Pretexting is the practice of pretending to be someone else in order to obtain personal information on a person
Is it appropriate for government to have a Department of Sock-Puppetism? This rings a lot of alarm bells and there's probably something about this in the constitution already.
That's why vehicles should have deceleration lights as opposed to those activated by brake foot pressure. Also, the lights should blink progressively faster depending on the rate of deceleration.
Downshifting more than one gear tends to upset a car's balance and that's generally something you don't want to do if you want to maintain control of your vehicle.
Aren't the lakes a lot cleaner these days? As a piping guy I feel compelled to note that there is no fluid movement issue we cannot handle. G
As a former Toronto resident I used to see people immersed in Lake Ontario water (the Beaches area just south and west of where I used to live). I haven't lived there for some time now so maybe those individuals are now mutants or something.
I use 4 monitors, not 3. Having 4 comes in handy when doing a lot of stuff simultaneously but most of the time it's just too much disrupted visual real estate. That's why I'm looking at getting a 30" display that can use my current video cards' SLI feature.
As an ex-Montrealer I was a Matrox guy until they dropped the ball with 3D - I need 3D for my work.
This is the second time I post relevant Monty Python lyrics with the subject title, "Eric Idle". Both times the post got modded-up as Funny very quickly. Is Idle a moderator with unlimited points?
The world today seems absolutely crackers,
With nuclear bombs to blow us all sky high.
There's fools and idiots sitting on the trigger.
It's depressing and it's senseless, and that's why...
I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
They only come up to your knees,
Yet they're always friendly, and they're ready to please.
I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
There's nine hundred million of them in the world today.
You'd better learn to like them; that's what I say.
I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
They come from a long way overseas,
But they're cute and they're cuddly, and they're ready to please.
I like Chinese food.
The waiters never are rude.
Think of the many things they've done to impress.
There's Maoism, Taoism, I Ching, and Chess.
So I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
I like their tiny little trees,
Their Zen, their ping-pong, their yin, and yang-ese.
I like Chinese thought,
The wisdom that Confucious taught.
If Darwin is anything to shout about,
The Chinese will survive us all without any doubt.
So, I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
They only come up to your knees,
Yet they're wise and they're witty, and they're ready to please.
All together.
Wo ai zhongguo ren. (I like Chinese.)
Wo ai zhongguo ren. (I like Chinese.)
Wo ai zhongguo ren. (I like Chinese.)
Ni hao ma; ni hao ma; ni hao ma; zaijien! (How are you; how are you; how are you; goodbye!)
I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
Their food is guaranteed to please,
A fourteen, a seven, a nine, and lychees.
I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
I like their tiny little trees,
Their Zen, their ping-pong, their yin, and yang-ese.
I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
They only come up to your knees...
anything involving applications with lots of toolbars and such (graphics, CAD)
Actually, most of the hotshot CAD guys that I know use keyboard shortcuts (modify acad.pgp for AutoCAD to your liking) for commands as this takes less mental/visual focus away from the work at hand. That's what I do, but I don't consider myself to be a "hotshot".
Others seem to like to have screens cluttered with icons and toolbars - it looks cool and techy-complicated to the casual, easily-impressed observer.
Switching latency: it's much slower to mash the keyboard to switch desktops than to move one's eye.
Old board-trained draftsmen have always known this. Most of the frustration I found with moving to CAD was with not being able to see the "full picture" at a glance and having to scroll and zoom around to interpret drawing details.
3) Moderate sized 4:3 flat panel displays cost a fraction of the price of an Apple 30" display. The Apple 30" display is $1500-2000, 19" 4:3 displays are $200-250 each.
On the other hand, a multiple monitor setup cannot benefit from SLI, which is a pain. Four LCD monitors (19" and 22" widescreen) in a quad arrangement is nice for multiple tasks but one 30" would be better for plant design walk/flythroughs and yes, gaming.
I was watching an episode of Eureka the other night where the trapped people in the automated house were asked, "Shall we play a game?" by the house's temporarily evil software. The characters all said (in increasing tones of concern/panic), "No!"
It was extremely funny as a reference to Wargames. I find Eureka to be very entertaining. YMMV.
[I am a fan of ReGenesis and Dexter also -TV is not a total wasteland]
Fuck you and your bullshit math formulae - I want a Mercedes S class (make it two), a waterfront house and all that other expensive stuff. I deserve it.
People have not been spending more because of rising wages, people have been spending more because of massive amounts of refinancing.
Let me simplify and ask if I'm correct: those that "own" over-inflated real estate (so over-inflated that non-wealthy people simply cannot afford to get into the home-ownership market) are leveraging the inflated value of their possessions so that they can buy expensive toys? Or worse, more real estate?
Go back BEFORE we had access to modern forms of energy. We managed to INVENT these forms of energy starting with NOTHING. Think about the steam engine. Where do you think that came from in the first place? Someone invented it. And steel has been in use since the Roman Empire, so don't use that as an example. All you need to make steel is iron ore, a form of carbon to work into it, a hammer to work the metal, and a forge to heat it in. It's VERY ancient technology that predates the use of coal or steam.
Nice post, I enjoyed it. Of course, it being posted at slashdot, many think that "technology" equals computers or software.
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Sorry, I'm Canadian. We used to admire the US but we were never fully indoctrinated.
In order to confuse the maximum amount of unsophisticated people, use acronyms as much as possible. Is that good to go?
Pretexting is the practice of pretending to be someone else in order to obtain personal information on a person
Is it appropriate for government to have a Department of Sock-Puppetism? This rings a lot of alarm bells and there's probably something about this in the constitution already.
Which moderator guidelines are you reading? The one I read tries to tell me to downgrade crap messages. There's no way I could possibly do this.
On the other hand, journalism ain't what it used to be. I consider "blogging" (AKA "citizen journalism") to be a good development though.
If collusion was involved it's a different story. That's always difficult to prove so the government went overboard (wrongly, IMO).
Thanks for my first laugh-out-loud of the day. Very funny!
That's why vehicles should have deceleration lights as opposed to those activated by brake foot pressure. Also, the lights should blink progressively faster depending on the rate of deceleration.
Downshifting more than one gear tends to upset a car's balance and that's generally something you don't want to do if you want to maintain control of your vehicle.
Aren't the lakes a lot cleaner these days? As a piping guy I feel compelled to note that there is no fluid movement issue we cannot handle. G
As a former Toronto resident I used to see people immersed in Lake Ontario water (the Beaches area just south and west of where I used to live). I haven't lived there for some time now so maybe those individuals are now mutants or something.
I use 4 monitors, not 3. Having 4 comes in handy when doing a lot of stuff simultaneously but most of the time it's just too much disrupted visual real estate. That's why I'm looking at getting a 30" display that can use my current video cards' SLI feature.
As an ex-Montrealer I was a Matrox guy until they dropped the ball with 3D - I need 3D for my work.
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Lets start with the great lakes...polluted mess.
Does Canada actually own the great lakes?
But if we added ground-up polar bears to the mix we could lighten the colour of the asphalt.
I wasn't expecting some kind of eco-inquisition.
Unfortunately, these days everyone expects the eco-inquisition. You only get the comfy chair *after* you agree with them.
This is the second time I post relevant Monty Python lyrics with the subject title, "Eric Idle". Both times the post got modded-up as Funny very quickly. Is Idle a moderator with unlimited points?
I Like Chinese
The world today seems absolutely crackers,
With nuclear bombs to blow us all sky high.
There's fools and idiots sitting on the trigger.
It's depressing and it's senseless, and that's why...
I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
They only come up to your knees,
Yet they're always friendly, and they're ready to please.
I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
There's nine hundred million of them in the world today.
You'd better learn to like them; that's what I say.
I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
They come from a long way overseas,
But they're cute and they're cuddly, and they're ready to please.
I like Chinese food.
The waiters never are rude.
Think of the many things they've done to impress.
There's Maoism, Taoism, I Ching, and Chess.
So I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
I like their tiny little trees,
Their Zen, their ping-pong, their yin, and yang-ese.
I like Chinese thought,
The wisdom that Confucious taught.
If Darwin is anything to shout about,
The Chinese will survive us all without any doubt.
So, I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
They only come up to your knees,
Yet they're wise and they're witty, and they're ready to please.
All together.
Wo ai zhongguo ren. (I like Chinese.)
Wo ai zhongguo ren. (I like Chinese.)
Wo ai zhongguo ren. (I like Chinese.)
Ni hao ma; ni hao ma; ni hao ma; zaijien! (How are you; how are you; how are you; goodbye!)
I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
Their food is guaranteed to please,
A fourteen, a seven, a nine, and lychees.
I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
I like their tiny little trees,
Their Zen, their ping-pong, their yin, and yang-ese.
I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
They only come up to your knees...
anything involving applications with lots of toolbars and such (graphics, CAD)
Actually, most of the hotshot CAD guys that I know use keyboard shortcuts (modify acad.pgp for AutoCAD to your liking) for commands as this takes less mental/visual focus away from the work at hand. That's what I do, but I don't consider myself to be a "hotshot".
Others seem to like to have screens cluttered with icons and toolbars - it looks cool and techy-complicated to the casual, easily-impressed observer.
Switching latency: it's much slower to mash the keyboard to switch desktops than to move one's eye.
Old board-trained draftsmen have always known this. Most of the frustration I found with moving to CAD was with not being able to see the "full picture" at a glance and having to scroll and zoom around to interpret drawing details.
3) Moderate sized 4:3 flat panel displays cost a fraction of the price of an Apple 30" display. The Apple 30" display is $1500-2000, 19" 4:3 displays are $200-250 each.
On the other hand, a multiple monitor setup cannot benefit from SLI, which is a pain. Four LCD monitors (19" and 22" widescreen) in a quad arrangement is nice for multiple tasks but one 30" would be better for plant design walk/flythroughs and yes, gaming.
Or is it: "Time...well,...spent."
"Everybody knows that A&E's slogan is Time Well Spent. Well, in this case, it's still the same, but is a little different. This show will be Time... well...? spent."
RIP Richard Jeni
What a great post.
I was watching an episode of Eureka the other night where the trapped people in the automated house were asked, "Shall we play a game?" by the house's temporarily evil software. The characters all said (in increasing tones of concern/panic), "No!"
It was extremely funny as a reference to Wargames. I find Eureka to be very entertaining. YMMV.
[I am a fan of ReGenesis and Dexter also -TV is not a total wasteland]
gdp = C+I+G+NX = (income - savings)+I+G+NX
Fuck you and your bullshit math formulae - I want a Mercedes S class (make it two), a waterfront house and all that other expensive stuff. I deserve it.
Don't kill me! The above was a parody!
People have not been spending more because of rising wages, people have been spending more because of massive amounts of refinancing.
Let me simplify and ask if I'm correct: those that "own" over-inflated real estate (so over-inflated that non-wealthy people simply cannot afford to get into the home-ownership market) are leveraging the inflated value of their possessions so that they can buy expensive toys? Or worse, more real estate?
Go back BEFORE we had access to modern forms of energy. We managed to INVENT these forms of energy starting with NOTHING. Think about the steam engine. Where do you think that came from in the first place? Someone invented it. And steel has been in use since the Roman Empire, so don't use that as an example. All you need to make steel is iron ore, a form of carbon to work into it, a hammer to work the metal, and a forge to heat it in. It's VERY ancient technology that predates the use of coal or steam.
Nice post, I enjoyed it. Of course, it being posted at slashdot, many think that "technology" equals computers or software.