I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, "Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours". He said, "Yes, but not in a row."
Errr, this might be too obvious, but have you asked if anyone wants to work the graveyard shift?
That would remove 90% of the problem.
I don't know about your situation, but most groups of geeks contain one or two that are night owls. Why not pay them a small premium to work nights? A lot cheaper than overtime.
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And who can forget...
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Oh, sorry, we had the 'irony' conversation the other day. mumble mumble...
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Food, drink, but no "log" log?
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OK. Maybe it's just me, but it takes them two days to get to the space station. What happens if they need a shit on the way? Are they on drugs or what?
And I didn't read a single entry about using the toilet in the whole blog.
Come on, there's gotta be a humorous story somewhere up there about someone "following through" when farting as they were getting dressed ("one in the eye" for international relations?:).
Zillions of dollars and no toilet humor? Tch, what is the world coming to?
That's what I love about Slashdot. Quality writing and a great distillation of news that really focuses on its 'News for nerds, stuff that matters' copy line.
Keep up the good work michael. I'm surprised you haven't been snapped up by one of those corporate news sites by now. Such talent.
"Our servers were never down. We were just on the receiving end of what you in the West call a 'Slashdotting'. Throughout this time all of our servers were responding quite accurately with the Iraqi insult '500 Server Error'. I am no master of your heathen tongue, but believe the nearest translation is 'die American scum'. A message that I'm sure we will be repeating to you very shortly."
Lewt: Hey Taco, we need some traffic over to 'warcry'.
Taco: Slip me a couple of G's and I'll put something up at the weekend - do you have any interesting content?
Lewt: Nah, any old shit will do. I mean, we don't really have a life - we're too busy playing games. Hey, I suppose I could review the 133t new Ximian Desktop that my older brother's using at work.
Taco: Err, that'll do. If anyone complains I'll say Katz did it.
Taco, you're the man. Maybe soon we'll be more famous than our namesake
Seriously Taco, how much did they pay? Or is your ability to spot good copy really that bad?
But they do bother. We're talking about things such as the following happening every week:
One jackpot is followed two plays later by another jackpot
Bonuses coming in every other play - indicating the machine is ready to pay out a jackpot soon
Failure to win even trivial bets that don't affect payout - eg going from GBP1.20 to GBP1.60 (in UK, always rounded up to nearest pound). Indicitive that the machine will be screwy for a while.
These cycles would repeat EVERY week and you'd never get two "double jackpots" within a day or two of each other. Ever.
Seasoned players (ie addicts:) can get a feel for one of these machines within GBP2-3 of playing.
The actual sequence of payouts may be 'random', but whether the machine is in a generous mood or not most definitely isn't.
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"Hmm, who should I vote for? The puppet on my left hand? Or the puppet on my right? Wait a second! There's one guy holding the puppets!"
Sad, but true. How can a donation be political (in support of policy), when you pay both teams?
I can see it now. Next Bush campaign - democracy in the USA! ... Maybe not :)
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ps - the more paranoid amongst you may also wish to check out the Bilderberg Group.
and cost as many as two million jobs
While they're at it, why don't they campaign against the child pornography laws too? All those jobs that could exist, eh?
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500 Internal Server Error
You'd have to start at at least 506 - but then that might be used by later http implementations501 Not Implemented
502 Bad Gateway
503 Service Unavailable
504 Gateway Timeout
505 HTTP Version not supported
better to just add a new block of response codes:
600 Server Slashdotted
601 Databaser fried
602 Redirect to Google Cache
603 Redirect to Goatse.cx
604 Random error from 4xx/5xx code
605 Cowboy Neal
Or just use the HTTP response that I seem to get a lot when viewing slashdot:
417 Expectation Failed
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typical, bluddy typical ...
:)
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And I bet you don't even know what a spoonerism is
*sigh*
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I was convinced it was a secret cookie-changes-css thingy for anyone dumb enough to download that module.
Ah well, at least it's not "Slashdot Games Blue"
Phew!
cLive ;-)
whois remail.org
Your post succinctly sums up exactly the attitude that provokes the rest of the world into frustration against Americans:
What would you have done if it was NFL playoffs or World Series baseball live?
Just because something isn't important to you, it doesn't mean it isn't important to others.
I guess you have no problem with crivket fans thinking you're a dick - after all, none of them are American, so why should you care?
*sigh*
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quoteth:
"The only way to prevent being overrun by bullies is to be strong yourself"
Nice to see you slip in some advice for Iraqi civilians there :)
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You can have it cheap, you can have it good, you can have it fast.
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Now choose two.
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the Slashdot story on the release of 2.0.48 tomorrow...
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Errr, this might be too obvious, but have you asked if anyone wants to work the graveyard shift?
That would remove 90% of the problem.
I don't know about your situation, but most groups of geeks contain one or two that are night owls. Why not pay them a small premium to work nights? A lot cheaper than overtime.
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cLive ;-)
Oh, sorry, we had the 'irony' conversation the other day. mumble mumble...
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And I didn't read a single entry about using the toilet in the whole blog.
Come on, there's gotta be a humorous story somewhere up there about someone "following through" when farting as they were getting dressed ("one in the eye" for international relations? :).
Zillions of dollars and no toilet humor? Tch, what is the world coming to?
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Right, you mean like these two did?
Terrible waste of time, eh?
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Not only do I reply to your parent, but I also find out your local - until 3yrs ago I ran a web design business in Milnthorpe!
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"It's a small world - but I wouldn't want to have to paint it" - Steven Wright
cLive
That's what I love about Slashdot. Quality writing and a great distillation of news that really focuses on its 'News for nerds, stuff that matters' copy line.
;-)
Keep up the good work michael. I'm surprised you haven't been snapped up by one of those corporate news sites by now. Such talent.
cLive
ps -
When my wife's mother in Arizona heard I was English (when we first met), one of her first questions was, "Do they have furniture in England?".
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So I'm trying to work out if the parent is meant to be a joke, or whether you're my wife's mother?
Own up!
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Nope, everyone who applies for one in CA perhaps. I was born in UK, but mine's in the CA block.
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Really? I'd have never guessed.
cLive ;-)
Lewt: Hey Taco, we need some traffic over to 'warcry'.
Taco: Slip me a couple of G's and I'll put something up at the weekend - do you have any interesting content?
Lewt: Nah, any old shit will do. I mean, we don't really have a life - we're too busy playing games. Hey, I suppose I could review the 133t new Ximian Desktop that my older brother's using at work.
Taco: Err, that'll do. If anyone complains I'll say Katz did it.
Taco, you're the man. Maybe soon we'll be more famous than our namesake
Seriously Taco, how much did they pay? Or is your ability to spot good copy really that bad?
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cLive ;-)
cLive ;-)
These cycles would repeat EVERY week and you'd never get two "double jackpots" within a day or two of each other. Ever.
Seasoned players (ie addicts :) can get a feel for one of these machines within GBP2-3 of playing.
The actual sequence of payouts may be 'random', but whether the machine is in a generous mood or not most definitely isn't.
cLive ;-)