of course. Things aren't quite what they seem, and terms like "ownership" often have very different meanings than the vernacular.
No, I read "government regulations" generally, an "act" less generally, and the McCarran-Ferguson Act (among others) more specifically. You might want to turn off your AM radio and consider that words have meanings, and understanding meanings and their context is a prerequisite to using them in informed discussions.
It will get vastly worse when the government takes total control.
LOL. Ignoring the absurd and disingenuous insertion of "when", I suspect your have no idea of what "total control" is. Mouthing someone else's talking points seems to be increasingly common these days, so allow me to encourage some independent thinking with a pop quiz.
Which of the following is most true with repect to the federal government's "total control" of the health care system?
a) The feds will administer the system; b) The feds will pay for costs; c) The feds will nationalise big pharma, private hospitals and clinics, and doctors and nurses will become federal employees; or e) Some combination of the above.
If thinking makes your head hurt, I'd suggest (e). That way you can be sufficiently vague and continue saying things without anyone (yourself included) knowing what you really meant.
* One shot when you first discover the time it will it take. * One shot when you read the time has inexplicably increased by a factor of 12. * One shot when the time reads zero for a full minute before returning to normal. * One shot when an hour passes and the time still hasn't changed. * One shot when you wonder if things like reading the contents of a large tarfile being extracted in verbose mode or having compiler output scroll past on a terminal wasn't as bad as you remembered it. * One shot when the time finally starts changing.
LOL. We have a heckler in the crowd, pointing out with mathematical certainty that the premise of my joke is flawed.
You're correct, of course, and I have no doubt that you'd be able to provide evidence that chickens are not known to cross roads, blondes aren't dumb, and Irishmen, Scottsman and Englishmen rarely drink together.;-)
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Iran, on the other hand, has repeatedly declared it's desire for the total annihilation of the the nation of Israel (among others).
That old canard. You don't find that threat overstated? A country with no nuclear weapons uses harsh rhetoric against a country like Israel that actually does have them? Maybe you're the type who takes rhetoric at face value. If that's the case, then you should be in agreement with Iranians taking all steps necessary to protect them from world superpowers who declare them to be part of an axis of evil, yes?
That's not to say that all the bluster and posturing by all sides isn't dangerous. That includes the US who hasn't gotten over the events of 1979, the Iranians who haven't gotten over the events leading up to 1979, and Israelis who have mastered the art of influencing US public opinion into conflating the security of the US with the security of Israel, but elect as many right wing nutjobs as anywhere else.
Quite frankly, I see a nuclear Iran as inevitable. If it doesn't happen, it will be because of the Russians. But we're still fighting tired rhetorical battles with them, aren't we?
I blame your protestant heritage on laws, on both, the laws concerning "public moral", the proper (austere) way of life (No sex, no drugs)... Strangely enough, I've heard the same about the US-populace rejection of health care, as it promotes the conviction, that everyone is responsible for his/her own fate (health).
If a great percentage of Americans owned passports (more than the current 20-22%) and travelled outside their country, it would be redundant to suggest they would have a better understanding of the country they live in. Regrettably, that won't happen any time soon. That leaves us with "foreigners" such as yourself to offer any real insight.
As for your comments, I'd add suggest they're pretty much spot on, but it's worth noting there's two additional factors at play.
First, there's also a fierce culture of independence that plays a role. Mostly mythic, of course, as the days when people lived on isolated farms and relied on guns to protect their family and property from Indians, redcoats and assorted threats are long gone. Regrettably, that culture of independence translates into an irrational fear of government which, in turn, leads to a government of the kind they deserve (dsyfunctional and with competing interests), and a general distrust of foreigners and their ideas. Why can't the US have a Canadian-style, for example, health care system? Simple. It's not American enough.
Second, there's the Constitution. An inspired document that balances competing interests but engages everyone in a perpetual fight about the nature of that balance. Americans, as a result, want things both ways. Instead of addressing real world problems and forming coherent and sensible policies, most devote their efforts to fighting an idealogical war of words, pausing every few years to complain about all the fighting.
Also if you look at a 50's car, the bumpers are massive but held up by a couple thin pieces of mild steel stock-- a strong toddler could bend them out of place.
That's a feature! ;-)
Seriously, though, there's still something to be said for older cars that don't require $1000 worth of work to fix a bumper damaged in a 15mph collision.
The bank screwed up, the bank should be held accountable. Anything less is yet another miscarriage of justice.
Miscarriage of justice?
A reasonable enough opinion, but equally reasonable would be to expect a judge in Federal court to be concerned with matters of law, and not personal opinions of bystanders espousing vague notions of right and wrong.
Unless there's a lawyer in the house, or someone has a link to the actual order, I don't see any value in offering up any opinions or comments, other than adding to the collective WTF reaction to the outcome of the case.
I was born in June, and received a Ph.D by the time I was 27, with a 3.95 GPA. Luckily for me, part of that Ph.D training involved learning that the word data is not the plural of anecdote.
Bah.
Everyone knows Geminis are a smart lot (I'm one, too) so your accomplishments, while impressive, shouldn't be considered surprising. As for the OP, Sagittarius is a fire sign, so if he's anything like the Sagittarians I've known, he's probably dumb as a brick, but has the capacity to work harder than everyone else.
Whether the above is science, myth, anecdote or a case of "it's on the internet so it must be true", you be the judge. ;-)
Using an apostrophe to pluralize a number, acronym, or capital letter is a style choice, and perfectly acceptable, even if some people dislike it.
Language evolves blah blah blah ...
Using a construct that doesn't involve numbers, acronyms, abbreviations, contractions, neologisms, or slang is also a style choice. Or is thinking and some extra typing really that difficult?
Whatever your opinion of the current state of English usage, non-native speakers rarely make the mistakes that litter the pages of Slashdot. Or seek to justify them.
Then again, maybe you write for your own amusement and not for the benefit of the reader.
Idaho is famous, for it's potatoes.
Actually, according the Wikipedia article, Idaho is home to the world's largest process-cheese manufacturing plant. I'd link to the article, but when you're famous for process-cheese, it's all downhill from there.
When I first moved to Idaho, I commented to a local about the high proportion of pregnant teenage girls in the high school. Her comment was "It's Idaho, there is nothing to do but your neighbor."
Not necessarily a bad way to spend your time, but my understanding is that if you really want to blend in, you'll want to take your neighbour four-wheeling, and then add shooting rodents (prairie dogs?) to mix.
What I've wanted for some time is a universal standard of structured cabling: I'd run a "bus" cable round the house ...
You're either a visionary, a fan of Jules Verne, worked in government some years ago, or you watched Terry Gilliam's Brazil on TV recently.
Either way, sign me up for your newsletter. ;-)
Because that's the job of a reporter -- to investigate, analyse, interpret and explain the information. Otherwise, the reporter is adding no value and simple economic theory would suggest that his/her job should disappear.
Ideally, yes. The problem, however, is that most non-investigative types of news stories originate from some kind of announcement, be it a speech, event, or press release. And most of those don't come with handout that lists of the names of people to call for more information. You get what you get.
If you're a professional enough reporter have a few names and numbers in your rolodex, you'll have a few names of people who know something, but rarely talk to reporters, and the names of people who are only too happy to talk but are responsible for writing the same press release you're covering. Which is where you started. The deadline is an hour away. What do you do? Report the story, or postpone until someone can devote more time to it, or cover it based on the information you have? The reader is impatient, and he's waiting.
And newspaper owners wonder why they are losing business?
Sure. We're all turning to bloggers. For their investigative skills.
I run my master DNS on my own server, but my pay like $10 a year for my secondaries, which slave to the master. Under no circumstances will I ever give up control of my DNS, or use some shitty web app to manage my DNS records, and that's why I insist that the master (even if invisible) sit squarely on my end.
I do the same, but I'm lucky in that ATT provides free secondaries.
Out of curiosity, though, whose service do use that will allow you to be master? The few companies I looked at offered nothing other than a "shitty web app" approach, and required that I slave from them.
Turning down the brightness, adjusting contrast, selecting a good font, and ensuring the right level of ambient light, those are all good things to do regardless. They do mitigate the problems of LCD screens, but "no different [than] reading from a printed page"? Hardly.
I think for you, things may be fine, or you may simply not notice enough to care. CRT users (even those with monitors set to a 60Hz refresh rate) said similar things. That Kindle users unanimously rave about the readability of their e-Ink display I think is evidence enough that they're as close to ideal as we can get.
Me, I'm still holding off on buying a Kindle. Until Amazon or someone else can come up with a better version, Microsoft and everyone else can continue to market as many new "readers" as they want and I'll ignore all of them. That's not to say I don't get a chuckle out of seeing a mockup that consists primarily of thumbnail images with some text thrown in.
The OP was dead-on. These devices are for people who don't read.
I'm sure someone else can suggest a more JS intensive site, but that's all I got right now.
Slashdot.
Perhaps not as intensive as ebay.com, but without javascript enabled, Slashdot loads faster and generally works better. You could say it's "less filling".
Great pictures, but this part cracked me up:
Just green?
Better described as a "depressing shade of Eisenhower-era government-issue putty green mandated or otherwise commonly used on walls, ceilings, floors, furniture, and equipment".
You'll need a proper desk to display that teletype. Preferrably one that's steel and so heavy you need a forklift to move it. And to go with the desk, you'll need a wooden or steel swivel chair. And a rotary telephone. Black and heavy enough to kill someone. And index cards. Lots of index cards. ;-)
A prime rib is a prime rib regardless of whether it comes from USDA Prime beef; it's an exception.
And "USDA Prime" is an indication of quality?
The food that gets distributed to schools, prisons and food banks is labelled similarly. If there's value to the USDA branding, it's that the quality of what you're getting is one step above most commercial brands of dog food.
Cursive deserves to die -- it often results in illegible scrawl.
Drawing tends to result in stick figures, painting often causes people to apply paint outside the lines, playing an instrument results in dissonance, and dancing, well, that just makes people look silly.
If that's your argument, I'd suggest you re-examine your view of the arts. To be fair, though, I suspect you've never seen beautiful handwriting, or its effect on the addressee.
I learned standard cursive in grade school. Typing I learned in high school. Classes in architecture and engineering taught me the value of "printing". In later years, I took up calligraphy (all forms) and modified my own handwriting, moving from "cursive" to an italic.
Throughout all those years, I never questioned the value or the utility of what I was learning, or the work required to master it, typing included. Does that mean I can stick to using a keyboard for all forms of communication? Sure. But I but don't. Life is much richer (for everyone involved) when you don't opt for the lowest common denominator. In that sense, it's a lot like like music. Why learn to play when you can just buy it and have your computer play it?
A handwritten note or letter, irrespective of whether it's to a girlfriend you're looking to woo, a boss you want to thank, an interviewer you want to impress, or to a family member with whom you want to share something personal, is far more effective (and meaningful) than a piece of paper spit out of a laserjet printer.
A common mistake made in discussions of taxonomy is overlooking the issue of whether closely related species taste the same. In this case, you omitted the fact that all of them are great when grilled. With a slice of lemon on the side.
Does the scientific method for biologists exclude barbeques?
'B-line' is actually 'bee-line', meaning the way a bee meanders all over the place on its way from one point to another.
Actually "bee line" (or "bee-line", "beeline") means the exact opposite, namely that after collecting nectar, bees don't meander, but return directly to their hive using the most direct route possible (i.e. in a straight line).
You could say the idiom is synonymous with "as the crow flies", but that would invite confusion on the part of some Slashdot users as soon as a budding ornithologist offers the comment that that crows prefer shiny objects over sweet and sticky ones, and the discussion devolves into a series of unrelated comments on the relative airspeeds of African, European and American bees, laden or otherwise.
Now as to whether our anthophilous overlords do actually fly in straight lines when returning to the hive, I don't know.
actually have a friend of mine that's still running Windows Me and - get this - accesses the Internet via an AOL dial-up account. When I asked him why he doesn't just get DSL or some other form of broadband, he said, "If I do that, I'll get viruses faster!" I really couldn't argue with that.
True story.
I have an acquaintenance in a similar situation. He progressed from WebTV to some related dialup service to DSL, the latter choice being forced on him due to modem problems.
A week after getting DSL, he called me up and told me he how miserable he was, how he hadn't slept for a week, that DSL wasn't for him and how much he regretted signing up. When I asked him why, he described how he'd been looking at porn non-stop. I suggested watching less of it, but he replied that was "impossible", before going on to moan about how great WebTV was, and how he'd have to go back to dialup to get his life back to normal.
Often RV'ers are gone for long periods of time.
Matthew McConaughey apparently spends most of the year doing just that.
He's claimed on several talk shows that it's "tricked out" with lots of communications gear. Hardly a geek's role model, but I'd like to think the article submitter may be able to find lots on Google given his celebrity status.
and the citizens of Oregon own Oregon
Spoken like a Proud American!
No doubt you believe that buying a house/land and receiving a deed is a grant of sovereignty over your homestead?
You might want to brush up on your history, and enroll in a Law 101 type of course. Things aren't quite what they seem, and terms like "ownership" often have very different meanings than the vernacular.
Government regulations, read mandates.
No, I read "government regulations" generally, an "act" less generally, and the McCarran-Ferguson Act (among others) more specifically. You might want to turn off your AM radio and consider that words have meanings, and understanding meanings and their context is a prerequisite to using them in informed discussions.
It will get vastly worse when the government takes total control.
LOL. Ignoring the absurd and disingenuous insertion of "when", I suspect your have no idea of what "total control" is. Mouthing someone else's talking points seems to be increasingly common these days, so allow me to encourage some independent thinking with a pop quiz.
Which of the following is most true with repect to the federal government's "total control" of the health care system?
a) The feds will administer the system;
b) The feds will pay for costs;
c) The feds will nationalise big pharma, private hospitals and clinics, and doctors and nurses will become federal employees; or
e) Some combination of the above.
If thinking makes your head hurt, I'd suggest (e). That way you can be sufficiently vague and continue saying things without anyone (yourself included) knowing what you really meant.
Any others to add?
If it's anything like Windows Explorer
* One shot when you first discover the time it will it take.
* One shot when you read the time has inexplicably increased by a factor of 12.
* One shot when the time reads zero for a full minute before returning to normal.
* One shot when an hour passes and the time still hasn't changed.
* One shot when you wonder if things like reading the contents of a large tarfile being extracted in verbose mode or having compiler output scroll past on a terminal wasn't as bad as you remembered it.
* One shot when the time finally starts changing.
I'd be happy to have our tomatoes back.
LOL. We have a heckler in the crowd, pointing out with mathematical certainty that the premise of my joke is flawed.
You're correct, of course, and I have no doubt that you'd be able to provide evidence that chickens are not known to cross roads, blondes aren't dumb, and Irishmen, Scottsman and Englishmen rarely drink together. ;-)