and another Lena quote...you need to know the story first though. we were playing a gamme called the old woman game(if you want the details you may ask me) and we try to make the other laugh.....well she started shaking like she was having convulsions and yelled out, "Constipation!"she really meant convusions..if i have spelled something wrong you may correct it[/glow]
"i have fourteen buts!"
She really does too...
You know piece, you left yourself WIDE open on that one. Trying to grab your ankles are we?
~Reynard
Hahaha. Did he mean to say that, or did he get it mixed up?
Several geeks were sitting around a table, having lunch. They were each experts in their fields. As they were talking, a question came up. "What do you think was the most important breakthrough, or discovery in your field?"
First, the Math geek answered. "I feel that the discovery of zero was by far the most important breakthrough in my field." They all laugh, noting that the invention of "nothing" was the most important thing to the math geek. A Mechanical Engineer answers next. "I feel it was the invention of the screw that was the most important." Again, more jokes. A Computer Scientist answers next. "I feel that the invention of Boolean Algebra was the most important thing in my field." A Electrical Engineer nods his head, and says that "It is most certainly the transistor that has changedmy field the most." A few people make FET jokes.
Finally, it's the Artificial Intelligence Researcher's turn. "Well," he pauses. "I think that it's the thermos that's changed my feild the most." Everyone looks at him disbelieving. "Well, think about it. It keeps hot things hot, but it keeps cold things cool. How does it know?"
Sure. What's it mean? I'm too lazy to google it.
Reynard deserves to be sued for copyright infringement!
He doesn't need to be sued, the way he hacked up and misspelled that quote they could never connect the two. ::)
[...]ADHD will do that to you
Heh, I won't die. :-P
Morgul = Antichrist ::)
Jesus?
Hardly
Quote from: NeoJesus?Quote from: MorgulHardly
However, I, being Jesus, have no time to piddle on such trivial matters. I've gotta get my whole "God in flesh" groove on.
An eternity with morgul . . .
*drops to his knees*
FORGIVE ME LORD!!! I'LL REPENT!! I'LL CHANGE MY WAYS!!!
I love that show! I have the movie version of it on DVD!
KFA.
that's all for now, but i have a page full, so brace yourselves.
Lemmon Curry?
"The greatest scientific discoveries are not preceded by the phrase 'Eureka!' or 'I've done it!' but rather 'Huh . . . that's odd . . .'"either you, my brother, or dave..... by the way.....wnat kind of meal is it and how the hell you're sending it to me.....i'll probally be the only one who answers it....or maybe the dude who discovered penicillin
[...]The soldier issue I'm torn on. Soldiers can lay down their arms and walk away at anytime.
HOWEVER, the government makes this difficult for several reasons:
1. To a large degree they brainwash and censor the information the soldiers receive.
2. They charge the soldiers with a military crime if they walk off the battlefield. What's terribly wrong with this is that the military tribunal does not take into account rather the war is popular or not NOR that soldiers own moral or ethical reasons for laying down his/her arms.
What ends up happening is that the ones who do not feel they are rightfully serving the will of the people with their actions, wait until their contract runs out to leave. Of course, since this has become a common occurrence, the government has restricted their ability to do so by extending their contracts (regardless of the legality and taking advantage of the soldiers ignorance of law). So there's a lot at play here that complicates the issue. However, it is never okay to 'spout very hateful things at soldiers' for any reason. The people that do so should use pamphlets to inform the soldiers. On the otherside of the arguement, though, the ussual rational of those that 'spout very hateful things at solderis' is to strongly reinforce the unpopularity with the war in the hopes that they'll say "enough is enough, this isn't worth the unpopularity I face at home, I'm laying down my weapon and facing my (nobel) consequences like a man." Not to say I agree with it...I'm just saying...
Well, yes and no. They CAN lay down their arms in the middle of a fire fight, but they WILL get shot. (Possibly by other soldiers who see this as dereliction of duty.) Which is nobler, laying down your life for your beliefs, or fighting for them? IMHO, they are equal, but some view death as a coward's way out.
While true, ask any soldier in Iraq currently if they think we should be there. Most will say no. That tells me that they're free thinking enough, and bright enough to develop their own conclusions and opinions based on their experience.
Very true. There are reasons for charging them with a crime, and honestly those reason are sound, and I wouldn't wish it differently, but that doesn't make it 'good'. And just imagine the tribunal's task... if they let Soldier A get away with walking off the battlefield, then how can they charge Soldier B who goes AWOL, getting his entire squad killed? What moral ground do they have to stand on? Tough call, imho.
To me, risking your life for any cause, including immoral ones still retains a level of nobility. Now, when it comes to doing a the job of a soldier, on both sides I feel those who fight and die are a higher caliber of humanity then most. They may not be good men, they may not even be decent men; they are men willing to die because they are told to. That takes a special (if not disturbing) mentality, and most of the people I've met who've faced that have been better because of it. They might still not be good or just men, but they're more good, more just then if they'd never had to face death like that. That alone is why I think all soldiers should be treated with honor and respect.
Hrm. Dr. Bastani asked what keeps me up at night. I guess I have an answer now...
(in reality - the question is regarding passion within computer science. for me it's programming language design, so you can guess the size of the flock of chicks I get with THAT)
They're just throwing themselves at me. Worse than those AXE and Tag commercials.
And it leads to the best pickup lines - "I'll typecheck YOUR variables!" and "You can synthesize my code ANY time"
And the ultimate "Did your automatic precondition checking system return a positive, or should I walk by again?"
/me smacks head on table.
I'm humped. And not in the fun way.
That stuff actually works?!
:o
hmmm I guess so... :colbert:Whereas responses such as that make it hard to respond to.
"I know where you live, I've seen where you sleep, and your Mother will cry when she's seen what I'll do to you."
naw don't explain them.....
though you have explained some of them to me....and they WERE amusing