So what should one write in order to invoke this pun in a way that even grammar national socialists will recognize? Would this work: "Cue the negative comments. In fact, queue them because there'll be so many."
If that was the desired pun, then, yes, that would work... except that/. stores comments in a tree instead of a queue...
I considered that, but there was nothing in the post to suggest anything other than a simple phonetic transposition of the word "Cue" which he likely learned verbally in context, with the word Queue which he likely learned written on a programming exam.
Haha, you fool!!.... Louisianians are making out like bandits with tax payer dollars. There is at least $4bn of new money being spent that we did not earn from direct revenue or state taxes.... Wipe us out and watch what happens to our nations economy.
You forgot sending Pork to their hometowns. The 300 mile radius surrounding the Bush ranch is a prime example- that area barely felt the recession in 2003-4-5.
Ah, yes, but now there is another law being broken - it's important to have as many breakable laws strewn about the countryside as possible, so you can come in and detain the lawbreakers at will. Ignorance is no excuse...
As far as I can tell, some well intentioned lawmakers noticed that their pawn shop regulations were being skirted by things like Craigslist, so they're attempting to restore their law enforcement's information web on likely criminal transactions. Also sounds like (from the summary, at least) they might have overstepped a few boundaries, I doubt they're all that ignorant of the Constitution, but they might just be taking the approach of passing this law and riding it as long as they can before it gets overturned, and hoping to figure out something else before that happens (and, maybe getting some help from the federal level in achieving their goals along the way...)
In my just as fictional religion I made up on the spot it is a sign of bright new future that will give everyone a free pony and a lifetime supply of cheese in can.
Keep hoping for that pony, the government cheese comes in boxes, not cans.
Ron Paul is putting out something that might start to make a dent in looming disaster that is the budget.
Please look for your self and see how long until the amount of interest due on the debt is larger than what the government collects.
All the other politicians are fiddling while Rome Burns.
It's smoke and mirrors, he won't really be able to kill NOAA, DOE, or any of those programs, this would temporarily cripple them while they scramble to justify their existence, but at the end of it all, his budget cut would be more like a reshuffling of the cut departments into other organizational shelters. I doubt he'd get 20% of the cost reduction advertised by the time the whole thing is over, but there would be an 80% reduction in efficiency in those programs while they do the bureaucratic jig.
Try looking places like military deployment. I'm not saying our soldiers don't need air conditioning in the desert, but I am saying that the fuel to run the air conditioners is costing more than NASA's entire budget... maybe if we had fewer soldiers deployed in the desert?
This is all ridiculous. The reason we aren't going to space is because we're a bunch of cowards--we insist that any mission have a ridiculously high safety expectation, complete with trip home.
The Apollo program included a tremendous amount of risk, the US just got lucky, and then went conservative to hang on to the winning streak. I'd say the shuttle program still included quite a bit of risk and updating the base technology after 30 years seems to be a good idea, even if you might not agree with how it's being done.
If expansion of a species into deep space is so easy, and the Drake equation valid, then where is everyone? Where are all of the alien species that should be visiting our planet? Why hasn't the first deep-space faring species colonised the entire universe? I mean, as soon as humans built boats, we spread out across the world and colonised every habitable continent and scrap of land. Why hasn't the same thing happened on an intergalactic level? The possibilities I see are:
1. We are the first intelligent species to evolve. Highly unlikely but possible.
2. Expansion of a species into deep space is not feasible in terms of energy and other resources. Every intelligent species that has evolved to this point has hit this constraint.
3. The Prime Directive. Seems unlikely - we can't get global agreement on borders and border controls, and yet alien governments manage to stop every single one of their citizens from visiting Earth? There are no rebellious alien youths? No Mathias Rusts?
Try this one: Space is big, really big. A boat traveling at 4 knots average, 12 hours a day can reach any shore on the globe within one year.
There's no profit in curing cancer. It's much more profitable to treat the symptoms. Does that mean we shouldn't invest tax dollars to research a cure?
Do a little research into dollars spent on treatment vs dollars spent on cure... my favorite is radiotherapy, cure your cancer today with radiation, no worries, by the time the radiation has caused new cancers you might just be dead from other causes, or maybe we can treat them with more radiation later?
If we don't face evolutionary pressure to move out of our proverbial parents' house, we're never going to grow up as a species.
The first amphibian to crawl up onto the land was a miserable SOB indeed, skin, appendages and respiratory system evolved for water travel - at least it found abundant plant life to eat and a lack of (physical) predators (plenty of chemical hazards).
The problem is that nobody has seen it done before, and there's a whole lot of conservative mindset controlling the economies of the world. The evolutionary pressure is there, if you're willing to see it, but if you're in a "I've got mine, you go fsck off" mindset, why would you spend tax dollars on space exploration when they could go directly to your discretionary income instead?
There's also the matter of whether experiments conducted in biodomes can successfully replicate in space.
Quite a bit of formal and informal research into underwater habitats has been done, basically it's a big, expensive pain in the ass, not self sustainable - in other words, you need a big terrestrial support network for the underwater habitat to remain habitable. Space would seem to be the same, but worse - with the one small benefit of being obviously able to drop things on enemies from orbit. (Of course, nuclear subs are the counterpart...)
My convertible is a 1991 Mazda Miata - decent ones go for about $1500 these days.
Add another $1500-$2K to that and put on a turbo or supercharger..and you will REALLY start to feel better. Those little cars souped up can REALLY be screamers. You sure can surprise people in mustangs, or even the lower end vettes with a tweaked miata.
Careful there - I went down that road, $5K for a turbo+ECU with intercooler and free flow exhaust, another $5K for limited slip differential, brake upgrades, etc. I got plenty of lock-jaw before the turbo went on (though I get it much easier since...)
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So what should one write in order to invoke this pun in a way that even grammar national socialists will recognize? Would this work: "Cue the negative comments. In fact, queue them because there'll be so many."
If that was the desired pun, then, yes, that would work... except that /. stores comments in a tree instead of a queue...
I considered that, but there was nothing in the post to suggest anything other than a simple phonetic transposition of the word "Cue" which he likely learned verbally in context, with the word Queue which he likely learned written on a programming exam.
It read pretty clearly to me, 3 blades - 3 blades should serve quite a few job seekers.
Grammer Natzi sez: It's Cue, not Queue.
Haha, you fool!! .... Louisianians are making out like bandits with tax payer dollars. There is at least $4bn of new money being spent that we did not earn from direct revenue or state taxes.... Wipe us out and watch what happens to our nations economy.
Indeed.
Do you realize what it takes to lift and move a railroad rail? That's not something one homeless guy could do. It takes teams, cranes, and trucks.
Or, Thibodeaux, Boudreaux, a six pack of MGD, a pickup truck, and lots of time and determination.
You forgot sending Pork to their hometowns. The 300 mile radius surrounding the Bush ranch is a prime example- that area barely felt the recession in 2003-4-5.
Ah, yes, but now there is another law being broken - it's important to have as many breakable laws strewn about the countryside as possible, so you can come in and detain the lawbreakers at will. Ignorance is no excuse...
As far as I can tell, some well intentioned lawmakers noticed that their pawn shop regulations were being skirted by things like Craigslist, so they're attempting to restore their law enforcement's information web on likely criminal transactions. Also sounds like (from the summary, at least) they might have overstepped a few boundaries, I doubt they're all that ignorant of the Constitution, but they might just be taking the approach of passing this law and riding it as long as they can before it gets overturned, and hoping to figure out something else before that happens (and, maybe getting some help from the federal level in achieving their goals along the way...)
In my just as fictional religion I made up on the spot it is a sign of bright new future that will give everyone a free pony and a lifetime supply of cheese in can.
Keep hoping for that pony, the government cheese comes in boxes, not cans.
Louisiana. I'm never going there and I hope you get wiped out by a Hurricane.
It's been tried, only knocks them back to the 1850's, and really, who can tell the difference?
The federal courts tend to take a dim view
Dim, Louisiana - two peas in a pod.
Ron Paul is putting out something that might start to make a dent in looming disaster that is the budget.
Please look for your self and see how long until the amount of interest due on the debt is larger than what the government collects.
All the other politicians are fiddling while Rome Burns.
It's smoke and mirrors, he won't really be able to kill NOAA, DOE, or any of those programs, this would temporarily cripple them while they scramble to justify their existence, but at the end of it all, his budget cut would be more like a reshuffling of the cut departments into other organizational shelters. I doubt he'd get 20% of the cost reduction advertised by the time the whole thing is over, but there would be an 80% reduction in efficiency in those programs while they do the bureaucratic jig.
Try looking places like military deployment. I'm not saying our soldiers don't need air conditioning in the desert, but I am saying that the fuel to run the air conditioners is costing more than NASA's entire budget... maybe if we had fewer soldiers deployed in the desert?
This is all ridiculous. The reason we aren't going to space is because we're a bunch of cowards--we insist that any mission have a ridiculously high safety expectation, complete with trip home.
The Apollo program included a tremendous amount of risk, the US just got lucky, and then went conservative to hang on to the winning streak. I'd say the shuttle program still included quite a bit of risk and updating the base technology after 30 years seems to be a good idea, even if you might not agree with how it's being done.
If expansion of a species into deep space is so easy, and the Drake equation valid, then where is everyone? Where are all of the alien species that should be visiting our planet? Why hasn't the first deep-space faring species colonised the entire universe? I mean, as soon as humans built boats, we spread out across the world and colonised every habitable continent and scrap of land. Why hasn't the same thing happened on an intergalactic level? The possibilities I see are:
1. We are the first intelligent species to evolve. Highly unlikely but possible.
2. Expansion of a species into deep space is not feasible in terms of energy and other resources. Every intelligent species that has evolved to this point has hit this constraint.
3. The Prime Directive. Seems unlikely - we can't get global agreement on borders and border controls, and yet alien governments manage to stop every single one of their citizens from visiting Earth? There are no rebellious alien youths? No Mathias Rusts?
Try this one: Space is big, really big. A boat traveling at 4 knots average, 12 hours a day can reach any shore on the globe within one year.
There's no profit in curing cancer. It's much more profitable to treat the symptoms. Does that mean we shouldn't invest tax dollars to research a cure?
Do a little research into dollars spent on treatment vs dollars spent on cure... my favorite is radiotherapy, cure your cancer today with radiation, no worries, by the time the radiation has caused new cancers you might just be dead from other causes, or maybe we can treat them with more radiation later?
If we don't face evolutionary pressure to move out of our proverbial parents' house, we're never going to grow up as a species.
The first amphibian to crawl up onto the land was a miserable SOB indeed, skin, appendages and respiratory system evolved for water travel - at least it found abundant plant life to eat and a lack of (physical) predators (plenty of chemical hazards).
The problem is that nobody has seen it done before, and there's a whole lot of conservative mindset controlling the economies of the world. The evolutionary pressure is there, if you're willing to see it, but if you're in a "I've got mine, you go fsck off" mindset, why would you spend tax dollars on space exploration when they could go directly to your discretionary income instead?
There's also the matter of whether experiments conducted in biodomes can successfully replicate in space.
Quite a bit of formal and informal research into underwater habitats has been done, basically it's a big, expensive pain in the ass, not self sustainable - in other words, you need a big terrestrial support network for the underwater habitat to remain habitable. Space would seem to be the same, but worse - with the one small benefit of being obviously able to drop things on enemies from orbit. (Of course, nuclear subs are the counterpart...)
I read it pre 9/11 - nothing to do with Clancy, everything to do with my two newborn sons and less time to read.
Studies have shown that discussions about happiness tend to morph into miata threads.
Cheaper, safer, and probably more effective than retro-viral genetic therapy.
I stopped with the jumbo jet crashing into Congress
I imagine there are many things you can do, besides swallowing a pill, that have similarly profound effects on basic brain chemistry.
Yeah....like exercise.
Sacrilege! Next you'll say it can help you lose weight too.
My turbo was an early FM unit, late 1996! I'm hoping I can afford the FM V8 treatment by the time this engine is used up.
Fear the container ship... it doesn't move as fast, but it can conceal plenty of shielding....
Add another $1500-$2K to that and put on a turbo or supercharger..and you will REALLY start to feel better. Those little cars souped up can REALLY be screamers. You sure can surprise people in mustangs, or even the lower end vettes with a tweaked miata.
Careful there - I went down that road, $5K for a turbo+ECU with intercooler and free flow exhaust, another $5K for limited slip differential, brake upgrades, etc. I got plenty of lock-jaw before the turbo went on (though I get it much easier since...)