Re:51st State, Great Britain
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Then Austrailia, then New Zealand, then Canada, and begin negotiations with the Eastern European "New Europe" nations.
You really don't want to add the 10 provinces of Canada as states, really. Just think of the problems you will be adding, Quebec separation, whingy westerners, panhandling maritimers, the provinces blame the federal governments no-one gets along and besides, we don't have fancy-dancy licence plates on out cars, well except for Northwest Territories and Nunavut with their polar bears. I don't think we have any professional sports teams other than in hockey and the Blue Jays and there may have been a professional football league at one time. We have this bad habit of pronouncing words correctly (well except for francophones, but they mispronounce words (english and french) deliberately). We would insist on using our dollars bcause the bills are different colours and look better (though when Charles becomes King, it may not be so). Finally, if you annexed Canada, there would be more of us down south. If I haven't made Canada unattractive enough for annexation I can go on.
I'm surprised that they didn't include that little scratch & win thing like they have on Canadian 20s and above. Nothing makes a currency seem valuable than making it look like a lottery ticket.
Rather than suing, why don't the spammers and anti-spammers get together. The spammers could take their spam lists and parse them through the blocked site lists of the anti-spammers. It may thin a mailing list of 3 million names down to under 10, but spammers could sleep easier knowing that all their bulk mail made it through.
A vendor really only has the choice of email to promote this availability. As a potential customer, I would be mightily pissed off if I was told that I'd lost the chance of getting a ticket for the big World Cup game because of anti-spamming laws
No still not good enough. I don't think it's ok for a million (millions) of people to get spammed because you are too lazy to do your own research. However, if it was $10 tickets for the Ottawa Senators in the Stanley Cup finals...hmmm.... No, it's temping...but no....it's still wrong.
My ISP [istop.com] sells me a 3Mb/600k DSL with a static IP line for about US $35/mo. Eat your heats out Americans:)
I use Sympatico 1MB and I like the service; I could try iStop because I think they serve my area (Centretown), but given the choice between 5 month long winters and cheap internet, I think I would rather be somewhere warmer.
I'd love to get a 9" screen so that I could use my old mac SE for a server type device. It would be kind of cool to have an old Mac on my stereo stand with a more modern computer on its inside.... Maybe if prices drop enough sizes will increase on these small LEDs.
Do you think Tech Support people you are trying to get a response from will fool with this system, or just delete a validation request that comes back to them?
This brings me back. I remember when I did tech support sometime in the last century. Occasionally, we would have 'callbacks' which usually amounted to calls to cranky* people who emailed us instead of calling. Since the company did support for multiple companies, we blanked-out our name for call-display. When we had a callback that would not accept calls from blanked-out names, we could have just called from a regular office phone, but it was less effort to simply mark in the job ticket that the caller was unreachable due to a bad number.
* Usually, the crank people who emailed were ones that didn't get what they wanted from the first level phone support (English speaking tech, billing problem fixed, unsupported issue supported)
Well, I guess a Corvette would be more useful in Iraq than in Denmark. As the gost of gasoline in Europe, it would probably cost half the country's defence budget to fill it up. Anyways, bigass muscle cars from Detroit are kind of passé.
It seems that one Charles Childs is 44 and the other 27. I guess you could spam both, I mean how hard is it for the innocent Childs to drop the catalogues and other junk mail in his {blue|green|black} box.
It reminds me of a bad Kevin Spacey movie from the 1980s where he patnered up with a shady vacuum-cleaner salesman. When confronted on ripping people off, the salesman said "Only the greedy get taken."
Why is it so hard to for Americans to spell Ottawa? There must be 4 or 5 Ottawa's in the US (Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Kansas etc), but still the name is buggered up.
Anyhow, I used to work for a call centre that primarily serviced American clients. If you used Fox Internet, you probably talked to helpdesk techs in Ottawa, same for a company called USIT. There were others, but I hated my job enough not to be curious.
Cost will be no barrier to foreign harassment. It would be embarassing if Americans got harassed by call centres in Canada. It costs pennies per minute to call the US from Canada. If greedy telemarketers pay an Indian $1.00 per hour rather than the $11.00 they would pay the Canadian, it just may be economical to call from India too.
Wow, 8 Jennifers! That beats my record. It's awful when you are in a goup of people and a lot of them have your name. It's like being in a cult. Now I'm in a programming diploma programme and I am the only Jennifer. It is refreshing.
I don't know a lot about the US system of government , but what I do know is that it would probably require a constitutional amendment transferring that form of taxation to the Federal government. The americans aren't to keen on amending the Constitution. How many amendments in 220 years (The war of Independence ended in 1773.)? Fourteen or so.
(IANA) I am not an accountant, but maybe you could get a 400 mile long extension cord and plug it in to Nevada? It would save you that extra 10%. Seriously though, what is to stop a company from let's say, setting up an office in Nevada and doing their procurement through that office and sucessfully evading that tax? Could it be as little as a post-office box?
This is really getting off-topic, but I like a good me-too on a Friday morning
b) They may be sending a lot more information that they wish to by using.doc
I work in a law office, and we used to send out our legal opinions in.doc format. We went out and spend a hella-lot of money on Acrobat 5. (We could have just installed a post-script printer driver and ghostscript, but that is another rant.) Our lawyers and our clients are not very savvy when it comes to using computers so the security concerns with using Office and the.doc format were largely ignored until one our clients looked at the changes. He didn't like the advice we gave him, but noticed the opinion was originally going the way he wanted, but the counsel changed her mind. This led to challenges, accusations of un-professionalism and a negative working environment.
So we dropped one proprietary format for another. I can't wait for the trouble we get into with Acrobat. I really hated giving money to Adobe.
I assume that helpdesks are not much different now than 3 years ago when I did ISP support. I found that if you weren't busy taking calls, the shift supervisor would be on your case wondering why you weren't at your desk and having your phone set to "available". This is also a place where you had to "ask" to use the washroom, and that request was usually met with "take some more calls". Basically, you have to wonder how many people are in jobs where taking a few seconds, not even minutes every hour is frowned upon and how much the health problems that the workers face are caused by this type of attitude.
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You really don't want to add the 10 provinces of Canada as states, really. Just think of the problems you will be adding, Quebec separation, whingy westerners, panhandling maritimers, the provinces blame the federal governments no-one gets along and besides, we don't have fancy-dancy licence plates on out cars, well except for Northwest Territories and Nunavut with their polar bears. I don't think we have any professional sports teams other than in hockey and the Blue Jays and there may have been a professional football league at one time. We have this bad habit of pronouncing words correctly (well except for francophones, but they mispronounce words (english and french) deliberately). We would insist on using our dollars bcause the bills are different colours and look better (though when Charles becomes King, it may not be so). Finally, if you annexed Canada, there would be more of us down south. If I haven't made Canada unattractive enough for annexation I can go on.
I'm surprised that they didn't include that little scratch & win thing like they have on Canadian 20s and above. Nothing makes a currency seem valuable than making it look like a lottery ticket.
Rather than suing, why don't the spammers and anti-spammers get together. The spammers could take their spam lists and parse them through the blocked site lists of the anti-spammers. It may thin a mailing list of 3 million names down to under 10, but spammers could sleep easier knowing that all their bulk mail made it through.
No still not good enough. I don't think it's ok for a million (millions) of people to get spammed because you are too lazy to do your own research. However, if it was $10 tickets for the Ottawa Senators in the Stanley Cup finals...hmmm .... No, it's temping...but no....it's still wrong.
I use Sympatico 1MB and I like the service; I could try iStop because I think they serve my area (Centretown), but given the choice between 5 month long winters and cheap internet, I think I would rather be somewhere warmer.
Why not use wpoison then? It's available at http://www.monkeys.com/wpoison/. I think read about it here on Slashdot.
Can this virus be spread by Outlook?
I'd love to get a 9" screen so that I could use my old mac SE for a server type device. It would be kind of cool to have an old Mac on my stereo stand with a more modern computer on its inside.... Maybe if prices drop enough sizes will increase on these small LEDs.
This brings me back. I remember when I did tech support sometime in the last century. Occasionally, we would have 'callbacks' which usually amounted to calls to cranky* people who emailed us instead of calling. Since the company did support for multiple companies, we blanked-out our name for call-display. When we had a callback that would not accept calls from blanked-out names, we could have just called from a regular office phone, but it was less effort to simply mark in the job ticket that the caller was unreachable due to a bad number.
* Usually, the crank people who emailed were ones that didn't get what they wanted from the first level phone support (English speaking tech, billing problem fixed, unsupported issue supported)
I remember when I first started reading Slashdot. I thought that Anonymous Coward was a jerk that had too much time on his hands. Boy do I feel naive.
Well, I guess a Corvette would be more useful in Iraq than in Denmark. As the gost of gasoline in Europe, it would probably cost half the country's defence budget to fill it up. Anyways, bigass muscle cars from Detroit are kind of passé.
It's okay, the US could just not enforce the H1-B Visa rule and companies could just import educated people.
It seems that one Charles Childs is 44 and the other 27. I guess you could spam both, I mean how hard is it for the innocent Childs to drop the catalogues and other junk mail in his {blue|green|black} box.
It reminds me of a bad Kevin Spacey movie from the 1980s where he patnered up with a shady vacuum-cleaner salesman. When confronted on ripping people off, the salesman said "Only the greedy get taken."
The comment seems apt here.
Anyhow, I used to work for a call centre that primarily serviced American clients. If you used Fox Internet, you probably talked to helpdesk techs in Ottawa, same for a company called USIT. There were others, but I hated my job enough not to be curious.
Cost will be no barrier to foreign harassment. It would be embarassing if Americans got harassed by call centres in Canada. It costs pennies per minute to call the US from Canada. If greedy telemarketers pay an Indian $1.00 per hour rather than the $11.00 they would pay the Canadian, it just may be economical to call from India too.
Either way...yuck!
I've had McVeggie Burgers in the UK and Canada. The UK one was better. It is goopy though.
I'd like to find that. The best I can do on dell.ca is $1629.00 (roughly $950 US) which included shipping. Holy scamming non-US customers.
Wow, 8 Jennifers! That beats my record. It's awful when you are in a goup of people and a lot of them have your name. It's like being in a cult. Now I'm in a programming diploma programme and I am the only Jennifer. It is refreshing.
Maybe we could call OS, ØS. (O+ALT-0216) that way it would be all right to call MS, M$.
I don't know a lot about the US system of government , but what I do know is that it would probably require a constitutional amendment transferring that form of taxation to the Federal government. The americans aren't to keen on amending the Constitution. How many amendments in 220 years (The war of Independence ended in 1773.)? Fourteen or so.
I always thought of Ivory Towers as places where intellectuals do their thing. It would be the last place I would expect to find Mr Bush.
(IANA) I am not an accountant, but maybe you could get a 400 mile long extension cord and plug it in to Nevada? It would save you that extra 10%. Seriously though, what is to stop a company from let's say, setting up an office in Nevada and doing their procurement through that office and sucessfully evading that tax? Could it be as little as a post-office box?
b) They may be sending a lot more information that they wish to by using .doc
I work in a law office, and we used to send out our legal opinions in .doc format. We went out and spend a hella-lot of money on Acrobat 5. (We could have just installed a post-script printer driver and ghostscript, but that is another rant.) Our lawyers and our clients are not very savvy when it comes to using computers so the security concerns with using Office and the .doc format were largely ignored until one our clients looked at the changes. He didn't like the advice we gave him, but noticed the opinion was originally going the way he wanted, but the counsel changed her mind. This led to challenges, accusations of un-professionalism and a negative working environment.
So we dropped one proprietary format for another. I can't wait for the trouble we get into with Acrobat. I really hated giving money to Adobe.
I assume that helpdesks are not much different now than 3 years ago when I did ISP support. I found that if you weren't busy taking calls, the shift supervisor would be on your case wondering why you weren't at your desk and having your phone set to "available". This is also a place where you had to "ask" to use the washroom, and that request was usually met with "take some more calls". Basically, you have to wonder how many people are in jobs where taking a few seconds, not even minutes every hour is frowned upon and how much the health problems that the workers face are caused by this type of attitude.
Just don't take a trip to Buffalo or Detroit to get some cheap gas and stuff, of take a holiday down there....