Homer: Dear Lord, The gods have been good to me. For the first time in my life, everything is absolutely perfect just the way it is. So here's the deal: You freeze everything the way it is, and I won't ask for anything more. If that is OK, please give me absolutely no sign. OK, deal. In gratitude, I present you this offering of cookies and milk. If you want me to eat them for you, give me no sign. Thy will be done.
It's like we're forming up a lynch mob! I've had my ass handed to me for suggesting due process for everyone before.... Maybe this time I'll just stand in back with a pitchfork and wait for every one to calm down. By tomorrow every one here will be screaming for it again.
I was aware that I was comparing apples and oranges but the juxtaposition of two similar thoughts in apparent discord was amusing. Particularly if you assume sexist guy that "can't" tell the difference between two women.
You did the right thing, the guys worried about your gender weren't worried about doing their jobs or you doing yours, this means an office full of the daily WTF and some light sexual harassment to go with it.
A Senator choosing to pray is not the same thing, is not an issue
Oh yeah? For my rebuttal, I'm bringing out the big guns: xkcd!
Seriously though, I know what you intended in context there, and this isn't exactly it. While it does concern me that we have elected leaders that believe crazy things, as long as they do the job and don't force them on me through the law, I can live with that. I don't ask about the personal beliefs of the guys that design cars as long as I can get one without that jesus fish thing on it.
Well written and I agree. That didn't stop me from giggling a bit at your sig...
I don't want to have to worry that my co-workers are continually holding me accountable or interpreting things I say or do as if I were somehow the same as the other women they had worked with.
Since I can't tell them apart, I treat all ACs as the same person.
Well, it comes from reality. In many nations' waters, you are not permitted any armament. Mexico, for example. If you're going to visit a Mexican port you may not have a firearm on board your boat, and it's grounds for confiscation of your vessel. Or, for that matter, if you just plan to pass through their waters. Or hell, near them.
There seems to have been some miscommunication here. I wasn't suggesting that this is how we should do things, I'm saying that I know for a fact from first hand experience that this is how it is. Countries/ports that don't allow small arms can suck it. Sailing unarmed in high risk areas would be insane.
You can't even spell "loser" and you're qualified to decide who should be armed? This is the same mentality we're seeing across the USA WRT gun control.
We already do that. It is very effective. Pirates are mainly interested in targets that don't shoot back - It's spotting them in time that is most critical. Where does this idea that merchant ships aren't allowed to be armed come from? I've seen it presented as fact several times on slashdot. You know what else we do on merchant ships in the most dangerous regions? Hire fucking trained mercenaries to kill pirates for us.
The part you may be overlooking is there are some real scumbag loosers working on these ships and I wouldn't want them to be armed. Usually it's only the brass that will ever handle a weapon.
A competed film has more than 250 billion pixels in it.
I wonder how many pixels they used up in development of the film. The article reads as though some one with no technical knowledge was handed a page of statistics about the movie and told to knock up an article by 5pm.
"If they have a vision that requires a certain amount of compute, we don't want technology to get in the way of that, we want the technology to enable that."
Yeah, if they need a certain amount of "compute" we have, like, millions of hours of that laying around!
It took me a second to realize that he may be a prodigy after all. Not for the app, but for the marketing. Sell the same app a couple times to everyone with a different set of canned phrases instead of one generalized app that will let you select from a custom list of messages. Meh.
Did you stop reading in the middle of the sentence?
sugary drinks are not fattening in themselves
And then:
Any calories over what your body immediately needs is converted to fat.
So if your body needs calories (and it does, or you die) you can drink 2k-ish calories of sugary water and be done for the day. Clearly this won't work for long, but you won't get fat.
Fair enough. I was just playing along with the "normal" office hours. Personally, I spent 8 months recently working at least 0400-1200 and 1600-2000. 7 days a week.:P
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Well, what do you call it when someone insists that something is real with no evidence for its existence? Maybe this...
Homer: Dear Lord, The gods have been good to me. For the first time in my life, everything is absolutely perfect just the way it is. So here's the deal: You freeze everything the way it is, and I won't ask for anything more. If that is OK, please give me absolutely no sign. OK, deal. In gratitude, I present you this offering of cookies and milk. If you want me to eat them for you, give me no sign. Thy will be done.
It's probably 3. Same as the Beagle and Pi. :)
Just put a display on the side of your USB toaster. Then you can watch TV while you toast. A sort of Video Toaster.
It's like we're forming up a lynch mob! I've had my ass handed to me for suggesting due process for everyone before.... Maybe this time I'll just stand in back with a pitchfork and wait for every one to calm down. By tomorrow every one here will be screaming for it again.
I was aware that I was comparing apples and oranges but the juxtaposition of two similar thoughts in apparent discord was amusing. Particularly if you assume sexist guy that "can't" tell the difference between two women.
You did the right thing, the guys worried about your gender weren't worried about doing their jobs or you doing yours, this means an office full of the daily WTF and some light sexual harassment to go with it.
Higher premiums. Check. Isn't some of the super high tax on tobacco usually justified by health care cost as well?
Further: this and this.
A Senator choosing to pray is not the same thing, is not an issue
Oh yeah? For my rebuttal, I'm bringing out the big guns:
xkcd!
Seriously though, I know what you intended in context there, and this isn't exactly it. While it does concern me that we have elected leaders that believe crazy things, as long as they do the job and don't force them on me through the law, I can live with that. I don't ask about the personal beliefs of the guys that design cars as long as I can get one without that jesus fish thing on it.
I don't want to have to worry that my co-workers are continually holding me accountable or interpreting things I say or do as if I were somehow the same as the other women they had worked with.
Since I can't tell them apart, I treat all ACs as the same person.
:)
Obligatory xkcd (Although something seems to have gone wrong, it's an SMBC)
Well, it comes from reality. In many nations' waters, you are not permitted any armament. Mexico, for example. If you're going to visit a Mexican port you may not have a firearm on board your boat, and it's grounds for confiscation of your vessel. Or, for that matter, if you just plan to pass through their waters. Or hell, near them.
There seems to have been some miscommunication here. I wasn't suggesting that this is how we should do things, I'm saying that I know for a fact from first hand experience that this is how it is. Countries/ports that don't allow small arms can suck it. Sailing unarmed in high risk areas would be insane.
You can't even spell "loser" and you're qualified to decide who should be armed? This is the same mentality we're seeing across the USA WRT gun control.
Oops, I meant looosers. You up to speed now?
We already do that. It is very effective. Pirates are mainly interested in targets that don't shoot back - It's spotting them in time that is most critical.
Where does this idea that merchant ships aren't allowed to be armed come from? I've seen it presented as fact several times on slashdot. You know what else we do on merchant ships in the most dangerous regions? Hire fucking trained mercenaries to kill pirates for us.
The part you may be overlooking is there are some real scumbag loosers working on these ships and I wouldn't want them to be armed. Usually it's only the brass that will ever handle a weapon.
Don't worry about that, it's an old feature. Here is an explanation of how it works.
This is what happens when you legalize marijuana!
No, it's a cue for the obligatory xkcd!
Mastropaolo said that any evidence presented in the trial must be 'scientific, objective, valid, reliable and calibrated.'
Uh-oh, that will disqualify any evidence from the bible a couple of times over.
A competed film has more than 250 billion pixels in it.
I wonder how many pixels they used up in development of the film. The article reads as though some one with no technical knowledge was handed a page of statistics about the movie and told to knock up an article by 5pm.
"If they have a vision that requires a certain amount of compute, we don't want technology to get in the way of that, we want the technology to enable that."
Yeah, if they need a certain amount of "compute" we have, like, millions of hours of that laying around!
An electric engine of ROPITS is capable of speeding up to 6 miles /hr.
So if the speed limit is 70mph, that means it'll run at 76mph! Unless you find a really fast old woman...
It took me a second to realize that he may be a prodigy after all. Not for the app, but for the marketing. Sell the same app a couple times to everyone with a different set of canned phrases instead of one generalized app that will let you select from a custom list of messages. Meh.
They're too expensive for not enough capacity.
Remember this? Air breathing batteries with energy density similar to gasoline.
Nope. They came along much too late to be relevant to this discussion.
sugary drinks are not fattening in themselves
And then:
Any calories over what your body immediately needs is converted to fat.
So if your body needs calories (and it does, or you die) you can drink 2k-ish calories of sugary water and be done for the day. Clearly this won't work for long, but you won't get fat.
The Tehran Chronicle article about this mentions recent bans on Facebook and Twitter, then has links to them both after the article...
Fair enough. I was just playing along with the "normal" office hours. Personally, I spent 8 months recently working at least 0400-1200 and 1600-2000. 7 days a week. :P