If you choose to live in a cave, you can't bitch about not having electricity.
Well, in that case, you can always leech charge your mobile phone at a public place (toilet, cybercafe).... but with mapping sites' annoying reliance on arcane javascript, you can't use the phone that you just charged to browse a mapping site: neither via-michelin, nor googlemaps, nor mappy, nor mapquest.... Ok, so draggable maps and autocompletion of city and street names are nice, but why o why do these sites have to insist on making javascript mandatory, rather than to gracefully fall back on a simpler interface?
Ok, back to the low-tech method of asking passers-by for directions.
So what? Even the Financial Times does occasionally blunder...
and the guy is only a professor
... and a senior adviser to the Tax Justice Network. Hardly an impartial source.
Therefore tax havens must be responsible for the crisis.
Bombing me with strawman arguments may seem fun, but gets old pretty fast.
I admin, I may have misread (or misidentified?) his argument. Indeed his article seemed rather obfuscated, making it hard to make out his actual point. If you have further insight what his real argument actually was, could you please sum it up in a few short and concise sentences for those of us who are not emeritus professor?
Ok, I see it now. The article seems to imply (between much irrelevant filler...) that some of those highly speculative hedge funds also operate in tax havens. Therefore tax havens must be responsible for the crisis.
But did you think about the baker's involvement in the crisis? Indeed, most hedge fund managers eat bread. So let's jail all the bakers!
Easy: Then hax0rs will insert their active probes into his passive security hole, especially after he dropped his canned aire can in the computer cleaning facilities.
You can be driving along a motorway, and suddenly she pipes up "TURN LEFT!!"
If you were keyed to obey her, you'd fly off the overpass and fall down into traffic.
Moran says that men seem to recoil from being given digital instructions by a woman, and read the satnav woman's pregnant pauses, or her curt phrases like 'make a legal U-turn' and 'recalculating the route', as stubborn or bossy.
Well, nowadays for most GPS units, you can get customizations with nice manly voices... So you aren't turned down while it guides you to your hot steamy hookup that you met on Romeo...
But yes, I agree. And I would take this further --- if you're ever planning to do something questionable, like cheat on your wife/girlfriend, buy drugs, take clothes/food to an escaped political prisoner who's wanted by your authoritarian government, you should be proactive and take the battery out.
The people promoting Windows and Microsoft technologies have real names and faces and walk among us every day. Take them out and we've won the first round.
Exactly. Make use of your second amendment rights!
What about simplying waiting a while? Get all hot girls (and hot boys too, for good measure) out of sight, and the knob will shrink on its own. Then a (hopefully ugly) person can go in and pull the knob out.
I totally agree, I am right handed and always use my left hand for my phone as I prefer to have my right hand free to do all the other things like driving, smoking and drinking
Yeah right: driving, smoking and drinking.
Other actions are left as an exercise to the reader... and that actually explains why most people keep the phone in their right hand: that's the hand they use for eating, so they'd rather keep it clean.
What if they didn't ask for cigarettes until the end of the night, so they were in short supply?
Wouldn't this affect both ears equally? (Unless the scientists did something terribly stupid, such as asking into the right ear in the beginning of the night, and into the left ear at the end of the night)
bumming cigarettes off of everyone you see can get you to that point very quickly.
Again, easy to control for, by making sure you randomize which ear to use over time.
Did they make sure to get an even mix of responses for males asking males, males asking females, females asking females and females asking males? Did they make sure not to have the person asking in left ears be the one with no social skills and bad breath?
Unless they "assigned" a specific ear to each person asking, this should not matter.
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If you choose to live in a cave, you can't bitch about not having electricity.
Well, in that case, you can always leech charge your mobile phone at a public place (toilet, cybercafe).... but with mapping sites' annoying reliance on arcane javascript, you can't use the phone that you just charged to browse a mapping site: neither via-michelin, nor googlemaps, nor mappy, nor mapquest.... Ok, so draggable maps and autocompletion of city and street names are nice, but why o why do these sites have to insist on making javascript mandatory, rather than to gracefully fall back on a simpler interface?
Ok, back to the low-tech method of asking passers-by for directions.
Yeah, it's just the Financial Times
So what? Even the Financial Times does occasionally blunder...
and the guy is only a professor
... and a senior adviser to the Tax Justice Network. Hardly an impartial source.
Therefore tax havens must be responsible for the crisis.
Bombing me with strawman arguments may seem fun, but gets old pretty fast.
I admin, I may have misread (or misidentified?) his argument. Indeed his article seemed rather obfuscated, making it hard to make out his actual point. If you have further insight what his real argument actually was, could you please sum it up in a few short and concise sentences for those of us who are not emeritus professor?
But did you think about the baker's involvement in the crisis? Indeed, most hedge fund managers eat bread. So let's jail all the bakers!
Fiscal havens played a very important part in creating the current economical crisis.
Could you explain why do you think that?
... The Blob!
They had no television
Easy. I hardly watch TV any more, with all the bullshit that's usually on...
or Internet and
That's already lots harder... but I might muster enough willpower...
their only link to the outside world was communications with the experiment's controllers
...
â" who also monitored them via TV cameras â"
O gosh! That's cruel. No privacy for a quick handjob... 105 days without wanking, o the inhumanity!
But what is he uses passive x controllers?
Easy: Then hax0rs will insert their active probes into his passive security hole, especially after he dropped his canned aire can in the computer cleaning facilities.
There are even convincing demos to demonstrate the effect: Goatse
Yes, if you spread away any obstacles, the sun shines even where it usually doesn't...
Actually it's because you're out of phase. With light, opposites repulse, whereas like attracts. So try your luck with boys instead!
This is not fear.
You're right. It's not fear. It's cowardice. Anonymous cowardice.
No seriously, that's just how these words are build. Xenophobia is also hatred of, rather than fear of strangers.
Yeah, Windows weaken the security of every house...
if real men don't use hammers. I wouldn't use one to open an egg
What's wrong with using a hammer for kitchen tasks? Maybe not opening eggs, but they work great for separating frozen sausages from each other!
You can be driving along a motorway, and suddenly she pipes up "TURN LEFT!!" If you were keyed to obey her, you'd fly off the overpass and fall down into traffic.
Well, if you're really in a hurry...
Moran says that men seem to recoil from being given digital instructions by a woman, and read the satnav woman's pregnant pauses, or her curt phrases like 'make a legal U-turn' and 'recalculating the route', as stubborn or bossy.
Well, nowadays for most GPS units, you can get customizations with nice manly voices... So you aren't turned down while it guides you to your hot steamy hookup that you met on Romeo...
But yes, I agree. And I would take this further --- if you're ever planning to do something questionable, like cheat on your wife/girlfriend, buy drugs, take clothes/food to an escaped political prisoner who's wanted by your authoritarian government, you should be proactive and take the battery out.
But what if it is an iPhone?
All you need is a witness testifying he spoke to the suspect on the phone.
With these kinds of friends, you don't need enemies.
especially for looking at porn in your cubicle at work.
Careful there. What if your boss notices that only the guys in the porn flicks stay in focus, while the chicks are blurred...
The people promoting Windows and Microsoft technologies have real names and faces and walk among us every day. Take them out and we've won the first round.
Exactly. Make use of your second amendment rights!
Pop the acid
Well, technically, alkyl nitrites are esters, not acid. But apart from that, nice idea. If it helps the knob go in, it will help it come out too.
and try and suck the knob till it comes.. out...lol ^_^
How are you going to suck the knob while it is still in? And wouldn't sucking it make it even bigger?
What about simplying waiting a while? Get all hot girls (and hot boys too, for good measure) out of sight, and the knob will shrink on its own. Then a (hopefully ugly) person can go in and pull the knob out.
This is no surprise as it leaves my right hand free to navigate the mouse or type on the keyboard.
... or the joystick...
I totally agree, I am right handed and always use my left hand for my phone as I prefer to have my right hand free to do all the other things like driving, smoking and drinking
Yeah right: driving, smoking and drinking.
Other actions are left as an exercise to the reader... and that actually explains why most people keep the phone in their right hand: that's the hand they use for eating, so they'd rather keep it clean.
What if they didn't ask for cigarettes until the end of the night, so they were in short supply?
Wouldn't this affect both ears equally? (Unless the scientists did something terribly stupid, such as asking into the right ear in the beginning of the night, and into the left ear at the end of the night)
bumming cigarettes off of everyone you see can get you to that point very quickly.
Again, easy to control for, by making sure you randomize which ear to use over time.
Did they make sure to get an even mix of responses for males asking males, males asking females, females asking females and females asking males? Did they make sure not to have the person asking in left ears be the one with no social skills and bad breath?
Unless they "assigned" a specific ear to each person asking, this should not matter.
They are called African-Americans, and if you do put a little bit of pressure...
Could they also calculate the probability of monkeys flying out of my ass? Or would this be considered racist in this day and age?