I've never been to Australia, but I have been asked for an ID in EB Games and several other retailers in both the US and Canada. I'm 26, but it's been some time since I could pass for a high school student. However, in at least some of the jurisdictions, sale of certian games to minors results in a fine for both the salesperson and the store's owner/management, from what I understand.
Not really, he's more a carcinogen. The cancer is people who continually respond to these posts. And seriously, how is this worse than GNAA, other than lacking any semblance of a sense of humour? At least they managed to be amusing on a couple of rare occasions.
The saying goes 'don't feed the trolls' for a reason. Ignore it or mod it down, don't reply and call more attention to it.
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He's the bofh, he does not need your password. Your home directory is gone. The backups? Lets see, intermittent environmental interrupt problem... I can work with this.
From the article (I know, bad form) both this headline and the article headline are wrong. Myspace is the 'most hated' being one point below Facebook. Rather interesting how close the two are, though.
I used to work in the hospitality industry as well - the company installed, maintained and supported guest internet access for hotels and transit companies (we had several bus and rail contracts). For the locations with a lot of government or corporate guests, standing orders from the hotel management was to do whatever was necessary to get these guests online. Lockheed-Martin employees were one of our biggest sources of calls, their vpn would not let them reach the captive portals and they had to be passed through manually. Many government employees and contractors had exactly the same problem. Anyone else would be told to contact their IT department to sort that mess out.
Don't underestimate what hotels will do to accomidate what may be one of their largest customer groups. When a company like Lockheed-Martin says fix this or our employees will no longer be staying at your hotel, you fix their complaint, you don't tell them 'but we locked down that functionality' and lose 80+% of your business.
I have one, it's great. Unfortunately, it's a little bit dated when put up against more recent android phones. But, personally I am willing to deal with that to have a fully featured linux tablet in my pocket. Your needs may be different than mine.
I've read (and seen) problems others have had with them, and it's nothing different from the problems faced by any other mobile device. Aside from the OEM battery life, which is just terrible.
Keep an eye on Nokia, they're rolling out the next Maemo/Meego based phone - the N9 - and are continuing development of the platform, even if it's a bit half-hearted. There is still hope for an upgrade.
When I worked at a call center in the states, during high volume times I would handle multiple calls at once as well. It isn't impossible to do well, just very difficult - only a select few of our techs could manage it without pissing off customers.
Perhaps someone with a little more knowledge in this area can explain why these aren't a joint venture between multiple countries or why there is no alternative to these specific satellites. A single point of funding/failure for a system like this just seems silly.
Tell that to any of us who have done street photography. Not nearly as difficult as it sounds, though it takes a bit of practice it isn't nearly as difficult as it sounds.
I hadn't thought of the swerving into traffic, that's a good example as well.
As for why cyclists shouldn't get to pick and choose which set of rules to follow, that should be fairly obvious. Besides, they're perfectly capable of both while staying within the laws of most jurisdictions - get off the bike and push it if you want to use pedestrian ways. Same as the driver of a car would have to park and walk if they want to travel using the sidewalks.
I would say it depends where you live as well. Very near where I got my written warning, though not in the same town, the local police were not equipped with radar guns. They still handed out speeding tickets, so the radar gun may not be the weakness you think.
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I've never been to Australia, but I have been asked for an ID in EB Games and several other retailers in both the US and Canada. I'm 26, but it's been some time since I could pass for a high school student. However, in at least some of the jurisdictions, sale of certian games to minors results in a fine for both the salesperson and the store's owner/management, from what I understand.
Not really, he's more a carcinogen. The cancer is people who continually respond to these posts. And seriously, how is this worse than GNAA, other than lacking any semblance of a sense of humour? At least they managed to be amusing on a couple of rare occasions.
The saying goes 'don't feed the trolls' for a reason. Ignore it or mod it down, don't reply and call more attention to it.
And here I go making it worse. :)
Never been to southern Ontario, have you?
Seems to be strip malls and fast food all the way down.
ICE is a branch of DHS these days:
www.ice.gov/about/overview/
Such a tragedy that your life would be cut so short!
Funnier still that it's modded +5 insightful.
He's the bofh, he does not need your password. Your home directory is gone. The backups? Lets see, intermittent environmental interrupt problem... I can work with this.
Rogers in Canada throttles VPN connections. Lots of pissed off business types, no huge problems for Rogers yet.
It's wireless!
I envy you. Did you manage to forget geocities too?
From the article (I know, bad form) both this headline and the article headline are wrong. Myspace is the 'most hated' being one point below Facebook. Rather interesting how close the two are, though.
Google may end up picking up on this one, with Plus looking like it's gaining momentum.
Or not. Should be interesting to watch, anyway.
Thank you, this comment made my night. :D
I used to work in the hospitality industry as well - the company installed, maintained and supported guest internet access for hotels and transit companies (we had several bus and rail contracts). For the locations with a lot of government or corporate guests, standing orders from the hotel management was to do whatever was necessary to get these guests online. Lockheed-Martin employees were one of our biggest sources of calls, their vpn would not let them reach the captive portals and they had to be passed through manually. Many government employees and contractors had exactly the same problem. Anyone else would be told to contact their IT department to sort that mess out.
Don't underestimate what hotels will do to accomidate what may be one of their largest customer groups. When a company like Lockheed-Martin says fix this or our employees will no longer be staying at your hotel, you fix their complaint, you don't tell them 'but we locked down that functionality' and lose 80+% of your business.
I have one, it's great. Unfortunately, it's a little bit dated when put up against more recent android phones. But, personally I am willing to deal with that to have a fully featured linux tablet in my pocket. Your needs may be different than mine.
I've read (and seen) problems others have had with them, and it's nothing different from the problems faced by any other mobile device. Aside from the OEM battery life, which is just terrible.
Keep an eye on Nokia, they're rolling out the next Maemo/Meego based phone - the N9 - and are continuing development of the platform, even if it's a bit half-hearted. There is still hope for an upgrade.
When I worked at a call center in the states, during high volume times I would handle multiple calls at once as well. It isn't impossible to do well, just very difficult - only a select few of our techs could manage it without pissing off customers.
Not all of us use computers (or smartphones) that are impossible to bring into the backyard.
It facilitates the drinking, as you don't need to watch the temperatures so closely.
Or, in other words, look to VODO's example.
I am awed by this analogy.
My kingdom for some mod points!
The editors were rather prescient then.
Perhaps someone with a little more knowledge in this area can explain why these aren't a joint venture between multiple countries or why there is no alternative to these specific satellites. A single point of funding/failure for a system like this just seems silly.
Tell that to any of us who have done street photography. Not nearly as difficult as it sounds, though it takes a bit of practice it isn't nearly as difficult as it sounds.
Except for the fact that we heard about this 2 weeks ago, without the help of Fox News. They're the ones racing to catch up on this one.
I hadn't thought of the swerving into traffic, that's a good example as well.
As for why cyclists shouldn't get to pick and choose which set of rules to follow, that should be fairly obvious. Besides, they're perfectly capable of both while staying within the laws of most jurisdictions - get off the bike and push it if you want to use pedestrian ways. Same as the driver of a car would have to park and walk if they want to travel using the sidewalks.
I would say it depends where you live as well. Very near where I got my written warning, though not in the same town, the local police were not equipped with radar guns. They still handed out speeding tickets, so the radar gun may not be the weakness you think.