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The problem is that they both want a -.com domain name. Why one doesn't have a .car, and the other have a .computer domain name is because the internet names were designed by people who probably didn't understand the real world at all.

Give a .computer domain to a person? That's computerist!
posted to MetaFilter by furtive at 8:43 PM on May 10, 2008

Don't overthink your bowels.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by docpops at 6:54 AM on May 10, 2008

And now, ladies and gentlemen, here he is again! The man who put it up there first! Absolutely resplendent in 00BFFF Deep Sky Blue! Let's give a BIG MeFi welcome to... the OH! PEE!

*cue zippy MetaFilter theme music and hearty applause*
posted to MetaTalk by flapjax at midnite at 5:34 PM on May 6, 2008

Guys, if you fix how HTML is formed, it can't have babby.
posted to MetaTalk by proj08 at 10:17 AM on May 9, 2008

Can somebody convince me in the comments why this isn't a worthless link to some Ultimate fighting bullshit?
posted to MetaFilter by Megafly at 10:36 AM on May 8, 2008

Mmm.... I Can't Believe It's Not Lasers!
posted to MetaFilter by nebulawindphone at 9:32 AM on May 5, 2008

You've gotten a lot of good advice here - especially about your absolutely astronomical food budget - but I think your major problem is in your approach to budgeting. You say that you don't know where "misc" goes, and you seem to be picking numbers out of the air for different categories because they sound right, without really analyzing your spending.

Budgeting begins with looking at your spending. If you don't track your expenses, you won't have any idea... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Miko at 12:09 PM on May 5, 2008

Admin dashboard: Bark!
Jessamyn: what is it girl?
Admin dashboard: Bark! Bark!
Jessamyn: ShotHotBot is in trouble? He fell in the ice?
posted to MetaTalk by shothotbot at 8:37 AM on February 14, 2008

I said "eww" about each of those questions without even opening them, and now I feel triple vindicated. Eww.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten at 9:14 PM on May 1, 2008

I think that we can all agree that only ADHD-afflicted debt-ridden single-mom stripper-lawyers are the only people who get to say anything in that thread, or this one, or, frankly, anywhere.
posted to MetaTalk by Skot at 10:19 AM on May 1, 2008

Simplified overview:
1) The caterpillar and the butterfly are for the most part made of different cells.
In the embryo, certain cells are set aside that will develop into adult structures, whilst the rest of the cells go on to make the caterpillar. The cells that were set aside form structures called "imaginal discs" ("imago" being a term for the adult stage), and they undergo their own developmental program inside the caterpillar. Inside the chrysalis,... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by nowonmai at 6:26 PM on April 28, 2008 marked best answer

"Was I the only one hoping for this to be pictures of Summer Glau?"

Nope. Actually, I was hoping it'd be two Summer Glau robot clone ninjas ..or maybe three. Or maybe Summer Glau with Morena Baccarin, Jewel Staite, and Gina Torres all participating in a terminator robot clone ninja nymphomaniac orgy while Adam Baldwin looked on in the background holding a pizza.

...

I'll be in my bunk.
posted to MetaFilter by ZachsMind at 8:39 PM on April 26, 2008

Well, anything Shirley Bassey's done is Bond material.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cowbellemoo at 9:27 PM on April 26, 2008

Oh, it's all about Snake Eater, the theme from Metal Gear Solid 3. It's particularly awesome because the lyrics are so bizarre.

I will now crawl back into my nerd hole.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by pazazygeek at 4:34 PM on April 26, 2008

I don't know about other countries, but George II was apparently the last English monarch to lead his troops into battle, in 1743.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by phoenixy at 9:35 PM on April 26, 2008

If you want more information on auditory hallucinations, Dr. Olive Sacks explains them at length

That's the superior Olive, of course.

Oh lord, I slay myself.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by ikkyu2 at 12:03 AM on April 5, 2008

C-14 is absorbed through biological processes. Since lead doesn't breathe or eat, it doesn't take on C-14.

True, the issue as I understand it though is that metal forged in the last 60 years picks up just enough nuclear testing fallout to introduce an additional level of error in very sensitive measurements of radioactivity. Given that early C14 dating involved counting beta decay events, minimizing extraneous sources of beta decay seems like a good... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by KirkJobSluder at 10:52 AM on April 24, 2008

The ROFL
has not
been here.

(Watch very closely for removal of this shirt)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by weapons-grade pandemonium at 5:52 PM on April 23, 2008

Change it back jessamyn, please?

Done!

heh Stockholm syndrome
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 7:20 PM on April 20, 2008

See thou mine own coin-purse? It hath upon it written "Foul Oedipus."
posted to MetaFilter by arto at 1:55 PM on April 20, 2008

Mike, I'm in the exact same situation. I've been contacted several times, both by local districts looking for help, and by this latest NESA search. I always send them a polite but firm letter. that is some variation of the following:

I am an Eagle Scout from Boy Scout Troop XXX, and I recently recieved notice about your search for Eagle Scouts in the my area. As much as I would like to be active in the BSA, I cannot in good conscience continue to support an... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by chrisamiller at 10:16 AM on April 17, 2008

Oh shit, I forgot to buy a house!
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B. at 10:09 PM on April 17, 2008

Nothing to add, but just yesterday I read this passage in Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun:

I have no way of knowing whether you, who eventually will read this record, like stories or not. If you do not, no doubt you have turned these pages without attention. I confess that I love them. Indeed, it often seems to me that of all the good things in the world, the only ones humanity can claim for itself are stories and music; the rest,... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by JaredSeth at 9:28 AM on April 16, 2008

but y'all are being real assholes about it: "end up flipping burgers"?

Well, in fairness ikkyu2 is a doctor. They go to school for a long time for the ability to think less of mere mortals.
posted to MetaTalk by Dennis Murphy at 2:28 PM on March 13, 2008

Bastards. I'm pleased I paid my $8.50 Metafilter account fee now. So I can register my disgust.
posted to MetaFilter by seanyboy at 9:14 AM on April 15, 2008

Because my answer wasn't that clear, I should add that the "rule of three" is considered sufficient. It means you don't have to fall all over yourself trying to clink every glass in the room, and you don't have to get into a "chain reaction." Just clink the three or four nearest people, salute everyone else generically, and then drink.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Miko at 8:15 PM on April 14, 2008

False equivalency, damndirtyape. Google and Yahoo are not known to log the keys and contents of secure transactions they are not involved in. This is what Sears has been caught doing through their vendor's software.

If Google and Yahoo do this -- I have no way of finding out at the moment -- I'd be really interested in knowing about it, as would a few million other people. Do you have any leads?
posted to MetaFilter by ardgedee at 7:06 AM on January 4, 2008

"You have a health condition, for which you insurance company will not cover treatment. If you want treatment, the government requires that you must participate in this medical experiment."

That doesn't sound coercive to you? Presumably most people on Medicare do not have regular unlimited access to the opinions of doctors and doctor-wannabes on AskMe, or the free time to research other treatment options and how to pay for them. While it's great that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by occhiblu at 1:51 PM on September 5, 2006

I work at an academic medical center and I must say I have mixed feelings about this. It sounds like it is intended as a way to expand Medicare's coverage of experimental treatments, but there is definitely an element of coercion that is hard to ignore, as well as the issue of informed consent. Protection for research subjects in the US already leaves something to be desired; a standard clause in most consent forms for research in this country is a clause stating that the patient is... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by TedW at 10:22 AM on September 5, 2006

My daughter, nine, sleeps in; I like to get up and be in front of the computer working by four or five a.m. Last weekend when I was putting her to bed she looked at me and said "Dad, I want to get up really early tomorrow morning like you and we can go for a walk—I've never seen what it was like outside that early." Then she told me she knew that when the morning came she would be asleep and I would decide not to disturb her, so she made me promise to wake her up no matter what.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Turtles all the way down at 11:12 AM on April 9, 2008

Hey, smoke off fingers is an old family friend.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 10:23 PM on April 11, 2008

I'll try and make this more intuitive.

The test comes back positive. This means that either you have cancer and the test is right, or you don't have cancer and the test is wrong. How can you figure this out?

The short answer is you can compare the size of the two groups: people with cancer and a correct positive, and people with no cancer and a false positive.

The people with cancer and a true positive are 98% (the... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by ROU_Xenophobe at 1:50 PM on April 12, 2008 marked best answer

I worry sometimes that it's too easy to be an anti-capitalist when you're privileged enough to be able to earn a living without, say, buying a computer.

This is undoubtedly the problem with the gentleman agrarian model: he says it''s more important for people to belong to the land than exactly to whom the land belongs, but that's a convenient thing for a man to say when he owns 125 acres and has a writing and teaching career that cushions him against... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea at 9:50 AM on April 10, 2008

The officiant at my wedding read a Wendell Berry poem at the ceremony. I wasn't expecting it (and did not know anything about him).

It was a singularly perfect moment, and I was moved--not to tears, but to sobs. The ceremony had to be stopped so that I could compose myself.

My relationship with my wife is going through a really rough patch right now, and I find myself frequently thinking back to that happy, perfect day. Berry will always have... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Admiral Haddock at 8:11 AM on April 10, 2008

Great story, thanks.

Stigler wasn't thinking that far ahead and was caught up in the moment of seeing the bloodied and damaged B-17. Strange how compassion works...

If only it worked a little better, we wouldn't have these fucking wars.
posted to MetaFilter by languagehat at 2:33 PM on April 10, 2008

I think I was more objectionable and rude before I even made it down the stairs this morning.
posted to MetaTalk by docpops at 8:46 AM on April 8, 2008

I think we should have a day, one day, where everyone puts all their grudges out on the table. 24 hours of Metatalk grudges. After 24 hours, the threads are closed and deleted, and everybody gets a completely brand new day from that point forward. Of course, this will render some users completely mute, as it seems there are those who love nothing better than digging up old, tired shit, but I think their loss will only be our gain.
posted to MetaTalk by ThePinkSuperhero at 8:38 AM on April 8, 2008

No, this is the Xenu love-child smiley •:).

And can I just say, it really pisses me off when people confuse their obscure cult-referencing emoticons. Let's try to get it right.
•) Xenu smiles upon you
•:) Xenu's children are enjoying their kool-aid
‡( You have pissed off Norsefire
⚇ The grays are watching you
⚆ The pirate grays are watching you
™   | The Maharishi is levitating above... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by adamrice at 8:12 AM on April 4, 2008

Something of this sort of argued by Kant: we can't know anything about God's existence one way or the other, but we have to assume the postulate of God's existence to make sense of our moral practice.

A little bit more on this: one of the major tensions in moral theory is the existence of apparently widespread injustice. If we think, as many theists do, that intentions rather than consequences are the relevant feature of our moral lives, it's hard to... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by anotherpanacea at 8:44 AM on April 6, 2008

"I want you to remember that no blogger ever won a war by flaming out for his country. He won it by making the other poor, dumb flame out for his country.

"You know, by God I, I actually pity those poor bloggers we're going up against, by God, I do. We're not just going to flame the bastards; we're going to cut out their brain cells and use them to grease the heat sinks of our cpus. We're going to make those lousy bastards cut their left hands off by the bushel.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by pyramid termite at 6:08 AM on April 5, 2008

oh no you dang ol' din't
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 9:03 AM on April 4, 2008

Thanks for this post. It is full of goodness! I've always been interested in Garrick.

Garrick was the 18th century's greatest Hamlet (and always considered one of, if not the greatest Hamlets of all time). He chose Hamlet to be his final role before he retired. And from what we know, one of the highlights of 18th century theater at the Drury Lane Theater was Garrick's Hamlet's start when he first saw the ghost of King Hamlet.

In the Act I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dios at 8:32 AM on April 4, 2008

Third?ing "Black Diamond Canadian Extra Sharp." I weep for all the years this cheese eluded me, when it was probably sitting right there in my grocery next to the decidedly second-best Tillamook Extra Sharp (sorry all you Tillamook lovers!).

I had a friend who once worked on the Tillamook cheese "assembly" line. She said the guys "cutting the cheese" used to amuse themselves by fashioning genitalia out of the cheese and putting it on the... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Enroute at 5:32 PM on April 3, 2008

subbes, I believe ikkyu2 is suggesting rightfully, that using a stimulant with the possible side effects of causing systemic and pulmonary hypertension, increased heart rate, and valvular heart problems in order to treat a condition associated with cardiovascular mortality and morbidity probably rubs doctors the wrong way. While weight loss has been demonstrated to reduce the risk of various maladies, there's no reason to assume that it's irrelevant how you lose weight. Moreover, phentermine is... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by drpynchon at 7:01 PM on April 2, 2008

Off the top of my head, possibilities include diabetes, pancreatic insulinoma, intestinal parasites, tumors or trauma to the brain, thyroid disease, drugs, mood disorder, or just plain getting old. I'm sure there's lots more that aren't coming to mind. Outside of the drugs which people probably aren't slipping you without your knowledge, and the getting old which sadly I'm sure you are, you can read up on the rest but the best way to get reliable peace of mind is probably to see a doctor about... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by drpynchon at 6:51 PM on March 30, 2008 marked best answer

"the wild-and-crazy ikkyu2"

i say let the wild and crazy ikkyu2 run free! All the selfless-service he gives to this place, while coping with a doctor's workload? Dude deserves a round of applause. And a bottle of Bollinger.
posted to MetaTalk by vronsky at 8:06 PM on March 31, 2008

THis kind of article only glorifies Mad, a rag that IS
Insipidly written, crudely drawn, and marketed to idiotS.
COuldn't the Times just ignore this moronic droOL!
posted to MetaFilter by Bromius at 12:54 PM on March 30, 2008

Live schlong and prosper.
posted to MetaFilter by tapeguy at 9:06 AM on March 31, 2008

Oh, man. You ask a very big question... there are chapters, if not entire books, written about this. Before there were cocktails, there was punch. Group servings instead of individual portions. Taverns kept punch bowls, and groups of friends would go in on one together for their own drinking party. It was like heading down to Trader Vic's and splitting a jumbo scorpion bowl with your homies, minus the long straws and umbrellas. Heck, I was reading something just the other day that I... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by mumkin at 10:54 AM on March 31, 2008

Wow, um, no offense to your father but "dislikes black people" + country in Africa + "bring his own firearms" + heavy drinker sounds like a recipe for bad things to happen.
I think if you're in a dangerous situation with very little law (or at least a feeling of no consequences for your actions) and you don't have an inherent respect for the people there, well, that can lead to situations like this.

Anyway... here's an interesting article... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by sharkfu at 9:05 AM on March 30, 2008