Another simple one to trace was the stream of invitations to drug and alcohol rehab centers that I’d been getting ever since I’d consulted an online calendar of Los Angeles–area Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Since membership in AA is supposed to be confidential, these emails irked me.
Of course the author just told the readership of The Atlantic... and by extension many others.
On a serious note, I wonder what online calendar it was? Anyway, the AA meetings are "secret." Not so much searches.
Wait. I can't tell: was GP supposed to be liberal or libertarian.
"You shouldn't have a right to own handguns." - that is not a libertarian statement, it's a "liberal" one (or progressive if you want to quibble about the modern, U.S. usage of "liberal" versus the "classic liberal").
Why should they force me to subsidize Oprah's channel when I've no interest in watching it?
Because the people who watch OWN are, in turn, subsidizing the fixed costs of the channels YOU want to watch.
That's right. It's just a hunch, but I bet that people who want ala carte the most have narrower interests, and thus *that* programming needs subsidies more than OWN ( for example).
Started this comment intending to make an "in Soviet Russia" joke (OWN subsidizes you) but now I can't go through with it.
Thanks, I was going to say it if no one else did.:)
In the summary, the phrase " toilet paper, timber, farmland expansion, and other human needs" conflates all of these things. On balance, the paper producers could be actually increasing the number of trees, but be totally offset by clear cutting, etc.
Also, was anyone else actually impressed that we still had half the trees? I kinda am...
There are a bunch of phenomenae that look like particles, but also look like wavelike perturbations of a field.
If we could just settle on calling them wavicles, people would be less likely to get hung up because of their preconceived notions of waves and particles. They're both and neither.
These things are subjected to so many tests, maybe we should call them "testicles."
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Another simple one to trace was the stream of invitations to drug and alcohol rehab centers that I’d been getting ever since I’d consulted an online calendar of Los Angeles–area Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Since membership in AA is supposed to be confidential, these emails irked me.
Of course the author just told the readership of The Atlantic... and by extension many others.
On a serious note, I wonder what online calendar it was? Anyway, the AA meetings are "secret." Not so much searches.
Wait. I can't tell: was GP supposed to be liberal or libertarian.
"You shouldn't have a right to own handguns." - that is not a libertarian statement, it's a "liberal" one (or progressive if you want to quibble about the modern, U.S. usage of "liberal" versus the "classic liberal").
Is there a link that I should know about? :)
I have to admit I would like to see Less SASS on websites...
And less backtalk, too!
This Dilbert cartoon (from the early 90s!) is what immediately came to mind.
I have to consult the exchange rates to see how the Canadian neutrino is faring against the American neutrino.
Neutrinos are not stand-up guys.
Why should they force me to subsidize Oprah's channel when I've no interest in watching it?
Because the people who watch OWN are, in turn, subsidizing the fixed costs of the channels YOU want to watch.
That's right. It's just a hunch, but I bet that people who want ala carte the most have narrower interests, and thus *that* programming needs subsidies more than OWN ( for example).
Started this comment intending to make an "in Soviet Russia" joke (OWN subsidizes you) but now I can't go through with it.
Great comment, I wish I had mod points for you. But all I have is "atta boy"s.
Did you really use Velcro or just some cheap hook and look fastener?
<hangs head sheepishly> ... cheap hook and fastener...
There's nothing for us out there, unless you are unusually attracted to radiation-blasted vacuum.
Oh yeah, very attracted.
I'm trying to get the gear together to blast it with something else, do my part for panspermia if you catch my drift (or maybe Eris will).
< * waves to Elon * >
Thanks, I was going to say it if no one else did. :)
In the summary, the phrase " toilet paper, timber, farmland expansion, and other human needs" conflates all of these things. On balance, the paper producers could be actually increasing the number of trees, but be totally offset by clear cutting, etc.
Also, was anyone else actually impressed that we still had half the trees? I kinda am...
I wish they would bring back the API to access their catalog data.
What an ugly sentiment.
Or... http://i.imgur.com/pNKHnk1.png.
There are a bunch of phenomenae that look like particles, but also look like wavelike perturbations of a field.
If we could just settle on calling them wavicles, people would be less likely to get hung up because of their preconceived notions of waves and particles. They're both and neither.
These things are subjected to so many tests, maybe we should call them "testicles."
Laser-killing drone, obviously.
"WE Scientists Successfully 'Switch Off' Cancer Cells" ... C'mon, Slashdot editors!
The original title was This Professor Suggests Teaching Ignorance : What Happens Next... I Can't Even.
I don't want to live in a world where I can't shoot down drones flying over my property.
Now if they can just extend this benefit to their subscribers, there's your real story.
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Well duh, if it's called the "MH370 Fragment", and MH370 is missing, it's obvious--then this is not news.
Good thing it was labeled.
...laying that track down.
It's eat or be eaten... Just the kind of world we live in now!