Stupidist things youve heard people say
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Anyone who uses the term "african american" to describe themselves eventhough they were born in America. Your just American regardless if your black. If your African born and come to America, then your an African American. Overall the term is stupid, in the UK we dont say a person is African British.
Another one was from a documentary, they were asking a group of college school kids "So who was Hitler?" they didnt know.....or the ones they showed didnt know. But i find it hard to believe anyone would not know who Hitler was.
"You can't live off of $30 million"
In his defense, he is kind of a dumbass. And it would take a dumbass and poor spending choices to lose that financial security.
In his defense, he is kind of a dumbass. And it would take a dumbass and poor spending choices to lose that financial security.
I understand what a sales tax is, we have GST in New Zealand of 15% on every sale... but the prices are always calculated displaying that included in the total cost.Krantos said:
If the amount varies from state to state you won't just be able to calculate them as you won't know them and some of the percentages I saw when I was there were arbitrary at best.... 6.45% or something.
It isn't more efficient to have people have to calculate the thing, that's the opposite of efficient - especially if you're then dealing in pennies after. Fucking useless things as they are. Only good for shoving into a sock to beat people who want to give you pennies.
The final paragraph is just a scary way of thinking - "the stores don't see any of the tax", well, yeah, it's why it's called a TAX. I guess you've grown up used to such things, most other places have laws stating that what is displayed is what you pay.
it's a software limitation to avoid frame tear, this is cause by the response time of the LCD, you will see this advertised as "2ms" usually, though this is the grey to grey response time rather than the black to black response time which tends to be more like 16 ms or so, from this the "refresh" rate is calculated.Aaron Sylvester said:
So, you have the marketing bullshit of the response time compounded with the marketing bullshit of the "refresh" rate. what you actually have is an 9 ms black to black response time screen.
We were talking about how expensive war is and how much Russia was in debt because of it in History last year. The class idiot pipes up with "Why don't they just print more money?".
I sometimes think, and always hope, that she just says stuff like that for attention. That probably isn't even the worst thing she said in that class.
I sometimes think, and always hope, that she just says stuff like that for attention. That probably isn't even the worst thing she said in that class.
If you're going to post in a thread about stupid things you've heard it's best to make sure you're spelling "you're" correctly. Otherwise your friends here will think you're being a bit hypocritical.SonOfVoorhees said:
"Well in my experience with children..." - Every mother in my college classes who say this, always.
Doesn't matter what comes after. It is guaranteed to be stupid. One time I heard this one woman argue that children weren't people, that you could say anything up until they were considered teenagers, and it wouldn't affect them in the long run. She was divorced and had lost custody of her three children, naturally.
Half the time what the professor is talking about has nothing to do with children, and people will still interject with their opinions on children.
Doesn't matter what comes after. It is guaranteed to be stupid. One time I heard this one woman argue that children weren't people, that you could say anything up until they were considered teenagers, and it wouldn't affect them in the long run. She was divorced and had lost custody of her three children, naturally.
Half the time what the professor is talking about has nothing to do with children, and people will still interject with their opinions on children.
What are you on about really? I was clarifying his statement. I don't really care if you think our system is dumb, ok? It's what we're used to, we're ok with it. You're used to something else, you're ok with that. Are you really that opposed to people doing something differently than the way you do it?Abomination said:
For fucks sake, you're trying to have an argument on the internet about how sales tax is displayed on items. Is that really something you want to take time out of your day to argue about?
Really?
Hmmm quickly tried to diver the topic from refresh rates to response times eh? Meh, it happensHoplon said:
Firstly the GTG response is irrelevant. Secondly please don't try to explain to me what I have, I know what I bought...building gaming rigs is what I do.
The prime advantages of 120hz are drastically reduced ghosting/blurring at high movement speeds, almost non-existent screen tearing and the lowest possible input lag. At 30 fps you have an input lag maximum of a whopping 33.33ms, at 60 fps you have 16.6ms, and finally at 120hz you have 8.3ms. You can keep yelling "the refresh rate is a lie!" but that's not going to change the facts of framerates vs input lag, it's not going to change the fact that a 120hz monitor shows all 120 frames per second that a 60hz monitor cannot. Then there's of course the 3D capability to play games or movies in 3D, but that's not why I bought my monitor
Wow, I didn't think an example of my original post would show up in this very thread. Well here you go folks XDA Smooth Criminal said:
Both of you above posters, watch this and learn well (skip to 1:50):
Yep, probably one or both of you will yell "that guy is a lying cheating marketer, he's part of the establishment maaaaan" because you don't have an inkling of a clue who he is, and that's fine, you can also believe that the sky is yellow and the sun is pink. Whatever. As a PC builder I can only present people with valid info, it's up to them what they want to do with it.
I'm done here, have fun ^_^
A couple of months ago, an elderly woman fallen over at the ramp of the store I worked in (she wasn't seriosuly hurt). Her friend made a complaint that the ramp is too steep and that we shouldn't have one in the first place.
Yeah that right, let ignore the disable people and people with pram who want to check the read part of the store who got to used the only ramp there.
Yes I get she was angry and I do agreed that the ramp is abit steep (but still accessable) but she was inconsider to others who do used the ramp!
Yeah that right, let ignore the disable people and people with pram who want to check the read part of the store who got to used the only ramp there.
Yes I get she was angry and I do agreed that the ramp is abit steep (but still accessable) but she was inconsider to others who do used the ramp!
Yeah, imagine that... a discussion on a forum.Krantos said:
Does someone disagreeing with you upset you so?
I'm not even sure what we're disagreeing about. I don't have a strong opinion on it. I'm just shocked that you (a New Zealander) cares so much about American Tax policy. Why does something that doesn't directly affect you, bother you so much?Abomination said:
It's the pennies, isn't it? Did a penny hurt you? Would you like to talk about it?
I heard this while in a takeaway restaurant waiting for my food to be cooked:
"How big is a 10" pizza?"
I did a literal double take. Like... seriously?
"How big is a 10" pizza?"
I did a literal double take. Like... seriously?
No. there is no refresh rate on an LCD monitor. Response time is the actual hardware limitation. As for how this relates to frame rate, at very high frame rates it might cause minor ghosting, but everything is still displayed, a lower response time just makes artefacts like this less noticeable. They do not limit frame rates.Aaron Sylvester said:Hmmm quickly tried to diver the topic from refresh rates to response times eh? Meh, it happensHoplon said:
Firstly the GTG response is irrelevant. Secondly please don't try to explain to me what I have, I know what I bought...building gaming rigs is what I do.
The prime advantages of 120hz are drastically reduced ghosting/blurring at high movement speeds, almost non-existent screen tearing and the lowest possible input lag. At 30 fps you have an input lag maximum of a whopping 33.33ms, at 60 fps you have 16.6ms, and finally at 120hz you have 8.3ms. You can keep yelling "the refresh rate is a lie!" but that's not going to change the facts of framerates vs input lag, it's not going to change the fact that a 120hz monitor shows all 120 frames per second that a 60hz monitor cannot.
CRTs had limited refresh rates but response times of under 1ms. Frame rates where limited by this because the refresh rate was how many times a picture could be painted by the electron beam on the screen as it swept back and forth. LCDs do not have this limitation, refresh rates on them are nonsense.
I once had a full-blown conversation with a friend who insisted on building "rockets the size of Kenya on the x-axis and y-axis" in order to move the world.
I have great conversations with that guy.
I have great conversations with that guy.
Yes but the original question was about weight not masssagitel said:thats why i used mass in my post!Arfonious said:
also in normal chit-chat people mean mass when they use weight
Also not really as mass is basicly only relevant in science and weight is a more mundane concept
"Pokemon is for little kids!" *goes back to playing Cawadoohteh black ops 2, and is 14*
"Nintendo are running out of ideas of Pokemon, face it, Pokemon died after the (insert any generation here)"
"Halo is exactly like any other shooty game" (this came from someone on this site)
"All fps are the same"
"Bethesda have never made a good game"
"Nintendo are running out of ideas of Pokemon, face it, Pokemon died after the (insert any generation here)"
"Halo is exactly like any other shooty game" (this came from someone on this site)
"All fps are the same"
"Bethesda have never made a good game"
