@NTW said in You learn something new everyday:
You can thank Baron Baltimore for the Maryland flag. It's his coat of arms.
FWIW, an autistic co-worker of mine said that she liked the Maryland flag because of all the colors.
@NTW said in You learn something new everyday:
You can thank Baron Baltimore for the Maryland flag. It's his coat of arms.
FWIW, an autistic co-worker of mine said that she liked the Maryland flag because of all the colors.
@powerlord said:
So, I was just introduced to the scariest software development tool of all time
What it does is autocomplete code fragments based on code posted on StackOverflow.
Sure, the post has to have more than 50 upvotes, but keep in mind that if this had a PHP version, it would include things like truthiness just because it was popular.
I would like to see a tool that did the same thing, but based on what's in
Pastebin rather than StackOverflow.
@coldandtired said:
@RaceProUK said:
Also, a good cheddar doesn't bounce
Unlike Double Gloucester...
"This video contains content from SoGlos. It is not available in your country. "
@asdf said:
@HardwareGeek Is Chicago-style pizza worth trying? It looks extremely weird to me.
I think it's quite good. YMMV.
@boomzilla said:
@FrostCat said:
@boomzilla said:
The "Banned" page was empty, which seemed a little bit sad.
Just import @end and ban him.
Yes, he was imported. And yes, I did ban him.
When I consider the level of stuff I see on these forums, I wonder what someone actually did to get banned. Or am I missing an inside joke?
I need to set up a counterpart, a typical European breakfast as imagined by an American. An entire wedding cake dripping with fruit in syrup, a couple of large fish with the heads still on, blood sausage, an entire magnum of red wine, and three packs of unfiltered cigarettes.
Since what hotels here call "continental breakfasts" (where "continental" presumably prefers to the European continent, rather than England) are sparser than traditional American breakfasts, I would have assumed that European breakfasts were relatively light. If you had said, "Full English Breakfast" on the other hand, I would have imagined something more substantial.
The younger folks may not know that salt peter used to be believed to be an anaphrodisiac. The girls at a finishing school would joke about how the kitchen would put salt peter in their food.
http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/14/taking-lsd-for-breakfast-helps-you-beat-your-facebook-addiction-5751904/I think the metro is sending me a subtle message.
It sounds like bologna to me. LSD builds up extremely rapid tolerance - if you take the same dose for four days in a row, on the fourth day, it will have no effect whatsoever.
@PJH said:Mice, meeces. Moose, mooses. Salmon, salmons. Aircraft...Peoples.
"Hey, I tell you what is. Big city, hmm? Live, work, huh? But not city
only. Only peoples. Peoples is peoples. No is buildings. Is tomatoes,
huh? Is peoples, is dancing, is music, is potatoes. So, peoples is
peoples. Okay?" - Pete
Trolling the squirrels:
Wondering why he stopped the video. Did the squirrel give up, or did he not want to show him succeed?
@loose said:that they are so out of touch that they believe IP traffic will be stopped at national borders.It can be. Easily. We do it at corporate boundaries all the time: it only requires "inside" versus "outside"--WAN versus web--to be directed via gateways and firewalls.
So far, no nation has had the nerve to do it full tilt, because IP is a primary channel for commerce. But it is unrealistic to think it can't happen.
Somewhat related, though a couple of years old: https://nknetobserver.github.io/
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/03/germany-fact-of-the-day-7.htmlA German bank has become the first non-state borrower to issue euro denominated debt at a negative yield, another milestone as the continent’s financial system moves further into the world of sub-zero interest rates.
…Berlin Hyp issued €500m of covered bonds with no coupon and priced to yield minus 0.162 per cent on Tuesday, according to Bloomberg data. That means investors are guaranteed to lose money if they hold the bonds to maturity.
It makes perfect sense. Germany is in a state of deflation. http://www.ft.com/fastft/2016/03/11/germany-confirmed-to-be-back-in-deflation/
Can't believe I didn't make that joke in my post.
The world needs more Ed McMahons.
It's like the cartoon I saw (dated roughly 1939) in which some rich guy is showing off his new car when someone asks him how he turns it around to go back home. His response: "I abandon it and place an order for another car facing the other way."
Back in the '70's, my social studies teacher told us a presumed-to-be-true story of an Arab sheikh who came to the U.S. He bought a Rolls Royce with cash. He crashed it less than a mile from the dealership. He walked back and bought another one with cash.
I always wondered if the lottery has the power to withhold your money if you refuse to pose for pictures like that.
ScholRLEA, would you consider adding the literal translations for each of the languages listed? For example, C'est la vie" means, "That's life."
@chozang said:EnlightenmentNo, we banned Samsung from the Lounge.
It looks like Samsung has not posted anything: https://what.thedailywtf.com/users/samsung/badges
So, yes, that is a sign of Enlightenment.
Common knowledge in the Lounge?
What is the lounge like? Is it a place of Enlightenment, angels, rainbows and butterflies, or is it pretty much the same as what we see in the rest of WTDWTF?
ask @shadowmod.like this:
@shadowmod trust
I don't know if this is the right thread to do this in but, here goes:
@shadowmod trust
@chozang said:Well, if he even answers anything other than, "I would not under any condition make toast with a toaster while standing in a bathtub full of water" then he doesn't get an "A" for the question.Well, honestly the answer should be, "I wouldn't do such a silly thing. But if I did, as long as I don't drop the toaster everything will be fine."
"Silly" would not be the honest word.
@MathNerdCNU said:How do you make toast with a toaster while standing in a bathtub full of water?
How in the hell is that or anything even remotely similar a question for an interview?
Well, if he even answers anything other than, "I would not under any condition make toast with a toaster while standing in a bathtub full of water" then he doesn't get an "A" for the question.
Oh well not as bad as
Must be a fan of John Barth.
Some people learn best by reading, digesting, and understanding something in the abstract before they work on it.Some people learn best by guided execution through something, like a class.
Some people learn best hands-on by experimenting.
Some people learn best by watching someone do something, like a video tutorial.
Never dismiss people just based on learning style. All those people can learn the same things, they just require different resources. Instead, focus on their initiative; people who really want to learn things will find resources to help themselves where possible.
And this is why most interviews suck. The interviewer asks the candidate questions that are good questions only if the candidate has the same learning style as the interviewer.
Age old question answered: crane style beats tiger style!
Also interesting that the keepers were able to grab the crane without any protection, but the tigers ran away. Wonder if the outcome would have been different if the tigers were hungry.
And this differs from previous eras how? That's the entire basis of all organized societies; the only thing that has changed is that the poor can get in on the act as well as the hereditary upper classes, now. Oh, wait, that's not new, either, its just the social theories by which it is being done are had to be resurrected once it was seen that trying to get the unproductive to be productive wasn't working out. Remember the 'Granary' building in every Civilization game ever made? Yeah, say hello to the Welfare State, 2500 BC style.Seriously, this isn't a new thing. Most societies in history have relied on the labor of a surprisingly small productive force - about 30% for traditional societies, but now as little as 5% in industrial ones - for basic necessities. Most people got what they needed through either trade of luxuries, deception, theft, or for the 1% who happen to be descendants of earlier successful thieves, hereditary prerogatives. The real change, if any, is that most of the theft is out in the open now, rather than hidden in some form of shakedown - unless you count taxation, of course, which is both.
People have forgotten just how radical capitalism was in 1776, because it has become routine to assume that we live in a society that practices it, but Adam Smith's work was descriptive, not prescriptive - he never said it should be this way, just that this was how it was working out in actual practice. He wasn't actually too enthusiastic about the prospects of actually building a society based on mutual competition, and didn't even really think it was possible (it isn't), but rather was pointing out that it was where things were headed at the time as the perks of the nobles got nibbled away. His main beef with the society at the time was that the laws of the time were freezing the system in a certain set of assumptions that no longer held true.
And there's nothing we can learn prescriptively from "The Magic Hand of Laissez Faire."
If my boss didn't pay me enough, I'd eat his dog too...
Are you sure that's just a hypothetical statement?
@HardwareGeek said:However, if the shoe fits FLDS...There are some women who have left – and some still among them – who make claims which indicate it does. Some notable examples are Rozita Swanson and Carolyn Jessop
The links you give make it seem like Rozita Swanson is a hoaxer. This is the correct link for Carolyn Jessop.
It may not be true of LDS, but there are some fringe religious groups where the group puts extreme pressure on group members not to leave the group, and for those groups this implication isn't valid.
Given that Islam is the world's second largest religion, I wouldn't call it a fringe group. It's the only group where "extreme pressure on group members not to leave the group" means death.
Last time I found one, I asked him about polygamy, if they still practice it.He said that happened in the old days, inferring it doesn't happen any more. Shame.
As for the magic nickers , I had to look it up. I know the Golden Tablet(s?) from South Park with the catchy song but never heard of magic nickers before.
As I understand it, the church agreed to give up polygamy as part of the deal admitting Utah as a state. There were smaller splinter groups that defected because of the change, and some of them still exist today.
The "magic underwear" appears to just be a slur. Although they do have special temple garments, they apparently don't believe there's anything magical about them.
@chozang said:I think you know what a row house is, but I'd like someone to tell me the difference between a "row house" and a "town house" other than the price.My understanding is that "town house" is a vertically-oriented design, or rather is a floor plan, as opposed to meaning something different. So you could have a row house consisting of several single-floor houses, which would not be a town house.
Could be wrong, though, and it might be different in England.
I also think that "town houses" are part of a development and require continued community association fees.
Surely a just-a-few-degrees-the-wrong-temperature-so-its-subtly-annoying would be the worst hell? according to my female coworkers
That's pretty much exactly what we're talking. It can lead to more efficient use of land, which is why it is rather common in the UK. (Why are we short of building land? Mostly due to our awful planning system I guess.)
My guess is that it has something to do with population density, which is about 8x that in the U.S.
I'd think it would be a headache to look for targets at Target, too.
From experience I can tell you that it is.
So a detached garage is... just like a detached house, except that it's a garage.I guess you might not have much use for a specific term for a semi-detached garage because a garage is only likely to be attached to one house. But it does make sense in the context of houses because houses may be attached on one side, both, or neither.
A semi-detached house is halfway between a terraced and a detached house - it's half detached. Why is that a difficult concept?
EDIT: what's a row house?
I think you know what a row house is, but I'd like someone to tell me the difference between a "row house" and a "town house" other than the price.
Like most medical marijuana was really for medical purposes.
Were you receiving medical marijuana at the time you wrote that sentence?
Also, FWIW, there are both hot and cold hells according to Tibetan Buddhism.
Bleeding-heart liberal hitchhikes halfway through Muslim country in attempt to to prove that Muslims are peaceful and deserve trust. "Halfway" because, in a completely surprising turn of events, her journey was cut short when she was raped and murdered and her naked corpse was left in a shrubbery by a "peaceful" Muslim man who picked her up from the side of the road.
Eh, I'm an infidel, but it's risky for a woman to hitchhike anywhere. I find it more interesting that the moron who murdered her " placed his SIM card into Bacca's mobile phone ". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippa_Bacca
I'm sorry to see that the U.K. has also become infected by Starbucks.
Don't need to. Bible. Methuselah. 969: record.
Another bit of trivia: The Jehovah's Witnesses believe (or at least we were told this by a Jehovah's Witness classmate in the 6th grade) that a perfect man would have lived to 1000. Since Methuselah came closest, he was the closest thing to a perfect man.
Lets go on a witch hunt on those that seems "uncommitted" because they "complain" ... coz that always works out well!
Then another manager (one I fortunately don't have much contact with) replied with,"Amen and pass the Colt.".
You should suggest that they also hang this one:It seems to share the management style on display.
That was my original title for the topic. But I thought it would be too leading.
Two days after some layoffs, one of the managers here emailed this picture to everyone:
Macs are 80% more likely to be vegetarians. So we can probably explain their mental state by iron deficiencies.
Except that vegetarians don't have iron deficiencies.
This is in their interests as a healthy employee is more productive.
It is not just that. At the companies I have worked for, the insurance company would send a bill to the employer every month to reimburse the insurance company for the payments made to providers. The insurance company does not itemize the payments, and does not say which employee they were for. But the employer pays less to the insurance company the less the employees (and their dependents) incur medical expenses.
I wonder if you should add a bit of guidance about what lines are not allowed to be crossed.For example:
Personal insults fine, racism not.
Shouldn't we define racism first?
@Lorne_Kates said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morbius,_the_Living_Vampire
Not sure the relevance to the topic, but glad I finally know where Morbs got his name.