• (cs) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    frits:
    C-Octothorpe:
    Pot:
    frits:
    P.S., the real frits is an idiot.
    Stating the obvious, man, stop it.
    Aww, that's cute... You guys miss him?
    It's a little pathological, if you ask me.

    I've been home helping take care of the newest addition to my family, BTW.

    I'll be back at work next week so you guys can get your fix of feeling-superior-while-actually-being-clowned-on on ;).

    Oh great, now there's going to be TWO of you?! :)

    Serious though, congrats man!

    Thanks, C#. It's actually our second one. (Yes I'm married, too.)

  • Zu... um... no one... (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    C-Octothorpe:
    frits:
    I've been home helping take care of the newest addition to my family, BTW.
    Oh great, now there's going to be TWO of you?! :)

    Serious though, congrats man!

    Thanks, C#. It's actually our second one. (Yes I'm married, too.)

    Was it an inie our an outie, if you know what I mean?

    I like both!

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    C-Octothorpe:
    frits:
    C-Octothorpe:
    Pot:
    frits:
    P.S., the real frits is an idiot.
    Stating the obvious, man, stop it.
    Aww, that's cute... You guys miss him?
    It's a little pathological, if you ask me.

    I've been home helping take care of the newest addition to my family, BTW.

    I'll be back at work next week so you guys can get your fix of feeling-superior-while-actually-being-clowned-on on ;).

    Oh great, now there's going to be TWO of you?! :)

    Serious though, congrats man!

    Thanks, C#. It's actually our second one. (Yes I'm married, too.)

    Congratulations frits! I had noticed you being here a little less and wondered what was up. Awesome, man!

    Remember - all that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good to procreate less than evil does.

  • (cs) in reply to QJo
    QJo:
    Further research suggests that the political map of the UK was originally drawn up in the 18th century between the Cowboys and the Thieves.
    This. Explains why the same pattern occurs in the USA.
  • (cs) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    frits:
    C-Octothorpe:
    frits:
    C-Octothorpe:
    Pot:
    frits:
    P.S., the real frits is an idiot.
    Stating the obvious, man, stop it.
    Aww, that's cute... You guys miss him?
    It's a little pathological, if you ask me.

    I've been home helping take care of the newest addition to my family, BTW.

    I'll be back at work next week so you guys can get your fix of feeling-superior-while-actually-being-clowned-on on ;).

    Oh great, now there's going to be TWO of you?! :)

    Serious though, congrats man!

    Thanks, C#. It's actually our second one. (Yes I'm married, too.)

    Congratulations frits! I had noticed you being here a little less and wondered what was up. Awesome, man!

    Remember - all that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good to procreate less than evil does.

    Thanks, hoodaticus! I'm not sure which side I'm on, but either way I think I'm trying to win.

  • [anti-ipod]sis - above and beyond the call of duty! (unregistered) in reply to frits

    [quote user="frits"]Serious though, congrats man![/quote] Thanks, C#. It's actually our second one. (Yes I'm married, too.) [/quote]

    It's nice to hear people are finally appreciating queer love.

  • Frank (unregistered) in reply to Bob

    Was retarded? LOL!

    Are you George H.W. Bush?

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to Arizona got it right
    Arizona got it right:
    hoodaticus:
    Dan:
    These systems were installed before there was a way to sync the clocks via radio. With 100s of clocks in a school, who has the time to change them to Daylight savings and back, and who gets to replace all the batteries? In a school, you especially need to sync the clocks. It is hard enough getting across campus between periods without worrying if your teacher kept the class late because their clock was slow.
    TRWTF is that every clock in the world isn't on UTC.
    Indeed. But if we can't have that much sanity, at least can we please please get rid of "daylight saving" time?

    Daylight savings time is an atheist conspiracy to disrupt church schedules twice a year.

  • trtrwtf (unregistered) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    frits:
    C-Octothorpe:
    frits:
    C-Octothorpe:
    Pot:
    frits:
    P.S., the real frits is an idiot.
    Stating the obvious, man, stop it.
    Aww, that's cute... You guys miss him?
    It's a little pathological, if you ask me.

    I've been home helping take care of the newest addition to my family, BTW.

    I'll be back at work next week so you guys can get your fix of feeling-superior-while-actually-being-clowned-on on ;).

    Oh great, now there's going to be TWO of you?! :)

    Serious though, congrats man!

    Thanks, C#. It's actually our second one. (Yes I'm married, too.)

    Congratulations frits! I had noticed you being here a little less and wondered what was up. Awesome, man!

    Remember - all that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good to procreate.

    FTFY.

    Congrats, frits. I feel sorry for the offspring, the food riots and subsequent collapse are gonna suck, but at least they'll get to enjoy the tail end of the long but ultimately finite twentieth century, before it all comes crashing down.

    And you'll get to look in its little face and say, yes darling, that's right. We burned it all. No, we weren't too swift, I know. Sorry.

    But for now, congratulations. Enjoy it while you can.

  • (cs) in reply to trtrwtf
    trtrwtf:
    FTFY.

    Congrats, frits. I feel sorry for the offspring, the food riots and subsequent collapse are gonna suck, but at least they'll get to enjoy the tail end of the long but ultimately finite twentieth century, before it all comes crashing down.

    And you'll get to look in its little face and say, yes darling, that's right. We burned it all. No, we weren't too swift, I know. Sorry.

    But for now, congratulations. Enjoy it while you can.

    I'll bet the ladies have a hard time staying away from such a positive go-getter...

  • trtrwtf (unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    trtrwtf:
    FTFY.

    Congrats, frits. I feel sorry for the offspring, the food riots and subsequent collapse are gonna suck, but at least they'll get to enjoy the tail end of the long but ultimately finite twentieth century, before it all comes crashing down.

    And you'll get to look in its little face and say, yes darling, that's right. We burned it all. No, we weren't too swift, I know. Sorry.

    But for now, congratulations. Enjoy it while you can.

    I'll bet the ladies have a hard time staying away from such a positive go-getter...

    You know it. That's why I carry a stick, to clear a path as I walk down the street.

  • Hortical (unregistered) in reply to trtrwtf
    trtrwtf:
    hoodaticus:
    Remember - all that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good to procreate.
    FTFY

    Congrats, frits. I feel sorry for the offspring, the food riots and subsequent collapse are gonna suck, but at least they'll get to enjoy the tail end of the long but ultimately finite twentieth century, before it all comes crashing down.

    If conscientious people decide not to reproduce, who will be left? UN-conscientious people! And we end up with the same problems anyway. So your solution doesn't help.

    Such an apocalypse might be inevitable; it's just a question of whether intelligent, healthy and moral people have the will to continue existing or go extinct over a stumbling block.

    Besides, how are we going to evolve if there's nothing to fight over?

  • Hortical (unregistered) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    Remember - all that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good to naively subsidize it's procreation.
  • trtrwtf (unregistered) in reply to Hortical
    Hortical:
    trtrwtf:
    hoodaticus:
    Remember - all that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good to procreate.
    FTFY

    Congrats, frits. I feel sorry for the offspring, the food riots and subsequent collapse are gonna suck, but at least they'll get to enjoy the tail end of the long but ultimately finite twentieth century, before it all comes crashing down.

    If conscientious people decide not to reproduce, who will be left? UN-conscientious people! And we end up with the same problems anyway. So your solution doesn't help.

    I don't recall suggesting a solution. The problem is pretty insoluble. We depend on a finite resource for everything we do: most importantly, we eat it. When that resource begins to fail, the carrying capacity of this ecosystem plummets.

    Extinction is not necessarily the consequence, but world-wide suck for those alive at the time is pretty inevitable, as we readjust the population levels to the new normal.

    Whether frits has a kid or two or twenty doesn't change that - it just determines how many of frits' kids will go through the world-wide suck that's coming.

  • (cs) in reply to trtrwtf
    trtrwtf:
    Hortical:
    trtrwtf:
    hoodaticus:
    Remember - all that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good to procreate.
    FTFY

    Congrats, frits. I feel sorry for the offspring, the food riots and subsequent collapse are gonna suck, but at least they'll get to enjoy the tail end of the long but ultimately finite twentieth century, before it all comes crashing down.

    If conscientious people decide not to reproduce, who will be left? UN-conscientious people! And we end up with the same problems anyway. So your solution doesn't help.

    I don't recall suggesting a solution. The problem is pretty insoluble. We depend on a finite resource for everything we do: most importantly, we eat it. When that resource begins to fail, the carrying capacity of this ecosystem plummets.

    Extinction is not necessarily the consequence, but world-wide suck for those alive at the time is pretty inevitable, as we readjust the population levels to the new normal.

    Whether frits has a kid or two or twenty doesn't change that - it just determines how many of frits' kids will go through the world-wide suck that's coming.

    I worry more about shortages of smart than food.

  • (cs) in reply to trtrwtf
    trtrwtf:
    Hortical:
    trtrwtf:
    hoodaticus:
    Remember - all that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good to procreate.
    FTFY

    Congrats, frits. I feel sorry for the offspring, the food riots and subsequent collapse are gonna suck, but at least they'll get to enjoy the tail end of the long but ultimately finite twentieth century, before it all comes crashing down.

    If conscientious people decide not to reproduce, who will be left? UN-conscientious people! And we end up with the same problems anyway. So your solution doesn't help.

    I don't recall suggesting a solution. The problem is pretty insoluble. We depend on a finite resource for everything we do: most importantly, we eat it. When that resource begins to fail, the carrying capacity of this ecosystem plummets.

    Extinction is not necessarily the consequence, but world-wide suck for those alive at the time is pretty inevitable, as we readjust the population levels to the new normal.

    Whether frits has a kid or two or twenty doesn't change that - it just determines how many of frits' kids will go through the world-wide suck that's coming.

    Yeah, but I'm an American, so it's gonna suck a lot less for my kids than the rest of you. BTW- this was already supposed to happen a few times (Malthusian nightmare). If people keep insisting on organic foods and other such nonsense it just may happen this time around. We were also supposed to have 10 billion people by 2010 and that hasn't happened yet either. Remember, predictions are not judged by their acuracy, but by the more scary/spectacular/interesting they are.

  • trtrwtf (unregistered) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    trtrwtf:
    Hortical:
    trtrwtf:
    hoodaticus:
    Remember - all that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good to procreate.
    FTFY

    Congrats, frits. I feel sorry for the offspring, the food riots and subsequent collapse are gonna suck, but at least they'll get to enjoy the tail end of the long but ultimately finite twentieth century, before it all comes crashing down.

    If conscientious people decide not to reproduce, who will be left? UN-conscientious people! And we end up with the same problems anyway. So your solution doesn't help.

    I don't recall suggesting a solution. The problem is pretty insoluble. We depend on a finite resource for everything we do: most importantly, we eat it. When that resource begins to fail, the carrying capacity of this ecosystem plummets.

    Extinction is not necessarily the consequence, but world-wide suck for those alive at the time is pretty inevitable, as we readjust the population levels to the new normal.

    Whether frits has a kid or two or twenty doesn't change that - it just determines how many of frits' kids will go through the world-wide suck that's coming.

    I worry more about shortages of smart than food.

    It's a bit late to worry about that, don't you think?

  • trtrwtf (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    trtrwtf:
    Hortical:
    trtrwtf:
    hoodaticus:
    Remember - all that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good to procreate.
    FTFY

    Congrats, frits. I feel sorry for the offspring, the food riots and subsequent collapse are gonna suck, but at least they'll get to enjoy the tail end of the long but ultimately finite twentieth century, before it all comes crashing down.

    If conscientious people decide not to reproduce, who will be left? UN-conscientious people! And we end up with the same problems anyway. So your solution doesn't help.

    I don't recall suggesting a solution. The problem is pretty insoluble. We depend on a finite resource for everything we do: most importantly, we eat it. When that resource begins to fail, the carrying capacity of this ecosystem plummets.

    Extinction is not necessarily the consequence, but world-wide suck for those alive at the time is pretty inevitable, as we readjust the population levels to the new normal.

    Whether frits has a kid or two or twenty doesn't change that - it just determines how many of frits' kids will go through the world-wide suck that's coming.

    Yeah, but I'm an American, so it's gonna suck a lot less for my kids than the rest of you. BTW- this was already supposed to happen a few times (Malthusian nightmare). If people keep insisting on organic foods and other such nonsense it just may happen this time around. We were also supposed to have 10 billion people by 2010 and that hasn't happened yet either. .

    Your kids will have a much higher standard to fall from. Not only will it suck absolutely, it'll suck a lot harder relatively.

    Remember, predictions are not judged by their acuracy, but by the more scary/spectacular/interesting they are

    Interesting. True, I think, since their effects take place before their accuracy is known, and their effects are the most interesting things about them in the long term. In fact, for some predictions, accuracy and actual effects are unknown in the long term.

    But in this case, it's purely gloom-and-doom on my part. Whatever happens will be the new normal, and it'll only be in comparison to expectations that "normal" can suck. If your kids expect a rising curve, or even a flat one, I think they'll find it's a drag. If they make it through the Mad Max scenario, their kids will probably manage to be quite happy scratching a meager living out of the earth and fleas out of each other's hides. With luck, they'll lose the capacity for language, and they won't even be able to communicate their constant misery, and mankind will sink back into the mire, another failed experiment.

    Which reminds me of an xkcd comic...

  • (cs) in reply to trtrwtf
    trtrwtf:
    hoodaticus:
    I worry more about shortages of smart than food.
    It's a bit late to worry about that, don't you think?
    This.
  • Jay (unregistered)

    An excellent piece of advice I heard once is this: When you predict that the world will end in some horrible disaster, set it ten years in the future.

    If you put it much farther out than that, then people don't worry about it. If you say the world will end in 1000 years, people living today know they'll all be dead by then, so who cares? Even 20 years away and they think there's plenty of time to deal with it later.

    But if you put it too soon -- like if you say the world will end next Thursday -- then there's not enough time to sell books and get on the talk shows and make a bunch of money.

    But ten years, that's just about right.

    This is how all the experts do it. Paul Ehrlich, Al Gore, etc etc, they always say disaster is coming in about ten years.

    Of course when the ten years is up, you have to come up with a new prediction. You might think that predicting doom when your previous four predictions of doom have failed to come true would make people ignore you. But it doesn't. The fact that you've made false predictions of doom in the past doesn't make you unreliable, it makes you an expert.

  • modo (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    You'd think someone keen enough to spot a grammatical error like "their" vs "there" would also be keen enough to notice the poster's correct use of "there" in the same post as his incorrect use of "their" instead of "there". Therefore, us smart people conclude that the poster knows when to use what, and it is simply a typo.

    There is an even lower circle of hell reserved for self-righteous grammar nazis. Don't give me that bullcrap saying that you just want people to have good grammar because I don't care. You may laugh and think it doesn't matter, but every educated person who sees what you write is judging you just a I am, and they are repulsed.

    The different uses, once correct and once incorrect, tell me that such a person does things inconsistently. There is an even lower circle of hell reserved for programmers who do things inconsistently because their bugs are much harder to solve.

  • facilisi (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    Maybe the placement of the electrical outlets is intended to discourage casual use. If you have to climb a ladder to plug something in, many people won't bother. This helps cut down on electricity consumption.

    What is the distance between the socket and the ceiling? Maybe someone had the plans upside down...

  • Ann Onym (unregistered) in reply to facilisi
    facilisi:
    What is the distance between the socket and the ceiling? Maybe someone had the plans upside down...

    Just install gravity inverters. Now that'd be a fix worthy of a School of Superior Engineering.

  • jeff (unregistered)

    The best part is go to their web site www.nut-box.com and read what make theirs "special"

    And I quote... "No one has touched your nuts before you." LOL!!

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    So the box of peanuts "may" contain nuts and peanuts? I'd hope that it actually contains peanuts.

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