9 to 10 per week? Beer guts are usually associated with people who drink 9-10 beers a day or more.
You're probably right. I'd would however be interested to see how specialist brews Roscoe P. Coltrane mentions compare against the 12-pack swill most people drink.
Trappists are mighty beers; thicker, stronger-flavoured and highly alcoholic. I can drink three Carlsberg Elephants at 7.2% and feel little more than a mild buzz, but a single Rochforte 10 at ~11.2% reminds me I'm a lightweight real fast. Whether it puts on a beer pot faster than supermarket beer would be a worthy experiment to further the progress of Science.
They don't grade fathers, but if your daughter's a stripper, you fucked up. --Chris Rock
1) If you think stripping is in any way an improper activity, you fucked up. 2) Likewise, if you taught your kids that it is improper, you fucked them up. 3) Insofar as you're getting your (cough) "wisdom" from Chris Rock... you're really fucked up.
Why are you posting this as a follow up to my joke?
Human error. He obviously meant to reply to the AC asking the redundant question.
Never fear though: in the near future when everything is done by robots (including the submission of Slashdot posts that get modded to +5) these sort of errors will never happen!
Snowden just released existing documents, he didn't create them. It stands to reason that the NSA should be judged exactly by their actions, i.e. the content of the documents they themselves created.
Absolutely.
The NSA have done much to confirm themselves as an inherently evil organisation with their own slimy behaviour since the Snowden leaks.
and that "DETOUR TO FRANKIE'S FOR A QUICK BITE" is not the same as "DETOUR FOR EXPOSITION PARKING"?
An excellent point. I imagine that we'll deal with this sort of inconvenience for a while but things will get better very, very rapidly. There's a lot of computing horsepower available to an autonomous vehicle so developers will have plenty of room to manoeuvre.
The systems are likely to share a lot of data as a natural consequence of their operation, so up-to-date awareness of road conditions throughout the city shouldn't be too much to expect. I'm hopeful this will lead to rapid error correction from these sorts of situations and the current familiar favourites (Stop right now! Your GPS is wrong!) such that everyone benefits in real-time.
squishware is much better equipped to handle it.
I'd always considered our skullbound compu-jelly to be "wetware", but that term has nothing on "squishware".:)
Did you look at the details? Those just follow wires buried in the ground. Granting it's progress, it's hardly smart and adaptive.
Also starts at $2400 for one designed to mow a 500m^2 yard!
Actually, no, I must admit I just picked the first hit from my google search. Check out the sheer number of hits for the search term though, it's a very busy area of development. From where I sit, robotic mowing is a solved problem and will only get better.
Cooking was just a single example. There are a million more. Robots suck at adapting, they're good at repeating. We still don't have robotic lawn mowers, just for a reality check.
But he's talking about their delusion rather than everything they've ever taught the kid. In that instance yes of course you would be correct, but I'm not sure that's how the OP framed his/her point.
You can't reason with the bottom 10% of skeptics like that. [snip] They're a lost cause. You can't make them think.
I agree completely. It's embarrassing for the rest of us who consider Religion a serious problem that needs to be addressed.
Using empty-headed, evidence-free arguments is usually the domain of the God-botherers. Anyone considering themselves a sceptic should damn well know better.
You mean those notification bubbles that always stay on screen until the very moment you move the mouse with the intent of clicking on it?
Holy shit, all this time I thought it was just me.
That little idiosyncrasy is almost as annoying as the start menu disappearing out from under the mouse pointer because something in the background (Windows Update, I'm looking at you) thieved the focus just so it could fail to display a window. Usually happens most when hunting through multiply-nested folders.
BTW Don't allow an NTFS disk to exceed 50 percent full or you will suffer data loss/corruption - don't believe me? Check the MS Knowledge base
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Give us the actual knowledgebase article number (or a link to same) that we may judge for ourselves, rather than take your word for it.
Oops, I forgot to mention how I hooked up a pushbutton in parallel to the power button (using speaker wire) and ran that throught the wall. I can turn the computer on at my desk, without having to set foot in the other room.
controlled by soulless computers constantly telling otherwise clueless humans what needs adjusting in order to go as fast as possible.
Yeah, that seems like a perfectly rational explanation for why these teams are spending $BIG on hiring and retaining experienced skippers, grinders, etc..
To be allowed to live... To avoid 'detainment'. These are the things you pay for. I don't know why people are so repulsed when the mafia does these kinds of things.
Why is satire so hard for the mods to comprehend?
This comment (presently modded 'Troll') is only trollish from the point of view of those who seek to repress others.
(seriously though, if you haven't seen Pacific Rim yet, go see it - it's really good)
Hmm, for varying values of really good perhaps. Another mindless and predictable Americentric Hollywood excretion with the usual eye-rollingly trite boy-meets-girl and "you killed mah bruddah!" sub-plots we've all come to know and love.
The dark ocean-at-night scenes collided with so much whirling-metal-tentacles-smoke-oh-man-what-is-going-on I found myself wondering whether Michael Bay had been let out of his cage for this movie. The only positive thing I can say is that I'm glad I pirated it so I only wasted time rather than time and money on the bloody thing.
So Microsoft has another party with a Rolling Stones cover band and wonders why nobody is showing up.
I think that analogy sums up Microsoft's behaviour for the last decade better than anything else I've read.
Microsoft is supposed to be a tech company but they've repeatedly shown that they just don't get it and haven't for a long while. As you say, they copy the industry leaders (late, and usually half-heartedly) and are genuinely mystified when success eludes them. They simply do not understand any market beyond Windows and Office.
My example of yelling is a type of confrontation. You trying to nitpick does not change my point or argue my point. Fallacy, learn to avoid it and actually debate.
It is a tell-tale of the inelegant, clumsy debater. Geekoid's entire discussion philosophy revolves around nitpicking, unnecessary snark, logical fallacies and ad hominen attacks. As such there's precious little room for intelligent discussion with the man.
Nice, that's the most accurate description I've seen written on the topic.
I'm not alone in noticing that geek thinking is often very heavily weighted towards logic-and-reason and less with emotion, but nobody told me I could be sucked in by my own 'logic' and 'reason' that is at the time as distorted and untrustworthy as emotion in this context.
For myself at least it leads to a lot of circular thinking that feels like leaning on the accelerator while the transmission's in neutral.
Simple cowardice explains it all? I suppose we do call most of their tripe "yellow journalism" after all.
You're probably quite right but I wonder if there isn't also some other underlying factor. If you'd told me ten years ago that the UK would embrace Islam and even go so far as to allow Sharia courts to enforce Islamic "justice" I would have never believed you. I find the whole thing quite sickening.
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9 to 10 per week? Beer guts are usually associated with people who drink 9-10 beers a day or more.
You're probably right. I'd would however be interested to see how specialist brews Roscoe P. Coltrane mentions compare against the 12-pack swill most people drink.
Trappists are mighty beers; thicker, stronger-flavoured and highly alcoholic. I can drink three Carlsberg Elephants at 7.2% and feel little more than a mild buzz, but a single Rochforte 10 at ~11.2% reminds me I'm a lightweight real fast. Whether it puts on a beer pot faster than supermarket beer would be a worthy experiment to further the progress of Science.
1) If you think stripping is in any way an improper activity, you fucked up. 2) Likewise, if you taught your kids that it is improper, you fucked them up. 3) Insofar as you're getting your (cough) "wisdom" from Chris Rock... you're really fucked up.
It's a fucking joke, laugh already.
Why are you posting this as a follow up to my joke?
Human error. He obviously meant to reply to the AC asking the redundant question.
Never fear though: in the near future when everything is done by robots (including the submission of Slashdot posts that get modded to +5) these sort of errors will never happen!
Snowden just released existing documents, he didn't create them. It stands to reason that the NSA should be judged exactly by their actions, i.e. the content of the documents they themselves created.
Absolutely.
The NSA have done much to confirm themselves as an inherently evil organisation with their own slimy behaviour since the Snowden leaks.
Most under-rated post of the thread.
and that "DETOUR TO FRANKIE'S FOR A QUICK BITE" is not the same as "DETOUR FOR EXPOSITION PARKING"?
An excellent point. I imagine that we'll deal with this sort of inconvenience for a while but things will get better very, very rapidly. There's a lot of computing horsepower available to an autonomous vehicle so developers will have plenty of room to manoeuvre.
The systems are likely to share a lot of data as a natural consequence of their operation, so up-to-date awareness of road conditions throughout the city shouldn't be too much to expect. I'm hopeful this will lead to rapid error correction from these sorts of situations and the current familiar favourites (Stop right now! Your GPS is wrong!) such that everyone benefits in real-time.
squishware is much better equipped to handle it.
I'd always considered our skullbound compu-jelly to be "wetware", but that term has nothing on "squishware". :)
Did you look at the details? Those just follow wires buried in the ground. Granting it's progress, it's hardly smart and adaptive.
Also starts at $2400 for one designed to mow a 500m^2 yard!
Actually, no, I must admit I just picked the first hit from my google search. Check out the sheer number of hits for the search term though, it's a very busy area of development. From where I sit, robotic mowing is a solved problem and will only get better.
Cooking was just a single example. There are a million more. Robots suck at adapting, they're good at repeating. We still don't have robotic lawn mowers, just for a reality check.
Ding-dong, reality calling..
BWAAHHAHA!! Where are my mod points when I need them? :)
..beams a tight, powerful signal back to its home world informing its creators that the beings of this system have broken out of their bubble.
Ah, fantastic. We'll be under an Ur-Quan slave shield before we know it!
But he's talking about their delusion rather than everything they've ever taught the kid. In that instance yes of course you would be correct, but I'm not sure that's how the OP framed his/her point.
You can't reason with the bottom 10% of skeptics like that. [snip] They're a lost cause. You can't make them think.
I agree completely. It's embarrassing for the rest of us who consider Religion a serious problem that needs to be addressed.
Using empty-headed, evidence-free arguments is usually the domain of the God-botherers. Anyone considering themselves a sceptic should damn well know better.
To me, this level of detail in nature is strong evidence for creation rather than evolution.
To me, this level of idiotic thinking is strong evidence of mental incompetence.
Can't explain something in under ten seconds? Well then, God must have done it.
You mean those notification bubbles that always stay on screen until the very moment you move the mouse with the intent of clicking on it?
Holy shit, all this time I thought it was just me.
That little idiosyncrasy is almost as annoying as the start menu disappearing out from under the mouse pointer because something in the background (Windows Update, I'm looking at you) thieved the focus just so it could fail to display a window. Usually happens most when hunting through multiply-nested folders.
Focus theft is a felony!
BTW Don't allow an NTFS disk to exceed 50 percent full or you will suffer data loss/corruption - don't believe me? Check the MS Knowledge base
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Give us the actual knowledgebase article number (or a link to same) that we may judge for ourselves, rather than take your word for it.
Oops, I forgot to mention how I hooked up a pushbutton in parallel to the power button (using speaker wire) and ran that throught the wall. I can turn the computer on at my desk, without having to set foot in the other room.
Yeah, who needs that etherwake bullshit anyway!
controlled by soulless computers constantly telling otherwise clueless humans what needs adjusting in order to go as fast as possible.
Yeah, that seems like a perfectly rational explanation for why these teams are spending $BIG on hiring and retaining experienced skippers, grinders, etc..
It's more like Auckland vs Wellington.
All is as it should be then. :)
So what are we paying them for, anyway?
To be allowed to live... To avoid 'detainment'. These are the things you pay for. I don't know why people are so repulsed when the mafia does these kinds of things.
Why is satire so hard for the mods to comprehend?
This comment (presently modded 'Troll') is only trollish from the point of view of those who seek to repress others.
(seriously though, if you haven't seen Pacific Rim yet, go see it - it's really good)
Hmm, for varying values of really good perhaps. Another mindless and predictable Americentric Hollywood excretion with the usual eye-rollingly trite boy-meets-girl and "you killed mah bruddah!" sub-plots we've all come to know and love.
The dark ocean-at-night scenes collided with so much whirling-metal-tentacles-smoke-oh-man-what-is-going-on I found myself wondering whether Michael Bay had been let out of his cage for this movie. The only positive thing I can say is that I'm glad I pirated it so I only wasted time rather than time and money on the bloody thing.
So Microsoft has another party with a Rolling Stones cover band and wonders why nobody is showing up.
I think that analogy sums up Microsoft's behaviour for the last decade better than anything else I've read.
Microsoft is supposed to be a tech company but they've repeatedly shown that they just don't get it and haven't for a long while. As you say, they copy the industry leaders (late, and usually half-heartedly) and are genuinely mystified when success eludes them. They simply do not understand any market beyond Windows and Office.
My example of yelling is a type of confrontation. You trying to nitpick does not change my point or argue my point. Fallacy, learn to avoid it and actually debate.
It is a tell-tale of the inelegant, clumsy debater. Geekoid's entire discussion philosophy revolves around nitpicking, unnecessary snark, logical fallacies and ad hominen attacks. As such there's precious little room for intelligent discussion with the man.
Ignorance, arrogance and pig-headedness. These attributes certainly seem to be your trademark, judging by your posting history.
Don't let your lack of understanding prevent you from laying about you with your Great Stick of Judgement. You're well on your way to congress, mate.
Nice, that's the most accurate description I've seen written on the topic.
I'm not alone in noticing that geek thinking is often very heavily weighted towards logic-and-reason and less with emotion, but nobody told me I could be sucked in by my own 'logic' and 'reason' that is at the time as distorted and untrustworthy as emotion in this context.
For myself at least it leads to a lot of circular thinking that feels like leaning on the accelerator while the transmission's in neutral.
Simple cowardice explains it all? I suppose we do call most of their tripe "yellow journalism" after all.
You're probably quite right but I wonder if there isn't also some other underlying factor. If you'd told me ten years ago that the UK would embrace Islam and even go so far as to allow Sharia courts to enforce Islamic "justice" I would have never believed you. I find the whole thing quite sickening.