While helping my girlfriend with her lab on the common Fiddler crab (Uca pugilator) I decided to do some side-research of my own*. I found that approximately 1/3rd of Fiddler crabs in our population (of about 20) were left-handed (in that their left claw was freakin' huge). This would lead credence to an earlier post talking about handedness being a surprise to rivals.
It is interesting to see, however, that the Scientific American article covering the same subject seemed to focus more on the study whose results found similarites in the limbic system asymmetry between primates. The handedness study (which of course waters down easier for the average person) seemed to be second fiddle.
* I had previously determined that the bisque turned out a bit stringy and that scampi was preferred. This, sadly, derailed the other, more "important" research.
The IE user is like the child driving a hopelessly trinketed Honda Civic DX plastered with advertisements. Sure, it might seem cool to them, but they don't get the irony. Oh, and they also get STDs frequently... from their car.
Vegas chance odds for Snowball vs. Hell have gone from 1:17500 to 1:225 on news regarding this merger. Business analyst Geoff Meitzer said, "This is the snowball's best chance since Sega announced they would be making games for Nintendo."
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Seriously, how implausible would this have sounded 15 years ago?
If you read it, it looks like they are really aiming it at the LCD, with key segments like:
Using Google Groups, people can search and participate in a variety of discussions. For example, someone looking to buy a new digital camera this holiday season can search for (digital camera recommendations) and find relevant posts from others about the best cameras to buy. A user can star (bookmark) this topic to watch and subscribe to receive posts from a group such as rec.photo.digital to regularly read more opinions on digital cameras. Similarly, users looking for advice on treating carpal tunnel or disputing a cell phone bill can find discussions from other people who have experience in these areas.
Then again, most press releases are written with their intended audience being 6-year olds. "Ford Motor Company Inc. makes cars! Vroom vrooom! Beep beep! Ford cars!"
No, I think there just haven't been any Big Hyped Games(TM) to get excited about in the past two years. Halo 2, Half-Life 2, Doom 3, and, to an extent, GTA:SA have been eagerly expected for years. Last holiday season we had some good games that came out, but these are not only Big Hyped Games(TM) but Sequels to Big Hyped Games(TM). And, believe it or not, gaming is still such an absolute microcosm, and gamers are generally so young that they're not really interested in politics (see: youth vote 2004), that I don't think that theory really holds water.
As I've always said, imagine anything from the future, add "In Japan" to the end of it, and it does not sound implausible.
For example,
"Old people have robot walking companions... in Japan." "They've got television in their Brita containers... in Japan." "The Xbox 2 will be a terrible failure... in Japan." "You can rent space shuttles for families to sleep in... in Japan." "You can buy gas masks with X-ray vision on street corners... in Japan."
Now, in Korea, it's only old people that have robot friends. Which seems to put them even further ahead in the future. Perhaps "in Korea" is the new "in Japan" -- not that either were ever really anything.
A family member of mine works an "entry level" position as an Investment Banker for the big-name firm in Manhattan. Considering she works 90+ hours per week, she's not really being paid a whole lot, but she's gaining a hell of a lot of experience. Over Thanksgiving, I asked her how she liked working so much. She said that it was stressful, but exciting. Being someone who also works a fair amount (no but-you're-posting-on-/. cracks please) it didn't bother me. A lot of family members said she was being exploited etc. Her response?
"If I complained and didn't work as much, they have 20,000 applicants to fill about 50 positions available."
That's just the reality of the marketplace today. Even if our economy was doing really well, this would still be the case. It's capitalism. If you want less hours and less stress, there's a lot of options for you out there. I support EA in allowing them to work people as much as they want, as long as they are upfront about it. And since I'm not an employee at EA, I cannot say how truth- or untruthful they have been.
What I don't condone are actions of places like Wal-Mart that ask you to stay an extra hour or so "off the clock" to help out clean some aisles.
I don't support mistreating workers, but that doesn't mean I'm opposed to companies having positions where you work 80-hr week jobs.
That and he was in Donkey Kong. He's a mascot. That means he is a mascot for Nintendo, and therefore appears in Nintendo games, whether they be Kart, Tennis, or Jai Alai.
Tool / APC actually hires good directors. I know Maynard used David Fincher for APC's first single. Also I believe 'Sober' was directed by Svankmajer, or a very good copy-cat (those two brothers that did Institut Benjamenta?). I would check, but I'm lazy.
I didn't realize ER was even on the air anymore. An easy fix here would be to record NBC's HD feed for ER and the regular feed for CSI. The HD feed is always a minute or so late anyways.
This changed in the mid-90's around the height of NBC's "Must-See-TV" popularity. The old way, if you remember, was:
Show goes until about 8:58.
Commercials.
End Credits.
Commercials.
Short beginning credits (theme song).
Commercials.
Show begins at 9:04.
That example is a bit extreme (they might skip #2), but you can still see it in daytime TV when syndicated shows are on (Fox still does #6 before The Simpsons which is extremely irritating).
Now look at the way most prime-time shows are, especially sitcoms. The last big commercial break is around 8:55. They play the last few minutes of the show, usually have something funny in the credits, and then immediately go to a scene in the next show at 9:00, with credits appearing without any characters or anything. They keep you roped in for a couple of minutes or maybe more, then the first break comes in at 9:05, or later. You don't get a chance to see what's on the other channels.
In the US, TBS Superstation has all programming beginning:05 after the hour, which I never understood. It seems to go against convetional wisdom. Is TBS the station for the fashionably late? Do they still even do this?
Honestly nowadays I don't have any "scheduled" TV time. Last show I was addicted to was 24 and I only saw it 50% of the time.
Very slowly they are moving towards that. But when dealing with something as important as your credit report, it doesn't hurt to spend an extra $2.50 and send something to the bureaus certified, so you know that they got it. Doing both probably wouldn't hurt.
Also, make sure you're not simply listed as an authorized user on the account (on the report, this is usually a status "A" or "U", not "B" or "CB" or "J"). If that's the case, you need to contact the bureaus directly. It gets trickier when you're looking at Jr./Sr. stuff.
You're not too far off-base. The satellite as it appears on the front page seems to be made up of a sub-woofer and 4 plainted-black trays from the cafeteria. I understand that they are already working on a custom communications protocol as well.
I'd have to agree on that. Many collection companies are unscrupulous. The most common type of collection that randomly shows up is something like a utility bill or a medical collection. Since you're using the utility in your state/area and a doctor around you, they usually rely on local companies. The credit report has their address. Feel free to go to them in person. I've found that in dealing with any entity, there's certain levels of urgency created by your contact method:
(from lowest to highest)
1. Email 2. Fax / Mail. 3. Phone. 4. In person.
8 times out of 10, someone's not going to ignore a simple request if you are standing there waving sheets of paper at them.
Contact the bureaus at the addresses in my other post. However, it is usually much quicker to contact the company reporting the incorrect information. Often times they just haven't updated anything and a call will quickly fix it. This is especially true for smaller local banks and consumer credit card companies. If they won't update that information, contact the bureaus, who will then contact the company and tell them, "Hey, fix this."
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While helping my girlfriend with her lab on the common Fiddler crab (Uca pugilator) I decided to do some side-research of my own*. I found that approximately 1/3rd of Fiddler crabs in our population (of about 20) were left-handed (in that their left claw was freakin' huge). This would lead credence to an earlier post talking about handedness being a surprise to rivals.
It is interesting to see, however, that the Scientific American article covering the same subject seemed to focus more on the study whose results found similarites in the limbic system asymmetry between primates. The handedness study (which of course waters down easier for the average person) seemed to be second fiddle.
By the way, the actual studies are found here (in 300-500KB PDFs):
Asymmetries in the Hippocampus and Amygdala of Chimpanzees
Handedness in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Is Associated With Asymmetries of the Primary Motor Cortex but Not With Homologous Language Areas
* I had previously determined that the bisque turned out a bit stringy and that scampi was preferred. This, sadly, derailed the other, more "important" research.
I don't know if I would call them car-savvy. Completely off-topic here, but I think DaimlerChrysler just makes a bunch of overpriced plastic boxes with shiny baubles inside that somehow fool people to pay $40,000 for something not worth half that. Now, I think cars are overpriced in general, and I would never, ever buy a new car, much less a Mercedes. The G-Class is deliciously obscene, but at $80,000 (base) I can't argue for something whose price would allow me to buy an older Land Rover Defender and leave me $40,000 in change. As far as the car-savvy I would probably point towards the people driving fifteen year old cars (Hondas, Toyotas, Volvos, BMWs) that run better than your average car from five years ago. People that change their own oil (or at least know when its time to get it changed). That's what makes me think of a Firefox user.
The IE user is like the child driving a hopelessly trinketed Honda Civic DX plastered with advertisements. Sure, it might seem cool to them, but they don't get the irony. Oh, and they also get STDs frequently... from their car.
Do what my parents did. If I wanted to play a computer game I had to write it myself.
How surprizing! You must shew me how to use the King's English more often.
Seriously, how implausible would this have sounded 15 years ago?
If you read it, it looks like they are really aiming it at the LCD, with key segments like:
Then again, most press releases are written with their intended audience being 6-year olds. "Ford Motor Company Inc. makes cars! Vroom vrooom! Beep beep! Ford cars!"
No, I think there just haven't been any Big Hyped Games(TM) to get excited about in the past two years. Halo 2, Half-Life 2, Doom 3, and, to an extent, GTA:SA have been eagerly expected for years. Last holiday season we had some good games that came out, but these are not only Big Hyped Games(TM) but Sequels to Big Hyped Games(TM). And, believe it or not, gaming is still such an absolute microcosm, and gamers are generally so young that they're not really interested in politics (see: youth vote 2004), that I don't think that theory really holds water.
As I've always said, imagine anything from the future, add "In Japan" to the end of it, and it does not sound implausible.
For example,
"Old people have robot walking companions... in Japan."
"They've got television in their Brita containers... in Japan."
"The Xbox 2 will be a terrible failure... in Japan."
"You can rent space shuttles for families to sleep in... in Japan."
"You can buy gas masks with X-ray vision on street corners... in Japan."
Now, in Korea, it's only old people that have robot friends. Which seems to put them even further ahead in the future. Perhaps "in Korea" is the new "in Japan" -- not that either were ever really anything.
A family member of mine works an "entry level" position as an Investment Banker for the big-name firm in Manhattan. Considering she works 90+ hours per week, she's not really being paid a whole lot, but she's gaining a hell of a lot of experience. Over Thanksgiving, I asked her how she liked working so much. She said that it was stressful, but exciting. Being someone who also works a fair amount (no but-you're-posting-on-/. cracks please) it didn't bother me. A lot of family members said she was being exploited etc. Her response?
"If I complained and didn't work as much, they have 20,000 applicants to fill about 50 positions available."
That's just the reality of the marketplace today. Even if our economy was doing really well, this would still be the case. It's capitalism. If you want less hours and less stress, there's a lot of options for you out there. I support EA in allowing them to work people as much as they want, as long as they are upfront about it. And since I'm not an employee at EA, I cannot say how truth- or untruthful they have been.
What I don't condone are actions of places like Wal-Mart that ask you to stay an extra hour or so "off the clock" to help out clean some aisles.
I don't support mistreating workers, but that doesn't mean I'm opposed to companies having positions where you work 80-hr week jobs.
For me there's really only one Star Wars game I'm looking forward to.
Now I know Bioware is no longer the developer, but I still have high hopes for Obsidian.
Yes. That's why the only games they can play are Daikatana, Extreme Paintbrawl, and Jaws for the NES.
I personally like this quote:
"Girls are like internet domain names, the ones I like are already taken."
"Well, you can still get one from a strange country!"
And now for this thread's obligatory PA reference.
That and he was in Donkey Kong. He's a mascot. That means he is a mascot for Nintendo, and therefore appears in Nintendo games, whether they be Kart, Tennis, or Jai Alai.
Don't forget they need to also play .ogg files.
Tool / APC actually hires good directors. I know Maynard used David Fincher for APC's first single. Also I believe 'Sober' was directed by Svankmajer, or a very good copy-cat (those two brothers that did Institut Benjamenta?). I would check, but I'm lazy.
I didn't realize ER was even on the air anymore. An easy fix here would be to record NBC's HD feed for ER and the regular feed for CSI. The HD feed is always a minute or so late anyways.
That example is a bit extreme (they might skip #2), but you can still see it in daytime TV when syndicated shows are on (Fox still does #6 before The Simpsons which is extremely irritating).
Now look at the way most prime-time shows are, especially sitcoms. The last big commercial break is around 8:55. They play the last few minutes of the show, usually have something funny in the credits, and then immediately go to a scene in the next show at 9:00, with credits appearing without any characters or anything. They keep you roped in for a couple of minutes or maybe more, then the first break comes in at 9:05, or later. You don't get a chance to see what's on the other channels.
In the US, TBS Superstation has all programming beginning
Honestly nowadays I don't have any "scheduled" TV time. Last show I was addicted to was 24 and I only saw it 50% of the time.
Very slowly they are moving towards that. But when dealing with something as important as your credit report, it doesn't hurt to spend an extra $2.50 and send something to the bureaus certified, so you know that they got it. Doing both probably wouldn't hurt.
Also, make sure you're not simply listed as an authorized user on the account (on the report, this is usually a status "A" or "U", not "B" or "CB" or "J"). If that's the case, you need to contact the bureaus directly. It gets trickier when you're looking at Jr./Sr. stuff.
You're not too far off-base. The satellite as it appears on the front page seems to be made up of a sub-woofer and 4 plainted-black trays from the cafeteria. I understand that they are already working on a custom communications protocol as well.
Very exciting.
You're confused. He doesn't work for Tom's Hardware (PG-13).
I'd have to agree on that. Many collection companies are unscrupulous. The most common type of collection that randomly shows up is something like a utility bill or a medical collection. Since you're using the utility in your state/area and a doctor around you, they usually rely on local companies. The credit report has their address. Feel free to go to them in person. I've found that in dealing with any entity, there's certain levels of urgency created by your contact method:
(from lowest to highest)
1. Email
2. Fax / Mail.
3. Phone.
4. In person.
8 times out of 10, someone's not going to ignore a simple request if you are standing there waving sheets of paper at them.
I would say business do it all the time, speaking from experience.
Trans Union contact information
Equifax contact information
Experian has the same info that I had to google for, it was not in the main "Contact Us" area.
You make a valid point, however.
Contact the bureaus at the addresses in my other post. However, it is usually much quicker to contact the company reporting the incorrect information. Often times they just haven't updated anything and a call will quickly fix it. This is especially true for smaller local banks and consumer credit card companies. If they won't update that information, contact the bureaus, who will then contact the company and tell them, "Hey, fix this."