I think you meant to say, "I am fight grammar Nazi tendencies." But that's fine. For all intensive porpoises, their the same. Too different ways of getting your point acrossed. I could care less. =)
That's hardly fair. I know enough to surrender my shoelaces so that I won't hang myself for littering. It's a Thanksgiving classic as much as 'A Wish for Wings that Work' is a Christmas classic.
Your post makes me so mad I wanna kill... I wanna kill... I want to see dead burnt bodies with blood and gore and veins in my teeth - I wanna kill!
It seems to me that cannibalism would be an evolutionary disadvantage...
In order for a species to survive, an animal only needs to survive long enough to produce children who can survive long enough to produce their own. Once you're old enough to survive to the point of reproduction, how does snacking on a parent hurt anything? In fact, if the parent isn't providing anything that helps you survive, you're just having a meal and cutting down on competition.
Disclaimer: I am an Honeywell employee, although in an entirely different division.
It sounds like Nest is doing a great job and may have outpaced Honeywell in the thermostat world. But you have to admit that historically Honeywell has reigned the thermostat world. In the local hardware store, the Honeywell thermostats are the only ones kept locked up. It's not any kind of company loyalty or astroturfing, it's just one of few areas where I respect the brand.
Appearances are that Martin did physically attack Zimmerman and paid with his life. The fact that he was not armed which is being trotted out as proof that he was not a threat is irrelevant when someone is beating your head against the ground.
Really, that's how it appears? Personally if I'm going to attack someone and start "beating his head against the ground," I'd at least drop my Skittles and iced tea first.
The end result is that my ID thief got away and likely stole other people's identities and the credit card company (*cough* Capital One *cough*) is likely still approving sketchy applications.
Coincidentally, I was on the phone for a good while with them yesterday and will be heading to the bank once they open today. Somebody grabbed those "balance transfer" (or whatever) checks that they send you out of my mailbox, wrote an enormous check out to "cash", put a signature on it that kind of looks like my name (if not my signature), and pulled out the cash before Capital One had a chance to tell the bank that the check was beyond my credit limit. Fun... Even the most basic heuristics should tell them that I don't make a habit out of borrowing $10k in cash against a credit card...
One of my favorites is to nick one side slightly and toss it in some hydrochloric acid (or muriatic acid off the shelf at the hardware/janitorial supply store). The copper stays intact, but the acid will eat away the zinc. What you have once you rinse it off is a paper-thin penny shell.
I'm allowed - I are one. I don't live there now and haven't in more than a decade, but that's where my family's from and where I were born. Even though I mostly grew up elsewhere, "Howdy" and "y'all" are part of my regular lexicon. Although I'm not redneck enough to ever use the two together.
That's what I was thinking - England is old school compared to the US. And for a large part, big budget movies are tailored for American audiences and the rest of the world is a secondary market that will contribute any way.
For example, last time I was in Europe I stayed with my father in Vienna - His apartment was a couple of hundred years older than the United States. My duplex in the US is ancient because it was built all the way back in the 50's.
Dragons and wizards are from a long time ago - English. Star Wars/Galactica/others are in the future (or at least a galaxy far, far away) - American.
I know you're making a joke, but my preschooler's teacher (English but in New Mexico) was going to visit her family and was asked whether or not they spoke English in England... When she told me that my response was that they may know a version of English, but they certainly don't speak American. I think I'll go smoke a fag and hit the loo. Bloody hell. Bullocks.
Even the dumbest character with a British accent sounds smarter.
At the same time, characters with a Jersey accent sound arrogant and idiotic, a southern drawl makes them sound dumb, hick, and quite possibly inbred and crazy, and a Texan accent makes them sound Texan.
That's correct, it isn't suitable. Like I said above, even if it's completely redundant it has to be a complete snap-shot. Yes it's silly, but it's a compliance thing. We have to be able to pull something out (not several things or do back-tracking through a few years of change tracking) and say "Here's exactly what the server looked like on the 34th of Smarch, 2009."
Yes, tape does age. Just like hard drives and optical media. But just for the record, up here in Los Alamos we're still pulling data off of tape and copying/analyzing it from our underground nuclear testing. In the computer world, that is a very long time. It was of course stored very differently than modern tape storage methods, but it's readable and usable with a little effort.
That's absolutely true - That's why the gods gave us RAID. If something dies, swap a disk out. But for archival, several spinny disks per night held for several years gets pricey. And, yes, it is mostly for compliance issues. In the decade+ that I've been working here, we've yet to have to pull a tape for any reason other than to prove we have them.
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I think you meant to say, "I am fight grammar Nazi tendencies." But that's fine. For all intensive porpoises, their the same. Too different ways of getting your point acrossed. I could care less. =)
That's hardly fair. I know enough to surrender my shoelaces so that I won't hang myself for littering. It's a Thanksgiving classic as much as 'A Wish for Wings that Work' is a Christmas classic.
Your post makes me so mad I wanna kill... I wanna kill... I want to see dead burnt bodies with blood and gore and veins in my teeth - I wanna kill!
Several large automatic weapons appeared and in a robotic voice it said, "Drop your pen!"
I did immediately and it said, "Thank you for your cooperation."
You were lucky. You should see what happened to the guy in this documentary when the robo-grader didn't hear the pen hit the floor.
It seems to me that cannibalism would be an evolutionary disadvantage...
In order for a species to survive, an animal only needs to survive long enough to produce children who can survive long enough to produce their own. Once you're old enough to survive to the point of reproduction, how does snacking on a parent hurt anything? In fact, if the parent isn't providing anything that helps you survive, you're just having a meal and cutting down on competition.
"It's people! You're eating PEOPLE!"
Good point. What's wrong with "apple.disgruntledpenguins.com" and "android.disgruntledpenguins.com"?
My husband wouldn't hit me if I weren't so clumsy
I think the proper analogy would be, "My neighbor would stop looking in my front window if I'd stop standing naked in front of it."
That's what I was thinking. I think visual cues would be much more useful to the deaf. The deaf only rarely care what something sounds like...
Counter-productive. If watching 'Weeds' taught me anything it's that semi-silent hybrids help with drive-bys. There has to be a market for that.
Disclaimer: I am an Honeywell employee, although in an entirely different division.
It sounds like Nest is doing a great job and may have outpaced Honeywell in the thermostat world. But you have to admit that historically Honeywell has reigned the thermostat world. In the local hardware store, the Honeywell thermostats are the only ones kept locked up. It's not any kind of company loyalty or astroturfing, it's just one of few areas where I respect the brand.
Monopoly? How can that be when the novel invention of a thermostat is so recent? How can you be so quick to yank it away from them?
Appearances are that Martin did physically attack Zimmerman and paid with his life. The fact that he was not armed which is being trotted out as proof that he was not a threat is irrelevant when someone is beating your head against the ground.
Really, that's how it appears? Personally if I'm going to attack someone and start "beating his head against the ground," I'd at least drop my Skittles and iced tea first.
The end result is that my ID thief got away and likely stole other people's identities and the credit card company (*cough* Capital One *cough*) is likely still approving sketchy applications.
Coincidentally, I was on the phone for a good while with them yesterday and will be heading to the bank once they open today. Somebody grabbed those "balance transfer" (or whatever) checks that they send you out of my mailbox, wrote an enormous check out to "cash", put a signature on it that kind of looks like my name (if not my signature), and pulled out the cash before Capital One had a chance to tell the bank that the check was beyond my credit limit. Fun... Even the most basic heuristics should tell them that I don't make a habit out of borrowing $10k in cash against a credit card...
They seem to support free speech, unless it's free speech they don't like, then it should be destroyed.
You're giving them too much credit. Most of them do it for the lulz. Seriously.
One of my favorites is to nick one side slightly and toss it in some hydrochloric acid (or muriatic acid off the shelf at the hardware/janitorial supply store). The copper stays intact, but the acid will eat away the zinc. What you have once you rinse it off is a paper-thin penny shell.
I'm allowed - I are one. I don't live there now and haven't in more than a decade, but that's where my family's from and where I were born. Even though I mostly grew up elsewhere, "Howdy" and "y'all" are part of my regular lexicon. Although I'm not redneck enough to ever use the two together.
It kind of makes me wonder if a German movie set in America has its actors speak German with an American English accent.
That's just silly talk. It's the rest of the world that has accents - We talk normal.
That's what I was thinking - England is old school compared to the US. And for a large part, big budget movies are tailored for American audiences and the rest of the world is a secondary market that will contribute any way.
For example, last time I was in Europe I stayed with my father in Vienna - His apartment was a couple of hundred years older than the United States. My duplex in the US is ancient because it was built all the way back in the 50's.
Dragons and wizards are from a long time ago - English. Star Wars/Galactica/others are in the future (or at least a galaxy far, far away) - American.
I know you're making a joke, but my preschooler's teacher (English but in New Mexico) was going to visit her family and was asked whether or not they spoke English in England... When she told me that my response was that they may know a version of English, but they certainly don't speak American. I think I'll go smoke a fag and hit the loo. Bloody hell. Bullocks.
Yeah, but northern Argentina is a far cry from northern Canada or even Montana.
Even the dumbest character with a British accent sounds smarter.
At the same time, characters with a Jersey accent sound arrogant and idiotic, a southern drawl makes them sound dumb, hick, and quite possibly inbred and crazy, and a Texan accent makes them sound Texan.
100% fair... 2 different departments - IT's bean-counters are easier to persuade than security. Still, completely fair sadly.
That's correct, it isn't suitable. Like I said above, even if it's completely redundant it has to be a complete snap-shot. Yes it's silly, but it's a compliance thing. We have to be able to pull something out (not several things or do back-tracking through a few years of change tracking) and say "Here's exactly what the server looked like on the 34th of Smarch, 2009."
And put your house number in Roman Numerals. Nothing like living in number CLXXIV to screw up the recaptcha.
Not to mention the postal service! Damn snooty mailmen with their eagle-logo cars and fancy uniforms... Now I know how to get back at them.
Yes, tape does age. Just like hard drives and optical media. But just for the record, up here in Los Alamos we're still pulling data off of tape and copying/analyzing it from our underground nuclear testing. In the computer world, that is a very long time. It was of course stored very differently than modern tape storage methods, but it's readable and usable with a little effort.
That's absolutely true - That's why the gods gave us RAID. If something dies, swap a disk out. But for archival, several spinny disks per night held for several years gets pricey. And, yes, it is mostly for compliance issues. In the decade+ that I've been working here, we've yet to have to pull a tape for any reason other than to prove we have them.