not true in south florida. everyone was nice in southern california but it was too crowded. here in miami everyone is mean and self centered unfortunately. i guess theres exceptions to every rule.
towards more immigrants in the US population. I've noticed alot of them like humor i find to be infantile and stupid but they lap it up. It doesnt mean theyre stupid, maybe it has to do with a poorer grasp of western culture or the english language. I'm not really sure. I do see more and more people going to movies and saying theyre just looking to be entertained, they dont want anything that will make them think.
could never be interested in an adventure style game. those only appeal to geeks because it the adventure style commandlines were like "MSDOS the videogame!" the masses simply dont have the attention spans longer than a goldfish to support that level of concentration.
and extremely embarassingly cheezy now. like alot of 80s movies that didnt age well and you need to drink while watching them to avoid crawling out of your skin and running screaming from the room.
their robot's mouth http://web.mit.edu/zacka/www/sara.html doesnt have an uncanny resemblance to a blow up doll. and what do you think that robotic arm is used for?
video conferencing. the thing is they wont remove the upload bandwidth cap to enable it. if people started really pimping out video conferencing with set top boxes for your tv using a wireless lan connection or something not only would you have a legitimate use but youd have isps scared sh%tless that people would beg for more bandwidth.
I used to love it. I started into computer at 8. worked for my local city government at 15. now im 27 and still in IT. A number of years ago i worked for coldwell banker in los angeles. we assembled their network uniting 60 branches. the company said it was time to cut costs and made us compete for our jobs. they would constantly raise the bar and can the person with the least number of closed tickets. towards the end there was a guy out in ventura who was wiping down computer cases with alcohol wipes trying to create more tickets to keep his job.
I used to love IT now i f*cking hate it. They took something i really liked and destroyed it. I have other hobbies now which i am trying to pursue into a business but im trapped because IT still is the only thing that will make me enough money to keep me from collapsing into a pile of debt i created during periods of cyclical unemployment.
I have a vendetta against Cendant Inc. they were the ones responsible for my complete failure of company loyalty.
I swear to God, I will never respect another company as long as i live.
Uncap bandwidth. I recently moved to florida and Id love to buy a big flatscreen for the livingroom so i could share christmas morning with my parents in california!
All the technology is there, we just need uncapped up streams!
Has anyone considered that as the earth warms reefs won't be destroyed because they will expand out further from the present belts of temperature where they presently survive?
We'll have more coral not less. The fastest growing species will colonize areas further away from the warm spots.
Also has anyone considered how we light the planet? If a vast majority of energy radiated from lightbulbs is in the form of heat and we have many of them going 24/7/365
how do you think this contributes to heating the planet?
I mean the continents GLOW FROM SPACE for godssake!
We have many immigrants who either cross over by mexico (that doesnt mean theyre mexican)and then go cross across the southern states till they reach south florida or float across from cuba. (we've found rafts canoing in the keys) After that they get a job either with the construction industry which is booming here right now or with field labor. As soon as they have a job theres someone out here who will finance them a car despite not having a license.
The result?
Hundreds of brand new cars zooming all over the place at high speed doing seriously dangerous manuvers.
I just moved here from los angeles and this is the worst driving i have EVER seen. I see cars without license plates driving around, trucks carrying scrap piled high and unsecured with pieces falling off the back. Everyone here tailgates, its just a fact of life in miami. The amount of illegal driving activity on roads down here is so much the police departments have basically given up. Its taken quite a deal of work to learn to drive acting as though everyone around you is a drunk because many of these people haven't had as much practice driving with a cellphone as we in los angeles have. Seriously I dare anyone in the country to come down here and tell me this isnt the scariest driving in the country. In california they taught me defensive driving in school, here they seem to teach offensive driving or none at all.
yeah that was pretty damn hilarious. Its supposed to read Badcock and More. its a furniture store we've known about since we moved here. Thats nothing though. if you look further theres a picture of a billboard of a band that plays in the keys and the house band is "Big Dick and the Extenders"
Socal was getting way too crowded and i realized it was time to move when i was the only one out of my coworkers not doing a 2 hr commute. our apartment was $1175 a month for 650 square feet (2 bedroom) and a mold factory that shouldve been declared literally a health hazard as the walls would bloom tons of circles of black mold every few months which we then had to bleach to kill. they raised the rent $100 just before we moved. Our place here is spectacular, we have wildlife (everglades 15 mins away), tropical beaches (miami beach is an hour) and the keys 20 mins away. i could go ride a fan boat and swim in tropical water in the 90 degree F range all in the same day or snorkel a coral reef for that matter. The only thing you have to get used to is the sucky customer service (everywhere except the keys and miami beach) and the heavily latin population which tends to freak some white folks out but coming from socal isnt that much of a big deal. oh yeah and the drivers suck bad.
The canon S2 is spectacular. i knew id get one when 2 people i showed me their S1's and then i saw there was an upgraded version which was the S2. its spectacular and i cant wait to grow out my tank more so i can take coral macro shots again. my old tank died en transit to florida and we tossed out thousands of dollars in coral into a dumpster behind a hotel in van horn, texas when we could no longer deal with the stench.
I was in homestead, florida (just moved here from southern california this year) when katrina hit. The eye passed within 12 miles of us. I recall the lightning too because it was really eerie heat-lightning style flashes in a strobe like effect and i remember saying to myself, hurricanes aren't supposed to have lightning. After that the transformers all over the neighborhood started detonating and lighting up the sky with blue explosions and all the power went out. I was able to this all because everyone thought (due to bad predictions) that it was only going to hit as a tropical storm and no one put up their shutters. I remember looking out across the pitch blackness and seeing a faint glow on the horizon and knowing that someone somewhere out there had power. I will always remember the experiences of katrina and wilma... and get to experience them all over again NEXT YEAR =)
I'm sure the nazis would've loved to have this technology when they were hunting for the hiding jews. Unfortunately history repeats and whoever it is this time who's hiding will have a much harder time next time around.
to inform people of that for a very long time. Theres also some heating on one of uranus's or neptune's moons i dont recall which, which is heating up the atmosphere there. Its the sun thats causing all of this. Maybe if we're lucky we'll see mars thaw a bit. I wonder how much the sun would have to heat up to make all the ice thaw there.
i heard all about that. also there were pollutant making sealions go crazy and attack people. this was pretty much around the time i took a sailing class and we rounded the dinghy too close to the buoy at the harbor entrance and the sealion reared up at us and i saw the terror look in my instructor's face who was sitting in a small powered boat 20 ft away. fortunately nothing happened but there are just too many sealions and theyre acting like they own the road now.
seems to me what they need to do is put a small low voltage wire all the way around the boat to irritate their wet skin just enough to make it uncomfortable for them to attempt to get onto the boat.
we moved from los angeles to miami. cubans are flooding over the CA border now and migrating through the southern states to get to miami. they discovered its much MUCH easier to jump the border there than float across to miami. add 1 more country to the list of illegal immigrants. heh, and they think they can keep suitcase nukes out.
We came from los angeles and moved to miami. Their rates are pretty expensive and you're right they're pricing themselves out of business. With all the transplants moving into florida now alot of companies are going to have to deal with rising expectations as people move in from states where things are more competant. One nitpick: he called it "the dirty south", I want to see him come to miami beach and tell me its "the dirty south".
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not true in south florida. everyone was nice in southern california but it was too crowded. here in miami everyone is mean and self centered unfortunately. i guess theres exceptions to every rule.
towards more immigrants in the US population. I've noticed alot of them like humor i find to be infantile and stupid but they lap it up. It doesnt mean theyre stupid, maybe it has to do with a poorer grasp of western culture or the english language. I'm not really sure. I do see more and more people going to movies and saying theyre just looking to be entertained, they dont want anything that will make them think.
could never be interested in an adventure style game. those only appeal to geeks because it the adventure style commandlines were like "MSDOS the videogame!"
the masses simply dont have the attention spans longer than a goldfish to support that level of concentration.
can't be played any longer because the pace of life is so extremely accelerated there isnt time to do anything.
and extremely embarassingly cheezy now. like alot of 80s movies that didnt age well and you need to drink while watching them to avoid crawling out of your skin and running screaming from the room.
i learned so much trivia memorizing correct answers
their robot's mouth
http://web.mit.edu/zacka/www/sara.html
doesnt have an uncanny resemblance to a blow up doll. and what do you think that robotic arm is used for?
i will be surprised if it gets meantioned at all by our government controlled media.
video conferencing. the thing is they wont remove the upload bandwidth cap to enable it.
if people started really pimping out video conferencing with set top boxes for your tv using a wireless lan connection or something not only would you have a legitimate use but youd have isps scared sh%tless that people would beg for more bandwidth.
I used to love it. I started into computer at 8. worked for my local city government at 15. now im 27 and still in IT. A number of years ago i worked for coldwell banker in los angeles. we assembled their network uniting 60 branches. the company said it was time to cut costs and made us compete for our jobs. they would constantly raise the bar and can the person with the least number of closed tickets. towards the end there was a guy out in ventura who was wiping down computer cases with alcohol wipes trying to create more tickets to keep his job.
I used to love IT now i f*cking hate it. They took something i really liked and destroyed it. I have other hobbies now which i am trying to pursue into a business but im trapped because IT still is the only thing that will make me enough money to keep me from collapsing into a pile of debt i created during periods of cyclical unemployment.
I have a vendetta against Cendant Inc. they were the ones responsible for my complete failure of company loyalty.
I swear to God, I will never respect another company as long as i live.
Uncap bandwidth. I recently moved to florida and Id love to buy a big flatscreen for the livingroom so i could share christmas morning with my parents in california!
All the technology is there, we just need uncapped up streams!
Obviously Slashdot has jumped the shark.
We're getting more and more pseudoscience garbage.
If i see incredible claims on slashdot now i just check the posts first to see if its worth reading.
Slashdot is fading into uselessness for me.
Digg is just so much more useful.
Has anyone considered that as the earth warms reefs won't be destroyed because they will expand out further from the present belts of temperature where they presently survive?
We'll have more coral not less. The fastest growing species will colonize areas further away from the warm spots.
Also has anyone considered how we light the planet? If a vast majority of energy radiated from lightbulbs is in the form of heat and we have many of them going 24/7/365
how do you think this contributes to heating the planet?
I mean the continents GLOW FROM SPACE for godssake!
We need nanny cars here. BIGTIME.
We have many immigrants who either cross over by mexico (that doesnt mean theyre mexican)and then go cross across the southern states till they reach south florida or float across from cuba. (we've found rafts canoing in the keys) After that they get a job either with the construction industry which is booming here right now or with field labor. As soon as they have a job theres someone out here who will finance them a car despite not having a license.
The result?
Hundreds of brand new cars zooming all over the place at high speed doing seriously dangerous manuvers.
I just moved here from los angeles and this is the worst driving i have EVER seen. I see cars without license plates driving around, trucks carrying scrap piled high and unsecured with pieces falling off the back. Everyone here tailgates, its just a fact of life in miami. The amount of illegal driving activity on roads down here is so much the police departments have basically given up. Its taken quite a deal of work to learn to drive acting as though everyone around you is a drunk because many of these people haven't had as much practice driving with a cellphone as we in los angeles have. Seriously I dare anyone in the country to come down here and tell me this isnt the scariest driving in the country. In california they taught me defensive driving in school, here they seem to teach offensive driving or none at all.
yeah that was pretty damn hilarious. Its supposed to read Badcock and More. its a furniture store we've known about since we moved here. Thats nothing though. if you look further theres a picture of a billboard of a band that plays in the keys and the house band is "Big Dick and the Extenders"
Socal was getting way too crowded and i realized it was time to move when i was the only one out of my coworkers not doing a 2 hr commute. our apartment was $1175 a month for 650 square feet (2 bedroom) and a mold factory that shouldve been declared literally a health hazard as the walls would bloom tons of circles of black mold every few months which we then had to bleach to kill. they raised the rent $100 just before we moved. Our place here is spectacular, we have wildlife (everglades 15 mins away), tropical beaches (miami beach is an hour) and the keys 20 mins away. i could go ride a fan boat and swim in tropical water in the 90 degree F range all in the same day or snorkel a coral reef for that matter. The only thing you have to get used to is the sucky customer service (everywhere except the keys and miami beach) and the heavily latin population which tends to freak some white folks out but coming from socal isnt that much of a big deal. oh yeah and the drivers suck bad.
The canon S2 is spectacular. i knew id get one when 2 people i showed me their S1's and then i saw there was an upgraded version which was the S2. its spectacular and i cant wait to grow out my tank more so i can take coral macro shots again. my old tank died en transit to florida and we tossed out thousands of dollars in coral into a dumpster behind a hotel in van horn, texas when we could no longer deal with the stench.
I was in homestead, florida (just moved here from southern california this year) when katrina hit. The eye passed within 12 miles of us. I recall the lightning too because it was really eerie heat-lightning style flashes in a strobe like effect and i remember saying to myself, hurricanes aren't supposed to have lightning. After that the transformers all over the neighborhood started detonating and lighting up the sky with blue explosions and all the power went out. I was able to this all because everyone thought (due to bad predictions) that it was only going to hit as a tropical storm and no one put up their shutters. I remember looking out across the pitch blackness and seeing a faint glow on the horizon and knowing that someone somewhere out there had power. I will always remember the experiences of katrina and wilma... and get to experience them all over again NEXT YEAR =)
Anyways if you'd like to take a look at some of my shots from katrina (mostly a rain event) and the resultant flooding look here: http://www.cixel.com/photo/thumbnails.php?album=3
Also if you'd like to see some of my shots of hurricane wilma (mostly a wind event) and scads of damage look here: http://www.cixel.com/photo/thumbnails.php?album=9
I'm sure the nazis would've loved to have this technology when they were hunting for the hiding jews. Unfortunately history repeats and whoever it is this time who's hiding will have a much harder time next time around.
Things NEVER change overnight.
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http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu/education/student/vo
May wind up being the only solution, thats probably the only spot on the planet that will stay coldest the longest as the rest of the planet thaws.
to inform people of that for a very long time. Theres also some heating on one of uranus's or neptune's moons i dont recall which, which is heating up the atmosphere there. Its the sun thats causing all of this. Maybe if we're lucky we'll see mars thaw a bit. I wonder how much the sun would have to heat up to make all the ice thaw there.
i heard all about that. also there were pollutant making sealions go crazy and attack people. this was pretty much around the time i took a sailing class and we rounded the dinghy too close to the buoy at the harbor entrance and the sealion reared up at us and i saw the terror look in my instructor's face who was sitting in a small powered boat 20 ft away. fortunately nothing happened but there are just too many sealions and theyre acting like they own the road now.
seems to me what they need to do is put a small low voltage wire all the way around the boat to irritate their wet skin just enough to make it uncomfortable for them to attempt to get onto the boat.
we moved from los angeles to miami. cubans are flooding over the CA border now and migrating through the southern states to get to miami. they discovered its much MUCH easier to jump the border there than float across to miami. add 1 more country to the list of illegal immigrants. heh, and they think they can keep suitcase nukes out.
We came from los angeles and moved to miami. Their rates are pretty expensive and you're right they're pricing themselves out of business. With all the transplants moving into florida now alot of companies are going to have to deal with rising expectations as people move in from states where things are more competant. One nitpick: he called it "the dirty south", I want to see him come to miami beach and tell me its "the dirty south".
everyone living in los angeles dies with blackened lungs from the smog and particulate matter in the air.