I thought God smashed Haiti flat as piss on plate because of their heathen Voodoo devil worshiping. Your saying it's not because they weren't Catholic enough, but because they were too Catholic? I wish God would make up His mind.
I suppose so, since it was yesterday that Sarah Palin claimed she was being accused of murdering Christian babies to use their blood in unholy rituals.
Oddly enough Mr Coward is almost right. Your employer can require you to buy a cell phone for company use. He can require whatever he wants to, (i.e. Auto mechanics that need to supply their own tools) as long as you agree to it when you are hired. He can't add it to your employment requirements later without you agreeing to it. Where I live that employer mandated cell phone bill would be an income tax deductible expense.
No, it is not. Public utilities are there to provide a service, not jobs. Or do you think I should pay more for my electricity so the meter readers stay working?
"we still have fire-tenders on electric trains" - Not in North America, they got rid of the firemen and the brakemen a long time ago. Through freight trains typically run 2-man crews, Engineer and Conductor.
Part of the reason why this fraudulent BS was accepted was that we don't actually know what causes Autism. No criticism of medical science implied here, there is all kinds of research going on, just no definitive answer. If we could say, "No, Autism is not caused by vaccines, it is caused by....." the vaccine issue would mostly go away. Right know we are left trying to prove a negative. The saddest part of all this is that children have now died from these entirely preventable diseases.
Do these work for Telus/Rogers/Bell? If yes I am buying one tomorrow. I don't mind the 5 - minute "I just got on the bus, pick me up in front of Tim's at 5" or the "No, I'm still on the bus, I'll call you when I get to the office" conversations. What I hate are the (sorry to stereotype here) mostly women that start talking the minute they get on the bus and 55 minutes later are still talking loud enough to be heard from one end of the bus to the other. Your right to talk and my right to peace and quiet are now not in sync but a device like this would certainly help to redress the balance.
Obvious Suspect Fail. If my wife or my business partner were to suddenly turn up murdered, the cops would be at my door in a heartbeat. I fire my IT person and three days later my entire IT infrastructure goes down hard. I don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out who did it.
The way to do it is to put in a few accounts for other ex-employees, "accidentally" elevate them to admin privileges and then walk away. If you still feel the need for revenge 6 months later use one of those accounts to do your dastardly vengeance. Have a cleanup script that deletes all the logs, but maybe leaves an undeleted backup somewhere pointing at your patsy. Have the whole thing triggered by a chron task that goes off while you are hiking in the Himalayas with your church youth group.
The X-37B operates in low earth orbit about 200 miles up. The satellite is in Geosynchronous orbit at about 22,000 miles up. How do you get the X-37B to where the satellite is?
The Colours should have immediately obvious meanings.
For Example: Threat level Pink - LGBT Terrorist attacks imminent. Threat level Amber - we are being attacked by missing children. Threat level Plaid - Scottish Terrorists are about to play bagpipes at us.
What kind of school would do that? At the university where I went the invigilator might have warned them once not to talk and then if they had uttered one more sound he would have turfed them out the door. At the very least they would have moved them all to opposite corners of the room. The penalties for cheating on a test were severe and were applied without compunction or remorse. You cheat, you're out, thanks for the tuition, hope you can get a degree someplace else.
"three years of pre-production, six months of principal photography, three years of post-production" - don't forget the half hour it took to write all the dialogue.
The professor supervising the final English 100 exam tells the 800 or so students in the exam hall “You will have 3 hours to complete this exam, not one minute more. Start writing when I say go and put your pens down when I stop.” When the three hours is up all the students stop writing except for one. He keeps furiously scribbling away as the papers are collected and stacked on the professors desk. As the last papers are stacked the student runs up to the front, paper in hand. The professor says “You know the rules; there is no way I am going to let you hand in that paper.” The student draws himself to his full height and in tones of Shakespearean high dudgeon says “Do you have any idea who I am!” “No” says the professor, and “I really don’t care.” “Good” says the student, slides his paper into the middle of one of the stacks of exams and walks out the door.
Maybe I’m being naïve here, but I’m assuming that anyone can go to New York with a couple of hockey bags full of money, lease some space as close as physically possible to the Exchange and then get MCI or Verizon or Sprint or whoever has the fastest ping time to the NYSE servers to get you a data connection. I didn't realize that Goldman Sachs servers were actually collocated with the NYSE servers. Even so, with a local fiber connection your hypothetical system should be fast enough to compete.
How on earth is this a monopoly on the stock market? If Sachs can legally employ this system, then so can you. If you think you have a better system and you can convince enough people with enough money to let you build it then you can compete with Sachs. This is called a level playing field.
Anybody remember when FUD used to mean Fear Uncertainty and Doubt. Now it just means "not true". Back in the day something could be FUD and still be 100% true.
I know, I know, word meanings change, languages devolve over time....blah de blah. Still, I miss the days when English was a tool of subtlety and precision.
Slashdot Mirror
"get rid of adds"
Can we keep the subtracts?
I thought God smashed Haiti flat as piss on plate because of their heathen Voodoo devil worshiping. Your saying it's not because they weren't Catholic enough, but because they were too Catholic? I wish God would make up His mind.
Really now? The proles don't read Ayn Rand. The proles don't read. Ayn Rand is for superior In-Tell-Lek-Shoe-Ulls like you and me.
I suppose so, since it was yesterday that Sarah Palin claimed she was being accused of murdering Christian babies to use their blood in unholy rituals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel
Oddly enough Mr Coward is almost right. Your employer can require you to buy a cell phone for company use. He can require whatever he wants to, (i.e. Auto mechanics that need to supply their own tools) as long as you agree to it when you are hired. He can't add it to your employment requirements later without you agreeing to it. Where I live that employer mandated cell phone bill would be an income tax deductible expense.
No, it is not. Public utilities are there to provide a service, not jobs. Or do you think I should pay more for my electricity so the meter readers stay working?
"we still have fire-tenders on electric trains" - Not in North America, they got rid of the firemen and the brakemen a long time ago. Through freight trains typically run 2-man crews, Engineer and Conductor.
Nobody knows what the Öyster is or why it's blue. The BÖC is all dark and mysterious and stuff.
"Why do lies seem to live longer than the truth? "
"A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on" - Mark Twain
Part of the reason why this fraudulent BS was accepted was that we don't actually know what causes Autism. No criticism of medical science implied here, there is all kinds of research going on, just no definitive answer. If we could say, "No, Autism is not caused by vaccines, it is caused by ....." the vaccine issue would mostly go away. Right know we are left trying to prove a negative. The saddest part of all this is that children have now died from these entirely preventable diseases.
Do these work for Telus/Rogers/Bell? If yes I am buying one tomorrow. I don't mind the 5 - minute "I just got on the bus, pick me up in front of Tim's at 5" or the "No, I'm still on the bus, I'll call you when I get to the office" conversations. What I hate are the (sorry to stereotype here) mostly women that start talking the minute they get on the bus and 55 minutes later are still talking loud enough to be heard from one end of the bus to the other. Your right to talk and my right to peace and quiet are now not in sync but a device like this would certainly help to redress the balance.
Obvious Suspect Fail. If my wife or my business partner were to suddenly turn up murdered, the cops would be at my door in a heartbeat. I fire my IT person and three days later my entire IT infrastructure goes down hard. I don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out who did it.
The way to do it is to put in a few accounts for other ex-employees, "accidentally" elevate them to admin privileges and then walk away. If you still feel the need for revenge 6 months later use one of those accounts to do your dastardly vengeance. Have a cleanup script that deletes all the logs, but maybe leaves an undeleted backup somewhere pointing at your patsy. Have the whole thing triggered by a chron task that goes off while you are hiking in the Himalayas with your church youth group.
The X-37B operates in low earth orbit about 200 miles up. The satellite is in Geosynchronous orbit at about 22,000 miles up. How do you get the X-37B to where the satellite is?
Please Google "Broken Windows Fallacy"
This is totally true. I had to buy Ford tires from the Ford store, because I couldn't get them anywhere else due to the Ford monopoly.
Good Point! Think how good Slashdot would be if they had editors.
The Colours should have immediately obvious meanings.
For Example: Threat level Pink - LGBT Terrorist attacks imminent. Threat level Amber - we are being attacked by missing children. Threat level Plaid - Scottish Terrorists are about to play bagpipes at us.
What kind of school would do that? At the university where I went the invigilator might have warned them once not to talk and then if they had uttered one more sound he would have turfed them out the door. At the very least they would have moved them all to opposite corners of the room. The penalties for cheating on a test were severe and were applied without compunction or remorse. You cheat, you're out, thanks for the tuition, hope you can get a degree someplace else.
"three years of pre-production, six months of principal photography, three years of post-production" - don't forget the half hour it took to write all the dialogue.
posting to undo pre-caffeine mod. sry.
The professor supervising the final English 100 exam tells the 800 or so students in the exam hall “You will have 3 hours to complete this exam, not one minute more. Start writing when I say go and put your pens down when I stop.” When the three hours is up all the students stop writing except for one. He keeps furiously scribbling away as the papers are collected and stacked on the professors desk. As the last papers are stacked the student runs up to the front, paper in hand. The professor says “You know the rules; there is no way I am going to let you hand in that paper.” The student draws himself to his full height and in tones of Shakespearean high dudgeon says “Do you have any idea who I am!” “No” says the professor, and “I really don’t care.” “Good” says the student, slides his paper into the middle of one of the stacks of exams and walks out the door.
Maybe I’m being naïve here, but I’m assuming that anyone can go to New York with a couple of hockey bags full of money, lease some space as close as physically possible to the Exchange and then get MCI or Verizon or Sprint or whoever has the fastest ping time to the NYSE servers to get you a data connection. I didn't realize that Goldman Sachs servers were actually collocated with the NYSE servers. Even so, with a local fiber connection your hypothetical system should be fast enough to compete.
How on earth is this a monopoly on the stock market? If Sachs can legally employ this system, then so can you. If you think you have a better system and you can convince enough people with enough money to let you build it then you can compete with Sachs. This is called a level playing field.
Anybody remember when FUD used to mean Fear Uncertainty and Doubt. Now it just means "not true". Back in the day something could be FUD and still be 100% true.
I know, I know, word meanings change, languages devolve over time....blah de blah. Still, I miss the days when English was a tool of subtlety and precision.
signed - Wistful Grammar Nazi.
No Way. I am the toughest. I would have shot her in the teeth. With a bazooka. Twice.