serpentor

Because they are angry people.

Angry!

So I guess the disk platters used a glass substrate, coated in a layer of magnetic medium?

But, of course, no one questions the possibility of, like, you know, not letting kids use cell phones in school. Or maybe not letting kids use any form of digital camera, at all, ever? Is that actually impossible? Or just unreasonable?

Or, like, what if the reality is that taking a picture of your own nude body is not actually a crime? What if images of human nudity simply weren't criminalized?

A bridge too far?

  2. Cooking is easy and enjoyable

Okay, but what about washing dishes, and waiting in line at the grocery store, and taking out the garbage, and cleaning the refrigerator, and wasting food when you accidentally burn dinner, and when the recipe is bad, and when you botch the ingredients. And so on, and so on, and so on.

...not to mention that in most cases, Johnny doesn't even really know what encryption is, let alone believe he's capable of it.

Try asking someone to encrypt something, anything before sending it. The looks you'll get range from sideways or merely confused to fearful and panicked, to are you fucking kidding me?

I dunno. Technicalities of vertical envelopment aside, once something is surrounded it's usually considered ceded to those who have it surrounded.

An inability to defend, contrasted with an unlikely target to be attacked, leaves you with ease of access as a defining quality of possession.

The common definition of a duel is: FIGHT TO THE DEATH. Typically with weapons, not limited to pistols, and pre-dating pistols, swords were used.

And the above cited law states that it's illegal to CHALLENGE someone to a duel OR ACCEPT SUCH CHALLENGES. Probably because it's interchangable with threatening to murder someone. Note that the provided law doesn't mention the actual fighting OF a duel.

The funny thing about depictions of ISIS' areas of operation and control on maps provided by, say... The New York Times, is that they're always shown as wispy red tendrils curling along main highways and around towns, and that level of spin is a bit silly.

The point being that there's some sort of psychological effort being made, to assert that while all the main roads are under control, and all the main roads certainly surround much larger areas, ISIS only controls the first 25 feet outside of the roadway, as if it's bound by some sort of municipal Iraqi or Syrian zoning ordinance.

Okay, so at 30 frames per second, 500 seconds of animation, so... less than 10 minutes?

I'm complaining about his beating around the bush, not a reading comprehension thing. I like to know where the author stands on the topic at the outset, otherwise the article feels dishonest.

For example:

  I think there are a lot of people lying to 
  themselves and others about their own 
  ancestry.

Compared to:

  Isn't it interesting that so many people feel 
  compelled to form opinions about how we might 
  notice that there are statistical variances,
  when comparing observable heritage, as 
  compared to reported heritage? I wonder why 
  that would be? Some might say these are 
  alleged fabrications, but then again this 
  could all be very innocent.

Yikes! I thought NYC was bad.

...and yeah, I was thinking more in terms of national averages, not specific metropolitan areas.