It's not a "lucky coincidence". I'm Canadian and I buy some stuff online. Here's why they tend to open packages:
1. Canadian Border Services gets $5 for every package they open. (I call this the "putting their dick in it" fee.) You can not appeal this fee. 2. As you have more stuff sent to you, they tend to open more of your packages. My ex-wife ordered lots of stuff online (mostly knitting supplies) and towards the end of her interest in her hobby, they were opening 90% of her packages. Mine were rarely opened. 3. They get a little more openy when you're doing your own brokerage. FedEx and UPS charge about $40 for brokerage, so some people do it themselves for $10. This requires you to go down to the border (or quasi-border), which in my city is the airport.
So it wasn't a tip-off, it was just CBS looking for extra cash.
This, plus get rid of the pictures. They add nothing but a waste of bandwidth./. looks like it's work related. Don't make it obvious that we're fucking around.
I guess the US phone network infrastructure was just simply so bad back in the day that special solutions were required?
Back in 2000, it was an incredible idea to get your phones to connect to servers or desktops. One of my first co-op jobs used a pile o' kludges to connect to Outlook (including a hilarious GUI hack), and we used some preset commands to get a pseudo-CLI on a Nokia.
The phones we have today are significantly more powerful than the desktops we had back when RIM was at the top of their game. Connectivity is remarkable -- I can connect my phone to my thermostat and stream music to my bicycle.
Blackberry was killed by their failure to upgrade their infrastructure.
Do you guys remember when they lost all emails, not once but TWICE in a matter of a week? That was what got businesses to say "oh shit, this isn't something we can depend on" and get other phones working. I'll bet that they're still running all their services through that same fucked up server in Ontario, despite the failure they've had on the unit.
Once that seed of doubt got planted, compounded by the fact that people could start using their personal phones (i.e. free to corporate) for business, that was it. Stick a fork in them, they're done. The one thing they said they were good for they couldn't do anymore.
Of course, given that they were hilariously spied-on and infiltrated (not as much, but almost as badly as Nortel), who's to say if those failures were accidents or if they were pushed?
This particular problem really irks me. My brother-in-law, who is otherwise a sensible and brilliant guy, let's his seven-year-old play these violent games. My child, also the same age, is not allowed to play them. I have a very hard time explaining to my child why his cousin can play these games, but he can't.
I tell my kids "different houses have different rules". Works great.
There's nothing stopping anyone from doing any of these things in real life. But look at what happens. You get arrested or killed, and most likely killed. Remember that lockdown drill you had at school? Well, this game will let you pretend to be the gunman for a little while, but you're going to die. Sadly, yes, if you kill hookers then you're probably going to get away with it for a long time. In a larger city, or a place like Detroit, you could probably just walk up to someone and blow them away without getting into trouble.
People in real life break the law, and they do often go to jail. Not always, but they do. Real life has assassins, drug runners, car accidents, and senseless violence. Where we live is often isolated, but other countries you can be killed for no reason, or for made-up reasons.
Now see how this guy lost his temper and destroyed that [spoiler edit]? Now he's got to pay for it, and that's something that would happen if you tried that for real. That's why I carry millions of dollars in insurance, in case I break something.
On the other hand, look at what happens if you volunteer as a firefighter, or get a job as a paramedic, or even drive a taxi. You get way more money AND nobody is trying to arrest you, or use what they know against you. Even going exploring is a better use of your time than killing someone at random.
Yes, those of us who are single parents will take our kids to EB to buy GTA:V then the liquor store to buy beer.
ALL THESE THINGS ARE FOR DAD
I had a daydream where I came home from work, and the kids were there playing GTA: Legacies (or whatever it'll be in 5-6 years) and I bust them. I look at the screen, look at them, say, "you drive like shit, shove over." then going through the ambulance missions.
"I've been playing this since before you were born."
Indeed, I'm 36 and I've got a 7 and 9 year old. If I hadn't had a chance to pick it up at launch-day lunch, then I promise you that I would have gone to the store with them in tow on the weekend. The game is not for them. Yes, parents play video games. (Although I'm not sure how it happened that now I'm the guy who says we have to turn the games off and do homework / go play outside / go to bed.)
Anyway, my kids are aware the game exists and they know it's not appropriate for them to play. At the age they're at, we have more fun with Ultimate Alliance.
I support the development of an AI, no matter what its initial purpose is, or who funds it.
Imagine it. How long have we been asking, "are we alone?" "will we ever contact another intelligence?" Sure, we have scifi shows about aliens, we have fables about angels and gods, but face it, as far as we know, this is the only planet with life.
At some point we can answer, "no, we are not alone. We created life, intelligent life, and saw it open its eyes." We would never be alone again.
I seriously don't give a shit what its first message is.
In order to have a happy, functional park, you require drainage. The correct term for the drainage system is a sewer. Although pop culture calls only the poop type "sewer", that's called the "sanitary sewer". The pipes that drain storm water (e.g. the rain runoff from parks) is the "storm sewer". (And neither type flows just downhill.)
I've spent some of my co-op time digging up a park and putting in a storm sewer system so that the fields could be used all year round. Of course, we got to the end and there was a water main in the way (I wasn't involved in the design) and long story short the head PE for the city came down to figure out how to fix it.
Yep, $25 application fee, get 100k applications, screen out all but 100 applicants, make them do some impossible tasks until they flunk, then oh well, you all fail.
Audio goes through with no problems, it's the data accompanying the audio that doesn't go through. The track info doesn't show up on my stereo, although it did before I flashed to CM. It's a known problem, but it's waiting for the Google API to update (presumably in Android 4.3) for implementation.
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It's not a "lucky coincidence". I'm Canadian and I buy some stuff online. Here's why they tend to open packages:
1. Canadian Border Services gets $5 for every package they open. (I call this the "putting their dick in it" fee.) You can not appeal this fee.
2. As you have more stuff sent to you, they tend to open more of your packages. My ex-wife ordered lots of stuff online (mostly knitting supplies) and towards the end of her interest in her hobby, they were opening 90% of her packages. Mine were rarely opened.
3. They get a little more openy when you're doing your own brokerage. FedEx and UPS charge about $40 for brokerage, so some people do it themselves for $10. This requires you to go down to the border (or quasi-border), which in my city is the airport.
So it wasn't a tip-off, it was just CBS looking for extra cash.
This, plus get rid of the pictures. They add nothing but a waste of bandwidth. /. looks like it's work related. Don't make it obvious that we're fucking around.
I've found it buggy in that sometimes you'll be typing and it jumps to a previous place you had the cursor and overwrites shit there .
Yeah, I really dowhat the fuck is up with thatn't know
I guess the US phone network infrastructure was just simply so bad back in the day that special solutions were required?
Back in 2000, it was an incredible idea to get your phones to connect to servers or desktops. One of my first co-op jobs used a pile o' kludges to connect to Outlook (including a hilarious GUI hack), and we used some preset commands to get a pseudo-CLI on a Nokia.
The phones we have today are significantly more powerful than the desktops we had back when RIM was at the top of their game. Connectivity is remarkable -- I can connect my phone to my thermostat and stream music to my bicycle.
Blackberry was killed by their failure to upgrade their infrastructure.
Do you guys remember when they lost all emails, not once but TWICE in a matter of a week? That was what got businesses to say "oh shit, this isn't something we can depend on" and get other phones working. I'll bet that they're still running all their services through that same fucked up server in Ontario, despite the failure they've had on the unit.
Once that seed of doubt got planted, compounded by the fact that people could start using their personal phones (i.e. free to corporate) for business, that was it. Stick a fork in them, they're done. The one thing they said they were good for they couldn't do anymore.
Of course, given that they were hilariously spied-on and infiltrated (not as much, but almost as badly as Nortel), who's to say if those failures were accidents or if they were pushed?
I've had great link with Swype.
Sometimes you get the wiring wood but it works out in the end if your friends know you'd on your pigging.
Ooh, we're on to something. Cohesive Beam Carbine -- how about CHarbine? Carbeam?
Indeed, my friends and I have wondered what the term for rifle-sized lasers will be, since they don't actually have any rifling.
Probably rifle, the same way we still use a 3.5" disk for the save icon and the rotary handset icon for "make a call".
Jarvis and the reactor were the two most under-rated bits of tech Tony put together.
The reactor would have ended war.
But Jarvis... a real AI? That's far beyond anything else we've ever built.
I preordered Iron Man 3 on BR. It wasn't shipping yet, so I downloaded a copy.
What the fuck was their problem with making me wait to watch a movie I enjoyed with my kids?
They could just as easily sell the movies at the theatre. But they don't. It's still all about the buggy whips.
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE RECIPE
It was a nice break from the usual trolling. The recipe was legit, too.
I've wanted to ask you where that sig comes from. Is it a comic?
I enjoyed the hell out of Myst, and even found all three ways to die.
It was a great game, it was fun, but it sure as hell wasn't open-ended exploration.
Well, it's clear that they never played "Myst".
Myst was basically a "click on things until you figure out what the puzzle was" game. Its legacy is the Flash game variant of "escape the room".
This particular problem really irks me. My brother-in-law, who is otherwise a sensible and brilliant guy, let's his seven-year-old play these violent games. My child, also the same age, is not allowed to play them. I have a very hard time explaining to my child why his cousin can play these games, but he can't.
I tell my kids "different houses have different rules". Works great.
That sounds fucking awesome.
I've seen their kids playing GTA4 at their house.
If the kids did the fucking dishes they could play a decent game.
There's nothing stopping anyone from doing any of these things in real life. But look at what happens. You get arrested or killed, and most likely killed. Remember that lockdown drill you had at school? Well, this game will let you pretend to be the gunman for a little while, but you're going to die. Sadly, yes, if you kill hookers then you're probably going to get away with it for a long time. In a larger city, or a place like Detroit, you could probably just walk up to someone and blow them away without getting into trouble.
People in real life break the law, and they do often go to jail. Not always, but they do. Real life has assassins, drug runners, car accidents, and senseless violence. Where we live is often isolated, but other countries you can be killed for no reason, or for made-up reasons.
Now see how this guy lost his temper and destroyed that [spoiler edit]? Now he's got to pay for it, and that's something that would happen if you tried that for real. That's why I carry millions of dollars in insurance, in case I break something.
On the other hand, look at what happens if you volunteer as a firefighter, or get a job as a paramedic, or even drive a taxi. You get way more money AND nobody is trying to arrest you, or use what they know against you. Even going exploring is a better use of your time than killing someone at random.
Yes, those of us who are single parents will take our kids to EB to buy GTA:V then the liquor store to buy beer.
ALL THESE THINGS ARE FOR DAD
I had a daydream where I came home from work, and the kids were there playing GTA: Legacies (or whatever it'll be in 5-6 years) and I bust them. I look at the screen, look at them, say, "you drive like shit, shove over." then going through the ambulance missions.
"I've been playing this since before you were born."
Indeed, I'm 36 and I've got a 7 and 9 year old. If I hadn't had a chance to pick it up at launch-day lunch, then I promise you that I would have gone to the store with them in tow on the weekend. The game is not for them. Yes, parents play video games. (Although I'm not sure how it happened that now I'm the guy who says we have to turn the games off and do homework / go play outside / go to bed.)
Anyway, my kids are aware the game exists and they know it's not appropriate for them to play. At the age they're at, we have more fun with Ultimate Alliance.
They only did it to get the little badge.
I support the development of an AI, no matter what its initial purpose is, or who funds it.
Imagine it. How long have we been asking, "are we alone?" "will we ever contact another intelligence?" Sure, we have scifi shows about aliens, we have fables about angels and gods, but face it, as far as we know, this is the only planet with life.
At some point we can answer, "no, we are not alone. We created life, intelligent life, and saw it open its eyes." We would never be alone again.
I seriously don't give a shit what its first message is.
Most parks are full of sewer systems.
In order to have a happy, functional park, you require drainage. The correct term for the drainage system is a sewer. Although pop culture calls only the poop type "sewer", that's called the "sanitary sewer". The pipes that drain storm water (e.g. the rain runoff from parks) is the "storm sewer". (And neither type flows just downhill.)
I've spent some of my co-op time digging up a park and putting in a storm sewer system so that the fields could be used all year round. Of course, we got to the end and there was a water main in the way (I wasn't involved in the design) and long story short the head PE for the city came down to figure out how to fix it.
Yep, $25 application fee, get 100k applications, screen out all but 100 applicants, make them do some impossible tasks until they flunk, then oh well, you all fail.
Thanks for the moneeies.
I'm using it now.
Audio goes through with no problems, it's the data accompanying the audio that doesn't go through. The track info doesn't show up on my stereo, although it did before I flashed to CM. It's a known problem, but it's waiting for the Google API to update (presumably in Android 4.3) for implementation.