Looks like a few public officials need to have their plates "cloned" in this way. The only way for them to see the idiocy of this sytesm is for them to be clubbed repeatedly around the head with it.
Diskeeper founder and CEO Craig Jensen is a high levelI, publicly avowed Scientologist who has given millions to his Church...but we're repeating ourselves...
I cross the (UK) West Coast Main Line every day, by way of a foot crossing. There's no lighting there at all, except for the little red and green stop/go lights of the crossing itself.
At night, I have to shield my eyes from the green light so that I can actually see the gate to open it. Once on the crossing, you can see the green lighting up the bushes on the other side, and you see the opposite gate black against that green. That's the only way (other than knowing that you've got to walk at 90 degrees to the railway) that you can find your way over.
There aren't many better cures for constipation than being half-way across, the sirens starting, and the lights going red - especially as it goes almost completely dark when the green lights go out. Now you're on a railway, with a Pendolino coming at you at 125mph, and you can't see the gate to get out, let alone see the hinge so you know which side of it to push. Even after two years of using this crossing, that momentary panic can make me forget which way the gate works - I've even been known to pull it rather than push it.
Network Rail think this is OK. (I've complained like hell and they've done nothing.) If it were me, I'd have luminous "Exit" signs on the back of the gates.
But yes - green LEDs are way brighter than red ones.
"Break down walls with your massive c0ck," it said. I'm not sure what Facilities would have to say about that, but clearly this spammer knows all about me.:)
Yep, it's the DOM access that's been the limiting factor on all my Javascript game experiments - that and function calls. Forced me to get more disciplined about holding onto references rather than looking things up every time, and learn that sometimes inline code is, well, maybe not *better*, but the only way to do the job acceptably.
Never underestimate the power of brand recognition.
A certain global telecoms company shafted me, along with all the others on the grad scheme, by deciding it would be fun to freeze all the salaries and not give us our contracted increases. Well, you should've seen my line manager's face when I told him I needed more money to make ends meet, asked him for a reference for a part-time job... and (while three or four other grads watched with glee over the cubicle wall) handed over a McDonald's application form, already filled in. He was fine until he saw the big M in the corner, then just went to pieces. "Errrr.... right.... well, um, okay... I.... need to speak to someone about this... can I, um, hang onto it for a while?"
I got by without going back to the burger farm, and never managed to wheedle the pay rise out of my employers, but I took great satisfaction in finding out that that form eventually worked its way right to the top.
A good chunk of my Selenium tests don't work with FF3, as of a couple of revisions ago. (I understand that this is due to security being tightened, so I doubt that it's going to work now unless a bug has crept back in.)
So at least one of my machines is going to have to stay FF2 for some time yet.
But start off with circuits at my local airfield, and work up to a flight to the next airfield... There's no reason why you couldn't set yourself a massive goal. I've always wanted to fly from Scotland to New York, via the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland and Canada - I'm a licensed (though lapsed) pilot and, in fact, I have all the ONC charts not five feet from me as I type. Admittedly, doing it in a simulated PA-28, with 8-hour flights and nowhere to divert if your legs fall off, would be masochistic in the extreme - but knock that down to three or four and it starts to look more doable. (Can you tell FS that you have ferry tanks installed, anyway?)
I think the feeling of getting somewhere would actually make it bearable. Hell, hook it up to the network and fly loose formation with some other prop-bike nut...
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First thing that came to my mind when I read the headline was Propcycle.
I'd love to rig something similar up, using MS Flight Simulator and an exercise bike.
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sticking bush with moving violations
That just sounded so wrong...
Looks like a few public officials need to have their plates "cloned" in this way. The only way for them to see the idiocy of this sytesm is for them to be clubbed repeatedly around the head with it.
Diskeeper founder and CEO Craig Jensen is a high levelI, publicly avowed Scientologist who has given millions to his Church ...but we're repeating ourselves...
I cross the (UK) West Coast Main Line every day, by way of a foot crossing. There's no lighting there at all, except for the little red and green stop/go lights of the crossing itself.
At night, I have to shield my eyes from the green light so that I can actually see the gate to open it. Once on the crossing, you can see the green lighting up the bushes on the other side, and you see the opposite gate black against that green. That's the only way (other than knowing that you've got to walk at 90 degrees to the railway) that you can find your way over.
There aren't many better cures for constipation than being half-way across, the sirens starting, and the lights going red - especially as it goes almost completely dark when the green lights go out. Now you're on a railway, with a Pendolino coming at you at 125mph, and you can't see the gate to get out, let alone see the hinge so you know which side of it to push. Even after two years of using this crossing, that momentary panic can make me forget which way the gate works - I've even been known to pull it rather than push it.
Network Rail think this is OK. (I've complained like hell and they've done nothing.) If it were me, I'd have luminous "Exit" signs on the back of the gates.
But yes - green LEDs are way brighter than red ones.
One sneaked through my Gmail filter last night.
"Break down walls with your massive c0ck," it said. I'm not sure what Facilities would have to say about that, but clearly this spammer knows all about me. :)
How to make money when times are hard:
1. Buy oodles of cheap hardware
2. Search it for confidential info
3. Blackmail
4. Profit!
Exactly. The Americans are doing this over there to avoid some pesky inconvenient "shark rights" laws.
*ducks*
...which really sucks when they're French...
Sure, Firefox can "take back the Web", but only the might of IE can *hold* it back...
Not a problem here - I'm a leftie :)
Yep, it's the DOM access that's been the limiting factor on all my Javascript game experiments - that and function calls. Forced me to get more disciplined about holding onto references rather than looking things up every time, and learn that sometimes inline code is, well, maybe not *better*, but the only way to do the job acceptably.
Tell that to the Aussies...
Print image
Mail to judge
Phone media
Phone police
Enjoy
They then shifted over to making the entire description an image
And I hope some disability rights group sues them into oblivion.
"Geopolitical politics"? From an editor? Shocking but, alas, not surprising.
Just keep eating the junk food.
Never underestimate the power of brand recognition.
A certain global telecoms company shafted me, along with all the others on the grad scheme, by deciding it would be fun to freeze all the salaries and not give us our contracted increases. Well, you should've seen my line manager's face when I told him I needed more money to make ends meet, asked him for a reference for a part-time job... and (while three or four other grads watched with glee over the cubicle wall) handed over a McDonald's application form, already filled in. He was fine until he saw the big M in the corner, then just went to pieces. "Errrr.... right.... well, um, okay... I.... need to speak to someone about this... can I, um, hang onto it for a while?"
I got by without going back to the burger farm, and never managed to wheedle the pay rise out of my employers, but I took great satisfaction in finding out that that form eventually worked its way right to the top.
BEWARE of the cute Asian girl in those results. She isn't. *shudder* itsatrap, indeed...
...but who tagged this "itsatarp"?
A good chunk of my Selenium tests don't work with FF3, as of a couple of revisions ago. (I understand that this is due to security being tightened, so I doubt that it's going to work now unless a bug has crept back in.)
So at least one of my machines is going to have to stay FF2 for some time yet.
Really. In the UK at least, the past tense of "fit" is "fitted". The past tense of "spit" is "spat".
"Fit" and "spit", when used as the past tense, just look weird to me.
...I'm sure I had a pet from there once.
It may not be fancy, but I'll bet it works when printed 1cm wide in the corner of a CD cov- oh wait...
Bollocks to that! In one go, anyway.
But start off with circuits at my local airfield, and work up to a flight to the next airfield... There's no reason why you couldn't set yourself a massive goal. I've always wanted to fly from Scotland to New York, via the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland and Canada - I'm a licensed (though lapsed) pilot and, in fact, I have all the ONC charts not five feet from me as I type. Admittedly, doing it in a simulated PA-28, with 8-hour flights and nowhere to divert if your legs fall off, would be masochistic in the extreme - but knock that down to three or four and it starts to look more doable. (Can you tell FS that you have ferry tanks installed, anyway?)
I think the feeling of getting somewhere would actually make it bearable. Hell, hook it up to the network and fly loose formation with some other prop-bike nut...
First thing that came to my mind when I read the headline was Propcycle.
I'd love to rig something similar up, using MS Flight Simulator and an exercise bike.