Dead strangers in general don't really concern me. I only care about those dying who're close to me.
What the hell? You're barely human. You probably have a lot in common with those losers who go around shooting up high schools and colleges because they got picked on for being weird. Not cool.
I'm just saying a bunch of people die every single day. You cared about this woman? You knew her? I'm sorry for your loss if so, but in reality you life has not changed and by tomorrow you will have forgotten this person existed and that this exchange even took place.
The point is that when we hear of someone young and promising dying, we have this feeling called "empathy". I realise that your Asperger's makes it a difficult thing to comprehend. We think of children we know, we think of others we have lost at a young age, we think of what her parents must be feeling. It's part of being human.
Are you typing from a OLPC computer in a drought-ridden town in West Africa? Are you in an internet shop after your 16 hour day at the sweatshop in Asia?
If not you are the one percent. You can start by giving some of your money away to those poorer than you. Or would you prefer to lecture everyone and fantasize about a virus killing people?
Someone I knew uploaded their photos to the Kodak site for printing, and had deleted them from her camera.
Rather than making it easy to get a copy of these photos, it was impossible. I think you basically had to order a PhotoCD or something, which I wasn't going to do.
They could have made a proper website to allow people to share their photos and print them. But they made it annoying.
And the worse thing for Europe, is the European Union. It's some unelected board of old men that seems to be trampling all over everyone's freedoms - it seems much much much worse than anything the US has done.
I don't really know too much about summer camps. They're not such a big thing in my country, and I imagine them to be something like Meatballs.
But at your age, as hard as it is, I wonder if you're better off at a normal camp with sports and activities. Now non-nerds are usually already developed at these things by the time the start highschool, so if you're not sporty it might feel hard. But you're still young enough that no-one will care if you're no good, and it's much easier to learn in your teens than in your 20s or 30s.
We need sports quite often in life. From the impromptu chucking a ball around, to saying "yes" when your company starts a soccer team, to general fitness and attractiveness. You don't need to become a jock, but I'm talking learning rules of sport, getting better at throwing, catching, running. If you're useless, I think you'll be surprised that most other kids (after initially teasing) will usually be quite keen to help you improve.
It's the one thing I wish I did more as a youngster. And, as the above poster implied, you're much less likely to be able to make out with a girl at the maths and physics camp.
Atheism means "no god". It doesn't have anything to do with "answering big questions", except that we don't believe a mythical angry sky goblin from a few thousand years ago has the answers either.
Agnostics are just atheists with no nerve to say what they are in fact believing.
I reasoned myself in to atheism. I grew up as a Catholic.
Seriously, anyone with half a brain will realise that the religion they once believed in is full of inconsistencies as soon as they develop critical thinking skills. Unfortunately, this doesn't happen for everyone.
I still remember when my first grade teacher demonstrated this by whispering something to a student, who then whispered it to next person and so on. After all of us in the class had passed it forward, the meaning was completely different with added "fun stuff" and things that didn't even make sense.
I hope you know that this game has a name:"Chinese Whispers"'; and I strongly hope that the term hasn't been banned over concerns about political correctness!
Now obviously this happened 2000 years ago, but does anyone know how long it will last/has been going on for?
In more general terms, I'd like to know whether they scan new parts of the sky periodically for changes, or whether they just concentrate on different parts of the sky and see what they see. For instance, if you could go back 2000 years (taking Hubble with you), would the image look similar? How static are these images?
My first guess would be millions of years, so when astronomers look in the sky and find something cool, it's not by fluke of timing, more by fluke of angle and elevation.
What format did he expect it in? Is he pissed off he had to download a PDF reader or something? I think it seems reasonable.
Also, who do you think gave Facebook this information in the first place? The same douchebag who wasted their time ordering the info. I hope they billed him for their time.
Sadly I have never seen this movie. I actually thought it was a reference to the Simpsons! (When Bart calls out "what do you mean the bank is out of money!").
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Dead strangers in general don't really concern me. I only care about those dying who're close to me.
What the hell? You're barely human. You probably have a lot in common with those losers who go around shooting up high schools and colleges because they got picked on for being weird. Not cool.
I'm just saying a bunch of people die every single day. You cared about this woman? You knew her? I'm sorry for your loss if so, but in reality you life has not changed and by tomorrow you will have forgotten this person existed and that this exchange even took place.
The point is that when we hear of someone young and promising dying, we have this feeling called "empathy". I realise that your Asperger's makes it a difficult thing to comprehend. We think of children we know, we think of others we have lost at a young age, we think of what her parents must be feeling. It's part of being human.
I'm sorry if it's not logical, Spock.
Is theft of copper cabling "stupid law"? If not, you've missed the point.
Are you typing from a OLPC computer in a drought-ridden town in West Africa? Are you in an internet shop after your 16 hour day at the sweatshop in Asia?
If not you are the one percent. You can start by giving some of your money away to those poorer than you. Or would you prefer to lecture everyone and fantasize about a virus killing people?
http://developer.android.com/design/index.html
Nothing irks me as much as the summary linking to an article about the website in question!
The guy who wrote it never thought anyone would take it seriously!
Someone I knew uploaded their photos to the Kodak site for printing, and had deleted them from her camera.
Rather than making it easy to get a copy of these photos, it was impossible. I think you basically had to order a PhotoCD or something, which I wasn't going to do.
They could have made a proper website to allow people to share their photos and print them. But they made it annoying.
And the worse thing for Europe, is the European Union. It's some unelected board of old men that seems to be trampling all over everyone's freedoms - it seems much much much worse than anything the US has done.
I don't really know too much about summer camps. They're not such a big thing in my country, and I imagine them to be something like Meatballs.
But at your age, as hard as it is, I wonder if you're better off at a normal camp with sports and activities. Now non-nerds are usually already developed at these things by the time the start highschool, so if you're not sporty it might feel hard. But you're still young enough that no-one will care if you're no good, and it's much easier to learn in your teens than in your 20s or 30s.
We need sports quite often in life. From the impromptu chucking a ball around, to saying "yes" when your company starts a soccer team, to general fitness and attractiveness. You don't need to become a jock, but I'm talking learning rules of sport, getting better at throwing, catching, running. If you're useless, I think you'll be surprised that most other kids (after initially teasing) will usually be quite keen to help you improve.
It's the one thing I wish I did more as a youngster. And, as the above poster implied, you're much less likely to be able to make out with a girl at the maths and physics camp.
Give that smelly homeless cunt some of your money then you sanctimonious prick.
Ng is a consonant pronounced the same as it is when elsewhere in a word. Think of the word "singer", and don't say the "si".
'copyleft' (what a stupid term)
It was better than 'copywrong'.
To fool the 5% of people who think computers are mysterious oracles with all the answers?
Science isn't a God.
Atheism means "no god". It doesn't have anything to do with "answering big questions", except that we don't believe a mythical angry sky goblin from a few thousand years ago has the answers either.
Agnostics are just atheists with no nerve to say what they are in fact believing.
Do we mod parent insightful?
I reasoned myself in to atheism. I grew up as a Catholic.
Seriously, anyone with half a brain will realise that the religion they once believed in is full of inconsistencies as soon as they develop critical thinking skills. Unfortunately, this doesn't happen for everyone.
I still remember when my first grade teacher demonstrated this by whispering something to a student, who then whispered it to next person and so on. After all of us in the class had passed it forward, the meaning was completely different with added "fun stuff" and things that didn't even make sense.
I hope you know that this game has a name:"Chinese Whispers"'; and I strongly hope that the term hasn't been banned over concerns about political correctness!
Great. We should get the government to control prices. I can't see how that could go wrong.
Take your aspie pill. It was obviously a joke.
Things have changed. In the 80s, computer enthusiasts owned home computers.
Nowadays we have hipsters who'll pay for a fashionable phone or PC.
I have to admit when I saw the Troll mod and the imgur.com link I was expecting a goatse.
Now obviously this happened 2000 years ago, but does anyone know how long it will last/has been going on for?
In more general terms, I'd like to know whether they scan new parts of the sky periodically for changes, or whether they just concentrate on different parts of the sky and see what they see. For instance, if you could go back 2000 years (taking Hubble with you), would the image look similar? How static are these images?
My first guess would be millions of years, so when astronomers look in the sky and find something cool, it's not by fluke of timing, more by fluke of angle and elevation.
What format did he expect it in? Is he pissed off he had to download a PDF reader or something? I think it seems reasonable.
Also, who do you think gave Facebook this information in the first place? The same douchebag who wasted their time ordering the info. I hope they billed him for their time.
Sadly I have never seen this movie. I actually thought it was a reference to the Simpsons! (When Bart calls out "what do you mean the bank is out of money!").
I might download it. Check http://www.youhavedownloaded.com/?q=118.90.98.164 in about an hour.
Two of my grandparents are buried like that. Cremated first, then buried.
Not sure why. I guess it's not as creepy as keeping the ash in an urn over the fireplace, and not as trite as scattering them somewhere.
Personally, I'll take whatever option is cheapest.