I would like to posthumously nominate Matthew Carrington for the Darwin Awards. Apparently, Mr. Carrington thought is was a good idea and worthwhile to chug water while doing calisthenic.
The ultimate irony is this:
The game was a quiz-show type game, where the pledges had to answer questions. If the pledge got the answer wrong, they then had to drink water and do calisthenics. Mr. Carrington got so many questions wrong, that he drank enough water to cause his own death by over-hydration.
Not only wast he stupid enough the participate in such a contest as a requirement to get into a fraternity (a stupid rationale as it is), but he answered so many questions wrong that he had to drink enough water to cause death by over-hydration.
Now there are laws that punish other people for an individuals stupid choices. If he was forced at gunpoint, then it definitely would have not been his fault. But, since he VOLUNTARILY made the choise to participate in the contest, and CONTINUE TO STAY IN THE CONTEST (your body will tell you when you are doing something you shouldn't be doing. To over-hydrate and not know it is baloney)so the HE COULD BE IN A FRATERNITY, is ENTIRELY his fault alone.
Funny how every single item is related to the Bush Administration.....
This is more of a very slanted editorial than news. I do admit that the Bush Administation has made some big mistakes, but it is curious to note that every single item is Bush-related.
Do people actually think that other people whose generation is defined by the iPod can actually understand what space exploration is and what it means?
The kids that currently comprise the "iPod Generation" are dumb enough that they are lucky they haven't killed themselves opening a door.
I'll bet I could rack up Frequent Flyer Miles like it's nobody's business.
I have one request: Any babies that scream like they are being skinned alive MUST be ejected into the vaccuum of space. The resulting cheap form of morbid entertainment will serve as compensation to the remaining inconvenienced travelers.
Doc Jones wouldn't give a damn, because he knows it's not him, has nothing to do with him, and is named after either a deceased physicist, or the person who discovered it.
If the physicist discovered it, he can name it whatever he wants. If he names it after himself, and it turns out to be some horribly carcinogenic element later, he most likely wouldn't care.
If the physicist is already deceased, I GUARENTEE you he won't care.
The names the etymologists ALREADY put in place to name undiscovered elements aren't exactly easy to use, even in a sentance:
Uun: Ununnillium Uuq: Ununquadium Unl: Unnillennium Unp: Unnilpentium Uno: Unniloctium Uuu: Unununium.....you get the idea.
Although this is etymologically correct in relation to the atomic number, it's far more complex in speech and practicality than naming it after a dead physicist or the discoverer.
BTW, having an element named after you is ALOT MORE OF AN HONOR than getting your name in a star registry. It's the scientific equivalent to getting your name in the Bible.
Instead of a hammer, which would leave an obvious, and most likely ugly, mark on your passport, you could just use an N50 neodymium magnet. The integrity of the passport would remain unaffected. An RFID chip that has been hammered would most likely damage your passpord by fragmenting and cutting through the cover, if the blow from the hammer hadn't scuffed it up enough already.
N50 Neodymium magnets can be a little pricey (about UK3.00 / US6.00), but with a magnet that strong, you could probably keep yourself amused until the end of time!
Normally, I would be pretty interested in this, except that robotic and animatronic deer have been used to catch illegal hunting for about 15 YEARS.
Do the people that read article submissions have the ability to tell old news from new news? I'm getting pretty tired of reading about things and 'news' articles that are DECADES old.
The Cylons would suck up the Social Services budget in a heartbeat with all of the anger management thereapy tha they would need.
Thsi is another example of why Science and Technology "think tanks" and other organizations should be taken with a massive grain of salt, no matter how authoritative and elite the name of the group sounds. My other question is, how in the hell did they come to this conclusion?!
I'm starting to wonder if science and technology is going the way of abstract art: Of course it makes sense, you just don't understand. "Experts" are starting to make outrageous claims and statements as a way to boost their "authority" over a subject. It's the same thing that abstract artists do; Create something so bizzarre with an irrelevent title, and then call it art because the artist is the only one who 'understads' it while everybody else is 'wrong' because they think it is a pile of junk.
Professionals need to realize that building a reputation is alot more that making claims that are seemingly intentionally made to raise controversy.
If my robot doesn't do what I want, it ends up like the robots before it: Face down in the dirt and shot.....several times. RoboJesse Jackson can shove it.
How would this screw up circadian rythms, since no matter where you are facing, there is always a day and night time? Unless you are in space, or on a point where you can always see the sun, there will always be a night and day, with the obvious exceptions of the poles. For a tower to affect circadian rythms to a point where they are minimally affected, for any region relative to the normal day/night scheduled for that particular region, it would have to be EXTREMELY tall, and thus, EXTREMELY massive......just a thought.....
"In other news tonight, famous chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov was dragged into Red Square and shot earlier this evening after he beat Russian President Vladimir "The Impaler" Putin. Phone calls to the Kasparov residence went eerily unanswered. President Putin denies allegations that he had any part in Kasparov's death, and states that the truth will clear his name when his new book, If I Killed Garry Kasparov, This Is How I Would Do It, is released later this week."
Next Up: PETA activists set fire to Donals Trump's hairpiece. PETA issued a statement saying that thousands of animals are murdured every year to be made into hairpieces. Trump states that the hairpiece was ".....humanely scraped off his limousine's fender after his driver hit a deer while traveling on the New Jersey Turnpike". "It didn't feel a thing", says the driver.
What happens if you are playing an FPS and you drop it? Or, worse yet, Fido gets ahold of it and, if he, like my dog, doesn't chew his 'food' before swallowing it, eats the damn thing?
Pretty interesting device, though. However, I still think a mouse with an inertia-driven sensing device, as is already currently available, would be a better choice, since you could provide more features on the device, rather than a singe button. I would still prefer my now ancient wireless multibutton mouse, especially for gaming. Would LOVE to get the inertia-driven mouse, but I didn't have the $$ to buy it at the time was building my system.
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I would like to posthumously nominate Matthew Carrington for the Darwin Awards. Apparently, Mr. Carrington thought is was a good idea and worthwhile to chug water while doing calisthenic.
The ultimate irony is this:
The game was a quiz-show type game, where the pledges had to answer questions. If the pledge got the answer wrong, they then had to drink water and do calisthenics. Mr. Carrington got so many questions wrong, that he drank enough water to cause his own death by over-hydration.
Not only wast he stupid enough the participate in such a contest as a requirement to get into a fraternity (a stupid rationale as it is), but he answered so many questions wrong that he had to drink enough water to cause death by over-hydration.
Now there are laws that punish other people for an individuals stupid choices. If he was forced at gunpoint, then it definitely would have not been his fault. But, since he VOLUNTARILY made the choise to participate in the contest, and CONTINUE TO STAY IN THE CONTEST (your body will tell you when you are doing something you shouldn't be doing. To over-hydrate and not know it is baloney)so the HE COULD BE IN A FRATERNITY, is ENTIRELY his fault alone.
Funny how every single item is related to the Bush Administration.....
This is more of a very slanted editorial than news. I do admit that the Bush Administation has made some big mistakes, but it is curious to note that every single item is Bush-related.
Would this parasite be similar to Midi-chlorians or those stomach worms that Phillip J. Fry had?
Do people actually think that other people whose generation is defined by the iPod can actually understand what space exploration is and what it means?
The kids that currently comprise the "iPod Generation" are dumb enough that they are lucky they haven't killed themselves opening a door.
I'll bet I could rack up Frequent Flyer Miles like it's nobody's business.
I have one request: Any babies that scream like they are being skinned alive MUST be ejected into the vaccuum of space. The resulting cheap form of morbid entertainment will serve as compensation to the remaining inconvenienced travelers.
Doc Jones wouldn't give a damn, because he knows it's not him, has nothing to do with him, and is named after either a deceased physicist, or the person who discovered it.
.....you get the idea.
If the physicist discovered it, he can name it whatever he wants. If he names it after himself, and it turns out to be some horribly carcinogenic element later, he most likely wouldn't care.
If the physicist is already deceased, I GUARENTEE you he won't care.
The names the etymologists ALREADY put in place to name undiscovered elements aren't exactly easy to use, even in a sentance:
Uun: Ununnillium
Uuq: Ununquadium
Unl: Unnillennium
Unp: Unnilpentium
Uno: Unniloctium
Uuu: Unununium
Although this is etymologically correct in relation to the atomic number, it's far more complex in speech and practicality than naming it after a dead physicist or the discoverer.
BTW, having an element named after you is ALOT MORE OF AN HONOR than getting your name in a star registry. It's the scientific equivalent to getting your name in the Bible.
The only document you are probably gonna get is a lipstick-smeared cocktail napkin with "Oswald did it" scribbled on it.
It's not hard to imagine a pre-deadling file shredding frenzy on a scale that would make Enron look like the Salvation Army.
No simulation can ever fully duplicate studies. Ethics is to science is what gasoline is to somebody's lawn.
I would like to see those truly backwards activists live without everything that was tested on animals or humans.
Jobs needs alot of lawyers, because each lawyer he has means more padding between him when he hits the concrete.
Instead of a hammer, which would leave an obvious, and most likely ugly, mark on your passport, you could just use an N50 neodymium magnet. The integrity of the passport would remain unaffected. An RFID chip that has been hammered would most likely damage your passpord by fragmenting and cutting through the cover, if the blow from the hammer hadn't scuffed it up enough already.
N50 Neodymium magnets can be a little pricey (about UK3.00 / US6.00), but with a magnet that strong, you could probably keep yourself amused until the end of time!
Normally, I would be pretty interested in this, except that robotic and animatronic deer have been used to catch illegal hunting for about 15 YEARS.
Do the people that read article submissions have the ability to tell old news from new news? I'm getting pretty tired of reading about things and 'news' articles that are DECADES old.
If the camera operators get to watch and yell at us, then we should get a cameras with speakers so we can watch and yell at them.
:::::sounds of scuffling and heavily muffled yelling:::::
*THATS* fair.
Next think you know, they'll be indoctrinating kids to narq on all the adults:
"Teacher, I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus!"
That brings a whole new meaning to "blowing a wad of cash"
I pay 15 THOUSAND and that's all that comes in it? For that price, it at least better come with a lightsaber.
The Cylons would suck up the Social Services budget in a heartbeat with all of the anger management thereapy tha they would need.
Thsi is another example of why Science and Technology "think tanks" and other organizations should be taken with a massive grain of salt, no matter how authoritative and elite the name of the group sounds. My other question is, how in the hell did they come to this conclusion?!
I'm starting to wonder if science and technology is going the way of abstract art: Of course it makes sense, you just don't understand. "Experts" are starting to make outrageous claims and statements as a way to boost their "authority" over a subject. It's the same thing that abstract artists do; Create something so bizzarre with an irrelevent title, and then call it art because the artist is the only one who 'understads' it while everybody else is 'wrong' because they think it is a pile of junk.
Professionals need to realize that building a reputation is alot more that making claims that are seemingly intentionally made to raise controversy.
If my robot doesn't do what I want, it ends up like the robots before it: Face down in the dirt and shot.....several times. RoboJesse Jackson can shove it.
It is in no way news that people who experience positive emotions report fewer illnesses.
Why do people keep STATING THE OBVIOUS and conducting "STUDIES" only to "DISCOVER" things THAT ARE ALREADY KNOWN?!?!?!
Funny how the WSJ, an expert magazine about money and finance, would actually PAY someone MONEY to tell everyone the bleeding OBVIOUS.
OMG! You mean my laundry dryer uses *more* electricity than my IPod?!
And abotu the computers and tech stuff: There is a reason your dryer uses a 240V socket instead of a cigarette adapter.....idiot.
For now, I'm going to go read articles about research projects that DON'T tell me the obvious.
How would this screw up circadian rythms, since no matter where you are facing, there is always a day and night time? Unless you are in space, or on a point where you can always see the sun, there will always be a night and day, with the obvious exceptions of the poles. For a tower to affect circadian rythms to a point where they are minimally affected, for any region relative to the normal day/night scheduled for that particular region, it would have to be EXTREMELY tall, and thus, EXTREMELY massive. .....just a thought.....
Or a giant cog/gear with polished bearing surfaces on either side, like the kind used to rotate cranes, but a whole hell of a lot bigger.
Darn.....
I was expecting an article on Ted Kennedy.
"In other news tonight, famous chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov was dragged into Red Square and shot earlier this evening after he beat Russian President Vladimir "The Impaler" Putin. Phone calls to the Kasparov residence went eerily unanswered. President Putin denies allegations that he had any part in Kasparov's death, and states that the truth will clear his name when his new book, If I Killed Garry Kasparov, This Is How I Would Do It, is released later this week."
Next Up: PETA activists set fire to Donals Trump's hairpiece. PETA issued a statement saying that thousands of animals are murdured every year to be made into hairpieces. Trump states that the hairpiece was ".....humanely scraped off his limousine's fender after his driver hit a deer while traveling on the New Jersey Turnpike". "It didn't feel a thing", says the driver.
The Chinese Government like to oppress people because it is mad that it has sand in it's vaChina.
What happens if you are playing an FPS and you drop it? Or, worse yet, Fido gets ahold of it and, if he, like my dog, doesn't chew his 'food' before swallowing it, eats the damn thing?
Pretty interesting device, though. However, I still think a mouse with an inertia-driven sensing device, as is already currently available, would be a better choice, since you could provide more features on the device, rather than a singe button. I would still prefer my now ancient wireless multibutton mouse, especially for gaming. Would LOVE to get the inertia-driven mouse, but I didn't have the $$ to buy it at the time was building my system.
I believe it's called "Marketer's Itch".
I don't think they have a cream for it yet, though.
So long, and thanks for all the fish!