Boss: "What's that link there? I didn't know you were interested in goats... [Click] Damn! You're fired!"
As if you couldn't find history in Mozilla...
Could be worse, could be the boss turns to you and winks.
what's their plan... track most popular searches, keep a cookie full of it, suggest these fine things the next time you go to Amazon.com... could even help them anticipate what to carry [We need to carry... goats?] as if their marketing data isn't already legion...
There are a lot of things that are poisonous to humans in the environment. Being poisonous in large doses is not a problem.
Large or Small?
A friend who worked in waste management explained to me the often confused difference between Hazardous Waste and Toxic Waste, in a nutshell:
Toxic Substance kills cells even in small doses, because it breaks down or disrupts the chemistry of cells.
Hazardous Substance could be anything, even Cola Cola, in a large enough concentration to disrupt biological functions, i.e. you drown in it.
My suspicion is this substance is hazardous, and would still require some clean-up after use. It's very well that he tosses a laptop into a fishbowl of it, which immediately does no harm, but what will the laptop be like tomorrow or in a week?
My PHB will likely be faxing Tyco a P.O. this afternoon!
Memo To All Valued Employees:
When a fire breaks out, please remain calm. Additional stress during this time of continued right-sizing is unproductive. I personally assure you that all valued assets will be safe and secure.
If you have any questions, please address them to my secretary who can forward them to me in my personal bunker in Tahiti.
and 2 power connections... And it also has what looks to be a vacuum cleaner tied to it..
The approaching question is, which is the principal in your box, the Motherboard or the Video card? My present video card has more memory and sucks more power than my laptop, and like yours has a fan, though it's quiet.
FNNNZZOWWWNT!"Wayl, shewt! Thar goes the arc welder! Gessen we cain't play no Medal o' Honor till we gets a new one."
It's good to know I can look forward to reading text in a more scintillating black and white, while Flash ads and pop-ups will be more vibrant than ever.
In a word, "Wow."
I mean, who'd have thunk it that the 6800 would still have life? Maybe ATI can counter with a Radeon All-In-Wonder Xtravaganza 6502!
If you met Alan Ralksy, Scott Richter, Alexey Panov, Anthony M. Banks, Chris Smith, Eddy Marin, Eric Reinersten, Juan Garavaglia or Robert Soloway on the street, you would:
Kick their balls into their shoulder blades.
Punch them in the face then kick their balls into their shoulder blades.
Punch them in the face, kick their balls into their shoulder blades and spit on them as they writhe on the ground.
Call them "motherfscking c0cksucking son of a festering whore", spit in their face, punch them in the face and kick their balls into their shoulder blades.
Flash them the "secret spammer sign" then kick them in the balls because they're competition.
brrt-brrt-click
"Hello, John?" "Yes, John Ashcroft here...oops, damn, I wasn't supposed to say anything, was I?"
"wtf! What are you doing on my friend's phone?" "Just remember, son, it's all Clinton's fault." "Tell him he's either with us or against us!"
"Damn Intel!' "That's what I say, we need better intel." "Did he just say something bad about my intelligence?" "No, Mr. President. So you see we'll be able to listen in on Iraqi terrorists like this."
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING? BUGGING CELL PHONES?!!?!" WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! "Ow! That hurt! My ears are ringing, have him arrested for assaulting the President of the United States." "Oh, we'll get around to him, sir, we'll get around to all of them."
It would be impossible to get bad driving removed from your record and there would be no such thing as extenuating circumstances. Of course, this would be a great excuse to raise premiums.
Undoubtably thousands of people half already considered such measures. The problem is, you have a selfish bastard of a driver, who will do the following:
Insurance rates go up: Drive without insurance
Drivers license taken away: Drive without one
Hit someone: Runaway
The problem in the US is people think of driving as a right, not a privilege. Measures should be drastic, on the first offense, i.e. impound the vehicle for a minimum amount of time.
Even with a range of 1 km, a lot of sensors will have to be installed to get total coverage. I suppose they could just confine themselves to the highways (at least at first), but IIRC the majority of accidents occur on surface streets.
Who would pay for it? Nobody. It ain't gonna happen.
This morning some maniac is shooting down the road. Weaves between cars with about 1 foot clearance, at ~80 MPH. Then comes to an agri truck which is going to slow for him. He passes it on the shoulder, narrowly averting disaster, where the car could have rolled and could have been run over by the larger vehicle.
With driving habits like that it's only a matter of time before someone is injured or killed. I may see one patrol car a week on this long heavily travelled stretch, usually on Friday.
Short of trackng drivers with a satellite the authorities aren't going to know it even happened. Then there's the matter of who was driving the car. Much to my chagrin, after a hit and run, I found the San Jose, CA, police could care less if I have a license number, description of car and could identify the face of the driver. Just fill out the forms and your insurance company will take care of it.
It's hard to feel one way of the other about this. How does John Ashcroft feel about it? I'll probably trend the other way, but I don't think this will solve anything.
Yeah, that's how I remember it too. Though on one occaision my brother was the GM and was really pissed that we spent an entire afternoon and part of evening running amok in a the town he expected us to just outfit in and get going. (instead we tried to rob the store, burglarize a house, my half orc [int of 5] was crawling down mainstreet under an overturned boat like Homer Simpson, burned a store and got half the party almost killed, it was fun:-) another time involved creative methods of interrogation with a pair of pliers.
And people have to ask why we played those games. It wasn't for killing and treasure and shit, that's for sure.:-)
Not for most people. The vast majority of online purchases are done with a credit card. They'd simply argue that you could look at your payment accounts (Western Union, PayPal) as well as your credit card statements to get an idea.
Problem is you really need the invoice, not total. Some purchases, like one I made last night, are in-state and had sales tax included in the total.
This would be hard for me, considering I kept little record of online purchases over the past year. If it's a used item is it supposed to be
taxed, too? What about all those books I bought from amazon.co.uk? (More of these on the way.) I'd rather online retailers just do the work for me. Then it's their problem if they try to cheat
one state government or the other. (i.e. i report I bought $2,000 worth of computer hardware from a business, which collect sales taxes, but didn't actually turn them over.)
I have no doubt its coming, but don't expect me to keep the records.
I understand there is an issue of fairness, assuming a state which doesn't collect sales taxes or has a very low rate sells a lot of merchandise to people in a state with high sales taxes, and local sales taxes (i.e. California)
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As if you couldn't find history in Mozilla...
Could be worse, could be the boss turns to you and winks.
what's their plan... track most popular searches, keep a cookie full of it, suggest these fine things the next time you go to Amazon.com... could even help them anticipate what to carry [We need to carry ... goats?] as if their marketing data isn't already legion...
Sounds a bit like asking a certain president to invade your country to help you find some WMD you mislaid.
Ok, I'm cynical, but it's my turn dammit.
Large or Small?
A friend who worked in waste management explained to me the often confused difference between Hazardous Waste and Toxic Waste, in a nutshell:
Toxic Substance kills cells even in small doses, because it breaks down or disrupts the chemistry of cells.
Hazardous Substance could be anything, even Cola Cola, in a large enough concentration to disrupt biological functions, i.e. you drown in it.
My suspicion is this substance is hazardous, and would still require some clean-up after use. It's very well that he tosses a laptop into a fishbowl of it, which immediately does no harm, but what will the laptop be like tomorrow or in a week?
ObSimpsons:
"Smithers, did we kill that family of ducks?"
"I think so, Sir."
"Ehhhxcellent."
Have them drink a glass of it, then I'll believe it.
Prior Art(!): Bartholomew and the Oobleck
Do you take American Express?
Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra: $600
800 Watt Powersupply: $250
MMORPG: $10/mo.
The look on your face when you get your next powerbill: Priceless
There are some things in life your measley paycheck can cover, for everything else there's Massivecharge.
Maybe there's a daughterboard connector you can hang your mini-pc off of.
and 2 power connections... And it also has what looks to be a vacuum cleaner tied to it..
The approaching question is, which is the principal in your box, the Motherboard or the Video card? My present video card has more memory and sucks more power than my laptop, and like yours has a fan, though it's quiet.
FNNNZZOWWWNT! "Wayl, shewt! Thar goes the arc welder! Gessen we cain't play no Medal o' Honor till we gets a new one."
Is it considered "safe" to buy any of the Nvidia chipset motherboards, or are they still pretty sketchy?
In a word, "Wow."
I mean, who'd have thunk it that the 6800 would still have life? Maybe ATI can counter with a Radeon All-In-Wonder Xtravaganza 6502!
If you met Alan Ralksy, Scott Richter, Alexey Panov, Anthony M. Banks, Chris Smith, Eddy Marin, Eric Reinersten, Juan Garavaglia or Robert Soloway on the street, you would:
Kick their balls into their shoulder blades.
Punch them in the face then kick their balls into their shoulder blades.
Punch them in the face, kick their balls into their shoulder blades and spit on them as they writhe on the ground.
Call them "motherfscking c0cksucking son of a festering whore", spit in their face, punch them in the face and kick their balls into their shoulder blades.
Flash them the "secret spammer sign" then kick them in the balls because they're competition.
dit-dit-dit-diddit-dit-dit
brrt-brrt-click
"Hello, John?"
"Yes, John Ashcroft here...oops, damn, I wasn't supposed to say anything, was I?"
"wtf! What are you doing on my friend's phone?"
"Just remember, son, it's all Clinton's fault."
"Tell him he's either with us or against us!"
"Damn Intel!'
"That's what I say, we need better intel."
"Did he just say something bad about my intelligence?"
"No, Mr. President. So you see we'll be able to listen in on Iraqi terrorists like this."
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING? BUGGING CELL PHONES?!!?!"
WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!
"Ow! That hurt! My ears are ringing, have him arrested for assaulting the President of the United States."
"Oh, we'll get around to him, sir, we'll get around to all of them."
Undoubtably thousands of people half already considered such measures. The problem is, you have a selfish bastard of a driver, who will do the following:
Insurance rates go up: Drive without insurance
Drivers license taken away: Drive without one
Hit someone: Runaway
The problem in the US is people think of driving as a right, not a privilege. Measures should be drastic, on the first offense, i.e. impound the vehicle for a minimum amount of time.
Who would pay for it? Nobody. It ain't gonna happen.
With driving habits like that it's only a matter of time before someone is injured or killed. I may see one patrol car a week on this long heavily travelled stretch, usually on Friday.
Short of trackng drivers with a satellite the authorities aren't going to know it even happened. Then there's the matter of who was driving the car. Much to my chagrin, after a hit and run, I found the San Jose, CA, police could care less if I have a license number, description of car and could identify the face of the driver. Just fill out the forms and your insurance company will take care of it.
It's hard to feel one way of the other about this. How does John Ashcroft feel about it? I'll probably trend the other way, but I don't think this will solve anything.
And people have to ask why we played those games. It wasn't for killing and treasure and shit, that's for sure. :-)
For success they must roll at least an 18
That'th Dithpicable!
Honestly, I always preferred Daffy Duck before he became short-tempered like Donald Duck. What is it with ducks being angry characters?
Problem is you really need the invoice, not total. Some purchases, like one I made last night, are in-state and had sales tax included in the total.
What if it were a non-tangiable? i.e. pr0n
"the internet is for pr0n, the internet is for pr0n, so grab your d!ck and double-click for pr0n, pr0n, pr0n!" -- Avenue Q
I understand there is an issue of fairness, assuming a state which doesn't collect sales taxes or has a very low rate sells a lot of merchandise to people in a state with high sales taxes, and local sales taxes (i.e. California)