I hope this can be applied to people like me, who have difficulty picking out the voice of the person you're talking to when there's lots of background noise.
Maybe that's why I don't much like big crowds or loud parties. Best party I was at had lots of deaf people and others who knew sign language (including myself), so even if you were on opposite ends of the room, you could still carry on a conversation, despite the booming loud music.
Not saying it's right, but "Afifi said he often travels for business and has two teenage brothers in Egypt whom he supports financially." Frequent traveling along with sending (presumably) large amounts of cash to the middle-east has to raise some red flags.
Yeah, but the thing with red flags is that they are flagged for review. If, as is alleged, the FBI says guy is 'boring', then that flag should be cleared.
In the jurisdictions studies, was the anti-texting law actually enforced, or was it one of those "passing a law should make it scary enough for them" situations?
For example, it's mandatory for cyclists under 18 to wear a helmet in Ontario, but this law is not enforced (surprise! police have better things to do). Even so, people look at cycling injuries before and after the law was passed and draw conclusions about the effectiveness of mandatory helmet laws.
OpenOffice.org was not renamed when it was taken over by Oracle; it is (apparently) being renamed in an attempt to wrest it from Oracle, which is a sign of instablity.
The renaming is a byproduct of the change in organization, not a goal. Otherwise, why would they ask Oracle to donate the OpenOffice.org trademark?
If you've accidentally swallowed one (or more) and you're worried they're still in your system, it's no big deal. Just go to a surgeon and get an MRI. He'll have them out in no time.
What, there aren't enough guys on cellphones asking "Can you hear me now?" to drop into volcanoes? You don't need a fancy probe to detect wireless signals.
If you compare a high-speed connection with transporting a 1TB hard disk in your car, the results will be very different if you're trying to transfer the data to a location two hundred metres away versus a location two hundred miles away.
This kinda suggests that there are only two political stances to have (and that they're Democrat and Republican).
A better analogy for political attention would be two sides of a coin. The Tea Party is the edge, and the thicker it is, the more times the attention/coin lands on it.
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I hope this can be applied to people like me, who have difficulty picking out the voice of the person you're talking to when there's lots of background noise.
Maybe that's why I don't much like big crowds or loud parties. Best party I was at had lots of deaf people and others who knew sign language (including myself), so even if you were on opposite ends of the room, you could still carry on a conversation, despite the booming loud music.
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I'm not so sure. Some of my vegetarian friends have very bad taste.
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So, they halved the number of steps required and removed the listening requirement.
Which is great when you find you've been connected to the wrong number, which you discover when you get your bill to be 1-900-HORSFUC.
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Not saying it's right, but "Afifi said he often travels for business and has two teenage brothers in Egypt whom he supports financially." Frequent traveling along with sending (presumably) large amounts of cash to the middle-east has to raise some red flags.
Yeah, but the thing with red flags is that they are flagged for review. If, as is alleged, the FBI says guy is 'boring', then that flag should be cleared.
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(in Manchester, you know, we measure surface area in football pitches).
Can someone put this in terms of American Football fields please?
Ah, you must be from the American part of Manchester.
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This is why there should be bare-chested women at Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity.
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This is to prevent Soviet Russia jokes from working in Soviet Canada.
Considering how many people here on /. are on their heads about this, it's obvious that in Soviet Canada, the palindrome flips YOU.
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the last thing you want is Billy Mays waking your kid up
What? The plane left Purgatory. Mays' ghost shouldn't be bothering kids any more.
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A major part of the controversy here is that the war is still happening; there are still soldiers in harm's way or dying.
In that case, they should keep the Taliban and replace the Americans with 1980's Russians.
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Odd how it only gets applied to space exploration but never the much bigger military budget.
Odd how this has been repeated so many times, yet somehow it has still "never" been said.
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Nasa gets less that 1% of the budget, while Medicare, Social Security and Welfare get 57%, Defense gets 19% and the interest on the debt is 5%.
Do you see the problem here?
Um... if the budget were 1% bigger, NASA would be free?
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In the jurisdictions studies, was the anti-texting law actually enforced, or was it one of those "passing a law should make it scary enough for them" situations?
For example, it's mandatory for cyclists under 18 to wear a helmet in Ontario, but this law is not enforced (surprise! police have better things to do). Even so, people look at cycling injuries before and after the law was passed and draw conclusions about the effectiveness of mandatory helmet laws.
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OpenOffice.org was not renamed when it was taken over by Oracle; it is (apparently) being renamed in an attempt to wrest it from Oracle, which is a sign of instablity.
The renaming is a byproduct of the change in organization, not a goal. Otherwise, why would they ask Oracle to donate the OpenOffice.org trademark?
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Now I have to grow out my man-boobs
Get implants made of protein paste, so you can survive even longer.
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... so they had to find yet another way to slow things down... so the web could live up to its reputation of "world wide wait" ;)
Thankfully, it beat out the alternative of using only plus-size models for porn.
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If you've accidentally swallowed one (or more) and you're worried they're still in your system, it's no big deal. Just go to a surgeon and get an MRI. He'll have them out in no time.
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Plus, I heard of this other company that makes a product that's not only very similar, but also better!
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What, there aren't enough guys on cellphones asking "Can you hear me now?" to drop into volcanoes? You don't need a fancy probe to detect wireless signals.
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No, they're too busy twittering.
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Slide decks (i.e. Powerpoint presentations) are a primary form of communication in government.
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Distance is an important measure, too.
If you compare a high-speed connection with transporting a 1TB hard disk in your car, the results will be very different if you're trying to transfer the data to a location two hundred metres away versus a location two hundred miles away.
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Quiet, you, or we'll open a can of Celine Dion on your ass!
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-A penny jar that had engraved markings on the side to tell you how much money you had (approx) if you only put pennies in it
Heh, it took me a while to realize that you didn't mean a jar with a fixed, arbitrary number etched on the side "guessing" how much money is inside.
Hm... I should go patent that!
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Duh, you just search by the date you scanned the e-mail.
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no matter which side of the aisle you're on...
This kinda suggests that there are only two political stances to have (and that they're Democrat and Republican).
A better analogy for political attention would be two sides of a coin. The Tea Party is the edge, and the thicker it is, the more times the attention/coin lands on it.
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