I love some of the Britishisms I see on the internet! In this case, though, Google failed me (Your search - arsewaddles - did not match any documents).
When I got divorced, I was damned glad I had a good lwayer. When I subsequently filed bankrupcy, again I was glad I had a good lawyer.
When my then-wife ("Evil-X" for those of you who have seen the Paxil Diaries) was hit by a city truck that ran a red light, well, her lawyer sucked but the medical bills got paid. I was glad she hired the same guy for the divorce.
When your incompetent doctor who has lost his license in seven states (but there's no way for you to know that) leaves a sponge in your gut, you are going to need a good lawyer.
I guess your idea of a "free economy" is allowing me to steal from your store.
If you have injury and disease, you're going to need doctors. If you have computers, you are going to need programers. If you are going to have engines, you are going to need engineers. If you are going to have laws, you are going to need lawyers.
With guys like Dobb, who posture around with a BS charade of integrity
If they have an R or a D next to their name in the newspapers, they are a wholly owned subsidiary of a foreign owned corporation (MNC).
Any politician who takes money from any company with a single foreign stockholder is a traitor to his country, no matter what country he represents. I'm sad to say I helped vote traitors into the Senate, House, and Presidency. I no longer do that.
Well? A politician who needs to compromise in order to get where they want is nothing new.
A good negotiator will give up something he doesn't need for something he does. He doesn't give up something important for something trivial.
Why not show in your post that Obama needs the intelligence community and cannot afford to anger his constituents who have worked hard on a compromise?
If he is elected President, he will be the "intelligence community's" boss. If he isn't elected then as Senator he still holds power over them, not the other way around.
Granted, this compromise stills appears to be a potential death knell for the separation of the real church (big corporate money) and state
A vote for a Democrat or Republican is a vote for a politician beholden to the national religion (money worship and corporations). Both are corporate funded entities. Neither is pro-human, both are pro-corporate.
condemning someone for doing what may be necessary doesn't seem very productive especially when the alternative is someone who works toward very sinister ends as well (looking at you, Mr. McCain).
Dammit man, there are more than two candidates for President!!!!! So far I plan on voting for Barr, even though he doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning. I stopped voting for "the lesser of two evils a while back.
If you say "if you don't vote Democrat or Republican your vote is wasted", well if that's so then a vote for loser Gore was a wasted vote too, now wasn't it? You should have voted for Bush rather than wasting your vote on a loser. Just look at the popularity polls, vote for the guy you think has the best chance of winning and vote for him so you don't waste your vote.
If you follow that twisted corporate logic, then I plan on wasting my vote this November. Wasting my vote on a loser is better than voting for a man who wants me in prison.
It's art. One of my instructors in college was fond of saying "I don't know what I like, but I know what art is".
Dada is an anti-art art; or rather more of an anti-art establishment art. Marcel Duchamp once hung a urinal on an art gallery wall, and the critics (successful critics in any field are never antiestablishment) praised it for its form and beauty.
One installation in the 1920s was busted by the police. It consisted of a bare room with a woman clothed only in a hat and shoes who stood in the center of the room reading poetry.
Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in neutral Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature (poetry, art manifestoes, art theory), theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti war politic through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. Dada activities included public gatherings, demonstrations, and publication of art/literary journals. Passionate coverage of art, politics, and culture filled their publications. The movement influenced later styles, Avant-garde and Downtown music movements, and groups including Surrealism, Nouveau Réalisme, Pop Art and Fluxus.
" Dada is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism. Marc Lowenthal, Translator's introduction to Francis Picabia's I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, And Provocation (MIT Press 2007)
Note that the passage wikipedia quoted wasn't entirely accurate; there were other precursors to abstract art, such as impressionism and post-impressionism (both of which were also denigrated by the mainstream).
I'm lazy and figure that common sense would suffice. I just think it's dangerous drawing a conclusion about something that affects universal policies based on a single personal experience.
But it's not just one example. How many hundred year old smokers do you know? I've never met a single one, but I've known a few nonsmoking centenarians. Joe Smoker lives to age 50 and pays his way; Ralph Nonsmoker lives to a hundred collecting pension, social security, and free medical care for forty years. This is the norm; it seems to me that common sense would tell one that a guy who dies before retirement is going to cost society less than a guy who doesn't.
AFAICT there aren't any statistics to back this up; I'm not even sure how one could compile said statistics. Sometimes one has to look past statistics.
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And performance artist wonder why they get laughed at?
Cluebat: not all art is supposed to be serious.
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Research? Well I don't know but some good art came from it. Siggraph is computer-generated art. From TFA:
Our snails are equipped with a miniaturised electronic circuit and antenna that enables them to be assigned messages from hardware located within their enclosure. The moment you click 'send' your message will travel at the speed of light to our snail server where it will await collection by a snail agent.
Once associated with the tiny electronic chip on the snails shell your message will be carried around until the snail chances by the drop off point. Hardware located at this point collects the message from the snail and forwards it to its final destination.
My old art instructors would certainly approve. This approaches Dada.
I let Tami use the car yesterday, and gave her ten bucks for the gas tank. The first thing that happened this morning was I ran out of gas.
OTOH I always seem to be in one of the statistical tails.
OT but the blurb is right - this IS a total waste of my time. Why do I have to put a <p> in for a paragraph when I have "Plain Old Text" selected? Why is the CSS so horrible that most subject lines are obscured? Why is there green on green type that you have to highlight to read?
After trying for the last... oh, a while, I finally gave in and clicked the link to the Wired Story in the hope that I'd see some of these pictures.
And they are censored - by the guy's stupid cheapassed telescope, long exposure times, etc! They sure are some impressive... um, streaks?
I think the Berkeley (hey I spelt it rite) server stopped working out of embarrassment. Now instead of wondering how Berkely got slashdotted, I'm wondering how the story got on slashdot at all (which I guess is still asking why it got slashdotted)
For once when I saw someone's subject line "nothing to see here" he wasn't kidding!
Oh, I guess I shouldn't have just typed "Berkley" into the URL bar and should have clicked the link in the summary instead? Wow, your computer skills are 133t!
I'm trying to GAIN weight. I'm too skinny. As well as the handicapped parking thing, fat people piss me off because they stand in the way on the sidewalks and sidewalks.
But I don't think they have a negative MONETARY impact on me.
Actually I think the question would be "how much was spent by government on them during their lifetimes?" Sick people don't cost "society" anything in the US. Here you pay for your own health care or die.
I think if asked this way, rich people are a far bigger drain on society than fat people, fit people, smokers, and antismokers combined. Most of what government (in the US anyway) does is protect the rich's assets.
The state is called Delmarva. However, IIMN Delmarva kicked Delaware out because he snored too loud, and both Mary and Virginia are lesbians.
Uncyclopedia doesn't mention Delmarva, but it does have an entry on Delaware.
Today I saw a squirrel. For all I know, it might have been the only squirrel in Delaware. Wow! I bet it lives in a tree somewhere. I bet trees here look completely different from trees anywhere else. On the state border, I saw a sign that said WELCOME TO DELAWARE POPULATION: 1 SQUIRREL ALSO: 1 TREE I noticed they forgot to mention 1 super fun person -- my Uncle Frank -- but they can't get every single person in a state to do the census, so I guess it would be a little off. You have to admit, a difference of 1 ain't bad. I bet no other state comes that close.
But that only begs the question...who would go to Delaware for a vacation?
I was stationed at Dover AFB from 1971-1973. If it's anything like it was then, I'd say absolutely NOBODY. Never before or since I was there have I ever been so bored, and I owned a motorcycle and a new 1869 Mustang.
The only good thing about that state was the fact that you only had to drive twenty minutes in any direction and you were in a different state.
The summary mentions Rehobeth, I went there. It's not in Delaware, Rehobeth is in Maryland. None of the beaches in Delaware had sand. Deleware wes, as they say, "teh suck".
I'd like to see airline tickets sold by the pound; it would make sense. Not just the passenger, but the luggage as well. A three hundred pound weightlifter with no luggage should pay three times as much as the hundred pound anorexic.
As to the car and elevator, I think you'll find that the cost savings of weight loss would be negligible. I know my car's mileage on the highway varys more depending on the wind than if I have a fatassed passenger, and in the city whether or not I hit red or green lights.
#4 is a big "if". A person's weight depends not just on food intake, but the type of food and the person's metabolism. Fat people hate me, because I eat like a horse but I'm skinny as a rail.
#5 is offset by the fact that we skinny people get cold easy and turn the heat up in the winter, while fat people keep their houses cooler in the winter.
Perhaps you would like to claim that a machine intelligence lacks a soul as well?:)
I don't see what a soul or lack thereof has on intelligence, and besides that I can neither prove nor disprove that I have one. It's pretty easy to prove that if you do have a soul, it isn't tied to your neurochemistry, or alcohol would have no effect.
Unfortunately I doubt I have a few decades to see; I'm in my fifties, and I smoked cigarettes for thirty years. Most likely I'll be dead long before this discussion can be resolved.
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Initially I was skeptical when I started reading the article (I know, I know I have just broken a Slashdot cardinal rule)
You spelt all the wurds rite, two.
I love some of the Britishisms I see on the internet! In this case, though, Google failed me (Your search - arsewaddles - did not match any documents).
I love that new word, what does it mean?
They contribute so much to our free economy!
When I got divorced, I was damned glad I had a good lwayer. When I subsequently filed bankrupcy, again I was glad I had a good lawyer.
When my then-wife ("Evil-X" for those of you who have seen the Paxil Diaries) was hit by a city truck that ran a red light, well, her lawyer sucked but the medical bills got paid. I was glad she hired the same guy for the divorce.
When your incompetent doctor who has lost his license in seven states (but there's no way for you to know that) leaves a sponge in your gut, you are going to need a good lawyer.
I guess your idea of a "free economy" is allowing me to steal from your store.
If you have injury and disease, you're going to need doctors. If you have computers, you are going to need programers. If you are going to have engines, you are going to need engineers. If you are going to have laws, you are going to need lawyers.
BTW, IANAL.
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With guys like Dobb, who posture around with a BS charade of integrity
If they have an R or a D next to their name in the newspapers, they are a wholly owned subsidiary of a foreign owned corporation (MNC).
Any politician who takes money from any company with a single foreign stockholder is a traitor to his country, no matter what country he represents. I'm sad to say I helped vote traitors into the Senate, House, and Presidency. I no longer do that.
Slashdot is one of Heinlein's four boxes.
Well? A politician who needs to compromise in order to get where they want is nothing new.
A good negotiator will give up something he doesn't need for something he does. He doesn't give up something important for something trivial.
Why not show in your post that Obama needs the intelligence community and cannot afford to anger his constituents who have worked hard on a compromise?
If he is elected President, he will be the "intelligence community's" boss. If he isn't elected then as Senator he still holds power over them, not the other way around.
Granted, this compromise stills appears to be a potential death knell for the separation of the real church (big corporate money) and state
A vote for a Democrat or Republican is a vote for a politician beholden to the national religion (money worship and corporations). Both are corporate funded entities. Neither is pro-human, both are pro-corporate.
condemning someone for doing what may be necessary doesn't seem very productive especially when the alternative is someone who works toward very sinister ends as well (looking at you, Mr. McCain).
Dammit man, there are more than two candidates for President!!!!! So far I plan on voting for Barr, even though he doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning. I stopped voting for "the lesser of two evils a while back.
If you say "if you don't vote Democrat or Republican your vote is wasted", well if that's so then a vote for loser Gore was a wasted vote too, now wasn't it? You should have voted for Bush rather than wasting your vote on a loser. Just look at the popularity polls, vote for the guy you think has the best chance of winning and vote for him so you don't waste your vote.
If you follow that twisted corporate logic, then I plan on wasting my vote this November. Wasting my vote on a loser is better than voting for a man who wants me in prison.
My money says you're right. I looked his voting record up, and he only votes half the time.
It's art. One of my instructors in college was fond of saying "I don't know what I like, but I know what art is".
Dada is an anti-art art; or rather more of an anti-art establishment art. Marcel Duchamp once hung a urinal on an art gallery wall, and the critics (successful critics in any field are never antiestablishment) praised it for its form and beauty.
One installation in the 1920s was busted by the police. It consisted of a bare room with a woman clothed only in a hat and shoes who stood in the center of the room reading poetry.
From the wikipedia page on dada:
Note that the passage wikipedia quoted wasn't entirely accurate; there were other precursors to abstract art, such as impressionism and post-impressionism (both of which were also denigrated by the mainstream).I'm lazy and figure that common sense would suffice. I just think it's dangerous drawing a conclusion about something that affects universal policies based on a single personal experience.
But it's not just one example. How many hundred year old smokers do you know? I've never met a single one, but I've known a few nonsmoking centenarians. Joe Smoker lives to age 50 and pays his way; Ralph Nonsmoker lives to a hundred collecting pension, social security, and free medical care for forty years. This is the norm; it seems to me that common sense would tell one that a guy who dies before retirement is going to cost society less than a guy who doesn't.
AFAICT there aren't any statistics to back this up; I'm not even sure how one could compile said statistics. Sometimes one has to look past statistics.
When in doubt, don't mod at all. If you get it wrong, a metamoderator may mod your mod "unfair" (whether it is an upmod or a downmod doesn't matter) and you are likely to not get any more mod points.
And performance artist wonder why they get laughed at?
Cluebat: not all art is supposed to be serious.
Research? Well I don't know but some good art came from it. Siggraph is computer-generated art. From TFA:
My old art instructors would certainly approve. This approaches Dada.Me too.
I let Tami use the car yesterday, and gave her ten bucks for the gas tank. The first thing that happened this morning was I ran out of gas.
OTOH I always seem to be in one of the statistical tails.
OT but the blurb is right - this IS a total waste of my time. Why do I have to put a <p> in for a paragraph when I have "Plain Old Text" selected? Why is the CSS so horrible that most subject lines are obscured? Why is there green on green type that you have to highlight to read?
I'd be ashamed to post a story here.
After trying for the last... oh, a while, I finally gave in and clicked the link to the Wired Story in the hope that I'd see some of these pictures.
And they are censored - by the guy's stupid cheapassed telescope, long exposure times, etc! They sure are some impressive... um, streaks?
I think the Berkeley (hey I spelt it rite) server stopped working out of embarrassment. Now instead of wondering how Berkely got slashdotted, I'm wondering how the story got on slashdot at all (which I guess is still asking why it got slashdotted)
For once when I saw someone's subject line "nothing to see here" he wasn't kidding!
Oh, I guess I shouldn't have just typed "Berkley" into the URL bar and should have clicked the link in the summary instead? Wow, your computer skills are 133t!
Hmm...I stand corrected.
I'm trying to GAIN weight. I'm too skinny. As well as the handicapped parking thing, fat people piss me off because they stand in the way on the sidewalks and sidewalks.
But I don't think they have a negative MONETARY impact on me.
Did TFA get slashdotted, or did the DoD bomb Berkley?
Actually I think the question would be "how much was spent by government on them during their lifetimes?" Sick people don't cost "society" anything in the US. Here you pay for your own health care or die.
I think if asked this way, rich people are a far bigger drain on society than fat people, fit people, smokers, and antismokers combined. Most of what government (in the US anyway) does is protect the rich's assets.
Thanks, that was informative.
The state is called Delmarva. However, IIMN Delmarva kicked Delaware out because he snored too loud, and both Mary and Virginia are lesbians.
Uncyclopedia doesn't mention Delmarva, but it does have an entry on Delaware.
But that only begs the question...who would go to Delaware for a vacation?
I was stationed at Dover AFB from 1971-1973. If it's anything like it was then, I'd say absolutely NOBODY. Never before or since I was there have I ever been so bored, and I owned a motorcycle and a new 1869 Mustang.
The only good thing about that state was the fact that you only had to drive twenty minutes in any direction and you were in a different state.
The summary mentions Rehobeth, I went there. It's not in Delaware, Rehobeth is in Maryland. None of the beaches in Delaware had sand. Deleware wes, as they say, "teh suck".
At least there's something good there now.
I'd like to see airline tickets sold by the pound; it would make sense. Not just the passenger, but the luggage as well. A three hundred pound weightlifter with no luggage should pay three times as much as the hundred pound anorexic.
As to the car and elevator, I think you'll find that the cost savings of weight loss would be negligible. I know my car's mileage on the highway varys more depending on the wind than if I have a fatassed passenger, and in the city whether or not I hit red or green lights.
#4 is a big "if". A person's weight depends not just on food intake, but the type of food and the person's metabolism. Fat people hate me, because I eat like a horse but I'm skinny as a rail.
#5 is offset by the fact that we skinny people get cold easy and turn the heat up in the winter, while fat people keep their houses cooler in the winter.
Exactly.
Perhaps you would like to claim that a machine intelligence lacks a soul as well? :)
I don't see what a soul or lack thereof has on intelligence, and besides that I can neither prove nor disprove that I have one. It's pretty easy to prove that if you do have a soul, it isn't tied to your neurochemistry, or alcohol would have no effect.
Unfortunately I doubt I have a few decades to see; I'm in my fifties, and I smoked cigarettes for thirty years. Most likely I'll be dead long before this discussion can be resolved.