I've shaved with a lot of different razors. I used to get a shave with my haircut (2 bits!) in Japan; they always used a straight razor.
The straight razor, like most cheap ones when I shave myself, invariably left my face bleeding and tender. Not nicks, just raw. Even shaving with an electric razor was similar! I don't know if my skin is especially tender, but maybe.
Then my wife bought a Mach 3 for me. I was skeptical, figuring that she was suckered by slick advertising. I used it, and haven't looked back in almost eight years. This thing not only shaves far closer than anything else, it is smoother, quicker, and very rarely cuts me..
And I don't even use shaving cream; I just soap up my face when I'm in the shower. My brother goes one better and just uses water in the shower.
I dislike the fact that Gilette can set the price so high, but nothing -- nothing! -- I have ever tried shaves as well as the Mach 3. I can even shave every day (a very painful experience before) without any problems. Occasionally I will try a Schick, or be forced to use a disposable, and it always reminds me why I hate them.
Interesting that you should mention fuel cells. My local paper mentions that a local fuel cell tech company just closed their doors yesterday, after something like 10 years of development and nothing to show for it.
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I think that if you read through some of the responses people have posted here, you can see the value of asking a community. I for one really appreciate hearing personal accounts.
Sadly, insurance companies refuse to pay out if certain items are NOT taken as carry-on luggage. Laptops, jewellery -- many of the same things that are not being allowed in the cabin now. You have to check it all, but if it's lost/damaged, you lose.
Plus, airlines' insurance (the kind that you get included with the price of your ticket) only pays a few hundred dollars if checked luggage is lost, stolen, or damaged. It depends upon factors such as which countries you are flying to/from.
Are you referring to the recently-publicized caches that date back to the Iran-Iraq war (back when Saddam Hussein was a valuable ally of the U.S.)? The ones that have decayed and lost their potency so much that the U.S. WMD inspector said we have more dangerous chemicals in our houses?
So where do you live, in a city that is "thousdands of times safer than most Western cities"? I'm having a hard time thinking of one that is like that:
West Africa: Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali? Nope.
North Africa: Egypt, Morocco, Algeria? Nope.
East Africa: need I even try?
Central Africa: DR Congo, Congo, Cameroon? Nope.
Southern Africa: South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho? Nope.
One of the most depressing experiences of my several years of living in Africa was seeing how corruption allowed the influential and not-so-poor people to prey on the very poor.
In addition, because of the concentration of wealth there, the cities were magnets that attracted the very worst elements of society. Not just petty theft, but assault, rape, and murder to start the list. The checks and balances of village life (i.e. you have to live among the people you abuse) were gone, and nothing had replaced them. I liked leaving my village to have a hot shower, watch a movie and talk with other expatriates, but it was always a relief to get back to the more human dimensions of rural life. Not that it was perfect, but I generally preferred it.
Going to jail? Going to JAIL? Well, you may know "information laws in Canada decently well", but you seem to know nothing about the way the world works.
Quick, name the last federal politician in the U.S. or Canada who spent time in prison (let's focus on political/financial/ethical issues). The system is rigged (by the politicians themselves) to allow those in power to apologize, deny, obfuscate, or provide a scapegoat for whatever they do.
For politicians, the ultimate sanction is the loss of the political career. They're not like you and me, who have to face real consequences for our actions; they just don't get to play the game any more (and, like as not, end up in a cushy private-sector position supplied by one of their supporters/bankrollers).
It's all very well to be excited about Ubuntu, and the positive effect it has had on desktop Linux, but comparing Shuttleworth to Mandela and other people who sacrificed their lives (or decades of time spent in prison) is a little myopic, don't you think?
Another factor, and one that I think had an enormous effect -- although it may in turn be based upon other, deeper factors -- was (and still is) the dismal level of Japanese people's English. You can't lead in the world economy if you don't have enough fluent English-speakers. That's another side-effect of sending your best students overseas (often to the U.S. and other English-speaking countries).
My favourite is Dr. Emilio Lizardo, saying "Shut up, Big-booty, you coward. You are the weakest individual I ever know." Then John Big-booty gives him the finger.
My favourite is Moonshadow (sub-titled "my journey to awakening"), a 12-issue series. It's done completely in watercolours and is thoughtful, profane, funny, and poignant. There were even favourable reviews from Kurt Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury!
Yes, you are wrong. XMLHttpRequest just gets back a chunk of text, that may or may not be XML. It could be any string at all. Sometimes it's useful to receive XML, sometimes not.
It strikes me as rather odd that the software engineer's "Ease of Entry" (open to everyone from high school drop-outs and up) is rated the same as a professor (minimum PhD for university, usually Master's for community college).
What is it with Slashdot poster putting apostrophe's [sic] before every "s" they see? In case you missed it, Dave Barry was being sarcastic: an apostrophe is not used to alert the reader that an "s" is coming!!!!
No, I don't think that you grasp the dynamics. As another poster said, it is extremely difficult to get into medical school here; there simply aren't enough places (thanks to "cost-saving" measures introduced by governments that control university funding). There are still plenty of very intelligent people who would make excellent doctors but can't get in.
When they do graduate, the lure of working in the U.S. is just too much for many new doctors who have over $100,000 in debt. The salary here is probably 50% of the U.S. one (not that $150,000/year or so is anything to sneeze at), and they are likely to have better equipment available to them south of the border.
So the problem isn't not enough people becoming doctors. It's not enough people becoming doctors and staying here.
My God, that's it! This hurricane was manufactured by Osama bin Laden using the nefarious resources of Afghanistan. Er, Iraq. No, Syria. Wait, I mean Iran.
The terrorists must pay for their wanton destruction of American property!
If you notice, those "swastikas" are in the opposite direction to the Nazi one. Either way, it's an ancient symbol more than 2,000 years old, sacred in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
Oh dear God, my eyes are bleeding from the spelling! I count 14 errors, two in the title itself. Sorry to be a Spelling Nazi, but some of us have limits.
Keiji Tachikawa's last name is the same as Tachikawa, a town outside of Tokyo, founded on December 1, 1940. Coincidence?
150 years ago, when common Japanese people were permitted to have surnames (in feudal Japan, only nobility were given the privilege), many of them took the name of the place where they lived, or just names that sounded good.
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Unless, of course, you are referring to something like the Great Plains.
I've shaved with a lot of different razors. I used to get a shave with my haircut (2 bits!) in Japan; they always used a straight razor.
The straight razor, like most cheap ones when I shave myself, invariably left my face bleeding and tender. Not nicks, just raw. Even shaving with an electric razor was similar! I don't know if my skin is especially tender, but maybe.
Then my wife bought a Mach 3 for me. I was skeptical, figuring that she was suckered by slick advertising. I used it, and haven't looked back in almost eight years. This thing not only shaves far closer than anything else, it is smoother, quicker, and very rarely cuts me..
And I don't even use shaving cream; I just soap up my face when I'm in the shower. My brother goes one better and just uses water in the shower.
I dislike the fact that Gilette can set the price so high, but nothing -- nothing! -- I have ever tried shaves as well as the Mach 3. I can even shave every day (a very painful experience before) without any problems. Occasionally I will try a Schick, or be forced to use a disposable, and it always reminds me why I hate them.
Interesting that you should mention fuel cells. My local paper mentions that a local fuel cell tech company just closed their doors yesterday, after something like 10 years of development and nothing to show for it.
I think that if you read through some of the responses people have posted here, you can see the value of asking a community. I for one really appreciate hearing personal accounts.
Sadly, insurance companies refuse to pay out if certain items are NOT taken as carry-on luggage. Laptops, jewellery -- many of the same things that are not being allowed in the cabin now. You have to check it all, but if it's lost/damaged, you lose.
Plus, airlines' insurance (the kind that you get included with the price of your ticket) only pays a few hundred dollars if checked luggage is lost, stolen, or damaged. It depends upon factors such as which countries you are flying to/from.
Are you referring to the recently-publicized caches that date back to the Iran-Iraq war (back when Saddam Hussein was a valuable ally of the U.S.)? The ones that have decayed and lost their potency so much that the U.S. WMD inspector said we have more dangerous chemicals in our houses?
Or are these some other weapons?
One of the most depressing experiences of my several years of living in Africa was seeing how corruption allowed the influential and not-so-poor people to prey on the very poor.
In addition, because of the concentration of wealth there, the cities were magnets that attracted the very worst elements of society. Not just petty theft, but assault, rape, and murder to start the list. The checks and balances of village life (i.e. you have to live among the people you abuse) were gone, and nothing had replaced them. I liked leaving my village to have a hot shower, watch a movie and talk with other expatriates, but it was always a relief to get back to the more human dimensions of rural life. Not that it was perfect, but I generally preferred it.
Going to jail? Going to JAIL? Well, you may know "information laws in Canada decently well", but you seem to know nothing about the way the world works.
Quick, name the last federal politician in the U.S. or Canada who spent time in prison (let's focus on political/financial/ethical issues). The system is rigged (by the politicians themselves) to allow those in power to apologize, deny, obfuscate, or provide a scapegoat for whatever they do.
For politicians, the ultimate sanction is the loss of the political career. They're not like you and me, who have to face real consequences for our actions; they just don't get to play the game any more (and, like as not, end up in a cushy private-sector position supplied by one of their supporters/bankrollers).
It's all very well to be excited about Ubuntu, and the positive effect it has had on desktop Linux, but comparing Shuttleworth to Mandela and other people who sacrificed their lives (or decades of time spent in prison) is a little myopic, don't you think?
SpiderWebSoftware must be a indy developer. That's why the links to their NEWEST GAME on the FRONT PAGE of their website are broken!
Kind of mean, I know, but come on!
Another factor, and one that I think had an enormous effect -- although it may in turn be based upon other, deeper factors -- was (and still is) the dismal level of Japanese people's English. You can't lead in the world economy if you don't have enough fluent English-speakers. That's another side-effect of sending your best students overseas (often to the U.S. and other English-speaking countries).
Or another from Dr. Lizardo:
"Laugh-a while you can, monkey-boy!"
My favourite is Dr. Emilio Lizardo, saying "Shut up, Big-booty, you coward. You are the weakest individual I ever know." Then John Big-booty gives him the finger.
My favourite is Moonshadow (sub-titled "my journey to awakening"), a 12-issue series. It's done completely in watercolours and is thoughtful, profane, funny, and poignant. There were even favourable reviews from Kurt Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury!
Yes, you are wrong. XMLHttpRequest just gets back a chunk of text, that may or may not be XML. It could be any string at all. Sometimes it's useful to receive XML, sometimes not.
It strikes me as rather odd that the software engineer's "Ease of Entry" (open to everyone from high school drop-outs and up) is rated the same as a professor (minimum PhD for university, usually Master's for community college).
You've seen people literally go mad? That must really be something!
What is it with Slashdot poster putting apostrophe's [sic] before every "s" they see? In case you missed it, Dave Barry was being sarcastic: an apostrophe is not used to alert the reader that an "s" is coming!!!!
"significative" is a perfectly cromulent word.
Well, aren't you special!
Did you have anything useful to add to the discussion, other than to tell us all how great you are?
I thought not.
No, I don't think that you grasp the dynamics. As another poster said, it is extremely difficult to get into medical school here; there simply aren't enough places (thanks to "cost-saving" measures introduced by governments that control university funding). There are still plenty of very intelligent people who would make excellent doctors but can't get in.
When they do graduate, the lure of working in the U.S. is just too much for many new doctors who have over $100,000 in debt. The salary here is probably 50% of the U.S. one (not that $150,000/year or so is anything to sneeze at), and they are likely to have better equipment available to them south of the border.
So the problem isn't not enough people becoming doctors. It's not enough people becoming doctors and staying here.
My God, that's it! This hurricane was manufactured by Osama bin Laden using the nefarious resources of Afghanistan. Er, Iraq. No, Syria. Wait, I mean Iran.
The terrorists must pay for their wanton destruction of American property!
If you notice, those "swastikas" are in the opposite direction to the Nazi one. Either way, it's an ancient symbol more than 2,000 years old, sacred in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
Oh dear God, my eyes are bleeding from the spelling! I count 14 errors, two in the title itself. Sorry to be a Spelling Nazi, but some of us have limits.
Keiji Tachikawa's last name is the same as Tachikawa, a town outside of Tokyo, founded on December 1, 1940. Coincidence?
150 years ago, when common Japanese people were permitted to have surnames (in feudal Japan, only nobility were given the privilege), many of them took the name of the place where they lived, or just names that sounded good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_name
Coincidence? Hell yeah! Or is there some deep, possibly Zen meaning to December 1, 1940 of which I am not aware?