I didn't read much until my mom made me a deal that I could see Jurassic Park once I read the book (which was a crazy deal to make, because the book was way more violent and "adult" than the movie).
Then after that I started reading all the Michael Crichton books, and 10-12 year old me got to learn about sexual harassment and murdering prostitutes and all the other fun stuff in his books that my mom would absolutely never let me see if it was in a movie.
Multiply the expected cost of a divorce - A - by the probability of a divorce - B. A times B equals X. If X is greater than the cost of the AI VR girlfriend, we buy the AI VR girlfriend.
- Narrator, Fight Club Gen Z remake.
In the US it's a felony to deposit/withdraw smaller amounts with the intent to evade the reporting requirements. Given that law, even transactions under the limit could be seen as suspicious, especially if they all happened in a short period of time.
In Chapel in high school one time they brought in these performers who did stuff like break bricks with their heads and rip phone books in half "for Christ". They kept their clothes on, though.
Even if this conference had replaced the stripper with the brick-breakers, I think an even better use of the conference's time would be (eg.) telling young men to be wary of dating/marrying "reformed" OF whores.
The fact they have any sort of people dancing on stage at all tells me the conference organizers don't understand how late the hour is.
I've had my eye on a Mahindra Roxor, which is basically the old WWII-era Wiley's Jeep design with some very slight modern upgrades. Legally they're classified as an off-road utility vehicle, so they don't have to do all the emissions and safety crap that modern cars/trucks have to.
There are in my opinion two options for "stable" relations between the West and the Middle East:
- The Ann Coulter "Invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity" option
- The Star Trek "No interference with their social, cultural, or technological development" option.
Since the US wasn't founded as an Imperial project (despite it now being one) my personal preference would be the latter, though the ship may have already sailed on it being a viable option.
They don't even need "regulations" per se. The byzantine policies of large companies are burdensome enough for small players to navigate.
If you wanted to, say, create an alternative to CloudFlare you're going to have to place servers in ISP datacenters, and there's going to be policies around that, and those policies are (probably) going to be a huge pain in the ass. And if they make them complicated enough said company may just give up, and now there's no more alternative to CloudFlare.
Got it: you believe it's acceptable to slaughter children for any reason (or no reason) provided they're young enough, but instead of "championing" it maybe you feel a little bit bad when it happens.
So if I understand correctly, the primary moral innovation modernity has discovered with regard to child slaughter is "we still do it, but now some of us feel a little bit bad about doing it while still defending the practice".
If I had a point other than simple mockery it would be "people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones".
> Be atheist
> Criticize religion for killing children
> Cheer on the killing of millions of children (the unborn) so their mothers can work their email job without interruption.
It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for him.
Someone on twitter posted a clip from Oprah when the verdict was read. All the blacks were cheering, most of the whites were sullen with a handful cheering with the blacks. And the "cut to commercial" at the end is telling too.
I was in elementary school when the trial was going on, and I vaguely remember my dad saying the trial/verdict probably set race relations back a number of years. I don't think I fully understood what he meant at the time, and now I think he was probably being optimistic.
The BSDs (Free, Open, Net) are starting to become the option for trimmed down Unix-like systems.
You can also go with deeply embedded Linux systems like buildroot, but you will have to really know what you're doing to get something usable.
You see even "moderate" Jews flip off the Arch of Titus and think "I'm sure I could look up who was subjugating my people 2000 years ago (because most people were under someone's thumb), but it's not something that's always on my mind"
Honestly I didn't even have an opinion on the JQ until I saw that. Then I started thinking "maybe you guys need to learn how to let go of a grudge."
I acknowledge it may be the case that breast milk may be contaminated and that some sort of formula may be a preferable alternative.
When the formula shortages were going on about a year ago I did a simple search for a homemade baby formula out of simple curiosity (I had no direct need for this information since I didn't know anyone with a baby). All I came up with was a WHO recipe for "emergency formula (not to be given for longer than a month)" and a bunch of medical universities which flat out stated "there is no safe homemade baby formula; you must buy FDA approved formula (for all the good that does because you can't actually buy FDA approved formula right now)."
But you wouldn't be asking the question if you didn't have a need for an answer to this question. And it is an answerable question, otherwise commercial baby formulas couldn't exist. So where are the "medical experts" with the courage to provide an answer? As many issues I have with the WHO, at least they provided an answer with the caveat to not use it long-term.
Wouldn't it be nice if the people most qualified to give an answer would actually do so?
I occasionally watch game streamers in their early 20s who dip into "retro" games, and it always amuses me when they play (eg.) a PS2 game featuring an attractive, skantily-clad woman; and they inevitably react positively like "oh, whoa, that's not something you see in games anymore".
Poor guys don't even know what they missed, but I never got to play with lawn darts; so I suppose we're all living in the ashes of a lost civilization.
Counterpoint: winning elections isn't all that great if you never actually get what you want by winning them.
Well...they kinda did inject some circa 2009 "modern day crap" into it (OWS type stuff, since all the 2008 stuff had just happened) which wasn't present in the original, but it's not nearly as heavy-handed as you get now.
It's not "updated for modern audiences". They tried to do something different with the core idea of the original. Two major things that are very different in the remake (trying not to spoil):
- Who "Number 1" is is very different (and actually resolved very early in the series and very unambiguously (Number 6 asks "who is Number 1" and immediately gets an answer))
- The ending as it relates to where The Village is located
"How many people who would say that as a rallying cry wanted to ban me from going to the grocery store for not getting an injection?" is something I think about from time to time.
Susan in The Schizoid Man was my favorite, but if she's still alive she's older than my mother.
Great show. The bluray HD restoration looks fantastic. The last episode is on a whole other level of weird from the rest of them.
They did a mini-series remake in 2009 with Jim Caviezel and Ian McKellen that plays around with some of the concepts from the original. It's a much more straight-laced show than the original. I really want to like it but can't quite bring myself to.
I remember doing something in PicoBlaze assembly for one of those classes and thinking it was the greatest thing ever when I could make something 1 clock cycle faster by using a different instruction.
Now all I think is variants of "let's do this in Python (wasting billions/trillions of clock cycles) so I can get it done quicker and go on to doing something else."
Instead, Amazon is moving towards Dash Carts, a scanner and screen are embedded in your shopping cart, allowing you to checkout as you shop.
Amazon Fresh stores will also feature self check out counters from now on, for people who aren’t Amazon members.
So now it's all self-checkout, and you either self-checkout with the cart or in a line. Far cry from the promise of "effortless" shopping.
And the weakness of the "right" is that it will invite all these "leftist until 5 minutes ago" people into the Rep party with open arms and put them into positions of power and influence, because they will demand it so as to not feel "icky" about being a "conservative" (shudders).