This might be the pinnacle of slashdot pedantry, but that coil car actually has a 15,000 lb capacity...the car itself only weighs 3,000 lbs, so shipping will be a bargain!
Similarly (but not the same)....When I Google myself I still see results for pages that link to a Bob Dylan fan page I created when I was in college. That page was removed in 1996. Is there a world record for the most stale link?
True! Say you have bought a Ford Mustang in 1965. Over time you have had to replace parts of the car as they wore out. Over the course of 4 decades you have ended up replacing EVERY part of the car. Do you still have that 1965 Mustang that you bought?
2-stroke lawn mower? I haven't seen one of those in ages. I think LawnBoy made two-stroke mowers for a long time, but I thought they were all 4-stroke nowadays. Now my chainsaw, leaf-blower, hedge-clipper and weed-trimmer, are a different story.
For non-gearheads: If you need to fill 'er up with a mix oil+gasoline, you got yerself a 2-stroke.
"Ditto for your punctuation. The possessive form of it does not take an apostrophe any more than yours or hers"
Doh! Ya got me! IT'S one of my pet peeves to boot!...or should that be peeve's...:)
Crap, I'm busted!! But I don't LIKE to like to be pedantic!:)
As long as I am here correcting a spelling mistake, maybe I should make a joke about tubes or bitching that Webster's has a monopoly or something...
"All the fruits of all human endeavour belong to all of humanity. You may have written that software, but it does not belong to you: it belongs to everyone."
Yikes!
Check out some history books to see how well this philosophy works out....or you could just apply for a job at the 20th Century Motor Company.
I agree that it is a social issue more than atechnological issue (and I also agree that this discussion is a tangent to the intent of TFA), but table-talk is something that you may be able to pick up as you observe your opponents whereas the out-of-band sharing of information is in most cases impossible to prove.
I guess the real answer is that I need to make a few real-life friends to play cards with....I shudder at the thought of interacting directly with other people!!!:)
Now imagine that these aren't humans but instead bots on four different IP addresses that are sharing card information over an IP connection so that they can leverage odds over you and stop themselves from making stupid mistakes
Just to address a small part of your post-
Bots Schmots! This is a problem already with humans. I used to like to play Euchre and the like online, but too many times it became obvious my opponents were communicating to each other and ruined the fun.
"Hopefully we won't see this applied to spinner rims anytime soon"
Those goofy-ass rims are pretty much quantum rims to me anyway...When they spin at a different rate as the wheels I can determine their position or vector, but not both at the same time!
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See! I TOLD you my imagination is too vivid! Now please excuse me, it's lunchtime and my crow is getting cold!! :)
"Firefox by contrast doesn't have zoom at all."
Huh? I guess my imagination is just way too vivid when I hit CTRL and roll my scrolly wheel!
This might be the pinnacle of slashdot pedantry, but that coil car actually has a 15,000 lb capacity...the car itself only weighs 3,000 lbs, so shipping will be a bargain!
Similarly (but not the same)....When I Google myself I still see results for pages that link to a Bob Dylan fan page I created when I was in college. That page was removed in 1996. Is there a world record for the most stale link?
True! Say you have bought a Ford Mustang in 1965. Over time you have had to replace parts of the car as they wore out. Over the course of 4 decades you have ended up replacing EVERY part of the car. Do you still have that 1965 Mustang that you bought?
I think it was the same day they doubled the number of p's in the word triple... :)
And women love men who don't quote Monty Python!
I'm not sure, but I bet your Windows XP OEM license would no longer be valid....
Fuck the napkin!!!!!
2-stroke lawn mower? I haven't seen one of those in ages. I think LawnBoy made two-stroke mowers for a long time, but I thought they were all 4-stroke nowadays. Now my chainsaw, leaf-blower, hedge-clipper and weed-trimmer, are a different story.
For non-gearheads: If you need to fill 'er up with a mix oil+gasoline, you got yerself a 2-stroke.
"Ditto for your punctuation. The possessive form of it does not take an apostrophe any more than yours or hers" Doh! Ya got me! IT'S one of my pet peeves to boot! ...or should that be peeve's... :)
Crap, I'm busted!! But I don't LIKE to like to be pedantic! :)
As long as I am here correcting a spelling mistake, maybe I should make a joke about tubes or bitching that Webster's has a monopoly or something...
I don't like to be pedantic, but if you can't even spell it, it takes the edge off of your lecture about it's definition. (It's "counterfeit", BTW)
If we can't continue to use non-words like "irregardless", the terrorists have already won! :)
I'd be more worried about BECNs whilst taking a dump!
"All the fruits of all human endeavour belong to all of humanity. You may have written that software, but it does not belong to you: it belongs to everyone." Yikes! Check out some history books to see how well this philosophy works out. ...or you could just apply for a job at the 20th Century Motor Company.
Who throws a shoe? Honestly!
Yeah, but how many hectares will she go on a single tank of kerosene?
I am sick and tired of the "tubes" cliche...but that made me laugh. Nice work!
Please watch this movie. We will all be better for it.
I agree that it is a social issue more than atechnological issue (and I also agree that this discussion is a tangent to the intent of TFA), but table-talk is something that you may be able to pick up as you observe your opponents whereas the out-of-band sharing of information is in most cases impossible to prove. I guess the real answer is that I need to make a few real-life friends to play cards with....I shudder at the thought of interacting directly with other people!!! :)
"Hopefully we won't see this applied to spinner rims anytime soon" Those goofy-ass rims are pretty much quantum rims to me anyway...When they spin at a different rate as the wheels I can determine their position or vector, but not both at the same time!
...until every one of the children in New Orleans has a $100 laptop!
How did this not get modded "+5 Funny"? Well done, spun!