Shitty, shitty airline that makes you call a toll number to speak with their customer service / compl intd department. Fuck them. (Wizz was much, much better)
Small metal wires which, if you used the right metal, could hold the bed up by themseves. Cool (magnets are much fun to play with), but ultimately worthless - unless the magnetic field could be used for "other things", such as keeping your girlfriend's legs spread because of the little bit of metal in her shoes;) A bit pricey for BDSM gear, but then again, sex toys are never cheap;)
I'm actually surprised that they weren't able to anchor it using magnets alone. For 1.5 million...
DVI to hdmi cables/adapters can be bought for pretty cheap off monoprice and a couple other online stores, virtually every new tv has a hdmi port. Pretty much everything on the computer end ships with dvi nowadays (heck, i got a motherboard with onboard dvi). Nice and easy now...
The software out there blows. Closed / open source, free, bundled or pay, none of it is very good. The tv based interfaces are clumsy at best and I have not set up a single media box where everything worked right of the box (and I've set up about 12 of them in the last few years). Always a fucking problem. Heck, some apps STILL have issues with A/V sync and somew store the video in a retarded format like raw avi or some weird "nothing else can play this because we are twats" custom format. Don't even get me started on the joy that is setting up HD. DVRs are much, much more attractive and people will cough up the extra few bucks to get one.
I use a hauppague card with their shitty software (and it is shitty, clumsy to use unless you have a keyboard and monitor, sucks cpu cycles when it captures to mpeg (the other formats except for raw avi never worked properly, hitting control alt delete will kill your recording, but it does record when I tell it, which is a lot more than I can say for the many other apps I've tried)
The "software" bundled with nero 7 was the last thing I tried, didn't even make it past channel detection before dying.
If you know of a good program, please post it. Showshifter was decent for a while and had promise until some company bought it and fucked it up.
There are clients and srvices out there that "greatly simplify" the process and eliminate the need to download tons of headers (alt.binaries.multmedia has 2.5 gigs of headers alone on a news server that I used.) Needless to say, there are a lot of dismally shitty clients as well.
All of the above groups have instituted policies that prevent people from changing or editing the content of the photos. Unfortunately, we are now / have been seeing somewhat of a backlash and you have papers who ban all editing of photos beyond cropping. No color touchups, no levels adjustments, nothing. Termination offense too and some people have lost awards because of color corrections (minor ones) too.
What shocks me is that there are a great number of people who actually support these policies. I'm afraid that many of these apologists have little or no knowledge of RAW formats, HDR images (some cameras have basic hdr built in now), color casts, white balance, telephoto compression, the levels tool, or really, anything at all about the printing process or photography. I'm afraid that they are living in their own little dream world. Now - I realize that you can do a lot with levels - like the oj time cover - but banning any color correction or minor edits on the part of the photographer is just plain stupid.
Write your MP, your local paper and make this an issue that goes beyond the courts. Unfortunately, it seems that small police forces breed corruption (hi Victoria / Toronto / virtually all american cops), which really is responsible for the poor image of american police officers. Likewise, nearly all of the private police departments in Canada seem to be constantly involved in scandal. You're still much better off in Canada though. I've lived in both the usa and canada and american cops are worse by an order of magnitude.
4. Mathematics Stick with it and get your PhD in pure (or applied) mathematics. Get a post-doc, and then a professorship, and enjoy a rewarding (intellectually) life in academia. If you really love it, this is a great way to go.
Just be sure that you can handle teaching students in the most basic math class that your future employer offers. Because, to put this rather bluntly, it can be a shitty job that nobody else wants to do, so you eill get to. It is stressful and doesn't pay well for the first few years (or, really, ever)
If you don't enjoy teaching (and teaching in this case isn't defined by explaining a cool theory to a colleague over coffee - it is defined by teaching a group of unmotivated, disinterested, hungover, high and bitter students who have been failed repeatedly by dismally poor public education system and whose primary interest in your class is to check a box on their graduation form, you're doing yourself, your university and the students a great disservice.
Teachers have to do more than just explain stuff to other people - they have to motivate and inspire their students. In my experience, the vast majority of math professors just aren't cut out for this line of work.
A one time pad would be even better and debatably simpler - Burn a DVD of random data, do an in person meet and off you go. For a bit more security/fun, you can set some options and (exchange the information in a classified ad or something) dance around the dvd in an odd pattern, so if the dvd is compromised, your previously transmitted data stays secret.
With respect, the majority of house and senate members, regardless of their affiliation, are equally corrupt and are more concerned with their own pork projects (and, of course, keeping their current position so that they can push more pork in the future, which means toeing the party line) to of be any real use to the ordinary citizens. I'd much rather people vote out their current reps and senators unless they have done something that deserves actually re-election. I can't believe that in some states, senators and congress critters run unopposed. Of course, I'd like a pony too. (ponygirl would be fine too;)
Well, the poor sort of do have a numbers advantage. It isn't terribly hard for even the poorest person to buy a saturday night special. Hell, I bought a kel tec p3at for $210 and got half an ammo can of.380 acp. It isn't as much as a saturday night special as a "can concleal it anywhere" [istol that has gone bang each and every time I've pulled the trigger. Hell, you can get a nagant for $60. Those numbers can be pretty important...
I like my fake leopard better. That, my friends, is what happens when you play red alert 2 for 9+ hours, take some (more) vicodin and codeine and notice that Photoshop CS has been sitting in the taskbar the whole time.
Who will download a browser in the background that is larger than sp2 for xp. (no, it probably won't be _that _ big) (ie 6 _was_ 75 or so.. yay for bloat)
You borrowed money to invest. Think about that for a minute.
How about you think? Throw interest free money into a gic or savings account and get a few bucks out of the bargain. It won't make him a millionaire (unless he has a reaaaly big loan;), but it will make something. Beats making nothing...
I'd strongly suggest taking a glace at this thread on fatwallet. Avoid the hot deal's forum - you'll be broke and in debt - some of the deals are really tempting;)
Some of the better banks have options that pay 4-6%, ing direct is probably the most popular one, but there are others. If you can (new college student, so probably not), get a credit card with 0% interest on balance transfers for 1 year, take out a bundle and then toss that in as well. Not fucking up your credit is probably the most important.
Yup, monopolies don't get fines (or if they are tiny fines), you can do a chargeback, but they might just tack the etf onto you bill and cancel your phone service if you don't pay it. It's great.
Sure, a tv news station could run a negative op-ed piece, but then CompUSA will sell insane amounts of RAM for $1. Damage control sustained. Why should they give a fuck about the BBB again?
Read the responses, they got a bunch of negative pr and they were forced to close several stores on the east coast and even now, with pretty decent door crashers(they have some pretty decent stuff), people on the east coast avoid their stores. I'm not saying this was caused single handedly by the bbb, hell, far from it - that was mainly consumer opinion. That said, when a company is trying to improve it's image (as compusa did) that i when the bbb can be extremely useful to you.
Not that anyone actually gives a damn when it happens. I still see faxes "from human resources" advertising travel scams being sent on a daily basis. These aren't just fly by night places, but they are companies that stick around for months (basically until the number of chargebacks kills their merchant account) and rent out timeshares with a whole shitload of conditions that nobody saw before their card was charged. Sad, really.
Not that I wasn't exactly thinking clearly - the receipt is evidence of that;)
The way I see it, prices have been rising and the quality of service (everything from speeds to uptime) dropping for high speed consumer internet in my city since 1997. Shaw kicked ass then, telus was not as good but was more available. I dhonestly don't know whether that is sad or funny.
100% unless you go to something fancy like a T1 (and they are quite expensive in my rather small town). Even the $300+ business package caps at 150. Just making an observation...
I knew (the past tense will soon become quite clear) a guy who did a 10 year stint in a soviet gulag. He used to get ether from the "doctor"'s office, fill a small glass with it and shoot it - the thing (apparantly) with ether is that you can't let the gasses build up, so you have to stop breathing for a while and let the majority of the gasses evaporate. A big belch and he'd enter his happy place for 6 hours. Crazy.
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You're ignoring the fact that baggage handlers are fucking theives.
I'm pretty sure the CEO of Ryanair creamed his pants when he heard about this. They are going to make a killing on 15 euro snickers bars.
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Hell, they've already tried charging 18 pounds for wheelchair use to someone who had cerebral palsy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/airlines/story/0,,13785
Shitty, shitty airline that makes you call a toll number to speak with their customer service / compl
intd department.
Fuck them. (Wizz was much, much better)
Small metal wires which, if you used the right metal, could hold the bed up by themseves. Cool (magnets are much fun to play with), but ultimately worthless - unless the magnetic field could be used for "other things", such as keeping your girlfriend's legs spread because of the little bit of metal in her shoes ;) A bit pricey for BDSM gear, but then again, sex toys are never cheap ;)
I'm actually surprised that they weren't able to anchor it using magnets alone. For 1.5 million...
DVI to hdmi cables/adapters can be bought for pretty cheap off monoprice and a couple other online stores, virtually every new tv has a hdmi port.
Pretty much everything on the computer end ships with dvi nowadays (heck, i got a motherboard with onboard dvi).
Nice and easy now...
The software out there blows. Closed / open source, free, bundled or pay, none of it is very good. The tv based interfaces are clumsy at best and I have not set up a single media box where everything worked right of the box (and I've set up about 12 of them in the last few years). Always a fucking problem.
Heck, some apps STILL have issues with A/V sync and somew store the video in a retarded format like raw avi or some weird "nothing else can play this because we are twats" custom format. Don't even get me started on the joy that is setting up HD.
DVRs are much, much more attractive and people will cough up the extra few bucks to get one.
I use a hauppague card with their shitty software (and it is shitty, clumsy to use unless you have a keyboard and monitor, sucks cpu cycles when it captures to mpeg (the other formats except for raw avi never worked properly, hitting control alt delete will kill your recording, but it does record when I tell it, which is a lot more than I can say for the many other apps I've tried)
The "software" bundled with nero 7 was the last thing I tried, didn't even make it past channel detection before dying.
If you know of a good program, please post it. Showshifter was decent for a while and had promise until some company bought it and fucked it up.
There are clients and srvices out there that "greatly simplify" the process and eliminate the need to download tons of headers (alt.binaries.multmedia has 2.5 gigs of headers alone on a news server that I used.)
Needless to say, there are a lot of dismally shitty clients as well.
Bandwidth only costs money when the consumer is being billed for it.
Precisely, and the NPAA, the the AP and and the nyt (ok, perhaps a bad example ;) agree with you.
All of the above groups have instituted policies that prevent people from changing or editing the content of the photos. Unfortunately, we are now / have been seeing somewhat of a backlash and you have papers who ban all editing of photos beyond cropping. No color touchups, no levels adjustments, nothing. Termination offense too and some people have lost awards because of color corrections (minor ones) too.
What shocks me is that there are a great number of people who actually support these policies. I'm afraid that many of these apologists have little or no knowledge of RAW formats, HDR images (some cameras have basic hdr built in now), color casts, white balance, telephoto compression, the levels tool, or really, anything at all about the printing process or photography. I'm afraid that they are living in their own little dream world.
Now - I realize that you can do a lot with levels - like the oj time cover - but banning any color correction or minor edits on the part of the photographer is just plain stupid.
Write your MP, your local paper and make this an issue that goes beyond the courts.
Unfortunately, it seems that small police forces breed corruption (hi Victoria / Toronto / virtually all american cops), which really is responsible for the poor image of american police officers. Likewise, nearly all of the private police departments in Canada seem to be constantly involved in scandal.
You're still much better off in Canada though. I've lived in both the usa and canada and american cops are worse by an order of magnitude.
4. Mathematics
Stick with it and get your PhD in pure (or applied) mathematics. Get a post-doc, and then a professorship, and enjoy a rewarding (intellectually) life in academia. If you really love it, this is a great way to go.
Just be sure that you can handle teaching students in the most basic math class that your future employer offers. Because, to put this rather bluntly, it can be a shitty job that nobody else wants to do, so you eill get to. It is stressful and doesn't pay well for the first few years (or, really, ever)
If you don't enjoy teaching (and teaching in this case isn't defined by explaining a cool theory to a colleague over coffee - it is defined by teaching a group of unmotivated, disinterested, hungover, high and bitter students who have been failed repeatedly by dismally poor public education system and whose primary interest in your class is to check a box on their graduation form, you're doing yourself, your university and the students a great disservice.
Teachers have to do more than just explain stuff to other people - they have to motivate and inspire their students. In my experience, the vast majority of math professors just aren't cut out for this line of work.
A one time pad would be even better and debatably simpler - Burn a DVD of random data, do an in person meet and off you go. For a bit more security/fun, you can set some options and (exchange the information in a classified ad or something) dance around the dvd in an odd pattern, so if the dvd is compromised, your previously transmitted data stays secret.
With respect, the majority of house and senate members, regardless of their affiliation, are equally corrupt and are more concerned with their own pork projects (and, of course, keeping their current position so that they can push more pork in the future, which means toeing the party line) to of be any real use to the ordinary citizens. ;)
I'd much rather people vote out their current reps and senators unless they have done something that deserves actually re-election. I can't believe that in some states, senators and congress critters run unopposed.
Of course, I'd like a pony too. (ponygirl would be fine too
Well, the poor sort of do have a numbers advantage. .380 acp. It isn't as much as a saturday night special as a "can concleal it anywhere" [istol that has gone bang each and every time I've pulled the trigger. Hell, you can get a nagant for $60. Those numbers can be pretty important...
It isn't terribly hard for even the poorest person to buy a saturday night special. Hell, I bought a kel tec p3at for $210 and got half an ammo can of
I like my fake leopard better.
That, my friends, is what happens when you play red alert 2 for 9+ hours, take some (more) vicodin and codeine and notice that Photoshop CS has been sitting in the taskbar the whole time.
Who will download a browser in the background that is larger than sp2 for xp.
(no, it probably won't be _that _ big)
(ie 6 _was_ 75 or so.. yay for bloat)
You borrowed money to invest. Think about that for a minute.
;), but it will make something. Beats making nothing...
How about you think?
Throw interest free money into a gic or savings account and get a few bucks out of the bargain. It won't make him a millionaire (unless he has a reaaaly big loan
I'd strongly suggest taking a glace at this thread on fatwallet. ;)
Avoid the hot deal's forum - you'll be broke and in debt - some of the deals are really tempting
Some of the better banks have options that pay 4-6%, ing direct is probably the most popular one, but there are others.
If you can (new college student, so probably not), get a credit card with 0% interest on balance transfers for 1 year, take out a bundle and then toss that in as well. Not fucking up your credit is probably the most important.
Yup, monopolies don't get fines (or if they are tiny fines), you can do a chargeback, but they might just tack the etf onto you bill and cancel your phone service if you don't pay it. It's great.
Sure, a tv news station could run a negative op-ed piece, but then CompUSA will sell insane amounts of RAM for $1. Damage control sustained. Why should they give a fuck about the BBB again?
Read the responses, they got a bunch of negative pr and they were forced to close several stores on the east coast and even now, with pretty decent door crashers(they have some pretty decent stuff), people on the east coast avoid their stores. I'm not saying this was caused single handedly by the bbb, hell, far from it - that was mainly consumer opinion. That said, when a company is trying to improve it's image (as compusa did) that i when the bbb can be extremely useful to you.
Not that anyone actually gives a damn when it happens. I still see faxes "from human resources" advertising travel scams being sent on a daily basis. These aren't just fly by night places, but they are companies that stick around for months (basically until the number of chargebacks kills their merchant account) and rent out timeshares with a whole shitload of conditions that nobody saw before their card was charged. Sad, really.
;)
Not that I wasn't exactly thinking clearly - the receipt is evidence of that
The way I see it, prices have been rising and the quality of service (everything from speeds to uptime) dropping for high speed consumer internet in my city since 1997. Shaw kicked ass then, telus was not as good but was more available.
I dhonestly don't know whether that is sad or funny.
100% unless you go to something fancy like a T1 (and they are quite expensive in my rather small town). Even the $300+ business package caps at 150.
Just making an observation...
I knew (the past tense will soon become quite clear) a guy who did a 10 year stint in a soviet gulag. He used to get ether from the "doctor"'s office, fill a small glass with it and shoot it - the thing (apparantly) with ether is that you can't let the gasses build up, so you have to stop breathing for a while and let the majority of the gasses evaporate. A big belch and he'd enter his happy place for 6 hours.
Crazy.
Perhaps condoms and warm apple pie would go together quite well.
Shit, $17.50 is a good career for a hundred million plus people in the usa.
There are many, many jobs that pay far, far worse.