I was thinking it reminded me of a Jonathan Lethem story "Access Fantasy" wherein people live in their cars due to a city wide traffic jam. Link to book
Can you please provide a citation to back up your claim that he won the Peace Prize as you stated? I haven't been able to find a single source that states George Ryan was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Oh wait I get it, you're just making shit up to prove your point.
their routine mistakes (such as Yasser Arafat, awarded a "Peace Prize" and then proceeding to go on to lead over 20 more years of terrorist attacks).
Huh? Arafat was awarded the prize in 1994. It is now 2009. 2009 - 1994 = 15. Arafat died in 2004. 2004 - 1994 = 10. Get your facts right. When you resort to this kind of hyperbole it really cheapens the rest of your argument.
It happens all the time. If you expect someone to sell your product, and your product has any amount of technological complexity above that of say a toaster, then you want that person to have some modicum of knowledge about the product. The retailer is not going to put any effort into training their employees so who is in the best position to make this happen? The manufacturer of course.
Take your basic premise and replace MS and Best Buy with a manufacturer and retailer from any other industry and no one would think twice about it. I'm no MS fanboi and fully support Linux and all it stands for but really the bias is, as another poster stated, irrational.
You obviously have never used Ubuntu. If you had you would know that Ubuntu includes OpenOffice as part of its standard install and features both the Synaptic Package Manager and the Add/Remove option for software, the latter having pretty pictures for those who need them. You're right that it's a check in the pro column for Ubuntu but it definitely hasn't allowed Linux to "beat" Microsoft.
Richard Hatch hated it too until they gave him a recurring role on the show. I wonder what Benedicts stance would have been if they had approached him for a guest role?
I was a big fan of the re-imagined series so after the series was over, I thought I would revisit the original just for a lark. Maybe it was too soon and unfair to compare the two but jeez the original BSG was a real stinker. I made it through two episodes before I turned the whole thing off and returned the discs. I guess it's true that "you can't go home again"
The man invented multi-tracking. For that alone every musician in the world should utter a small prayer to Les Paul every time they step into a studio. He was a true visionary and really pushed the boundaries of the music of his time.
Don't see how my comment deserves to be modded as 'troll' but anyway, I would really like to see the sources for the statements in your comment. The only people I've seen claim that pesticide use prevents starvation are the pesticide manufacturers.
And as for genetically modified crops, this from another website
According to the French Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini, a molecular endocrinologist and a member of two French government commissions evaluating GM food, the corn variety in question, called MON 810, has shown statistically significant problems in animal studies.
They found the effects of the GM crops were similar to that of pesticides, causing inflammation disorders, and problems with livers and kidneys, two major organs involved with detoxification.
This website provides a lot of information about genetically modified food and unlike your post, actually provides sources for its facts.
This is no joke unfortunately. I recently saw an ad for a position that required a bachelor degree and 3-5 years experience as well as the laundry list of "must be experienced in...". Their starting pay? $10/h.
What is the point in advertising for a job like this? Are these companies just trawling for someone who is so desperate for a job that they will debase themselves for any opportunity? Or is there some gain to be had in pretending to hire for a job that no one will accept?
There's a huge fanbase that creates their own seasons and stadiums and then makes them available for free download.
In the Ernie Harwell version of the game, you were able to import season information from the Bill James Encyclopedia cd-rom to make your own ad-hoc seasons. I picked up the encyclopedia disc for about $5 on eBay and probably replayed a good 10 seasons from it.
Baseball for Windows still exists. http://apba.stores.yahoo.net/basforwin.html
The most recent version is 5.5 and they keep promising an upgrade but it hasn't happened yet.
I played Micro League Baseball, loads of fun. I don't think I kept a notebook though.
I never really played Strat or APBA as a kid. I had a game by Avalon Hill called Statis Pro Baseball. It was unique in that it didn't use dice but rather there was a stack of cards that you flipped over one at a time to find results. One aspect that I liked about it was that there was a page of unusual plays. If you happened to flip over a ZZ result you consulted this special chart that had things like outfielder crashes into the wall - inside the park home run, etc. I did keep a notebook of stats for that one. Pre-ubiquity of personal computers, it was a pain to have to erase stats and re-tally them but it definitely helped my math skills.
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Am I the only one that read that as "flying dildos"?
I assumed it was a typo. Esp. since I have no idea what flying didoes are.
I was thinking it reminded me of a Jonathan Lethem story "Access Fantasy" wherein people live in their cars due to a city wide traffic jam. Link to book
I was getting mod points about once a week until i ticked that box. Now I haven't had mod points since August of last year.
Yes I have to concur on TeamViewer. It's a great little program and is easy to use with a lot of features. I use it all the time.
The Illinois Governor who won the peace prize .
Can you please provide a citation to back up your claim that he won the Peace Prize as you stated? I haven't been able to find a single source that states George Ryan was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Oh wait I get it, you're just making shit up to prove your point.
their routine mistakes (such as Yasser Arafat, awarded a "Peace Prize" and then proceeding to go on to lead over 20 more years of terrorist attacks).
Huh? Arafat was awarded the prize in 1994. It is now 2009. 2009 - 1994 = 15. Arafat died in 2004. 2004 - 1994 = 10. Get your facts right. When you resort to this kind of hyperbole it really cheapens the rest of your argument.
It happens all the time. If you expect someone to sell your product, and your product has any amount of technological complexity above that of say a toaster, then you want that person to have some modicum of knowledge about the product. The retailer is not going to put any effort into training their employees so who is in the best position to make this happen? The manufacturer of course. Take your basic premise and replace MS and Best Buy with a manufacturer and retailer from any other industry and no one would think twice about it. I'm no MS fanboi and fully support Linux and all it stands for but really the bias is, as another poster stated, irrational.
You obviously have never used Ubuntu. If you had you would know that Ubuntu includes OpenOffice as part of its standard install and features both the Synaptic Package Manager and the Add/Remove option for software, the latter having pretty pictures for those who need them. You're right that it's a check in the pro column for Ubuntu but it definitely hasn't allowed Linux to "beat" Microsoft.
Richard Hatch hated it too until they gave him a recurring role on the show. I wonder what Benedicts stance would have been if they had approached him for a guest role? I was a big fan of the re-imagined series so after the series was over, I thought I would revisit the original just for a lark. Maybe it was too soon and unfair to compare the two but jeez the original BSG was a real stinker. I made it through two episodes before I turned the whole thing off and returned the discs. I guess it's true that "you can't go home again"
The man invented multi-tracking. For that alone every musician in the world should utter a small prayer to Les Paul every time they step into a studio. He was a true visionary and really pushed the boundaries of the music of his time.
Sure he did. See here
This website provides a lot of information about genetically modified food and unlike your post, actually provides sources for its facts.
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This is no joke unfortunately. I recently saw an ad for a position that required a bachelor degree and 3-5 years experience as well as the laundry list of "must be experienced in...". Their starting pay? $10/h. What is the point in advertising for a job like this? Are these companies just trawling for someone who is so desperate for a job that they will debase themselves for any opportunity? Or is there some gain to be had in pretending to hire for a job that no one will accept?
But they do it on TV all the time! You mean the technology on those cop shows isn't real?
There's a huge fanbase that creates their own seasons and stadiums and then makes them available for free download. In the Ernie Harwell version of the game, you were able to import season information from the Bill James Encyclopedia cd-rom to make your own ad-hoc seasons. I picked up the encyclopedia disc for about $5 on eBay and probably replayed a good 10 seasons from it.
Baseball for Windows still exists. http://apba.stores.yahoo.net/basforwin.html The most recent version is 5.5 and they keep promising an upgrade but it hasn't happened yet.
I played Micro League Baseball, loads of fun. I don't think I kept a notebook though. I never really played Strat or APBA as a kid. I had a game by Avalon Hill called Statis Pro Baseball. It was unique in that it didn't use dice but rather there was a stack of cards that you flipped over one at a time to find results. One aspect that I liked about it was that there was a page of unusual plays. If you happened to flip over a ZZ result you consulted this special chart that had things like outfielder crashes into the wall - inside the park home run, etc. I did keep a notebook of stats for that one. Pre-ubiquity of personal computers, it was a pain to have to erase stats and re-tally them but it definitely helped my math skills.