Close, but not quite accurate. Hops are a very mild antiseptic, but not enough to really be effective.
What made beer important in the olden days is that you had to boil the water to make good beer, which killed off any baddies in the local water.
Once the water was clean, the yeast has a "clean playground" to propogate in vast field of sugar with no competition from other lil' nasties.
Once the yeast has finished its job and turned sugar in the the better things in life (alcohol), the alcohol itself takes over acting as a preservative.
So you really have two reasons why beer is "purified water": boiling it cleans it, alcohol keeps it clean.
Stronger beers are possible, and in some degree easier to make. It is vastly more difficult to produce a clean crisp Bud clone than say a strong pale ale. (The lightness and lack of flavor makes any techincal errors exceedingly appararent.)
For stronger beers, the only trick is letting them age properly. A barelywine that's less than a year old is usually harsh. Let it sit in the basement for a year or two, and magic happens. Some goes for cider, which is ridiculously easy to make.
Unfortunately, "viral" is the quickest way to describe to someone how the GPL works. If your code touches the Free code, it becomes Free too. And this is an important point, beacuse at first, I didn't know the GPL had this property (I had assumed it was more like LGPL).
Anyway, if you're into spinning something and trying to stamp out jargon for your own frustration, maybe something like transitive might suit you better. Although Joe Sixpack might think that means transvestite, in which case you'd not be any better off.
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Or more likely:
click > I like you like a brother.
click > If you have to ask, you can't get it.
click > You pervert! I'm calling the cops!
click > [no response]
It's not the government screwing you over, it's your fellow criminal who is interested in identity theft.
If your single ID is used for everything from credit card applications, bank statements, medical records, then a person who finds your ID can access all of them.
Think it's a joke? A good friend of mine's mailbox was broken into many times, when he lived in an apartment, where they stole credit card pre-approved applications and redirected them to a different address. If they had succeeded, you bet they would have rang up tons of charges under his name, ruining his credit. Identity theft can completely ruin your life. Just because you've never heard of anyone abusing an ID number doesn't mean it has happened.
The problem is people give them out way too easily. The next time some droid asks you for your SSN to fill out their form for whatever, say "No".
By the way, your bank does need your SSN because it needs to send tax information to the Feds. But your doctor, dentist, or insurance company certainly do not.
Even better: run it through ps2pdf.com and don't bother installing GhostScript.
For superior quality, download Adobe's free Generic Postscript driver from their website. Also, be sure to set the font embedding to "always" so that TTF files don't get turned into ugly bitmaps.
It been a few years, and I still think this is the funniest story I've ever read. To this day, I cannot read this, or even think about it, without laughing out loud in a really embarrassing way.
Oh my lord, yes. The haunted cathedral was probably the scariest thing I've ever seen in any form of entertainment, be it game, movie, book. I think of that and still shudder.
The worst part was crossing right under the noses of those ghastly undead knights, on a two-foot wide sliver of shadow. I tapped the arrow key one click at a time in order to cross that. Cause you know, once they see you, you're dead meat.
Whenever I hear the word "phallic" attached to some real-world useful object (unlike a piece of art, for instance), like rocketship or joystick or car, and the user is using in the "stupid boys and their toys sense", I always wonder to myself: how well would a vagina-shaped rocketship or car or joystick work?
I agree with you, but still you're so trusting. If someone offered me a $0.01 beer, I'd suspect:
1) The beer is flat, because for $0.01 they can't afford to keep it pressurized under CO2, right?
2) The beer is warm, because for $0.01 they can't afford to refrigerate it, right?
3) The beer is spoiled and they "just want to get rid of it".
4) They pissed in the beer, or put someother nasty substance in the beer and are waiting to watch me drink it.
5) They have an unnatural fetish for otherwise useless pennies. The cost of selling something for $0.01 outweighs the cost of doing the damn transaction in the first place.
Not really. A basic setup for dispensing beer at home runs about $200. Beer is even simpler to serve than soda: there's no on-the-fly mixing. Add a few extra bucks if you want the special sparkler head that makes Guinness look so nice.
If you don't intend to brew your beer, it's even less, because you don't have to buy the kegs to put the beer in the first place.
So yes, that means all you guys out there, it is okay for you to go get that CO2 system to server beer on tap. Really, it's cheap, and it impresses the party guests.
You don't have to own the standard to adhere to it. All you need is a good C or C++ book that doesn't make the aformentioned mistakes. The several-hundred dollar standard isn't meant for you, it's meant for people like me who write compilers, linkers, and debuggers.
Further, it's not expected that anyone writes apps in "plain C or C++" by which I assume you mean not using any vendor extensions. But if you know what parts are extensions and what parts are standardized and keeping them clearly separated in different modules, you will have a much easier time porting your app to different OSs or platforms.
You don't have any inalienable rights either. All rights are provided as a matter of law.
Man, that's the scariest thing I've read in a long time, and is completely opposite to the principles the USA was founded on.
An inalienable right, like the right to your life, is something the state cannot grant, because if the state can grant it, it can just as easily deny. Now, these protections are enforced by law, but the law does not give you those rights in the first place.
Right on. I've been using TaxCut for the last few years, but switched to TaxAct this year. It's ridiculously cheap: you can download it for free and print your returns, or pay $9 and get the "deluxe" version which will do one free E-file. What else could you want? $9, and it comes with the guarantee.
TaxCut used to be a good deal, costing about $15 with one free e-file, but they stopped that, effectively doubling the price.
I downloaded the free version, did most of my taxes with it, realized how good it was, and then bought it at once. Everyone, do yourself a favor and get the free copy now!
Tell me about it. I had the misfortune of having Adobe Acrobat (the whole thing, not just the reader) actually installed on my computer once. Of course, when you clicked on a PDF in a web browser, it would take 20 seconds to load up the PDF editor itself instead of the viewer.
Naturally, all attempts to fix this in file associations failed. Bye bye Acrobat.
Uh, she said "I have longed for musicals such as 'Sound of Music', 'Singing In The Rain', and 'West Side Story'". That "such as" part sort of discounts MR.
Moulin Rouge appears a musical on the surface... but it's more like someone took a bunch of music videos, threw in a completely unrelated movie, some amphetamines and LSD, whizzed them around in a blender, stitched them back together, then replayed it at 175% back of normal speed. In musicals, the songs are supposed to advance the plot, and are not just a "fun break from all the talking".
Imagine the other uses for this. They could come up with a similar additive to alcoholic drinks. It would fool your brain into thinking that people of the opposite sex are more attractive than they really are.
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What made beer important in the olden days is that you had to boil the water to make good beer, which killed off any baddies in the local water.
Once the water was clean, the yeast has a "clean playground" to propogate in vast field of sugar with no competition from other lil' nasties.
Once the yeast has finished its job and turned sugar in the the better things in life (alcohol), the alcohol itself takes over acting as a preservative.
So you really have two reasons why beer is "purified water": boiling it cleans it, alcohol keeps it clean.
For stronger beers, the only trick is letting them age properly. A barelywine that's less than a year old is usually harsh. Let it sit in the basement for a year or two, and magic happens. Some goes for cider, which is ridiculously easy to make.
Brewing takes patiences, more than anything else.
Oh great. Now you've put this terrible image in my head; except it's Clippy knocking on the screen, clank clank clank, saying these exact words.
Anyway, if you're into spinning something and trying to stamp out jargon for your own frustration, maybe something like transitive might suit you better. Although Joe Sixpack might think that means transvestite, in which case you'd not be any better off.
click > I like you like a brother.
click > If you have to ask, you can't get it.
click > You pervert! I'm calling the cops!
click > [no response]
Great, rejection by proxy.
It's not the government screwing you over, it's your fellow criminal who is interested in identity theft.
If your single ID is used for everything from credit card applications, bank statements, medical records, then a person who finds your ID can access all of them.
Think it's a joke? A good friend of mine's mailbox was broken into many times, when he lived in an apartment, where they stole credit card pre-approved applications and redirected them to a different address. If they had succeeded, you bet they would have rang up tons of charges under his name, ruining his credit. Identity theft can completely ruin your life. Just because you've never heard of anyone abusing an ID number doesn't mean it has happened.
By the way, your bank does need your SSN because it needs to send tax information to the Feds. But your doctor, dentist, or insurance company certainly do not.
For superior quality, download Adobe's free Generic Postscript driver from their website. Also, be sure to set the font embedding to "always" so that TTF files don't get turned into ugly bitmaps.
Or until someone invents a BT-to-WiFi gateway that can be hidden somewhere...
It been a few years, and I still think this is the funniest story I've ever read. To this day, I cannot read this, or even think about it, without laughing out loud in a really embarrassing way.
The worst part was crossing right under the noses of those ghastly undead knights, on a two-foot wide sliver of shadow. I tapped the arrow key one click at a time in order to cross that. Cause you know, once they see you, you're dead meat.
Whenever I hear the word "phallic" attached to some real-world useful object (unlike a piece of art, for instance), like rocketship or joystick or car, and the user is using in the "stupid boys and their toys sense", I always wonder to myself: how well would a vagina-shaped rocketship or car or joystick work?
1) The beer is flat, because for $0.01 they can't afford to keep it pressurized under CO2, right?
2) The beer is warm, because for $0.01 they can't afford to refrigerate it, right?
3) The beer is spoiled and they "just want to get rid of it".
4) They pissed in the beer, or put someother nasty substance in the beer and are waiting to watch me drink it.
5) They have an unnatural fetish for otherwise useless pennies. The cost of selling something for $0.01 outweighs the cost of doing the damn transaction in the first place.
1200 bps modem 1980s /. effect.
300 bps modem, possibly acoustic-coupling, 1980s
110 bps modem acoustic-coupling 1970s, or any site exposed to the
If you don't intend to brew your beer, it's even less, because you don't have to buy the kegs to put the beer in the first place.
So yes, that means all you guys out there, it is okay for you to go get that CO2 system to server beer on tap. Really, it's cheap, and it impresses the party guests.
Further, it's not expected that anyone writes apps in "plain C or C++" by which I assume you mean not using any vendor extensions. But if you know what parts are extensions and what parts are standardized and keeping them clearly separated in different modules, you will have a much easier time porting your app to different OSs or platforms.
Man, that's the scariest thing I've read in a long time, and is completely opposite to the principles the USA was founded on.
An inalienable right, like the right to your life, is something the state cannot grant, because if the state can grant it, it can just as easily deny. Now, these protections are enforced by law, but the law does not give you those rights in the first place.
Such a wild conjecture probably has more validity than most Dvorak articles anyway.
Uh, this is a gub'mint job we're talking about.
Why, hd( of course. See "man ascii".
TaxCut used to be a good deal, costing about $15 with one free e-file, but they stopped that, effectively doubling the price.
I downloaded the free version, did most of my taxes with it, realized how good it was, and then bought it at once. Everyone, do yourself a favor and get the free copy now!
Naturally, all attempts to fix this in file associations failed. Bye bye Acrobat.
Moulin Rouge appears a musical on the surface... but it's more like someone took a bunch of music videos, threw in a completely unrelated movie, some amphetamines and LSD, whizzed them around in a blender, stitched them back together, then replayed it at 175% back of normal speed. In musicals, the songs are supposed to advance the plot, and are not just a "fun break from all the talking".
Still a fun movie, tho.
Oh wait...
Don't call it <long winded mumblefrotz>, call it "The Technology Formerly Known as Palladium".