There goes the last shred of credibility Twitter may have had. Fatties are now using it to vent rage over how cruel the world is for discriminating against them for being fat.
Maybe if he directed some of that rage into jogging or not stuffing twinkies into his maw it wouldn't be a problem.
That's pretty much it. If someone already knows your real name, and can guess that you may have an email address of your real name at one of the big free hosting providers, they might guess your email address!
OH NO STOP THE INTERNET AT ONCE!!
The ONLY thing keeping them afloat right now are deals with high-profile comedians and pro sports. Period. And they have to pay those folks boatloads of money to play at all.
Of all the people I know and have met that listen to Sirius/XM, a very small amount listen to the talk and sports stations primarily. It's possible that I have a bad representative sampling, but I don't think that is the case. Lose the high cost deals with the talk show people and then maybe the expenses will be a bit more manageable. Or maybe some of these high cost 'personalities' will have to work for less - one of the good sides of less competition. For the ones who can't or won't go back to FM, what other options do they have?
They need to realize that most of us subscribe for literally a handful of stations, and if you screw with them, we get pissed.
This right here. I listen to ONE station primarily, have a secondary backup that is about half as enjoyable for me, and then dance around a handful of others when there's something on the first two I'm not in the mood for. They really need to learn to stop fucking with the music stations, every one that gets axed is that potential ONE station for thousands of subscribers. I know for a fact that if my primary station got the axe, my subscriptions (yes, plural) go as well, and I'm sure a lot of other people feel the same way about 'their' stations.
The purpose of low-drag swimwear is not to stay dry, but to reduce fiction, and therefore resistance, caused by moving through the water. Lower drag = higher speed for the same energy expenditure.
And yes, this is probably the most useless possible application for this technology, but you've got to sell something to the people providing the funding. Much better ideas have been mentioned in this discussion already - sails, ship/sub coatings, extreme cold weather wear and raingear.
Also, how about protective tarps, a replacement for tarpaper on roofs, umbrellas... the list goes on!
The versatile Guardian Angel, Microsoft notes, can also recommend restaurants, advise you on the appropriateness of your jokes...
So this thing will let me know when I'm surrounded by the type of people who will be offended by my telling of dead baby or titty-fuck jokes? Awesome.
No body, no weapon, no witnesses, no testimony, and nothing but a lot of circumstantial evidence. Sure, no problem!
Sure, he probably did and and fed her through a wood chipper, but the prosecution should still have to build a better case than "he's nuts, look at him!"
The last time I was deployed in Iraq, we were all issued Quikclot packs in our trauma bags; I'm sure that if I needed to use it, it would have worked fine. However, Quikclot causes pretty severe burns and pain when it's used; in addition, the hard 'clot' that is formed is a PITA for surgeons to remove.
The article states that this is a new 'version' of Quikclot, one that does not cause the skin burning when applied. Also, from what I'm reading about the Celox you linked, I gather that it is like the original Quikclot - powder kits that are dumped on a wound and then covered with a bandage - am I correct in this?
It seems that the main appeal of the new Quikclot, aside from the non-burning, is that the clotting agent is integrated directly into the gauze pad. You just tear open the package and slap on the gauze.
However, nowhere does it talk about removal of the clot that is formed after proper medical treatment is obtained. Hopefully, since the agent is part of the pad, most of the hard clay clot stays with the pad once it is removed from the wound. Sounds like something to keep an ear open about.
Not really groundbreaking chemistry, but nonetheless a good development in medical technology. I found it to be a good little bit of information about something I had never heard of before. It's actually a piece of good news - enjoy it while you can before the next global warming bitchfest starts up after someone posts an article about hurricanes or something.
No gore, cuz it is a public library. Otherwise it'd be cool for the 2-8 year olds.
Well yeah, duh. Excessive and gratuitous violence is fine, as long as there's nothing sex-related. However, even using the word 'sex' will cause the family values of our culture to deteriorate to the point where we're having pedophile orgies in the street.
Being that kaolin clay binds with water and causes clotting, does this mean that this stuff will work on people who have clotting issues, such as those on blood thinning medications or hemophiliacs?
It seems to me that this is the equivalent of Microsoft telling people "If you want to make and sell software for Windows Vista, you can't make and sell any Linux/open source software!" It's more like "If you want to make and sell products for Vista, you can't make and sell products for XP." Both products are made the the same company, the older one has been around for quite some time and has developed a very good following, but now the owning company wants to push sales of their new product line.
Officers of the court? Bullshit, we're talking about some sleazebag millionaire lawyers who would drag their own mothers into court if there was a percentage in it for them. These guys don't represent the court - on the contrary, these are the guys the court needs to be on the lookout for, as they're the ones who will manipulate it to serve their (clients') purposes.
"Turkey's appearance in the top three makes for an interesting realignment so early in the year," said Carole Theriault, senior security consultant at Sophos.
"But this does not mean that other countries can give up the fight."
That's right, it's still early in the year, no one is down and out quite yet. Plenty of chances for any up-and-comer to catch up and make an appearance on the leaderboard - who knows what the second quarter may hold!
Users today do not care how their computers work, as long as they do. I can't count the number of times I got a call from someone about an update notification window because "I don't want to mess anything up". Their own home computers are so loaded with crap that they're slow. They prefer having "the IT guy" around to make sure their system is running properly and has all the updates it needs. Even if they were shown how to troubleshoot their system, they wouldn't care enough to remember it. Accounting, purchasing, sales, etc, etc. They're all the same. They do not care how it works, as long as it does work.
The auto mechanic thinks the same thing about you when you bring your car in to get it fixed. He can explain what's wrong and what it needs, but you're not going to fix it the next time This is true of most users. The computer-car analogy is a perfect one, and I use it all the time. Most people know how to drive, but do they know how to rebuild a transmission or replace a front axle? No, and they don't want to either. Some goes for computers - most people know how to use them to the point where they can get what they need to done - web use, accounting, work applications, etc. They don't know and in most cases don't care to know anything about the 'behind-the-scenes stuff'.
With both cars and computers, there's a small group that will attempt (successfully or unsuccessfully) to do the 'dirty work' themselves - more power to 'em, unless of course it's not their computer/network to destroy, in which case they should keep their grubby little hands out of where they don't belong. Would you try to replace a busted CV boot on someone else's car when your mechanic abilities don't extend beyond oil changes or fixing a flat?
>it doesn't mean the IT staff isn't doing their jobs.
That's exactly what it means. Neither preventing people from installing games or preventing people from browsing porn is IT's job.
Maybe not in your company, but in just about any other workplace you can bet that IT has gotten directives from higher up to at least make an attempt to block superfluous web usage (yes, that means The Boss doesn't believe that YouTube or MySpace or FindAFuckBuddy are necessary to get your job done) and other activities that waste the company's time (games? unless you work for a game review company, you're probably not getting paid to play games at work).
I'm an "IT" guy by trade. But unlike most, I'm an independent - I do contract work for a lot of smaller companies that don't need full-time IT staff. Being such, this 'superuser' is usually my favorite type of employee - one of the few people who will really understand what the problem is and be able to explain it beyond "my computer doesn't come up" (which can mean anything from the "computer doesn't actually power" on to "the Internet is down" to "I can't get into my 15-year old shitty accounting software package that even the publisher tells me is shit and should be upgraded but I'm too cheap to do so").
As long as the superuser understands their limitations, this is a dream come true for IT - they no longer get bothered with small bullshit like "My mouse is dead" or "Should I cancel this AVG/Symantec/Mcafee/Kaspersky/Whatever updater? Why does it come up every day?". However, it's a fine line between a superuser who makes things easier on IT and a 'superuser' who turns a simple problem into a nightmare something even Milton never could have imagined by overstepping their capabilities.
One of the examples: setting up a Wi-Fi router in an office - a seemingly simple task that any monkey can do, and one that made the skin of every IT person reading this crawl. Sure, that new Wi-Fi device probably gave Joe Dipshit the freedom to roam about his 10x10 cubicle with his laptop now, but it's completely beyond his understanding that the IP addresses being dished out by that new router are already statically assigned elsewhere on the network, and that the presence of a new DHCP device on the network is going to cause havok all over the place. And the great thing is, this usually doesn't happen until the next day, when DHCP leases expire and machines start looking to renew. By that time, Joe Dipshit has forgotten all about his little 'IT project', and doesn't think it's relevant to the current network-wide outages that are happening, which naturally are guess who's fault. So that router stays tucked away in some random cubicle in Sales, not found for a day and a half while the entire organization is screaming at poor Bob in IT because he can't find the culprit.
Wow... I am so glad I don't work for a big corporation. Superuser vs. 'superuser' - knowledgeable insider who can take care of day-to-day problems vs. overreaching tinkerer who is too arrogant to realize his limitations. Good luck with that:) All I know is that the more my clients fuck up, the more I get paid to fix their problems, so for me it's a win-win situation!
The only people who talk like this are those who write for business-related magazines, or useless middle management types who are at least aware of their uselessness and are attempting to avoid drawing attention to it by making your brain shut down.
The researchers performed a bunch of searches on ways to kill yourself, and that's what they found. Looks like a great demonstration of how search engines work. They should stop acting shocked that the search engine actually returned results relevant to their searches, and instead be happy they didn't get a bunch of "free-celebrity-nude-ringtones-game-cheats-mp3.com" bullshit instead.
So, according to the article, this study is supposed to tell us that men are clueless when it comes to 'reading' non-verbal cues in women. Such a broad, wide-sweeping conclusion - all drawn from a few exercises that involve showing some photographs to a group of less than 300 college kids.
Let's look at some of the finer points of the study:
Participants: All undergraduate college students, average age 19.6 years old, 85% white/caucasian. The study was done at IU/Bloomington, a college town with a popular public-funded school that draws most of its population from rural and suburban areas of the state of Indiana.
Stimulus set: Photographs judged by other undergraduate college students and categorized as either friendly, sexually interested, sad or rejecting by simple majority vote to "ensure some variability within each category". They relied on the judgements of other college kids, and purposely set up the sample set to contain a degree of ambiguity.
Identification: Look at a single photograph of a woman for either half a second or three seconds, and from that brief exposure to a still image, determine that person's intentions.
With all that information, all this study tells me is that it was done extremely poorly, and that the organizers are quick to jump to conclusions based on a small amount of poorly-obtained data. Reading non-verbal cues involves a lot more than a quick look at a frozen picture - body language is fluid. And then there is what's being said, the tone of voice in which it's being said, and the subject matter of the conversation to take into consideration. Also don't forget environmental and circumstantial factors (are you at a crowded karaoke bar where everyone's trashed, or is this a one-on-one conversation in your workplace? maybe out to lunch with a friend of your sister or just talking to someone at a coffee shop?).
This study tells me far more about the level of scientific merit that should be given to the testers than anything else. Maybe that itself is of some merit - the study organizers have demonstrated non-verbal communication can also be applied to the written word!
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There goes the last shred of credibility Twitter may have had. Fatties are now using it to vent rage over how cruel the world is for discriminating against them for being fat.
Maybe if he directed some of that rage into jogging or not stuffing twinkies into his maw it wouldn't be a problem.
That's pretty much it. If someone already knows your real name, and can guess that you may have an email address of your real name at one of the big free hosting providers, they might guess your email address! OH NO STOP THE INTERNET AT ONCE!!
And there will still be people who read that email and either miss the deadline or don't follow the instructions.
I'm still waiting on .porn
And then maybe we can do some more TLDs like .amateur, .milf, .scat, or .tranny - you know, to keep things organized.
The ONLY thing keeping them afloat right now are deals with high-profile comedians and pro sports. Period. And they have to pay those folks boatloads of money to play at all.
Of all the people I know and have met that listen to Sirius/XM, a very small amount listen to the talk and sports stations primarily. It's possible that I have a bad representative sampling, but I don't think that is the case. Lose the high cost deals with the talk show people and then maybe the expenses will be a bit more manageable. Or maybe some of these high cost 'personalities' will have to work for less - one of the good sides of less competition. For the ones who can't or won't go back to FM, what other options do they have?
They need to realize that most of us subscribe for literally a handful of stations, and if you screw with them, we get pissed.
This right here. I listen to ONE station primarily, have a secondary backup that is about half as enjoyable for me, and then dance around a handful of others when there's something on the first two I'm not in the mood for. They really need to learn to stop fucking with the music stations, every one that gets axed is that potential ONE station for thousands of subscribers. I know for a fact that if my primary station got the axe, my subscriptions (yes, plural) go as well, and I'm sure a lot of other people feel the same way about 'their' stations.
The purpose of low-drag swimwear is not to stay dry, but to reduce fiction, and therefore resistance, caused by moving through the water. Lower drag = higher speed for the same energy expenditure. And yes, this is probably the most useless possible application for this technology, but you've got to sell something to the people providing the funding. Much better ideas have been mentioned in this discussion already - sails, ship/sub coatings, extreme cold weather wear and raingear. Also, how about protective tarps, a replacement for tarpaper on roofs, umbrellas... the list goes on!
Hey, if I'm paying 11 grand for a machine, it damn well better be bulletproof.
So this thing will let me know when I'm surrounded by the type of people who will be offended by my telling of dead baby or titty-fuck jokes? Awesome.
No body, no weapon, no witnesses, no testimony, and nothing but a lot of circumstantial evidence. Sure, no problem!
Sure, he probably did and and fed her through a wood chipper, but the prosecution should still have to build a better case than "he's nuts, look at him!"
The article states that this is a new 'version' of Quikclot, one that does not cause the skin burning when applied. Also, from what I'm reading about the Celox you linked, I gather that it is like the original Quikclot - powder kits that are dumped on a wound and then covered with a bandage - am I correct in this?
It seems that the main appeal of the new Quikclot, aside from the non-burning, is that the clotting agent is integrated directly into the gauze pad. You just tear open the package and slap on the gauze.
However, nowhere does it talk about removal of the clot that is formed after proper medical treatment is obtained. Hopefully, since the agent is part of the pad, most of the hard clay clot stays with the pad once it is removed from the wound. Sounds like something to keep an ear open about.
Not really groundbreaking chemistry, but nonetheless a good development in medical technology. I found it to be a good little bit of information about something I had never heard of before. It's actually a piece of good news - enjoy it while you can before the next global warming bitchfest starts up after someone posts an article about hurricanes or something.
Well yeah, duh. Excessive and gratuitous violence is fine, as long as there's nothing sex-related. However, even using the word 'sex' will cause the family values of our culture to deteriorate to the point where we're having pedophile orgies in the street.
Being that kaolin clay binds with water and causes clotting, does this mean that this stuff will work on people who have clotting issues, such as those on blood thinning medications or hemophiliacs?
Money talks. Feel free to kill whomever you like, just make sure he's not rich!
Officers of the court? Bullshit, we're talking about some sleazebag millionaire lawyers who would drag their own mothers into court if there was a percentage in it for them. These guys don't represent the court - on the contrary, these are the guys the court needs to be on the lookout for, as they're the ones who will manipulate it to serve their (clients') purposes.
"But this does not mean that other countries can give up the fight."
That's right, it's still early in the year, no one is down and out quite yet. Plenty of chances for any up-and-comer to catch up and make an appearance on the leaderboard - who knows what the second quarter may hold!
The auto mechanic thinks the same thing about you when you bring your car in to get it fixed. He can explain what's wrong and what it needs, but you're not going to fix it the next time This is true of most users. The computer-car analogy is a perfect one, and I use it all the time. Most people know how to drive, but do they know how to rebuild a transmission or replace a front axle? No, and they don't want to either. Some goes for computers - most people know how to use them to the point where they can get what they need to done - web use, accounting, work applications, etc. They don't know and in most cases don't care to know anything about the 'behind-the-scenes stuff'.
With both cars and computers, there's a small group that will attempt (successfully or unsuccessfully) to do the 'dirty work' themselves - more power to 'em, unless of course it's not their computer/network to destroy, in which case they should keep their grubby little hands out of where they don't belong. Would you try to replace a busted CV boot on someone else's car when your mechanic abilities don't extend beyond oil changes or fixing a flat?
Maybe not in your company, but in just about any other workplace you can bet that IT has gotten directives from higher up to at least make an attempt to block superfluous web usage (yes, that means The Boss doesn't believe that YouTube or MySpace or FindAFuckBuddy are necessary to get your job done) and other activities that waste the company's time (games? unless you work for a game review company, you're probably not getting paid to play games at work).
Eek, sorry for the wall of text. My paragraph breaks didn't work out so well apparently.
I'm an "IT" guy by trade. But unlike most, I'm an independent - I do contract work for a lot of smaller companies that don't need full-time IT staff. Being such, this 'superuser' is usually my favorite type of employee - one of the few people who will really understand what the problem is and be able to explain it beyond "my computer doesn't come up" (which can mean anything from the "computer doesn't actually power" on to "the Internet is down" to "I can't get into my 15-year old shitty accounting software package that even the publisher tells me is shit and should be upgraded but I'm too cheap to do so"). As long as the superuser understands their limitations, this is a dream come true for IT - they no longer get bothered with small bullshit like "My mouse is dead" or "Should I cancel this AVG/Symantec/Mcafee/Kaspersky/Whatever updater? Why does it come up every day?". However, it's a fine line between a superuser who makes things easier on IT and a 'superuser' who turns a simple problem into a nightmare something even Milton never could have imagined by overstepping their capabilities. One of the examples: setting up a Wi-Fi router in an office - a seemingly simple task that any monkey can do, and one that made the skin of every IT person reading this crawl. Sure, that new Wi-Fi device probably gave Joe Dipshit the freedom to roam about his 10x10 cubicle with his laptop now, but it's completely beyond his understanding that the IP addresses being dished out by that new router are already statically assigned elsewhere on the network, and that the presence of a new DHCP device on the network is going to cause havok all over the place. And the great thing is, this usually doesn't happen until the next day, when DHCP leases expire and machines start looking to renew. By that time, Joe Dipshit has forgotten all about his little 'IT project', and doesn't think it's relevant to the current network-wide outages that are happening, which naturally are guess who's fault. So that router stays tucked away in some random cubicle in Sales, not found for a day and a half while the entire organization is screaming at poor Bob in IT because he can't find the culprit. Wow... I am so glad I don't work for a big corporation. Superuser vs. 'superuser' - knowledgeable insider who can take care of day-to-day problems vs. overreaching tinkerer who is too arrogant to realize his limitations. Good luck with that :) All I know is that the more my clients fuck up, the more I get paid to fix their problems, so for me it's a win-win situation!
The only people who talk like this are those who write for business-related magazines, or useless middle management types who are at least aware of their uselessness and are attempting to avoid drawing attention to it by making your brain shut down.
The researchers performed a bunch of searches on ways to kill yourself, and that's what they found. Looks like a great demonstration of how search engines work. They should stop acting shocked that the search engine actually returned results relevant to their searches, and instead be happy they didn't get a bunch of "free-celebrity-nude-ringtones-game-cheats-mp3.com" bullshit instead.
So, according to the article, this study is supposed to tell us that men are clueless when it comes to 'reading' non-verbal cues in women. Such a broad, wide-sweeping conclusion - all drawn from a few exercises that involve showing some photographs to a group of less than 300 college kids.
Let's look at some of the finer points of the study:
Participants: All undergraduate college students, average age 19.6 years old, 85% white/caucasian. The study was done at IU/Bloomington, a college town with a popular public-funded school that draws most of its population from rural and suburban areas of the state of Indiana.
Stimulus set: Photographs judged by other undergraduate college students and categorized as either friendly, sexually interested, sad or rejecting by simple majority vote to "ensure some variability within each category". They relied on the judgements of other college kids, and purposely set up the sample set to contain a degree of ambiguity.
Identification: Look at a single photograph of a woman for either half a second or three seconds, and from that brief exposure to a still image, determine that person's intentions.
With all that information, all this study tells me is that it was done extremely poorly, and that the organizers are quick to jump to conclusions based on a small amount of poorly-obtained data. Reading non-verbal cues involves a lot more than a quick look at a frozen picture - body language is fluid. And then there is what's being said, the tone of voice in which it's being said, and the subject matter of the conversation to take into consideration. Also don't forget environmental and circumstantial factors (are you at a crowded karaoke bar where everyone's trashed, or is this a one-on-one conversation in your workplace? maybe out to lunch with a friend of your sister or just talking to someone at a coffee shop?).
This study tells me far more about the level of scientific merit that should be given to the testers than anything else. Maybe that itself is of some merit - the study organizers have demonstrated non-verbal communication can also be applied to the written word!