"Zug Zug and Welcome to Northrend! To help with the landing efforts, we're going to need you to kill 12 iceboars, 8 frost basilisks, and 10 snow buzzards!"
LHC scientists then assured the public that it was not an LHC being used on a different planet by an alien civilization, then being burned in a fierce flash of particle fusion before being enveloped within a subsequent black hole. "The chances would be like winning the lottery ten times in a row" they said. "Not that we would know about any alien civilizations, their freaky purple skin and glowing eyes, or whether they were using an LHC modelled after the one we made on Earth. Speaking of which, I'm not really qualified to talk about it, because this is astronomy and has NOTHING to do with LHCs... Ha ha right? No more questions."
Next week, a new LHC song is promised from the CERN labs and should be another smash hit on Youtube. One of the scientists sung a few of the lines to us as a preview. "We didn't share our technology with a now-extinct alien race less than a few lightyears away. They were probably pretty dumb and annoying anyway. Let's turn this bugger on! Let's turn this bugger on! Smash some particles, yeah!"
I didn't miss that part. It was what I referred to as "hostile" -- and any legal team could point to the fact if that person was logging IP's of potential employers visiting their public profiles, then they were likely fishing for companies to sue, rather than being serious about the application process.
You can't walk into a job interview, sit down and say "I'm a pagan bisexual, so now if you don't hire me, I'll sue you for discriminating against me for my sexual/religious preference!" You should be arrested at that point and tried for blackmail.
What are the chances your 1,000 songs are also gone when you start your computer back up after it's done crying for mercy? I still haven't reloaded mine from the last time iTunes crashed windows.:(
if I found out that someone had "googled" me and then rejected me for employment I then have evidence of religious discrimination and sexual discrimination
Or someone else was more qualified for the job. All they have to say is that they didn't hire you based on the evidence that you jump to faulty conclusions (poor snap judgement? that's a grave minus for any decision-making position) and would represent a sue-happy legal liability within the company (yeah, really non-risky hire there). Not to mention your outward hostility and mistrust toward the company's HR during the hiring process discounts you immediately as being a team player or anyone with a track of loyalty. Who a company hires IS their business.
And why in the bloody hell would you rub their faces in the fact that you're a bisexual pagan during the hiring process? If that comes across as a negative to HR, it's your own attention-whoring fault -- not theirs.
I make sure that if somebody Googles my real name, their first hit is my resume. Everything else is garbage.
It must be nice to have a name that dwells in relative obscurity. For those of us named things like "John Smith", "Charles Barkley", "Ron Jeremy" and "Clown Anal" that's not quite so easy.
How to make money in capitalism while your market is cornered by a monopoly of sorts:
1) Create startup $1-a-month text-message hosting/delivery company
2) Barely break even for the first month, but generate huge userbase
3) ????
4) Profit!
(???? = Get bought out by telecom, so they can keep their monopoly and continue gouging)
It takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train of thought
You must be the guy, in front of me in line, who spends 13 minutes to order an extra value meal because he's too stupid to know what he wanted to eat before leaving his house to go to the restaurant. I've finally found the man who slows my life to a crawl because of his raw incompetence and inability to organize his thoughts enough to dribble a coherent sentence out of his mouth when there is a flashing sign behind him. While the rest of the world spins in 7-second increments of attention, you, sir, sit there for over a MINUTE at a green light trying to remember whether your car is automatic or manual transmission because your favorite song popped onto the radio. Where are you? I'm coming after you right now. With an axe! I guarantee it will take me less than 64 seconds to remember what I was going to do with it when I find you.
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the universe causes such high-energy interactions to happen constantly without destroying itself.
Yeah, the universe has NEVER had an atmosphere ignite or made a black hole before. Those people are just plain crazy. Let's trust the guys to tell us the odds who are turning on a machine designed to show them what they admit they don't yet understand.
If they knew what was going to happen, they wouldn't have built it under its current premise. Since they don't know what's going to happen, why the hell should I believe they know the odds? If they claim to know the odds, when I know they don't, then why the hell should I believe anything they're saying?
I have my own reasons for why I don't think the LHC won't destroy the world, (when I hear about "rolled up extra-spacial dimensions" it makes me want to punch babies) but it takes more than a labcoat, checkboard, and safety goggles to convince me of anything. [No I won't electrocute that man.]
If we dispense with leap seconds then this relationship will slowly change and noon will eventually be dark.
In that case, we rename "noon" to "midnight", and "midnight" to "noon"
then "AM" can mean "After-Meridian" and "PM" can mean "Pre-Meridian"
I thought of everything. Problem solved forever.
no problem. Just when someone says "there is no creator(s), because there are BONES on this planet!" I have to consider that as about the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
I don't know about you guys, but the DRM is the most exciting part of the game I've seen so far! Find out what programs must be stopped before proceeding, navigate the legal work, avoid deadly lockdowns! They are like today's minotaur's maze -- for free!
Is it really criminal if I give it back? According to the rule of four-fold compensation, I pay my proper dues. Everything I download from Bittorrent, I make sure to reupload above a 4.0 ratio!
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"Zug Zug and Welcome to Northrend! To help with the landing efforts, we're going to need you to kill 12 iceboars, 8 frost basilisks, and 10 snow buzzards!"
a scientist at the LHC declared
LHC scientists then assured the public that it was not an LHC being used on a different planet by an alien civilization, then being burned in a fierce flash of particle fusion before being enveloped within a subsequent black hole. "The chances would be like winning the lottery ten times in a row" they said. "Not that we would know about any alien civilizations, their freaky purple skin and glowing eyes, or whether they were using an LHC modelled after the one we made on Earth. Speaking of which, I'm not really qualified to talk about it, because this is astronomy and has NOTHING to do with LHCs... Ha ha right? No more questions."
Next week, a new LHC song is promised from the CERN labs and should be another smash hit on Youtube. One of the scientists sung a few of the lines to us as a preview. "We didn't share our technology with a now-extinct alien race less than a few lightyears away. They were probably pretty dumb and annoying anyway. Let's turn this bugger on! Let's turn this bugger on! Smash some particles, yeah!"
But what if my mother's maiden name is BENCHMARK(1000000000,MD5(CHAR(116)))? We're Irish, after all!
/q /yes '--" and I loved him.
and yes, my childhood pet WAS called "'; xp_cmdshell 'format c:
Because the mentors don't know how to plan to take vacation for a week, ending one week before their employee reviews...
"Yes, it does feel good to be back and caught up again, and I will accept that raise"
How the hell is are interplanetary tubes supposed to work?
They're not. If you RTFA, they're using a big truck instead.
I didn't miss that part. It was what I referred to as "hostile" -- and any legal team could point to the fact if that person was logging IP's of potential employers visiting their public profiles, then they were likely fishing for companies to sue, rather than being serious about the application process.
You can't walk into a job interview, sit down and say "I'm a pagan bisexual, so now if you don't hire me, I'll sue you for discriminating against me for my sexual/religious preference!" You should be arrested at that point and tried for blackmail.
What are the chances your 1,000 songs are also gone when you start your computer back up after it's done crying for mercy? I still haven't reloaded mine from the last time iTunes crashed windows. :(
if I found out that someone had "googled" me and then rejected me for employment I then have evidence of religious discrimination and sexual discrimination
Or someone else was more qualified for the job. All they have to say is that they didn't hire you based on the evidence that you jump to faulty conclusions (poor snap judgement? that's a grave minus for any decision-making position) and would represent a sue-happy legal liability within the company (yeah, really non-risky hire there). Not to mention your outward hostility and mistrust toward the company's HR during the hiring process discounts you immediately as being a team player or anyone with a track of loyalty. Who a company hires IS their business.
And why in the bloody hell would you rub their faces in the fact that you're a bisexual pagan during the hiring process? If that comes across as a negative to HR, it's your own attention-whoring fault -- not theirs.
I make sure that if somebody Googles my real name, their first hit is my resume. Everything else is garbage.
It must be nice to have a name that dwells in relative obscurity. For those of us named things like "John Smith", "Charles Barkley", "Ron Jeremy" and "Clown Anal" that's not quite so easy.
How to make money in capitalism while your market is cornered by a monopoly of sorts:
1) Create startup $1-a-month text-message hosting/delivery company
2) Barely break even for the first month, but generate huge userbase
3) ????
4) Profit!
(???? = Get bought out by telecom, so they can keep their monopoly and continue gouging)
It takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train of thought
You must be the guy, in front of me in line, who spends 13 minutes to order an extra value meal because he's too stupid to know what he wanted to eat before leaving his house to go to the restaurant. I've finally found the man who slows my life to a crawl because of his raw incompetence and inability to organize his thoughts enough to dribble a coherent sentence out of his mouth when there is a flashing sign behind him. While the rest of the world spins in 7-second increments of attention, you, sir, sit there for over a MINUTE at a green light trying to remember whether your car is automatic or manual transmission because your favorite song popped onto the radio. Where are you? I'm coming after you right now. With an axe! I guarantee it will take me less than 64 seconds to remember what I was going to do with it when I find you.
the universe causes such high-energy interactions to happen constantly without destroying itself.
Yeah, the universe has NEVER had an atmosphere ignite or made a black hole before. Those people are just plain crazy. Let's trust the guys to tell us the odds who are turning on a machine designed to show them what they admit they don't yet understand.
If they knew what was going to happen, they wouldn't have built it under its current premise. Since they don't know what's going to happen, why the hell should I believe they know the odds? If they claim to know the odds, when I know they don't, then why the hell should I believe anything they're saying?
I have my own reasons for why I don't think the LHC won't destroy the world, (when I hear about "rolled up extra-spacial dimensions" it makes me want to punch babies) but it takes more than a labcoat, checkboard, and safety goggles to convince me of anything. [No I won't electrocute that man.]
Is that from Halflife?
It's from the Tick
the way I go, I drive against traffic and cut 30-50% of my commute time.
and I like where I live
and my work pays me so well to do what I do!
So you're in the middle of the tribal stage?
The stock exchange only lasts for a few hours a day. 40% uptime, maximum, would be needed.
If we dispense with leap seconds then this relationship will slowly change and noon will eventually be dark.
In that case, we rename "noon" to "midnight", and "midnight" to "noon"
then "AM" can mean "After-Meridian" and "PM" can mean "Pre-Meridian"
I thought of everything. Problem solved forever.
... is the cry every time I see the phrase "close proximity". Is there any other kind of proximity?
not-so-close proximity
I'd rather have the sun on my face when I'm trying to wake up in the morning than hovering in my rearview while I'm trying to drive home.
If it reads, we can clone it
jbuck,
no problem. Just when someone says "there is no creator(s), because there are BONES on this planet!" I have to consider that as about the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
I don't know about you guys, but the DRM is the most exciting part of the game I've seen so far! Find out what programs must be stopped before proceeding, navigate the legal work, avoid deadly lockdowns! They are like today's minotaur's maze -- for free!
what ridiculous theory says fossils formed the earth and all the plants and animals on it?
seriously, though, WTH do all the damn summaries end with rhetorical questions or even just plain rhetoric?
Oh the irony!
Is it really criminal if I give it back? According to the rule of four-fold compensation, I pay my proper dues. Everything I download from Bittorrent, I make sure to reupload above a 4.0 ratio!