The law doesn't require a company to go after each and every last thing that could possibly, no matter how weird, sound slightly similar to its name.
You can't seriously believe Microsoft would lose their corporate trademark because a guy named Mike Rowe also makes software. If vague soundalikes meant you lost your trademark, every company with the name 'soft' (and there are thousands of them) would all lose their trademarks tomorrow.
Much of traditional American education has become primarily a matter of rote memorization
Has become? When did you go to school, 1875?
I've been out of grade school for nearly 20 years now, and back then it was mostly rote memorization. My parents went to school nearly 50 years ago and it was even MORESO rote learning.
How many kids today drill on multiplication tables? Learn physics primarily by memorizing 3,000 different formulae? Write book reports based soley on the ability to remember the events in the story? Those were the core of education for decades if not longer. Education in North America, for the past century, has revolved around rote learning.
One of my university professors would tell stories of "final exams" back in the 40s in the more pretigious schools in England. You went to school for 4 years, and during exams, where you were required to remember and regurgitate as much as possible about the preceeding 4 years - in a single day. Talking with folks from places like India, China, and other non-western countries, their education is heavier into rote learning than ours.
Where did you go to school that your education WASN'T primarily a matter of rote memorization?
I'm perplexed that anyone lives on dial-up anymore, excluding extreme technophobes.
There was a time, not too many years ago, when the Internet was geek-land. Everyone on it (it seemed) was into computers. Would surf for stupid personal webpages, talk on IRC, read Usenet, the usual "old school" types of uses. IM was just coming into its own, and was still mostly a geek thing. In terms of practical usage, the Internet had very little, unless you wanted to research something nerdy like computers or Star Trek trivia.
Suddenly (or so it seemed), everyone and their dog was e-mailing me. Mom. Dad. Grandma. Teenagers who spent their lives out drinking with their buddies now hooked up through MSN. These people cared little for computers as a hobby, they just treated them as a bigger cellphone. They started shopping. They started downloading music. The found out you could watch movies. Online banking. Tax returns. School research. You name it, they were doing it. All without any desire to be "a computer person", or worse, "a geek". The masses had discovered the Internet.
But forget video. What really has been the killer app for broadband is digital cameras. I have a few family members still on dial-up, and they constantly complain about pictures. They want to see them. With my measly little 2MP camera, and its images JPG'd to hell and back, a dial-up connection is just about useless for looking at more than a picture or two. And I don't take many pictures at a time. Imagine the average person, who takes 20 shots of the new puppy. His/her friend wants to see. 5-10MB of photos chokes a dial-up connection.
Damn near everyone seems to have a digital camera these days. And is taking pictures with it. And is sharing with their friends. I just don't know how the dial-up users cope.
This isn't just us geeks anymore. These are regular, normal people. And they use more bandwidth now than we ever did.
It's totally possible to live on dial-up. It's totally possible to live without the Internet. It just seems like a person almost has to TRY to do it these days.
1/74th of Data's full storage capacity on Star Trek
Interesting, I've never heard that one before (yup, a non-Trekkie on Slashdot). So Data's got about 90PB of storage. Seems insane, right?
It's always neat to see what sci-fi authors think is going to be some insanely huge number, and neater to see how quickly those estimates seem quaint.
I just re-read Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. In it, the intelligent computer, who can perfectly simulate human voice, display a real-time, photorealistic face with perfect gestures complete with animated photorealistic background scenery, store most if not all of human knowledge, and generally do everything imaginable.......runs at roughly 10Mhz (defined by the protagonist as "decisions per second").
I'm sure this seemed really fast decades ago, yet today it's quaint. If by some miracle we could actually keep doubling hard drive capacities forever, we'll exceed Data in less than 20 years in a single 3.5" drive.
Yeah, and considering the $10,000 applies to vulnerabilities rated as "critical", you'd hardly ever pay out.
A "critical" Windows flaw is one that allows remote exploitation. Find me a Linux distro in the past 3 or 4 years that is remotely exploitable in a default configuration, and *I'll* pay you the bounty.
why would an online marketing company want to block pop-ups?
Simple. They don't. They lie. That is the raison d'etre of advertising in the 21st century:
New York-based company, which designs search engines and pop-up window blockers for about 5,000 websites
Why exactly would a *website* need a pop-up blocker anyway?
Besides, it's like regular old spam. "Click here to unsubscribe" basically subscibes you to their website. Installing some asshat's "POP-UP BLOCKER!!!!!!!!!!" software pretty much guarantees they're going to run pop-ups of their own. This isn't news to those of us in IT, but marketers and advertisers have seemingly no qualms stating the exact opposite of reality.
At least in beer commercials, it's only IMPLIED that hot chicks will talk to you...
Which would you rather see? A young amateur who goes all out and wins a gold after years of practice or a paid professional taking a week off from their competitive sport so they can try to pump up their professional career and get more shoe endorsements?
The problem is, for athletes in competitive team sports like Hockey, there is no one in the former category. Well, there are, but guess what: those are the players that couldn't cut it. Before 1998 this is exactly what Canada and the US fielded in the Olympics, and we usually got crushed. All of our best players were ineligible to play in the tournament. Any hockey player 18 or over who was any good was almost certainly signed, playing, or both.
There is a tournament along the lines of what you're suggesting, young amateurs who go all out playing for their country, without worrying about the politics, business, or any other side of hockey: it's called the World Junior Championships.
Sourness in the oil comes from the fact that it's full of Sulphur. Most oil and gas companies in Alberta know how to deal with this, as much of what's left in the ground here is sour. Some companies even specialize in sour plants, and make a huge profit selling elemental sulphur overseas. Bitumen isn't a component of the oil, it IS the oil. Oilsands are basically bitumen mixed with water and sand. Bitumen can be refined to as sweet an oil as you like, it just costs more.
It is estimated that the Athabasca Oil Sands deposit contains 1.6 trillion barrels (250 km3) of crude; however, at current market prices, and given the technology of today only 311 billion barrels (49.4 km3) of crude oil can be feasibly extracted... Proven reserves stand at 174 billion barrels (27.7 km3)
Yeah, Wikipedia isn't the end all of information sources. The numbers do jive with what the industry has found, however. What does this mean? Expensive oil, that's all. No Stone Age, no end of civilization, just costly oil.
So long as oil prices stay where they are, believe me - the oilsands in Athabasca and other areas ARE what the media presents them to be. If oil prices drop, well, we've obviously gotten past the problem, now haven't we?
Of course getting it out is tough. Hence my comment that $30/barrel is just barely feasible. It's expensive, it's messy, it's damaging to the environment. Doesn't change the fact that there is one hell of a lot of oil available.
If oil prices drop like they did in the 80s/90s, oilsands operations will essentially all go bust. What could cause such a precipitous drop? New oil discoveries, or decreased demand due to alternative energy sources and/or conservation. Which alleviates the problem of Peak Oil, by definition. If it's cheap, we aren't at Peak Oil - or we no longer need it as badly. Well, another NEP could emerge, crippling Alberta's economy again and driving away all investment...
About the only hitch here is the natural gas requirement. Nuclear could take over, but so far Klein is standing firm against that. It's all just energy, though, so something will fill the gap - it'll just make the oil that much more expensive. Again, we have plenty of oil. SUVs just won't be cost-effective.
Oh, and as for occupancy rates in Ft. Mac? 100% doesn't begin to describe how bad it is. $2000/month for a one room apartment. All the cost of NYC without anything to do other than work and smell suplhur:)
Huh. One trillion barrels produced over human history. Let's say 100 years of continuous pumping, with of course more pulled out in recent years.
The oilsands in Alberta, Canada are currently estimated to hold over a trillion barrels of reachable oil. Near as I can tell, that's another century's worth. Now, we're using far more oil than we were during WWII, so let's look at current usage. As of late we're running about 30 billion barrels annually, so 1,000/30 ~ 33. 33 years of oil, assuming the Middle East disappears, Russia decides to stop pumping, Venezuela burns all of theirs somehow, and all of the smaller-producing countries stop as well. This is one small Canadian province providing every last drop of the world's oil, for 33 years. Considering this is less than half of known reserves, we can safely go with 70 years of oil.
A bit Chicken Little, maybe, calling for the Stone Age in 20 years then. This guy sounds like the Steve Gibson of energy research (OMG YOUR WINDOWS COMPUTER HAS RAW SOCKETS!!!!!!). Yeah, there's an issue. Definitely, we should do something about it soon. But the end of civilization in 20 years? Ridiculous.
Peak Oil proponents seem to only look at conventional oil supplies. The linked article claims we only have a trillion barrels of oil left in the entire world. Sorry, but I can drive over that much in an evening. What will happen? Oil's going to stay expensive as hell, that's all. $20/barrel minimum, and that's a very optimistic number. Oil companies need in the range of $30-40 to make oilsands business profitable, and expandable. So bye-bye SUVs.
In the meantime, any IT folks (or pretty much any other occupation, but this is Slashdot after all:) looking for good-paying work, come visit. We're looking at a labour shortage of nearly 100,000 people just in the construction industry alone over the next 5 years. Plus, there's mountains:)
Fact of the matter is, if we REALLY were concerned for children's safety, we would take them away from their parents at birth, and never allow them to associate with any relatives.
Stories like this remind me of a (surprise!) sensationalist news report on child abductions in Canada. The stats were from 2003 or 2004. They spent a good 5 minutes talking about how many children go missing in Canada each year. It's in the tens of thousands. A good chunk of that is teen runaways, but there are still THOUSANDS of children abducted every year here. At the very end of the story, they briefly mentioned this fact:
The number of children abducted by strangers that year?
I take exception to this. I see a lot of people claiming he's a good actor. I've seen a lot of reviews saying the same thing. One of his "best" performances was supposedly in Life as a House.
Watch it sometime. Christensen is wooden, boring, unsympathetic, and perpetually whiny. In short, he plays his Anakin character TO THE TEE, sans Star Wars dress-up.
By the end of that movie I honestly wanted his character to die. Just like in Star Wars:)
Falling in love with someone isn't just something you can set out determined to do
Very true, but sadly, many people seem to behave this way. Hence the preponderence of failed relationships, and incredibly high divorce rates.
Love isn't something you can force, it isn't something you can seek out. It'll happen when you meet the right person. The only possible advice I can offer is: meet as many people as you can, and don't just settle for the first person you have a passing attraction towards.
If you live in a city, and stay in that city, it's a fancy map. No different than Google maps in that respect, or for that matter most printed or electronic maps. The satellite views can be cool, but in a city they're mostly a toy. You can sometimes get a clearer idea of the true layout of freeway exits and mass transit lines with it.
However, outside of population centres, it's simply amazing. Instant lat/lon co-ordinates to anywhere on Earth. Altitude readings (although these are only accurate to within 10-20% I've found, they're still damn useful). Measure, to the metre, ANYTHING. Doing this sort of work with regular maps is a pain, especially for those of us who aren't cartographers by trade.
In short, if you ever go back-country camping, do any hiking, or even just wander off the beaten path, Google Earth is one of the most useful applications ever written. I personally use it nearly every day, whether I'm mapping out a new area to wander around in, seeing where I've been (importing GPS data is awesome!), or just poking around trying to find some way up a stubborn uncharted mountain.
Last summer I used it to find a very remote, very beautiful, VERY hard to find campsite I had used back in the 90s. Since then friends and I had tried to find the site without success, on 4 separate occasions. One of those "you might stumble into it by chance" type places. With Google Earth, we found it in less than an hour of hiking.
I'd agree, if this was still 1995. Solitaire saved the company I was working at literally tens of thousands of dollars in training costs. We let everyone play to their heart's content (no pun intended) so long as their work got done.
However, why does a "Professional" OS, released many years later, still have this? Do we still have a bunch of companies migrating from Wordperfect 5.1 with users who have managed to avoid a mouse for a decade? I say this coming from an AS/400 shop, and even WE know how to use mice:)
Yeah. Or pregnant women. First, they take many more bathroom breaks over a 9 month period (for several reasons). Then, they take MONTHS off work WITH PAY,
Sounds stupid, doesn't it?
Companies should just give every employee the same number of breaks, the same number of days off, etc. Use them how you see fit, so that we don't have to look down our noses at people who do things we may disapprove of. Quit smoking, gain two 15 minute Solitaire breaks per day!
The GP is especially funny considering s/he IS Canadian.
Sexual orientation is listed as a "prohibited grounds" for discrimination, just like race, gender, religion, disability, etc. I understand in the US it's not protected to the same degree as up here, but make no mistake: in Canada, it is against the law to discriminate against someone on the basis of who they choose to sleep with. Just as you cannot discriminate against people of other colours. It's spelled out in black and white in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
This is one of the main reasons we legalized gay marriages. Well, that and enough Canadians finally realized that enforcing one's moral beliefs on others is a restriction of their freedoms.
You've just summed up precisely what it is that I hate with moden fundamentalist religious movements, and at the same time made me realize that we're all just pandering to these idiots.
Here's hoping one side or the other isn't crying out for beheadings anytime soon. We still have some tolerance in the West.
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Not really.
The law doesn't require a company to go after each and every last thing that could possibly, no matter how weird, sound slightly similar to its name.
You can't seriously believe Microsoft would lose their corporate trademark because a guy named Mike Rowe also makes software. If vague soundalikes meant you lost your trademark, every company with the name 'soft' (and there are thousands of them) would all lose their trademarks tomorrow.
Yeah, I'm having a deja vu with Mike Rowe, here.
This'll be a good test of Google's "evilness", though.
You'll be even more upset when you realize that they still aren't funny.
Much of traditional American education has become primarily a matter of rote memorization
Has become? When did you go to school, 1875?
I've been out of grade school for nearly 20 years now, and back then it was mostly rote memorization. My parents went to school nearly 50 years ago and it was even MORESO rote learning.
How many kids today drill on multiplication tables? Learn physics primarily by memorizing 3,000 different formulae? Write book reports based soley on the ability to remember the events in the story? Those were the core of education for decades if not longer. Education in North America, for the past century, has revolved around rote learning.
One of my university professors would tell stories of "final exams" back in the 40s in the more pretigious schools in England. You went to school for 4 years, and during exams, where you were required to remember and regurgitate as much as possible about the preceeding 4 years - in a single day. Talking with folks from places like India, China, and other non-western countries, their education is heavier into rote learning than ours.
Where did you go to school that your education WASN'T primarily a matter of rote memorization?
I'm perplexed that anyone lives on dial-up anymore, excluding extreme technophobes.
There was a time, not too many years ago, when the Internet was geek-land. Everyone on it (it seemed) was into computers. Would surf for stupid personal webpages, talk on IRC, read Usenet, the usual "old school" types of uses. IM was just coming into its own, and was still mostly a geek thing. In terms of practical usage, the Internet had very little, unless you wanted to research something nerdy like computers or Star Trek trivia.
Suddenly (or so it seemed), everyone and their dog was e-mailing me. Mom. Dad. Grandma. Teenagers who spent their lives out drinking with their buddies now hooked up through MSN. These people cared little for computers as a hobby, they just treated them as a bigger cellphone. They started shopping. They started downloading music. The found out you could watch movies. Online banking. Tax returns. School research. You name it, they were doing it. All without any desire to be "a computer person", or worse, "a geek". The masses had discovered the Internet.
But forget video. What really has been the killer app for broadband is digital cameras. I have a few family members still on dial-up, and they constantly complain about pictures. They want to see them. With my measly little 2MP camera, and its images JPG'd to hell and back, a dial-up connection is just about useless for looking at more than a picture or two. And I don't take many pictures at a time. Imagine the average person, who takes 20 shots of the new puppy. His/her friend wants to see. 5-10MB of photos chokes a dial-up connection.
Damn near everyone seems to have a digital camera these days. And is taking pictures with it. And is sharing with their friends. I just don't know how the dial-up users cope.
This isn't just us geeks anymore. These are regular, normal people. And they use more bandwidth now than we ever did.
It's totally possible to live on dial-up. It's totally possible to live without the Internet. It just seems like a person almost has to TRY to do it these days.
1/74th of Data's full storage capacity on Star Trek
...runs at roughly 10Mhz (defined by the protagonist as "decisions per second").
Interesting, I've never heard that one before (yup, a non-Trekkie on Slashdot). So Data's got about 90PB of storage. Seems insane, right?
It's always neat to see what sci-fi authors think is going to be some insanely huge number, and neater to see how quickly those estimates seem quaint.
I just re-read Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. In it, the intelligent computer, who can perfectly simulate human voice, display a real-time, photorealistic face with perfect gestures complete with animated photorealistic background scenery, store most if not all of human knowledge, and generally do everything imaginable....
I'm sure this seemed really fast decades ago, yet today it's quaint. If by some miracle we could actually keep doubling hard drive capacities forever, we'll exceed Data in less than 20 years in a single 3.5" drive.
Scary, but also fun to look forward to.
Yeah, and considering the $10,000 applies to vulnerabilities rated as "critical", you'd hardly ever pay out.
A "critical" Windows flaw is one that allows remote exploitation. Find me a Linux distro in the past 3 or 4 years that is remotely exploitable in a default configuration, and *I'll* pay you the bounty.
why would an online marketing company want to block pop-ups?
Simple. They don't. They lie. That is the raison d'etre of advertising in the 21st century:
New York-based company, which designs search engines and pop-up window blockers for about 5,000 websites
Why exactly would a *website* need a pop-up blocker anyway?
Besides, it's like regular old spam. "Click here to unsubscribe" basically subscibes you to their website. Installing some asshat's "POP-UP BLOCKER!!!!!!!!!!" software pretty much guarantees they're going to run pop-ups of their own. This isn't news to those of us in IT, but marketers and advertisers have seemingly no qualms stating the exact opposite of reality.
At least in beer commercials, it's only IMPLIED that hot chicks will talk to you...
We've already apologized for Bryan Adams on several occasions.
Which would you rather see? A young amateur who goes all out and wins a gold after years of practice or a paid professional taking a week off from their competitive sport so they can try to pump up their professional career and get more shoe endorsements?
:)
The problem is, for athletes in competitive team sports like Hockey, there is no one in the former category. Well, there are, but guess what: those are the players that couldn't cut it. Before 1998 this is exactly what Canada and the US fielded in the Olympics, and we usually got crushed. All of our best players were ineligible to play in the tournament. Any hockey player 18 or over who was any good was almost certainly signed, playing, or both.
There is a tournament along the lines of what you're suggesting, young amateurs who go all out playing for their country, without worrying about the politics, business, or any other side of hockey: it's called the World Junior Championships.
Canada typically wins this, too
Sourness in the oil comes from the fact that it's full of Sulphur. Most oil and gas companies in Alberta know how to deal with this, as much of what's left in the ground here is sour. Some companies even specialize in sour plants, and make a huge profit selling elemental sulphur overseas. Bitumen isn't a component of the oil, it IS the oil. Oilsands are basically bitumen mixed with water and sand. Bitumen can be refined to as sweet an oil as you like, it just costs more.
... Proven reserves stand at 174 billion barrels (27.7 km3)
As for the reserves, check out the Wikipedia article on this.
It is estimated that the Athabasca Oil Sands deposit contains 1.6 trillion barrels (250 km3) of crude; however, at current market prices, and given the technology of today only 311 billion barrels (49.4 km3) of crude oil can be feasibly extracted
Yeah, Wikipedia isn't the end all of information sources. The numbers do jive with what the industry has found, however. What does this mean? Expensive oil, that's all. No Stone Age, no end of civilization, just costly oil.
So long as oil prices stay where they are, believe me - the oilsands in Athabasca and other areas ARE what the media presents them to be. If oil prices drop, well, we've obviously gotten past the problem, now haven't we?
Of course getting it out is tough. Hence my comment that $30/barrel is just barely feasible. It's expensive, it's messy, it's damaging to the environment. Doesn't change the fact that there is one hell of a lot of oil available.
:)
If oil prices drop like they did in the 80s/90s, oilsands operations will essentially all go bust. What could cause such a precipitous drop? New oil discoveries, or decreased demand due to alternative energy sources and/or conservation. Which alleviates the problem of Peak Oil, by definition. If it's cheap, we aren't at Peak Oil - or we no longer need it as badly. Well, another NEP could emerge, crippling Alberta's economy again and driving away all investment...
About the only hitch here is the natural gas requirement. Nuclear could take over, but so far Klein is standing firm against that. It's all just energy, though, so something will fill the gap - it'll just make the oil that much more expensive. Again, we have plenty of oil. SUVs just won't be cost-effective.
Oh, and as for occupancy rates in Ft. Mac? 100% doesn't begin to describe how bad it is. $2000/month for a one room apartment. All the cost of NYC without anything to do other than work and smell suplhur
Huh. One trillion barrels produced over human history. Let's say 100 years of continuous pumping, with of course more pulled out in recent years.
:) looking for good-paying work, come visit. We're looking at a labour shortage of nearly 100,000 people just in the construction industry alone over the next 5 years. Plus, there's mountains :)
The oilsands in Alberta, Canada are currently estimated to hold over a trillion barrels of reachable oil. Near as I can tell, that's another century's worth. Now, we're using far more oil than we were during WWII, so let's look at current usage. As of late we're running about 30 billion barrels annually, so 1,000/30 ~ 33. 33 years of oil, assuming the Middle East disappears, Russia decides to stop pumping, Venezuela burns all of theirs somehow, and all of the smaller-producing countries stop as well. This is one small Canadian province providing every last drop of the world's oil, for 33 years. Considering this is less than half of known reserves, we can safely go with 70 years of oil.
A bit Chicken Little, maybe, calling for the Stone Age in 20 years then. This guy sounds like the Steve Gibson of energy research (OMG YOUR WINDOWS COMPUTER HAS RAW SOCKETS!!!!!!). Yeah, there's an issue. Definitely, we should do something about it soon. But the end of civilization in 20 years? Ridiculous.
Peak Oil proponents seem to only look at conventional oil supplies. The linked article claims we only have a trillion barrels of oil left in the entire world. Sorry, but I can drive over that much in an evening. What will happen? Oil's going to stay expensive as hell, that's all. $20/barrel minimum, and that's a very optimistic number. Oil companies need in the range of $30-40 to make oilsands business profitable, and expandable. So bye-bye SUVs.
In the meantime, any IT folks (or pretty much any other occupation, but this is Slashdot after all
And very likely, last.
Fact of the matter is, if we REALLY were concerned for children's safety, we would take them away from their parents at birth, and never allow them to associate with any relatives.
Stories like this remind me of a (surprise!) sensationalist news report on child abductions in Canada. The stats were from 2003 or 2004. They spent a good 5 minutes talking about how many children go missing in Canada each year. It's in the tens of thousands. A good chunk of that is teen runaways, but there are still THOUSANDS of children abducted every year here. At the very end of the story, they briefly mentioned this fact:
The number of children abducted by strangers that year?
Five.
Guess who took the rest.
It's like going to the American Meat Institute and asking what they think of vegetarianism.
When I grow up, I'm going to Bovine University!
Hayden Christensen is actually a good actor.
:)
I take exception to this. I see a lot of people claiming he's a good actor. I've seen a lot of reviews saying the same thing. One of his "best" performances was supposedly in Life as a House.
Watch it sometime. Christensen is wooden, boring, unsympathetic, and perpetually whiny. In short, he plays his Anakin character TO THE TEE, sans Star Wars dress-up.
By the end of that movie I honestly wanted his character to die. Just like in Star Wars
Falling in love with someone isn't just something you can set out determined to do
Very true, but sadly, many people seem to behave this way. Hence the preponderence of failed relationships, and incredibly high divorce rates.
Love isn't something you can force, it isn't something you can seek out. It'll happen when you meet the right person. The only possible advice I can offer is: meet as many people as you can, and don't just settle for the first person you have a passing attraction towards.
If you live in a city, and stay in that city, it's a fancy map. No different than Google maps in that respect, or for that matter most printed or electronic maps. The satellite views can be cool, but in a city they're mostly a toy. You can sometimes get a clearer idea of the true layout of freeway exits and mass transit lines with it.
However, outside of population centres, it's simply amazing. Instant lat/lon co-ordinates to anywhere on Earth. Altitude readings (although these are only accurate to within 10-20% I've found, they're still damn useful). Measure, to the metre, ANYTHING. Doing this sort of work with regular maps is a pain, especially for those of us who aren't cartographers by trade.
In short, if you ever go back-country camping, do any hiking, or even just wander off the beaten path, Google Earth is one of the most useful applications ever written. I personally use it nearly every day, whether I'm mapping out a new area to wander around in, seeing where I've been (importing GPS data is awesome!), or just poking around trying to find some way up a stubborn uncharted mountain.
Last summer I used it to find a very remote, very beautiful, VERY hard to find campsite I had used back in the 90s. Since then friends and I had tried to find the site without success, on 4 separate occasions. One of those "you might stumble into it by chance" type places. With Google Earth, we found it in less than an hour of hiking.
Don't worry. We'll be along shortly to burn down those churches' embassies. Hopefully their government will apologize soon.
I'd agree, if this was still 1995. Solitaire saved the company I was working at literally tens of thousands of dollars in training costs. We let everyone play to their heart's content (no pun intended) so long as their work got done.
:)
However, why does a "Professional" OS, released many years later, still have this? Do we still have a bunch of companies migrating from Wordperfect 5.1 with users who have managed to avoid a mouse for a decade? I say this coming from an AS/400 shop, and even WE know how to use mice
Yeah. Or pregnant women. First, they take many more bathroom breaks over a 9 month period (for several reasons). Then, they take MONTHS off work WITH PAY,
Sounds stupid, doesn't it?
Companies should just give every employee the same number of breaks, the same number of days off, etc. Use them how you see fit, so that we don't have to look down our noses at people who do things we may disapprove of. Quit smoking, gain two 15 minute Solitaire breaks per day!
The GP is especially funny considering s/he IS Canadian.
Sexual orientation is listed as a "prohibited grounds" for discrimination, just like race, gender, religion, disability, etc. I understand in the US it's not protected to the same degree as up here, but make no mistake: in Canada, it is against the law to discriminate against someone on the basis of who they choose to sleep with. Just as you cannot discriminate against people of other colours. It's spelled out in black and white in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
This is one of the main reasons we legalized gay marriages. Well, that and enough Canadians finally realized that enforcing one's moral beliefs on others is a restriction of their freedoms.
Sometimes I think Heinlein got everything right.
I didn't have to shave until I was 17
:)
If you were having to shave at 17, trust me, you didn't develop late. Many guys are well into their 20s before they have to shave on a regular basis.
Congrats on the rest though, I agree - aging slowly IS a blessing in disguise
Wow.
You've just summed up precisely what it is that I hate with moden fundamentalist religious movements, and at the same time made me realize that we're all just pandering to these idiots.
Here's hoping one side or the other isn't crying out for beheadings anytime soon. We still have some tolerance in the West.