There once was a time that I had no real frame of reference to differentiate contracted hours of employment from private time. I had no boundaries, was pretty much always on call, and thought I was lucky to have the employers that I allowed to (and were happy to) treat me like that. I pretty much always took the call. Several employers did pretty well out of me during those years.
Then I grew up and developed a modicum of self-esteem.
Perhaps the commenter does not spell as well as you, O exalted paragon of linguistic virtue. But maybe it's just some form of Freudian slip? (S)He was obviously thinking about hypocrisy and government at the same time as writing the words and you know, sometimes when you do stuff like that, weird shit just happens. Sometimes - as it is here - it can be funny as well.
I noticed your sig and I'm a bit low at the moment so: I just want to tell you all here that the LHC is in Europe.
Whar's mah karmah?
Oh, you get a karma increase alright, you just get to share it with the hordes of other trolls who use the AC "account". Unfortunately, any karmic boost is comprehensively outweighed by the karmic bitchslapping (which you also get to share) brought about by the combined actions of those other ACs.
Only if the camera crew and the cast have the same accommodations. Otherwise, by that same logic, the living conditions of the wild animals featured in National Geographic must be "on par with wilderness camping in your mom's basement".
That analogy only works if the crew is actually filming at the local zoo.
Survivor is just a Popularity-Contest style game show set in an outdoor environment, none of them are actually "surviving".
Quite the opposite, in fact. They all survive - none of them actually fail to do so. Regardless of how much the actual death of contestants might increase ratings, the lawyers would never let the marketing team have their way on that one.
About Mr. Krwzyk - That's about pronunciation of words in another language. What's your point? I knew a Chinese guy whose name could not even be correctly written in English, but there are accepted conventions (dogma, if you will) on how to write, in English, the phonetic representation of such names.
It's been my experience that people in the IT world are very comfortable with the use of abbreviations and acronyms and rarely "wordify" the unpronounceable ones to make them pronounceable (EBCDIC qualifies, but only just). The naturally pronounceable ones, on the other hand usually are pronounced (NAT, FIDO, IMAP, BIOS). While sequel is an acceptable, if unnecessary, pronunciation of SQL, I have found it rare except in the specific case of users of Microsoft SQL server, where it seems to be the rule rather than the exception. But it doesn't actually bother me as I am not a dogmatic anal retentive. And I'm fine with that. My shrink's got enough to deal with as it is.
The vowels in "SCUBA" go a long way to making it acceptable as an individual word. There are no vowels in "SQL". Unlike SQL, SCUBA is not commonly encountered in the areas of Information Technology and Computer Science, in which the use of acronyms is commonplace and well accepted. (Cue the story* of the IBM engineer who had to ask his client what was meant by F.A.N. in a maintenance request. Upon being told that fan was a word, not an acronym, the engineer informed the client that the correct term was in fact A.M.D., meaning Air Movement Device.)
Undoing mod points to ask:
Does the screen permanently display the time - as a normal watch does - or do you need to 'wake' the watch up?
I've only seen one phone that boasted an 'always on' time display, and that was my old Nokia N8 with an AMOLED screen (very low power). This thing needs to work as a watch first and foremost!
TIA
I don't know about this particular device, but it got me thinking that, at least in similar devices, I can't imagine it would be too difficult to include an accelerometer and have it wait for a gesture to wake up the display. For example, a quick flick of the wrist through 120 degrees and back again would be sufficiently unusual to not be done accidentally, not so odd that you'd look conspicuous doing it, and very easy to remember. Yeah, you wouldn't wanna try it with a Starbucks soy chai latte in your hand, but regular watches have similar issues on that front.
But what if the stress or fear is what makes real meat taste so good?
Carnivores are evolved to eat freshly hunted and killed prey, not sickly weak prey unaware or uncaring that it's about to die.
Maybe surprise tastes better than stress or fear, and that's why many predators try to catch their prey unawares. A quick burst of "What the..." for that extra something special.
Hardly. They try to catch their prey unawares because it uses less energy and has a better chance of success to creep up 125 yards on a gazelle and then give chase at 25 yards than to simply chase it down from 150 yards.
While the meat industry may strive to do so, I doubt that there is an abbattoir anywhere in the world that has managed to completely remove stress and fear from the livestock about to be slaughtered. On the contrary, I suspect that immediately before the "What the..." moment, there is a great deal of "I smell fear ahead", and "I don't like this, it's all wrong" leading to appropriately natural levels of stress and fear hormones in my tasty burger. This $375,000 burger is probably going to be as flavoursome as a glass of water.
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There once was a time that I had no real frame of reference to differentiate contracted hours of employment from private time. I had no boundaries, was pretty much always on call, and thought I was lucky to have the employers that I allowed to (and were happy to) treat me like that. I pretty much always took the call. Several employers did pretty well out of me during those years.
Then I grew up and developed a modicum of self-esteem.
Remember kids, just like all other dates, April 1st comes to Australia earlier than to most other countries - almost a whole day earlier than the U.S.
Perhaps the commenter does not spell as well as you, O exalted paragon of linguistic virtue. But maybe it's just some form of Freudian slip? (S)He was obviously thinking about hypocrisy and government at the same time as writing the words and you know, sometimes when you do stuff like that, weird shit just happens. Sometimes - as it is here - it can be funny as well.
Knob!
He's never getting laid - look at his username! Hell, I'll probably never get laid, and I only recognized it.
Those of you getting laid will need to Google it.
I think vi and emacs are Sunni and Shiite.
I too, find that vi brightens my day and emacs is shite.
Nice try, but if it looked like that, there would not be an unbroken surface large enough to support a legible font.
I'm intrigued as to what's behind that link, but given the title I don't think I'm game to click it.
Risk it, it's funny! Way off topic, but the image genuinely is SFW. The text - maybe not so much.
I noticed your sig and I'm a bit low at the moment so: I just want to tell you all here that the LHC is in Europe. Whar's mah karmah?
Oh, you get a karma increase alright, you just get to share it with the hordes of other trolls who use the AC "account". Unfortunately, any karmic boost is comprehensively outweighed by the karmic bitchslapping (which you also get to share) brought about by the combined actions of those other ACs.
How about that? Occasionally, life is fair!
I'll just take that as the exception that proves the rule.
Only if the camera crew and the cast have the same accommodations. Otherwise, by that same logic, the living conditions of the wild animals featured in National Geographic must be "on par with wilderness camping in your mom's basement".
That analogy only works if the crew is actually filming at the local zoo.
Survivor is just a Popularity-Contest style game show set in an outdoor environment, none of them are actually "surviving".
Quite the opposite, in fact. They all survive - none of them actually fail to do so. Regardless of how much the actual death of contestants might increase ratings, the lawyers would never let the marketing team have their way on that one.
Google will have to change their company toilet rolls from $100 bills to $50 bills to cover this.
On the bright side, they'll have twice as much toilet paper.
I suppose it wouldn't be fair to go back to when the Earth was a molten glob and the proto-Moon collided with it.
You're absolutely correct when you say that.
Now that's one helluva typhoon.
No, no it is not. A typhoon is an atmospheric event and requires, you know, an actual atmosphere in which to occur.
Seems like someone is totally &ed about this book!
Max? As I live and breathe, it's Max Headroom!
To me "Internet" means "freedom of information"
To me "The Internet" is a series of tubes... Or a dump truck.
To paraphrase Tom Lehrer, "The Internet is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it".
To resolve the conundrum in your sig, see your comment.
"Shut the fuck up, two-million ID boy", thought by everyone who remembers when Slashdot was still relevant and not swarming with fuckwits.
Huh, must've been before my time!
About Mr. Krwzyk - That's about pronunciation of words in another language. What's your point? I knew a Chinese guy whose name could not even be correctly written in English, but there are accepted conventions (dogma, if you will) on how to write, in English, the phonetic representation of such names.
It's been my experience that people in the IT world are very comfortable with the use of abbreviations and acronyms and rarely "wordify" the unpronounceable ones to make them pronounceable (EBCDIC qualifies, but only just). The naturally pronounceable ones, on the other hand usually are pronounced (NAT, FIDO, IMAP, BIOS). While sequel is an acceptable, if unnecessary, pronunciation of SQL, I have found it rare except in the specific case of users of Microsoft SQL server, where it seems to be the rule rather than the exception. But it doesn't actually bother me as I am not a dogmatic anal retentive. And I'm fine with that. My shrink's got enough to deal with as it is.
The vowels in "SCUBA" go a long way to making it acceptable as an individual word. There are no vowels in "SQL". Unlike SQL, SCUBA is not commonly encountered in the areas of Information Technology and Computer Science, in which the use of acronyms is commonplace and well accepted. (Cue the story* of the IBM engineer who had to ask his client what was meant by F.A.N. in a maintenance request. Upon being told that fan was a word, not an acronym, the engineer informed the client that the correct term was in fact A.M.D., meaning Air Movement Device.)
*probably urban legend
Get a clue, dude.
I find it remarkable that, even in this text-only medium, you simply couldn't deliver that line with a straight face.
No after, no ones wants swatches.
Right. Before he was mugged, he only had one Swatch!
The problem is Islam.
Close.
The problem is religion.
Closer yet, but still not quite accurate. You see, religion is just fine until people get involved in it. Only then does it become dangerous.
Undoing mod points to ask: Does the screen permanently display the time - as a normal watch does - or do you need to 'wake' the watch up?
I've only seen one phone that boasted an 'always on' time display, and that was my old Nokia N8 with an AMOLED screen (very low power). This thing needs to work as a watch first and foremost! TIA
I don't know about this particular device, but it got me thinking that, at least in similar devices, I can't imagine it would be too difficult to include an accelerometer and have it wait for a gesture to wake up the display. For example, a quick flick of the wrist through 120 degrees and back again would be sufficiently unusual to not be done accidentally, not so odd that you'd look conspicuous doing it, and very easy to remember. Yeah, you wouldn't wanna try it with a Starbucks soy chai latte in your hand, but regular watches have similar issues on that front.
my favorite beer! I'll have to visit. what is there to do there?
Those trees really do spoil your view of the wood, don't they?
But what if the stress or fear is what makes real meat taste so good?
Carnivores are evolved to eat freshly hunted and killed prey, not sickly weak prey unaware or uncaring that it's about to die.
Maybe surprise tastes better than stress or fear, and that's why many predators try to catch their prey unawares. A quick burst of "What the..." for that extra something special.
Hardly. They try to catch their prey unawares because it uses less energy and has a better chance of success to creep up 125 yards on a gazelle and then give chase at 25 yards than to simply chase it down from 150 yards.
While the meat industry may strive to do so, I doubt that there is an abbattoir anywhere in the world that has managed to completely remove stress and fear from the livestock about to be slaughtered. On the contrary, I suspect that immediately before the "What the..." moment, there is a great deal of "I smell fear ahead", and "I don't like this, it's all wrong" leading to appropriately natural levels of stress and fear hormones in my tasty burger. This $375,000 burger is probably going to be as flavoursome as a glass of water.