Yes, actually, it happens quite often that someone steals or finds a phone and then does not turn it off. Why bother to take it if all you're going to use it for is a paperweight?
I did the reverse once - I stole a paperweight and used it as a phone. Curse them, they tracked me down....
Who pays for the doctor visit? Also I now have to drag myself to a doctor's office and wait for who knows how long, rather than resting in bed?
Damn right - I self-diagnose myself over the internet. (Resting in bed right now with a bad case of leprosy compounded by Muelenbach syndrome. Don't worry though - I'll be fine on Monday).
Quite possibly the dumbest article I've ever seen.
Gunman walks into school, opens fire. Citizen nearby with legal carry and conceal permit and gun responds. Raises gun to kill gunman as he's mowing down little children and... *click*. Nothing. Gunman blows away citzen, continues on his rampage. How could this have happened? Easy: The deranged lunatic took out the batteries. Sorry, Would-Be Citizen Hero And Families Of All Those Dead Kids, our bad.
Or... gunman walks into school, opens fire. Citizen with legal permit responds but misses. Gunman shoots gun-toting citizen and puts their gun in his pocket. Assured by the fact that another gun is nearby, gunman's gun allows gunman to continue rampage.
I have no fucking clue what I need to dress like if it is 40C out....and it would be very inconvenient for quite a long time if I had to do that conversion in my head every day after watching or listening to the morning weather reports.
That's not how it works. If you learn a foreign language you don't translate phrase-by-phrase into English, you stay in that language. 40c is stinking hot. 40F is a little above freezing. Don't convert.
There are two civilizations that I've heard of that were almost crime-free, medieval Japan and the Inca. In both the punishment for almost any crime was death, delivered quickly and with no possibility of appeal. The death penalty can work, just not the way we implement it.
Nonsense. "It is not the severity of crime that deters punishment, but the certainty of it". Sir Robert Peel.
Peel started the British police force (hences "Bobbies", "Rozzers" and even "Peelers"). He knew what he was talking about.
Also, an onboard fire while airborn is very bad....
I'm sure you mean "airbourne", but I had a friend who was actually airborn. Her mother went into labour above Shannon airport, and she was named after the airport. I guess she's thankful that the plane wasn't circling Gatwick, or Heathrow.
OK it's offtopic - but you have to admit it's interesting...
Totally agree, and you beat me to it. You might also say that it's related to the rise of colour TV or maybe the space race. (What else happened in the 60s? Platform shoes, flared trousers, Nixon, Harold Wilson, the pill.... the Beatles... take your pick...)
I suspect you're looking locally - relocate. I've even changed countries for some jobs (broaden the mind and learn a language). If you're in the States - try Canada/Australia/the UK. After that, Europe... plenty of places would be more than happy to get a Ph. D in Physics.
Contrary to The Breakfast Club, I also got As in shop class. Quite frankly, that ignorant assumption by Hollywood always irritated me.
It is not really surprising. One of the biggest correlating factors for intelligence (however you define intelligence) is general health, and general health is strongly caused by good nutrition. It should be no surprise that athleticism and physical skill positively correlates with brains. Quite a number of the legendary physics minds of the 1st half of the 20th century enjoyed hiking mountains and/or flirting with the ladies.
We may remember Einstein in his later years as some perfect nerd, but he too liked flirting with the ladies in his earlier years.
Mens sana in corpore sano, you're saying? I refer you to Stephen Hawking.
I've been learning Japanese for the past 7 years, three years in college courses (taught by native Japanese speakers) and the past couple of years on my own given the basics I got from the college courses. I've been to Japan three times now, and just got back from a month-long stay in Tokyo. I was able to make my way and hold some simple casual conversations with native speakers, but probably embarrassed myself a few times by still not getting the right word, or stopping to remember a word. I managed to do things like interact with the Japan Post employees and many others who had no English at all. It was very nice being able to make a connection and communicate with others in their language, and in some ways the old saw about "thinking in the other language is important" is true.
I've been reading and studying every day for at least an hour, reading manga and watching anime with subtitles off. It helped, since I don't really have access to native speakers now (time and distance constraints). If I didn't enjoy Japanese culture though, I wouldn't be making the effort. Motivation and a goal helps.
BTW I started studying when I was 47.
I tip my hat to you, CptNerd. I picked up enough Italian to get by in my 40s, when I worked in Rome. At least the character set was the same though, and there's some Italian in our (English-speaking) culture. I've done a six-week night-school class in Japanese, English character set - must be a helluva struggle in katakana or kanji.
If COBOL is still around ...
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then Perl will be for a while too. Happy Birthday Perl. Your prime was memorable, and now you can just ask those kids to get off your lawn.
Yep. But yah know, if you listen to the wind you hear the same nonsense every year, often multiple times a year, usually from religious nutcases that just have to have a screw loose (or several). Where i grew up we had a large Jehovah Witness church not too far down the road, and several times a summer a couple little old ladies would come by preaching the end of the world was coming in the next couple months.
It seems there are a small number of people in the world who's only interest is to have the world end... i just don't get it.
Atheists (somewhere) wittily offered to look after the pets of those 'raptured' with a non-refundable deposit. And return the animals should the rapture not happen. I think they coined a mint. I don't know if they kept it.
OK in 2012, everyone's cool with Turing being gay today...but honestly, when does this shit stop? Retroactive pardons? Retroactive suspension of the conviction and expunging of the record?
I agree in principle, but what's the Statute of Limitations on historical grievances? Can we just settle on one generation or 50 years, whichever is greater?
Or are we going to go through history and insist on apologies for everything everyone ever did wrong or had wrong done to them? Go back far enough and everyone's a victim of something at SOME point.
Because frankly, the very idea is colossally stupid.
Didn't one of the popes apologize for the crusades? Useful.
An article I read here (in NZ) quoted an US pro-gun lobbyist as saying that it's appalling that no-one at the school had a gun. If they had, they could have shot the guy first off.
I guess that was bound to be said: the answer to the gun problem is more guns, not less.
And for what's it's worth - USans, we grieve with you.
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Those Romans had a phrase for everything. This may be true, but I'm sure we're jumping to a conclusion.
Yes, actually, it happens quite often that someone steals or finds a phone and then does not turn it off. Why bother to take it if all you're going to use it for is a paperweight?
I did the reverse once - I stole a paperweight and used it as a phone. Curse them, they tracked me down....
Does your mom run Tasker?
Couldn't you have worked in a "Yo mama.." meme there, somewhere?
Or silent mode...
Can you do an 'obligatory UserFriendly' around here or is it just for XKCD?
Nice link. :) and that works for me...
Who pays for the doctor visit? Also I now have to drag myself to a doctor's office and wait for who knows how long, rather than resting in bed?
Damn right - I self-diagnose myself over the internet. (Resting in bed right now with a bad case of leprosy compounded by Muelenbach syndrome. Don't worry though - I'll be fine on Monday).
How about just filling them with air instead of bullets?
You mean like the guy in "No Country for old men"?
Quite possibly the dumbest article I've ever seen.
Gunman walks into school, opens fire. Citizen nearby with legal carry and conceal permit and gun responds. Raises gun to kill gunman as he's mowing down little children and... *click*. Nothing. Gunman blows away citzen, continues on his rampage. How could this have happened? Easy: The deranged lunatic took out the batteries. Sorry, Would-Be Citizen Hero And Families Of All Those Dead Kids, our bad.
Or ... gunman walks into school, opens fire. Citizen with legal permit responds but misses. Gunman shoots gun-toting citizen and puts their gun in his pocket. Assured by the fact that another gun is nearby, gunman's gun allows gunman to continue rampage.
Regardless.
I have no fucking clue what I need to dress like if it is 40C out....and it would be very inconvenient for quite a long time if I had to do that conversion in my head every day after watching or listening to the morning weather reports.
That's not how it works. If you learn a foreign language you don't translate phrase-by-phrase into English, you stay in that language. 40c is stinking hot. 40F is a little above freezing. Don't convert.
There are two civilizations that I've heard of that were almost crime-free, medieval Japan and the Inca. In both the punishment for almost any crime was death, delivered quickly and with no possibility of appeal. The death penalty can work, just not the way we implement it.
Nonsense. "It is not the severity of crime that deters punishment, but the certainty of it". Sir Robert Peel.
Peel started the British police force (hences "Bobbies", "Rozzers" and even "Peelers"). He knew what he was talking about.
Also, an onboard fire while airborn is very bad ....
I'm sure you mean "airbourne", but I had a friend who was actually airborn. Her mother went into labour above Shannon airport, and she was named after the airport. I guess she's thankful that the plane wasn't circling Gatwick, or Heathrow.
OK it's offtopic - but you have to admit it's interesting...
James Blish.
'Nuff said.
Totally agree, and you beat me to it. You might also say that it's related to the rise of colour TV or maybe the space race. (What else happened in the 60s? Platform shoes, flared trousers, Nixon, Harold Wilson, the pill.... the Beatles ... take your pick...)
I suspect you're looking locally - relocate. I've even changed countries for some jobs (broaden the mind and learn a language). If you're in the States - try Canada/Australia/the UK. After that, Europe ... plenty of places would be more than happy to get a Ph. D in Physics.
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Iran is looking, I believe
Contrary to The Breakfast Club, I also got As in shop class. Quite frankly, that ignorant assumption by Hollywood always irritated me.
It is not really surprising. One of the biggest correlating factors for intelligence (however you define intelligence) is general health, and general health is strongly caused by good nutrition. It should be no surprise that athleticism and physical skill positively correlates with brains. Quite a number of the legendary physics minds of the 1st half of the 20th century enjoyed hiking mountains and/or flirting with the ladies.
We may remember Einstein in his later years as some perfect nerd, but he too liked flirting with the ladies in his earlier years.
Mens sana in corpore sano, you're saying? I refer you to Stephen Hawking.
I've been learning Japanese for the past 7 years, three years in college courses (taught by native Japanese speakers) and the past couple of years on my own given the basics I got from the college courses. I've been to Japan three times now, and just got back from a month-long stay in Tokyo. I was able to make my way and hold some simple casual conversations with native speakers, but probably embarrassed myself a few times by still not getting the right word, or stopping to remember a word. I managed to do things like interact with the Japan Post employees and many others who had no English at all. It was very nice being able to make a connection and communicate with others in their language, and in some ways the old saw about "thinking in the other language is important" is true.
I've been reading and studying every day for at least an hour, reading manga and watching anime with subtitles off. It helped, since I don't really have access to native speakers now (time and distance constraints). If I didn't enjoy Japanese culture though, I wouldn't be making the effort. Motivation and a goal helps.
BTW I started studying when I was 47.
I tip my hat to you, CptNerd. I picked up enough Italian to get by in my 40s, when I worked in Rome. At least the character set was the same though, and there's some Italian in our (English-speaking) culture. I've done a six-week night-school class in Japanese, English character set - must be a helluva struggle in katakana or kanji.
then Perl will be for a while too. Happy Birthday Perl. Your prime was memorable, and now you can just ask those kids to get off your lawn.
Yep. But yah know, if you listen to the wind you hear the same nonsense every year, often multiple times a year, usually from religious nutcases that just have to have a screw loose (or several). Where i grew up we had a large Jehovah Witness church not too far down the road, and several times a summer a couple little old ladies would come by preaching the end of the world was coming in the next couple months. It seems there are a small number of people in the world who's only interest is to have the world end... i just don't get it.
Atheists (somewhere) wittily offered to look after the pets of those 'raptured' with a non-refundable deposit. And return the animals should the rapture not happen. I think they coined a mint. I don't know if they kept it.
OK in 2012, everyone's cool with Turing being gay today...but honestly, when does this shit stop? Retroactive pardons? Retroactive suspension of the conviction and expunging of the record?
I agree in principle, but what's the Statute of Limitations on historical grievances? Can we just settle on one generation or 50 years, whichever is greater?
Or are we going to go through history and insist on apologies for everything everyone ever did wrong or had wrong done to them? Go back far enough and everyone's a victim of something at SOME point.
Because frankly, the very idea is colossally stupid.
Didn't one of the popes apologize for the crusades? Useful.
There's not really any such objective thing as "wrong" anyway, only what individuals or societies decide for themselves to be moral or immoral. .
Now there's a can of worms.
An article I read here (in NZ) quoted an US pro-gun lobbyist as saying that it's appalling that no-one at the school had a gun. If they had, they could have shot the guy first off.
I guess that was bound to be said: the answer to the gun problem is more guns, not less.
And for what's it's worth - USans, we grieve with you.
Don't fret. In the movie version it'll be cracked by an American.
Mod parent up, 'Insightful'
Canada's singularity will be when all of us are named Gord. I figure we're about five years away.
Gord help us
Toby would have shit himself already when we started drone striking U.S. citizens in Pakistan.
Agreed. Suspect that would have been Leo's idea.
So, your problem with their DRM is that you can't remember a reasonably secure password?
Damn, that same DRM is crippling gmail too!
My bank has the same DRM! And, good god, so does Amazon! And .. and ...