Comment In other news... (Score 1, Insightful) 337
Slashdot ownership overwhelmingly rejects having article summaries proofread.
"Texa"...Give me a break.
Slashdot ownership overwhelmingly rejects having article summaries proofread.
"Texa"...Give me a break.
I was always convinced that the polygraph episode was just a propaganda piece, and that the producers were basically pitched the episode as a hook to keep the support of law enforcement with the show (so that they could blow up more stuff and have access to detonation ranges, etc).
"Shifu" isn't the Japanese word for "thief", it's just the romanized word "thief". It's about as intelligent as saying that the Japanese word for "basketball" is "basukettobooru."
IBM's X-Force either thinks they're being funny or clever, and it's really neither.
$5000 is not enough for me to watch Bio-Dome.
-S
If I were Boeing I would not be surprised if passengers start asking for planes to be sold to another airline.
So, two things.
And up here in the northern midwest of the United States, we're at the same latitude as Moscow. It gets cold.
If you're in the northern midwest of the US, you're not at the same latitude as Moscow. Moscow is 55 deg north, the continental 48 stop at the 49th parallel. So, unless you're talking about Ketchikan, which is decidedly not "midwest", then you need to adjust your memories a bit.
Second, as you should well be aware, latitude alone does not define how cold a place gets. In fact, southern Alaska and the Cascades region in general is generally more temperate than New England. Jet stream, currents, regional topography, all that stuff makes a difference. Going to guess based on your commentary that you're in the Montana/ND area, so comparing Helena with Moscow puts them on about par, with a full nine degrees difference in latitude.
No, "barbaric" is the way we treat people with mental illness and ailments that point to it. Rather than fix the problem, it's easier to take a puritanical view and pretend it's that individual's personal failings that caused the problem instead of society's failing to treat it. When this inevitably results in recidivism, it's just easier for society to hit the guy with a brick and make the problem go away.
We make the monsters and then claim that the monsters have to be killed because they can't be unmade.
Boston: If they can make bridges out of light, you have to wonder if they can make anything else.
Maggie: You mean...Light beer?
Boston: I was thinking more of a light house.
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