Sentences with phrase «as absurd»

Clearly YOU paying for someone else to get the same services you are receiving but others getting them for FREE is just as Absurd.

As absurd as the title of this post is to me as a Divorce Mediator, apparently there are some women out there who think if their husband wants a mediator, they're trying to put one over on them.

Relatively small and straight headphone plugs will fit through the opening and into the phone, but anything with an L - shape connector or larger housing will require the included two - inch headphone extender — and let's be honest, that's just as absurd today as it was on the first ever battery cases years ago.

With an objective as absurd as $ 9,000, it is is not difficult to assume that, from its current price of $ 440.00, the price of Ethereum is likely to appreciate.

Currently, Ethereum's average fee is over $ 1 and its median fee is around $ 0.05, close to the level Buterin described as absurd.

Expecting a customer to know enough to ask is as absurd as having all of your licenses come due in your birth month.

Frankly, folders in the digital world may be as absurd as using the floppy disk as icon for «saving» a file.

This is just as absurd as 32 b. Naturally, it is unenforceable under the US Constitution.

However, human dignity is not western, eastern, northern nor southern; it's not Christian nor non-Christian, as absurd as this may appear, such a Convention as the one proposed by the ILO to protect domestic workers is rooted in the protection of human dignity and that's a «human thing».

If this strikes you as absurd and unethical, then your instincts are well in tune with traditional Canadian criminal and constitutional law.

To claim that not wearing a helmet releases a driver from liability is as absurd as claiming that if the passengers in an auto accident were not wearing seat belts then they also would be unable to file a claim because they were violating California's seat belt law!

I regard the posthumous encomia for Scalia as absurd.

Fears recently raised about bank robberies are just as absurd, and would likely result in Santa bans too.

And Bashman also terms the panel's view that Allen «undermined public confidence in the judiciary» as absurd.

Measuring your value by the number of hours worked is as absurd as measuring it by pixels displayed, lines of code written, or cups of coffee consumed.

And while fewer may acknowledge it, such advice is equally as absurd.

Anyone with an ounce of experience in building successful tech companies would recognize this advice as absurd and dangerous, as if quality and accuracy are irrelevant.

For the same reasons as the absurd topics listed above, references to the «Slaying the Sky Dragon» Book and subsequent group «Principia Scientific» which have the misguided idea that the greenhouse effect doesn't exist, and have elevated that idea into active zealotry, WUWT is a «Slayer Free Zone».

When I wrote Jurassic Park, I worried that people would reject the idea of creating a dinosaur as absurd.

It's just as absurd to have a climate sceptic for balance against the work of the overwhelming majority of climate scientists.

So, I think that the idea of wearing a helmet while bicycling sounds as absurd to a Dutch person as the idea of wearing a helmet while jogging sounds to an American.

To suggest that we can modify our science education because a sizeable portion of the public - untrained in the field in question - has come to believe that there is a gigantic, global conspiracy of scientists working for one world government is as absurd as it is disgraceful.

The world's biggest and most profitable fossil fuel companies are receiving huge and rising subsidies from US taxpayers, a practice slammed as absurd by a presidential candidate given the threat of climate change.

Not renounce it as absurd.

And equally as absurd?

Other stuff is just as absurd.

To think it is is as absurd as thinking that temperatures in Darwin, Australia must vary in sync with those of Boston, Massachussets.

It's the delusion of grandiose minds and as absurd a construct as say, «Anthropogenic tidal change.»

Added to that was the usual and unfortunate invocation of hearsay from anonymous insiders who allegedly claimed Trenberth was openly advocating the violation of the 2nd law, which is just about as absurd as absurd gets, but the absurd allegations those anonymous insiders project an outsized effect in the delusional blogoshpere which why they keep getting invoked.

OTOH — Today's National Post (a slightly right - of - centre paper that irritates me by being a bit too pro-Israel) has two side - by - side opinion pieces pointing out the flaws in the AGW hype as well as the absurd impracticality of this sort of rosy - tinted idealism.

Your frequent resort to ad hom, distortion, rationalisation and misrepresentation — as well as the absurd and overweening confidence in your own narrative — laces you firmly in the grasp of AGW groupthink.

The Mathusian connection is just as absurd.

The idea that one can be half way on such a question is almost as absurd as the idea that Bob Ward can contribute to a «a thoughtful, grown up discussion», much less guarantee one.

re: Congress As absurd as it was to have the Viscount testify, lall it takes to invite someone to testify is for the relevant senior member of either party on some committee to ask them... Given Barton & Inhofe, one can guarantee that folks like Monckton, Happer, or Crichton get to testify now and then.

Almost the entire posting says that doubting global warming is as absurd as doubting the seasons.

Indeed, I think the position's often reversed: those who are most in favor of renewables won't consider nuclear at all, and usually base their objections on quasi-religious grounds, such as the absurd claim that nuclear workers might start glowing in the dark!

Schütte's installations and his staging of exhibition could be understood as an absurd world theater, said Elbers.

Initially serving as a basis for her paintings, Aerts» collages on paper consist of roughly cut colour planes arranged to form landscapes Using a generous helping of humour, Aerts merges her fantasy, her surroundings and the art scene into a whole which is both poetic and playful, as well as absurd and grotesque.

Although their ostensible purpose is to make people laugh, clowns seem to exist for the sake of sheer perversity and torment, functioning as absurd objects of derision, creepy interrupters, or surreal distracters — and often cruel ones at that.

Stylistically, Morgan embraces hyper - detailed naturalism, influenced by Dutch painters such as Memling, Brueghel, and Van Eyck, as well as absurd, repulsive caricatures suggestive of underground artists such as R.Crumb and Tom of Finland.

The exhibition seeks to open a dialogue on apparently different issues as the absurd and the absolute and searches for ways to return art onto life, without shutting itself into religious or ideological positions...

Using materials such as pants and dress shirts stretched over geometric plates and frames, Lawrence reinvents staples of white - collar attire as absurd yet elegant artwork.

Gerhard Richter expressed his antipathy toward the art market to a reporter from Reuters the other day causing a cascade of references to his comments that it is «just as absurd as the banking crisis.»

But wait, Beuys's habitual comedy act uniform wasn't meant as absurd, any more than Andy Warhol's wig.

With such broad guidance, the resulting collection of game jam titles is as absurd and diverse as one can imagine.

As a means to curing his son the suspect scientist thinks it a worthy mission to turn all of the employees that work for him into Hulk - like zombies which are most of the bosses, and a number of different zombies who are as absurd as the storyline itself.

Now, as absurd as Hana - chan might seem, the product makes more sense when you consider the cultural context.

I find it just as absurd for veterinarians to be selling high carbohydrate and by - product filled pet foods to the caregivers of carnivorous companion animals as it is for health authorities to permit the sale of high fructose, fortified junk breakfast cereals, snacks and beverages for children to consume and then rationalize putting them on Ritalin and other psychotropic drugs to correct diet - related cognitive, emotional and behavioral impairments.

As absurd and costly as this may sound, for large investors and funds with the economy of scale, the practice actually seems to be quite employable.

It seems almost as absurd as saying — hey, if Buffett ran this insurance company, it would be worth X.