Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
Do you also believe that the Democratic Republic of North Korea is a democracy just because the name says so?
It’s guns all the way down.
I used to use a system that was perfectly happy to let you use a semicolon when setting the password, but then login would fail if you did.
It wouldn’t even change the difficulty, really. You’d just wind up multiplying or dividing by 9/10 instead of 9/5.
There’s a bristlecone pine tree in the White Mountains of California that is nearly 5000 years old.
Well, it is where everybody gets off…
As Norwegian race driver Petter Solberg once said, “it’s not the fart that kills you, it’s the smell”.
“Smell”, of course, being Norwegian for crash.
In fact Diyonisius Exiguus made some errors when counting back to establish the anno Domini date system and as such Jesus would likely have been born between 4 and 8 BC.
Get some of that lili p., yo!
—Jesse Frogman, Hopping Bad
Satan Sauron is a baby that lives in the sun.
There’s a board game called History of the World that does something like this, where score is tracked per player, but you play as a new civilization every turn. (And, depending on the draw, may wind up fighting against your previous civ.)
It’s a good game, but, yeah, it’s hard to imagine that working in something like Civilization.
Hell, there were still mammoths around when the pyramids at Giza were built.
Pygmy mammoths, on an island in northern Siberia, but still.
Does anyone know how to get from Penistone to Shitterton?
Yeah I’ve definitely heard “up to [amount] or more” used in advertising. Which is just completely meaningless.
No, it’s the national symbol of Ukraine.
Fascists love to try to co-opt national symbolism, and sometimes they succeed, but ceding ownership of a 1000 year old symbol (it was used as a seal in Kievan Rus) because some assholes adopted it in 1993 is just letting the fascists win.
One thing I always liked about slashdot is the ability to tag votes with things like “funny” or “informative”.
For anyone unfamiliar with the term: that’s where everybody gets off.
Bethesda design challenge: impossible.