I just wanted to say thank you for a good laugh. It did take me the title and three of the four of them before I got it. It's quite refreshing to get something else than "I for one..." references. Again, thank you.
Authorities are examining similarities between the disappearances of Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby and the 1991 disappearance of 11-year-old Arlin Henderson from rural Moscow Mills. Both Shawn and Arlin were last seen riding bicycles, and Arlin bears a physical resemblance to Ben. Police said the recovery of Hornbeck and Ownby has breathed new life into the Henderson investigation.
Well, here in Canada, the process of using a Debit card involves the mandatory use of an Interac-certified P.O.S. device, which prompts for you to confirm the total before you move onto choosing the account to draw from, etc. --In some cases, I've even seen the things programmed to prompt you for a tip amount, which you could then specify yourself directly.
I wouldn't know if every person out there can easily discern other people's personal smells, or body odour (without getting into bad b.o. per se,) but at least I'm assuming that many are able to recognize a large difference between what might be named the female (category of) smell(s) and the male one(s). Meaning that if there were such a thing as a "spectrum of (individual/personal) odour/smell" then let's say that women would tend to be at one extreme, and men at the other, whereas, if you're a man and you've played some sort of sport like hockey or football where there is sweaty equipment involved and a "hitting the showers" scenario, you've already come across the unmistakable raw smell of "maleness", for example.
Now please have an open mind here while I describe something that I thought was worthy of note:
I am a bisexual male, and as such, I've had sexual intercourse with heterosexual women, homosexual men, as well as bisexual men, and I have observed that these are in three separate and distinct categories of personal odour/smell. Meaning that I've found that homosexual men did not smell like me, but thought nothing of it until the first time I had sex with a bisexual man, at which time it hit me instantly that this (bisexual) man smelled just like me, and just like any heterosexual males I'd ever known. Not that you need to get that intimate to catch a man's smell, but the context made it such that recognizing the smell (or rather that category) could not be avoided.
So, to resume, it seems that (at least as far as my experience has shown) homosexual men do not smell like heterosexual or bisexual men do. (Hope that was clearly put.)
The location of our eyes is at the front of our heads because we are predators, so perhaps this is the same for the nostrils, which many predatory animals indeed use to track their prey. As for the ears, perhaps they are positioned so that we may not be surprised by our peers or other predators?
I am referring of course to how front-mounted sensory organs are better able to detect the distance of the target that is being sensed. (As in an increased perception and evaluation of depth.)
I'm very sorry here, but all you're referring to here is the difference between a physical and a psychological dependency, and both are very real forms of addiction.
As I recall from my debugging days under Windows, a child/document window will be constrained within a parent/application window unless it is set as "modal" (by the developper), upon which it is (mostly) free.
Actually, you can close a (child window) in Windows without closing the application.
What is really missing, good or bad, is an "x" button on the application itself, as in, if I want to quit the application, I need to call the "Quit" function, however I chose to do that.
Bell does the same thing here in Canada; you're stuck having to buy a fully featured (smart) phone even if all you want is the ability to copy files to and fro.
In my case, all I wanted was the ability to sync my contacts wireless with my mac, and can't, using the Sanyo Katana.
I think it's pretty simple; claim that you will pay everyone, and expect to get flooded with content, usable or not. Something they already know they're not equipped to handle.
It's like how an art gallery will pay you your cut if they sell your canvas, but they don't pay you for merely displaying your art on their walls.
From the way it's formatted, it offers to open the door to enthusiasts, with plausible compensation if the content warrants it. Reuters' money train is exactly based on content subscriptions from it's clients and they're saying they'll share that.
I think it would make owning a new fancy phone more fun.
The thing you're doing with the books,...; here's a different twist on it:
k---f k = knees
\ f = feet
\ b = butt h-----b h = head
Imagine that you are positioned as such, lying on your back, on the floor, perpendicular to a wall so that your feet are flat on that wall. Now reproduce the same position, but instead of having your feet against the wall, (and thus having to *work* to keep your legs straight,) you rest your lower legs on a chair that is facing you, so that your butt is slightly under the chair.
Twenty to forty-five minutes of this every day, depending on the seriousness of your condition, and you'll sleep like a baby, and will help reduce the inflammation to your nerves caused by your lower back remaining strained most of the time.
Having three herniated disks, I've been through a lot of physical therapies, and this is by far the most benefit I've ever received from any one type of exercise or treatment.
A friend of mine once worked at a firm that really valued their employees and thus they had some experts show up and speak with everyone about posture and such. This resulted in, other than education/training being dispensed in this matter, a pilot program where one third of the staff ended up using this "perfect chair", where you are actually kneeling on it rather than sitting. I forget the brand and model, but I got to try it on occasion as I would work there from time to time as a consultant, and it's quite true that I've never used anything as comfortable.
The one I got to use anytime I was there was left alone, unused, in the server room. Knowing that these items were somewhat expensive, I asked how come it was being left there instead of assigned to anyone's desk, only to be explained that after a several weeks of usage, and despite everyone being completely satisfied with the chairs as far as comfort (ergonomics) were concerned, the chairs fell out of favour gradually, with none of them being used within two months of the start of the pilot project. The project was eventually considered a flop though the cause of its failure was never officially explained.
It turns out, something I was told in confidence, that one of the staff's managers liked to walk around and give out instructions, priorities and reprimands at everyone's desks rather than in private in the manager's office.
This may have already been an unpleasant practise, but had then become a humiliating one, due to the new chairs, since the staff was now kneeling before their boss while taking the abuse!
I have three herniated disks in my lower back, (the result of a creative snowboarding moment,) and can confirm that the only way to hold the 90% position without harming yourself is with actual lumbar support built-in to the chair, otherwise, being reclined is your only safe bet.
I know this not because it seems or feels better but because it is the only way that I can sit all day and retain the ability to walk normally without structural pain.
A lot of the "ergonomic" chairs I've tried offer endless control over how the chair can be inclined, or how high it and the arm rests can be, but they fail in this basic regard.
My current Nikon d50 is my sixth camera; first I had a polaroid as a teenager, then a succession of DPAS units as they came out and progressed, then finally the Canon Powershot SD10 (still a Point-And-Shoot) that gave me 4 megapixels but fit in my pocket next to my cell phone. Those were the days!
But for the past year or so I've been using a DSLR, my first SLR really, and it's helped me grow past the limits that point-and-shoot models imposed on me, yet still I missed the portability of the SD10, and so I recently swapped cams with a friend for about two weeks; his camera being a fancy Leica point-and-shoot.
Of course his camera is not as portable as my old Canon was, but still, I can never go back from SLR. I felt like I was wearing boxing gloves to handle an origamy project. Plus nowadays you can't seem to get a cell phone without a cam, so those are portable, but I have not found any interest for it and it remains unused on my new phone.
The thing is that I've rarely bothered with capturing regular images, whether it be vacation or family pictures, instead I was always exploring artistically, though I was never more than an amateur, and still am today.
So I'll keep on lugging my gear most everywhere I go, which now excludes concerts, which used to be a fun challenge due to physical and lighting contraints!
Indeed for years now I've been buying CDs only to import them on the computer and then put them away on a shelf somewhere never to be touched again. (A while back I used to give them away to friends, but then I got the sense that some of them would just show up to see what new acquisition I had, and it occured to me that this might not be entirely legal anyhow. Initially I was just pissed off at having been robbed so I didn't want to accumulate new posessions to lure opportunistic individuals once more.
Videos and other content can be fun, but I'll look at it (if I've got the time) only right after the initial purchase, and forget all about it later. (If most CDs had such content then I might be more likely to look it up but I'm not enough of a groupie to care for posters, etc.)
It's smiple, I listen to my music either on my 'puter at home, or my iPod otherwise, and that's it, so the CDAudio format has stopped being useful to me a long time ago (as in "years").
Now, if the CD included a session with the files already in mp3/mp4 format, with all the tags filled-in (incl. lyrics,) it would make the process of adding them to my library much quicker (and simpler). I wouldn't mind so much if they were DRM-ed somehow so long as the format was supported by my iPod.
[about my moderation] very sorry, meant to mod "+1 Insightful" but my sloppy finger clicked on "redundant" somehow, and I can't seem to effect a reversal. Perhaps me posting a comment will cancel it?
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I just wanted to say thank you for a good laugh. It did take me the title and three of the four of them before I got it. It's quite refreshing to get something else than "I for one..." references. Again, thank you.
Pizza manager is 'viable lead' in 1991 abduction
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Authorities are examining similarities between the disappearances of Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby and the 1991 disappearance of 11-year-old Arlin Henderson from rural Moscow Mills. Both Shawn and Arlin were last seen riding bicycles, and Arlin bears a physical resemblance to Ben. Police said the recovery of Hornbeck and Ownby has breathed new life into the Henderson investigation.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/17/missing.boy.ap/i
Note: I guess short hair will now fall out of favor for boys.
Or, not having the proper FCC approvals...
Well, here in Canada, the process of using a Debit card involves the mandatory use of an Interac-certified P.O.S. device, which prompts for you to confirm the total before you move onto choosing the account to draw from, etc. --In some cases, I've even seen the things programmed to prompt you for a tip amount, which you could then specify yourself directly.
I wouldn't know if every person out there can easily discern other people's personal smells, or body odour (without getting into bad b.o. per se,) but at least I'm assuming that many are able to recognize a large difference between what might be named the female (category of) smell(s) and the male one(s). Meaning that if there were such a thing as a "spectrum of (individual/personal) odour/smell" then let's say that women would tend to be at one extreme, and men at the other, whereas, if you're a man and you've played some sort of sport like hockey or football where there is sweaty equipment involved and a "hitting the showers" scenario, you've already come across the unmistakable raw smell of "maleness", for example.
Now please have an open mind here while I describe something that I thought was worthy of note:
I am a bisexual male, and as such, I've had sexual intercourse with heterosexual women, homosexual men, as well as bisexual men, and I have observed that these are in three separate and distinct categories of personal odour/smell. Meaning that I've found that homosexual men did not smell like me, but thought nothing of it until the first time I had sex with a bisexual man, at which time it hit me instantly that this (bisexual) man smelled just like me, and just like any heterosexual males I'd ever known. Not that you need to get that intimate to catch a man's smell, but the context made it such that recognizing the smell (or rather that category) could not be avoided.
So, to resume, it seems that (at least as far as my experience has shown) homosexual men do not smell like heterosexual or bisexual men do. (Hope that was clearly put.)
Also worthy of note:
Try and taste anything if you've got you're nostrils blocked!
The location of our eyes is at the front of our heads because we are predators, so perhaps this is the same for the nostrils, which many predatory animals indeed use to track their prey. As for the ears, perhaps they are positioned so that we may not be surprised by our peers or other predators?
I am referring of course to how front-mounted sensory organs are better able to detect the distance of the target that is being sensed. (As in an increased perception and evaluation of depth.)
I'm very sorry here, but all you're referring to here is the difference between a physical and a psychological dependency, and both are very real forms of addiction.
Nah, he's then a Motivated Christian.
Actually, how does it go; you change the outcome by measuring it? So, could we then discover the key, by looking for it? (Yeah, I'm in a silly mood.)
As I recall from my debugging days under Windows, a child/document window will be constrained within a parent/application window unless it is set as "modal" (by the developper), upon which it is (mostly) free.
Under Disk Utility, it's named "Leave appendable".
Actually, you can close a (child window) in Windows without closing the application.
What is really missing, good or bad, is an "x" button on the application itself, as in, if I want to quit the application, I need to call the "Quit" function, however I chose to do that.
Bell does the same thing here in Canada; you're stuck having to buy a fully featured (smart) phone even if all you want is the ability to copy files to and fro.
In my case, all I wanted was the ability to sync my contacts wireless with my mac, and can't, using the Sanyo Katana.
I think it's pretty simple; claim that you will pay everyone, and expect to get flooded with content, usable or not. Something they already know they're not equipped to handle.
It's like how an art gallery will pay you your cut if they sell your canvas, but they don't pay you for merely displaying your art on their walls.
From the way it's formatted, it offers to open the door to enthusiasts, with plausible compensation if the content warrants it. Reuters' money train is exactly based on content subscriptions from it's clients and they're saying they'll share that.
I think it would make owning a new fancy phone more fun.
Yeah right; prove to me that you're not human!
It is similar to this image, except that instead of holding your legs, they are resting on a chair that is partially over you:
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Hope that helps.
The thing you're doing with the books, ...; here's a different twist on it:
k---f k = knees
\ f = feet
\ b = butt
h-----b h = head
Imagine that you are positioned as such, lying on your back, on the floor, perpendicular to a wall so that your feet are flat on that wall. Now reproduce the same position, but instead of having your feet against the wall, (and thus having to *work* to keep your legs straight,) you rest your lower legs on a chair that is facing you, so that your butt is slightly under the chair.
Twenty to forty-five minutes of this every day, depending on the seriousness of your condition, and you'll sleep like a baby, and will help reduce the inflammation to your nerves caused by your lower back remaining strained most of the time.
Having three herniated disks, I've been through a lot of physical therapies, and this is by far the most benefit I've ever received from any one type of exercise or treatment.
A friend of mine once worked at a firm that really valued their employees and thus they had some experts show up and speak with everyone about posture and such. This resulted in, other than education/training being dispensed in this matter, a pilot program where one third of the staff ended up using this "perfect chair", where you are actually kneeling on it rather than sitting. I forget the brand and model, but I got to try it on occasion as I would work there from time to time as a consultant, and it's quite true that I've never used anything as comfortable.
The one I got to use anytime I was there was left alone, unused, in the server room. Knowing that these items were somewhat expensive, I asked how come it was being left there instead of assigned to anyone's desk, only to be explained that after a several weeks of usage, and despite everyone being completely satisfied with the chairs as far as comfort (ergonomics) were concerned, the chairs fell out of favour gradually, with none of them being used within two months of the start of the pilot project. The project was eventually considered a flop though the cause of its failure was never officially explained.
It turns out, something I was told in confidence, that one of the staff's managers liked to walk around and give out instructions, priorities and reprimands at everyone's desks rather than in private in the manager's office.
This may have already been an unpleasant practise, but had then become a humiliating one, due to the new chairs, since the staff was now kneeling before their boss while taking the abuse!
I have three herniated disks in my lower back, (the result of a creative snowboarding moment,) and can confirm that the only way to hold the 90% position without harming yourself is with actual lumbar support built-in to the chair, otherwise, being reclined is your only safe bet.
I know this not because it seems or feels better but because it is the only way that I can sit all day and retain the ability to walk normally without structural pain.
A lot of the "ergonomic" chairs I've tried offer endless control over how the chair can be inclined, or how high it and the arm rests can be, but they fail in this basic regard.
My current Nikon d50 is my sixth camera; first I had a polaroid as a teenager, then a succession of DPAS units as they came out and progressed, then finally the Canon Powershot SD10 (still a Point-And-Shoot) that gave me 4 megapixels but fit in my pocket next to my cell phone. Those were the days! But for the past year or so I've been using a DSLR, my first SLR really, and it's helped me grow past the limits that point-and-shoot models imposed on me, yet still I missed the portability of the SD10, and so I recently swapped cams with a friend for about two weeks; his camera being a fancy Leica point-and-shoot. Of course his camera is not as portable as my old Canon was, but still, I can never go back from SLR. I felt like I was wearing boxing gloves to handle an origamy project. Plus nowadays you can't seem to get a cell phone without a cam, so those are portable, but I have not found any interest for it and it remains unused on my new phone. The thing is that I've rarely bothered with capturing regular images, whether it be vacation or family pictures, instead I was always exploring artistically, though I was never more than an amateur, and still am today. So I'll keep on lugging my gear most everywhere I go, which now excludes concerts, which used to be a fun challenge due to physical and lighting contraints!
Indeed for years now I've been buying CDs only to import them on the computer and then put them away on a shelf somewhere never to be touched again. (A while back I used to give them away to friends, but then I got the sense that some of them would just show up to see what new acquisition I had, and it occured to me that this might not be entirely legal anyhow. Initially I was just pissed off at having been robbed so I didn't want to accumulate new posessions to lure opportunistic individuals once more.
Videos and other content can be fun, but I'll look at it (if I've got the time) only right after the initial purchase, and forget all about it later. (If most CDs had such content then I might be more likely to look it up but I'm not enough of a groupie to care for posters, etc.)
It's smiple, I listen to my music either on my 'puter at home, or my iPod otherwise, and that's it, so the CDAudio format has stopped being useful to me a long time ago (as in "years").
Now, if the CD included a session with the files already in mp3/mp4 format, with all the tags filled-in (incl. lyrics,) it would make the process of adding them to my library much quicker (and simpler). I wouldn't mind so much if they were DRM-ed somehow so long as the format was supported by my iPod.
[about my moderation]
very sorry, meant to mod "+1 Insightful" but my sloppy finger clicked on "redundant" somehow, and I can't seem to effect a reversal. Perhaps me posting a comment will cancel it?
Good point. I had not considered online-only products.