I'm dealing with this issue now as my battery pack on my Honda civic just died and I'm looking at $3,000 to replace it. It's only 6 years old and they are supposed to last 10 years.
When you think about all the toxic metals/chemicals in those batteries, it makes you wonder if they really are better for the environment than my 20 year old jeep that refuses to die.
I had notied that the new cards either didn't have all the hidden clues on them that the first set had - or had hidden them way too good for me to find...
Some of the cards have a continuing story on them though - that you need to collect all the cards in that set to read (A choose your own adventure type), as well as some 'horoscope' style, and a few other I haven't made heads or tales of yet. (I only bought them yesterday)
In my case - the kids were the only thing that kept me sane during my divorce.
My wife left me with a 2 year old son and a 9 year old step-daughter (that I treated like my own daughter) 5 days before I was laid off. The double rejection actually put thoughts of suicide in my mind (I'm useless at everything, blah blah). But the fact I had to be there for the kids is one of the main things that kept me going. I'm not saying it was the only thing, but it was touch and go for a while.
My mom was raised on a farm as the first of 5 kids. She was driving her siblings to school by the time she was 10. All the kids helped out doing all the chores, etc... My Uncle who still runs that farm has seven kids (currently aged 15 - 34). No one ever went on welfare
My dad was the last of 11 (yes he was an uncle before he was born). There might have been more but his dad died of a heart attack. My Grandmother raised the kids by herself without going on welfare. (With some help from the older kids).
It may not be the only cause...
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I don't think my IT job was the cause of my divorce (In fact I was only working half time for a dot-bomb at the time, got laid off 5 days after my wife moved in with her boyfriend).
But at my new job, we do have a standing joke to rate the complexity/stress of a just-completed project by the number of divorces that occured among everybody concerned. The worst I've worked on was a 3 divorce project, but that's probably low in bigger organizations.
(We had one one guy who got married and divorced during the same project)
Much as I hate to put an argument on the wrong side - Unfortunately I am that 'one parent' who can't control what my seven year old watches at his mom's house. He came back one time to my house describing scenes from "Faces of Death" that he saw with his mom.
Yes I was aware that Ronnie Van Zant was killed in a plane crash, but Johnny Van Zant was also in Lynard Skynard and is still the lead singer in the current tours.
I've been trying to look this up for the past half hour, but I can't find it with google.
There were a bunch of 'VMS commands' that were handed out at my school a long time ago that were things like "Deliver" (to send a file to someone), but which relied on VMS only parsing the first three letter of each command - so "Deliver" was actually "Delete".
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Unless you can diferentiate 16 different positions with each finger, fingers don't count hex. fingers are primarily binary - maybe you could do trinary if you are real good, but it's beyond my skill.
I was taught to count on my fingers on a modifed system - the four fingers count up to 4 (right hand) and the thumb is the binary switch between 0-4 and 5-9. Same with left hand for the 10's place and you can count up to 99 with little practice.
You are confusing the number of bits with the highest value able to be counted. 4 fingers would get you to 16. 16 fingers would be able to count to 65,536 (in binary). Most PC's use 16 bit addressing so a real programmer should be able to use his/her fingers to determine address offsets, etc...
I don't know about police, but fire and ambulance crews don't worry about locks. The basic lockpick a fire crew carries is about 4 feet long and is usually called by it's other name, an axe. Ambulance crews carry either a rescue hammer (available at www.galls.com, comes with a seatbelt cutter in the handle) or a spring loaded center punch - originally a carpentry tool, but when applied to safety glass like windshields, it causes the glass the shatter in small chunks. I've used it once on a missing hikers car to get a scent article for the dog team - worked like a champ.
Set up a reasonable amount of time that you can play - maybe while she's doing something else (I know - hard to set a schedule for all your friends).
on the other hand you can also look on this as a warning sign that she is co-dependent. When I was first single, I did a lot of bike-riding (50+ miles were the norm), worked out in Aikido, did Scuba Diving, volunteered in RACES and SAR (Radio Amaetuer Civil Emergency System, Search and Rescue), etc Then I started dating this one girl who started questioning why I did all those things instead of spending time with her. So I stopped doing everything and devoted all my time to her, and she kept demanding more and more attention. I got fired from one job because I couldn't work eight hours a day. (plus all the off-hours a build engineer needs to work). Until finally she found someone else who wasn't saddled with 2 kids and had enough money to buy her everything she wants and pay enough attention to her needs (I notice he doesn't play softball or volleyball anymore at work).
Didn't mean to dump my problems on you, but I think you should be warned of the danger signs.
Note: I am much happier now as a single dad, much less laundry to wash for one thing, less food to cook, etc, though I can't bike more than 10 miles now without collapsing.
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I was thinking of the exact same quote when I read this....
See if you can find some used or re-purposed phone BNU boxes - the kind that hang outside on telephone poles...
when I was working in telecoms, we had to test those things in rain, heat, cold, rifle and shotgun impacts, generic vandalism, you name it....
I'm dealing with this issue now as my battery pack on my Honda civic just died and I'm looking at $3,000 to replace it.
It's only 6 years old and they are supposed to last 10 years.
When you think about all the toxic metals/chemicals in those batteries, it makes you wonder if they really are better for the environment than my 20 year old jeep that refuses to die.
I had notied that the new cards either didn't have all the hidden clues on them that the first set had - or had hidden them way too good for me to find...
Some of the cards have a continuing story on them though - that you need to collect all the cards in that set to read (A choose your own adventure type), as well as some 'horoscope' style, and a few other I haven't made heads or tales of yet. (I only bought them yesterday)
I think Myst was the first ever 'storyline' type game that completely sucked me in. No mention of it anywhere...
Count me in!!
(o.k. he was 2 when we split, and he's now 8)
In my case - the kids were the only thing that kept me sane during my divorce.
My wife left me with a 2 year old son and a 9 year old step-daughter (that I treated like my own daughter) 5 days before I was laid off. The double rejection actually put thoughts of suicide in my mind (I'm useless at everything, blah blah). But the fact I had to be there for the kids is one of the main things that kept me going. I'm not saying it was the only thing, but it was touch and go for a while.
My mom was raised on a farm as the first of 5 kids. She was driving her siblings to school by the time she was 10. All the kids helped out doing all the chores, etc... My Uncle who still runs that farm has seven kids (currently aged 15 - 34). No one ever went on welfare
My dad was the last of 11 (yes he was an uncle before he was born). There might have been more but his dad died of a heart attack. My Grandmother raised the kids by herself without going on welfare. (With some help from the older kids).
I don't think my IT job was the cause of my divorce (In fact I was only working half time for a dot-bomb at the time, got laid off 5 days after my wife moved in with her boyfriend).
But at my new job, we do have a standing joke to rate the complexity/stress of a just-completed project by the number of divorces that occured among everybody concerned.
The worst I've worked on was a 3 divorce project, but that's probably low in bigger organizations.
(We had one one guy who got married and divorced during the same project)
Much as I hate to put an argument on the wrong side - Unfortunately I am that 'one parent' who can't control what my seven year old watches at his mom's house. He came back one time to my house describing scenes from "Faces of Death" that he saw with his mom.
Yes I was aware that Ronnie Van Zant was killed in a plane crash, but Johnny Van Zant was also in Lynard Skynard and is still the lead singer in the current tours.
I didnt know about Donnie.
I suppose I could look this up if I wasn't so lazy, but isn't Van Zant from Lynard Skynard? Not exactly country and definately not Rap or Hip Hop.
Any one remember the Tadpole laptop?
While not actually made by Sun, it did run Solaris and I think it had a SPARC chip inside...
There were a bunch of 'VMS commands' that were handed out at my school a long time ago that were things like "Deliver" (to send a file to someone), but which relied on VMS only parsing the first three letter of each command - so "Deliver" was actually "Delete".
Maybe someone can post a link...
Actually I am:
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Now : 91 day(s), 13:18:11 running Linux 2.2.19pre13
One : 413 day(s), 06:14:44 running Linux 2.2.19pre13, ended Wed Jan 5 21:32:40 2005
Two : 377 day(s), 00:26:56 running Linux 2.2.19pre13, ended Sat Dec 14 13:26:46 2002
Three: 117 day(s), 04:39:46 running Linux 2.2.19pre13, ended Thu Oct 2 17:42:38 2003
Somone get the Cattle prods! Cmdr Taco needs a reboot - he's stuck in a loop again.
I came up with "Think Geek hosts a flop"
Do they have Orc's singing "Where there's a whip, there's a way"?
Unless you can diferentiate 16 different positions with each finger, fingers don't count hex. fingers are primarily binary - maybe you could do trinary if you are real good, but it's beyond my skill.
I was taught to count on my fingers on a modifed system - the four fingers count up to 4 (right hand) and the thumb is the binary switch between 0-4 and 5-9. Same with left hand for the 10's place and you can count up to 99 with little practice.
You are confusing the number of bits with the highest value able to be counted. 4 fingers would get you to 16. 16 fingers would be able to count to 65,536 (in binary). Most PC's use 16 bit addressing so a real programmer should be able to use his/her fingers to determine address offsets, etc...
Was I the only one that heard
"You'd do it for Randall Scwartz"
Townspeople with angelic chorus: "Raaandall Schwaartz".
When I read that headline?
after thirty years - the reference is meaningless, but the joke is still funny.
(note to nitpickers yes I know the original is Randall Scott)
I don't know about police, but fire and ambulance crews don't worry about locks. The basic lockpick a fire crew carries is about 4 feet long and is usually called by it's other name, an axe. Ambulance crews carry either a rescue hammer (available at www.galls.com, comes with a seatbelt cutter in the handle) or a spring loaded center punch - originally a carpentry tool, but when applied to safety glass like windshields, it causes the glass the shatter in small chunks. I've used it once on a missing hikers car to get a scent article for the dog team - worked like a champ.
so what do I do with that MicroVax in my garage that I never cracked the root password on?
Verizon brought one of these (in a semi) durng the Mt Vision fire (12,000 acres) in Point Reyes CA in 1996.
completely wiped out coverage of all the other carriers of course.
Set up a reasonable amount of time that you can play - maybe while she's doing something else (I know - hard to set a schedule for all your friends).
on the other hand you can also look on this as a warning sign that she is co-dependent. When I was first single, I did a lot of bike-riding (50+ miles were the norm), worked out in Aikido, did Scuba Diving, volunteered in RACES and SAR (Radio Amaetuer Civil Emergency System, Search and Rescue), etc Then I started dating this one girl who started questioning why I did all those things instead of spending time with her. So I stopped doing everything and devoted all my time to her, and she kept demanding more and more attention. I got fired from one job because I couldn't work eight hours a day. (plus all the off-hours a build engineer needs to work). Until finally she found someone else who wasn't saddled with 2 kids and had enough money to buy her everything she wants and pay enough attention to her needs (I notice he doesn't play softball or volleyball anymore at work).
Didn't mean to dump my problems on you, but I think you should be warned of the danger signs.
Note: I am much happier now as a single dad, much less laundry to wash for one thing, less food to cook, etc, though I can't bike more than 10 miles now without collapsing.
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