Someone emulating the punk movement of 40 years ago is "cutting edge"? If that's his idea of "cutting edge, hot talent", he needs to stop thinking he's in the movie "hackers" and he's looking for Angelina Jolie. Associating dress or style with talent is stupid no matter if it's "you wear a suit, you're smart" or "you've got 3 piercings and drive a crotch rocket you're the next big thing"
Valid points, but I think you're taking him more literally than he meant it. He wanted to convey the idea of 'cutting edge', and to be honest it seems like both you and I understood what he meant even if his example is a bit cliche.
The problem is that a good April Fool's joke can masquerade as something legit and will genuinely fool some people. And while a number of the articles that have been linked to from Slashdot might actually qualify individually, it diminishes it somewhat when your default expectation is a prank. It'd be better if there were one or two spoof stories hidden amongst a stream of legit stories.
Slashdot is kind of like the kid who doesn't quite understand the idea that sometimes once == funny, twice == funnier, three times == less funny, four times == overkill, five times == annoying.
I saw a headline once that ran something like "Community shocked by gang rape" and then when I read the article basically some 15 year old girl offered to go down on a whole bunch of 18+ guys at the same time. Went around a circle or something like that. I was pretty pissed off that the incident earned the headline it got.
What surprises me is that you weren't arrested for assault.
There are a lot of kids whose parents actually aren't aware of how their kids are behaving out of their sight, and often wouldn't approve of if they knew. For this kid to have gotten the GP arrested would probably have also meant telling his parents *why* he was (literally) thrown off of a bus and thus made it more worthwhile for the kid to keep quiet about it.
Or that terrible dictatorship, the US before 1951?
The US had implied term limits for presidents for more or less its entire existence. It was only when FDR ran for 4 terms that anyone felt a need to explicitly codify it.
Term limits are a means to prevent people in power from becoming entrenched. It's also handy in forcing a dictator to show their stripes -- elections can be faked to show whatever results you want, but you have to be a little bit more obvious about it if the law of the land claims that you're ineligible to even run for office.
Note that a single request can get more than one exemption.
Yeah on my first pass through those numbers I had confused "exempted" with "rejected", which made a value greater than 1 sound impossible. Clearer now, thanks.
So it's a little bit more in terms of percentage, but not drastic. Disappointing since I had hoped Obama would represent greater transparency, but it sounds as though the majority of requests ( >95%) are approved in either administration.
Does anyone have the numbers handy for Bush's other years in office to see what the year-to-year variation looked like during his time in office?
Bush had 0.63 exemptions for every request received in 2008. Obama had 1.05 exemptions for every request received.
Could you elaborate on what those numbers mean? The way you wrote that it sounds like the Obama administration is exempting everything, and then about 1 out of 20 are exempted again just to be safe.
Also, do American schools actually last even close to 8 hours? At ages 6-9, my elementary school in Ontario went from 9:00-3:30 (actually slightly earlier than 3:30 or later than 9:00, but the exact times changed year to year), with an hour for lunch -- 20 minutes to eat inside and 40 minutes of middle recess -- and two 15 minute short recesses, one at 10:30 and one at 2:15.
At my daughters' elementary school (in NY), it's currently 8:30 - 2:45 with a slightly less than an hour long lunch break in the middle somewhere. So around 5 and 1/2 non consecutive, and that's without accounting for any of the other activities (gym,art,library, etc) of which there is at least one every day.
How many persons you estimate will use the line daily? A quarter of a million, perhaps? $20 a ride it would never pay itself. I bet taxi is cheaper...
Taxi might not be cheaper once you factor in the cost of road maintenance and associated costs that go along with car travel that are all funded by the government.
How is it then, that Asia and Europe have high-speed rail all over the place, France has the best health care in the world, and my city (Vancouver) is very liveable?
Not quite sure what that bit has to do with anything... my city (NYC) is very "liveable" too.
I think god has a monopoly on causing death in that department. (Take that last sentence however you will. Just remember: however you take it is how I meant it.)
found a bunch of links using the terms 'carl reiner mel brooks false nose'
Flash forward to the April 1991 American Comedy Awards, a show honoring Carl Reiner with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Steve Martin introduces Brooks as Reiner's "illegitimate son" and asks for a few words about his longtime friend and collaborator. Addressing the star-studded audience as "Ladies and Jews," Brooks's voice grows steadily more strident as he indignantly castigates Reiner first for not being funny and second for forcing him to assume a false identity: For 25 years he pretended that he was a Jew when he was really a gentile from Waco, Texas. (The real Waco Kid?) Finally, Brooks rips off his "false" nose, begins yelling in a Texas drawl, and vows never to utter "any more of that Jew talk."
A few moments later, a convulsed Reiner thanks Brooks for channeling into humor his deep-seated anger over having to pay homage to someone less talented. Brooks builds all his films on his indignation, attacking serious topics such as bigotry, intolerance, and greed through comedy
And while we're at it I'm pretty sure that "Australian politician" doesn't mean paranoid, misinformed and dangerously ignorant jerk"... but I could be wrong.
It does actually, though it means it if you drop 'Australian' from there too.
One method removes a resource consumer, which leaves more left for everyone else, the other method removes a breeder while keeping the cat in competition for resources.
Odd. I've managed to at least encounter most of the more common Britisms over time (such as 'spot on' from the same post). Wonder how I never stumbled into that before. Thanks for the info.
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The Fifth Colon was a great movie.
Someone emulating the punk movement of 40 years ago is "cutting edge"? If that's his idea of "cutting edge, hot talent", he needs to stop thinking he's in the movie "hackers" and he's looking for Angelina Jolie. Associating dress or style with talent is stupid no matter if it's "you wear a suit, you're smart" or "you've got 3 piercings and drive a crotch rocket you're the next big thing"
Valid points, but I think you're taking him more literally than he meant it. He wanted to convey the idea of 'cutting edge', and to be honest it seems like both you and I understood what he meant even if his example is a bit cliche.
In the hands of the right teller, that actually holds true, though rarely for a third cycle.
I'm curious as to how an actual implementation would be supposed to handle a Reply-All.
The problem is that a good April Fool's joke can masquerade as something legit and will genuinely fool some people. And while a number of the articles that have been linked to from Slashdot might actually qualify individually, it diminishes it somewhat when your default expectation is a prank. It'd be better if there were one or two spoof stories hidden amongst a stream of legit stories.
Slashdot is kind of like the kid who doesn't quite understand the idea that sometimes once == funny, twice == funnier, three times == less funny, four times == overkill, five times == annoying.
I saw a headline once that ran something like "Community shocked by gang rape" and then when I read the article basically some 15 year old girl offered to go down on a whole bunch of 18+ guys at the same time. Went around a circle or something like that. I was pretty pissed off that the incident earned the headline it got.
What surprises me is that you weren't arrested for assault.
There are a lot of kids whose parents actually aren't aware of how their kids are behaving out of their sight, and often wouldn't approve of if they knew. For this kid to have gotten the GP arrested would probably have also meant telling his parents *why* he was (literally) thrown off of a bus and thus made it more worthwhile for the kid to keep quiet about it.
Or that terrible dictatorship, the US before 1951?
The US had implied term limits for presidents for more or less its entire existence. It was only when FDR ran for 4 terms that anyone felt a need to explicitly codify it.
Term limits are a means to prevent people in power from becoming entrenched. It's also handy in forcing a dictator to show their stripes -- elections can be faked to show whatever results you want, but you have to be a little bit more obvious about it if the law of the land claims that you're ineligible to even run for office.
I went with "badneptunenobiscuit"
Note that a single request can get more than one exemption.
Yeah on my first pass through those numbers I had confused "exempted" with "rejected", which made a value greater than 1 sound impossible. Clearer now, thanks.
21,057 denied / 493,610 requested == approx 4.3 % denied
20,005 denied / 444,924 requested == approx 4.5 % denied
So it's a little bit more in terms of percentage, but not drastic. Disappointing since I had hoped Obama would represent greater transparency, but it sounds as though the majority of requests ( >95%) are approved in either administration.
Does anyone have the numbers handy for Bush's other years in office to see what the year-to-year variation looked like during his time in office?
Bush had 0.63 exemptions for every request received in 2008. Obama had 1.05 exemptions for every request received.
Could you elaborate on what those numbers mean? The way you wrote that it sounds like the Obama administration is exempting everything, and then about 1 out of 20 are exempted again just to be safe.
My hunch (backed by no research or anything else) is that it's a fear response -- the faster I drive, the sooner I will be out of the fog.
you look at bonafied sources.
Sorry, but the typo made me giggle.
Did we bonaf this one? No? Okay, what about this one? It's been bonafied? Great!
Also, do American schools actually last even close to 8 hours? At ages 6-9, my elementary school in Ontario went from 9:00-3:30 (actually slightly earlier than 3:30 or later than 9:00, but the exact times changed year to year), with an hour for lunch -- 20 minutes to eat inside and 40 minutes of middle recess -- and two 15 minute short recesses, one at 10:30 and one at 2:15.
At my daughters' elementary school (in NY), it's currently 8:30 - 2:45 with a slightly less than an hour long lunch break in the middle somewhere. So around 5 and 1/2 non consecutive, and that's without accounting for any of the other activities (gym,art,library, etc) of which there is at least one every day.
How many persons you estimate will use the line daily? A quarter of a million, perhaps? $20 a ride it would never pay itself. I bet taxi is cheaper ...
Taxi might not be cheaper once you factor in the cost of road maintenance and associated costs that go along with car travel that are all funded by the government.
How is it then, that Asia and Europe have high-speed rail all over the place, France has the best health care in the world, and my city (Vancouver) is very liveable?
Not quite sure what that bit has to do with anything... my city (NYC) is very "liveable" too.
I think god has a monopoly on causing death in that department. (Take that last sentence however you will. Just remember: however you take it is how I meant it.)
You're sleeping with your mother? Gross.
From http://www.myjewishlearning.com/culture/2/Film/American_and_European/Hollywood_and_Judaism/Mel_Brooks.shtml
found a bunch of links using the terms 'carl reiner mel brooks false nose'
Flash forward to the April 1991 American Comedy Awards, a show honoring Carl Reiner with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Steve Martin introduces Brooks as Reiner's "illegitimate son" and asks for a few words about his longtime friend and collaborator. Addressing the star-studded audience as "Ladies and Jews," Brooks's voice grows steadily more strident as he indignantly castigates Reiner first for not being funny and second for forcing him to assume a false identity: For 25 years he pretended that he was a Jew when he was really a gentile from Waco, Texas. (The real Waco Kid?) Finally, Brooks rips off his "false" nose, begins yelling in a Texas drawl, and vows never to utter "any more of that Jew talk."
A few moments later, a convulsed Reiner thanks Brooks for channeling into humor his deep-seated anger over having to pay homage to someone less talented. Brooks builds all his films on his indignation, attacking serious topics such as bigotry, intolerance, and greed through comedy
Fun with statistics... 77% of the votes for ACTA came from the UK.
On the other hand, this is slashdot, so UK bashing is an easy way to get mod points.
I thought that was US bashing. I guess with UK not being mainland Europe and being heavily outnumbered by the US, UK bashing is safer.
I tagged the article "open handed slap"
And while we're at it I'm pretty sure that "Australian politician" doesn't mean paranoid, misinformed and dangerously ignorant jerk"... but I could be wrong.
It does actually, though it means it if you drop 'Australian' from there too.
One method removes a resource consumer, which leaves more left for everyone else, the other method removes a breeder while keeping the cat in competition for resources.
Odd. I've managed to at least encounter most of the more common Britisms over time (such as 'spot on' from the same post). Wonder how I never stumbled into that before. Thanks for the info.
It really hacks me off when ...
Is that a typo or some phrase I've never heard before?