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That thing is locked in a vault just to make sure we have a fighting chance.
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So: the technical reason we start counting arrays at zero is that in the mid-1960′s, you could shave a few cycles off of a program’s compilation time on an IBM 7094. The social reason is that we had to save every cycle we could, because if the job didn’t finish fast it might not finish at all and you never know when you’re getting bumped off the hardware because the President of IBM just called and fuck your thesis, it’s yacht-racing time.
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Sort of pissed that a government shutdown doesn’t include a military shutdown.
Ditto prisons. If we’re going to play chicken with the idea of de-funding government, let’s go all the way! Open the prison gates!
And why should we have functioning borders? No more cherry picking of gov’t functions. If we’re going to shut down, we should do it right.
According to the Times, there’s not even a military recruitment shutdown.
I wonder how long we could get away with not paying our professional soldier class.
It’s not a government shutdown until we turn off an aircraft carrier.
RT @sinboy Aircraft carriers use nuclear fuel. The don’t get turned off, just docked. Even then, you need someone to mind the atomics.
The apocalypse starts with an unpaid nuclear technician. I like it.
Fine, we’ll just stop paying the sailors, and they can park it in the Potomac and just blare the horns all day.(via jwz)
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But the first ‘truly’ orientalist fragrance arrived shortly after. Shalimar (1925), named after the gardens built by Shah Jahan in memory of his wife of the same name, is rich and luscious, thanks to the plentiful portion of vanillan. Its dense, heady composition of both the sharp and the cloying makes it seem almost more than a perfume but a mixture that provides a rite of passage into an exotic wilderness.
From Fashion and Orientalism, Adam Geczy
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…if you follow Nietzsche and reject the moral judgment in favour of an aesthetic one, you’re immediately confronted by Bourdieu’s persuasive connection of asethetics with class and privilege; and, the next thing you know, you’re translating The Last Days of Mankind as The Last Days of Privileging the Things I Personally Find Beautiful.
Jonathan Franzen: what’s wrong with the modern world
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Every sensible person realizes that the only way to improve on the Egg McMuffin is to switch it up and order the Sausage McMuffin With Egg. Is it conceivable that in some remote corner of the universe McDonald’s is going to invent a better breakfast product? Yes, maybe. Or maybe not. Asking whether McDonald’s can make a better breakfast sandwich than the Sausage McMuffin With Egg is a bit like asking whether God could make an object so massive that he couldn’t move it.
