Arvoitus

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  1. No, he has never been in jail/prison nor has he been ever charged with anything since he hasn't broken any laws. In fact he has received multiple awards for his work on BitTorrent and since he is one of the founders of BitTorrent Inc., which oversees the development of the protocol and the client, he probably makes a pretty decent living off of BitTorrent. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  2. Copyright infringement. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  3. You can Right Click->Mark->Paint->Right Click to skip the need for using a file as long as the print out is short enough to select. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  4. Because at that time the world was filled with completely arbitrary measuring systems, like the yard, which is/was based on the current ruling King/Queen of Englands body measurements. So the French decided that they'd need a system that was based on something non-political and unchanging that all countries could accept. So they chose to use the earth as the reference. The reason they used 1/4th distance is because the Paris meridian passes through two towns/cities in Europe of which they could measure the distance in between and then calculate the total distance of the meridian. So basically for practical reasons. And I think there was some sort of war going on so they had to ensure the surveyors had safe access for their work. The reason for the 10 million is that one of person involved in the project had a huge hard on for decimation and was pushing the decimation of time to become a standard. So he basically wanted to replace the base-60 system with a base-100 system. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  5. I like how Microsoft is lobbying for more visas, and layed off - 16K people. 12,5k of those were ex-nokians, most of the total were outside US. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  6. Very much a comedy/ spoof, apparently. I wasn't inspired when I read the premise - the movie establishment's depictions of chav youth are usually embarrassingly wide of the mark - but the critics are full of praise (so far) and I'm actually quite keen to see this now. I think it'll do Firth's career good as well. The setup made me think of Men In Black - young misfit inducted into a secret government organisation by an old hand. Some of the scenes in the trailer seem to be riffing on that too, with the weapons and gadgets racked up alongside the sharp suits and accessories. And on top of all that, when was the last time we got to see Mark Hamill on the big screen? ----------------------------------------------------- Edited to add: Precious little info, but a handful of photos from the skydiving shoot here (towards the bottom of the page): http://www.infiniteskydiving.co.uk/#!filming-and-photography/c1mav. Filming took place in England - not certain where, but possibly Langar. Let's hope they've maximised the amount of real footage used! I see Norman Kent was involved too. Wait a minute, does that DZ have their own Red Epic Dragon for shooting skydiving videos? Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  7. 1) Way to necro a four-year-old thread. LoL. 2) Yes, they are both utterly and completely arbitrary. Neither is anything "special" in terms of a universal standard. Both were based on what the creators thought were somewhat universal standards; both of which turned out to be inaccurate in universal terms. Both offer the same degree (pun intended) of "accuracy," but then again, so would standards based on other arbitrary criteria. The freezing point of salt water and the temperature of the human body were Farenheit's zero and 100. The freezing and boiling point of "pure" water were Celsius's. Neither takes into account a couple of other factors though, like in the case of Celsius, pressure, and so are arbitrary. In fact, Celsius has been redefined (just like all the other arbitrary metric units) in order to make them more precise and defined, but to do that the definition has to go well beyond what you learned in school. It's not simply the freezing and boiling point of water. So, what that means is, the original definitions were, as I said, arbitrary. Essentially just pulled out of the asses of the guys who thought them up. Celsius is still superior since its only based on one arbitrary variable, water, where as Fahrenheit is based on two, salt water, and the body temperature of the dude who made it up when he had a fever. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  8. I don't know if you intented it but the wording in your last sentence made it seem like you were disappointed that they weren't killing those guys for reals. Which is fucked, but then again that would just reaffirm the stereotype for people who like to watch execution videos. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  9. Seriously what the fuck? It'd be interesting to know what he said to her before he made his move though. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  10. Since when was dyed hair, piercings and tattoos a race? Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  11. I once wanted to do this so I checked how much helium I'd need. Turns out one liter of helium can lift about 1 g at STP. So for me I'd need over 100,000 liters (~26,400 us gals) to get off the ground. At the local gas supplier the cost was around ~ 17 €/m^3 so the jump would've cost, just for the gas, a minimum of 1700 euros. Decided that I didn't want it that much. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  12. It was actually surprisingly decent movie. Even if I didn't know about the hype around it I would've found it entertaining. At no point I didn't understand why'd they want to ban it though. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  13. I know very little of wines, but I'm under the impression that, at least the pricey stuff, is very finicky on how it is stored. Probably most of the wines are already ruined unintentionally. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  14. Bullcrap!! http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-unaccountable-death-of-john-geer/2014/09/05/29d36d96-339a-11e4-a723-fa3895a25d02_story.html Just goes to show, 99.99% of cops are white knights. If you're a man, involved in a domestic altercation that involves a woman, the worst thing you can do, even if the woman is using violence on you, is to call the cops. Either you go to jail or the cops will use force/violence on you. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  15. I wouldn't put too much value on the original article. Its a christmas joke science paper based on data cherry picked by a man-hating feminist with an axe to grind. So obviously its going to prove that men are idiots. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  16. Tunnel flying is like masturbation with the other hand. Almost like the real thing but not quite. I thought of the masturbation theme just from the title, without reading the post. I guess there is something masturbationary about tunnel flying. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  17. Have you tried a dedicated sound adapter? I used to have a motherboard where the integrated sound card (realtek) would get interference from the CPU and when ever the processor had more work the noise got louder. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  18. They were originally clones of Jango Fett but after some point they began using different genetic sources. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  19. bin Laden didn't die because of the erosion of Americans civil rights and privacy. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  20. Jesus, must've been one helluva boogie if 1000 jumpers is low attendance. Hell my country doesn't even have that many licensed jumpers. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  21. To me personally, I didn't check the dictionary, the word ugly implies that there is something seriously wrong with persons face. Like some sort of disfigurement, lack of symmetry, etc. Unattractive on the other hand just means that the person is not attractive even though they might be what is generally considered beautiful/hansom. In other words ugly = universal fact, unattractive = opinion. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  22. I agree completely. I can't help but wonder if the crosswinds are so severe (and from the looks of it, common), why aren't there runways on a different heading? Either way, that place is on the list of nopes. Lack of space. Looking at google maps, the closest apartment buildings seem to be less then half a mile away from the runway. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  23. So you are saying that a virus on their computer has targeted their email client? (I know that this used to be a typical way of getting spam emails from "friends", but is it now?) All someone needs to sends those fakes mails is the list of contacts the e-mails were sent to. So the computer doesn't need to be infected. Only the information needs to have been leaked somehow. Would it make sense for the perpetrator to send the fake mails in the name of the person who they used to acquire the information from? Or would it make sense to use some other random person from the list of contacts? Most peoples reaction is to inform their friend that they might have been compromised so it would make sense not to disclose your source indirectly by sending the fake mails in their name. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  24. I think its staged. Right in the beginning it says dramatization. Every time you see the injury its quick cut from an angle that doesn't completely reveal the fakery. Look at the way the pole is 'impaling' the student. Its basically lying on her side with some fake skin and blood on top of it. Also if you freeze frame to the side shot it seems that the pole that impales the student doesn't line up correctly to the pole coming from the instructors back. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  25. We had a project at Nokia where this was implemented on phones as a feature. It was working but some upper level manager somewhere decided that 'fuck it, nobody wants this' so it never made it to an actual release phone. Your rights end where my feelings begin.