I like James Randi's joke about the man who accidentally overdosed on homeopathic medicine when he forgot to take it.
I read something similar. Bill Joel's daughter decided to end it all, and overdosed on homeopathic medicine. Fortunately she survived that suicide attempt.
Why take pictures of paintings, if you can download a better quality and that leaves you time to enjoy the painting.
A friend of mine always bought pictures (dia format) when he visited cities, because that way he had the best quality of the image of the building.
I take almost no photos of buildings. I can look them up online and if I forget where I was, then it was not worth remembering.
Quite agree, And I did something else - I went to the Uffizi a few years back, and bought slides. Along with books, etc. Slides (I figure) give you the sense of size and scale that photos and books don't. I've done the same with the paintings in the Cistine chapel.
Problem is of course, finding a slide projector...
and if it really does become an issue they can renounce citizenship later.
Are you aware there is a fee of somewhere around $10,000 USD to renounce your citizenship, plus any back taxes and penalties you may owe? Also, you are required to file U.S. tax returns even if you make ZERO income if you have any money at all in a non-U.S. bank account. The U.S. is one of the few countries that requires you to file tax returns in that case even if you don't owe any taxes. And they have been enforcing this rule: a lot of Canadians found themselves owing huge amounts of money in penalties to the IRS for failing to file these returns even though they didn't owe any U.S. taxes, and many of these people didn't consider themselves to be U.S. citizens and weren't even aware that the U.S. considered them to be citizens till they got their tax bill.
Interesting. So theoretically, the whole world would be better off filing US tax returns just in case the US considers them citizens, and just in case the US goes the next step and starts billing them for not filing a tax return.
Wonder if any other countries have this policy? I could file tax returns for Bolivia, Tibet, Belgium, Samoa, Madagascar and Dubai just in case they also consider me a citizen.
What's worse, if I ever don't file one, having started, then they'd chase me.
We could bog down the world with paperwork; electronic and otherwise. Or has this already been done?
I read somewhere that the Yamato went out with only enough fuel in it to go somewhere, not come back (though logically it could have gone somewhere half as far and come back fine...). Did this sister-ship get arraigned for a similar trip?
that is possible. Its also possible that this is false information to cover up a military test. or worse, someone other than the US military testing....
So, a conspiracy, you reckon? (reaches for tinfoil hat...)
In the following example:
"Mother" is the Chief of Staff
"Uncle James" is the head of state,
"Maisie's house" is the UN building
"Fishing" is 'discussing nuclear limitations'>br>
"Peeling Plums" is 'advising of invasion plans for country xxx
Message starts: "Mother and Uncle James are on their way to Maisie's house to peel some plums. After that they hope to go fishing, then see a movie. Have a lovely weekend. Cousin Sam"
I was a stutterer, and strongly blame psychological reasons (ever meet my mother?). I suspect some of us have psychological problems, some neurological (so this research says).
I'd be interested if psychological problems caused neurological issues.
This sounds like one of those "Listening to Mozart makes your kid smart, while listening to heavy metal makes them dumb" articles. As in, it's targetted to appeal to the audience. I'm guessing the majority of/. are hopheads? (no offence)
Lots of climate change deniers, cornucopians and similar delusional folks in software development.
The same as there are in any other field. IT isn't full of science nerds. We have all sorts in this profession.
Example - when I started programming ages ago, one of my fellow programmers was working on an Astrological program. Another was developing something that would enable him to pick winners on the horse races. I suspect the latter was more scientifically based than the former.
Personally in my spare time I transmute base metals into gold. And vice versa.
When will the news media wake up to the fact that this is a scam and stop giving Mars Zero (zero because they have zero chance of actually going to Mars) free advertising?
My new start-up, Jupiter Zero, will soon replace Mars Zero in the news anyhow
(Actually, this is probably what's going to happen...)
Wouldn't any programmer worth their salt identify themselves in the comments, or (if not) be logged as the last guy in that code on such-and-such a date, while working on such-and-such a patch number? (E,.g 'kittenman was here, 1/Jan/15, fixing Steve's crap').
But I hope my code is easily recognizable. I'm proud of it. It may not be the smartest, slickest, quickest there is, but it's mine. And it works.
And if memory serves, as recently as the 1860's, the Brits were supplying arms to the Confederacy, so in the late 19th century, it wasn't all smiles and sunshine the way it has been since WW2.
There's also the 'Trent Affair'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... . The US stopped a British ship mid-Atlantic to take off a couple of confederate politicians. That got pretty heated, until Lincoln handled the incident (read the article...).
Episode 67 clearly established they were Factarian moon bats. What you hear was an overdub based on a misspelling.
I'm sorry, I've got the Swedish dub and translates back to English as Fat, Aryan moon bats. This fits in with that Nazi vampire episode - the one that's only ever screened at Fan meetings.
I guess you have to be really geeky to remember the philosophical discussion between Spock and McCoy over this very question in the novel somewhat stupidly named "Spock must die!"
I remember it! McCoy pondered that he might have been a ghost (or whatever -- someone other than himself) since the first time he was teleported. Spock's final comment was that he'd have no way to test the argument one way or the other, so any answer was irrelevant.
Exciting indeed. Wasn't there a case a few years back of someone finding a lost book of Aristotle that had been recycled as a prayer book? Paper wasn't cheap in those days. I wonder how many more finds like that are out there...
Yeah but with oil price per barrel hovering around $50 right now that might not be the case. However as many have warned, there's only so much oil in the ground. The smart money is on renewables.
I bought some oil shares once, with the thought that they're not making any more dinosaurs.
PROBLEM:
First of all, it's impossible to know with certainty what might possibly offend someone.
Second, even if you knew someone would be offended, that doesn't mean their viewpoint isn't worthy of the examination and dissection that will cause the offense.
I'm pretty sure there are a lot of things that would have offended the members of the Spanish Inquisition that are damn well worthy saying!
I saw a BBC show once about how the English treat their dead. They were running out of room in the Victorian times, and started cremations. The clincher was WW1, when the troops were being blown to smithereens with artillery and there wasn't enough of them to be resurrected, whether you're the deity or not.
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I like James Randi's joke about the man who accidentally overdosed on homeopathic medicine when he forgot to take it.
I read something similar. Bill Joel's daughter decided to end it all, and overdosed on homeopathic medicine. Fortunately she survived that suicide attempt.
Crucial difference. Placebos are cheaper.
Why take pictures of paintings, if you can download a better quality and that leaves you time to enjoy the painting.
A friend of mine always bought pictures (dia format) when he visited cities, because that way he had the best quality of the image of the building.
I take almost no photos of buildings. I can look them up online and if I forget where I was, then it was not worth remembering.
Quite agree, And I did something else - I went to the Uffizi a few years back, and bought slides. Along with books, etc. Slides (I figure) give you the sense of size and scale that photos and books don't. I've done the same with the paintings in the Cistine chapel.
Problem is of course, finding a slide projector...
and if it really does become an issue they can renounce citizenship later.
Are you aware there is a fee of somewhere around $10,000 USD to renounce your citizenship, plus any back taxes and penalties you may owe? Also, you are required to file U.S. tax returns even if you make ZERO income if you have any money at all in a non-U.S. bank account. The U.S. is one of the few countries that requires you to file tax returns in that case even if you don't owe any taxes. And they have been enforcing this rule: a lot of Canadians found themselves owing huge amounts of money in penalties to the IRS for failing to file these returns even though they didn't owe any U.S. taxes, and many of these people didn't consider themselves to be U.S. citizens and weren't even aware that the U.S. considered them to be citizens till they got their tax bill.
Interesting. So theoretically, the whole world would be better off filing US tax returns just in case the US considers them citizens, and just in case the US goes the next step and starts billing them for not filing a tax return.
Wonder if any other countries have this policy? I could file tax returns for Bolivia, Tibet, Belgium, Samoa, Madagascar and Dubai just in case they also consider me a citizen.
What's worse, if I ever don't file one, having started, then they'd chase me.
We could bog down the world with paperwork; electronic and otherwise. Or has this already been done?
I read somewhere that the Yamato went out with only enough fuel in it to go somewhere, not come back (though logically it could have gone somewhere half as far and come back fine...). Did this sister-ship get arraigned for a similar trip?
that is possible. Its also possible that this is false information to cover up a military test. or worse, someone other than the US military testing....
So, a conspiracy, you reckon? (reaches for tinfoil hat...)
In the following example:
"Mother" is the Chief of Staff
"Uncle James" is the head of state,
"Maisie's house" is the UN building
"Fishing" is 'discussing nuclear limitations'>br> "Peeling Plums" is 'advising of invasion plans for country xxx
Message starts: "Mother and Uncle James are on their way to Maisie's house to peel some plums. After that they hope to go fishing, then see a movie. Have a lovely weekend. Cousin Sam"
Message is indecipherable without a code book.
I was a stutterer, and strongly blame psychological reasons (ever meet my mother?). I suspect some of us have psychological problems, some neurological (so this research says).
I'd be interested if psychological problems caused neurological issues.
This sounds like one of those "Listening to Mozart makes your kid smart, while listening to heavy metal makes them dumb" articles. As in, it's targetted to appeal to the audience. I'm guessing the majority of /. are hopheads? (no offence)
And no, I didn't RTFA.
Lots of climate change deniers, cornucopians and similar delusional folks in software development.
The same as there are in any other field. IT isn't full of science nerds. We have all sorts in this profession.
Example - when I started programming ages ago, one of my fellow programmers was working on an Astrological program. Another was developing something that would enable him to pick winners on the horse races. I suspect the latter was more scientifically based than the former.
Personally in my spare time I transmute base metals into gold. And vice versa.
When will the news media wake up to the fact that this is a scam and stop giving Mars Zero (zero because they have zero chance of actually going to Mars) free advertising?
My new start-up, Jupiter Zero, will soon replace Mars Zero in the news anyhow
(Actually, this is probably what's going to happen...)
So I disconnected it from the internet, and so it shall remain.
Are you sure it's really disconnected? If it has WiFi, it could auto-connect to any available, "open" access point.
The scene: two years from now: ...Dave, I can't allow that to happen.
Me: TV- turn on and switch to "The X-factor: pro-wrestling special"
TV: I'm sorry
Just hope that the TVs don't learn to lipread,,,,
I'd vote for Intelligent omnipotent Toasters.
I, for one, welcome our new Intelligent Omnipotent Toaster overlords.
Now, pass me a waffle.
Wouldn't any programmer worth their salt identify themselves in the comments, or (if not) be logged as the last guy in that code on such-and-such a date, while working on such-and-such a patch number? (E,.g 'kittenman was here, 1/Jan/15, fixing Steve's crap').
But I hope my code is easily recognizable. I'm proud of it. It may not be the smartest, slickest, quickest there is, but it's mine. And it works.
That and there were a few spies among them.
[Citation needed]. Though I suspect if there weren't spies among 'em when they were interned, there were when they were released.
And if memory serves, as recently as the 1860's, the Brits were supplying arms to the Confederacy, so in the late 19th century, it wasn't all smiles and sunshine the way it has been since WW2.
There's also the 'Trent Affair'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... . The US stopped a British ship mid-Atlantic to take off a couple of confederate politicians. That got pretty heated, until Lincoln handled the incident (read the article...).
You must mean Tiberian bats you insensitive clod!
Episode 67 clearly established they were Factarian moon bats. What you hear was an overdub based on a misspelling.
I'm sorry, I've got the Swedish dub and translates back to English as Fat, Aryan moon bats. This fits in with that Nazi vampire episode - the one that's only ever screened at Fan meetings.
I guess you have to be really geeky to remember the philosophical discussion between Spock and McCoy over this very question in the novel somewhat stupidly named "Spock must die!"
I remember it! McCoy pondered that he might have been a ghost (or whatever -- someone other than himself) since the first time he was teleported. Spock's final comment was that he'd have no way to test the argument one way or the other, so any answer was irrelevant.
Go on, ask me a hard one...
I'll flip it and open it with "999". Your move, atheists.
80085 ?
Exciting indeed. Wasn't there a case a few years back of someone finding a lost book of Aristotle that had been recycled as a prayer book? Paper wasn't cheap in those days. I wonder how many more finds like that are out there...
Yeah but with oil price per barrel hovering around $50 right now that might not be the case. However as many have warned, there's only so much oil in the ground. The smart money is on renewables.
I bought some oil shares once, with the thought that they're not making any more dinosaurs.
Actually what he said is you can't offend anyone.
PROBLEM: First of all, it's impossible to know with certainty what might possibly offend someone. Second, even if you knew someone would be offended, that doesn't mean their viewpoint isn't worthy of the examination and dissection that will cause the offense.
I'm pretty sure there are a lot of things that would have offended the members of the Spanish Inquisition that are damn well worthy saying!
Geez, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
Tramp, for another.
I saw a BBC show once about how the English treat their dead. They were running out of room in the Victorian times, and started cremations. The clincher was WW1, when the troops were being blown to smithereens with artillery and there wasn't enough of them to be resurrected, whether you're the deity or not.
Just noticed: my signature is extremely apt right now. That Winston Churchill knew a thing or two. (Not so much amphibious landings in WW1 though...)