There's possibly cultural effects too. With international travel so popular, more relaxed cultures are 'tainting' the nanny-states.
I'm from a country town in South Australia where certain sentences were just standard. Because of this, my American stepson learned his first sentence from me: "Shit, that's hot!"
I had opened the door of the car that had been shut up in the cool Arizonan Summer Sun and been pelted with a hot gust that was in excess of 130F from inside the car. (I know it was in excess of 130F because I'd left a souvenir thermometer in there and it had burst)
Meanwhile, my wife-at-the-time was 20-odd metres away when I made that quiet statement of fact. For the next 20 minutes, he happily exclaimed to everyone that "Shit that's hot!"
That was ove 13 years ago and I still haven't lived it down!
Supermarkets here in Australia are using vacuum tubes to send cash from the registers to the back-of-store administrators, to avoid having too much cash in the register.
These were put into my local stores in 1994, where they replaced the system of two staff members wheeling it around in a big cart twice per day. So it's not so much a 'still using' thing, as they are still being installed as a current technology.
I don't know about in the US, but the contracts I've read in Australia specifically state that if the contract holder dies, the contract is terminated and they won't go after the deceased's estate for further compensation.
If the phone was in his name, they should let it go.
The opposition screwed up our whole telecoms sector while they were in Govt, and the Labor plan is to replace the entire telephone network in Australia with a proper data network (not a phone network), and separate wholesale and retail arms of the sector. This should have been done 10-15 years ago - it is projected to cost around 42 billion $AUS.
Sorry to burst your bubble there, Mr Troll, but your precious Labor party is just as responsible for our telecommunications debacle as the Libs are.
Back in the 90's when the idea of privatisation/selling-off Telstra came up, I had put forward an alternate proposal that involved separating the infrastructure and having a good level playing field that we can only currently dream of.
The Democrats (who were almost even a party at the time) took my ideas and discussed them in parliament. Both the Labor and Liberal parties were against the split and so we ended up with the mess we have today.
Labor(sic) has just as much blood on their hands as the Libs.
Everyone wanted a quick fix to recover from Labor's massive debt, so they held a garage sale and Telstra found itself in the bargain bucket. Telstra wouldn't have been worth nearly as much if it had been split. Since elections are short-term affairs, politicians don't care about long-term ramifications as much as they should!
But if you're allergic to Penicillin, avoid it like... Well, H1N1!
My father now suffers from an auto-immune condition that nearly killed him last year (when his kidneys and lungs started to fail) after taking that shit for a prolonged time.
Natural != Safe.
Don't believe me? Go mung on a heap of white willow bark for a few months...
So the meaning of life is to play games on Linux. Now it all makes sense. Shush! Keep quiet before they hear you!
The last person to say things like that was nailed to a tree!
Slashdot Mirror
I didn't have any since October, despite reading multiple times per day and having positive karma...
Then over the weekend, had them twice in three days! o.o
Oh my god!
Did you warn them about 9/11?!
http://xkcd.com/875/
Uh-oh! It's a Dog vs Cat fight going on here!
=o
You just saw the line and kept on crossing it!
I guess you could say it was in... Bad taste.
In already uncertain economic times, this is terrible news for RIM employees and their families.
I propose we make some sort of action to make RIM Jobs safe!
A UPS Driver? Isn't power management just handled by a kernel module? ;-p
This has been done since 1990!
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html
My first thought exactly.
But then I realised: They argued that it wasn't possible with the technology available at that time.
There's possibly cultural effects too. With international travel so popular, more relaxed cultures are 'tainting' the nanny-states.
I'm from a country town in South Australia where certain sentences were just standard. Because of this, my American stepson learned his first sentence from me: "Shit, that's hot!"
I had opened the door of the car that had been shut up in the cool Arizonan Summer Sun and been pelted with a hot gust that was in excess of 130F from inside the car. (I know it was in excess of 130F because I'd left a souvenir thermometer in there and it had burst)
Meanwhile, my wife-at-the-time was 20-odd metres away when I made that quiet statement of fact. For the next 20 minutes, he happily exclaimed to everyone that "Shit that's hot!"
That was ove 13 years ago and I still haven't lived it down!
Triple-rot13 just made me choke on my drink.
Posting this reply in Double-rot13 to ensure only the intended recipients can read it.
Mod the parent up!
I misread that as:
"A man who will be mounted by no one."
And immediately thought "Well, that explains it!"
Supermarkets here in Australia are using vacuum tubes to send cash from the registers to the back-of-store administrators, to avoid having too much cash in the register.
These were put into my local stores in 1994, where they replaced the system of two staff members wheeling it around in a big cart twice per day. So it's not so much a 'still using' thing, as they are still being installed as a current technology.
Turnover != Profit
I don't know about in the US, but the contracts I've read in Australia specifically state that if the contract holder dies, the contract is terminated and they won't go after the deceased's estate for further compensation.
If the phone was in his name, they should let it go.
Sorry to burst your bubble there, Mr Troll, but your precious Labor party is just as responsible for our telecommunications debacle as the Libs are.
Back in the 90's when the idea of privatisation/selling-off Telstra came up, I had put forward an alternate proposal that involved separating the infrastructure and having a good level playing field that we can only currently dream of.
The Democrats (who were almost even a party at the time) took my ideas and discussed them in parliament. Both the Labor and Liberal parties were against the split and so we ended up with the mess we have today.
Labor(sic) has just as much blood on their hands as the Libs.
Everyone wanted a quick fix to recover from Labor's massive debt, so they held a garage sale and Telstra found itself in the bargain bucket. Telstra wouldn't have been worth nearly as much if it had been split. Since elections are short-term affairs, politicians don't care about long-term ramifications as much as they should!
You're just being PedAntic
But if you're allergic to Penicillin, avoid it like... Well, H1N1!
My father now suffers from an auto-immune condition that nearly killed him last year (when his kidneys and lungs started to fail) after taking that shit for a prolonged time.
Natural != Safe.
Don't believe me? Go mung on a heap of white willow bark for a few months...
*shrugs* Okay, I'll bite:
"Scott?"
Now what?
I'd be totally against baselining at Mean Sea Level!
There's enough meanness in the universe as it is! Last thing we need is to start encouraging it!
However the countersuits for damages & emotional distress are gonna kill you!
Last time I spoke with a Kiwi, I'm sure that every second word was "whuck"
Cheers,
Ant
The last person to say things like that was nailed to a tree!
Cheers,
Ant
Cardinal Fang, read the charges! (While I poke him with the Soft Cushions!)