Until you find out that the other guy wanted to give you sheep and accept bricks, not vice versa, and that you handed him two sheep and he handed you two sheep and you're both left sitting there saying "What the fuck?" to each other. Then the guy who's got a city on a brick 6/wood 8 junction and has built the goddamn Great Wall of Catan out of roads so you can't GET to the bricks anymore starts laughing....
You know someone has reached the end of epistemological line when they have to start invoking nihilism to justify an absurd belief. If all knowledge is suspect, as you seem to indicate, then the whole exercise is pointless. Hell, maybe you don't exist.
A good avenue to pursue. I'm sure there's a Nobel prize waiting for whoever can convince the litigious quacks doing this that THEY don't exist, as long as it makes them vanish in a puff of logic.
Although, frankly, you could probably boil that sucker down to "make all the quacks vanish" and someone would still give you a medal without asking too many questions about how you did it.
Maybe they weren't trying to make a profit at all?
Are you sure that the cost of sending a paper bill is $1.50?
The stamp alone is $0.40. That leaves $1.10. The paper has a cost. The printing has a cost.
The facilities has a cost. The power has a cost. The labor has a cost.
All those things had a cost before this, when they were sending them to everyone. Just like the rent/cost of the building, heating in winter, air conditioning in summer, paychecks of employees, and the photocopier paper Mike in marketing uses to photocopy jokes to pass around, it's built into the other costs you pay for the service.
Remember the Cold War, when the Soviets were 10-foot-tall super soldiers who could read your mind and fart atomic infernos out of their asses? Everything was thought to be a commie conspiracy.
Is this happening again, but now we are instead fearing the Chinese?
It's worse. It's happening again, but this time the enemy runs the big-box store we always shop at. And he's our loan officer.
...odds are you'll end up bugging a lot of 19 year old teenage girls going off to college instead of corporate execs.
Either way, you win.
So if we see a lot of.cn sites with "barely legal" sexting pics, we know that they tapped the wrong phones and are just cutting their loses? Awesome! I never knew this espionage thing was so easy. Or sexy! Does a license to kill come with any sort of reciprocity for getting a license to statutory rape?
Not just a system regardless of fuel source but it's so much more. Imagine this:
2009 15 09 15:37 - Startup
(Snip)
Think bigger. (Knock knock.) "Hello. The vehicular mileage tracking system informs us that you've been making regular trips up and down a known drug smuggling corridor. We have a warrant to search your home and vehicle for any and all contraband and controlled substances."
Hey, in places too much power use is enough for them to look for a marijuana grow-op, and too much cash on your person is damn near proof you're going to buy drugs with it. Any new information source will get bent to the same ends as the old information sources, whether or not that's what was originally intended.
is to remove manditory PE from the schools. Use it as time to learn music, or have a out of class work for an hour to help kids deal with homework.
Here is the thing:
30 minutes of half hearted PE exercise in a gym where you mostly goof off really doesn't provide anything.
One could argue 30 minutes of half-hearted music class where you mostly learn how to rote-play the 10 notes that will let you pass the class doesn't provide anything either. I know it didn't do anything for me. Except every year we had to watch Oliver!. If I hear Oom-Pah-Pah one more time I'm gonna scream.
Back when I took gym in highschool we had what amounted to a 1 size fit all program.
When I was in school they had something like that. They liked the idea so much they were going to apply it to math. They'd already replaced Grade 10 academic physics/academic chemistry/high-school minimum science with a one-size-fits-all science class.
There is a *fucking* middle school? Damn stupid conservative parents never let me have any fun when I was a kid!
If we use Fark headlines as a base measure, then every school has one teacher who's offering a student or two after-class tutoring. (NOTE: High values on the "I would hit it" scale not guaranteed. Virginity not refundable if you later realize she got fifty "Do not want" images and no "Like the fist of an angry god" images on relevant thread. Dignity not refundable if teacher's mugshot gets used by Farkers as a worksafe replacement for their favorite shock site image.)
They asked them. Turns out their relationship with their nucleus has soured. They want to break free of each other, but they just can't let go. Typical codependent relationship.
If I had a son, I'd advise him to consider becoming an athlete or musician before thinking of being scientist or engineer.
So you'd rather your son get tail than eat food regularly? Athletes and musicians aren't known for having a big middle ground in which you can make a decent living. You're everything or you're nothing, and there's not a lot of 'everything' to go around. You don't have to be Einstein to have a career in science. Okay, you don't have groupies or cheerleaders, but I fail to see that as a downside either, because the 'everything or nothing' rule applies to them, too.
But who knows? Maybe your hypothetical male spawn will buck the odds and become the next Michael Vick or Michael Jackson! Good luck!
Most games in multimon scenarios really need odd number of displays; 5 is better than 6 in this case
The article states that they expect the most common setup to be 3 monitors (which makes sense).
Which is far easier to get on a single card than six. I appreciate pimping what only it can do for the people who need it, but then they say almost no one needs it, or would even WANT it due to the breaks. Makes me wonder how well this feature was thought out, or if it's just a case of MORE! MORE! MORE!
I tried multimonitor for a while. Couldn't shake the feeling I was using my PC from the wrong side of a crib or a prison cell. Six monitor at least makes it look more like a benign paned window, I suppose.
What happens when the radiation mutates the bacteria? Single-celled organisms mutate very easily, and we could easily have a serious problem on our hands if the bacteria turn into something that is dangerous to us and then multiply out of control.
Or, we get the Teenage Mutant Ninja Microbes. Heroes with a half-life! Microbe power!
Let's call it "Jack Thompson's Revenge". He'd probably get a kick out of it.
Can we save "Jack Thompson's Revenge" for something more appropriate to both Montezuma's Revenge and to Jack Thompson? Like the "stomach problems" caused by eating nothing but fast food at a gaming con or all-weekend gaming binge?
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
The solution to this, your eminence, is to make fewer things that everyone does illegal, not to ban writing.
You misunderstand. His Eminence does not see this as a problem in need of solving. Indeed, people who make others wear the noose without fearing it themselves find it an excellent way to solve their problems.
And now you're talking to US? You fool! Ohmygod we're all gonna die!
The newspapers in Seattle were screaming about a Swine Flu outbreak at the local university (along with "COUGAR ATTACKS IN PARK"), so I figured it might pop up at PAX, along with some big rock concert event that was happening simultaneously.
I'm completely unconcerned, of course. Swine Flu = Flu + Hysteria.
Some people from the deep-in-the-boonies village where I grew up questioned my sanity for living in a city because of things like Swine Flu. In a sick and malicious bit of irony, the first Swine Flu fatality within 300 miles of that village was actually... in that very village. Got 'em on the news and everything. I knew the person (to see 'em anyway). Meanwhile, here in the big ol' city I haven't even had any friends-of-friends come down with it. I feel sorry for the family left behind, etc. but it's not easy to keep from enjoying the irony, just a little bit.
...mers! No, wait, that can't be right. Let me try that again. (Consults Big Book o' Plagues to Call Upon Heathens.) Okay, this is gonna take a while, I'll be back to damn all the perverts to Hell once I figure out some sort of tenuous and moon-logical connection. Don't start the flamewar without me, OK? Thanks!
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Please regard this man as a non-representative sample.
They can regard him as that, but it isn't true. I'm sorry, but if he were a non-representative sample, I would still be living in Nova Scotia.
Will sex ed get taught with porn?
What? Don't be stupid. No self-respecting video game based public school would dare resort to something as vile and debased as a porn movie!
It'll be taught with hentai Flash games off Newgrounds, of course!!
Sheep really can be traded for bricks.
Until you find out that the other guy wanted to give you sheep and accept bricks, not vice versa, and that you handed him two sheep and he handed you two sheep and you're both left sitting there saying "What the fuck?" to each other. Then the guy who's got a city on a brick 6/wood 8 junction and has built the goddamn Great Wall of Catan out of roads so you can't GET to the bricks anymore starts laughing....
You know someone has reached the end of epistemological line when they have to start invoking nihilism to justify an absurd belief. If all knowledge is suspect, as you seem to indicate, then the whole exercise is pointless. Hell, maybe you don't exist.
A good avenue to pursue. I'm sure there's a Nobel prize waiting for whoever can convince the litigious quacks doing this that THEY don't exist, as long as it makes them vanish in a puff of logic.
Although, frankly, you could probably boil that sucker down to "make all the quacks vanish" and someone would still give you a medal without asking too many questions about how you did it.
Maybe they weren't trying to make a profit at all?
Are you sure that the cost of sending a paper bill is $1.50?
The stamp alone is $0.40. That leaves $1.10. The paper has a cost. The printing has a cost. The facilities has a cost. The power has a cost. The labor has a cost.
All those things had a cost before this, when they were sending them to everyone. Just like the rent/cost of the building, heating in winter, air conditioning in summer, paychecks of employees, and the photocopier paper Mike in marketing uses to photocopy jokes to pass around, it's built into the other costs you pay for the service.
Oh. And here I thought alcohol slowed down the whole herd, making the weak ones in the back (for once!) just as fast as the regular ones...
How did you get that many buffalo drunk?
fongs per chronocycle you know nothing about extra terrestrial space ships!!! fongs per chronocycle is just units of energy divided by time.
Actually, you're thinking of the Imperial fong. He's talking about the metric fong.
Remember the Cold War, when the Soviets were 10-foot-tall super soldiers who could read your mind and fart atomic infernos out of their asses? Everything was thought to be a commie conspiracy. Is this happening again, but now we are instead fearing the Chinese?
It's worse. It's happening again, but this time the enemy runs the big-box store we always shop at. And he's our loan officer.
...odds are you'll end up bugging a lot of 19 year old teenage girls going off to college instead of corporate execs.
Either way, you win.
So if we see a lot of .cn sites with "barely legal" sexting pics, we know that they tapped the wrong phones and are just cutting their loses? Awesome! I never knew this espionage thing was so easy. Or sexy! Does a license to kill come with any sort of reciprocity for getting a license to statutory rape?
Not just a system regardless of fuel source but it's so much more. Imagine this:
2009 15 09 15:37 - Startup (Snip)
Think bigger. (Knock knock.) "Hello. The vehicular mileage tracking system informs us that you've been making regular trips up and down a known drug smuggling corridor. We have a warrant to search your home and vehicle for any and all contraband and controlled substances."
Hey, in places too much power use is enough for them to look for a marijuana grow-op, and too much cash on your person is damn near proof you're going to buy drugs with it. Any new information source will get bent to the same ends as the old information sources, whether or not that's what was originally intended.
is to remove manditory PE from the schools. Use it as time to learn music, or have a out of class work for an hour to help kids deal with homework.
Here is the thing: 30 minutes of half hearted PE exercise in a gym where you mostly goof off really doesn't provide anything.
One could argue 30 minutes of half-hearted music class where you mostly learn how to rote-play the 10 notes that will let you pass the class doesn't provide anything either. I know it didn't do anything for me. Except every year we had to watch Oliver!. If I hear Oom-Pah-Pah one more time I'm gonna scream.
Back when I took gym in highschool we had what amounted to a 1 size fit all program.
When I was in school they had something like that. They liked the idea so much they were going to apply it to math. They'd already replaced Grade 10 academic physics/academic chemistry/high-school minimum science with a one-size-fits-all science class.
Was glad I got out when I did.
There is a *fucking* middle school? Damn stupid conservative parents never let me have any fun when I was a kid!
If we use Fark headlines as a base measure, then every school has one teacher who's offering a student or two after-class tutoring. (NOTE: High values on the "I would hit it" scale not guaranteed. Virginity not refundable if you later realize she got fifty "Do not want" images and no "Like the fist of an angry god" images on relevant thread. Dignity not refundable if teacher's mugshot gets used by Farkers as a worksafe replacement for their favorite shock site image.)
I wonder how they can tell the electron is blue?
They asked them. Turns out their relationship with their nucleus has soured. They want to break free of each other, but they just can't let go. Typical codependent relationship.
If I had a son, I'd advise him to consider becoming an athlete or musician before thinking of being scientist or engineer.
So you'd rather your son get tail than eat food regularly? Athletes and musicians aren't known for having a big middle ground in which you can make a decent living. You're everything or you're nothing, and there's not a lot of 'everything' to go around. You don't have to be Einstein to have a career in science. Okay, you don't have groupies or cheerleaders, but I fail to see that as a downside either, because the 'everything or nothing' rule applies to them, too.
But who knows? Maybe your hypothetical male spawn will buck the odds and become the next Michael Vick or Michael Jackson! Good luck!
Maybe Jupiter is Mafia. It protects us, but expects some kind of payment. Maybe free planet pr0n? I hear Uranus has a nice...
Shhh. It's a conspiracy. Remember how Pluto got reclassified as a "dwarf planet"? They did that because Jupiter's got a "little planet" fetish.
Most games in multimon scenarios really need odd number of displays; 5 is better than 6 in this case
The article states that they expect the most common setup to be 3 monitors (which makes sense).
Which is far easier to get on a single card than six. I appreciate pimping what only it can do for the people who need it, but then they say almost no one needs it, or would even WANT it due to the breaks. Makes me wonder how well this feature was thought out, or if it's just a case of MORE! MORE! MORE!
I tried multimonitor for a while. Couldn't shake the feeling I was using my PC from the wrong side of a crib or a prison cell. Six monitor at least makes it look more like a benign paned window, I suppose.
Am I the only person who looks at that and the only thing I see is "tits"?
I thought the people in the article used pigeons, not tits!
What happens when the radiation mutates the bacteria? Single-celled organisms mutate very easily, and we could easily have a serious problem on our hands if the bacteria turn into something that is dangerous to us and then multiply out of control.
Or, we get the Teenage Mutant Ninja Microbes. Heroes with a half-life! Microbe power!
Let's call it "Jack Thompson's Revenge". He'd probably get a kick out of it.
Can we save "Jack Thompson's Revenge" for something more appropriate to both Montezuma's Revenge and to Jack Thompson? Like the "stomach problems" caused by eating nothing but fast food at a gaming con or all-weekend gaming binge?
Swine flu outbreak at PAX.
That'll teach them.
Yeah, bastards shoulda called it BELLUM.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
The solution to this, your eminence, is to make fewer things that everyone does illegal, not to ban writing.
You misunderstand. His Eminence does not see this as a problem in need of solving. Indeed, people who make others wear the noose without fearing it themselves find it an excellent way to solve their problems.
I was at PAX. DON'T WORRY, I'M OK.
And now you're talking to US? You fool! Ohmygod we're all gonna die!
The newspapers in Seattle were screaming about a Swine Flu outbreak at the local university (along with "COUGAR ATTACKS IN PARK"), so I figured it might pop up at PAX, along with some big rock concert event that was happening simultaneously. I'm completely unconcerned, of course. Swine Flu = Flu + Hysteria.
Some people from the deep-in-the-boonies village where I grew up questioned my sanity for living in a city because of things like Swine Flu. In a sick and malicious bit of irony, the first Swine Flu fatality within 300 miles of that village was actually... in that very village. Got 'em on the news and everything. I knew the person (to see 'em anyway). Meanwhile, here in the big ol' city I haven't even had any friends-of-friends come down with it. I feel sorry for the family left behind, etc. but it's not easy to keep from enjoying the irony, just a little bit.
Is the virus airborne, or is everyone french-kissing at PAX?
And I missed that? Damn! Oh, wait, gamers. Mostly guys. Never mind.
...mers! No, wait, that can't be right. Let me try that again. (Consults Big Book o' Plagues to Call Upon Heathens.) Okay, this is gonna take a while, I'll be back to damn all the perverts to Hell once I figure out some sort of tenuous and moon-logical connection. Don't start the flamewar without me, OK? Thanks!