With how important and integrated computers are in our daily life
Just because something is useful doesn't mean it's sexy. Look in history - car mechanics, electicians, blacksmiths...
[Pessimism mode on] Human nature being what it is, the more pervasive and ubiquitous something is the less we notice it and the more we take it for granted.
People don't do it so much in the UK, but instead you're passing nicely when an Astra 1.4 diesel pulls into the passing lane 20 yards in front of you... and goes 0.1 mph faster than the traffic in the middle lane, 'cos that's all it's got.
It's not really difficult, your local pub has gas bottles with a lot of the stuff at the bottom of them.
True, but the pub's only taking the gas out - which is a rather simple matter; getting it in there requires a thing known in the trade as "a whacking great big chemical plant".
I was under the impression that there were always 2 and only 2 Sith at any given time.The Sith student kills the Master, becomes the Master, and takes on a student. Am I way off base here?
Not even close. Think about the delay in placing the advert, time spent sifting the resumés and then the interviews, oh Lord, the intwerviews! What if the successful canditate has to give a month's notice or has a holiday booked?
While I found your post to be most mirthful you have regrettably caused some of my finest porter, that I happened to be imbibing while perusing this emporium, to spill upon my stenographical apparatus.
So if the Mongols come around burning your people's villages and raping their donkeys, you shouldn't take up arms against it?
Well that would make you just as bad as them, wouldn't it - after all, two wrongs don't make a right.
I'm sure they'd listen to reason and realise what jolly bad chaps they are, if you presented your argument in the right way. It's not like they're barbarians or anything, their culture is just as valuable as yours and who are you to judge?
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When it's on a screen, we tend to refer to it as pr0n.
[Pessimism mode on] Human nature being what it is, the more pervasive and ubiquitous something is the less we notice it and the more we take it for granted.
And not in some cushy, white-collar joint.
People don't do it so much in the UK, but instead you're passing nicely when an Astra 1.4 diesel pulls into the passing lane 20 yards in front of you ... and goes 0.1 mph faster than the traffic in the middle lane, 'cos that's all it's got.
And you, sir, have never experienced the difference between a contraction and a genitive pronoun.
... Duped Mar 2009
Er, actually he's 100% right. I know, because some bloke down the pub said so.
Too cheap to buy a round like everyone else.
Paul's lawyer says she hasn't got a leg to stand on.
While I found your post to be most mirthful you have regrettably caused some of my finest porter, that I happened to be imbibing while perusing this emporium, to spill upon my stenographical apparatus.
To whom, sir, should I direct the invoice?
I'm sure they'd listen to reason and realise what jolly bad chaps they are, if you presented your argument in the right way. It's not like they're barbarians or anything, their culture is just as valuable as yours and who are you to judge?
At least you'd have some advanced warning!