You'll love Steve Smith's Playhouse if you're a Red Green fan. It's that bad that it doesn't deserve to be considered "campy good" (like Plan 9) because it's so bad. It's also a blatant rip-off of MST3K except without the funny and host character interactions. The series smells like a contract-fulfillment effort that contains waaay too many fart jokes and inappropriate sexual innuendo where it's not humorous at all, just tiring.
Chalk it up to Canadian "arts" funding via tax breaks, the CBC and entrenched civil servants in the cultural ministries. Embarrassing.
What is now needed and what the NIH is currently funding a lot of are studies to find ways to actually get people to eat properly and to exercise more by making global lifestyle changes.
Dear Government,
Please stay out of my personal decisions. Thank you.
It's not like there is a machine where you put money it and it outputs scientific truths on the other side.
Some people obviously still think this is true. After a certain point you run out of qualified people and the excess money goes towards "job creation", administration, marketing and management empire-building. Of course, all these expenses do absolutely nothing for productivity and actually hinder those doing real work.
The accident at the plant occurred 12 days after the release of the movie The China Syndrome, which featured Jane Fonda as a news anchor at a California TV station. In the film, a major nuclear plant failure almost happens while Fonda's character and her cameraman Michael Douglas are at a plant doing a series on nuclear power. She proceeds to raise awareness of how unsafe the plant was. Coincidentally, there is a scene in which Fonda's character speaks with a nuclear safety expert who says that a meltdown could render an area "the size of Pennsylvania permanently uninhabitable."
People who don't question blind environmentalism's (eg., vocal, looney, PR-addicted GreenPeace, et al) motives and logic are just going along to get along because they want to avoid crazies shouting at them. At one point the shit hits the fan.
The phenomenon is similar to the misuse of 'their', 'they're', 'there' (all of which sound the same to me as a non-accented Canadian) and 'we're', 'where' and 'were' (each of which is pronounced differently - to my ear). If you listen to Brits speaking, they often make the latter three words sound the same.
On the other hand, Gore DID take the initiative in creating global warming hysteria (well, at least "hysteria" in the main stream media's mind). I think he deserves credit for that.
I might offer you a contract job in the future then, if you have time to work on side projects. Nothing major, of course, just stuff where I know what the outcome to be is and know what the interface should look like and behave.
And I imagine that it would be a distraction/hindrance for you as well. As a former draftsman, I'd make sure the thing worked first via rough sketches, quick detailed scale mock-ups where necessary, explanatory text descriptions, etc., before sharpening the pencil and making things "look nice and professional".
If you do, just make sure you have an exit strategy, tied to some kind of dead mans switch (even if it's just leaving details with a friend) - I've heard of far too many resellers disappearing, leaving the customers unable to get access to their sites, and the resellers in a difficult position as they should have no direct contact with the end customers.
I've had allergies all my life, ranging from skin conditions to breathing problems to third arms growing out of my back (OK, so that last one was a bit of an exaggeration - could have been handy, though).
I resent people that purport to "help everyone" because of the health problems of a few. Screw you! I can either survive in a "normal" environment or I cannot, let's see what happens. It really, really pisses me off when crusaders take it upon themselves to speak or legislate on my behalf.
I suppose it's pretty obvious that said "crusaders" almost invariably are employed by an organization whose mandate is to interfere with normal people's lives just to "help" us cripples.
I hate to come across as a "heartless" bastard, but jumping off a bridge (or the equivalent) due to some perceived online relationship failure just doesn't seem right.
Then again, maybe kids today are far too sensitive.
Slashdot Mirror
There's a band called Air Liquide, apparently...
The web page is ugly as sin
Not every site can be as beautiful as Slashdot.
You'll love Steve Smith's Playhouse if you're a Red Green fan. It's that bad that it doesn't deserve to be considered "campy good" (like Plan 9) because it's so bad. It's also a blatant rip-off of MST3K except without the funny and host character interactions. The series smells like a contract-fulfillment effort that contains waaay too many fart jokes and inappropriate sexual innuendo where it's not humorous at all, just tiring.
Chalk it up to Canadian "arts" funding via tax breaks, the CBC and entrenched civil servants in the cultural ministries. Embarrassing.
What's this Hotmail thing, a gay male "connecting service"?
What is now needed and what the NIH is currently funding a lot of are studies to find ways to actually get people to eat properly and to exercise more by making global lifestyle changes.
Dear Government,
Please stay out of my personal decisions. Thank you.
You've got flowrate and fluid right but missed pressure and temperature.
www.pipingdesign.org
www.pipingdesign.com
It's not like there is a machine where you put money it and it outputs scientific truths on the other side.
Some people obviously still think this is true. After a certain point you run out of qualified people and the excess money goes towards "job creation", administration, marketing and management empire-building. Of course, all these expenses do absolutely nothing for productivity and actually hinder those doing real work.
The accident at the plant occurred 12 days after the release of the movie The China Syndrome, which featured Jane Fonda as a news anchor at a California TV station. In the film, a major nuclear plant failure almost happens while Fonda's character and her cameraman Michael Douglas are at a plant doing a series on nuclear power. She proceeds to raise awareness of how unsafe the plant was. Coincidentally, there is a scene in which Fonda's character speaks with a nuclear safety expert who says that a meltdown could render an area "the size of Pennsylvania permanently uninhabitable."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident#The_China_Syndrome
People who don't question blind environmentalism's (eg., vocal, looney, PR-addicted GreenPeace, et al) motives and logic are just going along to get along because they want to avoid crazies shouting at them. At one point the shit hits the fan.
Look at the good side, though. Without radioactive waste we wouldn't have Godzilla.
Desole, mais je ne comprend pas. S'il vous plait, ecrit en francais.
Merci,
Jean-Guy de Tabernac
Free range nerds!
I'm betting that it is to acclimatize the populace to intrusive searches for 'security' reasons.
It has more to do with fear and making money than it has to do with your worry. Not that the former won't lead to the latter.
IMHO this should be examined more closely. It may have exposed a dangerous flaw in the software design.
Surely software design is diagrammed, studied and HAZOPed as much as the average P&ID?
The phenomenon is similar to the misuse of 'their', 'they're', 'there' (all of which sound the same to me as a non-accented Canadian) and 'we're', 'where' and 'were' (each of which is pronounced differently - to my ear). If you listen to Brits speaking, they often make the latter three words sound the same.
The "ink" costs $5000/litre.
On the other hand, Gore DID take the initiative in creating global warming hysteria (well, at least "hysteria" in the main stream media's mind). I think he deserves credit for that.
...the complete and utter dependance on calculators, especially those fancy, programmable Texas Instruments ones...
I'm even dumber than that, as I use an HP with RPN! It's smarter than I am (not that that's a great accomplishment).
I might offer you a contract job in the future then, if you have time to work on side projects. Nothing major, of course, just stuff where I know what the outcome to be is and know what the interface should look like and behave.
And I imagine that it would be a distraction/hindrance for you as well. As a former draftsman, I'd make sure the thing worked first via rough sketches, quick detailed scale mock-ups where necessary, explanatory text descriptions, etc., before sharpening the pencil and making things "look nice and professional".
If you do, just make sure you have an exit strategy, tied to some kind of dead mans switch (even if it's just leaving details with a friend) - I've heard of far too many resellers disappearing, leaving the customers unable to get access to their sites, and the resellers in a difficult position as they should have no direct contact with the end customers.
Excellent point.
-2 obtuse, -3 strawman, +1 effort, +1 misdirection, +1 sarchasm.
I've had allergies all my life, ranging from skin conditions to breathing problems to third arms growing out of my back (OK, so that last one was a bit of an exaggeration - could have been handy, though).
I resent people that purport to "help everyone" because of the health problems of a few. Screw you! I can either survive in a "normal" environment or I cannot, let's see what happens. It really, really pisses me off when crusaders take it upon themselves to speak or legislate on my behalf.
I suppose it's pretty obvious that said "crusaders" almost invariably are employed by an organization whose mandate is to interfere with normal people's lives just to "help" us cripples.
Fuck off already!
And who cares about thousands of years of technical drawing (the predecessor of software code writing nerdism), it's dead now.
http://www.pipingdesign.com/FridayFunnies/drafting/album/
I hate to come across as a "heartless" bastard, but jumping off a bridge (or the equivalent) due to some perceived online relationship failure just doesn't seem right.
Then again, maybe kids today are far too sensitive.