"It will happen this way. You may be walking. Maybe the first sunny day of the spring. And a car will slow beside you, and a door will open, and someone you know, maybe even trust, will get out of the car. And he will smile, a becoming smile. But he will leave open the door of the car and offer to give you a lift. "
The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or desires to someone as a naive or unconscious defense against anxiety or guilt.
Example: I accuse you of doing something that I'm doing in hopes of getting you so flustered defending yourself, that you're not going to notice what I'm doing.
If her HR handbook reads like my company's HR handbook, she might have been worried about getting caught on tape letting strangers into the building...
Section X.X Security - employee responsibilites The following activites indicate a serious security violation. These activities may lead to disciplinary action up to and including dismissal:... -Violating security control mechanisms -Violating security policies
If you get married and buy a house, even without kids, that will do a fine job of cutting all the other activities out of your life. Unless your idea of entertainment is stripping paint, sanding, etc...
I think it is nice to be able to plan on 90 minutes of entertainment every day
If you every get married or have kids, you will consider 90 minutes a *week* to be nice. Your entertainment for tonight is Disney. And tomorrow, Disney. And the next night, Disney...
... excuse me I just had to take a break and scream.
I also looked to buy track and connectors for my kid's Hot Wheels collection. No luck. Anywhere.
When I was a kid I had many feet of track and could make a raceway the size of a room. The sets that they sell today are maybe 4 feet of track - boring. And what is the deal with the motorized car chute? It's noisy, heavy, and hard to carry around. When I was a kid we used gravity - and we liked it.
Gone are the days of all the neighborhood's kids playing outside, unsupervised, in the afternoon.
Totally gone. And since they can't play in the street (heaven forbid) for an vacant lot (liability problems), or a parking lot (ditto) they are inside with electronic entertainment.
The flat rate shipping cost for some media (CDs, DVDs, VHS, and video games) works because everything is the same size.
Books on the other hand are not the same size. It sucks to pay $3.50 shipping for a small book.
The other catagories are just whacky. A camera memory card ($0.39 actual shipping) costs $4.50 in shipping on Amazon marketplace. It's considered "electronics" (or maybe "Camera & Photo", who the hell knows - they don't say before you buy)
I second that. Everytime that I have had to deal with passwords that must be changed monthly I've found that users append or prepend the number of the month. In July, most of the password will begin or end in "07".
Another stupid rule: "a new password must contain three characters not found in the previous password". This was created to try to stop the "number of month" problem noted above. Instead it makes it hard to have long passwords. I created a 20 character password (pass phrase) once. The following month I was stonewalled because I could barely think of a new password with three new characters. I had already used most of the alphabet and a good part of the ASCII special characters.
The marketing dept. gets e-mail designs from spam
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I swear that some marketing departments get their e-mail designs from looking at spam. I've have seen some legit corporate e-mails that look so close to previous phishing spam that you would think that they did it on purpose.
The only explanation that I can think of is that they see the phishing spam e-mail, think that it's from their own company, and then design new e-mails to look the same.
Doubt it? We're talking about the marketing department....
Sniping works because of competitive psychology
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The reason that sniping is the best strategy is because an auction is a competition. One way to help win a competition is to reduce the number competitors. On eBay that means not indicating your interest in an item until the very last seconds of the auction.
In a confusing environment like eBay, many people look for validation of their decisions. One way to validate their uncertain decision is by bidding on something that someone else is bidding on. It makes some people feel good that there is someone else that made the same choice as they did. If you multiply this out, you end up with auctions having 20+ bidders (the madness of crowds). That's a lot of competition. The chances of winning against that many bidders is poor.
If you want to have less competition, and thus win, do not indicate your interest in an item until you have to.
Stealing from a cop car is no big deal for a Chicago thief. I've seen where thieves took the light bar off the roof of a cop car. I bet it took them a whole ten seconds. Then they ran into the housing project to hide.
I bet plenty of the police car computers have been stolen.
Unless you fire straight down into planet Earth, a 22 bullet can ricochet. Bullets bounce or ricochet off flat surfaces and thereby go much further than their ballistic trajectory alone would indicate.
The label on the 22LR box says RANGE 1 mile. The bullet will indeed go a mile and still have a tiny bit of velocity left. I've heard plenty of stories of 22 bullets traveling long distances. And not by firing into the air at a 45 degree angle. The cases that I know of are from people who live in around lakes. It's when someone sets up a practice target for their kids by the lake. The bullets ricochet off the water and ping the houses on the other side. I have not heard of anyone getting hurt. I think that the bullets have too little energy for penetration after they skip over the water. But there have been some pretty angry folk when that has happened. And those are not small lakes, some are easily 1/2 mile across.
You only have to got the violate one fundamental rule of firearms safety to kill someone. I was taught a fundamental rule of firearms safety: "bullets can ricochet".
A 22 slug can travel a hell of a lot farther then you think. A.22LR rifle can put a bullet a mile away. You could fire at a toad and hit a kid down the road.
If you want to kill a toad with a 22, use "snake shot". That is tiny pellets in a 22 cartridge.
Why fight nature? Get rid of the dog and make pets of the toads?
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A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something...
She'd fall for this trick....
"It will happen this way. You may be walking. Maybe the first sunny day of the spring. And a car will slow beside you, and a door will open, and someone you know, maybe even trust, will get out of the car. And he will smile, a becoming smile. But he will leave open the door of the car and offer to give you a lift. "
SCOX was trading at $4 for a long time. Good news, bad news, no news it was still $4.
Then, SCO had most of it claims tossed out of court in a blistering ruling by Judge Wells. The judge called "BS" on most of their case.
Now the stock is down to around $2.50
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The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or desires to someone as a naive or unconscious defense against anxiety or guilt.
Example:
I accuse you of doing something that I'm doing in hopes of getting you so flustered defending yourself, that you're not going to notice what I'm doing.
If her HR handbook reads like my company's HR handbook, she might have been worried about getting caught on tape letting strangers into the building...
...
Section X.X Security - employee responsibilites
The following activites indicate a serious security violation. These activities may lead to disciplinary action up to and including dismissal:
-Violating security control mechanisms
-Violating security policies
If you get married and buy a house, even without kids, that will do a fine job of cutting all the other activities out of your life. Unless your idea of entertainment is stripping paint, sanding, etc...
I think it is nice to be able to plan on 90 minutes of entertainment every day
... excuse me I just had to take a break and scream.
If you every get married or have kids, you will consider 90 minutes a *week* to be nice. Your entertainment for tonight is Disney. And tomorrow, Disney. And the next night, Disney...
What were we talking about?
I also looked to buy track and connectors for my kid's Hot Wheels collection. No luck. Anywhere.
When I was a kid I had many feet of track and could make a raceway the size of a room. The sets that they sell today are maybe 4 feet of track - boring. And what is the deal with the motorized car chute? It's noisy, heavy, and hard to carry around. When I was a kid we used gravity - and we liked it.
Gone are the days of all the neighborhood's kids playing outside, unsupervised, in the afternoon.
Totally gone. And since they can't play in the street (heaven forbid) for an vacant lot (liability problems), or a parking lot (ditto) they are inside with electronic entertainment.
The goverment is not cracking down on Internet gambling because of fraud. Where did you make that up? It's not stated in any government document.
There are not a lot of angry US consumers who have demanded that the government attack fraudulant on-line gambiling sites.
The government is not cracking down because US consumers hate on-line gambiling sites, but rather US consumers love on-line gambling sites.
Science: pretend that the world was created by magic (either scientific magic or religious magic).
History: pretend that the versions written by the winners are always correct.
Civics: pretend that embarrassing episodes in US history never happened.
Sociology: pretend that racial problems no longer exist.
Philosophy: pretend that either religion does not exit or there in only one.
Political Science: pretend that students have rights.
We need more flamebait like the parent comment. I'm agreeing with you.
I hate the way that our schools have become laboratory experiments. Whatever happened to teaching kids to think for themselves?
Otherwise we'd have lines all over the place
Or maybe no lines all over the place...broadband wireless has the potential to alter the ISP landscape in a dramatic way.
The flat rate shipping cost for some media (CDs, DVDs, VHS, and video games) works because everything is the same size.
Books on the other hand are not the same size. It sucks to pay $3.50 shipping for a small book.
The other catagories are just whacky. A camera memory card ($0.39 actual shipping) costs $4.50 in shipping on Amazon marketplace. It's considered "electronics" (or maybe "Camera & Photo", who the hell knows - they don't say before you buy)
Will someone please explain to ABC that a 1956 business model might not work in 2006.
Maybe it's time to adapt to the era in which we are currently living.
I second that. Everytime that I have had to deal with passwords that must be changed monthly I've found that users append or prepend the number of the month. In July, most of the password will begin or end in "07".
Another stupid rule: "a new password must contain three characters not found in the previous password". This was created to try to stop the "number of month" problem noted above. Instead it makes it hard to have long passwords. I created a 20 character password (pass phrase) once. The following month I was stonewalled because I could barely think of a new password with three new characters. I had already used most of the alphabet and a good part of the ASCII special characters.
How about charging $15 to ship a camera memory card that weighs less than 1 OZ. - first class mail. Actual shipping cost - $0.39.
The ratio of charged/actual shipping cost is over 38.
No, that is not something that I bought. I bought from a more honest seller.
Spoken like a true patriot. It's hard to love, support, and defend one's country in these times.
What patriot would not read this and weep: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Patriot_Act
Funny? I wish the moderators would stop sniffing glue.
people don't put the phone down, they crash.
They put down the phone after they crash.
I swear that some marketing departments get their e-mail designs from looking at spam. I've have seen some legit corporate e-mails that look so close to previous phishing spam that you would think that they did it on purpose.
The only explanation that I can think of is that they see the phishing spam e-mail, think that it's from their own company, and then design new e-mails to look the same.
Doubt it? We're talking about the marketing department....
The reason that sniping is the best strategy is because an auction is a competition. One way to help win a competition is to reduce the number competitors. On eBay that means not indicating your interest in an item until the very last seconds of the auction.
In a confusing environment like eBay, many people look for validation of their decisions. One way to validate their uncertain decision is by bidding on something that someone else is bidding on. It makes some people feel good that there is someone else that made the same choice as they did. If you multiply this out, you end up with auctions having 20+ bidders (the madness of crowds). That's a lot of competition. The chances of winning against that many bidders is poor.
If you want to have less competition, and thus win, do not indicate your interest in an item until you have to.
In order to enjoy a happy medium, get a gypsy drunk.
Stealing from a cop car is no big deal for a Chicago thief. I've seen where thieves took the light bar off the roof of a cop car. I bet it took them a whole ten seconds. Then they ran into the housing project to hide.
I bet plenty of the police car computers have been stolen.
Unless you fire straight down into planet Earth, a 22 bullet can ricochet. Bullets bounce or ricochet off flat surfaces and thereby go much further than their
ballistic trajectory alone would indicate.
The label on the 22LR box says RANGE 1 mile. The bullet will indeed go a mile and still have a tiny bit of velocity left. I've heard plenty of stories of 22 bullets traveling long distances. And not by firing into the air at a 45 degree angle. The cases that I know of are from people who live in around lakes. It's when someone sets up a practice target for their kids by the lake. The bullets ricochet off the water and ping the houses on the other side. I have not heard of anyone getting hurt. I think that the bullets have too little energy for penetration after they skip over the water. But there have been some pretty angry folk when that has happened. And those are not small lakes, some are easily 1/2 mile across.
You only have to got the violate one fundamental rule of firearms safety to kill someone. I was taught a fundamental rule of firearms safety: "bullets can ricochet".
Yes, turning right on red is legal in Chicago unless signs indicate otherwise. It's legal at that intersection.
The problem is that the camera doesn't know it.
Suing the government? Not in this city.
A 22 slug can travel a hell of a lot farther then you think. A .22LR rifle can put a bullet a mile away. You could fire at a toad and hit a kid down the road.
If you want to kill a toad with a 22, use "snake shot". That is tiny pellets in a 22 cartridge.
Why fight nature? Get rid of the dog and make pets of the toads?