You obviously have no idea how car insurance works.
Naw, 30 years of driving, and I haven't figured it out yet. I've switched companies many times because I felt rates were too high.
I've never had an accident, and never had a ticket, but somehow my rates increase on older cars. So, I switch. It's a free market, but insurance is manditory.
I second that. They are there to provide me with a service. They can judge how much that will cost me by how much I cost them in the past, not how much I might cost them in the future.
I can decide if I'm willing to pay their outragous prices and contribute to their record profits (last year for example). Stay the hell out of my life.
Until the cows wise up and start wearing fake pig masks. Imagine a whole field of cows looking like this going "OINK. OINK OINK." and looking around to see if anyone notices.
The trick is to suggest their door is ajar, then when they open/close it, unbuckle their seatbelt and twist the car a hard left all at the same time . ..
KPMG (the accounting firm) rated Edmonton as the #1 place to live in the western hemisphere as far as quality of living, tax levels, housing prices and job market.
It's no wonder why we're home to Bioware, Quicken, and large support centers for General Electric and Hewlett Packard.
I'm a 1 man shop, about 60 computers, but geographically distant. I can have a 12 hour drive sometimes between branches, and that really isn't an efficient use of my time. Plus, living out of a suitcase sucks for any length of time greater than a week.
If I had the bugdet to fly all the time, I'd hire a second person as backup to me.
Do real work in VNC/X/Remote Desktop over a 128 kbs DSL and you know the answer to that.
Try using VNC over a 64k Frame line. (It's not so bad if you remember to set the desktop to 640X480 and 256 colours.) Now try driving 6 hours to get to the same machine. Which was a better use of your time?
It might suck, but sometimes it is faster to VNC or Remote X in to a machine.
You're one of the lucky ones then. I never bothered to get a landline, and I'm too far away for ethier Shaw Cable or Telus DSL. Due to the age of the lines in my area, I doubt I could get ISDN or 64k frame ethier.
And I don't tell my employer my 'home' phone is a cell.:)
the terminals behind the counter are running 16bit windows apps.
Check it out. They run Windows 3.1 apps in compatability mode under OS/2. So do the ATM's - they use exactally the same PC as the tellers do, but without the plastic case.
I used to be an IBM CSR who'd get calls to come fix things at 16:00 on a Friday before a long weekend. The thing had been broke all week, but no one called because the customers didn't complain enough:(
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Naw, 30 years of driving, and I haven't figured it out yet. I've switched companies many times because I felt rates were too high.
I've never had an accident, and never had a ticket, but somehow my rates increase on older cars. So, I switch. It's a free market, but insurance is manditory.
I can decide if I'm willing to pay their outragous prices and contribute to their record profits (last year for example). Stay the hell out of my life.
If the pussy is green, there is definitely something wrong with it.
[sound of crickets chirping]
That's where the Ents attack Isengard, right? "Run Forest, Run..."
Until the cows wise up and start wearing fake pig masks. Imagine a whole field of cows looking like this going "OINK. OINK OINK." and looking around to see if anyone notices.
The trick is to suggest their door is ajar, then when they open/close it, unbuckle their seatbelt and twist the car a hard left all at the same time . . .
It's no wonder why we're home to Bioware, Quicken, and large support centers for General Electric and Hewlett Packard.
Well, yes, because the word is "teats", pronounced the same way.
If I had the bugdet to fly all the time, I'd hire a second person as backup to me.
Try using VNC over a 64k Frame line. (It's not so bad if you remember to set the desktop to 640X480 and 256 colours.) Now try driving 6 hours to get to the same machine. Which was a better use of your time?
It might suck, but sometimes it is faster to VNC or Remote X in to a machine.
And I don't tell my employer my 'home' phone is a cell. :)
. . .since 'Ishtar'. . .
No, but I'd keep all your microwave popcorn in tinfoil to avoid sudden 'pantry malfunctions'.
Check it out. They run Windows 3.1 apps in compatability mode under OS/2. So do the ATM's - they use exactally the same PC as the tellers do, but without the plastic case.
I used to be an IBM CSR who'd get calls to come fix things at 16:00 on a Friday before a long weekend. The thing had been broke all week, but no one called because the customers didn't complain enough :(
I don't know about the import car crowd, but my 2003 Mercury has a "Check Gas Cap" light too...