Consider this: The Ten Commandments contain 297 words, the Bill of Rights 463 words, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 266 words. A recent federal directive regulating the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.
Did you try the embedded video on the Mozilla page? Shit, it was worse than waiting for (....buffering....) RealPlayer. Did the Mozilla devs do a poor job by selecting a fat video, or will all implementations look that horrible? When I saw it, I was really disappointed, hoping (like you) that this could diminish Flash usage.
Yellow on purple is be nothing compared to mixing text and background of #ff0000 and #0000ff. Hell, those are Vikings colors (ugliness in its own right).
Selecting a party instead of a candidate seems rather unscientific to me. I've probably voted for more Democrats than Republicans in my life, but it seems to me that the scientific approach is to study the evidence and select a candidate based on his record, stated positions, etc.
A quote from a great patriot, Steven Colbert, comes to mind: "Reality has a well known Liberal bias!"
If any of the fabrication goes wrong, they can always send out these germanium-on-silicon diodes as parts for the world's most expensive foxhole radios;)
In regards to the (alleged) North Korean computer attacks on US and South Korean servers... I watched an NBC report where they first used the word "hacked", shortly followed by "cracked", and then after those loaded words finally explained that the attacks were denial of service. I guess it's as stupid as equating virus/worm/trojan/spyware.
Dude, I was driving an interstate through West Virginia a few days ago and saw a billboard that said, "Clean, carbon-neutral coal." So it must be true!
See, I kind of figure that we really can't take all these deaths of public figures TOO seriously. Employing gallows humor, I'd posted on my social networking site [which shall remain nameless] the comment, "It's confirmed: rhinoplasty kills."
Jackson and Fawcett were their own interesting but odd/unique people (to put it mildly). I'm not crying, sending a card or flowers. If we mourned every death we'd get nowhere, right?
Anyhow, my wry comment wasn't well received. I think people need to lighten the fuck up.
I register with a pay-to-email site, and give it my actual email address. It gives me my new publicly visible email address. Anyone who wants to can send me an email through this service if they pay me an amount of money that I set. After I receive the email, I can refund the sender. The pay-to-email site takes a 10% cut on all un-refunded emails.
Sound like a winner?
My... GOD... that's genius! Your plan clearly has no flaws. We should implement it right now.
OK, honestly, I was just too lazy to fill out the ubiquitous rejection form.
My wife used to work for a large insurance company which shall not be named. At one point she told me she'd handled paperwork [legitimately] for a certain rockstar (now past his prime) who was very expensive to insure because of his heavy past cocaine abuse. (We're shocked -- just SHOCKED!)
I suppose my point is how stupid it is to go seeking this celeb information. You may learn few things except what's a) already public knowledge, or b) easily guessed. And then you get prosecuted (or fired, if you're lucky) for digging.
Since it's not in the summary, Brendan Quine is an associate professor at in Space Engineering at York University in Toronto, Ontario (Canada). He is responsible for the Argus micro-spectrometer on the CanX-2 nanosatellite, currently operating on orbit. The satellite was developed by the University of Toronto's Space Flight Laboratory.
Aikon-
I'd have expected Mr Quine to be an android who builds androids, actually.
If you decide you're going to rig up a "fake hanging" of any kind, be sure that the noose is actually hanging from given structure using a strand or two (at most) of 6lb test monofilament. If you slip, the monofilament will snap LONG before you're injured by the noose around your neck.
In a world where few dozen companies with multi-million dollar R&D budgets have failed, one man who posts internet rumors in his underwear will succeed.
Fixed that for you. (at least I like it better that way)
(As the article notes) it's probably a lot harder to have the blood pressure to pump blood all the way up that column to the head. Blood pressure is one of the things they can't explain about their model. The article says, "Estimates of blood pressure also suggested that it would have been very difficult for sauropods to pump their blood up to such a height."
I propose the Stegosaurus Corollary: the long-necked dinosaurs had another heart halfway up the length of their neck!
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You say that, but -- think of the color green.
Now think of #00ff00 green. Those are probably NOT the same. There was a method behind my geeky madness.
Consider this: The Ten Commandments contain 297 words, the Bill of Rights 463 words, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 266 words. A recent federal directive regulating the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.
I'm shocked nobody has called bullshit on this one yet. Damn, dude. Check snopes.
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/cabbage.asp
Unless of course you also read this on snopes and decided it was a good time to perpetrate an urban legend. *shrugs*
Did you try the embedded video on the Mozilla page? Shit, it was worse than waiting for (....buffering....) RealPlayer. Did the Mozilla devs do a poor job by selecting a fat video, or will all implementations look that horrible? When I saw it, I was really disappointed, hoping (like you) that this could diminish Flash usage.
Bravo. I was going to mention Papyrus but you beat me to it. Now we need only wait for the inevitable XKCD follow-up. [/bait]
Yellow on purple is be nothing compared to mixing text and background of #ff0000 and #0000ff. Hell, those are Vikings colors (ugliness in its own right).
Firefox users can't be too complacent; Secunia is warning of a 0-day in version 3.5.
Well, I guess I'm safe. At my workplace, my Redhat 9 installation is incapable of running any version newer than Firefox 2.0.0.20.
Redhat 9?? You're lucky...
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Hey, if you're going to take the PBS Kids approach, then you ought to be suggesting Sid the Science Kid.
In my day twitter was hosted on the wall of the bathroom stall...
/me imagines:
Here I tweet from my bathroom blog, not digital but analog.
Selecting a party instead of a candidate seems rather unscientific to me. I've probably voted for more Democrats than Republicans in my life, but it seems to me that the scientific approach is to study the evidence and select a candidate based on his record, stated positions, etc.
A quote from a great patriot, Steven Colbert, comes to mind: "Reality has a well known Liberal bias!"
If any of the fabrication goes wrong, they can always send out these germanium-on-silicon diodes as parts for the world's most expensive foxhole radios ;)
In regards to the (alleged) North Korean computer attacks on US and South Korean servers... I watched an NBC report where they first used the word "hacked", shortly followed by "cracked", and then after those loaded words finally explained that the attacks were denial of service. I guess it's as stupid as equating virus/worm/trojan/spyware.
Dude, I was driving an interstate through West Virginia a few days ago and saw a billboard that said, "Clean, carbon-neutral coal." So it must be true!
Consider the differences between a false positive and a false negative.
See, I kind of figure that we really can't take all these deaths of public figures TOO seriously. Employing gallows humor, I'd posted on my social networking site [which shall remain nameless] the comment, "It's confirmed: rhinoplasty kills."
Jackson and Fawcett were their own interesting but odd/unique people (to put it mildly). I'm not crying, sending a card or flowers. If we mourned every death we'd get nowhere, right?
Anyhow, my wry comment wasn't well received. I think people need to lighten the fuck up.
I guess that means no more updates for BZflag and Tux Racer.
Bwaah-haa-ha! Updates for Tux Racer? It looks as if the project died in 2001. The latest incarnation isn't too active, either.
I do believe it's lembas , friend. [/geek]
How about "pay to email"?
I register with a pay-to-email site, and give it my actual email address. It gives me my new publicly visible email address. Anyone who wants to can send me an email through this service if they pay me an amount of money that I set. After I receive the email, I can refund the sender. The pay-to-email site takes a 10% cut on all un-refunded emails.
Sound like a winner?
My... GOD... that's genius! Your plan clearly has no flaws. We should implement it right now.
OK, honestly, I was just too lazy to fill out the ubiquitous rejection form.
My wife used to work for a large insurance company which shall not be named. At one point she told me she'd handled paperwork [legitimately] for a certain rockstar (now past his prime) who was very expensive to insure because of his heavy past cocaine abuse. (We're shocked -- just SHOCKED!) I suppose my point is how stupid it is to go seeking this celeb information. You may learn few things except what's a) already public knowledge, or b) easily guessed. And then you get prosecuted (or fired, if you're lucky) for digging.
Here's the short version: "Fast, cheap, accurate. Pick two."
I think your strategy is sound provided you promise to contract only the most common of diseases and maladies. :)
Since it's not in the summary, Brendan Quine is an associate professor at in Space Engineering at York University in Toronto, Ontario (Canada). He is responsible for the Argus micro-spectrometer on the CanX-2 nanosatellite, currently operating on orbit. The satellite was developed by the University of Toronto's Space Flight Laboratory.
Aikon-
I'd have expected Mr Quine to be an android who builds androids, actually.
There was still the war of tabs vs. three spaces. Lest we forget those who fell in righteous indentation!
Wait... three !?
If you decide you're going to rig up a "fake hanging" of any kind, be sure that the noose is actually hanging from given structure using a strand or two (at most) of 6lb test monofilament. If you slip, the monofilament will snap LONG before you're injured by the noose around your neck.
In a world where few dozen companies with multi-million dollar R&D budgets have failed, one man who posts internet rumors in his underwear will succeed.
Fixed that for you. (at least I like it better that way)
(As the article notes) it's probably a lot harder to have the blood pressure to pump blood all the way up that column to the head. Blood pressure is one of the things they can't explain about their model. The article says, "Estimates of blood pressure also suggested that it would have been very difficult for sauropods to pump their blood up to such a height."
I propose the Stegosaurus Corollary: the long-necked dinosaurs had another heart halfway up the length of their neck!