I only chose to not vote on a few items, and Office of President was one of them. I didn't not vote at all.
We need a "none of the above" vote. If it wins, everybody has to go back to the drawing board and field new candidates. I think it could decrease the voting for the lesser of two evils approach, and it could increase voter turnout. I've become pretty apathetic since I don't want to vote dem or rep and voting third party is pretty much throwing your vote away (I do it anyway but I don't kid myself), but I would get out to vote against both candidates. You could even see a whole swath of the population campaigning for "none of the above" because they didn't like the dem they had but wouldn't vote rep.
Have you ever considered that they're doing you a favor? People who get family domain names based on their own name are usually the worst combination of dorky and egotistical. Do yourself a favor and register something creative instead.
How so? firstname@lastname.com is a great email address. If people know who you are, it's easy to remember. It's more professional and less redicoulous than hotchix1970@hotmail.com. It's a little dorky, but I imagine people go "gee that's neat" more than they go "what a dork".
Let's just hope they don't find out that the richest source of light sweet crude is human fetuses, or we're gonna see a lot of conservatives' heads explode.
I usually feel pretty nervous when I go through the security lines because I have no idea what to expect from the TSA. I don't know what they're going to do or if I'm doing everything right. It doesn't help at all when you read other travelers' horror stories about the TSA.
I don't usually feel nervous. I mostly walk through with a blank expression wondering whether I should just keep mooing in my head or do it out loud.
Worst case scenario, you can flip *your* business card to her as you say omygoshI'mlateformyinterviewcallme! Most women won't, but the women who do call...
Well I ain't sayin' she's a gold digger, but she ain't goin' with no broke...
...all the formulas of physics (which, coincidentally, are correct enough to land a robot on Mars and propel a satellite out past the Solar System) are wrong?!?!?
Hi! That's engineering; don't put us in the same boat as the string theory wankers. Thanks!
On a more serious note, the key point in your statement is "correct enough". The equations used for that kind of stuff is wrong, we know it's an approximation, but the error is small and we can account for it. That's before you try and linearize!
As for the GP, he's right. As the saying goes a physicist will approximate a horse as a sphere. He could have been far further than 2nd semester physics and still reached the same conclusion. He just missed that while a horse isn't a sphere, if you squint real hard, you can get some useful insights out of a round horse.
but zombie movies are usually more of the "turn your brain off and enjoy the film" genre.
Have you ever seen a Godzilla movie?! They don't get much more "turn your brain off".
I haven't read the article (this is/.), but I think point holds even if Romero's focus is on commercialism. It's a monster-movie barometer of what we as a society fear.
It may be just me, but I'd be more impressed when students would find answers to any questions they may have on their own. After all, that's what the library, and these days even more so the Internet, are there for...
Well you're already paying $collegetuition basically so you can ask the prof questions, and a prof is slightly more interactive than the library. Well at least some prof.s.
OK, so I need to remind everyone that males have more accidents than females? Greater injury rates? More traffic violation fines? Higher drink driving rates? (Even after controlling for greater time on the roads).
No, I probably don't because the fact that men are (on average) worse drivers than females on pretty much every measure is well known. Judging by the sexism of a lot of these posts (above and below), this really pisses some people off.
Men drive dangerously. Probably Y/testosterone.
Women just can't drive.
How is this modern warfare? Happened in Vietnam, happened in WW2, WW1, and I'm betting it gets worse the further back you go.
The modern addition is that we don't want to kill the civilians vs the ancient mode of gleefully raping and pillaging them. Or compared to the transition period in which it was acceptable collateral damage.
I give it......Thursday (tops) before someone is memorialized as a prank.
Well when I first read about it, I immediately thought about which of my friends had a sufficiently generic name that I could find an obituary for him. If I wasn't at work, it'd probably be done by now, so I'd say Thurs is pretty generous.
Says who? The environment is not king of everything, people. Our laws are still superior to what insulated people in the city say animals want. You may think that the environment is top priority, but it's not, really. I'd venture to say that most people who go around all day thinking about the whales or the algea or whatever wacko cause of the week are people who already have their needs and personal whims catered to.
I honestly think these people would think differently if they moved to the rural areas of America (or whatever country), and had to earn a living by their own sweat. In truth, farmers are pretty conservative people, politically or environmentally. The things the enviroworshippers hate are actually in their own beloved cities.
Seriously, guy? It's called The tragedy of the commons. I refer you to Haiti as a case study. "Country Folk" can be just as guilty as anybody else.
Watch TG review of any american car, with a few exceptions (such as the ford transit van) we think they suck, and it's not just anti-Americanism we really do think you guys make crap cars.
Uh you know that JC owns a FORD GT40, right? Also, if I remember correctly, the F-150 review was of a Lightning which everyone over here thinks is ridiculous, and most of the complaints involved it's size being impractical for the UK. Duh! The road system and fuel prices are dramatically different and cars that work one place don't work in another. I mean I'd be a little bonkers to drive some of the tiny cars that are popular in Europe on an interstate just like you wouldn't try and drive a F-150 through a hamelet...
Why should an employer have to change their job description to match whatever arbitrary limits an employee decides their morals have put on their work? A pharmacist refusing, for any personal reason, to fill a legitimate subscription provided by a doctor is a bad pharmacist and should go find a career that doesn't conflict with their morals.
A program refusing, for any personal reason, to fill a legitimate coding project for the baby kill subroutine on a Predator drone provided by a client is a bad programmer and should go find a career that doesn't conflict with their morals.
Soooo if you can do 99.9% of the job just fine, but one part *that can be passed on to someone else* bothers you, you should change careers?
It's not like a stripper not taking her clothes off, it's more like a IT guy not installing a new harddrive in the peeping tom pedo's computer. Or the mechanic who doesn't want to install upgrades springs in the hitman's getaway car.
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I only chose to not vote on a few items, and Office of President was one of them. I didn't not vote at all.
We need a "none of the above" vote. If it wins, everybody has to go back to the drawing board and field new candidates. I think it could decrease the voting for the lesser of two evils approach, and it could increase voter turnout. I've become pretty apathetic since I don't want to vote dem or rep and voting third party is pretty much throwing your vote away (I do it anyway but I don't kid myself), but I would get out to vote against both candidates. You could even see a whole swath of the population campaigning for "none of the above" because they didn't like the dem they had but wouldn't vote rep.
Have you ever considered that they're doing you a favor? People who get family domain names based on their own name are usually the worst combination of dorky and egotistical. Do yourself a favor and register something creative instead.
How so? firstname@lastname.com is a great email address. If people know who you are, it's easy to remember. It's more professional and less redicoulous than hotchix1970@hotmail.com. It's a little dorky, but I imagine people go "gee that's neat" more than they go "what a dork".
AND I'M F!@#IN' AWESOME!!!!!
Let's just hope they don't find out that the richest source of light sweet crude is human fetuses, or we're gonna see a lot of conservatives' heads explode.
mmmmm Baby oil. Makes my skin so soft.
I usually feel pretty nervous when I go through the security lines because I have no idea what to expect from the TSA. I don't know what they're going to do or if I'm doing everything right. It doesn't help at all when you read other travelers' horror stories about the TSA.
I don't usually feel nervous. I mostly walk through with a blank expression wondering whether I should just keep mooing in my head or do it out loud.
That figure is meaningless without some idea of your pre-tax income. For all I know that may only be half your weekly income.
If you looked at the gp post, I would say his pre-tax income was nearly $75k. Ya know something about a third of his income blah blah blah...
Worst case scenario, you can flip *your* business card to her as you say omygoshI'mlateformyinterviewcallme! Most women won't, but the women who do call...
Well I ain't sayin' she's a gold digger, but she ain't goin' with no broke...
While I prefer my coffee like I like my women... cold, and bitter.
I prefer my coffee like I like my women...with my dick in it!
...all the formulas of physics (which, coincidentally, are correct enough to land a robot on Mars and propel a satellite out past the Solar System) are wrong?!?!?
Hi! That's engineering; don't put us in the same boat as the string theory wankers. Thanks!
On a more serious note, the key point in your statement is "correct enough". The equations used for that kind of stuff is wrong, we know it's an approximation, but the error is small and we can account for it. That's before you try and linearize!
As for the GP, he's right. As the saying goes a physicist will approximate a horse as a sphere. He could have been far further than 2nd semester physics and still reached the same conclusion. He just missed that while a horse isn't a sphere, if you squint real hard, you can get some useful insights out of a round horse.
...Just think about the tones we use when talking. They can really change the meaning of what someone's saying. You can't transmit that on a text.
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Soooo really what you're saying is Apple takes stuff other people have already released/made, makes ui tweaks, then makes it "cool"
but zombie movies are usually more of the "turn your brain off and enjoy the film" genre.
Have you ever seen a Godzilla movie?! They don't get much more "turn your brain off".
/.), but I think point holds even if Romero's focus is on commercialism. It's a monster-movie barometer of what we as a society fear.
I haven't read the article (this is
It may be just me, but I'd be more impressed when students would find answers to any questions they may have on their own. After all, that's what the library, and these days even more so the Internet, are there for...
Well you're already paying $collegetuition basically so you can ask the prof questions, and a prof is slightly more interactive than the library. Well at least some prof.s.
OK, so I need to remind everyone that males have more accidents than females? Greater injury rates? More traffic violation fines? Higher drink driving rates? (Even after controlling for greater time on the roads).
No, I probably don't because the fact that men are (on average) worse drivers than females on pretty much every measure is well known. Judging by the sexism of a lot of these posts (above and below), this really pisses some people off.
Men drive dangerously. Probably Y/testosterone. Women just can't drive.
How is this modern warfare? Happened in Vietnam, happened in WW2, WW1, and I'm betting it gets worse the further back you go.
The modern addition is that we don't want to kill the civilians vs the ancient mode of gleefully raping and pillaging them. Or compared to the transition period in which it was acceptable collateral damage.
shooting cartoon people in TF2 doesn't make me want to shoot cartoon people IRL,
I dunno. I always struggle with not whipping out my butterfly knife every time I see a fat guy eating a sandwich...
Difference? I don't know, I've been ducking trial at the Hague ever since I sacked Carthage in Rome: Total War
That's why you exterminate the populace! Nobody to complain to the Hague, nobody starting unrest, nobody talking funny languages.
It also stops outsourcing, as if the CEO wants to make megabucks, he has to pay those workers as much as he would US workers.
Nah the guys in %foreigncountry would be employee's of a separate contracted company, so wouldn't effect the CxO's salary at all...
I give it......Thursday (tops) before someone is memorialized as a prank.
Well when I first read about it, I immediately thought about which of my friends had a sufficiently generic name that I could find an obituary for him. If I wasn't at work, it'd probably be done by now, so I'd say Thurs is pretty generous.
"I call bs...whenever an attractive woman walks by smelling like she just stepped out of the shower I have only immoral thoughts."
Funny - when an attractive woman walks by who smells like she just came from getting laid, my thoughts are...more immoral.
Let's be honest, when an attractive woman walks by smelling like anything I have immoral thoughts, and I doubt I'm the only one...
Says who? The environment is not king of everything, people. Our laws are still superior to what insulated people in the city say animals want. You may think that the environment is top priority, but it's not, really. I'd venture to say that most people who go around all day thinking about the whales or the algea or whatever wacko cause of the week are people who already have their needs and personal whims catered to.
I honestly think these people would think differently if they moved to the rural areas of America (or whatever country), and had to earn a living by their own sweat. In truth, farmers are pretty conservative people, politically or environmentally. The things the enviroworshippers hate are actually in their own beloved cities.
Seriously, guy? It's called The tragedy of the commons. I refer you to Haiti as a case study. "Country Folk" can be just as guilty as anybody else.
Watch TG review of any american car, with a few exceptions (such as the ford transit van) we think they suck, and it's not just anti-Americanism we really do think you guys make crap cars.
Uh you know that JC owns a FORD GT40, right? Also, if I remember correctly, the F-150 review was of a Lightning which everyone over here thinks is ridiculous, and most of the complaints involved it's size being impractical for the UK. Duh! The road system and fuel prices are dramatically different and cars that work one place don't work in another. I mean I'd be a little bonkers to drive some of the tiny cars that are popular in Europe on an interstate just like you wouldn't try and drive a F-150 through a hamelet...
It's stone and not stones (although as an 'outsider' I'll forgive you). It's 14 lbs to a stone.
Sooo just a little under half a slug on earth? Ok that makes sense.
Why should an employer have to change their job description to match whatever arbitrary limits an employee decides their morals have put on their work? A pharmacist refusing, for any personal reason, to fill a legitimate subscription provided by a doctor is a bad pharmacist and should go find a career that doesn't conflict with their morals.
A program refusing, for any personal reason, to fill a legitimate coding project for the baby kill subroutine on a Predator drone provided by a client is a bad programmer and should go find a career that doesn't conflict with their morals.
Soooo if you can do 99.9% of the job just fine, but one part *that can be passed on to someone else* bothers you, you should change careers?
It's not like a stripper not taking her clothes off, it's more like a IT guy not installing a new harddrive in the peeping tom pedo's computer. Or the mechanic who doesn't want to install upgrades springs in the hitman's getaway car.
Cyborg pirate monkeys. Now look what you have done! Our society will be overtaken by them.
No we'll be ok because when winter comes they'll all freeze.
What makes you so special that you are less easily creeped out than the rest of the population? LOL
He's probably Ultra-Creeped. The "*I*" thing is one of the symptoms, but many times victims don't realize they're Ultra-Creeped until it's too late.