The death penalty is not an effective deterrent against murder.
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.or...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-...
What deters murderers is not the penalty, but the likelihood of being caught.
A sign at a nearby farm read "cheese making beef eggs". I think it used to have dots/dividers between some of the words, but they'd faded. My wife saw it and said, "What are beef eggs? And how do you make cheese with them?"
Hm. I read that as referring to a remarkably over-achieving cheese.
True story...
Jessica Simpson was once offered buffalo wings. She replied "Sorry, I don't eat buffalo."
When it was explained to her that buffalo don't have wings, she said "I never thought about it."
Why would The Who be confounded by The Grateful Dead?
The Grateful Dead encouraged their fans to copy and share their music when they didn't have recording contracts.
I think older music (including classical) benefits from a survivor bias: the bad stuff has been forgotten, leaving only the good stuff.
The same thing will happen to the music we knew as kids, and the music we hear from pop artists today.
Copied from a friend's cassette..
You're confusing The Who with The Grateful Dead.
If you are in publishing - like in writing or editing books - you need MS Word.
Well, use whatever you want to write the book. But if you are printing it, I'd definitely use something other than MS Word. It just doesn't produce publication-quality documents.
And as far as Latex is concerned, it would be even more work.
That depends on what you are writing. If your document contains lots of equations and you're using MS Word, then God help you.
Latex and other formats are great if you are in complete control from start to finish of the publishing process. But working with other people that are scattered all over the World? Nope.
Again, that depends on who the other people are. Many academics, particularly scientists, use LaTeX.
What do you mean, one of the worst movies ever made?
It's the worst movie ever made!
It surely deserves a place in the pantheon of bad movies, but to be exceptional, I think a bad movie has to be "so bad, it's good." That means it has to demonstrate a certain kind of ineptness that elevates it to a cult-classic of entertainment. The ineptness can be unintentional (Reefer Madness) or intentional (Attack of the Killer Tomatoes) but the ineptness has to be at the level of tragedy instead of mere lousiness.
And let's not forget the acknowledged master of bad movies Ed Wood, and his most celebrated film: Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Six words: Star Wars Holiday Special.
It was bad, but it wasn't a movie.
Just be sure you pronounce it correctly.
If I could explain it in 30 seconds, it wouldn't be worth a Nobel Prize.
-- Richard Feynman, responding to a reporter's question, after he won the Nobel Prize
Simplicity is good, but not always attainable.
It's a pattern detection strategy that relies on generating waves with input data, interweaving them physically, and using arrays of antennas to detect patterns.
So, it's an analog computer.
Perhaps more like a D-to-A-to-D computer.
So, what bizarre thing has Obama done recently?
I think the reference was to Putin, not Obama.
Actually, it has even more recently been shown to be the surface of a 5th dimensional Mobius spheroid.
I'm torn between asking "citation please?" and "you're not from Earth, are you?"
I'm more inclined to attribute it to Hanlon's razor. Somebody read only the first half of my post, and assumed I was dissing science.
You know, the difference between this company and the Titanic is that the Titanic had paying customers.
