...which is why I love 24 hour grocery stores... I simply go at midnight.
You'd be suprised how many people actually show up around midnight. One time two ladies showed up with two buggies full of groceries and a sack full of coupons (it was probably double-all-coupons week) all on one order. We had to get everyone in the store (all 3 of us) up front to help out. The best time is actually 2 or 3 in the morning. That's when it's usually completely dead in the store. Only 3 people in there with you and they all work for the store. Of course when I was night checking it got extremely boring and depressing after midnight. They only let me night check on the weekend and didn't work me at all during the week. I was also not going to school at the time so all I had to do during the week was sit on my butt all day and watch tv. It was fun at first but it quickly began to drive me insane. This is why I absolutly refuse to night check ever again.
Why am I imagining a large evil robot operating a sweatshop on the polar regions of Neptune?
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Don't get me wrong, many teachers deserve to be paid a livable wage and receive the respect, support, and neccessary authority due to a professional educator, but if someone is just going to sit there like a glorified babysitter and pass moron after moron because they've either given up on this mass of spoiled, parentally ignored brats or too stupid to think of a creative and effective way to actually teach said brats, no amount of pay, respect, or "experience" (read: tenure) is going to make them an effective teacher.
The last time I had the bandwidth to play an FPS, I only saw some goon jumping around wildly with an RPG for about 1.5 seconds before I got fragged and my screen turned red with my n00b blood.
By this logic, anyone who has ever received a Christmas and/or Birthday presents is a thief and because I haven't paid for your underpants, I've therefore stolen them.
It doesn't matter how clean it it. If it contains the word "nuclear/nuculer" it will automatically be branded as evil and must therefore be stopped at all costs (and be corrected for spelling in the case of the latter).
These media conglomerates are so paranoid about what illegal downloading will do to their bottom lines, they have a great incentive to kill what they perceive as the primary means of obtaining illegally downloaded material (high bandwidth). They are also denying themselves a revenue stream potentially worth billions because they cannot think beyond the next quarter.
Schedule your task to be completed about an hour to a day in advance of when it acutally has to be done, try to figure out approximately how long it would take you to do a task, add some time to allow for minor distractions (bathroom breaks, mental blocks, etc...), start your task at your estimated time before your scheduled deadline, and make a note that your task HAS to be done by your schedueled time. That's what I'd do.
The ability to see any movie or any episode of any show on demand. The cost could be per show or subscription (more for commercial free). It would also have PVR ability and could burn shows/movies to DVD for a small (under $0.50) fee.
Of course it will be a cold day in hell before the networks let this happen since it would take power from them and give it to the owners of the individual shows/movies.
What's so bad about incorporating foriegn words into a language? That's basically how English came to exist in the first place. Those of us in the US have no problem with absorbing new words into our version of English (rodeo, internet(noun), saxamaphone, hentai, google, f*cktard, hax0r, etc...)
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...which is why I love 24 hour grocery stores... I simply go at midnight.
You'd be suprised how many people actually show up around midnight. One time two ladies showed up with two buggies full of groceries and a sack full of coupons (it was probably double-all-coupons week) all on one order. We had to get everyone in the store (all 3 of us) up front to help out. The best time is actually 2 or 3 in the morning. That's when it's usually completely dead in the store. Only 3 people in there with you and they all work for the store. Of course when I was night checking it got extremely boring and depressing after midnight. They only let me night check on the weekend and didn't work me at all during the week. I was also not going to school at the time so all I had to do during the week was sit on my butt all day and watch tv. It was fun at first but it quickly began to drive me insane. This is why I absolutly refuse to night check ever again.
Why am I imagining a large evil robot operating a sweatshop on the polar regions of Neptune?
Don't get me wrong, many teachers deserve to be paid a livable wage and receive the respect, support, and neccessary authority due to a professional educator, but if someone is just going to sit there like a glorified babysitter and pass moron after moron because they've either given up on this mass of spoiled, parentally ignored brats or too stupid to think of a creative and effective way to actually teach said brats, no amount of pay, respect, or "experience" (read: tenure) is going to make them an effective teacher.
Somewhere, Dr. Evil is sticking his pinky to his mouth and going MUAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Four legs good!!!! Two legs bad!!!!!! (eight legs better)
Today it's the mad scientist, tomorrow it will be the mad grad student. Where will it end?!
/futurama
Our schools are not really underfunded, its just that 60-90% of the money is going to administrative costs (i.e. beaurocracy)
When I first read the headline, I thought to myself "What does soap have to to with marijuana?"
"Here's yur affordable Swedish crap."
The last time I had the bandwidth to play an FPS, I only saw some goon jumping around wildly with an RPG for about 1.5 seconds before I got fragged and my screen turned red with my n00b blood.
Registers running DB9s, DB25s, Null Modem Cables, Pentium I and II class processors and even older technology...
The registers in our store still run on 286's
...now I get to stand in line behind a dumb-blonde soccer mom, some kids goofing with the hardware...
Place a kid within 5 feet of a button and he/she will inevitably press it. Repeatedly.
I think the Beast is on speed dial now.
If you haven't paid for it, you've stolen it.
By this logic, anyone who has ever received a Christmas and/or Birthday presents is a thief and because I haven't paid for your underpants, I've therefore stolen them.
It doesn't matter how clean it it. If it contains the word "nuclear/nuculer" it will automatically be branded as evil and must therefore be stopped at all costs (and be corrected for spelling in the case of the latter).
If someone types in Ford, how is Google supposed to know if they're searching for Ford Motors, Gerald Ford, or informating on fording rivers?
Or a bad typist looking for info on fjords?
5, 4, 3, 2, 1...You filthy pirate! How dare you!!
Time to whip out the ol' magic marker!
The only one I can think of is Scientology.
These media conglomerates are so paranoid about what illegal downloading will do to their bottom lines, they have a great incentive to kill what they perceive as the primary means of obtaining illegally downloaded material (high bandwidth). They are also denying themselves a revenue stream potentially worth billions because they cannot think beyond the next quarter.
Schedule your task to be completed about an hour to a day in advance of when it acutally has to be done,
try to figure out approximately how long it would take you to do a task,
add some time to allow for minor distractions (bathroom breaks, mental blocks, etc...),
start your task at your estimated time before your scheduled deadline,
and make a note that your task HAS to be done by your schedueled time. That's what I'd do.
The ability to see any movie or any episode of any show on demand. The cost could be per show or subscription (more for commercial free). It would also have PVR ability and could burn shows/movies to DVD for a small (under $0.50) fee.
Of course it will be a cold day in hell before the networks let this happen since it would take power from them and give it to the owners of the individual shows/movies.
That's not a new word. That's a word combination. A poor word combination that won't see a second decade.
What's so bad about incorporating foriegn words into a language? That's basically how English came to exist in the first place. Those of us in the US have no problem with absorbing new words into our version of English (rodeo, internet(noun), saxamaphone, hentai, google, f*cktard, hax0r, etc...)
Slackware? (disclaimer: The only thing I know about linux is that somehow involves a penguin)