did you mean that if it's your union its your collective bargaining group built to screw employers out of more money than the employees are worth and healthcare purchase group? Cuz then I'd agree with you, BUT I don't see how any of that has anything to do with the mechanics of performing your job.
As in, high risk of genetically modified bacteria escaping the lab and turning every carbohydrate it finds into fuel oil?
Considering the dearth of nutritional value in carbs, especially processed carbs, would this be all that bad?
I guess vegetarians would piss and moan, but they're too physically weak to put up much of a fight anyway.
How does this theory jive with the notion that young men today (at least in the US) have significantly reduced levels of testosterone compared to our fathers and grandfathers?
They assume that the movie would have been a much bigger success were it not for file sharing. Maybe the movie didn't succeed because it sucked. I certainly didn't go see it because nobody I know that did recommended it. It would appear that the new business plan is
1. make a shit movie cheaply
2. leak the film while sitting on it for no reason
3. blame filesharing for the fact that no one liked your shit movie
4. sue file sharers for what you think you should have made
5. profit!
I'm struggling to come up with a reason myself, as it's easier to port the native runtime to any platform, than maintain an independent copy in a constant "catch up" mode.
Semi-closed platforms like the iphone/ipod where the proprieters have turned their back on flash?
One guy who marries a woman, loves her and has mind-blowing sex with her three times a week, is clearly ahead of some guy with an iPhone who had ten one-night stands.
Considering the possibility that the wife could be nagging at all times while NOT engaged in coitus, your conclusion is fallacious.
I never understood this, if a student is substandard then they are substandard. If this superintendent knew what the definition of average was he would realise that, by definition, some students HAVE to fall below a 'C' mark. Teaching everybody to a minimum standard is a very noble cause but it isn't possible for everyone you teach to live up to that standard; so instead we end up with these bitter drop-outs who are essentially labled as unemployable just because they can't tell you what the capital of Nebraska is.
I'm not sure where you're from, but here in the states we don't "grade on a curve" in primary school. Therfore a C isn't average, its indicative of the percentage of the material you've grasped (C being 70%-79%). So no one HAS to fall below this mark, necessarily. If however you do, I don't see it as unreasonable that you would have to take the class again until you do. This is basic stuff. We shouldn't be moving children up the ranks if they're only grasping half of what they're being taught. Yet we are: parents don't want poor dumb Johnny's feeling's hurt because he's stupid so in some school districts the parents can actually override the instructors decision to have a student repeat a grade level.
Anyone who has ever put any money into any type of "high risk/high reward" mutual fund or other investment medium probably has ties to the Oil & Gas industry. You're not going to find a single politician at the federal level that doesn't have his hands in every big-business cookie jar if you dig some.
one of my first forays into programming was writing mods for Unreal Tournament 2004. It wasn't THE first, that was writing programs using TI Basic on my calculator to do my math homework for me, but writing mods was a lot more interesting. You could do something simple like change the rate of fire of a weapon, compile, and immediately see what you had done.
The "crime" being running afoul of a speed limit set artifically low in order to generate revenue as opposed to a speed limit's real intent which is to prevent accidents. I'm sorry, I can't agree with your statement.
Thirty hours of a forty-hour workweek devoted to meetings? I'm sure managers are getting nervous at the idea you can spend two hours a week on meetings and 38 hours a week getting stuff done.
Sadly, the 40 hour work week is a failed assumption. Salaried people are expected to get their stuff done however long it takes. Which means that you're meeting 30 hours a week.............and working an additional 30.
Then you have 'news' channels that do everything in their power to attack the president (which according to their own rule was very unpatriotic just one president ago), so again, because it's obama's idea.
Other than Fox, all major news outlets are/have been/will always be HEAVILY liberal. So if you're seeing the news channels bash the president its because you're either only watching Fox or because what he's doing is REALLY REALLY disagreeable to "mainline" liberals. Which should really tell you something: what the Dems are doing to this country right now are extremely radical things. Things that a LOT of people (maybe the majority....maybe not) simply do not agree with. However, the Dems don't care..........they're going to do it anyway. The recent replacement of Kennedy's long held seat by a Republican SHOULD have a been a wakeup call to the Democratic party that what they were doing was disagreeable to the people. You know, those people they're supposed to represent? Nah, they don't care. They have a radical agenda, and are going to cram it down the throats of average Americans at any and all costs.
If this was such a major concern for the state of Louisiana......................why didn't they just use state money? This is a classic case of fingerpointing.
I have to say that the decline in manual transmission driving has really diminished people's driving abilities. It's one thing that the there's an acceleration issue. It's another thing to not consider putting the car in neutral when something like this is encountered.
Or turn the car off entirely. I mean COME ON people on ABC News: It is NOT the car's fault that you're a moron that does not know how to properly operate a motor vehicle in a panic situation. If you expect someone/something to do all of the thinking for you in an emergency..................ride the bus!
My job uses WinXp Pro, Ie6, and Office 2003. AND we use an app called QAD in a dos box. It's nice to be in a minority, So I can feel special.
With the exception of the dos box, every corporation I've ever worked for has been the same way. In my current position, I've actually ASKED IT to allow me to install firefox, IE7, or....god ANYTHING with tabs (yea, I have to ask. My company's machines are locked down tighter than a whale's butthole) and have been DENIED.
Apparently my company's stance is "no, you can not have a safe browser. Please continue to use the veritable swiss cheese of internet software because its what we've blindly decided to support, and we're to arrogant to change."
Our fault!? The rest of the world cheered when Obama was elected proclaiming that America had "finally done something right." This is as much everyone else's fault as it is America's. See what happens when you believe warm-fuzzy liberal propaganda!? They go and take your internet away!
I wonder how much longer it will take for the US to catch up?
For example, we continue to teach date formatted in a completely nonsense format (MM/DD/YYYY) instead of either high to low (YYYY/MM/DD) or low to high (DD/MM/YYYY) like the rest of the world. Plus using AM/PM instead of 24 hour ("Military Time") again like the rest of the civilised world.
In the real world, where people pay their bills and report earnings on a monthly basis, isn't having the month first more useful considering the fact that you don't actually care about the day (so long as it falls within the month you're concerned with)? It certainly makes sorting by date (say in a spreadsheet) at least LOOK like it makes sense as the first field stays the same for the whole month.
In all fairness, most retailers don't have commisioned salesman any more. Having, at different times in my life, been both a Best Buy and a Circuit City (after they went non-commissioned) employee I can say that neither chain cared whether or not we made the sale, but was more interested in the idea that, if we did, the product went out with as many mice, mouse pads, SD cards, printers, ink, and warranties as was humanly possible.
A couple of important things were omitted that are important to the pigeon - in particular the time and money that went into training the bird to make that flight. They didn't exactly just reach out of their office window and grab any pigeon that happened to be nearby.
I don't think thats important at all. Its not like they reached out the window, and grabbed any phone line either.
This was simply comparing quality of service between two provider's networks. Telekom lost.
For various reasons the industry in the US has shunned diesel for private vehicles. That has to change before any headway can be made.
I disagree. Diesel is a BYPRODUCT of gasoline refining. A barrel of oil (42 US gallons), when refined, yields about 19.5 gallons of gasoline and about 9 gallons of diesel. Part of the reason diesel prices got so expensive last summer is because there was no supply. Nobody was buying the expensive gasoline that accounts for more than half of all refined goods, but the big trucks and ships needed the diesel that nobody wanted to make because they couldn't sell the gasoline. Starting to see the vicious cycle?
Therefore, if a bunch of people started driving diesel cars, you'd see last summer's diesel prices becoming a bit more permanent. Leave diesel to work vehicles. Cars should run on gasoline. The headway needs to be made in technologies like gasoline direct injection.
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This is the way its done in the States. I'm surprised it isn't universal.
If it's your union, then it is part of your work.
did you mean that if it's your union its your collective bargaining group built to screw employers out of more money than the employees are worth and healthcare purchase group? Cuz then I'd agree with you, BUT I don't see how any of that has anything to do with the mechanics of performing your job.
As in, high risk of genetically modified bacteria escaping the lab and turning every carbohydrate it finds into fuel oil?
Considering the dearth of nutritional value in carbs, especially processed carbs, would this be all that bad? I guess vegetarians would piss and moan, but they're too physically weak to put up much of a fight anyway.
Why is the first public broadcast of remastered footage of an American moon trip being broadcast in Australia. This makes no sense.
How does this theory jive with the notion that young men today (at least in the US) have significantly reduced levels of testosterone compared to our fathers and grandfathers?
They assume that the movie would have been a much bigger success were it not for file sharing. Maybe the movie didn't succeed because it sucked. I certainly didn't go see it because nobody I know that did recommended it. It would appear that the new business plan is 1. make a shit movie cheaply 2. leak the film while sitting on it for no reason 3. blame filesharing for the fact that no one liked your shit movie 4. sue file sharers for what you think you should have made 5. profit!
I'm struggling to come up with a reason myself, as it's easier to port the native runtime to any platform, than maintain an independent copy in a constant "catch up" mode.
Semi-closed platforms like the iphone/ipod where the proprieters have turned their back on flash?
One guy who marries a woman, loves her and has mind-blowing sex with her three times a week, is clearly ahead of some guy with an iPhone who had ten one-night stands.
Considering the possibility that the wife could be nagging at all times while NOT engaged in coitus, your conclusion is fallacious.
I never understood this, if a student is substandard then they are substandard. If this superintendent knew what the definition of average was he would realise that, by definition, some students HAVE to fall below a 'C' mark. Teaching everybody to a minimum standard is a very noble cause but it isn't possible for everyone you teach to live up to that standard; so instead we end up with these bitter drop-outs who are essentially labled as unemployable just because they can't tell you what the capital of Nebraska is.
I'm not sure where you're from, but here in the states we don't "grade on a curve" in primary school. Therfore a C isn't average, its indicative of the percentage of the material you've grasped (C being 70%-79%). So no one HAS to fall below this mark, necessarily. If however you do, I don't see it as unreasonable that you would have to take the class again until you do. This is basic stuff. We shouldn't be moving children up the ranks if they're only grasping half of what they're being taught. Yet we are: parents don't want poor dumb Johnny's feeling's hurt because he's stupid so in some school districts the parents can actually override the instructors decision to have a student repeat a grade level.
No conflict of interest here, no sir...
Anyone who has ever put any money into any type of "high risk/high reward" mutual fund or other investment medium probably has ties to the Oil & Gas industry. You're not going to find a single politician at the federal level that doesn't have his hands in every big-business cookie jar if you dig some.
one of my first forays into programming was writing mods for Unreal Tournament 2004. It wasn't THE first, that was writing programs using TI Basic on my calculator to do my math homework for me, but writing mods was a lot more interesting. You could do something simple like change the rate of fire of a weapon, compile, and immediately see what you had done.
do the fine, don't do the crime!
The "crime" being running afoul of a speed limit set artifically low in order to generate revenue as opposed to a speed limit's real intent which is to prevent accidents. I'm sorry, I can't agree with your statement.
Thirty hours of a forty-hour workweek devoted to meetings? I'm sure managers are getting nervous at the idea you can spend two hours a week on meetings and 38 hours a week getting stuff done.
Sadly, the 40 hour work week is a failed assumption. Salaried people are expected to get their stuff done however long it takes. Which means that you're meeting 30 hours a week.............and working an additional 30.
Then you have 'news' channels that do everything in their power to attack the president (which according to their own rule was very unpatriotic just one president ago), so again, because it's obama's idea.
Other than Fox, all major news outlets are/have been/will always be HEAVILY liberal. So if you're seeing the news channels bash the president its because you're either only watching Fox or because what he's doing is REALLY REALLY disagreeable to "mainline" liberals. Which should really tell you something: what the Dems are doing to this country right now are extremely radical things. Things that a LOT of people (maybe the majority....maybe not) simply do not agree with. However, the Dems don't care..........they're going to do it anyway. The recent replacement of Kennedy's long held seat by a Republican SHOULD have a been a wakeup call to the Democratic party that what they were doing was disagreeable to the people. You know, those people they're supposed to represent? Nah, they don't care. They have a radical agenda, and are going to cram it down the throats of average Americans at any and all costs.
I really hope the such elements won't creep into my F1 simulator.
If you're playing the role of an F1 driver in, say, a "career mode" I don't see how these elements aren't there already.
61 Virgins? Can I trade them for 8 slutty broads that know what they're doing?
I'll take a SINGLE slutty broad as long as she wants to sleep with ME. Everyone forgets that part.....
They probably add ethanol after the brew process. Most of the majors already do this.
If this was such a major concern for the state of Louisiana......................why didn't they just use state money? This is a classic case of fingerpointing.
I have to say that the decline in manual transmission driving has really diminished people's driving abilities. It's one thing that the there's an acceleration issue. It's another thing to not consider putting the car in neutral when something like this is encountered.
Or turn the car off entirely. I mean COME ON people on ABC News: It is NOT the car's fault that you're a moron that does not know how to properly operate a motor vehicle in a panic situation. If you expect someone/something to do all of the thinking for you in an emergency..................ride the bus!
My job uses WinXp Pro, Ie6, and Office 2003. AND we use an app called QAD in a dos box. It's nice to be in a minority, So I can feel special.
With the exception of the dos box, every corporation I've ever worked for has been the same way. In my current position, I've actually ASKED IT to allow me to install firefox, IE7, or....god ANYTHING with tabs (yea, I have to ask. My company's machines are locked down tighter than a whale's butthole) and have been DENIED. Apparently my company's stance is "no, you can not have a safe browser. Please continue to use the veritable swiss cheese of internet software because its what we've blindly decided to support, and we're to arrogant to change."
This is your fault.
Our fault!? The rest of the world cheered when Obama was elected proclaiming that America had "finally done something right." This is as much everyone else's fault as it is America's. See what happens when you believe warm-fuzzy liberal propaganda!? They go and take your internet away!
I wonder how much longer it will take for the US to catch up? For example, we continue to teach date formatted in a completely nonsense format (MM/DD/YYYY) instead of either high to low (YYYY/MM/DD) or low to high (DD/MM/YYYY) like the rest of the world. Plus using AM/PM instead of 24 hour ("Military Time") again like the rest of the civilised world.
In the real world, where people pay their bills and report earnings on a monthly basis, isn't having the month first more useful considering the fact that you don't actually care about the day (so long as it falls within the month you're concerned with)? It certainly makes sorting by date (say in a spreadsheet) at least LOOK like it makes sense as the first field stays the same for the whole month.
In all fairness, most retailers don't have commisioned salesman any more. Having, at different times in my life, been both a Best Buy and a Circuit City (after they went non-commissioned) employee I can say that neither chain cared whether or not we made the sale, but was more interested in the idea that, if we did, the product went out with as many mice, mouse pads, SD cards, printers, ink, and warranties as was humanly possible.
A couple of important things were omitted that are important to the pigeon - in particular the time and money that went into training the bird to make that flight. They didn't exactly just reach out of their office window and grab any pigeon that happened to be nearby.
I don't think thats important at all. Its not like they reached out the window, and grabbed any phone line either. This was simply comparing quality of service between two provider's networks. Telekom lost.
For various reasons the industry in the US has shunned diesel for private vehicles. That has to change before any headway can be made.
I disagree. Diesel is a BYPRODUCT of gasoline refining. A barrel of oil (42 US gallons), when refined, yields about 19.5 gallons of gasoline and about 9 gallons of diesel. Part of the reason diesel prices got so expensive last summer is because there was no supply. Nobody was buying the expensive gasoline that accounts for more than half of all refined goods, but the big trucks and ships needed the diesel that nobody wanted to make because they couldn't sell the gasoline. Starting to see the vicious cycle? Therefore, if a bunch of people started driving diesel cars, you'd see last summer's diesel prices becoming a bit more permanent. Leave diesel to work vehicles. Cars should run on gasoline. The headway needs to be made in technologies like gasoline direct injection.