Texting 911 doesn't work, everyone knows this, they would have been better off finding somewhere secluded to make a call rather than trying something that is obviously futile.
Or, you know, they could have texted a friend and had them call 911...
Why the students thought that texting 911 would work. I understand they were in a dire situation, but you wouldn't piss on a fire that's engulfed your entire building because you KNOW it's futile, so why would you text 911? Unless you're pretty damn stupid. Just saying.
I would have to agree - I had the unfortunate experience of the company I work for working with an Indian software house (the client insisted they outsource 90% of the development to them because they were cheaper, we handled the more complex flash stuff and design).
At the worst point of our partnership, the Indian firm was months behind schedule, and had thrown up a smoke screen of blaming us for various delays. One of their favourite tricks was to CC the client on any email implicating us of causing delay, but to remove the client from any email chain where we made a rebuttle.
The nail in the coffin came when they accused us of not having created all the flash pieces for the site that we had agreed to, pointing to two flash place holders on their site that we had apparently created and demanding we hand over code for the finished pieces immediately (with client CC'd of course). Unfortunately for them, they had forgotten that Flash embeds metadata in.swfs, including the creation date and timezone, which I was only too happy to hoist from the files and send back to them, with the client CC'd, of course.
Really? Haha that's hilarious. Whenever my colleagues tell me it's pronounced wrong I just tell them only Americans can pronounce it wrong, which I suppose is OK because they're American. (I live in Canada)
God no, I'd never dream of eating that crap by itself. The trouble is, I Wouldn't dream of eating it on a ham burger, or melted on toast either. As a previous poster pointed out, if claiming that your cheese is made of "real milk" is perceived as a selling point, then you and your cheese market are in serious trouble.
If anyone were able to convince HR to put such a requirement on a job position, it would surely be the most awesome fail possible, and failblog would probably make a t-shirt out of it... In fact, making a t-shirt out of it whether true or false would be absolutely awesome. Somebody, go make a t-shirt out of it, I want to wear one to work and make everyone scratch their heads.
It'll be cancelled, was supposed to be out last Christmas, then suddenly that was changed to "we have always gone for a when it's done approach", threads in the forums requesting an update being mercilessly deleted and or derided by forum elites. That mod's screwed. It's a shame because it looked kind of cool, if you could get over them filling every conceivable open space with architectural oddities like crates, random grills, ducts that lead nowhere etc.
I love it when North Americans complain about petrol prices. I moved up to snowy Canada a few years ago and the most immediate thing I noticed (aside from the years of gradual decline in their ability to speak English) was the sheer size of their cars. They're unbelievably massive! Yes, I understand if you're going to be towing stuff around given the longer distances involved with living up here, but seriously, every other car I see is a giant fucking smoke belching tank. The smoke belching tanks with body mods on them are even funnier, at least Chav cars are light enough to accelerate at a decent rate while sounding shite, the ricer trucks just sound shite full stop. Oh yes, and while I'm at it, I hate the car ads here too. And the Apple ads. Especially the Apple ads. And acoustic music in ads. In fact I hate the service industry in general, which is a pity since I work in it. Snowboarding's fun though.
When a family's ENTIRE LIFE is going up in flames, along with their pets, whether or not they paid for some service or other is irrelevant. You save their fucking livelihood and THEN deal with whatever they did or did not pay. The county should have levied a several thousand dollar fine on them or whatever they saw fit, it's likely to be equal to less than the cost of their house and future happiness. It's easy to say they were scrounging pricks for not paying an obviously essential tax, but to not have the humanity to help then anyway? When they're standing watching their house burn mere metres from where you stand? I think you'd eat your words.
... that in TF2, setting fire to the rich obnoxious bastard and tea bagging his smoldering corpse won't earn you 3rd degree burns to your testicles and a life time in jail.
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Texting 911 doesn't work, everyone knows this, they would have been better off finding somewhere secluded to make a call rather than trying something that is obviously futile.
Or, you know, they could have texted a friend and had them call 911...
Why the students thought that texting 911 would work. I understand they were in a dire situation, but you wouldn't piss on a fire that's engulfed your entire building because you KNOW it's futile, so why would you text 911? Unless you're pretty damn stupid. Just saying.
I would have to agree - I had the unfortunate experience of the company I work for working with an Indian software house (the client insisted they outsource 90% of the development to them because they were cheaper, we handled the more complex flash stuff and design).
.swfs, including the creation date and timezone, which I was only too happy to hoist from the files and send back to them, with the client CC'd, of course.
At the worst point of our partnership, the Indian firm was months behind schedule, and had thrown up a smoke screen of blaming us for various delays. One of their favourite tricks was to CC the client on any email implicating us of causing delay, but to remove the client from any email chain where we made a rebuttle.
The nail in the coffin came when they accused us of not having created all the flash pieces for the site that we had agreed to, pointing to two flash place holders on their site that we had apparently created and demanding we hand over code for the finished pieces immediately (with client CC'd of course). Unfortunately for them, they had forgotten that Flash embeds metadata in
Yep I misread, reading comprehension fail sorry folks!
Two programmers, maybe, but 3? Are you kidding? What kind of quality programmer are you going to be able to hire by splitting 80k 3 ways?
...The guy in the video that is - he used to be my lab tutor 5 years ago when I studied CGT there. Good course, cool profs, hi Matt!
Really? Haha that's hilarious. Whenever my colleagues tell me it's pronounced wrong I just tell them only Americans can pronounce it wrong, which I suppose is OK because they're American. (I live in Canada)
God no, I'd never dream of eating that crap by itself. The trouble is, I Wouldn't dream of eating it on a ham burger, or melted on toast either. As a previous poster pointed out, if claiming that your cheese is made of "real milk" is perceived as a selling point, then you and your cheese market are in serious trouble.
Not Aluminum, idiots.
Well you know you're in trouble when Kraft Singles - a horrible, orangey yellow processed cheese has the slogan "America's Cheese" on their TV ads...
croikey! that'd been won helluvah barbie!
If anyone were able to convince HR to put such a requirement on a job position, it would surely be the most awesome fail possible, and failblog would probably make a t-shirt out of it... In fact, making a t-shirt out of it whether true or false would be absolutely awesome. Somebody, go make a t-shirt out of it, I want to wear one to work and make everyone scratch their heads.
Yep I read that too and thought 'surely the introduction of quantum computing would be a massive headache for security services'.
Interesting but the chatty narrative is really annoying and is getting in the way of the actual useful information
You were SO close to getting it. Pi G. PiG. PIG. Yes, this makes sense, and aptly describes the people trying to push it on you.
It'll be cancelled, was supposed to be out last Christmas, then suddenly that was changed to "we have always gone for a when it's done approach", threads in the forums requesting an update being mercilessly deleted and or derided by forum elites. That mod's screwed. It's a shame because it looked kind of cool, if you could get over them filling every conceivable open space with architectural oddities like crates, random grills, ducts that lead nowhere etc.
I love it when North Americans complain about petrol prices. I moved up to snowy Canada a few years ago and the most immediate thing I noticed (aside from the years of gradual decline in their ability to speak English) was the sheer size of their cars. They're unbelievably massive! Yes, I understand if you're going to be towing stuff around given the longer distances involved with living up here, but seriously, every other car I see is a giant fucking smoke belching tank. The smoke belching tanks with body mods on them are even funnier, at least Chav cars are light enough to accelerate at a decent rate while sounding shite, the ricer trucks just sound shite full stop. Oh yes, and while I'm at it, I hate the car ads here too. And the Apple ads. Especially the Apple ads. And acoustic music in ads. In fact I hate the service industry in general, which is a pity since I work in it. Snowboarding's fun though.
The short, stocky fellow has shorter range with his arms and a smaller step, how do you see this as being dangerous?
I knew there was something I forgot to do this week! It helps pad out now to the inevitable announcement that Black Mesa has been cancelled.
When a family's ENTIRE LIFE is going up in flames, along with their pets, whether or not they paid for some service or other is irrelevant. You save their fucking livelihood and THEN deal with whatever they did or did not pay. The county should have levied a several thousand dollar fine on them or whatever they saw fit, it's likely to be equal to less than the cost of their house and future happiness. It's easy to say they were scrounging pricks for not paying an obviously essential tax, but to not have the humanity to help then anyway? When they're standing watching their house burn mere metres from where you stand? I think you'd eat your words.
... that in TF2, setting fire to the rich obnoxious bastard and tea bagging his smoldering corpse won't earn you 3rd degree burns to your testicles and a life time in jail.
It's LHC's all the way down?
I sense the approach of 50 bad bowl cuts and tashes
Upon observation, this post has collapsed into the first post state.