It isn't going to float over the water in such a delicate fashion when you put 225 pounds of me in it.
Still, at least the water might not slosh over the side, and into the kayak itself (or worse, the nose bury itself so deep in a wave that it comes over the front).
Possibly it wasn't mentioned because this was reported in the Daily Mail, a nasty, right wing, petty-minded paper, which sometimes doesn't seem to have a great deal of regard for the truth, and has more regard for pushing it's own agenda.
Isn't that cheating?
The people playing with you might pick up the dictionary after you've placed your dodgy word, but you can't do it before (at least, not in my house!)
However, these filters are really unfortunate for people who do work in things like the mortgage business... they have lots of problems with spam filters catching their email.
I worry about the people who work for Pfizer. How do their spam filters cope with the Viagra emails?
Strengthening bonds, increasing the range of possible mates that these friends will introduce you to
2. Eating cheetos.
Technology has messed with this one, but eating is pretty necessary for staying healthy. You're not going to attract mates if you're riddled with disease/malnourished.
3. Fixing my mom's computer.
If your mom's computer works, she'll be happier and possibly healthier. A happy and healthy mom will:
Produce more offspring. They will share (on average) half your genes if you have the same father, a quarter if not. These people will then reproduce, thereby passing on your genes (which is pretty indirectly related to sex, but it's the same end).
A happy and healthy mom will also look after your offspring, saving your partner's time and energy, and therefore enabling you to have more sex.
I think that English is easy to learn to start off with, but very, very hard to master. Other languages are harder, to start off with, but easier to master. In German, for e.g., if you can see a word, you know how to say it, in English, you've no idea.
This is partly because English is a mixture of old Germanic languages, combined with French (after the 1066 invasion).
Here's an example (from Chomsky, IIRC). Sometimes you can miss a pronoun from the end of a sentence, sometimes you can't:
Which book did you file without reading it?
Which book did you file without reading?
John was killed when a rock fell on him.
John was killed when a rock fell on.
First is OK each time, second is only OK in the first example. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to explain why this is (or just why).
Just today my 4 year old said "Why you say 'Fucking hell' Daddy?" It's a common question (with variants, like "Why you say 'shit' Daddy?", "Why you say 'piss' Daddy?"
It's going to get me into trouble one of these days; "Mummy, why Daddy saying 'Fucking Hell'?" They'll be reading/. before long - that'll sort them.
How does one summon dolphins?
How do the dolphins know that they are to 'herd' the fish into the nets?
How do the dolphins not get caught in the same nets?
If herding the fish means the dolphins get more to eat, why do they need to do this into the nets? Why not use a small bay to do this? If the dolphins didn't come across this in a couple of million years of evolution, well, they really are dim
In the UK:
You are not allowed to your phone at a petrol station because it may spark and risk a fire. That is the most phantasmagorical bull one could ever think of. Real reason is that some of the older reed contact based counters could miscount and you could deprieve Gordon Brown of some of his "hard earned" pennies.
I was at a petrol station once, and asked why I shouldn't use my mobile phone. They showed me a newspaper picture of a petrol station in flames, and said:
"That was caused by a mobile phone", as they looked severe. They they said "Or maybe a cigarette."
Last year, colleges and universities enrolled 5.04 million students, nearly five times as many as in 1998.
Yet over the next six months 60 per cent of new graduates will be unable to find work, as the number of graduates jumps 22 per cent from last year to more than 4 million, while the number of available jobs will have dropped to 1.66 million.
So, yep, it looks like you're almost right. It's not too many professors, it's too many graduates.
Sure, you might not fall for a renamed executable on a USB drive, but what if it's taken a step farther?
But that's 300% more effort (or 100% if you just went for one OS) for a couple of percent more gain. If I were doing such things, I'd spend the effort on more USB sticks, not more OSes. Another of the joys of not using Windows.
I had a colleague did something similar, both at home and at work. And he said that a seat from a Saab was the best, because the headrest is integral, not on a stick (or similar), so it looks less like a seat out of a car.
JM
My understanding, and I might be wrong, is that the problem with a full fridge is that the thermostat is not near the evaporator (which is the cold bit). A full fridge doesn't let air circulate, so the thermostat warms up. The compressor then works much harder to cool the fridge, but not in the bit where the thermostat is - it takes longer for the cold air to get there.
I've always imagined it went something like:
"We've given your brain a really big electric shock. Do you feel better, or do you want us to do it again?"
If you don't want people loitering, tell them to leave, if they don't that what the police are for.
So the police come, and they don't leave. There is no law against standing around. The police are not going to sit and wait for them to harass a customer.
For German/English speakers, possibly a worse pun:
Q: What comes between fear and sex?
A: Funf
(Vier, is four, funf is five, and sechs is six, in German. It works better if you are English and saying it to a German, because the pronunciation of sechs is more like Zeks. If you're English, it's more likely that you'd say it wrongly, and then the joke works.)
There's a bit in the book "The Search" by John Battelle, where he is interviewing one of Page or Brin (Brin, I think). Batelle says something like:
Has Google ever been forced to hand over records by having the PATRIOT Act cited at them?
(Page or Brin): "No".
Battelle: You realise that under the PATRIOT act you are obliged to give that answer.
(B or P): "Oh."
(I'm paraphrasing, but that's the gist of it.)
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Still, at least the water might not slosh over the side, and into the kayak itself (or worse, the nose bury itself so deep in a wave that it comes over the front).
Possibly it wasn't mentioned because this was reported in the Daily Mail, a nasty, right wing, petty-minded paper, which sometimes doesn't seem to have a great deal of regard for the truth, and has more regard for pushing it's own agenda.
Isn't that cheating?
The people playing with you might pick up the dictionary after you've placed your dodgy word, but you can't do it before (at least, not in my house!)
Strengthening bonds, increasing the range of possible mates that these friends will introduce you to
Technology has messed with this one, but eating is pretty necessary for staying healthy. You're not going to attract mates if you're riddled with disease/malnourished.
If your mom's computer works, she'll be happier and possibly healthier. A happy and healthy mom will:
Produce more offspring. They will share (on average) half your genes if you have the same father, a quarter if not. These people will then reproduce, thereby passing on your genes (which is pretty indirectly related to sex, but it's the same end).
A happy and healthy mom will also look after your offspring, saving your partner's time and energy, and therefore enabling you to have more sex.
This is partly because English is a mixture of old Germanic languages, combined with French (after the 1066 invasion).
Here's an example (from Chomsky, IIRC). Sometimes you can miss a pronoun from the end of a sentence, sometimes you can't:
Which book did you file without reading it?
Which book did you file without reading?
John was killed when a rock fell on him.
John was killed when a rock fell on.
First is OK each time, second is only OK in the first example. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to explain why this is (or just why).
Happened in Gemany in 1996 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_spelling_refor m
Just today my 4 year old said "Why you say 'Fucking hell' Daddy?" It's a common question (with variants, like "Why you say 'shit' Daddy?", "Why you say 'piss' Daddy?" /. before long - that'll sort them.
It's going to get me into trouble one of these days; "Mummy, why Daddy saying 'Fucking Hell'?" They'll be reading
Nice idea though, and it would be cool if it were true.
I was at a petrol station once, and asked why I shouldn't use my mobile phone. They showed me a newspaper picture of a petrol station in flames, and said:
"That was caused by a mobile phone", as they looked severe. They they said "Or maybe a cigarette."
But that's 300% more effort (or 100% if you just went for one OS) for a couple of percent more gain. If I were doing such things, I'd spend the effort on more USB sticks, not more OSes. Another of the joys of not using Windows.
I had a colleague did something similar, both at home and at work. And he said that a seat from a Saab was the best, because the headrest is integral, not on a stick (or similar), so it looks less like a seat out of a car. JM
What's Pavlov got to do with video games?
You've not seen my sister's fridge! (It does have the problem that it's too packed for airflow - the milk in the door is not cold.) JM
B&Q does "value" low energy bulbs for about 3 quid for 4. They are pretty good too.
I've always imagined it went something like:
"We've given your brain a really big electric shock. Do you feel better, or do you want us to do it again?"
Errmmm... electroshock therapy still is used for depression. (Although you tend to be anaesthetised first.)
RTFA. The device was used in Wales. You've never been to Wales, have you?
Q: What comes between fear and sex?
A: Funf
(Vier, is four, funf is five, and sechs is six, in German. It works better if you are English and saying it to a German, because the pronunciation of sechs is more like Zeks. If you're English, it's more likely that you'd say it wrongly, and then the joke works.)
(Page or Brin): "No".
Battelle: You realise that under the PATRIOT act you are obliged to give that answer.
(B or P): "Oh." (I'm paraphrasing, but that's the gist of it.)
http://www.google.co.uk/search?&q=13%2C803%2C862%2 C720+rods+in+furlongs
So hang on, you need more than is necessary? Or is it necessary to have more than you need?