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Yeah, half of them died.

I think it was Andy Ihnatko who pointed out a while back that The Who have a lead singer and lead guitarist left, while the Beatles have a drummer and a bassist, and that they should totally get together and kick ass on the greatest rock and roll tour since forever.
posted to MetaFilter by Celsius1414 at 11:50 AM on April 24, 2013

wolfdreams01 in all this you are making the big assumption that this Afghan leader who probably cannot identify Idaho on a map let alone Boston is wanting to kill American civilians.
The Afghans, just about all of them want America and their allied forces to fuck off home and leave them to their internal tribal power squabbles in Afghanistan and in the Pastun tribal homelands which cross over into Pakistan
I would seriously question that those labelled Terrorists are... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by adamvasco at 12:15 PM on April 24, 2013

FOAM FOR THE FOAM GOD!

MILK FOR THE KHORNE FLAKES!
posted to MetaFilter by ersatz at 10:35 AM on April 24, 2013

Warhammer became a lot more fun to me when I decided that my commander was the titular character - a blood-crazed butcher who uses his selection of glazed and smoked hams in defence of the Empire.
posted to MetaFilter by forgetful snow at 10:11 AM on April 24, 2013

Ah Baltimore. I always tell my friends that The Wire was a documentary and really, it was. I still can't watch it.
posted to MetaFilter by mygothlaundry at 8:40 AM on April 24, 2013

40k plus all the drugs and sex you want!!
posted to MetaFilter by marienbad at 8:34 AM on April 24, 2013

He's basically saying that they cannot find enough adult male humans in Baltimore who lack criminal records and are sufficiently intelligent to become correctional officers.
at the prevailing wage. Still ominous for slightly different reasons.
posted to MetaFilter by shothotbot at 8:28 AM on April 24, 2013

When asked why all 13 were female, Maynard noted that more than 60 percent of the officers in the system are female, adding that women are more likely not to have criminal records and be able to pass tests needed to qualify.

In case anyone fails to see the social significance of this sentence: He's basically saying that they cannot find enough adult male humans in Baltimore who lack criminal records and are sufficiently intelligent to become... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Avenger at 8:25 AM on April 24, 2013

Well, at least this won't reinforce the stereotypical view of Baltimore based on The Wire or anything.

You missed the point, it's not Baltimore, it's this whole country.
posted to MetaFilter by ennui.bz at 8:25 AM on April 24, 2013

Well, at least this won't reinforce the stereotypical view of Baltimore based on The Wire or anything.
posted to MetaFilter by RobotVoodooPower at 8:11 AM on April 24, 2013

Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yer?
posted to MetaFilter by three blind mice at 7:24 AM on April 24, 2013

the story of the fabled Swedish lesbian utopia in the forests

Stay tuned for my new Skyrim expansion.
posted to MetaFilter by Think_Long at 7:22 AM on April 24, 2013

As Obama Shuns Hearing, Yemeni Says U.S. Drone War Terrifying Civilians, Empowering Militants

The World Is a Battlefield: Jeremy Scahill on "Dirty Wars" and Obama’s Expanding Drone Attacks
posted to MetaFilter by homunculus at 9:44 AM on April 24, 2013

Awesome creation, but silly suit from a tactical perspective.

Terminators are slow, for sure, but you have to think of them less as people, and more like tanks that walk. They are heavily armored and can take an incredible amount of punishment. They have an incredible amount of firepower (a Terminator can easily carry an assault cannon in one hand). And also, they kick ass.

A normal Space Marine is faster.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kbanas at 8:26 AM on April 24, 2013

Eideteker: " how do people represent infinity computationally?"

Infinity is one part of a larger class in computing that represents DEEP HURTING for the uninitiated and unwary:

What does -1.#IND mean? (indefinite Not-A-Number)

How do I access the magic IEEE floating point values like NaN in code? (internals, but also don't do that.)

What does 1#J mean? A strange corner... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by boo_radley at 8:20 AM on April 24, 2013

Jump point is basically A* plus this:

prune the set of immediate neighbours around a node by trying to prove that an optimal path exists from the parent of the current node to each neighbour and that path does not involve visiting the current node.

So trim out any nodes from the search which would lead straight back to the current node. Duh. These things always seem so obvious, after somebody else discovers them...... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ook at 7:38 AM on April 24, 2013

Awesome creation, but silly suit from a tactical perspective. It's slow and places a person in danger, whereas drones are expendable.

So, you play Necrons, then?
posted to MetaFilter by Slap*Happy at 6:10 AM on April 24, 2013

Let's not even get into the issue of going to the bathroom.

Are you talking about the physical problem of eliminating waste in that suit, or the engineering/social problem of getting in and out of bathrooms and stalls?

The second one is the reason he has that big hammer.
posted to MetaFilter by GenjiandProust at 5:46 AM on April 24, 2013

whereas drones are expendable

Have you ever seen what a genestealer does to drones? It's not pretty. Besides, that's no ordinary human. That there is a genetically modified, seven to eight foot tall behemoth of righteous fury and the personification of divine will driven from on high by the emperor himself as he sits on the golden throne.

I think I need help.
posted to MetaFilter by Ghidorah at 4:48 AM on April 24, 2013

Warhammer is one of those things it's surprisingly easy to get obsessive about. I have to remind myself about the amount of brainspace I've dedicated to histories, point values, tactics, painting techniques, and so on every time I see a kid focused on Pokemon or Beyblade or Digimon or whatever it is they're doing on my damn lawn. Usually, I stop myself in time, but sometimes... sometimes... before I even realize it the foam suit is on and the chainsword is a'hummin'.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by robocop is bleeding at 2:53 AM on April 24, 2013

FOAM FOR THE FOAM GOD!
posted to MetaFilter by GenjiandProust at 2:48 AM on April 24, 2013

Expect a cease and desist notification from Games Workshop for IP infringement at any moment.
posted to MetaFilter by foleypt at 1:20 AM on April 24, 2013

That is the best thing ever. I think I drooled a little.

I want that so bad. Is it wrong to be thinking which chaos god I could bargain with for that? If I did bargain with a chaos god, would it come to me all chaosy, or would I have to barter away another fraction of my soul?
posted to MetaFilter by Ghidorah at 12:49 AM on April 24, 2013

I'm happy to say that my teenage self could identify the legion and I... cannot. Progress!
posted to MetaFilter by axiom at 12:46 AM on April 24, 2013

In the grim darkness of the far future there is only cosplay.
posted to MetaFilter by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 12:35 AM on April 24, 2013

Alison Brie is wonderful in this interview.

(And it's most definitely soft G.)
posted to MetaFilter by Rhomboid at 8:35 AM on April 23, 2013

Actually, even though I was creating websites professionally in the '90s, I was also self-taught mostly through online sources and doing a lot of view-source, and hung out more with artists and musicians than fellow techies (these were also my clients, which is why I wasn't making any money). So a lot of the culture of the early tech era was lost on me, including the correct pronunciations of Linux and GIF. I always pronounced it with a soft 'G,' until I moved to the SF Bay in 2000 to work for... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by krinklyfig at 10:59 PM on April 22, 2013

Hmm. I always pronounced it patent troll.
posted to MetaFilter by krinklyfig at 10:47 PM on April 22, 2013

They're both a bit niche

Or is it niché?
No. No it isn't.
posted to MetaFilter by Greg_Ace at 9:05 PM on April 22, 2013

Every time someone pronounces "cache" as though the E had an acute accent, I imagine bloodstains on walls.
posted to MetaFilter by Rustic Etruscan at 9:01 PM on April 22, 2013

Atom Eyes: "Do you soft-g types also pronounce Skype as "Skippy?"

I do now.
posted to MetaFilter by scrump at 7:30 PM on April 22, 2013

There are people where I work who unironically pronounce "URL" as "Earl" and "cache" as "ca-shay." I assume this was because they were born in the nineties or something.
Every time I hear this I silently think: There. Are. Four. Lights.
posted to MetaFilter by Dr. Zira at 6:47 PM on April 22, 2013

I've given up on even knowing what my own preference is for .gif—I've used both, gotten hollered at for both, made arguments for both, have dumb punny mnemonics for both—but I can unambiguously assert that soft-g is the more laidback choice in terms of the actual mechanics of enunciation. That alveolar stop in hard-g "gif" is just plain more hustle and bustle than the affricative in "jif", like you have to lower your shoulder and lean into that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 5:59 PM on April 22, 2013

In another (deleted) post, someone mentioned that the flu vaccine does not work very well this year, so it's natural that people will have doubts about the efficacy of vaccines in general. However, the Measles vaccine most certainly does work, and the BBC (not the Mail) does report that the rate of measles vaccination has declined, and now Wales and parts of England are seeing an outbreak/epidemic. So far, one adult has died from measles. So it would seem that giving your kids vaccinations,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by KokuRyu at 10:32 PM on April 23, 2013

I wonder if the anti-vax crowd would stick to their guns in the face of a truly deadly pandemic? I'd have little sympathy for them but their poor kids...
posted to MetaFilter by Justinian at 7:56 PM on April 23, 2013

I wanted to see the horse start playfully bouncing around, too. :)

Did you see the humourless Horse Boss at the end? No playful bouncing allowed.
posted to MetaFilter by panaceanot at 5:48 AM on April 24, 2013

It's all fun and games until that puppy gets maced.
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 5:38 AM on April 24, 2013

"Some Pig" looked just right.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 9:01 AM on April 23, 2013

Navigators could tell where they were by looking at the water which is pretty mind blowing.

No, true in lots of places. Back before we tamed/ruined the Mississippi, a big part of being a riverboat pilot was reading the waters. The river, being so large and silty, changed constantly, so charts were useless for safe navigation, as was knowing where you were. You might know that you'd just reached Cairo, IL*, but you had no idea where the sandbars had... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by eriko at 5:46 AM on April 23, 2013

There's been such a fuss made over the past few years about supposed sailing 'feats' made by people with GPS, radar, more or less constant contact with shore-based experts via radio or satellite phone etc. Compare that sort of voyage with those you have linked here, or even the story of Joshua Slocum, the first person to circumnavigate the globe single-handedly by sea and it's pretty clear to me that 'adventure' and 'single-handed' mean something entirely different these days.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dg at 9:35 PM on April 22, 2013

hanks for posting this.
posted to MetaFilter by not_on_display at 8:40 PM on April 22, 2013

Ducks Meet the Culture Wars

Sigh. Linked-to article is about conservatives upset because of funding for waterfowl research. Because it's possible to make anything look like a stupid waste of money if one personally don't like it enough, and refers to it derisively. Basically, we're not allowed to learn anything anymore.
posted to MetaFilter by JHarris at 3:07 AM on April 23, 2013

oh sweet christ I really need to get off the internet and go to bed. NOW.
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 10:49 PM on April 22, 2013

The Duck Penis, An Existential Quandary -- more on why ducks have a penis whereas most birds don't (disclosure: my blog).
posted to MetaFilter by eeriegongs at 9:51 PM on April 22, 2013

I believe those should be em dashes.
posted to MetaFilter by Kabanos at 3:58 PM on April 22, 2013

Look, this is easy.

It's spelled GIF, but it's pronounced Throat Warbler Mangrove.
posted to MetaFilter by stopgap at 3:52 PM on April 22, 2013

This is metafilter.

Pronunciation is literally the most important thing ever in the history of mankind.
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 3:46 PM on April 22, 2013

I genuinely think you people are too old to be correct about these things.

Dammit, son, I've been animating GIFs since before you were born. [Checks profile.] (OK, that is uncomfortably close to being accurate.)
posted to MetaFilter by stopgap at 3:36 PM on April 22, 2013

I genuinely think you people are too old to be correct about these things.
posted to MetaFilter by Rory Marinich at 3:17 PM on April 22, 2013

Brie does a spot on Grumpy Cat.
posted to MetaFilter by drezdn at 2:28 PM on April 22, 2013