Odd. We didn't start French until grade 4 and didn't have to take it past grade 9. Completely useless in my region (Southwestern Ontario) anyway and the phrases taught were also useless. J'ai une stylo bleu. When the hell would I say that? The only useful phrase I remember is 'Ou est la toilette?'
In a properly designed car, such as a Volvo, you can sit comfortably in your normal position (unless you are leaning forward like a humpback, which will lead to trouble with shoulders and back before you know it) and your head will be close to the headrest.
My head tends to be well above the headrest. Apparently only the short are supposed to drive cars.
Yes sir, I'll transfer you right to the president of the company, right after these monkeys fly out of my butt.
Do you really expect a tech support rep to be able (or allowed) to transfer you to the president of the company? If you really want to have a chance to talk to the prez, find the corporate office number and navigate your way through it. Tech support won't be able to transfer you there no matter how much you want it.
I thought it was fairly well known that call centers are all a numbers game. Management wants minimum call duration and maximum calls per employee; they're not really interested in solved problems.
Not all call centres are like that. Almost all of the contracts the call centre I work in has are by the minute rather than by the call. The problem in this situation is that they're all little shitty contracts with not enough calls to staff even 1 person per contract. So you end up with agents working 8-12 projects at once. At the moment I'm support for 11 different companies. The total number of companies I've supported over the past couple years is over 30.
Call times don't really matter unless there are calls waiting (we can only drop a certain percentage of calls). The company makes more money the more minutes we're on the phone.
There are two college radio stations in the nearest city to me. One is controlled by the students and plays all kinds of weird stuff 24/7. They recently changed frequencies and went from 3000 to 6000 watts. Pretty nice for a college station. The other station seems to play whatever music is popular at local clubs along with students reading news reports hourly. They vary from this sometimes (Sunday evenings is classical music) but generally it's just constant pop music.
With so many drunk driving accidents, you really have no business being on the roads at 2:30am on the weekends (holidays, etc).
This makes it sound like you're saying that if I drive somewhere at 2:30am, there's going to be nothing but me and a bunch of drunks weaving all over the road.
The most common type of car I see late at night in the nearby city is cop cars. Outside the city it's mostly truckers. Yes there are drunk drivers out on the road, but they're not as common as you make it sound.
With a broken leg I think you'd limp into any hospital.:)
Maybe in the US you do that, but here in Canada we don't take kindly to people limping. You walk strong and proud into that hospital even if it means screaming in pain every step of the way.
Perhaps if this CD sells because of its notoriety and because loads of people like the idea of getting a couple of free CD-R's with the logo on, maybe they might get a clue that there might be ways of exploiting the free (as in beer) exchange of copyright material for their own profit.
Screw that. I think I'll just download the MP3s when someone posts them.
I wouldn't say this is entirely true. Some things about cars change. Even ignoring manual transmissions, the position of the gear shift changes from car to car. Mine is on the right side of the steering wheel. Other cars they put it on the floor. Most people seem to have no problem grasping this small change with a car.
Watch what happens when a small change is made on a computer. Move the taskbar to the side or the top of the screen sometime. It will confuse the fuck out of Joe Blow end user. They will be unable to adjust.
Just so people not familiar with the place know, the Toronto Star is kind of stretching the word "town" here. Sault Ste. Marie has a population of over 75,000 people.
To people who live in Toronto, any place smaller than Toronto isn't a city. Therefore Sault Ste. Marie must be something less, a town.
I find that LED clocks are more intuitive. People who say they can't read them must just be stupid and unable to read the most intuitive clock in existence.
There is genuine value in the fact that I can go there and get some groceries, household goods, and have the oil changed in my car all at the same time - all at very low prices.
They change oil? I don't think any of the Walmarts near me change oil. Maybe that's because we already have a nationwide chain of stores that does that.
I rationalize it by realizing that 21 cents per CDR is built into the price of CDRs and that no matter what I do with the blank media, I still pay the levy.
Either that or think of it as borrowing someone's CD and making a copy of it. Doing that is legal for both people.
The regime does not address the source of the material copied. There is no requirement in Part VIII that the source copy be a non-infringing copy. Hence, it is not relevant whether the source of the track is a pre-owned recording, a borrowed CD, or a track downloaded from the Internet.
I looked for a bit to find that directly from the copyright board's site, but it's a government site. It's probably on there somewhere, buried deep.
So it doesn't matter where you got the music, you can make a copy of it for personal use. Canada has odd (compared to the US) copyright laws. We don't really have a concept of fair use. We follow the British "fair dealing" model. Until Part 8 of the copyright act came in to effect, we weren't allowed to make backup copies of music without the copyright holder's permission.
The only problem I find with automatic windows is they can't be forced open when it's cold enough to freeze them in place. With manual windows, you can turn the crank hard enough to force them open.
And yes, there are reasons you'd want to open a window when it's damned cold outside. To help keep the windshield clear and so you can see left and right.
I think it should be pointed out that in Canada it is legal for someone to download music even if the source does not have the rights to distribute it. The person distributing is probably breaking the law though.
This is probably why Puretracks advertising concentrates on how they don't have spyware, porn, or viruses that often comes along with P2P software.
I've seen a documentary on this very subject. There's definately oil on Mars but after learning about our capitalist system, the Martians have already started drilling for it.
I will probably have a big screen TV some day, when I finish a room in the basement to devote to it.
Have you considered a decent projection system? They're getting to the point now that you don't even necesarily need a screen. You can sit it on the coffee table or mount it on the ceiling out of the way so it doesn't exactly dominate the room unless it's actually on. The biggest problem I've heard of is the affordable ones don't do well with sunlight coming in. If you're going to be in a basement, that probably doesn't matter much.
There was a similar article in 2600 magazine. Except the guy drove with it. He used an X10 receiver and a small TV from Radioshack. Probably would have been smarter to bring a passenger with him to monitor the TV rather than splitting his attention between the road and TV, but he was able to cover a lot more ground than by walking.
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Odd. We didn't start French until grade 4 and didn't have to take it past grade 9. Completely useless in my region (Southwestern Ontario) anyway and the phrases taught were also useless. J'ai une stylo bleu. When the hell would I say that? The only useful phrase I remember is 'Ou est la toilette?'
In a properly designed car, such as a Volvo, you can sit comfortably in your normal position (unless you are leaning forward like a humpback, which will lead to trouble with shoulders and back before you know it) and your head will be close to the headrest.
My head tends to be well above the headrest. Apparently only the short are supposed to drive cars.
Demand to speak to the president of the company.
Yes sir, I'll transfer you right to the president of the company, right after these monkeys fly out of my butt.
Do you really expect a tech support rep to be able (or allowed) to transfer you to the president of the company? If you really want to have a chance to talk to the prez, find the corporate office number and navigate your way through it. Tech support won't be able to transfer you there no matter how much you want it.
I thought it was fairly well known that call centers are all a numbers game. Management wants minimum call duration and maximum calls per employee; they're not really interested in solved problems.
Not all call centres are like that. Almost all of the contracts the call centre I work in has are by the minute rather than by the call. The problem in this situation is that they're all little shitty contracts with not enough calls to staff even 1 person per contract. So you end up with agents working 8-12 projects at once. At the moment I'm support for 11 different companies. The total number of companies I've supported over the past couple years is over 30.
Call times don't really matter unless there are calls waiting (we can only drop a certain percentage of calls). The company makes more money the more minutes we're on the phone.
There are two college radio stations in the nearest city to me. One is controlled by the students and plays all kinds of weird stuff 24/7. They recently changed frequencies and went from 3000 to 6000 watts. Pretty nice for a college station. The other station seems to play whatever music is popular at local clubs along with students reading news reports hourly. They vary from this sometimes (Sunday evenings is classical music) but generally it's just constant pop music.
With so many drunk driving accidents, you really have no business being on the roads at 2:30am on the weekends (holidays, etc).
This makes it sound like you're saying that if I drive somewhere at 2:30am, there's going to be nothing but me and a bunch of drunks weaving all over the road.
The most common type of car I see late at night in the nearby city is cop cars. Outside the city it's mostly truckers. Yes there are drunk drivers out on the road, but they're not as common as you make it sound.
Then there'd be more comic character troubles. The name sounded familiar so I searched google and it looks like there's a character called Nightshade.
With a broken leg I think you'd limp into any hospital. :)
Maybe in the US you do that, but here in Canada we don't take kindly to people limping. You walk strong and proud into that hospital even if it means screaming in pain every step of the way.
Neither is that "IE" icon on your windows desktop.
I might be happy if the users I talk to could find the IE icon on their desktop. Hell, it'd be nice if they could find their desktop.
Perhaps if this CD sells because of its notoriety and because loads of people like the idea of getting a couple of free CD-R's with the logo on, maybe they might get a clue that there might be ways of exploiting the free (as in beer) exchange of copyright material for their own profit.
Screw that. I think I'll just download the MP3s when someone posts them.
I wouldn't say this is entirely true. Some things about cars change. Even ignoring manual transmissions, the position of the gear shift changes from car to car. Mine is on the right side of the steering wheel. Other cars they put it on the floor. Most people seem to have no problem grasping this small change with a car.
Watch what happens when a small change is made on a computer. Move the taskbar to the side or the top of the screen sometime. It will confuse the fuck out of Joe Blow end user. They will be unable to adjust.
Just so people not familiar with the place know, the Toronto Star is kind of stretching the word "town" here. Sault Ste. Marie has a population of over 75,000 people.
To people who live in Toronto, any place smaller than Toronto isn't a city. Therefore Sault Ste. Marie must be something less, a town.
I find that LED clocks are more intuitive. People who say they can't read them must just be stupid and unable to read the most intuitive clock in existence.
There is genuine value in the fact that I can go there and get some groceries, household goods, and have the oil changed in my car all at the same time - all at very low prices.
They change oil? I don't think any of the Walmarts near me change oil. Maybe that's because we already have a nationwide chain of stores that does that.
I rationalize it by realizing that 21 cents per CDR is built into the price of CDRs and that no matter what I do with the blank media, I still pay the levy.
Either that or think of it as borrowing someone's CD and making a copy of it. Doing that is legal for both people.
From The "Blank CD-R Tax" FAQ
The regime does not address the source of the material copied. There is no requirement in Part VIII that the source copy be a non-infringing copy. Hence, it is not relevant whether the source of the track is a pre-owned recording, a borrowed CD, or a track downloaded from the Internet.
I looked for a bit to find that directly from the copyright board's site, but it's a government site. It's probably on there somewhere, buried deep.
So it doesn't matter where you got the music, you can make a copy of it for personal use. Canada has odd (compared to the US) copyright laws. We don't really have a concept of fair use. We follow the British "fair dealing" model. Until Part 8 of the copyright act came in to effect, we weren't allowed to make backup copies of music without the copyright holder's permission.
The only problem I find with automatic windows is they can't be forced open when it's cold enough to freeze them in place. With manual windows, you can turn the crank hard enough to force them open.
And yes, there are reasons you'd want to open a window when it's damned cold outside. To help keep the windshield clear and so you can see left and right.
With corporate users, you get more "I want this done now" people. Given the proper resources you can usually fix the problem.
With residential users, you get "Where's the start button?" people. A retarded child who is able to follow instructions is easier to help.
I think it should be pointed out that in Canada it is legal for someone to download music even if the source does not have the rights to distribute it. The person distributing is probably breaking the law though.
This is probably why Puretracks advertising concentrates on how they don't have spyware, porn, or viruses that often comes along with P2P software.
Do you really want to setup the average ISP caller on Linux? These are the same people who don't understand the concept of right-clicking.
I've seen a documentary on this very subject. There's definately oil on Mars but after learning about our capitalist system, the Martians have already started drilling for it.
I will probably have a big screen TV some day, when I finish a room in the basement to devote to it.
Have you considered a decent projection system? They're getting to the point now that you don't even necesarily need a screen. You can sit it on the coffee table or mount it on the ceiling out of the way so it doesn't exactly dominate the room unless it's actually on. The biggest problem I've heard of is the affordable ones don't do well with sunlight coming in. If you're going to be in a basement, that probably doesn't matter much.
There was a similar article in 2600 magazine. Except the guy drove with it. He used an X10 receiver and a small TV from Radioshack. Probably would have been smarter to bring a passenger with him to monitor the TV rather than splitting his attention between the road and TV, but he was able to cover a lot more ground than by walking.
The $1 coin (loonie) was in 1989.
The $2 coin (twonie) was somewhere in 1995-1996.
Ok... to the nearest 0.1cm (0.03 inches) , a $1 note is approximatly 15.5cm (6.102 inches) long, and 6.5cm (2.559 inches) wide...
You do know that there's another common word for 1/10 of a centimetre, right?
It's called a millimetre and abbreviated as "mm".