There are only two types of tweets: retarded and sarcastic. If a tweet has the word "fuck" in it, it's easy to label it retarded. If a tweet has the word "retarded" in it, it's easy to label it sarcastic.
Gordon Gekko wipes his ass with Republican Jesus. That three hours Republican Jesus wastes every week eating waferized pieces of himself is just enough time to take him down a couple pegs and make a couple trades to leverage the market's reaction when it opens on Monday.
In fairness, considering the relationship between exposure to cockroach droppings and asthma in studies of the children of the urban poor, maybe the fear of cockroaches is well-founded.
The Ayn Rand wing of the GOP would vomit profusely if forced to conform to that form of capitalism as a religion. These people are already practically in tears trying to explain why the golden age of godless exploitation ever had to end.
If I was a state governor, I'd pay the faculty of my state universities create textbooks for my k-12 curriculum. Instead of paying royalties to large publishers, my faculty would be better paid.
Giving rise to the episode of South Park where fourth graderrs have to read Catcher in the Rye.
When the Facebook era of justices come along, we'll have to face reality and accept that our authority figures are not and cannot be 100% chaste pillars of virtue. That, or we'll just leave the jobs open indefinitely. Considering where the far-right's going with their ideology, I don't feel comfortable ruling out permanent vacancies as the answer.
What's unreal to me is how many kids refuse to unfriend their parents. I understand no one wants to hear shit for unfriending mom, but maybe mom needs to realize her job is to help the kid grow up. And in many cases, growing up means mom not being there.
"it will be harder to convince your mom to log in"
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That's a bad thing?
This Easter I was BSing with the various family members after dinner. And my sister started getting on my teenage niece's case about some boy on her Facebook page and the teen-related shenanigans mentioned. Minor shit -- a kiss.
I finally looked at my sister and asked her if she recalled being that age. I recall my sister at that age, and let's just say our mom would have been elated if she could have kept her activities down to raunchy (as opposed to nasty).
Teens need liberated from Facebook. No one needs their goddamned parents breathing down their neck just because last night their boyfriend was breathing down their neck.
To be clear, did they just tell us all how we can disable communications satellites? I mean, sending a stronger signal sounds well within the realm of possibilities for an ambitious hacker type. I mean, the hard part would be finding the unnecessary reason to add an Aurdino to the project.
Sorry, I couldn't resist. Remember when people were saying that the hi-def fight would be decided by the porn industry? Yup, HD-DVD sure kicked ass and took names. Right up until an Evil Corporation decided to knock it on the ground and take its lunch money.
Anyone remember that gem of litigation? The one where people won lawsuits claiming breast implants caused chronic fatigue syndrome despite the fact the rate of chronic fatigue among breast implant patients was the same as the general population.
The law isn't about the truth. It's about narrative.
Look at the Tylenol scare. There's only one way to respond as a company in that situation. Toyota's great sin is that they held back and waited for the truth.
I took a 300-level stats class for my bachelor's, and I found practically every element of the field to be pointed toward providing backing data as opposed to proof.
I'll take a second derivative over a chi square any day of the week. At the end of the day, the second derivative tells me when to act. That beats the ass off of telling me what already happened.
There's only one thing I learned from stats: correlation is not causation. And that sort of indicts the field itself.
My admission: by trade I'm a programmer. Any field of study that's more about finding outliers than determining right where the curve is tends to be of less use to me.
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Just seeing a non-geek publication use that term makes me tingle.
In fairness, whole industries are built around telling customers the exact lie they want to hear.
For $15 for 400 milliliters and a one-time cost of $30 for the refill cartridges, eBay supplies me with all the ink I'll ever need.
There are only two types of tweets: retarded and sarcastic. If a tweet has the word "fuck" in it, it's easy to label it retarded. If a tweet has the word "retarded" in it, it's easy to label it sarcastic.
Gordon Gekko wipes his ass with Republican Jesus. That three hours Republican Jesus wastes every week eating waferized pieces of himself is just enough time to take him down a couple pegs and make a couple trades to leverage the market's reaction when it opens on Monday.
In fairness, considering the relationship between exposure to cockroach droppings and asthma in studies of the children of the urban poor, maybe the fear of cockroaches is well-founded.
Do we really need electricity to replace what chemistry already does so well?
The Ayn Rand wing of the GOP would vomit profusely if forced to conform to that form of capitalism as a religion. These people are already practically in tears trying to explain why the golden age of godless exploitation ever had to end.
You're aware it's a book, not a function to be called, right?
Why do you think the GOP is tearing itself apart? Free enterprise is an entirely different religion than Jesusitude. Seriously, read Ayn Rand.
Giving rise to the episode of South Park where fourth graderrs have to read Catcher in the Rye.
Those goddamned buffalo weren't going to eradicate themselves.
The Guardian is a fine source . . . for poorly sourced news.
Am I the only person who finds the Texans' belief in books a bit disturbing?
When the Facebook era of justices come along, we'll have to face reality and accept that our authority figures are not and cannot be 100% chaste pillars of virtue. That, or we'll just leave the jobs open indefinitely. Considering where the far-right's going with their ideology, I don't feel comfortable ruling out permanent vacancies as the answer.
What's unreal to me is how many kids refuse to unfriend their parents. I understand no one wants to hear shit for unfriending mom, but maybe mom needs to realize her job is to help the kid grow up. And in many cases, growing up means mom not being there.
That's a bad thing?
This Easter I was BSing with the various family members after dinner. And my sister started getting on my teenage niece's case about some boy on her Facebook page and the teen-related shenanigans mentioned. Minor shit -- a kiss.
I finally looked at my sister and asked her if she recalled being that age. I recall my sister at that age, and let's just say our mom would have been elated if she could have kept her activities down to raunchy (as opposed to nasty).
Teens need liberated from Facebook. No one needs their goddamned parents breathing down their neck just because last night their boyfriend was breathing down their neck.
Not to mention, even if it works, maneuvering a satellite shortens its lifespan significantly.
To be clear, did they just tell us all how we can disable communications satellites? I mean, sending a stronger signal sounds well within the realm of possibilities for an ambitious hacker type. I mean, the hard part would be finding the unnecessary reason to add an Aurdino to the project.
It's uncomfortable to admit it, but we all know which machine intelligence it really is: SkyNet.
You might recall they moved rather dramatically in Chile earlier this year. If the point is added precision, that's not a win.
Sorry, I couldn't resist. Remember when people were saying that the hi-def fight would be decided by the porn industry? Yup, HD-DVD sure kicked ass and took names. Right up until an Evil Corporation decided to knock it on the ground and take its lunch money.
Yay, Slashdot. Some days I wonder if my time wouldn't be better spent in the comments section of Digg.
Anyone remember that gem of litigation? The one where people won lawsuits claiming breast implants caused chronic fatigue syndrome despite the fact the rate of chronic fatigue among breast implant patients was the same as the general population.
The law isn't about the truth. It's about narrative.
Look at the Tylenol scare. There's only one way to respond as a company in that situation. Toyota's great sin is that they held back and waited for the truth.
I took a 300-level stats class for my bachelor's, and I found practically every element of the field to be pointed toward providing backing data as opposed to proof.
I'll take a second derivative over a chi square any day of the week. At the end of the day, the second derivative tells me when to act. That beats the ass off of telling me what already happened.
There's only one thing I learned from stats: correlation is not causation. And that sort of indicts the field itself.
My admission: by trade I'm a programmer. Any field of study that's more about finding outliers than determining right where the curve is tends to be of less use to me.