TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
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Hey I'm completely fine with the Free Zone (IIRC that's what it's called). If you want to still learn about their ideas and not do evil things (Op Freakout, Snow White, RPF, drive people into debt) then go right ahead.
To be quite honest, I think he should be asked to remove that from the business premises. Sounds like a protected class lawsuit waiting to happen. Then again, he's one of the owners so his opinion is probably word :D
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Thetans are the souls of the people Xenu killed by laying them around volcanos and dropping nukes into said volcanos.
Xenu is a evil former galactic overlord in their origin story.
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Thetans are the souls of the people Xenu killed by laying them around volcanos and dropping nukes into said volcanos.
Xenu is a evil former galactic overlord in their origin story.
Yes, I know, but I didn't want to.
But that story DEMSYR; why would the Thetans corrupt people? Their beef should be with Xenu.
Don't answer that, I don't actually want to know.
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idkmybffjill I think the idea is that they aren't evil, they're just there and not you so you should get rid of them. Doesn't really matter.
Also Xenu was already locked into a giant cage
And now I've already typed this out so I'm going to hit the reply button anyway, so deal with it.
Obligatory video:
http://southpark.cc.com/clips/104274/what-scientologist-actually-believe
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Yes, I know, but I didn't want to.
But that story DEMSYR; why would the Thetans corrupt people? Their beef should be with Xenu.
Don't answer that, I don't actually want to know.
One thing I will say—I once read a biography of Hubbard, and it was simultaneously absolutely awful and absolutely fascinating. I had to read the whole damn thing in a single sitting...
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idkmybffjill I think the idea is that they aren't evil, they're just there and not you so you should get rid of them. Doesn't really matter.
Also Xenu was already locked into a giant cage
The "work" of Scientology, as far I as I could discern, is mostly a paean to the sunk cost fallacy. A man on the street probably won't straight up give you $1000 right on the spot, but with the proper guidance, he could work his way up there from nothing...
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TIL that Geckos can't climb up Teflon-coated surfaces - unless they're wet.
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So... Firefox users should be able to like posts no problem?
Filed under: </T-1000 post reference>, stupid joke count: ∞
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Only if you submerge the server this runs on in liquid ...
Geckos can't climb up dry Teflon.
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I completely misread that post.
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Question: If you soaked something in oil, would it technically be wet, given there's no water?
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Does it count if the wet teflon is frozen? 'Cause any water in or on that thing is going to be solid. That picture came from an article about using liquid nitrogen to cool extremely overclocked computers.
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Can you even have anything "wet" at those temperatures?
Whatever "wet" actually means in this context (as in, what property of wet teflon helps geckos stick to it), I kinda doubt it would still count.
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TIL (well remembered because i was looking it up) that "bullshit" translated into Madarin as Gǒupì
GOOPY!
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GOOPY!
Go pee, would be more phonetically accurate, while retaining at least a shadow of the intent...
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I'm surprised that you tracked down that picture.
the article it's about liquid nitrogen cooling, but the picture is from a computer submerged into mineral oil.
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That's what GIS led me to. So the author of the article used an inappropriate picture? Yay.
That does, however, explain a couple of things: Why the enclosure doesn't appear to be insulated, but has no frost. Why the coolant is yellowish, rather than colorless (although I would generally expect mineral oil to be pretty much colorless, too).
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the image was appropiate, it is there as an example of other cooling methods.
for what i know, that might be cooking oil. or any other type of oil.
like this one which uses transmission oil.
full article in spanish, i'm sorry, no english source for this one =/
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TIL Ruhr is a thing.
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Does that word have any other significance? I just know it as that. Also the Dutch version (Roer) translates literally to 'rudder'.
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Not in English, other than "ruhr ruhr ruhr your boat" (Paging all Geordies).
Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhr_(disambiguation)
Ruhr, a German term for Dysentery, an inflammatory disorder of the intestine
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Ruhr, a German term for Dysentery, an inflammatory disorder of the intestine
I'm sure you cunning linguists will correct me if I'm wrong on this, but reading that reminded me of my favourite German word:
Durchfall
, meaning diarrhoea. It literally means "falls through", in the wonderfully literal way of the Germans
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But we Germans call that part of western Germany the "Ruhrgebiet" (or "Ruhrpott" or "Pott").
The river that flows through it is called "Ruhr", though (not to be confused with the river "Rur" which is further to the south-west).
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Durchfall
I once had Durchfall while staying in Darmstadt (Intestine City), I assure you it was no laughing matter.
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TIL that when I get a voicemail at work, I also get an email message with an attached .wav containing the voicemail.
TI also L when I delete that email, the message light stops blinking. I can only assume it deleted the message as well.
TIRecalled that I have no idea what my voicemail PIN is. TIL I don't need it :)
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TIL Shakespeare invented the "your mother" retort.
Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done?
Aaron: That which thou canst not undo.
Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother.
Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.
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TIL that when I get a voicemail at work, I also get an email message with an attached .wav containing the voicemail.
Oh, guess what @Onyx is working on today...
TI also L when I delete that email, the message light stops blinking. I can only assume it deleted the message as well.
That's... an interesting functionality. Relies on having the email on own server though, I guess. I mean, there are hacky ways to do it anyway but... how about no?
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TIL Shakespeare invented the "your mother" retort.
I think I already knew that, but I'd forgotten. Honestly, I don't find it surprising. I'm rather more interested to learn that that particular idiomatic use of 'done' was apparently around in Shakespeare's time.
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TIL O Canada is a completely different song in French and English.
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TIL:
/* Make first column of the table take up minimum possible width */ tr td:first-child { width: 1%; white-space:nowrap; }
Filed under: INB4: The thread now gets renamed to "... Dark Arts of CSS"
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Another possible explanation concerns the existence of erectile tissue in the nose, which may become engorged during sexual arousal, triggering a sneeze.
wat
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INB4 someone edits Wikipedia
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Dickhead.
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TIL that if you press CtrlShiftRightArrow in Word, all bold text becomes plain and all plain text becomes bold.
In fact, here's another one just because: !
Can't wait until I'm done with this task so I can get back into LaTeX.
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TIL that if you press CtrlShiftRightArrow in Word, all bold text becomes plain and all plain text becomes bold.
When is that ever useful?
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When is that ever useful?
No idea. It's not doing it consistently either -- I had another document (my Belgium colleague wanted two course descriptions) where it merely inverted the boldness on that particular line -- as opposed to the entire document in the first case.
Incidentally, my finger memory was right. It should have marked the next word. Except on OSX, that is Alt
CtrlShiftRightArrow instead.
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TIL that you can juggle Crystal Snail's shell around with magnet mines in Mega Man X2. Which makes that boss ridiculously easy.
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TIL that if you press CtrlShiftRightArrow in Word, all bold text becomes plain and all plain text becomes bold.
have you done to Word?!I get "select to end of word", as you would expect (CtrlRightArrow is move to end of word, and adding Shift selects).
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have you done to Word?!
I get "select to end of word", as you would expect (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd><kbd>RightArrow</kbd> is move to end of word, and adding <kbd>Shift</kbd> selects).
I don't know. I barely use it. It just sits on my hard drive occupying space like a sofa pillow in the hope that someone, someday, may find some use for it...
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Three ways to say it:
nakybakni kalci - the poop of a male cow
nonselsmu (no se smuni) - nonsense
zoi gy. bullshit .gy. - the English wordbullshit
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TIL I cannot say
photoplethysmography
, even if my life depends on it
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photoplethysmography
the fact that you would be trying to say that word (and knowing what it means) fills me with a not inconsiderable amount of worry....