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Site Glitchies? (Wtf Talk Post)
Well, that was our actual goal, to make everyone think you did it.
There will probably still be minor oddities for the next little while while I continue with some adjustments. Stay tuned.
Like... my profile picture has changed to a version I did AGES ago... like moons ago... very weird Lucky.
Mock The Week - David Mitchell on the Medical Science Issue
David Mitchell Funny rants
Maddow- Why Daylight Saving Time?
We have it because otherwise it's friggen light at 5am in the morning, if we didn't have daylight saving time it'd be light stupidly early during summer... and then if we left it like that through winter it'd be stupidly dark when you got up.
It's purely just managing the light hours at the start of the day better for sleeping.
It's not hard to comprehend.
Down Time Yesterday (and Last Night) (Sift Talk Post)
Agreed. It's most annoying. We'll try to get it figured out soon.
As long as it's not just me and is a known issue I'm a happy camper
Down Time Yesterday (and Last Night) (Sift Talk Post)
Quite annoying must be said.
Thankful For Bold Risks and Trail Breakers (Blog Entry by dag)
On second thought- maybe they did think about the aspect ratio and figured it worked best like this:
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/03/12/apple-rolls-out-ibooks-feature-page/
I don't see how that excuses anything, it would work just as well with a widescreen display... and it still ignores movies, which they like to show so much in their ads.
What smoking has become - the IT Crowd
Alcohol wasn't designed for anything, it was discovered because it was recreational. Cigarettes weren't designed to be deadly, tobacco was discovered because it was recreational.
What are the positive benefits of alcohol besides recreation and a few vague and tenuous health benefits?
wiki
Also, studies indicate that the proportion of men with alcohol dependence is higher than the proportion of women, 7% and 2.5% respectively, although women are more vulnerable to long-term consequences of alcoholism. Around 90% of adults in United States consume alcohol, and more than 700,000 of them are treated daily for alcoholism.
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Of the adult US population, at least 75% are drinkers; and about 6% of the total group are alcoholics. In groups which are almost 100% drinkers, the alcoholism rate is about 8%. Many reports state that about 73% of felonies are alcohol-related. One survey shows that in about 67% of child-beating cases, 41% of forcible rape cases, 80% of wife-battering, 72% of stabbings, and 83% of homicides, either the attacker or the victim or both had been drinking."
Cigarettes may kill people, but I doubt they hurt families as much as an alcoholic father can do. So lets ban alcohol, lets ban fast food, lets ban everything. Or just let people be responsible for themselves and make their own decisions.
>> ^spoco2:
Alcohol? Not designed to be addictive (some people are to it, but that's true of almost anything... you can find someone addicted to most anything these days), has positive benefits, and when drunk in moderation has little to no negative effect.
Cigarettes may not have been initially designed to be deadly, but they sure as hell have been 'improved' to be as addictive as they can possibly be to ensure that they keep those smokers going until they die.
You're missing the point in regards to drinking vs smoking. YES I AGREE that drinking can and does lead to bad things... but it doesn't have to. When consumed responsibly it does not have to result in anything bad occurring, it can act as a social lubricant, make good food better, etc. etc. Also, we all know how successful banning it turned out to be. The issues with alcohol, over and above alcoholism, is a societal one. If you got rid of alcohol from the poor and desperate, they would find something else to use to the same effect and still commit crime, and beat their wives etc. It's not the direct problem.
Also, you cite 7% of men and 2.5% of woman as being alcoholic... ok, so for that percentage then drinking should not be an option. Now... how about smoking? What percentage of smokers become addicted? Pretty darn close to 100%, and of those there are NO POSITIVE BENEFITS. None...
Now, I have never said it should be banned, never said it should be illegal, but it should not be allowed in areas where us non smokers frequent, because we don't deserve to be in a restaurant trying to enjoy a meal only to be assaulted by smoke. Nor do we wish to be waiting for a train and being engulfed in smoke. And again... the wish for others to stop smoking is as much for them as it is for us... we don't want to see them die.
Also, you saying that an alcoholic father who beats their children is a little off... for all the people that drink, and by your own figures that is BY FAR the majority of people, only a small, small percentage do that... compared to those that smoke, pretty much all will die a premature death, thereby robbing their children of a father earlier than need be.
You will never convince me that drinking s worse or even on the same level as smoking, never.
Anti-Gravity Chamber
Stop Motion LEGO Star Wars short with my son (Blog Entry by youdiejoe)
Although with the oldest being 6 they aren't quite up to doing the animation themselves yet.
Thankful For Bold Risks and Trail Breakers (Blog Entry by dag)
Indeed the iPhone has somewhat 'standardised' how people expect to be able to interact with a touchscreen phone, but that absolutely doesn't mean they should be going lawyer crazy on everyone... it just is not productive.
They didn't invent multitouch
They didn't invent the gestures they use
They make a huge deal of adding things to their devices which others have had for a long time previously.
Hurray for Apple making products, hurray for competition... but the iPad is hardly revolutionary as people like yourself Dag, like to make out. It will do OK... and it might even do very well a few versions down the track when Apple can be arsed actually making it a decent product.
The million bloody tablet pcs out there at present do not excite me in the slightest, not the iPad, not any other manufacturer. The million bloody eReaders are similarly boring to me.
As I've said many times here, the rumoured Microsoft Courier is the form factor and functionality I want in 'a larger than a phone' portable device... something like THAT would get me excited.
All these other tablets are merely half arsed products with no clear goal AT ALL as to what need they're filling. The iPad falls into that same hole... if it really was trying to be a little portable media hub then it SO would not have been 4:3 ratio.
Feeling Down? This Will Cheer You Up!
Upvote.
Modern Warfare - Drone Controllers At Work
They kill a couple of hundred people, or even very personally as in this simulation, a few people in a car... and all they see is an explosion on a screen at a distance.
No visceral feedback of the death and horror they just unleashed.
Plus... it spawns things like Truckchase's comment, where he's looking at the controllers etc. because it's so detached from the horror which it's actually performing that you can do so.
Things like this make killing easier, not harder.
What smoking has become - the IT Crowd
But again, how is what I said a bad thing? If the way things are now, in that it's horrendously inconvenient to smoke these days, means that more people give it up, how is that in any way bad? It means that those people quit... it means that those people will now be healthier and richer (cigs cost a lot) and live longer and be around for their kids longer (if they have them)... I see no issue in wanting for people to quit.
I think you both have very itchy trigger fingers for anyone who comes out against smoking. And to try the usual... 'well what bout everything else that may harm you' line... come on, that's old, tired, and pathetic.
Cigarettes kill you in a horrible way, they are designed to make you addicted to them, by companies, so they can make vast sums of money from you while you die, they have zero positive benefits... therefore they should be discouraged at all costs.
Alcohol? Not designed to be addictive (some people are to it, but that's true of almost anything... you can find someone addicted to most anything these days), has positive benefits, and when drunk in moderation has little to no negative effect.
Music in clubs being so loud as to damage your ears... indeed... I would actually prefer them to be a few notches down, don't understand the need for louder, louder, louder myself, especially to the point that you hear a 'tearing' in your ears because they're overloaded... but hey... that's what earplugs are for.
Cars? Sure they can be dangerous... but they HAVE A POSITIVE PURPOSE... I hate this argument of 'well ban cars then' or anything else that could possibly harm you... they have a purpose. What positive purpose to cigarettes have? None... there is no positive to outweigh the negative... and the negative side of cars is constantly trying to be mitigated... not so for cigarettes.
Spewing hate at someone for wanting to smokers to stop smoking is like being hateful towards someone for wanting you to stop stabbing yourself repeatedly. We'd actually rather like for you to live longer, not die an agonizing death... how is that bad?
What smoking has become - the IT Crowd
Plus it helps that I find Katherine Parkinson awfully attractive.