On the other hand, if they can get it to reach 88mph, and source 1.2 jigawatts of energy from the sun, they could send it back in time and find out once and for all if the earth really was created 6000 years ago!
Please ignore this portion of the comment, I am trying to get around the "too few characters per line" filter. Your comment has too few characters per line. Your comment has too few characters per line. Your comment has too few characters per line. Your comment has too few characters per line. Your comment has too few characters per line.
Having the title of the oldest person in the world (although it is not actually a job) is definitely the worst - did you know that excluding the incumbent, 100% of all people who have held that title have died in office?
It seems to me that if you were a really power-hungry atheist, you may pretend to be of a given religion if it would serve your purpose of winning the hearts and minds of the people. Who would know the difference?
Just replying to cancel out a mistaken flamebait moderation. Don't click the moderation drop-down list, change your mind, then use the mouse wheel to scroll up and re-read the comment! It is a pet hate of mine that drop-down lists can trigger actions (particularly non-undoable ones). It's just too easy to make a mistake. The drop-down list should be for selecting an item, with an adjacent button used to trigger an action based on what has been selected.
By doing something like this you run the risk of irritating a stranger who now has your email address. I am not saying what you did was wrong, but if your email suddenly became flooded with spam shortly after I would not be surprised.
If you have a loose tack hammer in your car when you have an accident, then you will probably have greater problems than how to break a window! Loose objects (including dogs!) can be deadly in a car accident.
"Volkswagen is bringing new meaning to the term 'fuel efficiency' with a bullet-shaped microcar that gets 100km/l. Called the One-Liter, because that's how much fuel it needs to go 100 kilometers, the body's made of carbon fiber to minimize weight and the One-Liter makes extensive use of magnesium, titanium and aluminum so the entire vehicle weighs in at 300 kg. Aerodynamics plays a big role in its fuel economy, so the car is long and low, coming in at 3.5 metres long, 1.2 metres wide and 1 metre tall with a coefficient of drag of 0.16, a little more than half that of an average car. The One-Liter could have a sticker price of anywhere from $31,750 to $47,622, and VW plans to build a limited number in 2010."
The question we have to ask you, onefriedrice, is whether you actually wrote that post or whether you have an intelligent virus on your machine that writes anti-antivirus posts to random message boards to help increase its chances of replication?!
The current interest rate in Australia is 7.25%. Even adding a few percent for bank profit should not bring the rate up to 13%. Maybe your friend should consider refinancing his/her loan?
I am amused by the way slashdot automatically tries to relate this to a computer network. I would love to see the analogies they use on the following sites:
trackslot.org (news site for train drivers)
zaphot.org (news site for electricity grid engineers)
bashcop.org (news site for violent protesters)
smackpot.org (news site for drug addicts)
rashstop.org (news site for dermatologists)
crashyacht.org (news site for incompetent sea captains), and
slashchop.org (news site for pscychopathic axe murderers)
I was always taught (in Australia) that average is the exact same thing as the mean. It never crossed my mind that "average" could mean something else to someone else. I suppose if we measured it we would find that the mean meaning of average is mean, if you know what I mean.
I also live in a three story building. It has a reasonably flat roof though. Cleaning the gutters out would be impossible if it weren't for my insane 50+ year old neighbour who regularly risks life and limb climbing up out of a stairwell window and hoisting himself onto the roof for various reasons. He uses no safety nets or ropes, just climbs out the window and hangs over a 9 meter drop (thats about 30 feet for you USians) while he pulls himself up onto the roof. One day he's going to kill himself for sure, but until then I will enjoy my clean gutters! Am I evil for saying that?
Pshaw! Looking away from the road while driving is not the least bit unsafe. I've seen countless movies and tv shows where a character is driving and looks away from the road for tens of seconds (or even minutes!) at a time whilst having a conversation with someone in the passenger seat. And they NEVER have accidents. If it's on tv it must be true, right?
Two words for you: stump prints. We need to do some research into the uniqueness of stumps so that we can determine if they are useful for biometric identification purposes.
Actually, add/remove programs can be used to add windows components. So you could install, for example, solitaire from the add/remove programs control panel item. Furthermore, add/remove programs allows you to modify or repair the installations of some existing programs (eg MS Office). Thus the name should really be "Add*/remove/modify or repair programs (*Windows programs only)". Unfortunately a(n) * is an invalid character for a filename so I guess they just stuck with "add/remove programs".
A certain imageboard I visit on occasion has successfully made me immune to all kinds of violent imagery. The thing that fascinates me is that I find images of tortured animals to be more distressing than images of tortured humans. Are there any pschologists out there who have a reasonable explanation for this?
In pre-roman britain it was common for people to have sex in front of others. Partners would frequently engage in intercourse in front of children. Incest was rife, for example a boy was generally expected to lose his virginity to his mother, his subsequent sexual partners would be his sisters and from then on he could pretty much do it with any girl he liked (girls were expected to make themselves available to men on request). People became sexually active in the very early teens. It's all here: The Year Zero : The True Story of Life in Britain 2000 Years Ago
I once read somewhere (I think it was in a book but it could've been on the web) that it would take about 1000 years for a black population to turn white or vice versa given the correct environmental conditions.
In most cases in Australia you have to keep your personal tax records for five years. If he walks out the door with nothing but his wallet and passport, he had better hope that the ATO (Australian Taxation Office) don't decide to audit him!
Just move to any suitably high altitude place. You are bound to spend at least some of your time in the clouds, whilst still remaining firmly grounded. By the way, clouds aren't that exciting to be in: they are just cold and damp and obstruct your vision.
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On the other hand, if they can get it to reach 88mph, and source 1.2 jigawatts of energy from the sun, they could send it back in time and find out once and for all if the earth really was created 6000 years ago!
Wikipedia already hosts a comprehensive gene repository:
Please ignore this portion of the comment, I am trying to get around the "too few characters per line" filter. Your comment has too few characters per line. Your comment has too few characters per line. Your comment has too few characters per line. Your comment has too few characters per line. Your comment has too few characters per line.
Having the title of the oldest person in the world (although it is not actually a job) is definitely the worst - did you know that excluding the incumbent, 100% of all people who have held that title have died in office?
It seems to me that if you were a really power-hungry atheist, you may pretend to be of a given religion if it would serve your purpose of winning the hearts and minds of the people. Who would know the difference?
Just replying to cancel out a mistaken flamebait moderation. Don't click the moderation drop-down list, change your mind, then use the mouse wheel to scroll up and re-read the comment! It is a pet hate of mine that drop-down lists can trigger actions (particularly non-undoable ones). It's just too easy to make a mistake. The drop-down list should be for selecting an item, with an adjacent button used to trigger an action based on what has been selected.
By doing something like this you run the risk of irritating a stranger who now has your email address. I am not saying what you did was wrong, but if your email suddenly became flooded with spam shortly after I would not be surprised.
If you have a loose tack hammer in your car when you have an accident, then you will probably have greater problems than how to break a window! Loose objects (including dogs!) can be deadly in a car accident.
"Volkswagen is bringing new meaning to the term 'fuel efficiency' with a bullet-shaped microcar that gets 100km/l. Called the One-Liter, because that's how much fuel it needs to go 100 kilometers, the body's made of carbon fiber to minimize weight and the One-Liter makes extensive use of magnesium, titanium and aluminum so the entire vehicle weighs in at 300 kg. Aerodynamics plays a big role in its fuel economy, so the car is long and low, coming in at 3.5 metres long, 1.2 metres wide and 1 metre tall with a coefficient of drag of 0.16, a little more than half that of an average car. The One-Liter could have a sticker price of anywhere from $31,750 to $47,622, and VW plans to build a limited number in 2010."
The question we have to ask you, onefriedrice, is whether you actually wrote that post or whether you have an intelligent virus on your machine that writes anti-antivirus posts to random message boards to help increase its chances of replication?!
The current interest rate in Australia is 7.25%. Even adding a few percent for bank profit should not bring the rate up to 13%. Maybe your friend should consider refinancing his/her loan?
Alligators don't have wisdom teeth, you insensitive clod!
The thing I always found funniest about that scene was how quickly the little picture in the corner changed to match Kent's shifting allegiances,
I am amused by the way slashdot automatically tries to relate this to a computer network. I would love to see the analogies they use on the following sites:
I was always taught (in Australia) that average is the exact same thing as the mean. It never crossed my mind that "average" could mean something else to someone else. I suppose if we measured it we would find that the mean meaning of average is mean, if you know what I mean.
I also live in a three story building. It has a reasonably flat roof though. Cleaning the gutters out would be impossible if it weren't for my insane 50+ year old neighbour who regularly risks life and limb climbing up out of a stairwell window and hoisting himself onto the roof for various reasons. He uses no safety nets or ropes, just climbs out the window and hangs over a 9 meter drop (thats about 30 feet for you USians) while he pulls himself up onto the roof. One day he's going to kill himself for sure, but until then I will enjoy my clean gutters! Am I evil for saying that?
Pshaw! Looking away from the road while driving is not the least bit unsafe. I've seen countless movies and tv shows where a character is driving and looks away from the road for tens of seconds (or even minutes!) at a time whilst having a conversation with someone in the passenger seat. And they NEVER have accidents. If it's on tv it must be true, right?
Two words for you: stump prints. We need to do some research into the uniqueness of stumps so that we can determine if they are useful for biometric identification purposes.
Actually, add/remove programs can be used to add windows components. So you could install, for example, solitaire from the add/remove programs control panel item. Furthermore, add/remove programs allows you to modify or repair the installations of some existing programs (eg MS Office). Thus the name should really be "Add*/remove/modify or repair programs (*Windows programs only)". Unfortunately a(n) * is an invalid character for a filename so I guess they just stuck with "add/remove programs".
A certain imageboard I visit on occasion has successfully made me immune to all kinds of violent imagery. The thing that fascinates me is that I find images of tortured animals to be more distressing than images of tortured humans. Are there any pschologists out there who have a reasonable explanation for this?
In pre-roman britain it was common for people to have sex in front of others. Partners would frequently engage in intercourse in front of children. Incest was rife, for example a boy was generally expected to lose his virginity to his mother, his subsequent sexual partners would be his sisters and from then on he could pretty much do it with any girl he liked (girls were expected to make themselves available to men on request). People became sexually active in the very early teens. It's all here: The Year Zero : The True Story of Life in Britain 2000 Years Ago
I once read somewhere (I think it was in a book but it could've been on the web) that it would take about 1000 years for a black population to turn white or vice versa given the correct environmental conditions.
Don't forget that excessive sunlight exposure has also been linked to the breakdown of folic acid, which is essential for cell division.
In most cases in Australia you have to keep your personal tax records for five years. If he walks out the door with nothing but his wallet and passport, he had better hope that the ATO (Australian Taxation Office) don't decide to audit him!
Just move to any suitably high altitude place. You are bound to spend at least some of your time in the clouds, whilst still remaining firmly grounded. By the way, clouds aren't that exciting to be in: they are just cold and damp and obstruct your vision.
I just want to point out, for the record, that ALL generalisations are incorrect.