Henry Ford was a psychopath who had one successful initiative and later made himself a name as the darling of the Nazi party. The contribution to the war effort was a mystery to me, until I read that it was in his last days, when management was effectively passed to his friend (or maybe he hated East Asians more than he hated Jews?). Thanks for the article.
What a hostile coverage and comments. What happened to the free country I chose? The mean speculations about this man and his life are just disgusting. Great art, man, and well executed too.
Only one problem with so called "rating": it only reflects the value system of the Christian-European ladies who invented it. The movie "rating" is a perfect example. You can see violent animation films getting G rated, while a passionate kiss would make another one PG. Personally (and being part of an "other" culture), I'd rather my kids see the kissing than the fighting. Where's the rating system to reflect my culture's values? Who decided what's "explicit" anyway? Tipper Gore and co. don't even know we exist.
If we're talking about the politics of replacing the Gregorian calendar, there's one obvious starting point: the Vatican. Since the Roman Catholic church is the source for the latest calendar in the Western World, the christian holidays are fixed on it (except for Easter, which considers the moon and the week cycles). My own culture uses a Lunar/Solar calendar and so we only have the seasonal holidays, but not the Gregorian dates. See also religions that use the Julian calendar for their holidays, which seem to drift very slowly on the Gregorian calendar. So, if you want to switch to this calendar AND not join the Hindu/Muslim/Jewish experience in America (have to check my dual calendar to find out "regular" date of next holiday), you should start by selling this idea to the pope, then the rest of the Western churches, so your Christmas really stays fixed. And if I celebrated Christmas, I'd want it fixed on Mondays so I get a long weekend. Just sayin'.
Isn't St. George Greece patron saint? The Greek Orthodox church in my country displays the letters Tau-Phi over a St. George cross (like the one used in England). I didn't see reference to St. Nicholas, but I'm no expert.
Stole a mac book? Put a piece of tape, correction fluid, black nail varnish or even half-chewed gum on the webcam before turning it on. Seriously, if that was their promo, they just shot themselves in the foot. Intel has a remote immobilizer built into their CPU, or maybe it was just planned, never implemented. But even that is more for preventing data theft, not the hardware itself, which might be destroyed in frustration.
Got one from a local hardware store. It was a bonus in a can of shop pencils, which I have to keep open on my workbench coz I keep losing them (small ears?). It gives you a sharp point in seconds. Excellent!
Yeah, but no, but yeah: 2Pi is more useful. So yeah! But Tau is already taken for anybody who's concerned with electronics. It's the intrinsic time constant of an RC circuit. So equations that describe voltage/current over time and use Pi and Tau together are, well, impossible with the new 2Pi. So no. On the other hand, we need to start rethinking all the language, standards and other ancient baggage we carry here in America that works against engineering and technology. What about the metric system? How many Neatorama readers even realize that "Pi Day" is only possible in the US, the only country where the month precedes the day in dates. Everywhere else it's 14/3/2011, which makes more sense really. But noooo we have to be different, measure volume with "cubic feet" (Huh!?), drink (American) pints of beer and confuse everybody with our strange date notation... Still bothered with PI, 2PI?
As a new American (on purpose) I am still amazed by the local fascination people have with monarchy. On one hand we teach our kids that we wanted independence from the arbitrary and cruel system of breeding our own rulers and on the over you find commercial companies like "burger king", "mattress king" and even "royal-crest dairy". They know what they're doing by choosing this naming theme. People can't get enough of that crap. Not to mention "American Classics" like Disney having 90% of their story lines revolve around Kings, Queens and, of course, "who's daddy's little princess?" Sick
Great art, man, and well executed too.
So, if you want to switch to this calendar AND not join the Hindu/Muslim/Jewish experience in America (have to check my dual calendar to find out "regular" date of next holiday), you should start by selling this idea to the pope, then the rest of the Western churches, so your Christmas really stays fixed.
And if I celebrated Christmas, I'd want it fixed on Mondays so I get a long weekend. Just sayin'.
The Greek Orthodox church in my country displays the letters Tau-Phi over a St. George cross (like the one used in England). I didn't see reference to St. Nicholas, but I'm no expert.
Intel has a remote immobilizer built into their CPU, or maybe it was just planned, never implemented. But even that is more for preventing data theft, not the hardware itself, which might be destroyed in frustration.
It gives you a sharp point in seconds. Excellent!
2Pi is more useful. So yeah!
But Tau is already taken for anybody who's concerned with electronics. It's the intrinsic time constant of an RC circuit. So equations that describe voltage/current over time and use Pi and Tau together are, well, impossible with the new 2Pi. So no.
On the other hand, we need to start rethinking all the language, standards and other ancient baggage we carry here in America that works against engineering and technology. What about the metric system? How many Neatorama readers even realize that "Pi Day" is only possible in the US, the only country where the month precedes the day in dates. Everywhere else it's 14/3/2011, which makes more sense really.
But noooo we have to be different, measure volume with "cubic feet" (Huh!?), drink (American) pints of beer and confuse everybody with our strange date notation... Still bothered with PI, 2PI?
Sick