...I always vote for an alternitave independent...
I was going to say "But you're just throwing your vote away!"... but then I realized I could say the same about anyone who voted for either of the major parties too. So who will it be in '08: the red idiot or the blue idiot?
I'd almost rather drive over a bridge designed by a student who copied a tried and true design...
A tried and true design for one application might be disastrous in another application, especially if the design being copied is unique. If 1940 hadn't had a one particularly windy day, lazy bridge designers might had copied a narrow, understiffened suspension bridge design instead of thinking for themselves and taking little things like aerodynamics into account.
I know, this isn't the greatest example, but it's the first thing that came to mind.
Perhaps the bits themselves are longer or shorter than before encryption, or perhaps they're a bit (pun intended) higher voltage where a computer will still read it as a "1" when it's in a bass waveform...
Congratulations. You just broke my bullshit meter.
Where do you find these variable-sized, variable-voltage bits?
The parent is probably referring to an apocryphal case that is debunked on Randy Cassingham's True Stella Awards website. Although, according to a reply, there has been at least one real case like this.
...so before they can sit down, the kids will have to search the school to find where their chairs have landed.
And the principal will steal the core information from all of the textbooks to be used, change it so it doesn't crash their custom curriculum, then pay off the original publishers when they threaten to sue.
Students will only receive homework on the first Tuesday of every month, and only if they can prove that they are genuine students by showing the teacher their enrolment certificate.
I've noted that some banks, when communicating via email, will tell you to log into your account by manually TYPING in an URL in your browser rather then providng any types of hyperlinks.
...which is a great idea for security, but more work than the average Joe Mouse-clicker is willing to do--or capable of typing into his web browser without typos, leading to the potential for typo-squatting phishers.
I think you mean "coincidence implies correlation." In other words, if two factors occur in the same place or time, it implies that they might be related somehow, even if there is no causal relationship between them. It's just as likely that the causative factor is something as yet unknown that causes both factors.
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I thought it was Draft* of Uncertain Fermentation...
*or draught if you're from the other side of the pond.
With only 424 of the IAU's 10,000 members having voted on this "issue", it seems that the real scientists are too busy with real science to care about what arbitrary label we give a faraway chunk of rock and ice.
When I did genetics and biochemical eng, it was the whole 100+/book, 5-8/semester 3x a year. No thanks. Outrageous with little resale. Bleh. Evil.
What makes that even worse is when publishers release new editions of a textbook with no real change--except, of course, a greatly modified page number layout. The instructors insist that the students all have the current edition so they can assign chapter questions and readings based on page number, without having to account for multiple editions. At the end of the year, you get left with a textbook you can't sell because you know there is going to be another new edition.
I'm headed back to school in another two weeks. The technical institution where I'll be studying has another solution to the problem of expensive textbooks: the instructors roll their own.
I'm taking a one-year, condensed program, with about two dozen individual courses, and I have to buy half a dozen textbooks, total cost to me: under $1000. For the rest, the instructors have compiled course notes based on their own training and experience. (All of the instructors in this program are currently employed in the field; they take time from their jobs to come teach a course.)
The result: Less expensive course materials that are much more relevant to that specific course, without several hundred pages of unused filler. (That's the worst part about textbooks: Publishers want textbooks to be a certain size, so they're often filled with total "WTF?" crap.)
All they have to do is convince the US Patent and Trademark Office to patent the process of granting patents. Then the USPTO can go after those unscrupulous Brits who dare to abuse the God-given American right to patent the hell out of everything.
What? You don't think Tony the (paper) Tiger Blair would bend over for this?
But according to an article by Isaac Asimov (Just Mooning Around from Of Time and Space and Other Things), the Sun pulls the Moon twice as strongly as the Earth does, and the Moon's orbit, drawn to scale, is always concave toward the Sun, making a very convincing argument that the Earth and the Moon are a double planet system, even though their center of revolution is a thousand miles beneath the Earth's surface.
If Charon is to be classified as a minor planet, the Moon should be too.
1. You stop every person that has access to the plane, every person getting on the plane for any reason, etc. (already almost doing that)
2. Determine if they're a terrorist somehow. (??? step)
3. Success! No more plane bombings.
Eliminate Step 2 and you've got a perfect solution. No one flying = no terrorists flying! Genius!
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No, no, no! I own Mars.
Well? Just try to take it away from me.
I just wish those damn Floridans would stop dumping their trash on my front lawn.
I nominate this phrase as the best description of SCO's legal action right from the start.
I was going to say "But you're just throwing your vote away!"... but then I realized I could say the same about anyone who voted for either of the major parties too. So who will it be in '08: the red idiot or the blue idiot?
No, it means you cheated on 110% of your exams. Obviously including math.
A tried and true design for one application might be disastrous in another application, especially if the design being copied is unique. If 1940 hadn't had a one particularly windy day, lazy bridge designers might had copied a narrow, understiffened suspension bridge design instead of thinking for themselves and taking little things like aerodynamics into account.
I know, this isn't the greatest example, but it's the first thing that came to mind.
Congratulations. You just broke my bullshit meter.
Where do you find these variable-sized, variable-voltage bits?
...you fuck Microsoft!
The parent is probably referring to an apocryphal case that is debunked on Randy Cassingham's True Stella Awards website. Although, according to a reply, there has been at least one real case like this.
...so before they can sit down, the kids will have to search the school to find where their chairs have landed.
And the principal will steal the core information from all of the textbooks to be used, change it so it doesn't crash their custom curriculum, then pay off the original publishers when they threaten to sue.
Students will only receive homework on the first Tuesday of every month, and only if they can prove that they are genuine students by showing the teacher their enrolment certificate.
Nah, I got nothin'.
...which is a great idea for security, but more work than the average Joe Mouse-clicker is willing to do--or capable of typing into his web browser without typos, leading to the potential for typo-squatting phishers.
I think you mean "coincidence implies correlation." In other words, if two factors occur in the same place or time, it implies that they might be related somehow, even if there is no causal relationship between them. It's just as likely that the causative factor is something as yet unknown that causes both factors.
I thought it was Draft* of Uncertain Fermentation...
*or draught if you're from the other side of the pond.
With only 424 of the IAU's 10,000 members having voted on this "issue", it seems that the real scientists are too busy with real science to care about what arbitrary label we give a faraway chunk of rock and ice.
New story tag needed: -1: Who cares?
What makes that even worse is when publishers release new editions of a textbook with no real change--except, of course, a greatly modified page number layout. The instructors insist that the students all have the current edition so they can assign chapter questions and readings based on page number, without having to account for multiple editions. At the end of the year, you get left with a textbook you can't sell because you know there is going to be another new edition.
I'm headed back to school in another two weeks. The technical institution where I'll be studying has another solution to the problem of expensive textbooks: the instructors roll their own.
I'm taking a one-year, condensed program, with about two dozen individual courses, and I have to buy half a dozen textbooks, total cost to me: under $1000. For the rest, the instructors have compiled course notes based on their own training and experience. (All of the instructors in this program are currently employed in the field; they take time from their jobs to come teach a course.)
The result: Less expensive course materials that are much more relevant to that specific course, without several hundred pages of unused filler. (That's the worst part about textbooks: Publishers want textbooks to be a certain size, so they're often filled with total "WTF?" crap.)
Confine him to his room with a Windows computer that is missing three significant keys...
Is it any surprise they don't want you to learn about Evolution?
Yeah, but the real word didn't seem... well, cromulent enough.
I guess I could have gone for nonantidisobfuscationalizapated.
"Since the VP is such a VIP, maybe we should keep the PC on the QT. Otherwise he could go MIA, and we'd all end up on KP."
Sounds perfectly nonobfuscationalized to me.
Maybe we should just leave it at that.
...takes a Hattori Hanzo sword, and has mastered Pai Mei's five-point exploding heart technique.
...and is cast as a hot blonde for the 'documentary'.
All they have to do is convince the US Patent and Trademark Office to patent the process of granting patents. Then the USPTO can go after those unscrupulous Brits who dare to abuse the God-given American right to patent the hell out of everything.
What? You don't think Tony the (paper) Tiger Blair would bend over for this?
Two major computer companies announced a lawsuit today against toilet manufacturer iBM...
But according to an article by Isaac Asimov (Just Mooning Around from Of Time and Space and Other Things), the Sun pulls the Moon twice as strongly as the Earth does, and the Moon's orbit, drawn to scale, is always concave toward the Sun, making a very convincing argument that the Earth and the Moon are a double planet system, even though their center of revolution is a thousand miles beneath the Earth's surface.
If Charon is to be classified as a minor planet, the Moon should be too.
Eliminate Step 2 and you've got a perfect solution. No one flying = no terrorists flying! Genius!