>>> 1 bilisecond = 1 bil-isecond = 10^6 Hz... see! I want to claim a 
>>> patent now!
>>
>> Is madness patentable? :-)
> 
> only if it produces a tangible result

Madness?







THIS...







...IS...











SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> Warp wrote:
>
>>   You will be assimilated. Sarcasm is futile.
>
> Ah, sarcasm. Something America will apparently never understand...

I dunno... I think we get sarcasm pretty well. The subtleties of satire seem 
to be lost on us for the most part, though.

For most of my compatriots, it seems like we want our entertainment to be 
visceral, mostly consisting of explosions, cute young lasses, and beer.

Not necessarily on that order, mind...

:D

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>> Ah, sarcasm. Something America will apparently never understand...
> 
> I dunno... I think we get sarcasm pretty well.

It's strange, really. There are a lot of American films that are very 
funny. And yet, all the American people that I have personally 
interacted with don't seem to comprehend what "humour" actually is. 
Like, they literally can't comprehend jokes. They think you're being 
completely serious. It's really weird...

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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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>>> Ah, sarcasm. Something America will apparently never understand...
>>
>> I dunno... I think we get sarcasm pretty well.
>
> It's strange, really. There are a lot of American films that are very 
> funny. And yet, all the American people that I have personally interacted 
> with don't seem to comprehend what "humour" actually is. Like, they 
> literally can't comprehend jokes. They think you're being completely 
> serious. It's really weird...

My guess is that the problem's root is xenophobia coupled with 
provincialism, in a lot of cases. Culturally, we've got both pretty bad over 
here. I'm not sure what it stems from, since so many people come and go 
through here from everwhere.

The picture of the American tourist in another country speaking English 
(okay, well, what we call English, anyway) veeeeeeeery slowly so the other 
fella will understand him is, sadly, not a complete cartoon.

--
Jack

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Captain Jack <Cap### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> The picture of the American tourist in another country speaking English 
> (okay, well, what we call English, anyway) veeeeeeeery slowly so the other 
> fella will understand him is, sadly, not a complete cartoon.

  When I lived in Spain (long story), there was one store where the owner
always switched to an awkward form of speaking, using only infinitives and
simplifying to ridiculous levels, when she was speaking to me. This regardless
of me speaking back in perfect Spanish (at that point my Spanish was probably
better than the best she could ever speak).

  This was a source of amusement among my friends.

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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Warp wrote:
>   Check the last parameter of this constructor:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z9ah41zs(VS.80).aspx
> 
>   Two major problems:
> 
> 1) A billionth of a second already has a well-established name: Nanosecond.
> 2) In reality that parameter represents microseconds.
> 
>   So yeah.
> 
Hmm. This explain why MS thinks that every OS they make is "faster", 
they are using something like the creationist argument that, "1,000 
years = 1 day", and applying it to computing time?

-- 
void main () {

     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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> It's strange, really. There are a lot of American films that are very 
> funny. And yet, all the American people that I have personally interacted 
> with don't seem to comprehend what "humour" actually is.

If you start trying to joke with the head of IT after shouting at him for 
breaking all your servers then no wonder he wasn't laughing :-)

Seriously though, how big a sample of the USA population do you have?  How 
random was it?

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>> It's strange, really. There are a lot of American films that are very 
>> funny. And yet, all the American people that I have personally 
>> interacted with don't seem to comprehend what "humour" actually is.
> 
> If you start trying to joke with the head of IT after shouting at him 
> for breaking all your servers then no wonder he wasn't laughing :-)


year on our Internet access, we should just use a piece of wet string. 
And the director of IT is like "what, how do you send IP data using wet 
string? I'm not sure I understand". (Whereas any intellligent person can 
see that I obviously wasn't serious about that...)

> Seriously though, how big a sample of the USA population do you have?  
> How random was it?

Some of our employees are apparently very, very random people.

Different kind of random though... Not the good kind.

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>>> It's strange, really. There are a lot of American films that are very 
>>> funny. And yet, all the American people that I have personally 
>>> interacted with don't seem to comprehend what "humour" actually is.
>>
>> If you start trying to joke with the head of IT after shouting at him for 
>> breaking all your servers then no wonder he wasn't laughing :-)
>

> on our Internet access, we should just use a piece of wet string. And the 
> director of IT is like

I suspect that's more because he is DIRECTOR OF IT, and not because he is 
American.

Imagine picking 10 Directors of IT from 10 different countries, then picking 
10 completely random people from one country, which group is going to have 
the biggest variety?

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>> year on our Internet access, we should just use a piece of wet string. 
>> And the director of IT is like
> 
> I suspect that's more because he is DIRECTOR OF IT, and not because he 
> is American.
> 
> Imagine picking 10 Directors of IT from 10 different countries, then 
> picking 10 completely random people from one country, which group is 
> going to have the biggest variety?

Well, I guess the only Americans I am forced to interact with happen to 
be in upper management, so maybe it's that upper management has no sense 
of humour...

(Certainly not a problem I've seen with management in the UK though.)

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