Comment Additional Robots (Score 5, Funny) 177
Now, if they can make D12, D10, D8, D6, and D4 robots, I'll never fail another critical roll again!
Myth turns out to come from a kernal of reality
Apparently posted from a Commodore 64
Travelling 1 um through paper doesn't get you to the other side. It will get you through several bit sites in modern RAM.
Well, obviously then the solution is to wrap your RAM in paper at least 2 microns thick.
Then it's another one of those laws "everyone breaks". I hope that such laws are not enforceable otherwise you'd have a law system where "everyone" can be convicted for something. [emphasis added]
Call me cynical, but I believe that's the whole point of laws like this.
although one hosted in the Czech Republic would
.ch is Switzerland's TLD.
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Its current most common usage is as an uncountable quantity just like "water".
I wondered for a long time if there was a term for this sort of noun. I don't remember how I discovered it, but the type of noun you're describing is called a mass noun. Its opposite is called a count noun. I'm not correcting you or anything, just passing along some info.
People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn't.
