The Nazgul of Armonk
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I have this mental picture of a bleak rocky plain. Darl McBride lies sprawled on his back, dead eyes frozen in unspeakable horror. In his chest is a smoking hole. Looming over him, coiled in black mist, the terrible shadowy black robed figure of a Nazgul. In one skeletal hand the Nazgul holds Darl's still-beating heart and in the other a black Valextra briefcase.
Most connectors on a PC are keyed in some way and are difficult to plug in wrong. However, using the word "Foolproof" is a temptation for the Gods to smite you utterly. I have fixed PCs where a keyed ribbon cable was plugged in backwards into an ide hard drive and on one memorable occasion, a 9 pin serial plug somehow forced into a 25 pin socket. Nothing is foolproof against brute force and complete ignorance.
I would have expected this to be spun 180 degrees. i.e. Jack the rates up for all and then announce you get a $10 discount for meeting the BMI standard rather than a $10 penalty for failing to meet it. Same outcome, but less likely to piss people off.
All hail the mighty TIMEX! At our last engineering meeting 7 of the 10 guys there were wearing the Timex Ironman. 2 time zones, alarm, up down timers and accurate to 3 seconds a year for only $29. Who needs a Rolex? (Unless you need to impress the sort of people who are impressed by a Rolex)
I'll just blame it on bad social studies teachers in high school. (or maybe it was the bong hits before class?)
Actually now that I think of it there is a lot of talk about "A Third Way" at the big political/economic summits like G8. The first way being unfettered capitalism, the second way being state socialism and "the Third Way" some undefined mix of the best features of both modified to fit actual local conditions rather than ideological theory.
Interesting. I've never heard of the first and second world. Did you make that up?
The division is usually - The Old World (Europe & and maybe Asia) The New World (North and South America) and the Third World (much much later term meaning developing countries which could be anywhere)
What does a Rolex _do_.? It costs a lot of money. This will occasionally impress some people. If impressing people who are impressed by Rolexes is important enough to you to make the $3000 cost worthwile then by all means buy one. Being impressed by $3000 wristwatches is totally incomprehensible to me.
I wear a $29 timex ironman. It keeps almost perfect time (loses 4 seconds a year), it has a countdown timer and 2 alarms and runs about 5 years on a battery. Nobody is going to hold me up for my watch either.
Of course we don't need one of those fancy schmancy computers to type our homework. We can use a Dactylograph or Writetyper or whatever those things were that our Grandparents used to do word processing on before they had electricity and computers.
1. Convince Chinese government that spam is a plot by Falun Gong.
2. Half a million Peoples Liberation Army Cyberwar Programmers attack!
3. ???
4. Profit?
Are they going to jam VHF? You know,the radios that all the emergency responders like police, fire and ambulance use to communicate. Any half decent radio tech can add a dtmf decoder package to a hand-held vhf radio and make a jim-dandy remote detonator. A wee little vhf walkie talkie can easily range 5 miles even in the city. Hit the push-to-talk, key in *123 to arm and #456 to detonate.
Tim Horton's is not crack-in-a-cup. I can stop drinking it any time I want to. I could even stop right now, as soon as I finish this large double double*.
* - note: authentic Canadian cultural reference, double double means double cream double sugar, the way it was meant to be drank, by the Lord God Thunderin' Jaysus!
"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."
Like you say, it depends. If the early bird gathers no moss and a stitch in time is worth two in the bush then a fool and his money make Jack a dull boy. Unless of course a woman's place is in the eye of the beholder?
Actually the saying goes "The proof of the pudding is in the eating". The saying is one of the oldest in our language. Only recently has it been shortened and corrupted to "The proof is in the pudding". The meaning of the original is quite clear while "The proof is in the pudding" makes no sense at all.
AutoCAD. Seriously, this is the only thing keeping me from switching. Is there any way AutoCAD can be coerced to work with Ubuntu? AutoCAD 2007 would be great, but I could get by with AutoCAD 2000i.
You must have a better class of bullies where you came from. The ones at my school were big, physically violent,and not too smart. The three specific bullies who made my life miserable during high school didn't post nasty comments on myspace, they punched you or slammed you into a locker in passing. I have bumped into all three since I left school; one is a janitor, one is a part time roofer (and full time alcoholic) and one is a fisherman. No CEO's in that group I'm afraid.
As a Canadian I can assure you that our ever-vigilant Customs and Immigration officers would ask several sternly worded questions before they admitted such a person.
The idea of the equalizer is ingrained in the American psyche, and is best summed up by this quote from the days of the old west. - "God made all men. Samuel Colt made all men equal."
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I have this mental picture of a bleak rocky plain. Darl McBride lies sprawled on his back, dead eyes frozen in unspeakable horror. In his chest is a smoking hole. Looming over him, coiled in black mist, the terrible shadowy black robed figure of a Nazgul. In one skeletal hand the Nazgul holds Darl's still-beating heart and in the other a black Valextra briefcase.
Most connectors on a PC are keyed in some way and are difficult to plug in wrong. However, using the word "Foolproof" is a temptation for the Gods to smite you utterly. I have fixed PCs where a keyed ribbon cable was plugged in backwards into an ide hard drive and on one memorable occasion, a 9 pin serial plug somehow forced into a 25 pin socket. Nothing is foolproof against brute force and complete ignorance.
Your English is fine.
I would have expected this to be spun 180 degrees. i.e. Jack the rates up for all and then announce you get a $10 discount for meeting the BMI standard rather than a $10 penalty for failing to meet it. Same outcome, but less likely to piss people off.
It ain't workin' for me. Been looking all over for a happy system administrator so I can appreciate him, but I haven't found one yet. Not one.
All hail the mighty TIMEX! At our last engineering meeting 7 of the 10 guys there were wearing the Timex Ironman. 2 time zones, alarm, up down timers and accurate to 3 seconds a year for only $29. Who needs a Rolex? (Unless you need to impress the sort of people who are impressed by a Rolex)
Now there's a common linux response. Second only to RTFM noob.
Q. Linux doesn't seem to do $foo?
A. Why would you want to do $foo? No normal person ever wants to do $foo. WTF is wrong with you, that makes you want to do $foo.
Note: common values of $foo include:
- integrate email, contacts and calendar (like Outlook)
- play the latest games
and now - run 2 monitors.
here's a hint - this isn't helping to further the adoption of linux.
You were right and I was wrong.
Damn.
I'll just blame it on bad social studies teachers in high school. (or maybe it was the bong hits before class?)
Actually now that I think of it there is a lot of talk about "A Third Way" at the big political/economic summits like G8. The first way being unfettered capitalism, the second way being state socialism and "the Third Way" some undefined mix of the best features of both modified to fit actual local conditions rather than ideological theory.
Interesting. I've never heard of the first and second world. Did you make that up?
The division is usually -
The Old World (Europe & and maybe Asia)
The New World (North and South America)
and the Third World (much much later term meaning developing countries which could be anywhere)
I would think that in these here parts "Microsoft Works" would be the oxymoron of choice.
What does a Rolex _do_.? It costs a lot of money. This will occasionally impress some people. If impressing people who are impressed by Rolexes is important enough to you to make the $3000 cost worthwile then by all means buy one. Being impressed by $3000 wristwatches is totally incomprehensible to me.
I wear a $29 timex ironman. It keeps almost perfect time (loses 4 seconds a year), it has a countdown timer and 2 alarms and runs about 5 years on a battery. Nobody is going to hold me up for my watch either.
Of course we don't need one of those fancy schmancy computers to type our homework. We can use a Dactylograph or Writetyper or whatever those things were that our Grandparents used to do word processing on before they had electricity and computers.
1. Convince Chinese government that spam is a plot by Falun Gong.
2. Half a million Peoples Liberation Army Cyberwar Programmers attack!
3. ???
4. Profit?
wreck a nice beach??
Are they going to jam VHF? You know,the radios that all the emergency responders like police, fire and ambulance use to communicate. Any half decent radio tech can add a dtmf decoder package to a hand-held vhf radio and make a jim-dandy remote detonator. A wee little vhf walkie talkie can easily range 5 miles even in the city. Hit the push-to-talk, key in *123 to arm and #456 to detonate.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi.
We have now moved from the ignore phase to the ridicule phase. Fasten your seatbelts kids, its going to get bumpy.
Boncentration Bamps.
(obscure enough?)
Tim Horton's is not crack-in-a-cup. I can stop drinking it any time I want to. I could even stop right now, as soon as I finish this large double double*.
* - note: authentic Canadian cultural reference, double double means double cream double sugar, the way it was meant to be drank, by the Lord God Thunderin' Jaysus!
"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."
R. A. Heinlein
Like you say, it depends. If the early bird gathers no moss and a stitch in time is worth two in the bush then a fool and his money make Jack a dull boy. Unless of course a woman's place is in the eye of the beholder?
Actually the saying goes "The proof of the pudding is in the eating". The saying is one of the oldest in our language. Only recently has it been shortened and corrupted to "The proof is in the pudding". The meaning of the original is quite clear while "The proof is in the pudding" makes no sense at all.
OberGrammarFuehrer von Umlaut at your service!
/clicks heels
AutoCAD. Seriously, this is the only thing keeping me from switching. Is there any way AutoCAD can be coerced to work with Ubuntu? AutoCAD 2007 would be great, but I could get by with AutoCAD 2000i.
You must have a better class of bullies where you came from. The ones at my school were big, physically violent,and not too smart. The three specific bullies who made my life miserable during high school didn't post nasty comments on myspace, they punched you or slammed you into a locker in passing. I have bumped into all three since I left school; one is a janitor, one is a part time roofer (and full time alcoholic) and one is a fisherman. No CEO's in that group I'm afraid.
As a Canadian I can assure you that our ever-vigilant Customs and Immigration officers would ask several sternly worded questions before they admitted such a person.
Moving emphasis away from Patient Care proficiency will draw more men into Nursing! We must address the gender imbalance in nursing!
The idea of the equalizer is ingrained in the American psyche, and is best summed up by this quote from the days of the old west. - "God made all men. Samuel Colt made all men equal."