I'm aware that "regardless" and "irregardless" means the same. I grew up hearing the word irregardless a lot so it has stuck with me. I will be more careful in the future;)
You shouldn't be more careful, clearly everybody here knew what you meant. The second you feed a grammar troll you're giving them what they want.
I'm also moderately worried about needing a police auto-alert for gunfire >.>
Live in a densely populated city with lots of gun crime and you'll understand why they are installed. Philadelphia needs to put them up if they haven't already.
I'm sorry but anyone who thinks that a first person shooter, no matter how "realistic" the blood and guts is anything like actually going out and fighting has needs a reality check. They've either never played the game, or they've been playing for too long or they are just plain idiots.
Same goes for the movies. They might be used as recruiting tools (chiefly for cannon fodder as anyone dumb enough to think they're going to be Maverick from Top Gun clearly is too stupid and naive to be useful as much else).
You've clearly never watched Band of Brothers or The Pacific. They were placed in a conflict very different than the ones we are involved in now, but they were two of the most moving series I've ever watched and it truly changed the way I look at combat.
I'd say that The Wire had the same affect in terms of my perspective on crime.
I heard an anecdote about someone who played in a comedy band and he plays a Hello Kitty guitar and his rhythm guitarist plays the Hanna Montana guitar. After a show someone broke into their van with all their gear and stole everything out of the van including the cases, picks, EXCEPT for the two guitars.
Can't look cool trying to sell those on craigslist, I guess.
I really hate it when people start prattling along about errors with statistics when they don't bother looking at the actual statistics.
Making informed statements!? Researching before you reply?! What is this blasphemy?! Next thing you know you'll expect people to read the actual summary!
My dad drove a POS 94 Ford Ranger up until a few months ago and he never locked the doors. The only time it was broken into in the whole time he owned it was when kids were going around the movie theater parking lot stealing change out of cars. I bet they made a whole lot of money doing that...
It's good to know the editors are doing something. We should be supportive of their attempts instead of discouraging them by jumping on every little mistake.
I'm supportive when CmdrTaco, Timothy, or one of the other editors make a mistake. It happens, Soulskill (who sticks to Idle) made one the other day and he owned up to it and even made a funny joke, but kdawson is the worst editor/. has had in a while. He regularly messes up the article, makes unnecessary edits that end up making the article incorrect or cause grammatical errors to make it as if the person who submitted it made the mistake.
There's trolls for every article, but kdawson continually makes mistakes and even the long time readers have jumped on the bandwagon of not liking his editing. Sure, you could always block his articles from showing up in your feed, but it's a lot more interesting to see the train wreck that is his editing. Maybe if we complain enough he will stop being an editor and do something behind the scenes so that first time readers of the site don't become discouraged by poor editing. Just look at this article! The original submission said Toshiba and he tidied it up, but put in a completely wrong company. Who needs proofreading, anyway? Something you learn in grade school clearly isn't important in the real world.
Now, that may not appear good for business, but I think that what's good for the customer is usually good for business in the long run.
Well, when it comes up in conversation that he's had to get his PC fixed several times in the past year until you put a piece of software on to his friends, they'll come to you instead of GeekSquad who will just rinse and repeat the same tactic to get more money out of him.
Getting quick money off of a client is a horrible decision compared to the references they can bring when you do the job right.
Same thing with the surge in DUI arrests in the past decade (or a little more). The insurance companies pressured the police into actually charging people with DUIs instead of making them walk home or dropping them off in the drunk tank because they realized that they can charge otherwise very safe drivers who had a little too much at a cocktail party with insane premiums.
The body's immune system has nothing to fight off, so instead it starts attacking even the most benign invaders
It's the same reason why researchers going to civilizations with no contact with the outside world have to be careful about spreading germs -- they have had no contact with bacteria and virus' that develop in large civilizations so they are very susceptible to infection.
I read about another study that showed that children who live in spotlessly clean homes are more prone to allergies and athsma than kids whose moms are slobs. This may be related somehow, I don't know.
That may be because the kids in the spotless homes don't get enough germs in their body to build up antibodies. These are the same kids who probably weren't allowed to play in the dirt, compared to ones who live in homes that aren't as well maintained.
I've read several studies in Science News that show exposing allergic bodies to the outdoors "trains" the immune system to ignore things like pollen, dust, and so on as simply part of the natural environment.
I've also read studies that picking your nose and eating your boogers increases your immune system. Seems plausible since your nose filters out pollen, dust, and other things your body shouldn't be absorbing.
Am I the only one that read the title as "'Forest Bathing' Considered Harmful"?
It's a kdawson article, what do you expect? The moron decided to change the title from the original submission of "'Forest Bathing' is Good for Your Health" that pickens submitted it as to this garbage.
and how they oppose nuclear power even though it is the cleanest realistic energy source we have available
I have a close family member who is a die hard environmentalist. She moved to Central America to get away from the US. I showed her all the information about nuclear power being safe, all the advancements, and it always comes down to "Well I still believe it's unsafe."
This is the same conclusion you'll come to with anybody who opposes GM crops or thinks 9/11 was a conspiracy perpetrated by the US Government. You can't get through to these people.
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Taco, I am disappoint.
I think we can cut Taco a break. If it was a kdawson article it would be titled
Malisheus Hardwear Hacking May be teh Next Fronteer
+1 funny
Yeah I thought it was pretty funny too -- someone with mod points must hate Shanrak.
I was wondering why my RealDoll with the motorized enhancements seemed extra frisky this morning. .
Can you please link that site for uh... research purposes?
I'm aware that "regardless" and "irregardless" means the same. I grew up hearing the word irregardless a lot so it has stuck with me. I will be more careful in the future ;)
You shouldn't be more careful, clearly everybody here knew what you meant. The second you feed a grammar troll you're giving them what they want.
I'm also moderately worried about needing a police auto-alert for gunfire >.>
Live in a densely populated city with lots of gun crime and you'll understand why they are installed. Philadelphia needs to put them up if they haven't already.
I'm sorry but anyone who thinks that a first person shooter, no matter how "realistic" the blood and guts is anything like actually going out and fighting has needs a reality check. They've either never played the game, or they've been playing for too long or they are just plain idiots.
Same goes for the movies. They might be used as recruiting tools (chiefly for cannon fodder as anyone dumb enough to think they're going to be Maverick from Top Gun clearly is too stupid and naive to be useful as much else).
You've clearly never watched Band of Brothers or The Pacific. They were placed in a conflict very different than the ones we are involved in now, but they were two of the most moving series I've ever watched and it truly changed the way I look at combat.
I'd say that The Wire had the same affect in terms of my perspective on crime.
It's 2.8 gigs as it is, imagine how big it would get if 100 million pics were added to it ;-)
That's what she said!
My only question is: Does it include pictures? That may be a deal breaker...
The "Hello Kitty Car".
I heard an anecdote about someone who played in a comedy band and he plays a Hello Kitty guitar and his rhythm guitarist plays the Hanna Montana guitar. After a show someone broke into their van with all their gear and stole everything out of the van including the cases, picks, EXCEPT for the two guitars.
Can't look cool trying to sell those on craigslist, I guess.
I really hate it when people start prattling along about errors with statistics when they don't bother looking at the actual statistics.
Making informed statements!? Researching before you reply?! What is this blasphemy?! Next thing you know you'll expect people to read the actual summary!
My dad drove a POS 94 Ford Ranger up until a few months ago and he never locked the doors. The only time it was broken into in the whole time he owned it was when kids were going around the movie theater parking lot stealing change out of cars. I bet they made a whole lot of money doing that...
It's good to know the editors are doing something. We should be supportive of their attempts instead of discouraging them by jumping on every little mistake.
I'm supportive when CmdrTaco, Timothy, or one of the other editors make a mistake. It happens, Soulskill (who sticks to Idle) made one the other day and he owned up to it and even made a funny joke, but kdawson is the worst editor /. has had in a while. He regularly messes up the article, makes unnecessary edits that end up making the article incorrect or cause grammatical errors to make it as if the person who submitted it made the mistake.
There's trolls for every article, but kdawson continually makes mistakes and even the long time readers have jumped on the bandwagon of not liking his editing. Sure, you could always block his articles from showing up in your feed, but it's a lot more interesting to see the train wreck that is his editing. Maybe if we complain enough he will stop being an editor and do something behind the scenes so that first time readers of the site don't become discouraged by poor editing. Just look at this article! The original submission said Toshiba and he tidied it up, but put in a completely wrong company. Who needs proofreading, anyway? Something you learn in grade school clearly isn't important in the real world.
Now, that may not appear good for business, but I think that what's good for the customer is usually good for business in the long run.
Well, when it comes up in conversation that he's had to get his PC fixed several times in the past year until you put a piece of software on to his friends, they'll come to you instead of GeekSquad who will just rinse and repeat the same tactic to get more money out of him.
Getting quick money off of a client is a horrible decision compared to the references they can bring when you do the job right.
I just picked up my iPhone 4 last night and verified all the problems that have been reported.
If you're aware of all the problems, let me ask you this: Why?
I'm not even trying to troll here.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
It's a bad thing when you register a .09 when the limit is .08 and then you have a DUI.
Like I said, the industry as a whole is a scam.
Same thing with the surge in DUI arrests in the past decade (or a little more). The insurance companies pressured the police into actually charging people with DUIs instead of making them walk home or dropping them off in the drunk tank because they realized that they can charge otherwise very safe drivers who had a little too much at a cocktail party with insane premiums.
Is the fake facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/robin.sage.641a
The body's immune system has nothing to fight off, so instead it starts attacking even the most benign invaders
It's the same reason why researchers going to civilizations with no contact with the outside world have to be careful about spreading germs -- they have had no contact with bacteria and virus' that develop in large civilizations so they are very susceptible to infection.
I read about another study that showed that children who live in spotlessly clean homes are more prone to allergies and athsma than kids whose moms are slobs. This may be related somehow, I don't know.
That may be because the kids in the spotless homes don't get enough germs in their body to build up antibodies. These are the same kids who probably weren't allowed to play in the dirt, compared to ones who live in homes that aren't as well maintained.
Also helps allergies:
I've read several studies in Science News that show exposing allergic bodies to the outdoors "trains" the immune system to ignore things like pollen, dust, and so on as simply part of the natural environment.
I've also read studies that picking your nose and eating your boogers increases your immune system. Seems plausible since your nose filters out pollen, dust, and other things your body shouldn't be absorbing.
Am I the only one that read the title as "'Forest Bathing' Considered Harmful"?
It's a kdawson article, what do you expect? The moron decided to change the title from the original submission of "'Forest Bathing' is Good for Your Health" that pickens submitted it as to this garbage.
Also, I read it as the same thing.
Yes, and they are the same guy patenting pigs(!) which have eaten their crops.
I'm going to patent any woman I sleep with.
and how they oppose nuclear power even though it is the cleanest realistic energy source we have available
I have a close family member who is a die hard environmentalist. She moved to Central America to get away from the US. I showed her all the information about nuclear power being safe, all the advancements, and it always comes down to "Well I still believe it's unsafe."
This is the same conclusion you'll come to with anybody who opposes GM crops or thinks 9/11 was a conspiracy perpetrated by the US Government. You can't get through to these people.
Humans can synthesize vitamin D when they are exposed to sunlight.
I don't leave the house, you insensitive clod!
I'll probably get modded down for this, but... It looks like what you think should be is wrong.