Comment Re:Non story - news at 11 (Score 1) 403
I think they're saying that Microsoft bought zombocom.
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I think they're saying that Microsoft bought zombocom.
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The Italian for "where" is "dove" (which is pronounced a little like "duvet"). Where's the dove? Under the duvet. I can't forget it or get it confused with when, why, how or who.
I did a similar thing for American Sign Language. "Please" and "Sorry" are both signed by holding/rubbing your hand against your chest, one in a fist and one flat.
To keep from mixing them up, I think "Sorry for punching you in the chest" which reminds me that "sorry" = fist and by elimination, "please" = palm.
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By weight, I think I have more vinyl albums than any other medium. But the amount of data they hold is relatively low.
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This is simple. Since this lawsuit is so bizarrely obnoxious, tell the judge that the claim must be based in a false reality where such silly lawsuits are possible, and countersue the plaintiffs for using your name in a work of fiction.
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Mind you, I'd probably just say I don't have a facebook account, anyway, as I've forgotten the passwords and throwaway email addresses that were used to create those accounts.
Probably the best solution. I applied for a summer job with the local police department once, and they required me to list ALL previous employers.
I was disqualified because they couldn't verify a reference from a paper route I had done ages previously as a kid. Apparently the 'supervisor' (whom I had only ever met once, for about 20 minutes) didn't remember me. YA THINK?
That was my lesson that it's sometimes best to just lie to the police.
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When two groups of retards attack each other, everyone wins...
Tell that to the dwellers in the forest:
And each new sign signified the same thing - that the Princes of the Plains and the Tribesmen of the Cold Hillsides were about to beat the hell out of each other again.
This in itself wouldn't be so bad, except that the Princes of the Plains and the Tribesmen of the Cold Hillsides always elected to beat the hell out of each other in the Forest, and it was always the Dwellers in the Forest who came off worst in these exchanges, though as far as they could see it never had anything to do with them. (Life, the Universe, and Everything, Chapter 34)
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Sure, a prayer is like a prediction that something will happen. Pray more and you'll experience more coincidences that your predictions are right.
Still doesn't mean your prayer caused it.
(Also I think your quote is misattributed and/or misquoted)
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Everybody else understood perfectly that they are now estimated to be between 10% and 50% of the former estimate.
So 10x less massive = n - (1/10)n
2x less massive = n - (1/2)n
and by extension:
1/2x less massive = n - (1/(1/2))n
= n - 2n
If the terminology is used consistently, then that last step doesn't make sense. It also doesn't make sense how "ten times" translates to "one tenth", its inverse.
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Since the "whoosh" didn't explain it clearly enough: That's why GP called it a "pet peeve". Because it's a misuse of a common phrase.
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That's cool.
The documentation could be clarified. I.e. Operation should start with:
1a. Before encoding/decoding a letter, shift the right rotor up one space.
1b. If the (up arrow) notch is in the window row (Row A), the next time you move that rotor, also move the rotor to its left.
When you decipher the sample message, "QMJIDO MZWZJFJR," you learn the German word for "Ovaltine".
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If it were listening to me it would be doing what I tell it to!
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What happens when you forget to feed it? Will it turn on its masters?
The coffee table won't, but the lazy susan probably will.
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I didn't read TFA, or even TFAS, but I assume that it talks about helping neurons fire, it's talking specifically about the neurons that make people say hyperbolic things about how cellphones and overhead power grids cause cancer.
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"Kenneth Cole - our shoes are worth throwing at Mubarak... or at Kenneth Cole!"
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File this under "your rights on linen"
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"Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together."
