Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars; It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side; It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick, But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide. We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point, We go 'round every two hundred million years; And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe.
I had no problems cancelling either AOL (got it to troubleshoot a user's connection) or Vonage. Sure, they tried to talk me out of it (AOL didn't even do that) but otherwise smooth as silk.
I recently quit Vonage. Had no trouble with the service (other than when I was making heavy use of my bandwidth for other things) but the issue was that I have DSL and the govt lets the phone co get away with forcing me to have a land-line even though I get my DSL throught a totally different company. It just simply wasn't worth the extra money to pay for long distance. I ended up just getting my wife a cell phone on my plan and everyone's happy.
If the government gets its finger out and stops allowing the phone company to force services on me that I neither want or need, Ill probably go back to VOIP. Though it would probably be Gizmodo or Skype since we have no need for an incoming number (the mobiles take care of that)
The effect might be very elevation specific. I would therefore suggest that a far better solution would be for the building occupants to wear cages with rats in on their heads.
"EDITOR", it's a word that means something not just a bunch of letters thrown together to look pretty. Sure, you screwed up but there's lumps enough to go around.
The problem is that if you allow such metadata, that opens the door for Microsoft to do their normal trick of perverting the standard and having the open part of the document be effectively empty with the main part of the document in a proprietary "blob" in some extended part of the format.
Since the goal of the ODF is to have a transparent document that can be displayed or edited by any software that supports the standard, there can be no room for allowing extensions. If you want such things, work in another format and save using ODF for when it's appropriate.
Speaking as an Englishman who lives in the USA, it's just not the same. An electric kettle is far more convenient than microwave or stove (most English homes have both of those also).
A major difference is that Americans tend to drink filter coffee wheras instant is much more accepted in England. Also, the higher incidence of tea drinkers might have an effect (and indeed, these two things may actually be related).
And FWIW, I bought my cordless electric kettle I currently have at Target. $34 I believe.
Every once in a while Sam's Club will have $25 Rebocks. For some reason they don't last as long as the $35 pair I got at the Rebock outlet store... about half as long.
News for you: Many brands make a special, lower quality "outlet store" line too. They may be better quality than the chain store line but they're all part of the "Milk the brand name" marketing scam.
But you might be spending that time in a reasonable mood because of a 40 minute easy drive or in a foul mood because of a 60 minute drive in shitty traffic.
I can't answer to the baseball bat side of things but certainly the parent poster is spot on and the bullies understand violence (that they are internally wired to equate violence with respect is why they are bullies in the first place).
Of course, this unfortunately assumes that you are capable of inflicting violence against the bullies in a way you can get away with (I was fortunate that I was capable of doing so unarmed [the attempted bullying was due to my bookish personality, not a weak physical status. When I hit, I could hit *hard*])
I am, of course, not advocating violence in any form, merely relating my experience:D
Nonetheless, you do sometimes, however rarely, grant extra disk space. Then the users will be able to prove the existence of the BOFH, or at least the efficacy of emailing his account. For those who email will statistically have slightly more disk space than those who do not.
Except that the group of users who are conducting the experiment to prove the existence of the BOFH concocted their conspiracy using an instant messaging client despite knowing full well that any true BOFH would certainly have a packet sniffer running and be able to thwart their little experiment whilst still operating at will on those not involved in the conspiracy.
I'm no believer but if "god" wanted to be provable, it would likely be pretty obvious like asking out loud "are you there god" and getting a big booming reply from the sky of "yes"
I would expect the CEO of Coke to have a huge walk-in refrigerator containing stacks of every soft drink available in the US and a few that aren't. It's a job, that's all.
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Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars; It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick, But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point, We go 'round every two hundred million years;
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe.
I had no problems cancelling either AOL (got it to troubleshoot a user's connection) or Vonage. Sure, they tried to talk me out of it (AOL didn't even do that) but otherwise smooth as silk.
Rich
I recently quit Vonage. Had no trouble with the service (other than when I was making heavy use of my bandwidth for other things) but the issue was that I have DSL and the govt lets the phone co get away with forcing me to have a land-line even though I get my DSL throught a totally different company. It just simply wasn't worth the extra money to pay for long distance. I ended up just getting my wife a cell phone on my plan and everyone's happy.
If the government gets its finger out and stops allowing the phone company to force services on me that I neither want or need, Ill probably go back to VOIP. Though it would probably be Gizmodo or Skype since we have no need for an incoming number (the mobiles take care of that)
Rich
Or "Aloha Akbar" in Hawaii I understand.
Rich
I wish I could meta-moderate "+5 Informative" as +5 Funny
I don't know a about accelerating latte but I once blew cappucino out my nose.
The effect might be very elevation specific. I would therefore suggest that a far better solution would be for the building occupants to wear cages with rats in on their heads.
Disabled people may want to develop these capabilities rather than expecting a "government-focused, open-source group" to fall from the skies.
After all, isn't it all about disabled people not being seen as being depenent in the first place?
Rich
Survival might be considered beneficial to some.
"EDITOR", it's a word that means something not just a bunch of letters thrown together to look pretty. Sure, you screwed up but there's lumps enough to go around.
Rich
The problem is that if you allow such metadata, that opens the door for Microsoft to do their normal trick of perverting the standard and having the open part of the document be effectively empty with the main part of the document in a proprietary "blob" in some extended part of the format.
Since the goal of the ODF is to have a transparent document that can be displayed or edited by any software that supports the standard, there can be no room for allowing extensions. If you want such things, work in another format and save using ODF for when it's appropriate.
Rich
Speaking as an Englishman who lives in the USA, it's just not the same. An electric kettle is far more convenient than microwave or stove (most English homes have both of those also).
A major difference is that Americans tend to drink filter coffee wheras instant is much more accepted in England. Also, the higher incidence of tea drinkers might have an effect (and indeed, these two things may actually be related).
And FWIW, I bought my cordless electric kettle I currently have at Target. $34 I believe.
Rich
Every once in a while Sam's Club will have $25 Rebocks. For some reason they don't last as long as the $35 pair I got at the Rebock outlet store... about half as long.
News for you: Many brands make a special, lower quality "outlet store" line too. They may be better quality than the chain store line but they're all part of the "Milk the brand name" marketing scam.
But you might be spending that time in a reasonable mood because of a 40 minute easy drive or in a foul mood because of a 60 minute drive in shitty traffic.
To my eye, it looks very much like a distorted UK roundabout with an extra "down the middle" priority lane.
Anything has to be better than the 4-way stops that litter this country (US). Whole lines of cars stop-going for no good reason.
Rich
Score -1 Naive
I can't answer to the baseball bat side of things but certainly the parent poster is spot on and the bullies understand violence (that they are internally wired to equate violence with respect is why they are bullies in the first place).
:D
Of course, this unfortunately assumes that you are capable of inflicting violence against the bullies in a way you can get away with (I was fortunate that I was capable of doing so unarmed [the attempted bullying was due to my bookish personality, not a weak physical status. When I hit, I could hit *hard*])
I am, of course, not advocating violence in any form, merely relating my experience
Rich
#include "texan.h"
Why do you think the dead rise again every few years to vote?
Cause the queue to hell is backed up with dead politicians.
Rich
Think before you mock some other religion
Yes, that's usually the order it happens in.
Rich
Nonetheless, you do sometimes, however rarely, grant extra disk space. Then the users will be able to prove the existence of the BOFH, or at least the efficacy of emailing his account. For those who email will statistically have slightly more disk space than those who do not.
Except that the group of users who are conducting the experiment to prove the existence of the BOFH concocted their conspiracy using an instant messaging client despite knowing full well that any true BOFH would certainly have a packet sniffer running and be able to thwart their little experiment whilst still operating at will on those not involved in the conspiracy.
I'm no believer but if "god" wanted to be provable, it would likely be pretty obvious like asking out loud "are you there god" and getting a big booming reply from the sky of "yes"
Rich
I would expect the CEO of Coke to have a huge walk-in refrigerator containing stacks of every soft drink available in the US and a few that aren't. It's a job, that's all.
Rich
What tune was it whistling?
Rich
Unfortunately, the guy who *is* writing up his notes into a story will submit his story and have it rejected because it is a duplicate of this one.
Oh, haha, what am I talking about? This is Slashdot after all.
Rich
Maplin (http://maplin.co.uk/ still has a pretty good range I think.
Rich