About 25 years ago, at a computer show, I swiped my credit card on a reader hooked to a terminal. To my surprise, the PIN was right there, on the screen.
Nevertheless, I immediately yanked the power cord off the terminal, pissing-off the booth attendents...
Perhaps we should have a trade embargo against China?
What? Are you insane? Bankrupt Wall-Marde you want??? You must be un-american to want to bankupt Wall-Marde! Without China, how else would get the cheap communist slave-made shit it's peddling to us?
This is just as stupid as making designers work as software developpers.
They can't be two more opposed jobs in a game shop than designers and developpers.
Heck, I've been doing tech support for a design shop with both graphic and industrial designers, and those people have totally no clue in what makes a computer tick.
This means that all numbers are represented with rational numbers. This will do wonder in eliminating round-off errors in computerized calculations.
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Ad campaign-wise, with the bus shelter posters of a kid trying to pop a pimple into a cup of blood red sour cherry slush.
Just infront of the machine, are shakers of candy bits. Oily black head bits, green flesh eating bacteria, pus powder and dried scabs.
Wish I had a link to put up....
Oh, you're talking about "sloche". It came from Québec first, where it is marketed in french with intentionally disgusting names like:
Poussin frappé — Yellow coloured; it's a pun meaning either "smashed chick" or "chilled chick", illustrated by a chick with a black eye. Probably lemon flavoured.
Winchire wacheur — Blue coloured; that's frenchified "windshield washer". Was available in a miniature version of a windshield washer container. No idea what it might be flavoured.
Cheddar tropical – Orange coloured. Probably the most hilarious flavour; the logo is extremely kitch. Didn't dare try it, in case it might actually be cheddar-flavoured.
Goudron sauvage – Black (or very dark something) coloured; that's "wild tar". No idea on the flavour either.
They only recently started to expand in english Canada where, I hear, "Bloody zit" is a hit... Here is the link http://www.sloche.com.
I just was on Google Maps where I noticed that in Rouses Point, NY, where I noticed that, even after a half-century, one can still see the old legendary Rutland Railroad right-of-way, and follow it through the Lake Champlain Islands as it made it's way down to Burlington, VT.
Sometimes a Tech at a school will call in and need a printer plugged into a switch, and we are currently using maps drawn with PhotoShop to keep track of which ports are set for different equipment.
Photoshop for what is obviously a vector-graphic application? This is clearly an indication of your competence (or rather, lack of). No wonder that the Klutztown computer network administator decided to press criminal charges against their students, if all school IT department employees are just as incompetent as you are, it's no surprise at all!!!
Many cities have public transportation, these are planned systems, the roads you drive on are also planned. Unfortunatly the problems is the planners are morons.
It's not the planners who are morons; they are far smarter than that, because they are able to do their job within the restricted budgetary framework that is imposed by the morons who are voted into office by a greater bunch of morons who don't want too high taxes and who are, for the most part, a bunch of crying NIMBYES.
The French National Railways (SNCF) have a hard time recruiting railroaders.
They demand perfect physical condition. Anyone who shows-up to the medical exam wearing headphones is immediately rejected, as listening to music suchly damages the hearing.
I am John William Babbittworth, of the law firm Thompson, Richards, Williamson, Heresford, Babbittworth, Jones and Spencer law firm.
We represent the interests of Independent International Investment Research, which has exclusive trademark rights to all words beginning by the letter "G"...
Well, if Singapore doesn't allow free speech, eventually, everyone worthy of it will leave, leaving Singapore an empty hunk devoid of any significance.
Police: Local volunteer police force I'll allow. No county, state, or FBI.
Oh, great. So complex crimes (say, financial crimes) won't get investigated because there are no volunteers competent enough... You're yet another proof that you types are only longing for a return to prehistoric times...
road construction: You're kidding me. Private roads funded by businesses on those roads or by homeowners who use the roads in their area. My subdivision's roads are privately funded and gorgeous.
You oughta go to France (hardly a parangon of private entreprise or americanness, for that matter). Over there, autoroutes (what you call "interstates") are owned and operated by private companies. Heck, the world's highest road bridge is totally a private endeavour.
Sewage/water treatment has provably been better by private companies. John Stossel did a 20/20 report ('Stossel Goes To Washington') about it.
Oh, really? Why then Atlanta has reverted to public waterworks after a few years of privatization?
Where I live, the garbage is either collected by the city, or by a private contractor.
When it's the city, the garbage is gone by 10 o'clock in the morning.
When it's the private contractor, they go through at 2 in the afternoon and go so fast that half the garbage falls back on the street and they don't pick it up. Then, the city has to send a cleaning crew to fix their mess.
I'd happily give up 100% of what government offers in a minute.
No city streets, no sewage system, no drinking water, no waste management, no firefighters, no police, all roads being toll roads, no public education. Does this sound appealing? I suggest you live in Jakarta for a year (I did). I think you will see that there is a lot of good that comes from good *governance.*
No need to go all the way to Jakarta, New-Orleans is good enough for that...
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About 25 years ago, at a computer show, I swiped my credit card on a reader hooked to a terminal. To my surprise, the PIN was right there, on the screen.
Nevertheless, I immediately yanked the power cord off the terminal, pissing-off the booth attendents...
Confidentially, I actually did the reverse, too...
They can't be two more opposed jobs in a game shop than designers and developpers.
Heck, I've been doing tech support for a design shop with both graphic and industrial designers, and those people have totally no clue in what makes a computer tick.
This means that all numbers are represented with rational numbers. This will do wonder in eliminating round-off errors in computerized calculations.
They only recently started to expand in english Canada where, I hear, " Bloody zit " is a hit... Here is the link http://www.sloche.com.
uk.I just was on Google Maps where I noticed that in Rouses Point, NY, where I noticed that, even after a half-century, one can still see the old legendary Rutland Railroad right-of-way, and follow it through the Lake Champlain Islands as it made it's way down to Burlington, VT.
Maybe it's the models that are two years late...
Yup, that's the ticket. Variable gravity!
Hey, it's the Mercator cylindrical projection... Don't blame it on Google.
Win some, lose most of them...
They demand perfect physical condition. Anyone who shows-up to the medical exam wearing headphones is immediately rejected, as listening to music suchly damages the hearing.
Your precious???
I am John William Babbittworth, of the law firm Thompson, Richards, Williamson, Heresford, Babbittworth, Jones and Spencer law firm.
We represent the interests of Independent International Investment Research, which has exclusive trademark rights to all words beginning by the letter "G"...
If I were Google ("Do no evil"), I'd propose a whopping 47¾% royalty.
"Kiff, we have a conundrum!" -- Zapp Brannigan
Their loss, really...
With pre-emptive slashdotting, the target website is obliterated BEFORE any slashdotter has any chance of seeing it!
This can't be. You cannot be a geek AND have a spare drive bay in your system.
Oh, really? Why then Atlanta has reverted to public waterworks after a few years of privatization?
Where I live, the garbage is either collected by the city, or by a private contractor.When it's the city, the garbage is gone by 10 o'clock in the morning.
When it's the private contractor, they go through at 2 in the afternoon and go so fast that half the garbage falls back on the street and they don't pick it up. Then, the city has to send a cleaning crew to fix their mess.