Yep I live in Canada, Quebec to be exact. Recycling here is a biggy, Actually most homes generate more recycling material than actual trash, and the city is helping this mindset by picking up recyling more often than the trash. It's working pretty well actually.
They only pick up my trash twice a week, and I'm OK with that.
: Wow, twice a week? Seems like overkill.... the trash get's picked up once every three weeks starting this month in my city. Recycling every 2 weeks and compost every 2 weeks. Twice a week seems like lots of costs could be cut from the local garbage collector. Even with all 3 combined (trash, recycling and compost), it amounts to an average of 1 and 1/3 collection per week, but most people don't put out their compost bin everytime they come by to collect.
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Wow, this site is great, don't think I've cried this much laughing since bash.org!
I respectfully disagree. The power of positive thinking isn't going to heal a tumor, a scorching case of chlamydia, or schizophrenia. In other words, there is a huge and very meaningful difference between thinking you're feeling better and actually having treated the cause of the pain. It's time that we - collectively, as human beings - put magical thinking aside and start to own up to the fact that we can't simply will away the misfortunes that befall us.
And I respectfully disagree. There have been many cases where there was no cure to what ever tumor, disease or what not and the administration of a placebo did actually physically cure the patient. It not only made them feel better but, got rid of the actual physical illness.
A quick tour on google gave me a quite a few examples of this, unfortunately I'm using chrome and can't copy/paste in the/. comment box.
When we talk about the placebo effect, what we are really saying is that, when we are sick, there are usually two causes to our pain that can function independently of one another. The first is the actual, organic cause - which we can't treat simply by adopting certain beliefs or thinking differently. And the second is psychic pain, which we can.
Once again, there are many proofs that a placebo can actually get rid of real pain. Google is your friend.
umm.. unless you run your business in the could, want a 'laptop' that you can hand out to your employees and not worry about what the hell is on there if either it gets left on a park bench or another employee uses it.
sounds absolutely perfect for business and government.
I agree 100% with the added bonus that you don't even have to manage backups!
A friend's girlfriend loved to hang out in an IRC channel. She thought she was "stranger proof" because she limited the amount of information she shared in any one conversation. Some of the items she revealed were public, while others were revealed in "private" conversations. She (erroneously) assumed that some of the private conversations were with individuals sharing no connection with each other.
After hanging out in the channel for a couple of weeks she got a phone call -- from Australia. One of the channel members created profiles of other users and data mined their conversations in order to identify them. Coupled with the ability to search the net for the consistent use of handles that many become attached to, he was able to track down people rather easily.
For him it was a game. For others it's business.
I did exactly this a few years back just for fun. I used to host a server for an old client/server sharing network called Hotline. People would upload stuff to my server so they could download the rest of what was on there. There were a few regulars and there was a chat system included in the software. At one point this girl thought she was completely anonymous, I proved her wrong. Just with info on which state she was in and her nickname, I used google to find out her other nicknames, real name, email address, which school she went to, physical address, parents names and jobs and I even sent here a map directly to her house... She was a bit upset about this but it was all for fun. Nobody is really anonymous unless you go through hell using proxy's and stuff like Tor and being completely paranoid.
I use the caps lock key a lot. On French keyboards, when a word begins with an accentuated letter, the only way to display it correctly is to hit caps-lock and press "é" or "à". Give me way to write easily É or À otherwise this is a (arguably minor) feature you remove from me.
I've been using only french keyboards forever and I never have had to use the caps lock key to get a capital É or À or È or  or Ù, etc. Shift works just fine, don't know how you have your keyboard configured but it would seem something is wrong.
Wow way to screw over plugin users. Instead of fixing the bugs in their software they just block out a whole lot of stuff.... I work for a software company that uses a plugin to connect to the reader and have real time bookmark following between the reader and our software. With this new "enhancement" our link to the reader is completely broken. We either have to tell our clients to disable the protected mode and go back to the same broken reader or our clients can stop using our features... Thank's Adobe
Last I checked my OS wasn't Windows, so I should be fine. It's more of an open source variant, sort of like linux since anyone can look at the source code.Just make sure the host isn't online though, if it is then you can get sued for "hacking".
I'd like to specify also that the software developped is not available as a download, it's a dvd distributed version for large companies, changing the whole supply line every 2 weeks wouldn't be very nice for the budget.
Unfortunately a week or two doesn't get enough done. Some things do fit in that time period, but some things don't so it's adapted a bit, but still works fine.
I work for a company that uses the scrum variant. It's been working for a while now and the company hasn't stopped growing because of it. The trick is to know when to say no to a change request for the current version of your software. You can always develop a functionnality for the next version, which in Agile is always in a short time. (We work with four iterations per year). All in all it works great for the time being.
Also having been in this situation, the FIRST thing I did was put my car in neutral gear. I then went ahead and pulled on my floor mat to unjam the gas pedal. I was also concerned on stopping the car, guess my car reflexes permitted me to think fast when it happened.
If only they would do this for the right reasons... They'll be cleaning up for the olympics but it will all go back to hell as soon as it's over. They should try to solve the problem permanently instead of suppressing it so others think it's livable over there.
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Wish I had mod points for the excellent reference ;)
Yep I live in Canada, Quebec to be exact. Recycling here is a biggy, Actually most homes generate more recycling material than actual trash, and the city is helping this mindset by picking up recyling more often than the trash. It's working pretty well actually.
They only pick up my trash twice a week, and I'm OK with that.
: Wow, twice a week? Seems like overkill.... the trash get's picked up once every three weeks starting this month in my city. Recycling every 2 weeks and compost every 2 weeks. Twice a week seems like lots of costs could be cut from the local garbage collector. Even with all 3 combined (trash, recycling and compost), it amounts to an average of 1 and 1/3 collection per week, but most people don't put out their compost bin everytime they come by to collect.
Wow, this site is great, don't think I've cried this much laughing since bash.org!
Wish I had mod points!!! :) Just made my afternoon.
I respectfully disagree. The power of positive thinking isn't going to heal a tumor, a scorching case of chlamydia, or schizophrenia. In other words, there is a huge and very meaningful difference between thinking you're feeling better and actually having treated the cause of the pain. It's time that we - collectively, as human beings - put magical thinking aside and start to own up to the fact that we can't simply will away the misfortunes that befall us.
And I respectfully disagree. There have been many cases where there was no cure to what ever tumor, disease or what not and the administration of a placebo did actually physically cure the patient. It not only made them feel better but, got rid of the actual physical illness. A quick tour on google gave me a quite a few examples of this, unfortunately I'm using chrome and can't copy/paste in the /. comment box.
When we talk about the placebo effect, what we are really saying is that, when we are sick, there are usually two causes to our pain that can function independently of one another. The first is the actual, organic cause - which we can't treat simply by adopting certain beliefs or thinking differently. And the second is psychic pain, which we can.
Once again, there are many proofs that a placebo can actually get rid of real pain. Google is your friend.
Oblig Bash.org quote : #6460 +(9847)- [X] what the fuck is wtf
"As a business tool, it's all but useless"
umm.. unless you run your business in the could, want a 'laptop' that you can hand out to your employees and not worry about what the hell is on there if either it gets left on a park bench or another employee uses it.
sounds absolutely perfect for business and government.
I agree 100% with the added bonus that you don't even have to manage backups!
If this is all true, people on slashdot are greatly underestimating Yahoo.
A friend's girlfriend loved to hang out in an IRC channel. She thought she was "stranger proof" because she limited the amount of information she shared in any one conversation. Some of the items she revealed were public, while others were revealed in "private" conversations. She (erroneously) assumed that some of the private conversations were with individuals sharing no connection with each other. After hanging out in the channel for a couple of weeks she got a phone call -- from Australia. One of the channel members created profiles of other users and data mined their conversations in order to identify them. Coupled with the ability to search the net for the consistent use of handles that many become attached to, he was able to track down people rather easily.
For him it was a game. For others it's business.
I did exactly this a few years back just for fun. I used to host a server for an old client/server sharing network called Hotline. People would upload stuff to my server so they could download the rest of what was on there. There were a few regulars and there was a chat system included in the software. At one point this girl thought she was completely anonymous, I proved her wrong. Just with info on which state she was in and her nickname, I used google to find out her other nicknames, real name, email address, which school she went to, physical address, parents names and jobs and I even sent here a map directly to her house... She was a bit upset about this but it was all for fun. Nobody is really anonymous unless you go through hell using proxy's and stuff like Tor and being completely paranoid.
Pffff I'm Canadian, at minus nine, I still wear shorts while hiking mountains. Won't be freezing to death anytime soon.
Bash.org much? :P Nice quote though, it's a classic. IIRC it was George Carlin's quote.
I use the caps lock key a lot. On French keyboards, when a word begins with an accentuated letter, the only way to display it correctly is to hit caps-lock and press "é" or "à". Give me way to write easily É or À otherwise this is a (arguably minor) feature you remove from me.
I've been using only french keyboards forever and I never have had to use the caps lock key to get a capital É or À or È or  or Ù, etc. Shift works just fine, don't know how you have your keyboard configured but it would seem something is wrong.
Wow way to screw over plugin users. Instead of fixing the bugs in their software they just block out a whole lot of stuff.... I work for a software company that uses a plugin to connect to the reader and have real time bookmark following between the reader and our software. With this new "enhancement" our link to the reader is completely broken. We either have to tell our clients to disable the protected mode and go back to the same broken reader or our clients can stop using our features... Thank's Adobe
Last I checked my OS wasn't Windows, so I should be fine. It's more of an open source variant, sort of like linux since anyone can look at the source code.Just make sure the host isn't online though, if it is then you can get sued for "hacking".
I'd like to specify also that the software developped is not available as a download, it's a dvd distributed version for large companies, changing the whole supply line every 2 weeks wouldn't be very nice for the budget.
Unfortunately a week or two doesn't get enough done. Some things do fit in that time period, but some things don't so it's adapted a bit, but still works fine.
I work for a company that uses the scrum variant. It's been working for a while now and the company hasn't stopped growing because of it. The trick is to know when to say no to a change request for the current version of your software. You can always develop a functionnality for the next version, which in Agile is always in a short time. (We work with four iterations per year). All in all it works great for the time being.
Also having been in this situation, the FIRST thing I did was put my car in neutral gear. I then went ahead and pulled on my floor mat to unjam the gas pedal. I was also concerned on stopping the car, guess my car reflexes permitted me to think fast when it happened.
Thanks man! Your comment made my day! Still laughing! :)
Hmmm, don't know about 6.4, but I installed it a few months back and I can say I ran into this problem :) Had lots of fun swaping cds.
I'm sorry your reffering to Irish conventions... Mac is Scotish, Mc is Irish. I know I'm off topic, but I needed to say it.
I have a 100 GB monthly limit, which I busted at least 3 times in the last year... Granted I download and upload a lot more than most usersn
You just made my day!!! Best comment in the whole thread. Thank you.
If only they would do this for the right reasons... They'll be cleaning up for the olympics but it will all go back to hell as soon as it's over. They should try to solve the problem permanently instead of suppressing it so others think it's livable over there.