If we had days and events to recognize each and everyone who helped to make the world work, the world would not work.
On the contrary, the Romans basically did this, and the result was ridiculous fun!
Who cares if the world's going to shit when you have a festival (sometimes two) every single day!
All hail Bacchus (and Dennis Ritchie)! Huzzah!
Also can be tied to a stick and used to smack down post-apocalyptic miscreants after its original purpose is long forgotten.
Decibel figures are meaningless without knowing the distance of the observer to the bug's penis. For all we know, the scientist jammed the bug's willy into his/her ear , in which case the sound could obviously be perceived much louder than an orchestra from the front row!
Pics or it didn't happen.
Wikileaks doesn't have any idea whether the documents they release are relevant, irrelevant, dangerous or harmless.
Bullshit.
Wikileaks is screening the documents, redacting names of persons involved and generally exercising prudence in releasing the information. It seems you've bought into someone's FUD.
It's a big balloon.
Although it seems jaded, I have to say I agree.
The photographs clearly illustrate a large decorative balloon.
There's nothing wrong with that, but it's not exactly earth-shattering.
I write novels. What could be better than that? Seriously.
Being an orgasmic cyborg with retractable katanas in your shoulders?
Working the night-shift at a low-gravity hover-bike hockey rink?
Snorting pheromones off the back of a genetically-enhanced sex-worker?
Driving a car made of jelly beans into a sea of pudding populated by attractive mermaids who enjoy talking about technology?
Starting work on your dissertation?
Okay... probably not the last one.
*sigh*
So I'd say if you are really gonna shoot for being a Gates or Jobs you have to not only have a sense of entrepreneurship, but also being willing to fuck over your own momma to get ahead. It is being a truly ruthless bastard that makes the extremely wealthy yet widely despised self-important douchebags, because as Jack Tramiel said "Business is war".
FTFY
Last time I went to the Guggenheim, they were having a special exhibition, which, as far as I could tell, mostly consisted of rough portraiture of various well-known artist's private parts.
I remember thinking if this is high art, then I should already be renowned as a serious connoisseur.
When you have a rat problem you dont send in a bunch of cats riding on the back of pigs do you...
I will now that you've given me the idea.
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We pick up and vacuum up the pieces of broken CFLs without hazmat suits all the time,
and no ill effects to report...
They get broken about 10% of the time when a bulb is being changed, a bit more often than incandescents, which adds to the cost and annoyance of using these bulbs -- the CFLs seem to be more fragile for some reason and break too easily, not sure why that might be.
In all seriousness, you should immediately go and get tested for mercury poisoning. Mercury poisoning is no joke. Breaking multiple CFL light-bulbs is a big fucking deal. Don't mess around.
If this becomes accurate to predict anything of actual use, the markets themselves will start using it... which renders the predictions themselves useless.
Markets rarely behave rationally. If they did, it wouldn't be so difficult to predict their behavior.
Are there any projections/estimates related to how stable this media would be when used for long-term archival storage?
I thought the joke was just quirky enough to work pretty well. I guess it just goes to show that humor is never universal.
"May your future be limited only by your dreams." -- Christa McAuliffe
