Flying the model airplane is a skill in itself -- adjusting for wind, controls without feedback, etc. Practice in a sim can improve that skill. It doesn't improve his skill at flying a 747, but that wasn't the skill he was looking to improve. He basically played a simulation of a simulation, in order to get better at that one.
Similarly, I could imagine a hunting simulator (probably more complex than Deer Hunter 3000) teaching you to recognize and estimate distance/wind, and help you improve that part of your shooting-bullets-accurately skill, even if you still needed range time to practice with a real weapon in order to master breathing and muscle control.
I suspect that the people who survived suicide attempts did not plan it thoroughly enough. Someone who is sufficiently motivated to plan it (rather than "F it, I'll jump off this bridge") is, I expect, going to take pains to ensure that it is effective.
If it's publically known, though, there's no risk of blackmail. "We will tell people that you watch porn!" "Sorry, but everyone knew that already." It'd be like someone threatening to to tell my wife that I am a nerd.
For those seeing the [questionablecontent.net] annotation and wondering if the strip is worksafe, it is. That particular one is. (I'm pretty sure most of the ones in the archive would be also, but you might be careful all the same. This one's safe, though.)
If you'd rather not read the comic, one could always read Les Paul's wikipedia article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Paul ), but QC mentions some of his really notable accomplishments. A brief (and likely too-shallow) overview would be to say that he was a pioneer of the solid body guitar (the Gibson Les Paul closely followed the Fender Telecaster), and that he invented multitrack recording (along with also pioneering several other techniques). He laid the technological basis for nearly all of our recent music.
Even though I'm not a music nerd, I think the guy was pretty amazing.
His point was that if you feel impaired enough not to want to risk a field sobriety test, you are (almost by definition) not sober enough to drive. Whether or not there's a checkpoint in your way should have no impact on your choosing not to drive, whereas the GGP's post implied that the only reason he'd take a cab would be to avoid the checkpoint and that otherwise he would have, and has in the past, just driven home.
If I link someone to an offensive image (not that I would!), I'm not doing the transmitting. The person hosting it is. Does that mean that the person hosting the image would have to expect/know that someone would be offended?
In some jurisdictions, flashing your lights has been interpreted as protected First Amendment speech. I'm pretty sure that you could take that pretty far up the appeals chain if necessary, too.
I was told (but have not confirmed from anyone knowledgeable) that it was considered courteous to blink your lights at a trucker who is trying to pass you to tell them that they've safely gone past you, and can pull in front of you. I've done this on the very rare times that I've been driving at night and been passed by a semi, and he behaved as expected (cut in front of me).
If you could reset the password and log in, it would have been more polite (if perhaps less viscerally satisfying) to change the password to "IHeartBees", and then set the e-mail address to the sister's account? If you knew his real e-mail address, you could set it to that. You could also correspond on Facebook directly with him as a user and say, "Your sister set up the Facebook account wrong - here's how you fix it".
It's a different company each time, so even though I'll convince one I'm not the right guy, the next starts over with me again.
I wonder if any collection agencies re-form under a new company in order to be able to do this and get more people to take the "easy way" out of paying someone else's bill.
Explaining a fake Facebook account created to talk to a 16 year old to your wife sounds MUCH more challenging. Additionally, the kid is likely going to realize it's a fake account and ignore your pleas to drop your e-mail from their list.
With that level of information about someone, you ought to be able to contact the person and say, "hey so -- you gave your school the wrong mail address", right?
An automated bounce message that explained the issue ("It lookes like your friend Pat.Smith set his reply-to address as P.Smith. This is an automated message... but he didn't read what you sent") sent to every single person that e-mails you as a reply to something from him might work. I haven't a clue how I'd set something that complex up in my mail client, though.
Day of the Tentacle, also known as Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle,[1][2] is a 1993 graphic adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It is the sequel to the 1987 game Maniac Mansion. The game's plot follows Bernard Bernoulli and his friends Hoagie and Laverne as they attempt to stop the evil Purple Tentacle—a sentient, disembodied tentacle—from taking over the world. The player takes control of the three and solves puzzles while using time travel to explore different periods of history.
It's pretty safe, and has a very wacky sense of humor. I keep meaning to play it.
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Because no one's going to go watch The Monk. (I kid -- if made well, it'd likely be better and more lucrative than many blockbusters.)
For those who weren't paying attention to politics in the 90s, can you elaborate? (I am ashamed to admit that I've forgotten most everything about Newt.)
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He can't do that, if he breaks your trust by sending your money back, he may have to refund your purchase.
I was going to say he could use a Mechanical Turk for it, but your idea seems much more reasonable.
Flying the model airplane is a skill in itself -- adjusting for wind, controls without feedback, etc. Practice in a sim can improve that skill. It doesn't improve his skill at flying a 747, but that wasn't the skill he was looking to improve. He basically played a simulation of a simulation, in order to get better at that one.
Similarly, I could imagine a hunting simulator (probably more complex than Deer Hunter 3000) teaching you to recognize and estimate distance/wind, and help you improve that part of your shooting-bullets-accurately skill, even if you still needed range time to practice with a real weapon in order to master breathing and muscle control.
I suspect that the people who survived suicide attempts did not plan it thoroughly enough. Someone who is sufficiently motivated to plan it (rather than "F it, I'll jump off this bridge") is, I expect, going to take pains to ensure that it is effective.
What sort of public transit do you propose for people who are legally unable to drive, due to age (old or young), disease, or blindness?
I hope not, what if they can't handle the load?
If it's publically known, though, there's no risk of blackmail. "We will tell people that you watch porn!" "Sorry, but everyone knew that already." It'd be like someone threatening to to tell my wife that I am a nerd.
Well played! (literally and figuratively)
For those seeing the [questionablecontent.net] annotation and wondering if the strip is worksafe, it is. That particular one is. (I'm pretty sure most of the ones in the archive would be also, but you might be careful all the same. This one's safe, though.)
If you'd rather not read the comic, one could always read Les Paul's wikipedia article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Paul ), but QC mentions some of his really notable accomplishments. A brief (and likely too-shallow) overview would be to say that he was a pioneer of the solid body guitar (the Gibson Les Paul closely followed the Fender Telecaster), and that he invented multitrack recording (along with also pioneering several other techniques). He laid the technological basis for nearly all of our recent music.
Even though I'm not a music nerd, I think the guy was pretty amazing.
His point was that if you feel impaired enough not to want to risk a field sobriety test, you are (almost by definition) not sober enough to drive. Whether or not there's a checkpoint in your way should have no impact on your choosing not to drive, whereas the GGP's post implied that the only reason he'd take a cab would be to avoid the checkpoint and that otherwise he would have, and has in the past, just driven home.
No, I'm praying that the courts will. :)
Easily solved with a Batman figurine, and to a slight alteration of the name to a "scale model Batcopter". ;)
If I link someone to an offensive image (not that I would!), I'm not doing the transmitting. The person hosting it is. Does that mean that the person hosting the image would have to expect/know that someone would be offended?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1493749
In some jurisdictions, flashing your lights has been interpreted as protected First Amendment speech. I'm pretty sure that you could take that pretty far up the appeals chain if necessary, too.
I was told (but have not confirmed from anyone knowledgeable) that it was considered courteous to blink your lights at a trucker who is trying to pass you to tell them that they've safely gone past you, and can pull in front of you. I've done this on the very rare times that I've been driving at night and been passed by a semi, and he behaved as expected (cut in front of me).
And, if (when?) it all goes wrong, Jobs's consciousness will be stuck in a living shell of an iBook?
If you could reset the password and log in, it would have been more polite (if perhaps less viscerally satisfying) to change the password to "IHeartBees", and then set the e-mail address to the sister's account? If you knew his real e-mail address, you could set it to that. You could also correspond on Facebook directly with him as a user and say, "Your sister set up the Facebook account wrong - here's how you fix it".
It's often EASIER to be a jerk, but ... why?
It's a different company each time, so even though I'll convince one I'm not the right guy, the next starts over with me again.
I wonder if any collection agencies re-form under a new company in order to be able to do this and get more people to take the "easy way" out of paying someone else's bill.
Explaining a fake Facebook account created to talk to a 16 year old to your wife sounds MUCH more challenging. Additionally, the kid is likely going to realize it's a fake account and ignore your pleas to drop your e-mail from their list.
With that level of information about someone, you ought to be able to contact the person and say, "hey so -- you gave your school the wrong mail address", right?
An automated bounce message that explained the issue ("It lookes like your friend Pat.Smith set his reply-to address as P.Smith. This is an automated message ... but he didn't read what you sent") sent to every single person that e-mails you as a reply to something from him might work. I haven't a clue how I'd set something that complex up in my mail client, though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Tentacle
Day of the Tentacle, also known as Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle,[1][2] is a 1993 graphic adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It is the sequel to the 1987 game Maniac Mansion. The game's plot follows Bernard Bernoulli and his friends Hoagie and Laverne as they attempt to stop the evil Purple Tentacle—a sentient, disembodied tentacle—from taking over the world. The player takes control of the three and solves puzzles while using time travel to explore different periods of history.
It's pretty safe, and has a very wacky sense of humor. I keep meaning to play it.
Because no one's going to go watch The Monk. (I kid -- if made well, it'd likely be better and more lucrative than many blockbusters.)
That sounds more like Tvtropes than Wikipedia.
For those who weren't paying attention to politics in the 90s, can you elaborate? (I am ashamed to admit that I've forgotten most everything about Newt.)