[QUOTE=kladner;396689]I have noticed on MSNBC that after a commercial break ....[/QUOTE]They are not the only one that has that happen. I think it may be local commercials that end sooner than the time slot and you see a frame of the national version's commercial.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;396695]They are not the only one that has that happen. I think it may be local commercials that end sooner than the time slot and you see a frame of the national version's commercial.[/QUOTE]

Well, to be truly subliminal, I should not be consciously aware of it anyway. Better to attribute to sloppiness than exploitation, I suppose. :ermm:

Superconductors reflect gravitons?
 

[url]http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27060-ultracold-mirrors-could-reveal-gravitys-quantum-side.html[/url]

[url]https://i.imgur.com/1t9Q4tk.gif[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;397014][url]https://i.imgur.com/1t9Q4tk.gif[/url][/QUOTE]

"Crash Landing -- Directed by Michael Bay" (via reddit)

[url]http://i.imgur.com/RFSgkaw.gif[/url]

[url=http://www.france24.com/en/20150303-nobel-peace-prize-chairman-removed/]In "Unprecedented Move" Nobel Peace Prize Chairman Demoted For Decision To Give Obama 2009 Award[/url]

Reader comment: “They should have instead withdrawn the prize and asked for the money back.”

[QUOTE=ewmayer;397033][url=http://www.france24.com/en/20150303-nobel-peace-prize-chairman-removed/]In "Unprecedented Move" Nobel Peace Prize Chairman Demoted For Decision To Give Obama 2009 Award[/url]

Reader comment: “They should have instead withdrawn the prize and asked for the money back.”[/QUOTE]
A victim of vaporware. First there was hope and now there is change.

[url]http://i.imgur.com/C5zmDyO.gifv[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;397168][url]http://i.imgur.com/C5zmDyO.gifv[/url][/QUOTE]

Face, meet chemistry...

NEVER put out a oil fire with water!

Everyone has a CO[SUB]2[/SUB] extinguisher in their kitchen, right?

Well, there is a dry extinguisher.

That seemed like a planned experiment. Surely it might have been planned outdoors? :furious: (For once, this smiley is intended literally, not figuratively.)

[QUOTE=kladner;397177]Well, there is a dry extinguisher.[/QUOTE]

Dry extinguisher are useful, but they leave a huge mess of tiny particles behind. If you have the option, first use the CO[SUB]2[/SUB] -- it will probably do the job. And, please note, dry extinguishers are not allowed in machine rooms.

[QUOTE=kladner;397177]That seemed like a planned experiment. Surely it might have been planned outdoors? :furious: (For once, this smiley is intended literally, not figuratively.)[/QUOTE]

Indeed.

However, you might be surprised by how many people throw water on their stove-top when there's a fire. Most survive, many with third degree burns to their face and hands.

My mother once barely forestalled my grandmother, who lived with us, from grabbing a glass of water when Grandma got a pan of grease too hot and it flashed into flame. I remember my mom yelling, "Put the lid on it!"

[QUOTE=kladner;397182]I remember my mom yelling, "Put the lid on it!"[/QUOTE]

That should always be the first remedy, unless the fire has spread significantly beyond the vessel in question. (And even then capping off the source may be very useful).

[QUOTE=ewmayer;397197]That should always be the first remedy, unless the fire has spread significantly beyond the vessel in question. (And even then capping off the source may be very useful).[/QUOTE]
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClHt2-XVthw&feature=player_detailpage#t=322[/url]

[QUOTE=kladner;397182]My mother once barely forestalled my grandmother, who lived with us, from grabbing a glass of water when Grandma got a pan of grease too hot and it flashed into flame. I remember my mom yelling, "Put the lid on it!"[/QUOTE]

When you cannot get lid on a pot ...maybe it is because [I]you are[/I] in the pot, and it is called a tank, and the oil is on your face - then it is best for you to leave the pot ASAP.
Incidentally, taken from [URL="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.novayagazeta.ru%2Fsociety%2F67490.html&edit-text="]an interesting interview[/URL] straight from the mouth of a Russian tank soldier mysteriously teleported into Donetsk. Yes, together with the tank.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;397205][url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClHt2-XVthw&feature=player_detailpage#t=322[/url][/QUOTE]
I guess fried food can kill before you even eat it.

[url=www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-06/the-long-strange-saga-of-the-180-000-carat-emerald] The Long, Strange Saga of the 180,000-Carat Emerald[/url] | Bloomberg Business

If I correctly recall my gemology math, 5 ct = 1 g, so 180 kct means 36 kg (roughly 80 lb). Would madam like that cut into a pendant and perhaps a pair of matching earrings?

[Aside: According to my dictionary, the word 'carat' has an etymology nearly as long as the custodial history of the above gemstone, coming to us silly bent-knees-running-about English-speaking types by way of the French, via the Italian, which derived it from the Arabic, which adapted it from the Greek word [i]keration[/i] for the carob bean, which is itself a diminutive form of the Greek word [i]keras[/i], in reference to the elongated shape of the carob seed pod. Note also that keratin, the name of the chief protein component of animal horns, claws, hair and skin, derives from this, and e.g. the German word for a skin callus (which derives from the Latin word for 'hardened skin') is [i]Hornhaut[/i], 'horn skin'. Or was it 'horny skin'? Or maybe horny toads? Toads have skin and can get pretty horny, right? Although ya gotta take care which ones ya lick, 'cos some of 'em have poisonous skin, I think mostly the brightly-colored ones. Or was it the horny-skinned ones? I forget. Anyway, while I'm on the subject of forgetting things ... what was I talking about?]

[url]http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/is-cowardice-a-form-of-bravery/[/url]

[URL="http://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/02/a-customer-service-complaint-from-1750.html"]A Customer Service Complaint From 1750 B.C[/URL]
[QUOTE]How have you treated me for that copper? You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore (my money) to me in full.

Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any copper from you that is not of fine quality. I shall (from now on) select and take the ingots individually in my own yard, and I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt.[/QUOTE]

Netscape: the web browser that came back to haunt Microsoft
 

[URL="http://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/mar/22/web-browser-came-back-haunt-microsoft"]Netscape[/URL]: the web browser that came back to [STRIKE]haunt Microsoft[/STRIKE] bite Microsoft in the Ass

[QUOTE]So let’s spool back a bit – to 1993. By then, the internet was roughly 10 years old, but for its first decade had been largely unknown to anyone other than geeks and computer science researchers. Two years earlier, Tim Berners-Lee had created and released the world wide web onto the internet, but initially no one noticed. Then in the spring of 1993, Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina released Mosaic – the first graphical browser – and suddenly the “real world” realised what the internet was for, and clamoured to get aboard.


But here’s the strange thing: Microsoft – by then the overwhelmingly dominant force in the computing world – failed to notice the internet. One of Bill Gates’s biographers, James Wallace, [URL="http://tinyurl.com/p7wa4jl"]claimed that Microsoft didn’t even have an internet server[/URL] until early in 1993, and that the only reason the company set one up was because [URL="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/steve-ballmer"]Steve Ballmer[/URL], Gates’s second-in-command, had discovered on a sales trip that most of his big corporate customers were complaining that Windows didn’t have a “TCP/IP stack” – ie, a way of connecting to the internet. Ballmer had never heard of TCP/IP. “I don’t know what it is,” he shouted at subordinates on his return to Seattle. “I don’t want to know what it is. But my customers are screaming about it. Make the pain go away.”


But even when Microsoft engineers built a TCP/IP stack into Windows, the pain continued. Andreessen and his colleagues left university to found [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape"]Netscape[/URL], wrote a new browser from scratch and released it as Netscape Navigator. This spread like wildfire and led Netscape’s founders to speculate (hubristically) that the browser would eventually become the only piece of software that computer users really needed – thereby relegating the operating system to a mere life-support system for the browser.

Now [I]that[/I] got Microsoft’s attention.[/QUOTE]

ChromeOS, anyone...?

The future isn't so bright in a number of ways that very few people seem to recognize...

[QUOTE=Dubslow;398382]ChromeOS, anyone...?

The future isn't so bright in a number of ways that very few people seem to recognize...[/QUOTE]
Tried both Chrome OS and "cros linux" (the "reloaded" version of the former), ended up totally disappointed. The experience reinforced my pro-Firefox paranoia even more...

[QUOTE=LaurV;398388]Tried both Chrome OS and "cros linux" (the "reloaded" version of the former), ended up totally disappointed. The experience reinforced my pro-Firefox paranoia even more...[/QUOTE]

Oh god, you even bothered to try it? I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. (That said, there are many other things I wouldn't touch with a 39 1/2 foot pole.)

[QUOTE]I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.[/QUOTE]

How about with an eight foot Swede? :smile:

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial_number_system[/url]

Not sure if this fits here. I was working on a problem and I stumbled into using a factorial number system. I was pleasantly surprised to see a long wiki article and not just a stub. I don't think I had ever heard of it before.

[QUOTE=Jayder;398473][URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial_number_system[/URL]

Not sure if this fits here. I was working on a problem and I stumbled into using a factorial number system. I was pleasantly surprised to see a long wiki article and not just a stub. I don't think I had ever heard of it before.[/QUOTE]
This system is also used by Hendrik Lenstra in his article on profinite Fibonacci numbers, which is fun to read:
[URL]https://math.berkeley.edu/~hwl/papers/fibo.pdf[/URL]

[QUOTE=BudgieJane;398520]You were referring to stage left there, I assume.[/QUOTE]Does that mean they are all just actors and not actual employees? They should be sued them for false advertising. Getting my hopes up like that for no good reason. :mad:

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;398552]LaurV already is married. If you want to be a 'sister wife', you all will have to move to Utah.:razz:[/QUOTE]People can be divorced. Anyhow, there are more places than Utah where such things are allowed. But it seems to all be [strike]mute[/strike] moot since they are only actors. I feel cheated; bait and switch in action. :max:

Haha, I missed initial post. No, I am not in the photo, but if you want I give you my mobile number anyhow. It is an old Gigabyte Gsmart Windows Phone (older than [URL="http://www.gigabytecm.com/en/pageinfo.php?id=75"]the pictures[/URL]), its [URL="http://www.imei.info/"]number[/URL] is 356557000199108.

[QUOTE=LaurV;398564]No, I am not in the photo, ...[/QUOTE]Story of my life.[QUOTE=LaurV;398564]... but if you want I give you my mobile number anyhow. It is an old Gigabyte Gsmart Windows Phone (older than [URL="http://www.gigabytecm.com/en/pageinfo.php?id=75"]the pictures[/URL]), its [URL="http://www.imei.info/"]number[/URL] is 356557000199108.[/QUOTE]Okay, so now all I need is the resources of the NSA and then I can track you.

...or you can track the NSA guy who now tracks LaurV and get the info from him [URL="http://xkcd.com/538/"]using a $5 wrench[/URL].

[QUOTE=Batalov;398568]...or you can track the NSA guy who now tracks LaurV and get the info from him [URL="http://xkcd.com/538/"]using a $5 wrench[/URL].[/QUOTE]Are you kidding? There is no way that wrench is only $5. :unsure:

[QUOTE=retina;398572]Are you kidding? There is no way that wrench is only $5. :unsure:[/QUOTE]

Did you read the alt-text?

[QUOTE=axn;398573]Did you read the alt-text?[/QUOTE]Oh, I see. Beaten to the punch line. Again. :sad:

.

:goodposting:

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It seems that [URL="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/07/1043223/-The-science-of-Red-Hair"]redheads may bleed more freely and require more anesthesia[/URL] than those with other hair colors.

Apple's New Uniport Line of Macbooks
 

Many people probably wish this was an April Fools joke:

[url=http://hypebeast.com/2015/1/apples-new-12-inch-macbook-air-to-push-the-limits-of-thickness-input-output]Apple's New 12-Inch MacBook Air to Push the Limits of Thickness, Input & Output[/url] | HYPEBEAST

Note most articles I found about this tout the USB-C-only aspect as a 'sleek, minimalist, way-kewl design', but the reality is that ya gotta pay $80 extra for the adapter, and now you got some dangly add-on port-jack hanging off the side of your MacAir. 'We call that a dongle', but hey, as long as it comes in solid gold model...

[url=http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/16/8226193/new-apple-macbook-usb-type-c-security-risk-badusb]The new MacBook's single port comes with a major security risk[/url] | The Verge


And on a lighter - in the 'what were they thinking?' vein - note, video of a popular local TV show [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHZ8ek-6ccc]interview with one of the engineers at Apple's Mexican design facility[/url], on the subject of the design 'planning' behind the new single-port models.

('Jony' refers to Apple's legendary master of design, Jony Ive, notorious for hating any to-him-needless cutting of holes in his creations, e.g. for comms ports).

[QUOTE=ewmayer;399063]<...the religion of Apple and their single port silliness...>[/QUOTE]There is a simple solution to the single port problem: Don't buy one. If it is no longer cool to have more than one port then be bold and be not cool.

[QUOTE=retina;399065]There is a simple solution to the single port problem: Don't buy one. If it is no longer cool to have more than one port then be bold and be not cool.[/QUOTE]

I've no intention of buying such a device.

And yet another stealthy AFD gag is victimized by its own stealthiness...

4 year old Syrian girl surrenders to photographer
 

[URL]http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-32121732[/URL]

[QUOTE]BBC Trending spoke to Sağırlı - now working in Tanzania - to confirm the origins of the picture. The child is in fact not a boy, but a four-year-old girl, Hudea. The image was taken at the Atmeh refugee camp in Syria, in December last year. She travelled to the camp - near the Turkish border - with her mother and two siblings. It is some 150 km from their home in Hama.

"I was using a telephoto lens, and she thought it was a weapon," says Sağırlı. "İ realised she was terrified after I took it, and looked at the picture, because she bit her lips and raised her hands. Normally kids run away, hide their faces or smile when they see a camera."[/QUOTE]

The picture below is far better than the one which made it to the BBC. H/T to DKos.

Your head is an echo chamber
 

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gm12xViwRM[/url]

Why does it work?

[QUOTE=retina;399717][url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gm12xViwRM[/url]

Why does it work?[/QUOTE]

[url]https://youtu.be/0Uqf71muwWc[/url]

Short version: The water in your brain moves in phase with the electromagnetic waves of the key fob, amplifying it. A gallon of water next to it will do the same thing.

Then it would work even better if one used one's stomach. I am compelled to go to the parking lot and try it! ;-)

[QUOTE=Batalov;399764]Then it would work even better if one used one's stomach. I am compelled to go to the parking lot and try it! ;-)[/QUOTE]

Please don't. You possibly had a burrito today... Farts setting off the burglar alarm in the car do not count, and gas in the stomach changes the resonance. (That's meant to be funny.)

Hey, that's what parking lots are for, really.
Show me a person who don't fart silently on their way to the car, and I will show you a liar. :-)

But no, I had sushi today. Love it!

[QUOTE=Batalov;399777]Show me a person who don't fart silently on their way to the car, and I will show you a liar. :-)[/QUOTE]I don't. I fart loudly. Don't be so shy about your farts. Be proud and bold, and make sure everyone knows you're what you're doing.

[QUOTE=Batalov;399764]Then it would work even better if one used one's stomach. I am compelled to go to the parking lot and try it! ;-)[/QUOTE]

Ya gotta be careful when your body unwittingly becomes part of the physics experiment -- snip from Richard Rhodes' [i]The Making of the Atomic Bomb[/i] detailing a near-disaster Otto Frisch (nephew of Lise Meitner) had while playing with just-subcritical U235 assemblies at Los Alamos, "tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon" as a young Richard Feynman dubbed it:
[i]
At Los Alamos in late 1944 Otto Frisch, always resourceful at invention, proposed a daring program of experiments. Enriched uranium had begun arriving on the Hill from Oak Ridge. By compounding the metal with hydrogen-rich plastic to make uranium hydride it had become possible to approach an assembly of critical mass responsive to fast as well as slow neutrons. ... Making a critical assembly involved stacking several dozen 1½-inch bars of hydride one at a time and measuring the increased neutron activity as the cubical stack approached critical mass. ... But it was impossible to assemble a complete critical mass by stacking bars; such an assembly would run away, kill its sponsors with radiation and melt down. Frisch nearly caused a runaway reaction one day by leaning too close to a naked assembly -- he called it a Lady Godiva -- that was just subcritical, allowing the hydrogen in his body to reflect back neutrons. "At that moment," he remembers, "out of the corner of my eye I saw that the little red [monitoring] lamps had stopped flickering. They appeared to be glowing continuously. The flicker had speeded up so much that it could no longer be perceived." Instantly Frisch swept his hand across the top of the assembly and knocked away some of the hydride bars. "The lamps slowed down again to a visible flicker." In two seconds he had received by the generous standards of the wartime era a full day's permissible dose of radiation.[/i]

Despite popular jokes about "nuclear" burritos and hot sauces and the memorable nether-miasmatic eruptions they inspire, let's at least try to restrain any parking-lot explosions to be of the chemical rather than the nuclear kind, shall we?

[QUOTE=ewmayer;399780]Despite popular jokes about "nuclear" burritos and hot sauces and the memorable nether-miasmatic eruptions they inspire, let's at least try to restrain any parking-lot explosions to be of the chemical rather than the nuclear kind, shall we?[/QUOTE]I agree. Those little milliwatt car remote thingies could cause a chain reaction in your stomach strong enough to unlock your car! :shock:

Somewhat related: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident[/url]

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
[URL="http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/ruskin-mailman-tries-flying-to-capitol-in-gyrocopter-to-deliver-campaign/2225584"]Ruskin mailman lands gyrocopter on U.S. Capitol lawn to deliver campaign reform message to Congress[/URL]
[QUOTE]Someone inside his circle of secrecy had reported him, telling the Secret Service that Hughes was talking about committing a daring act of civil disobedience that also happened to be a federal crime.

The Secret Service won't confirm the agent's visit because there was no arrest. But Hughes says he was questioned for about 45 minutes, and he has an agent's business card. Two days later, Hughes said, the same agent showed up at the post office where Hughes works and asked more questions . He also talked to one of Hughes' colleagues with whom he had discussed his plan. The colleague told the Tampa Bay Times that he, too, answered questions. Hughes even gave the agent permission to talk to his doctor, to assure him he wasn't suicidal or homicidal.

And then, for months, nothing. That was it, Hughes said. No other questions. No other contact. So Hughes, who sees himself as a sort of showman patriot, a mix of Paul Revere and P.T. Barnum, put his plan into action.

He bought a burner cell phone and a video camera, and tested a livestream video feed from his gyrocopter ( tbtim.es/gpa). He built a website offline that explains who he is and why he's doing what he's doing. He bought $250 worth of stamps and stuffed 535 two-page letters into 535 envelopes, each addressed to a specific member of Congress:

"I'm demanding reform and declaring a voter's rebellion in a manner consistent with Jefferson's description of rights in the Declaration of Independence," he wrote in his letters. "As a member of Congress, you have three options. 1. You may pretend corruption does not exist. 2. You may pretend to oppose corruption while you sabotage reform. 3. You may actively participate in real reform."

He also learned how to fly.

Late last week, he loaded the gyrocopter onto a trailer and headed for an undisclosed location outside the nation's capital.

If you're reading this, Doug Hughes, a 61-year-old mailman from Ruskin, has taken flight. His stated intent: to buzz through the air at 45 miles per hour at about 300 feet up in an ultralight gyrocopter toward Washington, D.C., toward protected airspace, where, if his plan works, he'll land on the lawn of the United States Capitol building and deliver the mail.

Of course, Doug Hughes might be shot out of the sky. He knows this. He has thought about it day and night for more than two years, wrestling with the tiniest details of his insane plan.

"No sane person," he said, "would do what I'm doing."

He decided he wanted someone to tell his story in the event he was hurt or arrested. After the Secret Service visit, he sought out a Tampa Bay Times reporter and explained his plan and motivation. He says he has no intention of hurting anybody and that he doesn't want to be hurt either.

"I don't believe that the authorities are going to shoot down a 61-year-old mailman in a flying bicycle," he said. "I don't have any defense, okay, but I don't believe that anybody wants to personally take responsibility for the fallout."[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=only_human;400155]Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.[/QUOTE]

The video literally brought tears to my eyes. It's wonderful to see brilliant people pushing the envelop. :tu:

[QUOTE=chalsall;400170]The video literally brought tears to my eyes. It's wonderful to see brilliant people pushing the envelop. :tu:[/QUOTE]
I was very impressed by the Tampa Bay Times actually and factually reporting actual news with an actual backstory.
Don't get me wrong, it still is fun to see reporters scramble to report what Hillary had for lunch or to compensate for her van driving to the back side of a building.
[URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/15/jon-stewart-hillary-burrito_n_7068268.html"]Jon Stewart Watches The Media Freak Out Over Hillary's Burrito Order[/URL]
[URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/14/reporters-chase-hillary-van_n_7064784.html"]A Celebration Of The Professionalism Of Campaign Reporters[/URL]

[url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/15/us-usa-election-clinton-tombstone-idUSKBN0N60VM20150415]Tombstone of Hillary Clinton's father knocked over: newspaper[/url] | Reuters

"Local officials were quick to dismiss as 'unfounded' rumors that the late Hugh Rodham's headstone might have fallen over as a result of the deceased turning over in his grave over his daughter's shameless faux-populism."

[QUOTE=ewmayer;400277][URL="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/15/us-usa-election-clinton-tombstone-idUSKBN0N60VM20150415"]Tombstone of Hillary Clinton's father knocked over: newspaper[/URL] | Reuters

"Local officials were quick to dismiss as 'unfounded' rumors that the late Hugh Rodham's headstone might have fallen over as a result of the deceased turning over in his grave over his daughter's shameless faux-populism."[/QUOTE]

Is real populism any better than the faux kind?

I'm sure everyone here can think of a few people that this applies to

[url]http://xkcd.com/1513/[/url]

[QUOTE=davar55;400296]Is real populism any better than the faux kind?[/QUOTE]

Quite possibly worse, in the "how many popules were killed for their pelts to allow you to wear that populism?" sense.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;400356]Quite possibly worse, in the "how many popules were killed for their pelts to allow you to wear that populism?" sense.[/QUOTE]
You should have postponed your brilliant answer until [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_a_Stupid_Question_Day"]September 28[/URL]. :-)

[QUOTE=Brian-E;400372]You should have postponed your brilliant answer until [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_a_Stupid_Question_Day"]September 28[/URL]. :-)[/QUOTE]

Would that that observance had been around during my schooldays - I once had the whole 8th-grade history class laugh at me for asking "who is buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?" It sounds superficially like a daft question, but at least in the U.S. version of said monument - the subject of my Stupid Question[sup]tm[/sup] - turns out to be nontrivial.

[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralus_(song)"]Lateralus (song by Tool) (Wiki)[/URL]
[QUOTE]Counting between pauses, the syllables in Maynard James Keenan's vocals during the verses form the first few Fibonacci numbers, ascending and descending[/QUOTE]
[CODE] black
then
white are
all I see
in my in-fan-cy
red and yel-low then came to be
reach-ing out to me
lets me see
there is
so
much
more and
be-ckons me
to look through to these
in-fi-nite pos-si-bi-li-ties
As be-low, so a-bove and be-yond, I i-ma-gine
Drawn out-side the lines of rea-son
Push the en-vel-ope
watch it bend[/CODE]

[QUOTE]Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.[/QUOTE]

the next line of the lyrics. YMMV :smile:

Not necessarily ;-) [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_rock"]Math Rock[/URL]!

A guy captured the recent Calbuco initial eruption while out hiking!

[YOUTUBE]X9h3l0aiP7M[/YOUTUBE]

[url=http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/mans-first-day-of-wearing-apple-watch-to-work-not-going-as-hoped-2015042797777]Man’s first day of wearing Apple Watch to work not going as hoped[/url] | Daily Mash

LOL, the snark is priceless. And listen to the mega-git: "everyone gets a hot wrist sometimes" - hmm, been a while since I recall having suffered from a burning sensation on *that* part of my body.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;401196][url=http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/mans-first-day-of-wearing-apple-watch-to-work-not-going-as-hoped-2015042797777]Man’s first day of wearing Apple Watch to work not going as hoped[/url] | Daily Mash

LOL, the snark is priceless. And listen to the mega-git: "everyone gets a hot wrist sometimes" - hmm, been a while since I recall having suffered from a burning sensation on *that* part of my body.[/QUOTE]If it doesn't run P95 then there is no point to it, right?

[size=1]So if that story is true then [i]all[/i] of the people at that office are jerks, including the wearer with his intended smug smile to pretend <something>. Talk about shallow, hehe. I wear this <thing> so that makes me cool and awesome. Yay to me!. Hey baby, I've got an Apple Watch. Wanna do the wild thing?[/size]

[QUOTE=retina;401198]If it doesn't run P95 then there is no point to it, right?[/QUOTE]

Not so - I hear that if you pay for the right app and angle the screen just so - being careful not to burn your wrist, mind you - it will actually tell you what time it is. And the skeptics say Apple has forgotten its radically innovative roots...

[size=1]TDM is actually a UK analog of The Onion, but as the saying goes, the best parody is inevitably painfully close to the truth.

I do wonder if this will prove to be Apple's version of Google Glass - "why don't they love it like we told them they would?"[/size]

Boeing 747 gradually phasing out
 

[QUOTE][URL="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/apr/29/demise-of-boeing-747-sign-of-changing-flight-patterns"]Dreamed up in another age, the 747 was in the skies before Concorde,[/URL] before man reached the moon, and when the president of the United States was a child. Boeing’s most famous plane has been up there ever since, redefining the language of aviation as the original jumbo jet, carrying twice as many passengers as most other aircraft. Hundreds criss-cross the globe every day, and new 747s still slowly gestate on the production line. [U]But it is now almost 18 months since the last order from a passenger airline,[/U] and the long flight of the 747 appears to be firmly in its descent.

Boeing insists it has a future: even the president [URL="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/new-boeing-model-replace-air-force-one"]still wants it[/URL], for a revamped Air Force One. But, White House aside, its demise has been long-signalled after more than 1,500 orders since it first entered service in 1970.
[/QUOTE]

Freight version orders are still expected.

I was once on a 747 red eye from LA to Chicago. There were more flight attendants than passengers in coach. The attendants took off their shoes and announced where the drink cart was parked for anyone wanting service.

[QUOTE][URL="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/apr/29/demise-of-boeing-747-sign-of-changing-flight-patterns"]Dreamed up in another age, the 747 was in the skies before Concorde,[/URL] before man reached the moon, [B]and when the president of the United States was a child[/B]. Boeing’s most famous plane has been up there ever since, redefining the language of aviation as the original jumbo jet, carrying twice as many passengers as most other aircraft. Hundreds criss-cross the globe every day, and new 747s still slowly gestate on the production line. [U]But it is now almost 18 months since the last order from a passenger airline,[/U] and the long flight of the 747 appears to be firmly in its descent.

Boeing insists it has a future: even the president [URL="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/new-boeing-model-replace-air-force-one"]still wants it[/URL], for a revamped Air Force One. But, White House aside, its demise has been long-signalled after more than 1,500 orders [B]since it first entered service in 1970[/B].
[/QUOTE]Funny. I remember 1970 but I don't remember the president of the day being a child.

I barely remember 1970! And I remember the president not yet being a child.

[QUOTE=Batalov;401434]I barely remember 1970![/QUOTE]I am unable to recall 1970.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;401469]I am unable to recall 1970.[/QUOTE]

I call, "1970!" but it doesn't come.
I call again, "1970!" but it still doesn't come.
I guess I can't recall 1970, either.

[QUOTE=kladner;401482]I call, "1970!" but it doesn't come.
I call again, "1970!" but it still doesn't come.
I guess I can't recall 1970, either.[/QUOTE]You did recall it. Whether is came of not is irrelevant.

[QUOTE=retina;401494]You did recall it. Whether is came o[STRIKE]f[/STRIKE]r not is irrelevant.[/QUOTE]

Touché! :davieddy: (But I still fixed that for you. :smile:)

[QUOTE=kladner;401495]T(But I still fixed that for you. :smile:)[/QUOTE]Tanks.

[QUOTE=retina;401494]You did recall it. Whether i[B]s[/B] came of not is irrelevant.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=kladner;401495](But I still fixed that for you. :smile:)[/QUOTE]

You forgot something... or perhaps more importantly the evil genius done messed up twice :smile:

On a related note, I can barely recall 2001, much less 1970.

[QUOTE=Dubslow;401499]... the evil genius done messed up twice :smile:[/QUOTE]Hey, only twice messed up is good for me.

[size=1]I usually find a way to pass the blame on to a minion or two. I'll see who I can find that happens to be wasting time right now.[/size]

[url=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-01/alibaba-to-pull-ad-for-job-candidates-with-pornstar-qualities]Alibaba is Pulling Its Ad for Job Candidates With Pornstar Qualities[/url] - Bloomberg Business

Wanted: code fluffer. (Or maybe it's a codeR fluffer.) Better headline would've been 'Alibaba HR strategy reshuffle after feathers ruffled in code fluffer kerfuffle'.

[QUOTE=Dubslow;401499][B]You forgot something... or perhaps more importantly the evil genius done messed up twice [/B]:smile:

On a related note, I can barely recall 2001, much less 1970.[/QUOTE]

...or a helpful mod tweaked everything in sight (or is that 'site'?) :huh:

[QUOTE=kladner;401601]...or a helpful mod tweaked everything in sight (or is that 'site'?) :huh:[/QUOTE]

Mods can't do that without leaving an edit message :smile:

[QUOTE=Dubslow;401603]Mods can't do that without leaving an edit message :smile:[/QUOTE]

As I recall, Xyzzy (maybe the other supermods) can.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;401469][QUOTE=Batalov;401434]I barely remember 1970![/QUOTE]I am unable to recall 1970.[/QUOTE]
Jesus Christ! [SPOILER]Superstar! Do you think you're what they say you are?[/SPOILER][LEFT][COLOR=#000000]
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[QUOTE=Mini-Geek;401604]As I recall, Xyzzy (maybe the other supermods) can.[/QUOTE]

The supermods cannot. Xyzzy has rather more power than anyone else.

[QUOTE=Dubslow;401607]The supermods cannot. Xyzzy has rather more power than anyone else.[/QUOTE]

Privileges of ownership - with all that responsibility, ya gotta let Mike have a little bit of sneaky fun now and again.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;401608]Privileges of ownership - with all that responsibility, ya gotta let Mike have a little bit of sneaky fun now and again.[/QUOTE]

I'm not complaining, just explaining :smile:

Beware the AIs (and/or, perhaps, the companies behind them).
 

Forget about Skynet, what if an AI [URL="http://www.cambio.com/2015/05/01/funniest-age-guess-fails-from-microsofts-how-old-app/"]causes embarrassment[/URL]? And/or collects data not nominally available, which might be distributed further than most submitters might imagine...

On the other hand, perhaps there are [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince"]still humans in the loop...[/URL] Particularity [URL="http://www.fastcompany.com/3045825/fast-feed/read-the-fine-print-before-you-use-microsofts-viral-age-guessing-tool"]the legal department[/URL]....

Comic book censorship
 

[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-32513180"]Cerne Abbas chalk hill giant censored for comic[/URL]



A spokesperson for the comic said: "It seems a sad indictment of the times when a legendary landmark like the Cerne Giant - which any man, woman or child can visit any day of the week - must be covered up in a comic book."

"Through pressure, our hand has been forced. Outlets, particularly in the US, refuse any form of nudity in comic books," the spokesperson added.

[QUOTE=xilman;401854][URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-32513180"]Cerne Abbas chalk hill giant censored for comic[/URL]



A spokesperson for the comic said: "It seems a sad indictment of the times when a legendary landmark like the Cerne Giant - which any man, woman or child can visit any day of the week - must be covered up in a comic book."

"Through pressure, our hand has been forced. Outlets, particularly in the US, refuse any form of nudity in comic books," the spokesperson added.[/QUOTE]

Is Homer playing ring toss with the giant?

[QUOTE=rogue;401857]Is Homer playing ring toss with the giant?[/QUOTE]

Taunting the giant with a Forbidden Doughnut.

Be mindful of where your bits are served from
 

[url]http://www.enjoythemusic.com/hificritic/vol5_no3/listening_to_storage.htm[/url]

:bs meter:

Still eating with a dumb fork? Loser!
 

[url]http://weputachipinit.tumblr.com/[/url]

[url=www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/05/the-inventor-of-mothers-day-disowned-the-holiday-and-so-should-we-all/275763/]The Inventor of Mother's Day Disowned the Holiday, and So Should We All[/url] - The Atlantic

Title is more hyperbolic than message of article, which says more or less "let's keep it about honoring mothers, not enriching florists and chocolatiers."

[URL="http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/scientists-earth-endangered-by-new-strain-of-fact-resistant-humans"]Scientists: Earth Endangered by New Strain of Fact-Resistant Humans[/URL]

[QUOTE]MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report) – Scientists have discovered a powerful new strain of fact-resistant humans who are threatening the ability of Earth to sustain life, a sobering new study reports.[/QUOTE]

it's a joke by a writer who's also a comedian but it does make me think if it's a read write error in that it gets written to the wrong area of memory so they think that it's fact. and if the memory stick they effectively have for facts is write only could switching the two make a difference.

[url=sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/05/14/quest-for-extra-cash-turns-into-airbnb-nightmare-for-south-bay-homeowner/]Quest For Extra Cash With Airbnb Turns Into Nightmare For South Bay Homeowner[/url]

[QUOTE=ewmayer;402325][url=sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/05/14/quest-for-extra-cash-turns-into-airbnb-nightmare-for-south-bay-homeowner/]Quest For Extra Cash With Airbnb Turns Into Nightmare For South Bay Homeowner[/url][/QUOTE]
I think that if you have a guest in your house for 72 hours (in your jurisdiction), they can stay and you would have to evict them. Under 72 hours and you can have the police eject them directly.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;402327]I think that if you have a guest in your house for 72 hours (in your jurisdiction), they can stay and you would have to evict them. Under 72 hours and you can have the police eject them directly.[/QUOTE]At some point they would have to leave to buy food, or drugs, or something. So why not just refuse to let them back in? Or turn off the electricity and water. Or both. Shirley there must be numerous simple non-violent ways to get them out of there.

Everything that happens everywhere is part of a conspiracy
 

[url]http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2011/09/01/the-conspiracy-behind-the-destruction-of-saurons-tower-in-the-lord-of-the-rings[/url]