The "expired" (ahem) presidents devalue over time, too. Washington would get you a gallon of gasoline here in Springfield when Bush took office, bow it takes four of them. In 1968 when I started driving, Washington would buy you over a quarter tank of the stuff.
Them dead presidents Them dead presidents Well I ain't broke but I'm bad bent Everybody loves them dead presidents
A little bit of Lincoln can't park the car Washington he can't go too far Jefferson is good, played the track If you think you're gonna bring some big bitch back
Them dead presidents Them dead presidents Well I ain't broke but I'm bad bent Everybody loves them dead presidents
Hamilton on a ten can get you straight But Jackson on a twenty is really great And if you're talkin' about a poor man's friend Grant will get you out of whatever you're in
Them dead presidents Them dead presidents Them dead presidents Well I ain't broke but I'm badly bent Everybody loves them dead presidents
A hundred dollar Franklin is really sweet A five hundred McKinley is the one for me If I get a Cleveland, I'm really set A thousand dollar Cleveland is hard to get
Them dead presidents Them dead presidents Well I ain't broke but I'm badly bent Everybody loves them dead presidents
Sadly, it won't work. Although you were joking, I uncharacteristically jumped straight to TFA on this one, as my oldest daughter's IQ measures at 65. That's about five points lower than Forest Gump, if I remember the movie correctly.
Sadly, this treatment only fights Darwin. TFA says
Scientists used rapamycin--a medication doctors prescribe to patients who have had transplants to prevent their bodies from rejecting the new organs--to treat learning disorders associated with a disease called tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) in mice. TSC is a rare genetic disorder that causes brain tumors, seizures, learning disabilities, skin lesions and kidney tumors in the 50,000 Americans and one million people worldwide who have the disease.
A million people might not seem rare, but consider that there are six billion people on the planet. From a link from TFA:
What is Tuberous Sclerosis?
Tuberous sclerosis (TSC) is a rare genetic disease that causes benign tumors to grow in the brain and on other vital organs such as the kidneys, heart, eyes, lungs, and skin. It commonly affects the central nervous system. In addition to the benign tumors that frequently occur in TSC, other common symptoms include seizures, mental retardation, behavior problems, and skin abnormalities. TSC may be present at birth, but signs of the disorder can be subtle and full symptoms may take some time to develop. Three types of brain tumors are associated with TSC: cortical tubers, which generally form on the surface of the brain; subependymal nodules, which form in the walls of the ventricles (the fluid-filled cavities of the brain); and giant-cell astrocytomas, a type of tumor that can block the flow of fluids within the brain.
Most mental retardation is caused by injury.
A bit offtopic, but the US public school system, bad as it is for average (IQ 100) kids, it fails miserably for both "special" and "gifted" students; my youngest's IQ is 131 and she wound up dropping out (later getting her GED and now manages a GameStop store at age 21) while the oldest graduated high school an got her diploma but lives on SSI disability.
I would imagine that a lot of folks might want a WTF plate. In Illinois they won't issue a personalized tag they consider offensive, but some people manage to slide through.
I saw one a while back that I wondered if it was owned by a Chicago Bulls fan, or if he was just being snarky. It read
BULLS IT
(OT but somebody needs to fix this CSS. No wonder the blurb says idle.slashdot.org is a waste of time, never go there! It seems to have hapopened with the server move)
Maybe it's just me, but a simple 4 digit number doesn't provide all that much security in my mind. How easy is it to simply glance over someone's shoulders and read their pin?
I no longer use a debit card for that very reason - my bank account was cleaned out by a woman I took pity on. She'd been strung out on crack and had nothing left but the clothes on her back. She wanted to dry out and get into rehab. So I stupidly let her stay at my apartment for a week.
During that week she obviously watched over my sholder at the ATM, then stole a book of checks. And the keys to my car I'd only made one payment on.
The bank made good on the forged checks, but not the ATM. Their rationale was that if the person had the PIN the only way to get it was have it given to them!
I shudder at the thought of having to look (which I would, it's like a train wreck) at droopy boobs all flying around an swingin' with the gait that some of these heifers sport.
As a 56 year old geezer I must say, NOT ME! I happen to LIKE droopy boobs!
it's a physical hazard there's a definite need to put leashes on those puppies!
Before the 20th century, only the rich women leashed them. It was in that century the bra was invented. From wikipedia:
Mechanical principlesThe average breast weighs about 0.5 kg (~1 lb),[9][10]. One of the principal functions of a bra is to elevate and "support" the breasts, that is, to raise them from their normal position lying against the chest wall. This is considered the defining characteristic of the bra: supporting the weight from the back and shoulders, as opposed to lift solely from below (as corsets do).[1] Over-reliance on the shoulder straps for support can lead to poor posture, back pain and neck pain due to pinched nerves. In a well fitted bra, 80% of the breast weight is supported by the chest band, something which is particularly important for larger breasts.[8]
The major engineering weakness of the bra, particularly if poorly fitted, is that it acts as a pulley, transferring the weight of the breasts from the lower chest wall to higher structures such as the back, shoulder, neck, and head. This can result in pain and injury in those structures, especially for women with pendulous breasts.[11]
True, but the point stands that there is no indication whatever that there's any life anywhere but earth.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that we most likely will find life of some sort. I also suspect that we may run across sentient life and not only not realise it's sentient, but even that it's alive.
The late Chief Dan George's character in Little Big Man had an observation (that I'm surely not quoting exactly since it's been years since I've seen that movie): "The Indian thinks everything is alive; the people, the buffalo, the trees, the rocks. The white man thinks nothing is alive, and if he suspects something is alive he'll kill it."
There was a STNG episode where they did, in fact, come across a sentient silicone-based life sentient form that they neither realized was sentient nor alive.
But currently there is no evidence of life anywhere but here.
Saying that guns don't kill people, people kill people, is bullshit. Show me an instant when a person killed a person with a gun when they didn't have a gun.
That's a pretty stupidly loaded question. The entire meaning of the NRA statement is that you don't need a gun to kill someone! Here are a couple of links that is sure to piss off a different AC (the one who hates me linking my slashdot journals, nudge nudge wank wank know what I mean?)
Dork Side of the Moon is about an attempted murder. His weapon wasn't a gun; it was a large knife. He was thwarted by the fact that the man he attacked was also armed - the victim was in posession of a two by four.
In Klutzo the Clown tasered to death a clergyman/policeman/day care worker/big brothr/pedophile was killed by a fat jail guard who sat on him.
There are links to newspaper articles in both journals.
Guns don't kill people, people kill people and they don't need guns to do it. Your automobile can be used as a murder weapon. Your kitchen is full of deadly weapons.
yes, most people who pull a gun to rob a store aren't gun owners.
yes, funny things are often interesting. The comment was obviously meant as a joke. The GP said (my emphasis):The vast majority of legal gun owners (proper license, clean background, etc) in the US commits a disproportionally lower percentage of the violent crime.
The criminals got them by stealing them, by buying them from thieves who stole them, and buying them from people who smuggled them from states without background checks. That's what criminals do.
I'm wondering why so many of you hit the "post anonymously" checkbox.
You have urban school districts that suck when consumers of education should have sole choice of what education they get through vouchers, etc.
The schools aren't responsible for giving kids morals; that's the parents' responsibility. And vouchers won't help the poor, who are the ones whose kids are most likely to become criminals, unless the voucher pays 100% of the cost of school.
Not government's failure; it's parents' failure.
You have urban governments that chase away legit business with over-regulation and taxation.
Show some stats. I don't believe your anonymous assertions.
You have stupid drug laws that create huge black-market economies in the exact same places you chase away legimate business.
OK, I'll agree with the black market economics aspect; alcohol prohibition created a lot of violent crime that went away when it was lifted, and you have the same problem with the drug gans. But I don't agree that it is chasing away legit business, at least not here in Springfield. There are new businesses in the bad part of town, despite the fact that the people who live there don't have a lot of money fo rthose businessmen.
Stupid educational policies and drug policies need to be fixed and maybe we can stop blaming the gun objects (and beer objects)
Where are they blaming the beer objects? Gees, I'm 56 and my dad was only two when prohibition ended (my grandmother told me my grandpa had a beermaking kit in his barn).
Hoplophobia, (pronounced [hplfobi]), from the Greek hoplon, or weapon, is defined as the "fear of firearms" or alternatively, a fear of weapons in general, and describes a specific phobia.
here here here here (oops, my bad;) here here here or how about one from a city that is directly impacted by the decision, like here?
Mayor Daley calls Supreme Court's gun-ban reversal 'a very frightening decision' High court strikes down Washington D.C. law in ruling that could have Chicago implications An angry Mayor Richard Daley on Thursday called the Supreme Court's overturning of the Washington D.C. gun ban "a very frightening decision" and vowed to fight vigorously any challenges to Chicago's ban.
The mayor, speaking at a Navy Pier event, said he was sure mayors nationwide, who carry the burden of keeping cities safe, will be outraged by the decision.
Chicago's handgun ban, which has lasted for more than a quarter-century, came under threat earlier in the day when the Supreme Court decided that Washington D.C.'s law against handgun ownership is unconstitutional.
In a 5-4 decision, the high court determined that Americans have the right to own guns for self-defense as well as hunting. The decision, which had been expected, is a win for gun-rights advocates and provides a better definition of the rights of Americans to own firearms.
Illinois gun-rights activists have said they expect to mount a quick legal challenge to the Chicago Weapons Ordinance.
Other city officials said they felt confidant that challenge would fail.
As someone who tries to avoid RTFAs, I was annoyed that the summary dodn't even HINT at what the actual decision was, obviously to drive traffic to the submitter's site.
I'm disappointed in you, timothy. I'm sure there were a lot more submissions than this one. Since this is Thursday, I hereby nominate you as "Aurthur Dent" (Monday is my Dent Day).
Why do I have to <p> on my paragraphs when I've selected "plain old text"??
If there were no moon it would have happened differently.
There is no proof or even indication that it would or wouldn't have happened at all. Life must be pretty damned special* because we've found no indication of it elsewhere. We've had probes to most of our star's planets and not found any hint of life anywhere yet, we've had SETI running for a long time and no indication at all that there's anybody out there.
We don't even know how life started on earth. So far, we DO know that life is unique to Earth in our solar system. I don't think it's likely, but it is possible, no matter how improbable, that this little rock is the only repository of life in the universe.
No it didn't. Like Earth, Mars had an ancient impact, but the impact itself was decidedly NOT like the impact Earth experienced.
Earth's impact obliterated the Mars-sized object that impacted earth, leaving a ring of ejects circling the Earth. The ring coalesced into the moon. This didn't happen on Mars; Mars has no giant satellite, only two small moons.
Also, I saw a few different accounts, and not everyone is yet convinced that the disparity between Mars' poles was caused by a giant impact. The San Fransisco Chrinicle, for instance, says "Huge impact may have divided Mars surface".
In the past some scientists have held that the great divide on Mars was caused by the upwelling of semi-molten material from the planet's interior, or perhaps by several smaller meteorite impacts. But now the theory of a single giant impact has gained major support. It's an intriguing theory - most of it derived from computer calculations and NASA spacecraft. But one scientist expressed some modest reservations about it in a separate commentary in Nature.
An interesting, yet probably non-answerable question occurred to me - If an object did smash into Mars, rather than hitting pole-on as the theory says (and I'm no astrophysicist and can't even spell it properly), which seems improbable to mee, seeing as how all the orbits of all the crap circling the sun seem to lie on a plane, could it have struck Mars' pole and then hit the next planet in (Earth), causing its moon?
If this could have happened, could life have been on Mars at he time but completely wiped out, with its remnant chemicals starting life over on Earth?
Your attitude is remniscent of the Monty Hall problem
Not at all. Voting isn't about "picking the right door". It's about selecting who will represent you in a democratic republic (that alas is also a plutocracy). Your attitude is about "picking the lesser of two evils". I refuse to do that any more after voting since 1972 and only being happy about my choice one time.
Knowingly wasting a vote on a loser converges on the same effect as not voting at all.
If you don't vote at all, you're considered apathetic by the corporate-owned media and the corporate-owned politicians. If you vote for a loser, you're making your displeasure with the status-quo known.
Does Barr get no press coverage because he has no chance of winning or does he have no chance of winning because he gets no press coverage?
The Greens could not have won the election, as they weren't on the ballot in enough states to win the Presidency even if they had won every state they were on the ballot in. In contrast, the Libertarians were on the ballot in 49 of the 50 states.
The corporate media ignored Browne and slobbered all over Nader.
Barr has no chance of winning because he gets no press. Nonetheless, I will vote either Green or Libertarian (maybe Constitution party) if the candidate is on the ballot in anough states to win the election.
There are only three ways to "waste" a vote:
stay home
Vote for a candidate who mathematically has no chance of winning (Nader in 2000)
Vote for a candidate whose interests are opposed to your own
If you are against staying in Iraq, a vote for McCain is a wasted vote. If you think Social Security is stupid (I don't) a vote for Obama is a wasted vote. If you smoke marijuana or hire prostitutes (or are a prostitute) a vote for either McCain or Obama is a wasted vote. If you are against the buying of American politicians by rich foreigners, a vote for either mainstream party is again wasted.
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The "expired" (ahem) presidents devalue over time, too. Washington would get you a gallon of gasoline here in Springfield when Bush took office, bow it takes four of them. In 1968 when I started driving, Washington would buy you over a quarter tank of the stuff.
Federal law doesn't cover the state of Chihuahua.
IINM it started with the Willie Dixon song Dead Presidents that was later covered more popularly by Little Walter and even later by the J. Geils Band .
For someone making the Federal minimum wage in the US, his earnings would almost pay for this drug.
You're not going to get a middle class job with the rare genetic disorder this drug treats.
How do they know which mice are retarded or not? Give them the cheese test?
They see if the mice RTFA and actually understand it.
My daughter's cat is pretty damned dumb, it moves its lips when it reads.
Sadly, it won't work. Although you were joking, I uncharacteristically jumped straight to TFA on this one, as my oldest daughter's IQ measures at 65. That's about five points lower than Forest Gump, if I remember the movie correctly.
Sadly, this treatment only fights Darwin. TFA says
A million people might not seem rare, but consider that there are six billion people on the planet. From a link from TFA:
Most mental retardation is caused by injury.
A bit offtopic, but the US public school system, bad as it is for average (IQ 100) kids, it fails miserably for both "special" and "gifted" students; my youngest's IQ is 131 and she wound up dropping out (later getting her GED and now manages a GameStop store at age 21) while the oldest graduated high school an got her diploma but lives on SSI disability.
The US public school system is badly broken.
I would imagine that a lot of folks might want a WTF plate. In Illinois they won't issue a personalized tag they consider offensive, but some people manage to slide through.
I saw one a while back that I wondered if it was owned by a Chicago Bulls fan, or if he was just being snarky. It read
BULLS IT
(OT but somebody needs to fix this CSS. No wonder the blurb says idle.slashdot.org is a waste of time, never go there! It seems to have hapopened with the server move)
Maybe it's just me, but a simple 4 digit number doesn't provide all that much security in my mind. How easy is it to simply glance over someone's shoulders and read their pin?
I no longer use a debit card for that very reason - my bank account was cleaned out by a woman I took pity on. She'd been strung out on crack and had nothing left but the clothes on her back. She wanted to dry out and get into rehab. So I stupidly let her stay at my apartment for a week.
During that week she obviously watched over my sholder at the ATM, then stole a book of checks. And the keys to my car I'd only made one payment on.
The bank made good on the forged checks, but not the ATM. Their rationale was that if the person had the PIN the only way to get it was have it given to them!
I journaled about it her:
Ask Slashdot: Women
The Crackwhore and the Nerd
Party Like It's 1976
The best gift cards in the US are green and have pictures of dead presidents on them.
After all, mayors and city councils are supposed to have dictatorial powers.
So are the police. Especially the secret police (usually referred to by euphamisms like "undercover agents" or "plainclothesmen").
OT but as a cyborg, I'm amused by your user name. Resistance is not only futile, but when the time comes you will beg to join us!
I shudder at the thought of having to look (which I would, it's like a train wreck) at droopy boobs all flying around an swingin' with the gait that some of these heifers sport.
As a 56 year old geezer I must say, NOT ME! I happen to LIKE droopy boobs!
it's a physical hazard there's a definite need to put leashes on those puppies!
Before the 20th century, only the rich women leashed them. It was in that century the bra was invented. From wikipedia:
True, but the point stands that there is no indication whatever that there's any life anywhere but earth.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that we most likely will find life of some sort. I also suspect that we may run across sentient life and not only not realise it's sentient, but even that it's alive.
The late Chief Dan George's character in Little Big Man had an observation (that I'm surely not quoting exactly since it's been years since I've seen that movie): "The Indian thinks everything is alive; the people, the buffalo, the trees, the rocks. The white man thinks nothing is alive, and if he suspects something is alive he'll kill it."
There was a STNG episode where they did, in fact, come across a sentient silicone-based life sentient form that they neither realized was sentient nor alive.
But currently there is no evidence of life anywhere but here.
Saying that guns don't kill people, people kill people, is bullshit. Show me an instant when a person killed a person with a gun when they didn't have a gun.
That's a pretty stupidly loaded question. The entire meaning of the NRA statement is that you don't need a gun to kill someone! Here are a couple of links that is sure to piss off a different AC (the one who hates me linking my slashdot journals, nudge nudge wank wank know what I mean?)
Dork Side of the Moon is about an attempted murder. His weapon wasn't a gun; it was a large knife. He was thwarted by the fact that the man he attacked was also armed - the victim was in posession of a two by four.
In Klutzo the Clown tasered to death a clergyman/policeman/day care worker/big brothr/pedophile was killed by a fat jail guard who sat on him.
There are links to newspaper articles in both journals.
Guns don't kill people, people kill people and they don't need guns to do it. Your automobile can be used as a murder weapon. Your kitchen is full of deadly weapons.
Great minds at slashdot (WTF?)
yes, most people who pull a gun to rob a store aren't gun owners.
yes, funny things are often interesting. The comment was obviously meant as a joke. The GP said (my emphasis):The vast majority of legal gun owners (proper license, clean background, etc) in the US commits a disproportionally lower percentage of the violent crime.
The criminals got them by stealing them, by buying them from thieves who stole them, and buying them from people who smuggled them from states without background checks. That's what criminals do.
Hienlien's four boxes: Ballot, jury, soap, and ammo. Slashdot is the third box, lets hope it and the first will suffice.
I'm wondering why so many of you hit the "post anonymously" checkbox.
You have urban school districts that suck when consumers of education should have sole choice of what education they get through vouchers, etc.
The schools aren't responsible for giving kids morals; that's the parents' responsibility. And vouchers won't help the poor, who are the ones whose kids are most likely to become criminals, unless the voucher pays 100% of the cost of school.
Not government's failure; it's parents' failure.
You have urban governments that chase away legit business with over-regulation and taxation.
Show some stats. I don't believe your anonymous assertions.
You have stupid drug laws that create huge black-market economies in the exact same places you chase away legimate business.
OK, I'll agree with the black market economics aspect; alcohol prohibition created a lot of violent crime that went away when it was lifted, and you have the same problem with the drug gans. But I don't agree that it is chasing away legit business, at least not here in Springfield. There are new businesses in the bad part of town, despite the fact that the people who live there don't have a lot of money fo rthose businessmen.
Stupid educational policies and drug policies need to be fixed and maybe we can stop blaming the gun objects (and beer objects)
Where are they blaming the beer objects? Gees, I'm 56 and my dad was only two when prohibition ended (my grandmother told me my grandpa had a beermaking kit in his barn).
No results found for hoplophobia.
Did you mean hippophobia (in dictionary) or Hoplophobia (in encyclopedia)?
Hoplophobia, (pronounced [hplfobi]), from the Greek hoplon, or weapon, is defined as the "fear of firearms" or alternatively, a fear of weapons in general, and describes a specific phobia.
Some phobias are healthy.
The average /.r is male, and we are already allowed to bare chests
You must be gay. We heterosexuals dearly and truly wish for the female of the species to bare their chests at every opportunity!
Especially those of us who can't get one of our own.
You'll think differently when someone steals your laptop at gunpoint.
I beg to differ.
-mcgrew
How about a link to a real newspaper?
here ;)
As someone who tries to avoid RTFAs, I was annoyed that the summary dodn't even HINT at what the actual decision was, obviously to drive traffic to the submitter's site.here
here
here (oops, my bad
here
here
here
or how about one from a city that is directly impacted by the decision, like here?
I'm disappointed in you, timothy. I'm sure there were a lot more submissions than this one. Since this is Thursday, I hereby nominate you as "Aurthur Dent" (Monday is my Dent Day).
Why do I have to <p> on my paragraphs when I've selected "plain old text"??
If there were no moon it would have happened differently.
There is no proof or even indication that it would or wouldn't have happened at all. Life must be pretty damned special* because we've found no indication of it elsewhere. We've had probes to most of our star's planets and not found any hint of life anywhere yet, we've had SETI running for a long time and no indication at all that there's anybody out there.
We don't even know how life started on earth. So far, we DO know that life is unique to Earth in our solar system. I don't think it's likely, but it is possible, no matter how improbable, that this little rock is the only repository of life in the universe.
-mcgrew
*Marvin says life rode the short bus to school.
Someone actually spoke of a beowolf cluster without making a joke!
I hope I've remedied this...
Mars Had an Ancient Impact Like Earth
No it didn't. Like Earth, Mars had an ancient impact, but the impact itself was decidedly NOT like the impact Earth experienced.
Earth's impact obliterated the Mars-sized object that impacted earth, leaving a ring of ejects circling the Earth. The ring coalesced into the moon. This didn't happen on Mars; Mars has no giant satellite, only two small moons.
Also, I saw a few different accounts, and not everyone is yet convinced that the disparity between Mars' poles was caused by a giant impact. The San Fransisco Chrinicle, for instance, says "Huge impact may have divided Mars surface".
An interesting, yet probably non-answerable question occurred to me - If an object did smash into Mars, rather than hitting pole-on as the theory says (and I'm no astrophysicist and can't even spell it properly), which seems improbable to mee, seeing as how all the orbits of all the crap circling the sun seem to lie on a plane, could it have struck Mars' pole and then hit the next planet in (Earth), causing its moon?If this could have happened, could life have been on Mars at he time but completely wiped out, with its remnant chemicals starting life over on Earth?
There have been meteorites that are Martians.
Your attitude is remniscent of the Monty Hall problem
Not at all. Voting isn't about "picking the right door". It's about selecting who will represent you in a democratic republic (that alas is also a plutocracy). Your attitude is about "picking the lesser of two evils". I refuse to do that any more after voting since 1972 and only being happy about my choice one time.
Knowingly wasting a vote on a loser converges on the same effect as not voting at all.
If you don't vote at all, you're considered apathetic by the corporate-owned media and the corporate-owned politicians. If you vote for a loser, you're making your displeasure with the status-quo known.
Does Barr get no press coverage because he has no chance of winning or does he have no chance of winning because he gets no press coverage?
In 2000 the Green Party nominated Ralph Nader as its presidential candidate, and the Libertarian Party nominated Harry Browne.
The Greens could not have won the election, as they weren't on the ballot in enough states to win the Presidency even if they had won every state they were on the ballot in. In contrast, the Libertarians were on the ballot in 49 of the 50 states.
The corporate media ignored Browne and slobbered all over Nader.
Barr has no chance of winning because he gets no press. Nonetheless, I will vote either Green or Libertarian (maybe Constitution party) if the candidate is on the ballot in anough states to win the election.
There are only three ways to "waste" a vote:
- stay home
- Vote for a candidate who mathematically has no chance of winning (Nader in 2000)
- Vote for a candidate whose interests are opposed to your own
If you are against staying in Iraq, a vote for McCain is a wasted vote. If you think Social Security is stupid (I don't) a vote for Obama is a wasted vote. If you smoke marijuana or hire prostitutes (or are a prostitute) a vote for either McCain or Obama is a wasted vote. If you are against the buying of American politicians by rich foreigners, a vote for either mainstream party is again wasted.Actually, worse than wasted.