My parents run a small online retail store. When I would come home from college for breaks, I would help them with packaging and shipping. I used to handle every package like it held Ming vases, each of which was filled Faberge eggs, each of which was in turn filled with normal eggs.
And then one day I had to drive to the UPS facility. After that, it was more like footballs and sacks of potatoes - and that was an order of magnitude better than the care shown by the UPS employees. Pack your boxes well. They are paid to get your stuff there fast and cheap; 'gently' doesn't fit into that equation.
One of the guys in my guild sounds exactly like Homestar Runner and doesn't know it. We've been trying to trick him into saying 'fishsticks' for weeks now; we can only hope...
What bothers me especially is that he will distort positions where the facts already support his claims, just to make them support him 'better'. For instance, in Bowling for Columbine, he presented gun-related fatality statistics for various countries, and stated that this demonstrates how that the US has 'more' gun crime than Japan and Canada (or wherever, I don't recall precisely). The US does in fact have more gun crimes per capita than Japan or Canada - but since it has a higher population, the contrast seems bigger if the numbers are presented as (meaningless) absolute values instead of values per capita.
Good call. Dean was the favorite of the party leadership, but his campaign was derailed by a media-driven feedback loop which started with a trivial event (Dean got a little too excited at a campaign rally) and ended up causing weeks of bad media coverage (e.g., Barbara Walters tried to goad Mrs. Dean into calling Howard a wife-beater on national TV).
I'd rather not have to wait too long and try avoiding spoilers. If I waited for Season 3 of BSG, the Galactica Atmo Drop wouldn't have had the same effect, because I'd have heard about it already.
Now I'd prefer if Macs started to gain a wider user base in the UK. For one thing I could advise all those people who constantly need my help to fix their windows boxes (read, clean out the virus and spyware infestations) to switch and save me some precious evenings.
Not to nitpick, but I think you have the causality backwards there.
If Super Smash Brothers is your equivalent to tag, then that must have been one crazy game of tag...
Ah, to be a kid again... I'll never forget the look on Billy's face when I used a Downward Smash Attack to spike him off of the cafeteria roof, then yelled, "Tag!"
Apologizing for a crime is another way of admitting guilt. They are innocent of the charges that have been brought against them, in a way that is so obvious that the idea that they should even need to defend themselves is itself ridiculous - far more ridiculous than the "haircuts of the 70's" gag. I think they made a good choice.
So your validity-seeking tweed jackets propose that the word 'literally' has no semantic content. I can't wait to hear other ways in which emergent online paradigms can synergistically leverage new value-adding phenomena!
I do *nix development on an OS X laptop, and the Apple ads piss me off for exactly that reason. "C++ GUI Programming Guide? Uh, thanks." Hey FUCK YOU, asshat! That's how I get my goddamn JOB done. It's hilarious. After all these years of being derided as making computers that aren't serious, Apple has finally created a system that is actually more of a 'computer for people who know computers' than Windows - and the first thing they do is spend a bunch of money on ads explaining how it's not a computer for getting work done.
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My parents run a small online retail store. When I would come home from college for breaks, I would help them with packaging and shipping. I used to handle every package like it held Ming vases, each of which was filled Faberge eggs, each of which was in turn filled with normal eggs.
And then one day I had to drive to the UPS facility. After that, it was more like footballs and sacks of potatoes - and that was an order of magnitude better than the care shown by the UPS employees. Pack your boxes well. They are paid to get your stuff there fast and cheap; 'gently' doesn't fit into that equation.
One of the guys in my guild sounds exactly like Homestar Runner and doesn't know it. We've been trying to trick him into saying 'fishsticks' for weeks now; we can only hope...
What bothers me especially is that he will distort positions where the facts already support his claims, just to make them support him 'better'. For instance, in Bowling for Columbine, he presented gun-related fatality statistics for various countries, and stated that this demonstrates how that the US has 'more' gun crime than Japan and Canada (or wherever, I don't recall precisely). The US does in fact have more gun crimes per capita than Japan or Canada - but since it has a higher population, the contrast seems bigger if the numbers are presented as (meaningless) absolute values instead of values per capita.
Good call. Dean was the favorite of the party leadership, but his campaign was derailed by a media-driven feedback loop which started with a trivial event (Dean got a little too excited at a campaign rally) and ended up causing weeks of bad media coverage (e.g., Barbara Walters tried to goad Mrs. Dean into calling Howard a wife-beater on national TV).
He does get points, though, for using the word 'trumple'.
Guy Smiley?
Actually, they're what plants crave.
I'm looking forward to 3D Stuck In A Meeting.
maybe you just need to find better friends
I'd rather not have to wait too long and try avoiding spoilers. If I waited for Season 3 of BSG, the Galactica Atmo Drop wouldn't have had the same effect, because I'd have heard about it already.
Thanks, asshat.
Actually if you were playing it properly, it was more like
ULTRAAA! ULTRAAA! ULTRAAA! ULTRAAA! ULTRAAA!
(opponent walks away from the machine)
ULTRAAA! ULTRAAA! ULTRAAA! ULTRAAA! ULTRAAA!
(opponent comes back with chips and a sandwich)
ULTRAAA! ULTRAAA! ULTRAAA! ULTRAAA! ULTRAAA!
(watch someone else play a round of Puzzle Fighter on the machine next to you)
ULTRAAA COMBO!
and that was the first third of the match or so.
You should use the new lossless comment compression codec. It encodes all of the information from your last post in the string, "Yes."
So, we have a clear solution: just have Al Gore circle the globe in a supersonic jet and talk really fast at bookings.
Please don't tell me you are going to drive home to do it.
You're on slashdot? The raid started half an hour ago; that's a minus fifty dee kay pee!
I've forgotten - how many lumps of sugar does a Scotsman take with his tea?
I think that my submitted question, "Why does it hurt when I pee?", has a pretty good chance of going live.
Now I'd prefer if Macs started to gain a wider user base in the UK. For one thing I could advise all those people who constantly need my help to fix their windows boxes (read, clean out the virus and spyware infestations) to switch and save me some precious evenings.
Not to nitpick, but I think you have the causality backwards there.
If Super Smash Brothers is your equivalent to tag, then that must have been one crazy game of tag...
Ah, to be a kid again... I'll never forget the look on Billy's face when I used a Downward Smash Attack to spike him off of the cafeteria roof, then yelled, "Tag!"
Silly aborchers. If the poor hadn't stupidly CHOSEN to be born poor, then they'd be able to afford a private education!
Apologizing for a crime is another way of admitting guilt. They are innocent of the charges that have been brought against them, in a way that is so obvious that the idea that they should even need to defend themselves is itself ridiculous - far more ridiculous than the "haircuts of the 70's" gag. I think they made a good choice.
Depends on which of the Vampire Clans you're working for.
So your validity-seeking tweed jackets propose that the word 'literally' has no semantic content. I can't wait to hear other ways in which emergent online paradigms can synergistically leverage new value-adding phenomena!
I think most Linux users would be content on this front if Microsoft would simply stop expending effort specifically to stop interoperability.
I do *nix development on an OS X laptop, and the Apple ads piss me off for exactly that reason. "C++ GUI Programming Guide? Uh, thanks." Hey FUCK YOU, asshat! That's how I get my goddamn JOB done. It's hilarious. After all these years of being derided as making computers that aren't serious, Apple has finally created a system that is actually more of a 'computer for people who know computers' than Windows - and the first thing they do is spend a bunch of money on ads explaining how it's not a computer for getting work done.