We all use slang, we all use abbreviations, jargon and impolite ways of speaking, especially with friends and family. The problem i run into is more and more people who cant "Turn it off" when they need to. People who use the same bad grammar when writing an office e-mail that they do when chatting with buddies online or at happy hour. Kids who cant write a coherent written sentence because they are so used to using slang. Its nothing that different from what I say when talking to friends, or get into a flamewar, but i DONT use it in the office, or when meeting someone for the first time, or when applying for a job. Thats the problem.
I ave fellt personally harrased and annoyed by many statements made by politicians. Can I press charges? How can this new law not apply to any form of speech?
What kind of cover sheet do you use for your TPS reports? Do you know what PC Load Letter means? If you had a million dollars, what would you do after you did two chicks at once? What is the minimum pieces of flair I have to wear? Do i get my own stapler?
I thought it was jsut me. I haven found a new album woth downloading in about a year. The stuff thats out there is so bad, its not worth it, even when the cost is 0 to me.
I travel for my job, and i read a lot, so i rely on e-books a great deal, both on my laptop, and on my palm pilot(Yep, i have no problems reading them). However, the idiot publishers in their infinite wisdom have decided that e-books should sell at the same price as a normal book. If this dosent change, noone will buy e-books.
The registration company has my info on file, I dont see why it is needed by anyone else. I dont feel a need to provide personal information to the world at large.
Great. I got some reading I've been wanting to get done. And theres always beer. And why should i shower for theose last two weeks? I mean, fine, if theres things they need me to do, but if they expect me to sit there and look pretty and producive with nothing to do, they really need to get a better idea.
It was completely understandable if he/she was fired, but he left under his own terms. ANYTHING he/she had wanted to do that was malicious would have already been done. ALl they did was create a bad feeling with a former employee.
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Wasnt a book, was just a short story. Sorry i cant remeber the name or the author for you.
I think spider robinson wrote a story like this.
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I may have the wrong author. Might be james p hogan too. Basicly, everyone in the world had a chip implanted in their head that would kill them if too many people reported them as being an asshole, no one knew the exact number it took. So as a consequence, poeple were extrodinary polite for the most part, and there were very few assholes left. However, in the story, one of the characters discovers the world has been lied to, its actually the reporter, not the reportee who can be killed. That inssuferable grumpy neighbor who calls up to report his whole neighborhood eventualy trips over the magic number and dies, televenagelst and other insufferable bastards who just cant leave other people alone are actually the ones killing themselves off. I kinda like the idea.
I seem to remember syphilis being a relativley recent introduction, like in the last 2-3000 years, might partly explain the shift towards monogamy.(Aside from treating basc human urges as evil to controll people.)
I have worked several jobs wehre there was EXTREME loud noise at the jobsite(within 10 feet of unmuffled generators and a carousel pipe organ that could be heard 2 miles away). I always wore earplugs, the simple wax or foam ones from the drugstore. I was the only guy on the job that did. Whenever i had to listen to something, i would remove the right earphone, I always kept the left one in. Additionally, when out walking around, i only use the right headphone of my walkman. I can notice a diffrence in the hearin on the right and left sides of my own head from the minor damage over the years. The hearing in my left ear is much more acute overall, and can hear frequencies that the right one cant.
They have those fancy schmancy flat keyboards that jsut detectteh presure placement. Why not a keyboard that works like a touch screen, and detects where you place your fingers for each letter? You sit down at it, position everything correctly for ergonomics, and close your eyes. Then type out "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" 10 imes, and let the keyboard remeber where you THINK the letters are. You can be a touch typist immedaitely after you program it.
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We all use slang, we all use abbreviations, jargon and impolite ways of speaking, especially with friends and family. The problem i run into is more and more people who cant "Turn it off" when they need to. People who use the same bad grammar when writing an office e-mail that they do when chatting with buddies online or at happy hour. Kids who cant write a coherent written sentence because they are so used to using slang. Its nothing that different from what I say when talking to friends, or get into a flamewar, but i DONT use it in the office, or when meeting someone for the first time, or when applying for a job. Thats the problem.
Shakespeare is just as understandable now as it was then.
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". As a bonus, you can literally do it with 2 coconuts and a banana leaf."
HOW?
I have one in my batroom named big bob. Big bob is now chlorox resistant. He also has a .357 and a bad attitude.
These are the same half wits who keep important files in their computers trash cans because its quick and deasy to send it there by hitting "delete"
I ave fellt personally harrased and annoyed by many statements made by politicians. Can I press charges? How can this new law not apply to any form of speech?
Just what we needed.
The knob on this magnet will go all the way to 11.
If i offer you 1 ounce of gold for a desktop computer, how do they tax that?
Time to sell.
What kind of cover sheet do you use for your TPS reports?
Do you know what PC Load Letter means?
If you had a million dollars, what would you do after you did two chicks at once?
What is the minimum pieces of flair I have to wear?
Do i get my own stapler?
I thought it was jsut me. I haven found a new album woth downloading in about a year. The stuff thats out there is so bad, its not worth it, even when the cost is 0 to me.
I travel for my job, and i read a lot, so i rely on e-books a great deal, both on my laptop, and on my palm pilot(Yep, i have no problems reading them). However, the idiot publishers in their infinite wisdom have decided that e-books should sell at the same price as a normal book. If this dosent change, noone will buy e-books.
The registration company has my info on file, I dont see why it is needed by anyone else. I dont feel a need to provide personal information to the world at large.
Great. I got some reading I've been wanting to get done. And theres always beer. And why should i shower for theose last two weeks? I mean, fine, if theres things they need me to do, but if they expect me to sit there and look pretty and producive with nothing to do, they really need to get a better idea.
It was completely understandable if he/she was fired, but he left under his own terms. ANYTHING he/she had wanted to do that was malicious would have already been done. ALl they did was create a bad feeling with a former employee.
"Naked Chicks"
Wasnt a book, was just a short story. Sorry i cant remeber the name or the author for you.
I may have the wrong author. Might be james p hogan too. Basicly, everyone in the world had a chip implanted in their head that would kill them if too many people reported them as being an asshole, no one knew the exact number it took. So as a consequence, poeple were extrodinary polite for the most part, and there were very few assholes left. However, in the story, one of the characters discovers the world has been lied to, its actually the reporter, not the reportee who can be killed. That inssuferable grumpy neighbor who calls up to report his whole neighborhood eventualy trips over the magic number and dies, televenagelst and other insufferable bastards who just cant leave other people alone are actually the ones killing themselves off. I kinda like the idea.
I seem to remember syphilis being a relativley recent introduction, like in the last 2-3000 years, might partly explain the shift towards monogamy.(Aside from treating basc human urges as evil to controll people.)
thank you. Ill check around.
"Bright butt beetle"
Anyone know when/where its opening in trinidad????
I have worked several jobs wehre there was EXTREME loud noise at the jobsite(within 10 feet of unmuffled generators and a carousel pipe organ that could be heard 2 miles away). I always wore earplugs, the simple wax or foam ones from the drugstore. I was the only guy on the job that did. Whenever i had to listen to something, i would remove the right earphone, I always kept the left one in. Additionally, when out walking around, i only use the right headphone of my walkman. I can notice a diffrence in the hearin on the right and left sides of my own head from the minor damage over the years. The hearing in my left ear is much more acute overall, and can hear frequencies that the right one cant.
They have those fancy schmancy flat keyboards that jsut detectteh presure placement. Why not a keyboard that works like a touch screen, and detects where you place your fingers for each letter? You sit down at it, position everything correctly for ergonomics, and close your eyes. Then type out "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" 10 imes, and let the keyboard remeber where you THINK the letters are. You can be a touch typist immedaitely after you program it.