a) those loopholes put in place by the aust-govt, as someone else said, it's to stop the goverment departments being responsible for any feckups of any contractors. And as such is reasonable i guess.
b) SCO is gutter feeding like this. I mean c'mon they've already shot themselves in the foot and the shin and the.......
c) Australia is not a state of the US, i mean why the hell are we getting so bleeding litigation happy here now?
(o/t) I know Howard is a Blair/Bush lovechild, and wants Bush bad;-), but do we need to go this far as a country (corporately or as people) to prove we are equal in the arse licking stakes as little Johnny?
Not to sound like a total twat but lubing that chain would be a frigging shit of a thing.
I hope that they come standard with a scottoiler or something.
But on the other hand i'd be very nervous about the handling with the weight of the engine so far in front of you. If you go on the throttle hard, you'd chew your tyre out viciously, no mono's here.
Actually i've heard a number of stupid things about these "gated communities", there was a feature on a local sensationalism show "today tonight" about kids banned from playing in the street! I can safely say i'd never want to live in a place like that, i'd rather go move out in the country where the air is just a little less toxic
And r.e. same colour everything for houses flowers, lawns, etc.. It's starting to sound like the trueman show, or god forbid Smallville (which i actually think is a good movie b.t.w.)
It's always educational to read about these things. Like i linked from the slashdot story about the bike chick and read about deep sea fishes, the stimeline of the events, and also got some very insightful comments too.
Let's see what arises here.
I'm feeling fortunately the only thing nuclear anywhere near me is a research facility that's used to make medicine.
your engine idle was running a bit lean. If it was carby, i would have suggested you tweak the idle adjustment screw. Get the twonkers to make your idle a bit richer, another alternate is to use the idle adjustment screw and up the revs by 100-150. see if that works as a temporary measure.:-)
I've got an ATM at a petrol station (Gas station to you yankmericans) that is running OS/2 Warp!!
I only found that out when i went to get money out to pay for petrol, and the armaguards were rebooting it, saw the spashscreen and was most amused.:-)
Apparently it's a common platform for ATM's too. must more stable than the NT ones (only ever seen one OS/2 crash, seen a good dozen or so NT ones die)
Dude, over in the states, it's also a common practice for you to have to pay to recieve calls. We are protected from this by Telcommunications Regulations that prohibit recipient pays for voice/sms unless you request the service, such as recieving picture messages from those 188 type numbers.
So it can royally shoot yourself in the foot if that was in place in.au, Imagine that situation if you wanted an optus prepay mobile and only ever used it to recieve calls, no fun 'eh?
Sure i'll help mum, dad and the girlfriend with their PC problems. I even used to help friends, but now-a-days it costs my mates beer for me to fix pc problems, either that or i tell them to get lost and fix it themselves.
I like the idea of giving them a mac, but my mum is reasonably fluent in speaking windows, im not sure if i'd confuse her if i gave her a mac to use however.
My only tale like this is being involved in a 4 accident sitting stationary at an intersection.
(im in.au so we drive on the left side of the road. The stupid dick turned right at the lights, ran into a skyline imported 3 days prior (the guy was on his way to GET insurance!)
the accident instigator crunched horribly and wrote both cars off, then hit my car and another with the rolling momentum) i was the only bastard in there who *HAD* insurance, and m car was the biggest shitbox of the lot.
The guy's insurance was rejected because he was 0.06, i had to claim off my insurance, and get them to whomp his ass for recovery of costs.
Same deal for me, i did a upgrade to win2k, and downloading new antivirus and firewall software was going well. Then it suddenly crawled along horribly slow (for a 56k modem). i got suspicious, kept plugging away at it, then installed firewall software, and then to my horror found that the pc was slowly trawling its way through subnets pinging ever single damned ip address it could find! I cant remember which virus it was, Nachi perhaps, you know the one that totally borks the cut&paste features.
long story short, fortunately i had kept the downloaded install files in another drive, as i had to nuke the c: partition and start again. Firewall and antivirus went on the second time before the modem was even on this time.
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I've got to ask, but just *how* far in advance do you get to see the stories? 10 mins? 30 mins, a hour?
sounds like me and shiftwork, I did it 18 months, vowed never to go back.
11 months later and voila im back in telecommunications & shiftwork.
Evil evil evil evil evil.
yeah i just realised afterwards, i deleted them to save space a while back. Might go and pop 'em back up when i get home from work.
*ooopsie*
I'm not suprised by either
.......
;-), but do we need to go this far as a country (corporately or as people) to prove we are equal in the arse licking stakes as little Johnny?
a) those loopholes put in place by the aust-govt, as someone else said, it's to stop the goverment
departments being responsible for any feckups of any contractors. And as such is reasonable i guess.
b) SCO is gutter feeding like this. I mean c'mon they've already shot themselves in the foot and the shin and the
c) Australia is not a state of the US, i mean why the hell are we getting so bleeding litigation happy here now?
(o/t) I know Howard is a Blair/Bush lovechild, and wants Bush bad
Not to sound like a total twat but lubing that chain would be a frigging shit of a thing.
I hope that they come standard with a scottoiler or something.
But on the other hand i'd be very nervous about the handling with the weight of the engine so far in front of you. If you go on the throttle hard, you'd chew your tyre out viciously, no mono's here.
Man you'd be suprised what kinda stuff passes for accidents on motorcycles. Some VICIOUS stuff can happen.
take a stroll down www.bikemovies.com for some cracker examples.
Or take a peek at http://www.whileyouwereout.net/online/ for some small ones.
Actually i've heard a number of stupid things about these "gated communities", there was a feature on a local sensationalism show "today tonight" about kids banned from playing in the street! I can safely say i'd never want to live in a place like that, i'd rather go move out in the country where the air is just a little less toxic
And r.e. same colour everything for houses flowers, lawns, etc.. It's starting to sound like the trueman show, or god forbid Smallville (which i actually think is a good movie b.t.w.)
Ditto, that'd be the one! im still about 15-20km from it though, but thats close enough.
You don't know anyone by the name Willie living near there, do you? *hopes not*
It's always educational to read about these things. Like i linked from the slashdot story about the bike chick and read about deep sea fishes, the stimeline of the events, and also got some very insightful comments too.
Let's see what arises here.
I'm feeling fortunately the only thing nuclear anywhere near me is a research facility that's used to make medicine.
whoa, it's now nudging 230,000 hits, 24hours ago it was 160,000!
your engine idle was running a bit lean. :-)
If it was carby, i would have suggested you tweak the idle adjustment screw. Get the twonkers to make your idle a bit richer, another alternate is to use the idle adjustment screw and up the revs by 100-150. see if that works as a temporary measure.
that is unless you've aleready gotten it fixed.
bah my brain's fecked, i meant found, not 'got'.
I've got an ATM at a petrol station (Gas station to you yankmericans) that is running OS/2 Warp!!
:-)
I only found that out when i went to get money out to pay for petrol, and the armaguards were rebooting it, saw the spashscreen and was most amused.
Apparently it's a common platform for ATM's too.
must more stable than the NT ones (only ever seen one OS/2 crash, seen a good dozen or so NT ones die)
Dude, over in the states, it's also a common practice for you to have to pay to recieve calls.
.au, Imagine that situation if you wanted an optus prepay mobile and only ever used it to recieve calls, no fun 'eh?
We are protected from this by Telcommunications Regulations that prohibit recipient pays for voice/sms unless you request the service, such as recieving picture messages from those 188 type numbers.
So it can royally shoot yourself in the foot if that was in place in
ah the crazy things you uni students do.
;-)
reminds me of... oh wait, no it doesn't. i didn't really like beer.
Now if only i could get enough friends up. i guess posting something intelligent here and there is a start 'eh?
Sure i'll help mum, dad and the girlfriend with their PC problems. I even used to help friends, but now-a-days it costs my mates beer for me to fix pc problems, either that or i tell them to get lost and fix it themselves.
I like the idea of giving them a mac, but my mum is reasonably fluent in speaking windows, im not sure if i'd confuse her if i gave her a mac to use however.
damnit i wanted one of those!!! i just couldn't afford it
*reads the url*
But
It's
Overtly
Shit
?
Wash that freaking potty mouth out before someone here offers to shit in it.
it's not just you, im on 256k adsl and its slower than a wet weekend
I hope your feeling a bit better ya poor bastard.
.au so we drive on the left side of the road. The stupid dick turned right at the lights, ran into a skyline imported 3 days prior (the guy was on his way to GET insurance!)
My only tale like this is being involved in a 4 accident sitting stationary at an intersection.
(im in
the accident instigator crunched horribly and wrote both cars off, then hit my car and another with the rolling momentum) i was the only bastard in there who *HAD* insurance, and m car was the biggest shitbox of the lot.
The guy's insurance was rejected because he was 0.06, i had to claim off my insurance, and get them to whomp his ass for recovery of costs.
Yeah, shame that, but it *was* news, so i guess it was in on a technicality.
i do that at home, not at work
yeah i know it's boneheaded. but 1) i have some reasonable measures in place
2) it's my own ass
Same deal for me, i did a upgrade to win2k, and downloading new antivirus and firewall software was going well. Then it suddenly crawled along horribly slow (for a 56k modem). i got suspicious, kept plugging away at it, then installed firewall software, and then to my horror found that the pc was slowly trawling its way through subnets pinging ever single damned ip address it could find! I cant remember which virus it was, Nachi perhaps, you know the one that totally borks the cut&paste features.
long story short, fortunately i had kept the downloaded install files in another drive, as i had to nuke the c: partition and start again. Firewall and antivirus went on the second time before the modem was even on this time.