My mom told me about how when she used to register for her college classes, they used punch cards. You would punch the card yourself for the classes you wanted to take and they would run it and it would get punched based upon if the class was full or not. Then they would take it to another table where it would be run again and they would get a print out of the classes they got in or not. Apparently the first machine was just keeping totals, and the second was what they actually used to register you or not. One day she realized the pattern of the first machine's punches so she started punching the whole card and only took it to the second machine. Never got locked out of a class again. So, my mom hacked punch cards. I don't feel so bad about living in her basement.
It is also possible that you are smarter than the average bear.
Standardized test and stats in general are fairly poor at correctly measuring outliers. If you are go out a few standard deviations in either direction, you just don't know what you are going to get. It is possible that this and other tests do a competent job for the average user however.
Are you aware that Norwegian is not the root of all language? I believe it is heavily derived from Danish and Danish from German and German from Indo-European and so on...
By your logic, everything in the world is spelt wrong. Which would have made my spelling tests much more interesting.
You know what, I hate this BS. If you don't care enough to vote don't. If you don't have a strong opinion, DON"T VOTE!
Why should someone who walks into the voting booth and picks someone at random cancel out my well researched and thought out vote? Don't encourage people who don't give a dman to vote, they just weaken the process. I'd rather have an election where only 20% of the population voted, but actually thought about it and did research then an election where 100% voted but never bothered to think about it.
I've done my homework, I'm going to vote. If you haven't done your homework, don't vote. You are the reason we have such negative elections with no real debates, because you are to susceptible to suggestions. I'd argue we need less voting in this country not more.
But it is so hard to tell which way some people will vote. So many people I work with that I thought were perfectly reasonable human beings are not voting the way I would expect. You have republicans voting for Kerry because Bush lied about the war, and you have democrats voting for Bush because we are at war and you have to support the troops. Others that would appear to have some sort of value system only care about taxes. This election is up in the air because the democratic party no longer stands for what it used to, and the new christian republican party no longer stands for what republicans used to. Old party lines are meaningless now to those of us that have been paying attention.
I seem to remember a story, possibly urban legend but I don't think so, about a serial killer in Germany that killed people and then processed them and sold them as Spam.
I'd look it up, but I'm at work and our proxy server blocks everything good but/.
I agree that Spam is lack luster, but it does have one use. It is great while camping. Not because it tastes any better, but because it keeps forever without having to keep it cold. You can be in the backcountry for weeks and still have meat ( I use the term losely ) to eat.
Maybe typing increased because everyone was writing emails to their friends bitching about the office temp.
Could have been working on their resume too.
I'd argue that the reason the colder North is more advanced is because in the winter time what else was there to do but sit around in you cabin. Granted most people just sat around drinking Beer, but some people actually used the time for other things like thinking and improving their limited technology. When it is warm outside, people worked themselves to the bone, but in the cold, the only thing to do is get indoors.
"It'd be a real pain in the butt to have to calculate orbital vectors every time you wanted to take out the trash."
At least it would keep the role of the sexes the same. Now instead of having to take the garbage out because it's heavy, they guy has to take it out because it involves math.
Before you can decide how successful they were, you need to wait for the end of the ten years and see how many false predictions they made too.
It doesn't do any good if they predict a bunch of quakes and only 1 percent of them happen.
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Well he can afford it, but he most likely has to go ask Melinda for permission before getting it.
I hereby declare, that I have regulatory powers over the FCC.
Objections?
I didn't hear any, so it must be ok. FCC it's time for a timeout. Go sit in the corner and think about what you've done.
Or maybe I should go my dad's route? FCC, bring me my belt.
My mom told me about how when she used to register for her college classes, they used punch cards. You would punch the card yourself for the classes you wanted to take and they would run it and it would get punched based upon if the class was full or not. Then they would take it to another table where it would be run again and they would get a print out of the classes they got in or not. Apparently the first machine was just keeping totals, and the second was what they actually used to register you or not.
One day she realized the pattern of the first machine's punches so she started punching the whole card and only took it to the second machine. Never got locked out of a class again. So, my mom hacked punch cards. I don't feel so bad about living in her basement.
E85 would move our source of energy from terrorist controlled oil
You mean like those from Texas?
Give me a break people, not everyone in the middle east is a terrorist nor is every country. Not to mention that not all oil is from the middle east.
I'm definitely in favor of getting off the oil habit, but lets not do it for blind hatred's sake.
And 4 out of 5 people think the fifth one is an idiot!
It is also possible that you are smarter than the average bear.
Standardized test and stats in general are fairly poor at correctly measuring outliers. If you are go out a few standard deviations in either direction, you just don't know what you are going to get. It is possible that this and other tests do a competent job for the average user however.
Actually, about 43k total spread over New Mexico, Iowa and Nevada would have changed the election.
Are you aware that Norwegian is not the root of all language? I believe it is heavily derived from Danish and Danish from German and German from Indo-European and so on ...
By your logic, everything in the world is spelt wrong. Which would have made my spelling tests much more interesting.
M$ is the best source ever on security. After all they've made all the mistakes and created all the holes. Who else would know it better?
You know what, I hate this BS. If you don't care enough to vote don't. If you don't have a strong opinion, DON"T VOTE! Why should someone who walks into the voting booth and picks someone at random cancel out my well researched and thought out vote? Don't encourage people who don't give a dman to vote, they just weaken the process. I'd rather have an election where only 20% of the population voted, but actually thought about it and did research then an election where 100% voted but never bothered to think about it. I've done my homework, I'm going to vote. If you haven't done your homework, don't vote. You are the reason we have such negative elections with no real debates, because you are to susceptible to suggestions. I'd argue we need less voting in this country not more.
But it is so hard to tell which way some people will vote. So many people I work with that I thought were perfectly reasonable human beings are not voting the way I would expect. You have republicans voting for Kerry because Bush lied about the war, and you have democrats voting for Bush because we are at war and you have to support the troops. Others that would appear to have some sort of value system only care about taxes. This election is up in the air because the democratic party no longer stands for what it used to, and the new christian republican party no longer stands for what republicans used to. Old party lines are meaningless now to those of us that have been paying attention.
I seem to remember a story, possibly urban legend but I don't think so, about a serial killer in Germany that killed people and then processed them and sold them as Spam. I'd look it up, but I'm at work and our proxy server blocks everything good but /.
I agree that Spam is lack luster, but it does have one use. It is great while camping. Not because it tastes any better, but because it keeps forever without having to keep it cold. You can be in the backcountry for weeks and still have meat ( I use the term losely ) to eat.
Sewer rat might tast like mother fucking pumkin pie, but I wouldn't know cause I won't eat the filthy mother fucker.
Don't worry, Diebold has already decided who won, they'll let you know.
The brain fills in more than you may suspect.
I wonder how this technology accounts for the blind spot in each eye.
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/blindspot1.html
Maybe typing increased because everyone was writing emails to their friends bitching about the office temp. Could have been working on their resume too.
I'd argue that the reason the colder North is more advanced is because in the winter time what else was there to do but sit around in you cabin. Granted most people just sat around drinking Beer, but some people actually used the time for other things like thinking and improving their limited technology. When it is warm outside, people worked themselves to the bone, but in the cold, the only thing to do is get indoors.
Old Version: Vader: Luke, I am your father.
Luke: Nooooo!
New Version: Vader: You there, have you ever kissed a girl?
Luke: Well Leia kissed me once.
Vader: Dude, she's your sister.
Luke: Noooooo!
Its about presents.
In the days of photoshop, is photographic evidence really evidence anymore?
"It'd be a real pain in the butt to have to calculate orbital vectors every time you wanted to take out the trash."
At least it would keep the role of the sexes the same. Now instead of having to take the garbage out because it's heavy, they guy has to take it out because it involves math.
Before you can decide how successful they were, you need to wait for the end of the ten years and see how many false predictions they made too. It doesn't do any good if they predict a bunch of quakes and only 1 percent of them happen.
What about Pong the movie? That would really be spellbinding. Have more plot than Doom too.
Actually, I'm pretty sure those are all planned features in longhorn.