There is (or at least, there should be) a five year limit to how long after a movie comes out it's required to preface spoilers with a warning. That's enough time for the movie to go from theaters to crappy network stations.
Books, on the other hand, shouldn't have that limit. It's hard to go through books as quickly as movies.
Harry killed Gandalf! My God, it's full of stars. The white whale gets away, but gets caught again for Free Moby 2 through 17. The yerks take over the world and have love children with the g'ould. The Pope is actually an alien, and Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are the Illuminati.
That said it was a good book, and you should read it anyway.
I seem to remember one Asian country having an ungodly female-to-male ratio because of wars. I can't remember which one though... Anyone got a clue?
Well China has a very low female to male ratio because of the one child policy combined with the cultural value of sons. Not quite what you were going for, but it's the only thing I've heard of.
That's how you're supposed to set speed limits. (80th percentile was what I'd heard) When the man realized just how much money they could make by setting the speed limit 10 mph lower than "the natural speed", well we got the stupid limits that we have now.
I'll pay for roads. The DOT budget is pretty insignificant really...
I'll pay for national defense. I'd even pay wars of aggression if we actually got a return on investment.
Hell, I'd even pay for public ed if you could fix the current system.
I'm not too keen on paying the ~40% of the total budget used to pay old people, so they can spend more time on vacation.
I think that people who read books, a small market to be sure, is made up mostly of people who go to a library to find out if they like something and, if the book is good enough, then go to Amazon or Borders or B&N and buy the book. I know that's what I do, and what a lot of other people do.
Huh? DOES NOT COMPUTE! The whole point of libraries is that you find something you like, you check it out, read it and take it back. Why would you read half of it listening to middle school kids fight over a computer, put it back, then buy it?
Absolutely. What he did would not have been illegal from home. You can stand in front of a mirror and make your junk move in circles all day long. Do it on your front porch and you get busted for public indecency.
No it appears that the issue was that he did commit a crime. He solicited the dominatrix which would still be a misdemeanor even from home. They're claiming that they're going above and beyond because of the AFF stuff.
It's the answer to the question "hey man can I just check my mail" at a party when you don't really want everyone invading your bedroom to use your personal computer.
Lamest...
party...
Evar!!!111
And I've been partying with friends who got drunk and decided to fix the hostess's computer...
it's the Internet that has encouraged the practice of supporting statements like that, where as in real life not only is this never done, most people never even think anything problematic about it.
The music industry is littered with high-profile examples of people who ended up with permanently damaged psyches; Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd)...
Well at least with Syd, I think it was decided it was more a case of he was schizo or at least borderline and the acid just exacerbated a preexisting condition.
Training UAV pilots takes much less time and is much less expensive. I've read about high school drop-outs that picked up their ged and are now top notch uav pilots for the army.
There's a whole generation that has been raised training to fly UAV's! I mean I'm kinda surprised that the USAF hasn't released an America's Army type game that's a thinly disguised UAV sim.
ou mention your local band, but I bet they are only playing in your local bar because they are hoping that they will some day be able to get a bigger audience and more money, and this, until a better alternative is found, still involves copyright.
Well they get a bigger audience and play bigger shows. We currently lack the ability to really reproduce the experience of being at a concert with out said band. Now once we get VR/holodeck then the bands are probably straight out of luck, but I am of the opinion that society will collapse shortly after the invention of the holodeck/matrix. You'd never get a guy out of "Buxom Women Who Want To Please You" program, and humanity would die off.
Yeah and when you increase CO2 levels you increase plant levels and when you do that the O2 levels go up as well, and when you do that arthropods can grow larger, do you really want mosquitoes the size of ducks????
Well bugs are full of protein, so it might help put off the whole more people that foodstuffs problem. Also, it would be totally bad ass to ride a cockroach like a horse.
I say let them die in jail, make them spend the rest of there lives rotting away.
Are you suggesting that as something more or less cruel than 15 min or choking? My thoughts have always been if you're going to lock me up and throw away the key, save me the time and youself the money and pop a cap in me.
Exactly how do they "anonymously capture" data and determine an average household income?
If your ip resolves to Detroit, you fall in the lower-income group. If your ip resolves to Georgetown or Alexandria (wealthy DC suburbs), then you fall in the high-income group.
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There is (or at least, there should be) a five year limit to how long after a movie comes out it's required to preface spoilers with a warning. That's enough time for the movie to go from theaters to crappy network stations.
Books, on the other hand, shouldn't have that limit. It's hard to go through books as quickly as movies.
Harry killed Gandalf! My God, it's full of stars. The white whale gets away, but gets caught again for Free Moby 2 through 17. The yerks take over the world and have love children with the g'ould. The Pope is actually an alien, and Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are the Illuminati.
That said it was a good book, and you should read it anyway.
I seem to remember one Asian country having an ungodly female-to-male ratio because of wars. I can't remember which one though... Anyone got a clue?
Well China has a very low female to male ratio because of the one child policy combined with the cultural value of sons. Not quite what you were going for, but it's the only thing I've heard of.
sunlight hell. just give me a decent strainer and a fifth of vodka.
Forget the strainer and the urine. Just give me the fifth of vodka.
That's how you're supposed to set speed limits. (80th percentile was what I'd heard) When the man realized just how much money they could make by setting the speed limit 10 mph lower than "the natural speed", well we got the stupid limits that we have now.
Get off my roads.
I'll pay for roads. The DOT budget is pretty insignificant really...
I'll pay for national defense. I'd even pay wars of aggression if we actually got a return on investment.
Hell, I'd even pay for public ed if you could fix the current system.
I'm not too keen on paying the ~40% of the total budget used to pay old people, so they can spend more time on vacation.
I think that people who read books, a small market to be sure, is made up mostly of people who go to a library to find out if they like something and, if the book is good enough, then go to Amazon or Borders or B&N and buy the book. I know that's what I do, and what a lot of other people do.
Huh? DOES NOT COMPUTE! The whole point of libraries is that you find something you like, you check it out, read it and take it back. Why would you read half of it listening to middle school kids fight over a computer, put it back, then buy it?
Absolutely. What he did would not have been illegal from home. You can stand in front of a mirror and make your junk move in circles all day long. Do it on your front porch and you get busted for public indecency.
No it appears that the issue was that he did commit a crime. He solicited the dominatrix which would still be a misdemeanor even from home. They're claiming that they're going above and beyond because of the AFF stuff.
Also they get a lot of respect from most people below 18 and virtually all people above 18...
You're joking right? Students give teachers ~0 respect, and as for the adults the saying goes "If you can, do; if you can't, teach"
It's the answer to the question "hey man can I just check my mail" at a party when you don't really want everyone invading your bedroom to use your personal computer.
Lamest...
party...
Evar!!!111
And I've been partying with friends who got drunk and decided to fix the hostess's computer...
Uh you forgot Alaska,USA, which is significantly bigger than Texas,USA. (and also Canada,USA which is even bigger)
And when accidental pregnancies occur, the man must defer to the woman's beliefs on whether abortion is wrong.
Or his own belief in his ability to make that trip off the bridge look like an accident. ;)
Do we REALLY need XKCD fanboy-ism over here on slashdot? It's bad enough on digg...
On soviet slashdot, XKCD fanboys you!
it's the Internet that has encouraged the practice of supporting statements like that, where as in real life not only is this never done, most people never even think anything problematic about it.
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The music industry is littered with high-profile examples of people who ended up with permanently damaged psyches; Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd)...
Well at least with Syd, I think it was decided it was more a case of he was schizo or at least borderline and the acid just exacerbated a preexisting condition.
and at any rate allowing billions to die isn't a valid solution by any reasonable moral standard.
The strong/adapted survive the weak/susceptible die. What other moral standard is there?
Training UAV pilots takes much less time and is much less expensive. I've read about high school drop-outs that picked up their ged and are now top notch uav pilots for the army.
There's a whole generation that has been raised training to fly UAV's! I mean I'm kinda surprised that the USAF hasn't released an America's Army type game that's a thinly disguised UAV sim.
ou mention your local band, but I bet they are only playing in your local bar because they are hoping that they will some day be able to get a bigger audience and more money, and this, until a better alternative is found, still involves copyright.
Well they get a bigger audience and play bigger shows. We currently lack the ability to really reproduce the experience of being at a concert with out said band. Now once we get VR/holodeck then the bands are probably straight out of luck, but I am of the opinion that society will collapse shortly after the invention of the holodeck/matrix. You'd never get a guy out of "Buxom Women Who Want To Please You" program, and humanity would die off.
But what would I know? I...took two years of journalism classes.
Absolutely nothing???
Mmmmm.... pony sandwich.... Mmmmmm
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Yeah and when you increase CO2 levels you increase plant levels and when you do that the O2 levels go up as well, and when you do that arthropods can grow larger, do you really want mosquitoes the size of ducks????
Well bugs are full of protein, so it might help put off the whole more people that foodstuffs problem. Also, it would be totally bad ass to ride a cockroach like a horse.
I say let them die in jail, make them spend the rest of there lives rotting away.
Are you suggesting that as something more or less cruel than 15 min or choking? My thoughts have always been if you're going to lock me up and throw away the key, save me the time and youself the money and pop a cap in me.
We formulized it and called it marriage though.
Nah men formalized it and called it prostitution. Women started thinking about how to get more and put out less and that's how we got marriage.
Exactly how do they "anonymously capture" data and determine an average household income?
If your ip resolves to Detroit, you fall in the lower-income group. If your ip resolves to Georgetown or Alexandria (wealthy DC suburbs), then you fall in the high-income group.
A lab coat with a badge. Haven't you ever seen a movie?
Obviously not. We nuked them once, and they just came back with more tentacle porn.