Could it be... some type of alien space drummer trying, in vain, to be noticed doing the solo from inagaddadavida?
I'm thinking more like the episode of "The Twilight Zone" where the young William Shatner saw the little demon guy sitting on the wing of his jetliner... Maybe it's that pesky demon (daemon?) again?
Send it to me. I'll hold it for you for a few days until you can get here to pick it up. In exchange, I ask only that you send me your bank account number so that I can transfer several million dollars anonymously. Deal?
You actually sound like one of the (sadly few) reasonable folks out there. Wish we could work together -- I think we could actually get things done w/o wreaking too much havoc!
"So, yeah, if you don't have access to your C: drive, it's because the sysadmin doesn't trust you. But don't take it personally. He/she doesn't trust anybody."
Here's the thing though -- I don't trust you either. I have a job to do. If you can help me get it done, I'll work with you. If you make attempts to impede me, I'll go around you, because, in the end, I am held accountable for getting the work done.
Here's an example that'll curl your hair: I downloaded the Eclipse IDE to my desktop. It's against company policy. Why did I do that? The company has a system that lets me order software for internal use, so why go around it? Because they only supply JBulder Standard Edition!!! I need to be able to interface with a WebLogic server running locally on my desktop to support a J2EE app. Can't do that with the Standard Edition!!!. Regardless, I have to support my app. Guess what -- I choose to supply my own tools and get my work done rather than making excuses. Does it violate your policy? Yep. Will your policy let me get my job done? Nope. BTW -- explained the situation to both my immediate manager and his boss as well. They too favored getting the work done. Want me to comply with policy? Make policy that doesn't get in the way!
"Cry me a river, Over the past four years I paid over half a million dollars in taxes. But I would rather see the tax cuts repealled and the economy doing better than continue with a stagnant economy and $50,000 off my taxes."
"There are benifits of living in a big city, if you want those benfits cheap move to the city. Don't make me subsidize you choice to live in the county."
Yes -- there are benefits to living in the big city. And as I've pointed out in a previous post, those benefits include all of the transit subsidies that help pay for things like roads, railways, airports, bus terminals and the like. You want subsidies for all of this, but object to people in the country getting a subsidy to help lower the cost of broadband access. They name streets after people like you -- "One Way"...
"It's just a fact of life that certain things are cheaper to provide in the big city (e.g. comm infrastructure) and other things are cheaper to provide in the boonies (e.g. land). People make their choices accordingly.
"
Is that so? Tell me then -- how exactly do you think that your close-in road networks and public transit systems woudl survive without massive public subsidies -- the kinds that you don't often see in the boonies... You expect subsidies supporting your transit systems, they expect subsidies supporting telecomm.
"I suppose what I'm trying to say is, there are circumstances where even help thats only 1000 feet away can be impossible to reach. There's probably not a scenario where I would have died without my cell phone, but god damn was I glad to have it."
And I pack a cell phone in an under-seat carry bag when I go mountain biking as well. But then, it's way out where there's likely no one carrying a jammer, right? As opposed to you yakking your fool head off in a restaurant/coffe shop/theater where people have some expectation that you will behave in a civil, socially acceptable manner.
I am so glad you managed a troll on this. You want a pacemaker to have a hard line as a backup...what do you recomend, RJ-45 or RJ-11 for the line coming out of his chest? Or perhaps you can find a section of the spectrum that the FCC allows access to and isn't jammable?
My mother has a pacemaker that needs to be monitored occasionally. Guess what? She hooks up to a device that attaches to her phone. No interferance there. You can go back to playing in your sandbox now.
" As a top IT executive for a fortune 50... I recommend you not do this."
And as an annoyed fellow citizen, I recommend that you stay the hell in your office if you business is that damned importanat to you. I do not care to listen to your drivel in public, you insensitive clod!
"I dont know about you,
but in the last year i havent been to a
'no service' area."
Depends on where you are. From Luray Virginia, I can only rarely call back to the Falls Church area. Must be the mountain range in between... Yeah, that's it!
What is the US going to produce if we outsoruce everything?
Why, we'll simply use our superior communications technology to telemarket to the rest of the world!!! We can earn enough money telemarketing to keep buying cheap crap at MallWart, can't we?
While some adulterous adults may not want to have their whereabouts known, it is important for kids to be tracked.
It is a useless "feature". An abductor need only ditch the kid's cellphone to avoid detection. In the meantime, the rest of us can now be spied on with impunity. You do understand that not everyone who wishes to not be tracked is adulterous, or up to something nefarious, don't you?
Fine. We have established that you have no concept of taking responsibility for your own actions, preferring instead to blame others for life's misfortunes.
It has already been established that:
1) The same woman had purshased coffee at the same McDonald's on numerous prior occasions with no complaints. She knew what she was getting. If it was so *insanely hot*, why the hell did she keep buying the stuff?
2) Despite purchasing this same product from the same shop over an extended period of time, presumably becoming familiar with it's characteristics, she *chose* to put the coffee cup in a sensitive area, and, accidentally or otherwise, to apply enough force with her legs as to cause the cup's contents to be expelled over her thighs and genitals.
3) She did this despite the fact that there was an empty cupholder well within reach, which would have allowed her to open the product to add sugar, milk, or what have you, while imposing no risk to herself.
I'm sorry, but in my book that's negligence -- hers -- not McDonalds.
She knew this because, as a previous poster (and I) pointed out, she'd bought McDonald's coffee many times on previous occasions. She was therefore quite familiar with the product, and the temperature at which the product was sold. To then place herself at risk by handling said product in such an obviously unsafe manner reflects poorly on her judgement, not on McDonalds coffee. As another poster has pointed out (but which I am not able to verify), McDonald's coffee was served at 180 degress -- 5 degrees *lower* than the recommended minimum serving temperature.
Coffee is hot. Treat it carefully, or accept the consequences of your own foolish behavior.
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Items above a certain temperature are dangerous. We learn this as children, and conduct our lives accordingly. That a grown woman was foolish enough to put cup of coffe between her legs (knowing that it was hot both from years of experience, and from having purchased McDonald's coffee many times over the years), that she was then foolish enough to squeeze the cup tightly enough to cause it's contents to spill over her thighs and genitals says absolutely nothing about the relative safety of McDonald's coffe. It highlights only her unfortunate foolishness in choosing to handle the product in an unsafe manner.
To sum:
PAY FOR IT YOURSELF! PAY FOR IT YOURSELF! PAY FOR IT YOURSELF! PAY FOR IT YOURSELF!
Hmmm -- well said. OTOH, you know all those road/rail and mass transit subsidies that make it possible for you to live in the city? Let's get rid of them and you can
"PAY FOR IT YOURSELF! PAY FOR IT YOURSELF! PAY FOR IT YOURSELF! PAY FOR IT YOURSELF!"
I also suspect that interference is the reason they moved the computer into the engine area - they used to keep them in the passenger area, where the temperature is controlled (and not searingly hot), but that provides less shielding.
Well, I might agree with you except for one thing -- high-voltage sparks firing tens of thousands of times per minute, induced by the build-up and collapse of magnetic fields at the same rate. And you think the computer needs less shielding in the engine compartment?
Slashdot Mirror
- "He's constipated -- send him Metamucil coupons!"
- "He's ogling a pretty girl -- send advertisments for Viagra, condoms, and cheap hotels."
- "He's eating chili -- send over a sample of Rolaids or Pepcid AC."
- "He's working past 8:00 pm again -- send coupons for takeout chinese."
And so it goes...Send it to me. I'll hold it for you for a few days until you can get here to pick it up. In exchange, I ask only that you send me your bank account number so that I can transfer several million dollars anonymously. Deal?
You actually sound like one of the (sadly few) reasonable folks out there. Wish we could work together -- I think we could actually get things done w/o wreaking too much havoc!
Here's an example that'll curl your hair: I downloaded the Eclipse IDE to my desktop. It's against company policy. Why did I do that? The company has a system that lets me order software for internal use, so why go around it? Because they only supply JBulder Standard Edition!!! I need to be able to interface with a WebLogic server running locally on my desktop to support a J2EE app. Can't do that with the Standard Edition!!!. Regardless, I have to support my app. Guess what -- I choose to supply my own tools and get my work done rather than making excuses. Does it violate your policy? Yep. Will your policy let me get my job done? Nope. BTW -- explained the situation to both my immediate manager and his boss as well. They too favored getting the work done. Want me to comply with policy? Make policy that doesn't get in the way!
It is a useless "feature". An abductor need only ditch the kid's cellphone to avoid detection. In the meantime, the rest of us can now be spied on with impunity. You do understand that not everyone who wishes to not be tracked is adulterous, or up to something nefarious, don't you?
Fine. We have established that you have no concept of taking responsibility for your own actions, preferring instead to blame others for life's misfortunes.
It has already been established that:
1) The same woman had purshased coffee at the same McDonald's on numerous prior occasions with no complaints. She knew what she was getting. If it was so *insanely hot*, why the hell did she keep buying the stuff?
2) Despite purchasing this same product from the same shop over an extended period of time, presumably becoming familiar with it's characteristics, she *chose* to put the coffee cup in a sensitive area, and, accidentally or otherwise, to apply enough force with her legs as to cause the cup's contents to be expelled over her thighs and genitals.
3) She did this despite the fact that there was an empty cupholder well within reach, which would have allowed her to open the product to add sugar, milk, or what have you, while imposing no risk to herself.
I'm sorry, but in my book that's negligence -- hers -- not McDonalds.
She knew this because, as a previous poster (and I) pointed out, she'd bought McDonald's coffee many times on previous occasions. She was therefore quite familiar with the product, and the temperature at which the product was sold. To then place herself at risk by handling said product in such an obviously unsafe manner reflects poorly on her judgement, not on McDonalds coffee. As another poster has pointed out (but which I am not able to verify), McDonald's coffee was served at 180 degress -- 5 degrees *lower* than the recommended minimum serving temperature. Coffee is hot. Treat it carefully, or accept the consequences of your own foolish behavior.
Items above a certain temperature are dangerous. We learn this as children, and conduct our lives accordingly. That a grown woman was foolish enough to put cup of coffe between her legs (knowing that it was hot both from years of experience, and from having purchased McDonald's coffee many times over the years), that she was then foolish enough to squeeze the cup tightly enough to cause it's contents to spill over her thighs and genitals says absolutely nothing about the relative safety of McDonald's coffe. It highlights only her unfortunate foolishness in choosing to handle the product in an unsafe manner.
"PAY FOR IT YOURSELF! PAY FOR IT YOURSELF! PAY FOR IT YOURSELF! PAY FOR IT YOURSELF!"
Clear enough?