Sorry.... Um...Nope. Not the teensiest particle of respect or solemnity. We will be the same asshats 5 minutes after the bombings that we were 5 minutes before. Otherwise the terrorists win.
There is a wicked funny hefeweizen ad playing on the radio here. The voiceover says "We asked our German Brewmaster what he thought about people putting a lemon wedge in the hefeweizen" Next you hear this 30 second long explosion of red-faced screaming Teutonic rage and disgust "Eine Zitronenscheibe! Das darf doch nicht wahr sein! Unmoglich! IDIOTEN. SPINNER....."
My German cousins sort of thought they'd rent a car in Vancouver, drive to Banff, Calgary, south to Yellowstone park, zip across to San Francisco and back to Vancouver.
In a week....
I had to explain that a) the maps were marked in miles, not km, and b) North American roads are not Autobahns and have an average speed of about 100 kmh.
On the other hand they were flat out impressed with the performance of the 3.5 liter chev engine in the rent-a-car....
Until I explained that 350 meant cubic inches, and it was actually about 5.8 liters.
Totally agree. Example - Nicholas North Golf Course Whistler BC. Supposedly used to charge in $Canadian = about 75 $US per round. No action. Raised green fees to something like $200 US per round. Booked solid months in advance.
Just to clarify, but North American doors usually use semi-cheap Stanley (tm) hinges. You don't actually need to remove the hinges, just the hinge pins . These are hinges which are specially designed for secure "outside" mounting which have either captive hinge pins or cross pins that mate the two hinge halves and prevent removing the door when it is closed. No doubt our European friends will use these on their front doors.
The reason exterior doors open inward is so that the hinge pins are inside the house. That way someone can't break in by lifting the hinge pins and removing the entire door, locked or not.
I think we agree. The flip side of the question is (assuming Mac OS is hacked to run on any Intel based PC) why should I pay $2X for a Mac to run my Mac software when I can buy/build a beige box with premium quality components that will run my Mac software for $X ?"
I guess I must be in extra-dense mode today. I read your sig three times befor I "got" it. "Coffee exits through nostrils onto keyboard" Of course RS is the wookie.
There are many cron jobs, but at our little patch of heaven we always talked in hushed tones about "THE CRON JOB". This was the blood curdling revenge that would be automatically be invoked for an unhappy firing.
Cancel passwords, take computers away, have security guards escort us out; it doesn't matter. THE CRON JOB will still wreak its heinous vengeance!!
Of course, if they treat you decently when you go you can always warn them. Like - "The severance check just cleared at the bank and...Oh... by the way Bob...you should log on to ADMIN123 and delete foo.sh....before midnight Friday."
TFA says IBM will effect FireFox by hosting it on internal servers and providing help desk support.
Oh...wait...did you mean to ask "I wonder how IBM will effect FireFox?" or did you mean to ask "I wonder how IBM will _affect_ FireFox?" Because those are two entirely different questions.
"Gegen die Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens" - Schiller , 1801
translation - Against stupidity even Gods battle in vain.
The stupids will win in the end. Completely wrong uses of language will eventually displace the correct ones, because there are so many more stupid people mis-using our language than there are not-stupid people fighting against them.
My personal hatred burns for the following:
"infer" does not mean "imply" "enormity" - does not mean enormousness. Enormity is a noun, not an adverb. An enormity is an outrageous or horrible crime. - (this one is already lost). Western Canadian favorite - calling a grass strip between lanes of a divided highway a "meridian". It is a MEDIAN! YOU MORONS! AARGH! FZSK! KILL!
Are you claiming that in Japan and China, average public school teachers get paid as much as C++/Java coders?
First, I think you are confusing the "societal" value of something (we should _respect_ teachers; teachers are ever so important - think of the children!) with the economic value ($20k/year).
Then you are comparing apples (most teachers) with oranges (someone who can teach C++ and Java).
The price of a good is set by supply and demand; wishing it were otherwise will not make it so. Teachers get $20k/year because there are
enough teachers willing to work at that price. Therefore $20k/year is what they are worth.
If someone who can program/teach C++ and Java gets paid $40k+/year it is because the demand is relatively greater and/or the supply is relatively less.
I do agree that you are not going to get many coders who can make $40k+/year coding to work for $20k/year teaching. Although, working hours 9AM to 3 PM, a week off at Christmas and Easter, 10 weeks off in the summer, who knows...
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Sorry.... Um...Nope. Not the teensiest particle of respect or solemnity. We will be the same asshats 5 minutes after the bombings that we were 5 minutes before. Otherwise the terrorists win.
There is a wicked funny hefeweizen ad playing on the radio here. The voiceover says "We asked our German Brewmaster what he thought about people putting a lemon wedge in the hefeweizen" Next you hear this 30 second long explosion of red-faced screaming Teutonic rage and disgust "Eine Zitronenscheibe! Das darf doch nicht wahr sein! Unmoglich! IDIOTEN. SPINNER....."
Is that why dog biscuits taste funny? And don't even get me started on girl guide cookies.
True dat.
My German cousins sort of thought they'd rent a car in Vancouver, drive to Banff, Calgary, south to Yellowstone park, zip across to San Francisco and back to Vancouver.
In a week....
I had to explain that a) the maps were marked in miles, not km, and b) North American roads are not Autobahns and have an average speed of about 100 kmh.
On the other hand they were flat out impressed with the performance of the 3.5 liter chev engine in the rent-a-car....
Until I explained that 350 meant cubic inches, and it was actually about 5.8 liters.
The best quote is from the movie. Bond about to be sliced lengthwise by the laser.
"Do you expect me to talk?"
"No Mister Bond - I expect you to die!"
No, we don't!
It sounds like one of those trekkie vs trekker things that only someone even yet more lame than I would care about.
Once is happenstance
Twice is coincidence
The third time is Enemy Action
Ian Fleming
"Goldfinger"
mitochondria (animals) + chloroplasts (plants) = mitichlorans (sp?)
Totally agree. Example - Nicholas North Golf Course Whistler BC.
Supposedly used to charge in $Canadian = about 75 $US per round. No action.
Raised green fees to something like $200 US per round. Booked solid months in advance.
Just to clarify, but North American doors usually use semi-cheap Stanley (tm) hinges. You don't actually need to remove the hinges, just the hinge pins . These are hinges which are specially designed for secure "outside" mounting which have either captive hinge pins or cross pins that mate the two hinge halves and prevent removing the door when it is closed. No doubt our European friends will use these on their front doors.
The reason exterior doors open inward is so that the hinge pins are inside the house. That way someone can't break in by lifting the hinge pins and removing the entire door, locked or not.
I think we agree. The flip side of the question is (assuming Mac OS is hacked to run on any Intel based PC) why should I pay $2X for a Mac to run my Mac software when I can buy/build a beige box with premium quality components that will run my Mac software for $X ?"
I think you meant to say how is a $2,000 Mac any better quality than a $1,000 PC?
Dude,
I'm really not supposed to tell you this, but since you're with us now I guess it's OK. The stickers....(whispers) you can peel them off.
Around here the Apple premium is more like 75% - 100% over my cost for a similar spec Spec Intel box.
why Macs are better than PeeCees.
Lemme see, last time I posted this was on misc.survivalism Jan 2, 2000 but the words still ring true. -
Neener neener neener.
I guess I must be in extra-dense mode today. I read your sig three times befor I "got" it. "Coffee exits through nostrils onto keyboard" Of course RS is the wookie.
There are many cron jobs, but at our little patch of heaven we always talked in hushed tones about "THE CRON JOB". This was the blood curdling revenge that would be automatically be invoked for an unhappy firing.
...Oh... by the way Bob...you should log on to ADMIN123 and delete foo.sh....before midnight Friday."
Cancel passwords, take computers away, have security guards escort us out; it doesn't matter. THE CRON JOB will still wreak its heinous vengeance!!
Of course, if they treat you decently when you go you can always warn them. Like - "The severance check just cleared at the bank and
Had you spent 10 seconds on google before posting the above nonsense you would have discovered the following:
Density of iron about 8 g/cm3
Density of diamond about 3.5 g/cm3
Density of carbon graphite about 2.3 g/cm3
So your diamond armour will weigh less than half of an equivalent thickness of steel armour.
TFA says IBM will effect FireFox by hosting it on internal servers and providing help desk support.
Oh...wait...did you mean to ask "I wonder how IBM will effect FireFox?" or did you mean to ask "I wonder how IBM will _affect_ FireFox?" Because those are two entirely different questions.
"Gegen die Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens" - Schiller , 1801
translation - Against stupidity even Gods battle in vain.
The stupids will win in the end. Completely wrong uses of language will eventually displace the correct ones, because there are so many more stupid people mis-using our language than there are not-stupid people fighting against them.
My personal hatred burns for the following:
"infer" does not mean "imply"
"enormity" - does not mean enormousness. Enormity is a noun, not an adverb. An enormity is an outrageous or horrible crime. - (this one is already lost).
Western Canadian favorite - calling a grass strip between lanes of a divided highway a "meridian". It is a MEDIAN! YOU MORONS! AARGH! FZSK! KILL!
Your logic is somewhat muddled.
Are you claiming that in Japan and China, average public school teachers get paid as much as C++/Java coders?
First, I think you are confusing the "societal" value of something (we should _respect_ teachers; teachers are ever so important - think of the children!) with the economic value ($20k/year).
Then you are comparing apples (most teachers) with oranges (someone who can teach C++ and Java).
The price of a good is set by supply and demand; wishing it were otherwise will not make it so. Teachers get $20k/year because there are enough teachers willing to work at that price. Therefore $20k/year is what they are worth.
If someone who can program/teach C++ and Java gets paid $40k+/year it is because the demand is relatively greater and/or the supply is relatively less.
I do agree that you are not going to get many coders who can make $40k+/year coding to work for $20k/year teaching. Although, working hours 9AM to 3 PM, a week off at Christmas and Easter, 10 weeks off in the summer, who knows...
perfectly cromulent?