And could explain that cat that apparently always waited outside someone's room as they were about to die.. well, gives him a bit of plausible deniability in any case, sneaky little murdering bastard that he is..
Indeed. I used to know all one hundred-and-whatever of them way back when I was addicted to Pokemon on my gameboy emulator:p I hear there are over 200 now. Oh dear.
I can think of some draftsmen that would probably have a chuckle at it, but a few of them have decent computer experience and would probably see my point if I talked about coding in terms of engineering. One of the guys used to work for Rolls Royce, he's our expert when it comes to the blade geometry stuff, and usually tells interesting stories of the olden days and him using FORTRAN and such:p Then there's my uncle who got a degree in Computer Science in the early 90s, but just recently finished a PhD in fluid dynamics.. Computing and Engineering both involve the same type of mindset IMO.. designing, implementing, bugfixing, etc
Well, personally I would probably be happy going back to the pre-industrial type days of everyone living off the land and stuff (I'm not even kidding - I enjoy technology and all, but I also think that I'd enjoy living out on a croft in the western isles as long as I had a family and friends around). I also love my driving, but I'd be happy cycling to work each day if I knew it was making any decent difference, but for any significant effect to be made, there would need to be a shift in the way society works/thinks, so that it was more than just one out of every 200 people cycling to work each day.. out government is offering incentives to encourage that. I could get £1000 worth of bicycle and equipment for just the cost of the tax through work if I wanted, though I already have a company car and it wouldn't make much sense to have both. I do regularly give lifts to my friends when we do things so it's not like I'm always just driving myself around either, so a bicycle isn't much of a viable alternative. What I'm trying to say is that I just find the idea of stepping on another country to sustain our way of life pretty despicable. I know we're doing it all over the place with our food, clothing, oil, electronics.. and I'm thankful that I was born in this country and not working in slave labour conditions. We're all pretty happily detached from the areas where all the oppression and inequality is happening, so that makes living this lifestyle easy to swallow, but when people start to think 'I support the war in Iraq because it means more for me even at the expense of others' then isn't that just plain wrong? Though the idea in your sig is a good one, and we still get to have cars (albeit electric:P ), but what do we use instead of oil to manufacture all our plastics? Almost every item I see around me involves plastic in its construction. Is it all just going to come grinding to a halt one day, then we (well, the ones who can't afford the prices of oil) really are back to the 1700s?
I'm a software developer. I would like to think of myself as an engineer but to me that's a higher title that belongs to people who actually engineer original ideas. Well I know I'm missing the point of your post with this, but a quick google comes up with this description of an engineer:
a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems I think your higher title should be an 'inventor'. Engineers are the guys that generally plod away using well tested mechanical or other scientific knowledge to get everyday jobs done (just like a software engineer really?). I work as IT support/coder for a bunch of engineers here and while they sometimes may be using old ideas in new ways, most of their work is just that plodding away using tried and tested methods, with occasional refinements in stuff like blade geometry for example (we do a lot of work with turbines). I think there is actually a lot more invention done in the field of software development than in engineering. Having said that, I studied 'Computer Science' and not 'Software Engineering', so apparently I'm a scientist:p
Aye the rage subsided happily and I felt surrounded by fluffy clouds when that other guy said he's thankful for britain's help and that we have good character >_> I did get the wrong current figures then, but I still think the fact that we sent in that many troops to begin with is a big deal and can't be called 'half-assed' at all.. the small numbers since are probably our government trying to sate the clamouring from families that are going through the pain of losing a loved one, for what seems like no good reason.. usually just a random killing by some guerrila forces or what have you:/ I have considered joining the armed forces in the past (I guess it would have to be more as a technical ops geek rather than a grunt though;) ), though I'm not sure how I feel on the whole 'dying for my country' thing, unless I felt the war we were fighting had any relevance to me or those I love. The thing in Iraq doesn't seem to be about much other than oil, as usual?
I don't know about you, but I've always found yellowish indoor lighting annoying. I much prefer whiter or bluer hues. I bought a 'natural' lightbulb for my lamp once and the light to me seemed pretty bluish compared to my normal bulb. I then dropped the lamp by mistake and didn't bother to buy a new bulb. Oops.
Dude, you're being highly offensive and unfair here. Sure a lot of us may not agree with the war, but our country is helping, and not in a 'half arsed' way either. According to this wikipedia page we have 45k troops in Iraq while the US have 250000. The US has a population of 300 million, while we have 60 million. That means that our population is 20% the size of yours, and the amount of troops we have in Iraq is 18% of the amount that the US has. I fail to see how that is half-assed. I bet there are a few hundred thousand people over here who would literally love to kick your ass for spouting shit like that without looking more into it.
In fact, after a bit more googling/wikipedia-ing, our full military forces are only 15% of the size of the US military, so we're probably putting a larger percentage of our forces into Iraq than you guys. Show some respect where it's due rather than bitching about other countries not wanting to help out. The fact that anyone at all is helping you guys out in Iraq is amazing, because there doesn't seem to be much justification for it. Anyway - our soldiers are dying too, and deserve some respect even if you're not going to show any appreciation. I'm not usually one for being patriotic but you are actually managing to make me physically feel rage in my chest over this whole thing (maybe it's just the pie I had for lunch, but I don't think so:p )
Source please? Not that I don't believe you, but that's very interesting. What happens when you visualise yourself playing tennis (in the first person) then?
*somewhere deep underground in an abandoned missile silo*
Evil Data Mining Henchman: Look, master! This one smiles for 62% of the time while playing Half-Life 2! And they only have 512MB of RAM!
Evil Data Mining Master: MWAAAHAHAHAHHHAHHAHAHAA!! Excellent work, Patrick! Soon we shall know just how much all of those poor fools are smiling! My intricately pointless and entirely impotent plan for world domination is almost complete!!
You're trying to say you've been going all this time without one? I think I'd have gotten bored pretty quick of all this internet stuff without it. No workstation is complete without a cockpit simulator!
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It's the person not the heroine?
And could explain that cat that apparently always waited outside someone's room as they were about to die.. well, gives him a bit of plausible deniability in any case, sneaky little murdering bastard that he is..
Hehe.. "warning, this TV program may bring you coming back for more". It will soon be illegal to have all those cliffhangers in TV series'!
Fair enough, but I live in Scotland, not England ;) It's a different 'state' in Britain, if you will.
Bah, I just ordered in a major batch of kleenexes after reading the summary, and now you're telling me that it's not that hot after all? :(
Indeed. I used to know all one hundred-and-whatever of them way back when I was addicted to Pokemon on my gameboy emulator :p I hear there are over 200 now. Oh dear.
I can think of some draftsmen that would probably have a chuckle at it, but a few of them have decent computer experience and would probably see my point if I talked about coding in terms of engineering. One of the guys used to work for Rolls Royce, he's our expert when it comes to the blade geometry stuff, and usually tells interesting stories of the olden days and him using FORTRAN and such :p Then there's my uncle who got a degree in Computer Science in the early 90s, but just recently finished a PhD in fluid dynamics.. Computing and Engineering both involve the same type of mindset IMO.. designing, implementing, bugfixing, etc
Well, personally I would probably be happy going back to the pre-industrial type days of everyone living off the land and stuff (I'm not even kidding - I enjoy technology and all, but I also think that I'd enjoy living out on a croft in the western isles as long as I had a family and friends around). I also love my driving, but I'd be happy cycling to work each day if I knew it was making any decent difference, but for any significant effect to be made, there would need to be a shift in the way society works/thinks, so that it was more than just one out of every 200 people cycling to work each day.. out government is offering incentives to encourage that. I could get £1000 worth of bicycle and equipment for just the cost of the tax through work if I wanted, though I already have a company car and it wouldn't make much sense to have both. I do regularly give lifts to my friends when we do things so it's not like I'm always just driving myself around either, so a bicycle isn't much of a viable alternative. What I'm trying to say is that I just find the idea of stepping on another country to sustain our way of life pretty despicable. I know we're doing it all over the place with our food, clothing, oil, electronics.. and I'm thankful that I was born in this country and not working in slave labour conditions. We're all pretty happily detached from the areas where all the oppression and inequality is happening, so that makes living this lifestyle easy to swallow, but when people start to think 'I support the war in Iraq because it means more for me even at the expense of others' then isn't that just plain wrong? Though the idea in your sig is a good one, and we still get to have cars (albeit electric :P ), but what do we use instead of oil to manufacture all our plastics? Almost every item I see around me involves plastic in its construction. Is it all just going to come grinding to a halt one day, then we (well, the ones who can't afford the prices of oil) really are back to the 1700s?
Depends on whether they think it's good news that we evolved or not? :p
Aye the rage subsided happily and I felt surrounded by fluffy clouds when that other guy said he's thankful for britain's help and that we have good character >_> I did get the wrong current figures then, but I still think the fact that we sent in that many troops to begin with is a big deal and can't be called 'half-assed' at all.. the small numbers since are probably our government trying to sate the clamouring from families that are going through the pain of losing a loved one, for what seems like no good reason.. usually just a random killing by some guerrila forces or what have you :/ I have considered joining the armed forces in the past (I guess it would have to be more as a technical ops geek rather than a grunt though ;) ), though I'm not sure how I feel on the whole 'dying for my country' thing, unless I felt the war we were fighting had any relevance to me or those I love. The thing in Iraq doesn't seem to be about much other than oil, as usual?
That's one funny ass-comic :)
Most are just cute.. though that vulpix is a bit of a vixen
I don't know about you, but I've always found yellowish indoor lighting annoying. I much prefer whiter or bluer hues. I bought a 'natural' lightbulb for my lamp once and the light to me seemed pretty bluish compared to my normal bulb. I then dropped the lamp by mistake and didn't bother to buy a new bulb. Oops.
Otherwise, why not just get a yellow lampshade?
Nah it's just fun to say heck sometimes. Like in that Dilbert with Phil I think he was called. "I darn you to heck!".
Dude, you're being highly offensive and unfair here. Sure a lot of us may not agree with the war, but our country is helping, and not in a 'half arsed' way either. According to this wikipedia page we have 45k troops in Iraq while the US have 250000. The US has a population of 300 million, while we have 60 million. That means that our population is 20% the size of yours, and the amount of troops we have in Iraq is 18% of the amount that the US has. I fail to see how that is half-assed. I bet there are a few hundred thousand people over here who would literally love to kick your ass for spouting shit like that without looking more into it. In fact, after a bit more googling/wikipedia-ing, our full military forces are only 15% of the size of the US military, so we're probably putting a larger percentage of our forces into Iraq than you guys. Show some respect where it's due rather than bitching about other countries not wanting to help out. The fact that anyone at all is helping you guys out in Iraq is amazing, because there doesn't seem to be much justification for it. Anyway - our soldiers are dying too, and deserve some respect even if you're not going to show any appreciation. I'm not usually one for being patriotic but you are actually managing to make me physically feel rage in my chest over this whole thing (maybe it's just the pie I had for lunch, but I don't think so :p )
That's funny, I thought we were helping out in Iraq? Or were all our soldiers that have died out there just on holiday?
Yours slightly confused and pissed off,
Scottish Slashdotter
Nah, they had Clippy. Everyone loves clippy!! :)
Cool concept! Call me back when Miss NT is legal :p
I was hoping that she'd be hawt, but then it turned out that she's the demon heck-spawn of a block of lego and that big sleeping Pokemon dude.. :s
There's a pointless product if ever there was one! You should go post it in the Half Bakery ;)
Source please? Not that I don't believe you, but that's very interesting. What happens when you visualise yourself playing tennis (in the first person) then?
*somewhere deep underground in an abandoned missile silo*
Evil Data Mining Henchman: Look, master! This one smiles for 62% of the time while playing Half-Life 2! And they only have 512MB of RAM!
Evil Data Mining Master: MWAAAHAHAHAHHHAHHAHAHAA!! Excellent work, Patrick! Soon we shall know just how much all of those poor fools are smiling! My intricately pointless and entirely impotent plan for world domination is almost complete!!
But even more importantly - will it blend?
You're trying to say you've been going all this time without one? I think I'd have gotten bored pretty quick of all this internet stuff without it. No workstation is complete without a cockpit simulator!