Do you want it in Library of Congress units? (Well... you knew it was coming)
No, I want it in something to which I can relate... speed in furlongs per fortnight, volume in hogsheads, and weight in stone (the old school Chinese ones). I have absolutely no idea the volume or weight of a Library of Congress... though I do have a rough guess as to it's current velocity...
Re:Don't forget....
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Happy Towel Day
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· Score: 4, Informative
I always bring mine but I've forgotten why now.
"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with."
Stolen (well, copied really... it's not missing or anything) from The Towel Wiki.
Rob Reiner (Marty) was asking the same thing... and missed the same point that to the artists mind 11 is simply BETTER than 10... how could it not be.... It's fucking 11 man!
The Bastards!
2,710 calories
203 g fat 194 g carbs
6,360 mg sodium
The sodium would harden your arteries, getting them ready for the Roto-Router needed to remove the cholesterol. It was truly a thing of greasy beauty...
A little closer to topic, to be a cannibal doesn't this thing have to eat OTHER giant "galaxy eating" galaxies? Also, looking at the photo the galaxy in question may be large, but you have to admit it's positively glowing...
Many AMD systems (Compaq and HP that I know of) got hammered by a registry error dealing with the intelppm.sys registry key. Because an Intel disk image was used on AMD machines, SP3 thought it was an Intel system and activated power management that it should not have. The resulting BSOD at reboot freaked a lot of people out. It's a two minute fix if you can use the registry editor but it cost a lot of end users money because they had to take the box to a shop.
Jeez, just telling the dude what you are going to do should wilt most guys... "Well Mr. Smith, we are going to restore blood flow by installing a couple of drains via these big ass needles... ah, I see it's no longer needed..."
If people don't die (and aren't even sick really) from cancer, they are more likely to buy other products, such as Viagra, that the drug companies are pushing.
For erections lasting longer than four hours, try new Woodbegone!!! Available in "100mg", "200mg", and "Damn, where'd my dick go?" sizes.
We'll re-title it to fucker net when the.xxx TDL goes live... although we should have just switched.org to stand for orgasm...
Back on topic, I like the idea of protocols for info, display/exchange. You could even build in some filtering so that people that want to share A LOT would not offend visitors that are flagged as "under age" or chose not to view provocative content. It would also subject the large companies to the same copyright restrictions they want to shove down the throat of everyone else. You own the data and are the publisher, by law you get to say how it may or may not be used.
What I find odd is the scoring... At this moment they are scored:
Moderation 0
30% Funny
50% Overrated
20% Insightful
Now, to have a 20 and a 30 means (to me at least) that there had to be at least 10 mods of the post, 3 for Funny, 2 for Insightful, and 5 Overrated... Or do different mods have varying values (i.e. a single Overrated has 2.5 times the value of a single Insightful)... I can see giving Funny a random value because that would be, well, funny.
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This has some serious implications...
"Mom, I know I said I'd try and call more often, but if you keep
bugging me at work I'm going to have to downgrade your firmware..."
Let's see how feisty she is with her pulse reduced by 35%!
Arrrr...
Do you want it in Library of Congress units? (Well... you knew it was coming)
No, I want it in something to which I can relate... speed in furlongs per fortnight, volume in hogsheads, and weight in stone (the old school Chinese ones). I have absolutely no idea the volume or weight of a Library of Congress... though I do have a rough guess as to it's current velocity...
I always bring mine but I've forgotten why now.
"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with."
Stolen (well, copied really... it's not missing or anything) from The Towel Wiki.
...Twitter is not the government.
Are you sure? Sometimes it seems like the ratio of twits is quite high...
Just you wait...
A recipe is just another form of algorithm.
American nuclear launch codes are really the coca cola recipe, that's why nobody knows them
Are you telling me that G.W. Bush had the power to TOTALLY DESTROY Coca-Cola as we know it?
Oh, wait... Coke already did that once...
Please leave your DNA in the school nurse...
FTFY
woooosh...
You'd like to think so, but in the context of the meme there is always an 11, so making 10 louder automatically makes 11 better yet and even greater still, because that's the point of that whole meme.
Rob Reiner (Marty) was asking the same thing... and missed the same point that to the artists mind 11 is simply BETTER than 10... how could it not be.... It's fucking 11 man!
Memory Leaks is such an ugly, pejorative term... Let's think of them as little digital pressure relief valves...
couldn't you just make ten louder?
That would then just make 11 even louder still...
Well, it would seem OSI Restaurant Partners, LLC, of Tampa, Florida does...
The Bastards!
2,710 calories
203 g fat
194 g carbs
6,360 mg sodium
The sodium would harden your arteries, getting them ready
for the Roto-Router needed to remove the cholesterol.
It was truly a thing of greasy beauty...
It's not as big as it sounds. Milky Ways only have like 9 grams of fat. So this thing is like... 180 grams of fat. We'll live.
Sure, in a diabetic coma, that's about 10 ounces (280 grams) of sugar. I'd go with the Outback Steakhouse Aussie Cheese Fries with Ranch Dressing... but Chili's Awesome Blossom has more fat... the good stuff always does...
A little closer to topic, to be a cannibal doesn't this thing have to eat OTHER giant "galaxy eating" galaxies? Also, looking at the photo the galaxy in question may be large, but you have to admit it's positively glowing...
Oh Great, my Sarcasm Meter and my Bullshit Detector both exploded and now my UPS is on fi
First they laugh at your research, then they laugh at your proof, then they credit the wrong person with the discovery.
...and award them a patent...
Get me a DeLorean, a Mr. Fusion, and some flux capacitors, STAT!
You actually hit that right on the head, funny or not.
What counts is raising money to stay in power,
and both parties are dirty to the tops of their eyeballs
Democratic Party: Top Industries
Republican Party: Top Industries
Many AMD systems (Compaq and HP that I know of) got hammered by a registry error dealing with the intelppm.sys registry key. Because an Intel disk image was used on AMD machines, SP3 thought it was an Intel system and activated power management that it should not have. The resulting BSOD at reboot freaked a lot of people out. It's a two minute fix if you can use the registry editor but it cost a lot of end users money because they had to take the box to a shop.
Jeez, just telling the dude what you are going to do should wilt most guys... "Well Mr. Smith, we are going to restore blood flow by installing a couple of drains via these big ass needles... ah, I see it's no longer needed..."
If people don't die (and aren't even sick really) from cancer, they are more likely to buy other products, such as Viagra, that the drug companies are pushing.
For erections lasting longer than four hours, try new Woodbegone!!!
Available in "100mg", "200mg", and "Damn, where'd my dick go?" sizes.
I suggest unicorns on a treadmill.
Brett
Oh That's Just Great!
Now what the hell am I supposed to do with all these sacred crystal scarab beetles I recovered from Atlantis?
...or possibly sucker net
We'll re-title it to fucker net when the .xxx TDL goes live... although we should have just switched .org to stand for orgasm...
Back on topic, I like the idea of protocols for info, display/exchange. You could even build in some filtering so that people that want to share A LOT would not offend visitors that are flagged as "under age" or chose not to view provocative content. It would also subject the large companies to the same copyright restrictions they want to shove down the throat of everyone else. You own the data and are the publisher, by law you get to say how it may or may not be used.
That could get interesting.
BumpDroid... but I had a TOTALLY different vision for that name...
What I find odd is the scoring...
At this moment they are scored:
Moderation 0
30% Funny
50% Overrated
20% Insightful
Now, to have a 20 and a 30 means (to me at least) that there had to be at least 10 mods of the post, 3 for Funny, 2 for Insightful, and 5 Overrated... Or do different mods have varying values (i.e. a single Overrated has 2.5 times the value of a single Insightful)... I can see giving Funny a random value because that would be, well, funny.
Turning your back on Ubuntu won't turn you into some sort of Linux-Amisher.
Man that just sets my brain whiling trying for the correct term... something mixing Luddite and Linux...
Luddux?
Linudite?
Linudux?