I first read this as:
"The goal of Happiness Controller is to make 100 people that CONTROL YOU happy..."
I find it unfortunate that wasn't what it actually said. That could have been fun.
That sounds like a new terrorism weapon. Just navigate the car into the desired location and detonate a bomb hidden somewhere on or inside the car.......I don't think I like the idea of these things.
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AMEN! I have encountered numerous people that are too busy complaining about how "innocent civilians" will be killed to realize that Saddam is killing them already. When I inform them of this fact, they ignore it. In my mind it is worth a few casualties to save the people that are being terrorized by their own government. Once the bad government is taken out, the people no longer have to suffer.
I agree. Too many people hang on every word of the Pope as if he is God or as if he is the wisest person alive. Many people are shocked when someone that has Christian beliefs doesn't agree with the Pope. The Pope is not God and is often wrong, just like any other human.
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You may not be able to defeat the mindset of terrorism... but I believe that by attacking and eliminating terrorist organizations you can discourage other terrorists. With enough discouragement, acts of terrorism may well die out even if the mindset remains. When you show, by example, that you will take actions to prevent events it tends to discourage the events. It's like disciplining a child. You tell take actions to show the child that you disapprove of their actions and the eventually child tries to avoid doing things that cause you to scold them.
I was beginning to consider picking up a powerbook to play with OSX. This action has made me decide that I don't want to do that. I would not vote for the man, so there is no way I will support apple if he is a part of it.
I abhor gold and diamonds. My husband and I have matching silver rings that together cost, I believe, $32. I love the rings because they match each other and because they match our personality. That is the most important thing in a wedding ring, I think. It should come from the heart and mean a lot. I would have been mad if he just went out and bought the most expensive ring he could find, as many do. I enjoy our video games and systems a lot more than I ever could have enjoyed gold and diamonds!
That comment was much along the lines of what I was thinking when I read this. Only more of "now the cds that crash without data can have data... that should save me about $10 a month or more". Martha Stewart scares me...
I second that... I hadn't done anything with SQL until late February and that book has been a huge help to me. My boss handed me a big scary textbook to look at because he wanted me to learn SQL, and I immediately went out and found an O'Reilly. With that, I caught on quickly. Part of that may be my familiarity with the syntax from using some COBOL in the past, though. I highly recommend the O'Reilly books for everything you can find them for.
I prefer to give them such an outrageous time estimate that they either give up on the idea or let me do things how I want them so that it will "get done faster". They usually like the end result better than their original idea, anyway.
When they want me to do something, impossible I will say that it will take me a while to figure it out but that I will try my best and just write enough code to prove that it won't work. One other thing I do is say that I don't understand and have them explain it in so many different ways that they forget what they were wanting done in the first place and come up with a new idea that is actually possible (things of the sort are not documented where I work).
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I first read this as: "The goal of Happiness Controller is to make 100 people that CONTROL YOU happy..." I find it unfortunate that wasn't what it actually said. That could have been fun.
The Final Fantasy series will probably have more games added to it's numbers.
That makes them more talented than I am.
That sounds like a new terrorism weapon. Just navigate the car into the desired location and detonate a bomb hidden somewhere on or inside the car. ......I don't think I like the idea of these things.
AMEN! I have encountered numerous people that are too busy complaining about how "innocent civilians" will be killed to realize that Saddam is killing them already. When I inform them of this fact, they ignore it. In my mind it is worth a few casualties to save the people that are being terrorized by their own government. Once the bad government is taken out, the people no longer have to suffer.
I agree. Too many people hang on every word of the Pope as if he is God or as if he is the wisest person alive. Many people are shocked when someone that has Christian beliefs doesn't agree with the Pope. The Pope is not God and is often wrong, just like any other human.
You may not be able to defeat the mindset of terrorism... but I believe that by attacking and eliminating terrorist organizations you can discourage other terrorists. With enough discouragement, acts of terrorism may well die out even if the mindset remains. When you show, by example, that you will take actions to prevent events it tends to discourage the events. It's like disciplining a child. You tell take actions to show the child that you disapprove of their actions and the eventually child tries to avoid doing things that cause you to scold them.
Well... I won't argue with you there. My husband works for Microsoft but he won't touch their software!
Oh? My first mac was an Apple LC475. I've had Apple hardware sense.
I was beginning to consider picking up a powerbook to play with OSX. This action has made me decide that I don't want to do that. I would not vote for the man, so there is no way I will support apple if he is a part of it.
I abhor gold and diamonds. My husband and I have matching silver rings that together cost, I believe, $32. I love the rings because they match each other and because they match our personality. That is the most important thing in a wedding ring, I think. It should come from the heart and mean a lot. I would have been mad if he just went out and bought the most expensive ring he could find, as many do. I enjoy our video games and systems a lot more than I ever could have enjoyed gold and diamonds!
all the while the vibrations make it more frustrating due to increased difficulties in making it to the bathroom on time
I wonder which LCD manufacturer is bribing them to say that.
Don't get me wrong... I love mathematics and I love tetris... but ouch. Who honestly cares that much to dedicate so much time to something like that?
Awww.... they sound cute. I just wish they'd show pictures of them.
That comment was much along the lines of what I was thinking when I read this. Only more of "now the cds that crash without data can have data... that should save me about $10 a month or more". Martha Stewart scares me...
I second that... I hadn't done anything with SQL until late February and that book has been a huge help to me. My boss handed me a big scary textbook to look at because he wanted me to learn SQL, and I immediately went out and found an O'Reilly. With that, I caught on quickly. Part of that may be my familiarity with the syntax from using some COBOL in the past, though. I highly recommend the O'Reilly books for everything you can find them for.
I prefer to give them such an outrageous time estimate that they either give up on the idea or let me do things how I want them so that it will "get done faster". They usually like the end result better than their original idea, anyway. When they want me to do something, impossible I will say that it will take me a while to figure it out but that I will try my best and just write enough code to prove that it won't work. One other thing I do is say that I don't understand and have them explain it in so many different ways that they forget what they were wanting done in the first place and come up with a new idea that is actually possible (things of the sort are not documented where I work).