The claim that it was specifically plastic bottles that caused the problem. Your description applies to cups as much as bottles, AND also applies to faucets. You will have to try again if you want to come up with a plausable explination for barsteward's claim.
Not so much, as a vast minority of people use a non-plastic reusable drink containers. By saying "No plastic cups" you pretty much default out everyone in the office.
This doesn't pass the sniff test. You are going to have to give an explination as to the vector for disease to spread into the water coolers from the bottle for this to be believable. And it has to be a vector that would not apply to any other kind of container.
Most likely they just needed to be cleaned periodically anyway due to always being damp, and someone who didn't understand what was happening heard that refilling water bottles is unhealthy. So, they made up that the coolers needed cleaning because they were making people sick. Then office myth just spread from there.
I am going to go with Alice being sick and she refills her infected cup, which transfers to the cooler nozzle. Then healthy Bob fills HIS cup, again making contact. Wash, rinse and repeat, with the additional option of infected containers being potentially able to reinfect the faucet. And that is not factoring in things like molds and mildews.
Exactly. Now, if cops want to search someone they don't have enough legal basis to search... they will just have one of their officers call in an 'anonymous' call.
This is going to lead to police having more and more powers to conduct things without enough legal basis.
This is not a good thing.
Nope. Got that wrong. With these types of changes, they WILL have enough legal basis. Now, compare that amount of legal basis against 10 years ago...
Heh. Back in the day, I used to run a WWIV BBS in TurboPascal/DOS. For most people the admin interface was just about unusable, since I had to keep inside the 64K memory space and I just kept reducing the admin side text strings to make new space for modifications.
I am going to agree to disagree on that. My biggest disagreement is the use of the "stolen" asset. It is one thing if the "thief" is using it for personal or educational uses, and entirely another thing if they are using it to make a profit or enhance their business. It reminds me of when I used to do my own email and web hosting. I would happily give away free email addresses to friends and family if they asked. Then, one day while checking logs, I noticed what seemed to me to be one user hammering out a lot of commercial email (subjects like "Invoice included" and such). Now, it so happens said user had a old at the time, but pretty nice Proliant server I was prepping up for him as a favor. I contacted him and asked him up front if he was doing business with his free email account from me. He admitted he was although business wasn't going well and apologized. My (now ex-)wife suggested bartering the server for lifetime commercial email. I, figuring it wouldn't hurt, fired the idea off, and all was well. I see this sort of thing as analogous to having neighborhood kids ask if they can play on your attractive well appointed front porch, and, after saying yes, finding out they opened a prosperous lemonade stand there without telling you.
Of course, then there's the issue of DLC purchased via online services. And then companies like 2K Games telling users they have to buy the DLC AGAIN since their title used Games for Windows Live, which is being shut down. So, people like me get ripped off for being legit, law abiding users.
I live in an apartment building on the fourth floor. I finally cancelled my cell service, as my coverage was dependent on which way my desk chair was pointed. Nothing like dropping a call because you got uncomfortable and shifted... And I am pretty unsure AT&T will not/will not be able to slap another tower in my neighborhood.
Of course, that is assuming that movie you wanted to watch in the back catalog hasn't had licensing expire and has been removed from the library.
I am currently using Netflix via a 1 year gift code I got for Christmas. It was great to get everything set up (old account expired as I lost my job and couldn't afford it any more and had sold my Roku) and find a movie I wanted to see going out of catalog in less that 24 hours.
Although, I must say their support people are really awesome.
(And as an aside for Windows Netflix watchers, Caffeinated is a really nifty little free proggie to deal the whole screen blanking issue.)
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The claim that it was specifically plastic bottles that caused the problem. Your description applies to cups as much as bottles, AND also applies to faucets. You will have to try again if you want to come up with a plausable explination for barsteward's claim.
Not so much, as a vast minority of people use a non-plastic reusable drink containers. By saying "No plastic cups" you pretty much default out everyone in the office.
This doesn't pass the sniff test. You are going to have to give an explination as to the vector for disease to spread into the water coolers from the bottle for this to be believable. And it has to be a vector that would not apply to any other kind of container. Most likely they just needed to be cleaned periodically anyway due to always being damp, and someone who didn't understand what was happening heard that refilling water bottles is unhealthy. So, they made up that the coolers needed cleaning because they were making people sick. Then office myth just spread from there.
I am going to go with Alice being sick and she refills her infected cup, which transfers to the cooler nozzle. Then healthy Bob fills HIS cup, again making contact. Wash, rinse and repeat, with the additional option of infected containers being potentially able to reinfect the faucet. And that is not factoring in things like molds and mildews.
Ummm, Time and leach, please. This first would be obvious, the use of the incorrect word in the second case would make the water safer.
It's not just humans. You may find this interesting to read, as well as this. Male fish are definitely not supposed to have female characteristics.
Oh really?
Exactly. Now, if cops want to search someone they don't have enough legal basis to search ... they will just have one of their officers call in an 'anonymous' call.
This is going to lead to police having more and more powers to conduct things without enough legal basis.
This is not a good thing.
Nope. Got that wrong. With these types of changes, they WILL have enough legal basis. Now, compare that amount of legal basis against 10 years ago...
Heh. Back in the day, I used to run a WWIV BBS in TurboPascal/DOS. For most people the admin interface was just about unusable, since I had to keep inside the 64K memory space and I just kept reducing the admin side text strings to make new space for modifications.
And you forget the issues if you are not an ambiturner.
Well, as I seem unable to connect to them currently, I suspect they might already be having issues, whether due to Slashdotting/Streisanding or LE...
So, not so much. I binged a Unix library related to the current OpenSSL rampage.
Then I googled it.
Google results - 7 pages.
Bing results - 0 results.
About the only thing Bing really seems good at searching is porn.
And you only got Zmodem if you were lucky and connected to the right node with it installed. All but a few ran Kermit.
And, when I just tried it, it was apparently down.
I am going to agree to disagree on that. My biggest disagreement is the use of the "stolen" asset. It is one thing if the "thief" is using it for personal or educational uses, and entirely another thing if they are using it to make a profit or enhance their business. It reminds me of when I used to do my own email and web hosting. I would happily give away free email addresses to friends and family if they asked. Then, one day while checking logs, I noticed what seemed to me to be one user hammering out a lot of commercial email (subjects like "Invoice included" and such). Now, it so happens said user had a old at the time, but pretty nice Proliant server I was prepping up for him as a favor. I contacted him and asked him up front if he was doing business with his free email account from me. He admitted he was although business wasn't going well and apologized. My (now ex-)wife suggested bartering the server for lifetime commercial email. I, figuring it wouldn't hurt, fired the idea off, and all was well. I see this sort of thing as analogous to having neighborhood kids ask if they can play on your attractive well appointed front porch, and, after saying yes, finding out they opened a prosperous lemonade stand there without telling you.
Stop reminding me, you insensitive clod!
But, see, I am not trying to do business as the owner of said file copy and profit therein.
Wait...
Sony being pirates?
Say it ain't so...
Well, I will be giving it a shot. Waiting on the install now. First I had ever heard of it, BTW.
Of course, then there's the issue of DLC purchased via online services. And then companies like 2K Games telling users they have to buy the DLC AGAIN since their title used Games for Windows Live, which is being shut down. So, people like me get ripped off for being legit, law abiding users.
Just a note here. If Linux WASN'T a passionate kind of guy that likes action over words, there wouldn't be a Linux to be discussing.
I live in an apartment building on the fourth floor. I finally cancelled my cell service, as my coverage was dependent on which way my desk chair was pointed. Nothing like dropping a call because you got uncomfortable and shifted... And I am pretty unsure AT&T will not/will not be able to slap another tower in my neighborhood.
Or the one episode that had us throw a "Wesley FSCKED UP" party. The one where they did the stunt that ended up in death.
And the unfulfilled promise of Sisko punching Q in the nose.
Not to mention interfering with my tubes.
And many of those discounted prices are discounted by WalMart saying "Hi. Drop .50 cents a unit or we stop carrying you."
Of course, assuming all four members of that family are old enough to and able to work.
Of course, that is assuming that movie you wanted to watch in the back catalog hasn't had licensing expire and has been removed from the library. I am currently using Netflix via a 1 year gift code I got for Christmas. It was great to get everything set up (old account expired as I lost my job and couldn't afford it any more and had sold my Roku) and find a movie I wanted to see going out of catalog in less that 24 hours. Although, I must say their support people are really awesome. (And as an aside for Windows Netflix watchers, Caffeinated is a really nifty little free proggie to deal the whole screen blanking issue.)