Merrill debuted the Romance Advisory Committee site in June 2012. Each interested shareholder received a password and could monitor Merrill’s romantic activity while anonymously voting candidates up or down. There was also a “candidate referral form” in case anybody wanted to suggest a match.... [The shareholders] gave a 97 percent approval rating to a guy referred to as Jordon California. Feeling the weight of investor expectations, Merrill spent a drunken night “fooling around” with him. [emphasis mine]
If that's Merrill's orientation, no foul. But if it isn't, and he did it anyway...? Yikes.
I propose we define the Crack-Addled Monkey ("CAM") as a unit of measure for attention spans. Those of us older than 40 could probably measure in the hundreds or thousands of CAMs, even reading entire books (on paper, no less) in a single sitting. Whereas those who need their bite-sized news stories further condensed into sub-tweet sized nuggets would measure in the milliCAM range.
Not necessarily. When traveling to Florida on business, I encountered a stretch which had 15 speed limit changes in 9 miles. I counted after being pulled over for speeding, having thought I was correct for the segment I was in at the time.
The manual transmission thing perplexes me though. I grew up driving manual transmissions and quite enjoy driving them. I love the extra few MPG you gain by shifting yourself and because I generally drive my cars until they drop I like that a manual transmission usually outlasts an automatic many times over. They are simpler, lighter, cheaper to build and more durable. I also find I have better control of a vehicle when I'm controlling the gears when things get slippery. Why folks in the US insist on automatics is beyond me, but I guess there is a host of new drivers who wouldn't know what to do with another peddle and a shifter any more.
For the same reason no one likes to wash their dishes or clothes by hand any more. Sure, there are the holdouts who grew up doing it and prefer it. I'm sure washing all one's clothes by hand is more precise, gets them cleaner, and allows them to last longer as well. But compared to the convenience of having a machine do it all, those points are lost on the majority - as with many menial tasks of old, they are eventually automated.
Also, most people generally don't actually enjoy driving - you can tell by the way they drive.:)
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You couldn't anyway. The USPTO has already granted me a patent for such a washing robot.
Just as long as we pass laws to make sure all robotically engineered coral is labeled as such.
Protip: Your eyeballs are just fancy radiation detectors. Worried? Keep them closed.
I want it to list possible responses during conversations. For example:
- Yes/No
- Or what?
- Go away
- Please come back later
- Fuck you, asshole
- Fuck you
It doesn't matter, since the strategy is to sue regardless of whether anyone downloaded it or not.
Is our children learning?
I want a rack of ribs big enough to tip over my car!
Wrong? Pfft. Not only is it right, but it can be an artform. Let's get the master to do it - bring in Shatner.
"Computer, print one supreme being. And two kobe sirloins."
Indeed. It doesn't seem to be a good year for artists named Banks so far...
"[Peter] Banks died of heart failure on 7 March 2013 at his home in Barnet, London."
So one can use BBM to announce to everyone that they're listening to BBM? How meta.
Do artists who've been dead for three+ decades still need to get money from somewhere as well?
(and not posting in ROT13 makes your post double-lame...)
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I see it this way: lame slashdot April fools day articles rendered unreadable - nothing of value is lost.
Merrill debuted the Romance Advisory Committee site in June 2012. Each interested shareholder received a password and could monitor Merrill’s romantic activity while anonymously voting candidates up or down. There was also a “candidate referral form” in case anybody wanted to suggest a match. ... [The shareholders] gave a 97 percent approval rating to a guy referred to as Jordon California. Feeling the weight of investor expectations, Merrill spent a drunken night “fooling around” with him. [emphasis mine]
If that's Merrill's orientation, no foul. But if it isn't, and he did it anyway...? Yikes.
I only play 1st edition, you insensitive clod!
I propose we define the Crack-Addled Monkey ("CAM") as a unit of measure for attention spans. Those of us older than 40 could probably measure in the hundreds or thousands of CAMs, even reading entire books (on paper, no less) in a single sitting. Whereas those who need their bite-sized news stories further condensed into sub-tweet sized nuggets would measure in the milliCAM range.
Sounds like a concept for a Japanese horror movie...
Not necessarily. When traveling to Florida on business, I encountered a stretch which had 15 speed limit changes in 9 miles. I counted after being pulled over for speeding, having thought I was correct for the segment I was in at the time.
Hey now... you're going to get yourself twitter-shamed by Adria Richards with talk like that.
I Googled up this fairly recent article - an interesting read: http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/19/us/manual-car-question-comeback
Well, feel free to come up with a better explanation.
The manual transmission thing perplexes me though. I grew up driving manual transmissions and quite enjoy driving them. I love the extra few MPG you gain by shifting yourself and because I generally drive my cars until they drop I like that a manual transmission usually outlasts an automatic many times over. They are simpler, lighter, cheaper to build and more durable. I also find I have better control of a vehicle when I'm controlling the gears when things get slippery. Why folks in the US insist on automatics is beyond me, but I guess there is a host of new drivers who wouldn't know what to do with another peddle and a shifter any more.
For the same reason no one likes to wash their dishes or clothes by hand any more. Sure, there are the holdouts who grew up doing it and prefer it. I'm sure washing all one's clothes by hand is more precise, gets them cleaner, and allows them to last longer as well. But compared to the convenience of having a machine do it all, those points are lost on the majority - as with many menial tasks of old, they are eventually automated.
Also, most people generally don't actually enjoy driving - you can tell by the way they drive. :)
Ouch, fail. Spy satellites could have prevented the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor? Maybe I should quit while I'm behind, here...