@flabdablet said:She is a retired Northampton science teacher
Jesus Christ.
He probably was her science teacher.
@flabdablet said:She is a retired Northampton science teacher
Jesus Christ.
The other day I saw a reference to John Cage's 4'33", which was helpfully converted to 2.05m.
That's why the Polish put diacritics on every other letter. So no-one will suspect it's really Spanish.
The best one ever: http://vanilla-js.com/
I'm going to write a book: "How to become a successful vanilla-js architect".
Remember lingscars, the site that scars your ling? Now look at this: http://www.fastdesign7.com (at your own risk, of course).
Are you rapist? 'No' isn't a good enough answer.
Most of us, says Hanzo James, are non-rapist. While that leaves us with a clear conscience, he argues, it does nothing to help fight injustice in the world. In fact, we can pull off being non-rapist by being asleep in bed while women, men and children are being raped.
@Sumireko said in The Return of Windows RT?:
I'm gonna re-bring up my idea of OSaaS. Always online, and every restart entails a 5 GB download.
Wait while I'm patenting BSODaaS.
I didn't say it was a PHP stupid. It is the fact that the script is so badly written that it requires 3GB to send, maybe, 200 emails...
Have I fixed it? Nope. There are far larger fuck-ups to fix than this oneIs there a "I have difficulties believing what I just read but only because I would like so much for the world to be a nice place, even for PHP programmers" emoticon? Preferably a mulatto person thinking that.
How can a Senior Architect think like that? Did he learn nothing? Did he get the job because his CV looked so cool with all his knowledge about open source Javascript frameworks?
If you contract Senior and Agile, you get Senile. Seems appropriate here.
You'd say that an array with undefined values is an array with undefined values, right? Not in Javascript. There is a difference between var a = new Array(3), and var b = [undefined, undefined, undefined]. Both are arrays with 3 undefined values, and a[i] === b[i]. They behave identical in a loop. So far so good. But now try a.map(fun) vs b.map(fun). The second one returns [fun(undefined), fun(undefined), fun(undefined)], as you expect, but the first one returns something like new Array(3): 3 undefined values, and fun never gets called. And filter is even less consistent: a.filter(fun) simply returns [], whatever function you provide.
Yes, it gets mentioned in the documentation (of map, but not of filter), but ... WHY? Who the fuck thought that would be a good idea?
@boomzilla said in Serial Killers and Statistics: Which Will Kill you Frist?:
Which goes to show that we're probably missing a lot of serial killers.
But you'd still have to assume all countries have the same probability of missing a serial killer, so the numbers may go up, but the ratio would stay the same.
@Dragoon said in Serial Killers and Statistics: Which Will Kill you Frist?:
So the question isn't, "Why does the US have so many more serial killers?" it is "Why does the US categorize so many more people as serial killers?"
That is most certainly not the question. You could deny anything with that kind of logic: the question is not whether the Earth is flat or round, but why so many people categorize it as round.
But if you had taken a look at the Radford numbers, you'd have seen that there is a list which identifies killers according to the same rules, and the pattern is the same. You're just looking for an excuse.
Here are the numbers in a convenient pdf: http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Serial Killer Information Center/Serial Killer Statistics.pdf. The base url has more information.
Even if you don't believe the statistics from the other countries, a quick look at the time line dispels the idiotic thought that serial killing is universal.
@boomzilla said in Serial Killers and Statistics: Which Will Kill you Frist?:
@Hanzo said in Serial Killers and Statistics: Which Will Kill you Frist?:
You don't like some statistics? Say it's just a bad way of collecting them. But without any proof, that's just a cop-out.
No, you're over interpreting the numbers like he said.
My complaint was directed at his "It doesn't say anything beyond that." But if you don't have any good reason why the numbers are not what they seem to be, it's a cop-out. However, Radford University seems to have a list of serial killers, based on a single definition, and the US is by far the largest producer of serial killers, especially from 1970-2000. So it isn't even about "identifying as" (which sounds really odd in this context), nor about "universal human bla bla", it's about not wanting to hear it.
@Dragoon Well, if you're going to be that bloody literal, sure, go ahead. You don't like some statistics? Say it's just a bad way of collecting them. But without any proof, that's just a cop-out. Nothing is ever completely sure, but that's not an argument to dismiss all information, unless you really want to put your head in the sand. Sure, I can believe that Burma has better things to do than to post serial killer statistics online, but Germany and France? Why wouldn't you trust their numbers?
Next time you quote a crime statistic or make one up out of thin air, think about it: you've openly declared that you don't believe you can draw any conclusion from them yourself.
@Erufael said in Serial Killers and Statistics: Which Will Kill you Frist?:
@Hanzo Because it simply doesn't make sense to me.
If the tendency is universal, why did the racial balance of serial killers in the US change? Or the gender balance?
Germany and Japan had a few serial killers running about in WW2. Didn't happen anymore. Why did it suddenly stop, if it's so universal and uncontrollable?
Perhaps the culture in the US brings out something in people. Perhaps it's the obsession with guns. Or with religion. Perhaps it's genetic. Or perhaps it's God's punishment. Who knows? But the numbers do tell us that there are really more serial killers in the US than in Europe or Canada (per capita).
@Erufael said in Serial Killers and Statistics: Which Will Kill you Frist?:
@Hanzo And what about, lets say, stabbings? How do those compare? People are going to kill each other one way or another. Don't need guns to do it.
Which part of "murder rate" didn't you get? The US is a relatively violent place. Do all people try to kill each other? No. Then why is it so difficult to accept that in some places there are more killers than in others?
@Karla said in Serial Killers and Statistics: Which Will Kill you Frist?:
Bullshit. Serial killing is a human thing. And more specifically a first world human thing.
Being a Patriots fan is a human thing, and very first world, but there are a lot less of them in Europe. Why would you think that is? Or is that "bullshit" too?
There just are not many serial killers here. Nor school shooters. My country's murder rate is over 5 times lower than that of the US.
I don't know what this site might be: it prominently features the proof that a Kate Perry video is something something Illuminati, and Muslims are evil, probably all of them. Browsing it will place you on 17 watch lists. But it's a sight to behold: http://rense.com/
You might be looking for "rewrite rules", i.e. a normal grammar, possibly with attributes.