Ask comment:
"Stacked empty paper cups, in a triangle. That way it's even more satisfying when you hit it." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by jamjam, kjs4
3 days ago
Ask comment:
"There's a lot of mysticism about high tech, and especially about radiation. Much of that approaches paranoia.
Unfortunately, these paranoid mystics have money for lawyers.
It takes a lot of energy to reach the outer planets. For the Voyager..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by bowline, nicepersonality, mindsound
3 days ago
Ask comment:
"Among the other apes, mutual grooming is an important social behavior. Fingernails are the tools used to do it. Among other things, they're very useful for getting rid of ticks and lice...." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by orthogonality, PhoBWanKenobi, jamjam
5 days ago
Ask comment:
"Um, "no one"?
You may be stunned to learn that there really isn't a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. There are just people who happen to agree with one another, to a greater or lesser extent, and occasionally say similar things...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by abdulf
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I've been using Vista (on an Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz, 2G of RAM) since last November and in fact it isn't bad at all. I can't say I like it significantly better than XP but it isn't really worse either.
A lot of the bad reputation Vista has is..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by anildash, Zambrano
10 days ago
Ask comment:
"There has been a rise in the rate of debilitating allergies (including food allergies) in the last couple of decades and no one knows why. (This might be the reason.)
However, it's also an example of a food fad. Those come and go...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Brian James
11 days ago
Ask comment:
"CNC is right, by the way. If the phone can't find a carrier inside your building, it will burn the battery trying to search for one." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Drastic
12 days ago
Ask comment:
"What are some positive or neutral behaviours of the upper class that could be adopted to make a person's class unidentifiable
This is extraordinarily dependent on where one lives. I see from your profile that you're Australian.
Here in the US,..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by orrnyereg, LoriFLA
13 days ago
Ask comment:
"It should be possible to do that using twelve piped SED calls:
cat sourcefile | sed s/0/0000/ | sed s/1/0001/ | sed s/2/0010/ | ... | sed s/F/1111/..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by aeschenkarnos
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"If you pick the cat up and pet him a lot of the time after he does it, you may be seeing the result of operant conditioning." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by woebot
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"You know, it's not really hard to figure out. The short answer is that America is very spread out compared to places like Japan and continental Europe, where inter-city rail works pretty well.
Another reason is scaling of capital costs. For..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by ekstasis23, thedaniel, BrotherCaine
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"...an increasingly bleak public sentiment on the future...
Don't tell me, let me guess: the above was written by someone who wasn't alive during the darkest years of the Cold War, when we all feared we would be incinerated by a nuclear holocaust..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by gimonca, russilwvong
Last month
MeFi comment:
"When I was a kid, the joke was that "Everything I enjoy is either illegal, immoral, or fattening."
When I was in high school we added another: "or causes cancer in lab rats."
Nowadays, if you can find anything that's fun..." [
more]
favorited 20 times, recently by tehloki, keevinl, fatehunter, swerve, sunshinesky, Kadin2048, Dark Messiah, olya, themadjuggler, Garak, pyrex, kosher_jenny, sputgop, adamdschneider, muymuy, mystyk, parhamr, saraswati, BryanPayne, bonobo
Last month
Ask comment:
"I think the most important thing you need to do is make sure your dad knows that nothing has changed for you.
And you need to make sure of that for yourself, too...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by catlet
Last month
Ask comment:
"(...and what I also should have said...)
The fact that the cochlea works the way it does has all kinds of interesting consequences for sound engineers. What that means is that our ears are real-time spectrum analyzers. The way we differentiate..." [
more]
favorited 4 times, recently by fantabulous timewaster, DevilsAdvocate, adamwolf, ignignokt
Last month
Ask comment:
"(...what I should have said...) and the reason that low pass filters are important is that essentially all real-time communications media (air, wire, radio) implicitly include low pass filters. In a communication channel with low bandwidth, a sine..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by phrontist
Last month
Ask comment:
"In physics, "periodic motion" is a term used to describe a vibration where an object moves back and forth. In particular, it describes a particular motion where the force on an object rises proportionally with how far away it is from the..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by phrontist, ssg
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Why is aluminum smelting in Iceland a bad thing? If someone is having to do a high profile attempt to try to raise awareness of it, then obviously it isn't causing any significant problems on its own.
Based on the Wikipedia article, the protest..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Civil_Disobedient
Last month
MeFi comment:
"To the person who called Iceland a godforsaken wasteland, don't be silly.
I didn't call all of Iceland a godforsaken wasteland. I referred to the area where they want to put the dam as a godforsaken wasteland.
The point is, if you can't put a..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by desiderandus
Last month
Ask comment:
""Project Valour-IT, in memory of SFC William V. Ziegenfuss, helps provide voice-controlled and adaptive laptop computers to wounded Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines recovering from hand wounds and other severe injuries at major military..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by texas_blissful
Last month
Ask comment:
"I know this sounds counter-intuitive, but do not try to cheer them up. That's the wrong approach.
Grieving is important and valuable. Attempting to cheer someone up too soon will make them feel guilty about grieving and apply pressure to them to..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
Last month
Ask comment:
"Something I probably should have added to that:
With all due respect, I think that a "tangible gift" would be less special than one which helps soldiers and veterans who are still alive. If you knew your friend's father, do you think he..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by moxiedoll
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The single best summary of that situation I've ever heard was this: The Palestinians want to commit genocide, but cannot. The Israelis can commit genocide, but will not.
I see the Palestinians as being the international equivalent of alcoholics or..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Kifer85, RavinDave
Last month
MeFi comment:
"What sort of wealth-creation economy do you imagine these people in Gaza have?
Less than they could have had. There was a big greenhouse complex in Gaza run by Israelis which employed a lot of Palestinians. When the pull-out was scheduled, unnamed..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Kifer85
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I just spend an interesting couple of hours coming up with a longer list of wars, revolutions, and insurgencies they didn't think were worth including:
Chinese occupation of Tibet (1951-present)
First Sudanese Civil War (1955-1972)
Second..." [
more]
favorited 5 times, recently by Rhaomi, nooneyouknow, docpops, stinkycheese, ryanrs
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I looked at their Table 2, which shows the specific wars they are including in their total. It has some interesting omissions.
Why isn't the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan listed there? Or the Russian operations in Chechnya? Where are the..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by cell divide, blasdelf
Last month
Ask comment:
"What you're asking is akin to saying, "Please teach me to be a brain surgeon in five minutes." What you need isn't tips, what you need is a professional marketer. That's what Marketing is about, and it isn't easy.
I worked as a product..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Ookseer, GuyZero
Last month
Ask comment:
"There are some other ways to do it that don't require accurate clocks, but they are rather painful to use. This article talks about some of them.
The history of the Longitude Prize is interesting, too...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by ikkyu2
Last month
Ask comment:
"Most synthetic sweeteners are chemically altered (where atoms in molecules are chemically substituted - usually halogens for hydrogens) or synthesized (built from scratch in a series of chemical reactions).
Just to get some facts on the table:..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Comrade_robot
Last month
Ask comment:
"Understand: it isn't illegal to to what you're talking about. But if the corporate management screws over the shareholders in order to be "socially responsible", it can be actionable.
No one goes to jail for this, but they can be sued...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
Last month
MeFi comment:
"A decent respect for the opinions of others is not a legal requirement, but it is none the less a requirement.
No, it is not. I don't have to respect anyone's opinion, and there are a lot of people whose opinions I don't respect in the slightest...." [
more]
favorited 5 times, recently by magstheaxe, spaltavian, nasreddin, Lentrohamsanin, Pope Guilty
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I had to go use AcronymFinder to discover that "PUA" stands for "Pick Up Artist". Tells you how out of it I am." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by DU, sperose, liza
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I used to work with a Korean guy who grew up on his mother's cooking. When we went out for lunch at a Thai restaurant, he'd always order something hot. They'd ask him how hot he wanted it, on a scale of 1-10, and he'd answer "20"...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by greenie2600
Last month
MeFi comment:
"RMOOM: American libel law is very strict and very, very limited by world standards.
First, under American law the truth is protected speech. Telling the truth about someone is never actionable.
Second, opinions are protected speech. Saying what..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by the other side, spaltavian
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Actually, Class Goatse, there are a few countries where the Right to Bear Arms is freer than here. But those countries are not safe to travel to.
You mean, like Switzerland, where every adult male is legally required to own a rifle and legally..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Inspector.Gadget, Mick, Pope Guilty
Last month
MeFi comment:
"If I am not free to say things that others find offensive, I am not free at all.
I like the First Amendment just fine the way it is. And I don't care if that puts my country "out of step" with the "rest of the world". Fuck 'em...." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Kadin2048, drjimmy11
Last month
MeFi comment:
"But if this has become the only area where the U.S.ofA. is freer than any other country, I say Death to America.
Fortunately, it isn't." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by vorfeed
Last month
Ask comment:
"Here's what my robots.txt file looks like:
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /
User-Agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /magicdir1/
Disallow: /magicdir2/
Allow: /
User-Agent: MSNBot
Disallow: /magicdir1/
Disallow: /magicdir2/
Allow: /
User-Agent:..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by eclectist
Last month
Ask comment:
"The trays cost nearly nothing. They weigh almost nothing. They're strong and stiff. Once meat has been plopped down in one of the trays, it's easy to wrap. And since the resulting trays of a particular kind of meat are all the same size, it's easy to..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by gjc
2 months ago
