To the moderator who modded my post as a troll:
Maybe you're new to/., but everything below the "--" is a sig, not a part of the post. I was not trolling, nor have I ever, if you look at my history. I found the grandparent post genuinely funny.
The power cord on a computer of mine shorted out and started a fire a few years
ago. The fire was put out after burning a good portion of my desk, wrecking
my monitor and melting the side of a nearby TV open. The computer itself,
case, power supply, drives and all are still working without a hitch, while
almost everything around it was irreparably wrecked.
I still haven't been able to clean off all of the soot from the case though.
The soot from all of the burning plastic and PC boards doesn't come off very
easily.
Re:A Dremel? Like in the a-splodin CD experiments?
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I'm pretty sure they used a router (the woodworking kind) mounted to the underside of a table.
So true, so true. I consider myself very blessed to have a SO that is also a Creative Type. Which I think really helps her understand and deal with some of my less than perfect personality traits that come with being a Creative Type.
I think that there is a difference between producing and creating something
and spending too much time away from your relationship on selfish pursuits.
I've been in both positions myself, playing video games all night while my
girlfriend lay asleep waiting for me to join her in bed, and working all night
towards more creative ends again with her waiting for me to join her. I have
to say that if she hadn't been so loving and patient with me I would have lost
her.
It's one thing if a Sig. Other doesn't support a productive hobby or career
(she would be in the wrong if she did this, then ditching her may be appropriate),
but for her to be neglected because of a game, TV or (insert time consuming
non-productive hobby) is just downright wrong. What I did in each of those situations
was reprehensible at worst, and deeply lacking in respect for her at best. Relationships
are built on mutual respect. Now why should she respect my hobbies if they cause
me to show that I don't respect her? Any self-respecting woman will not stand
for that and they shouldn't, and any self respecting man shouldn't stand for
what you went through either.
I'll get to my point since i'm begriming to ramble. I don't think the original
poster needs to ditch is SO because she doesn't like his video game playing,
I think he, and anyone reading this for advice, should look at what they're
doing, and question the benefits and motives behind them. The parent poster
has been extremely satisfied with the way his life turned out, but had he had
nothing to show for his efforts (as with video games), he may have felt differently.
Going to war without declaring it is illegal acording to the rules of war (The Hague Conventions specifically). IIRC (correct me if i'm wrong) the rules of war only apply to countries that abide by them. Doesn't this make our armed forces and citezens subject to torture, medical experiments and other horrendous acts? It may be a purely ideological desitincetion, but that seems like a pretty reckless move on the part of our goverment.
Glass shower doors would be just as clean as the rest of the tub and shower surround.
A glass shower door can be easily and regularly cleaned. Most people don't ever clean their shower curtains, and if they do I doubt it's easy to do very successfully due to the folds in the curtain, and flexibility of the material.
I know this may not be ideal answer, but my company typically uses software written inhouse.
If you use a web based app. you should be able to make it easy and accesible for anyone that you can do away with the passing-in-the-hall requests and the like.
In typography classes i've taken, I've been taught that we read word shapes, not all the letters, that's why the first and last letter correct words seem to work, especially with short words.
Read and Raed have the same shape, as well as similarly shapped characters. "a" and "e" are both roughly round in shape, as such they read are quite interchangeable.
When the word becomes much longer the subtle differences in have a greater effect.
Take "reading" for example:
"rnediag" might work, but "rianedg" does not.
replacing some similarly shapped letters actually seems to be more effective. i.e. "rsedimg"
"rxxdixg" can be read as "reading" relatively easily, especially within context, "rixxxdg" is much less likely to.
Actually "rxxdixg" more easily reads as asd "reading" than "rnediag" for me, so having all the letters is much less important than the shape.
Could our ability to read mixed up words be one that is learned by frequent exposure to misstyped words?
"Teh" the a very common typo despite being so common, is still rather dificult to read a "The", another good example of the above.
Let the kids think independantly, and creatively, then smash their dreams and ideas.
Just what they do to their starving artists.
Looks like a side benifit will be that the RIAA will continue to have future "artists" they can easily control. Since they'll already be used to the RIAA telling them what they can and cant do.
I didn't sign up for this.
Now the do not call list will become a call list for telemarketers. At least in Oklahoma. Hopefully this will not happen in other states too.
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To the moderator who modded my post as a troll: /., but everything below the "--" is a sig, not a part of the post. I was not trolling, nor have I ever, if you look at my history. I found the grandparent post genuinely funny.
Maybe you're new to
LOL, I'd mod this up if I had points.
I know rubber coating my grip usually improves my chances of a score!
I think he meant that he doesn't bother to lock the club, not that he leaves his car unlocked.
Forgive me if I'm being insensitive, but why would someone do that in the first place?
The power cord on a computer of mine shorted out and started a fire a few years ago. The fire was put out after burning a good portion of my desk, wrecking my monitor and melting the side of a nearby TV open. The computer itself, case, power supply, drives and all are still working without a hitch, while almost everything around it was irreparably wrecked.
I still haven't been able to clean off all of the soot from the case though. The soot from all of the burning plastic and PC boards doesn't come off very easily.
I'm pretty sure they used a router (the woodworking kind) mounted to the underside of a table.
It was a swastika and A Star of David.
So true, so true. I consider myself very blessed to have a SO that is also a Creative Type. Which I think really helps her understand and deal with some of my less than perfect personality traits that come with being a Creative Type.
I think that there is a difference between producing and creating something and spending too much time away from your relationship on selfish pursuits.
I've been in both positions myself, playing video games all night while my girlfriend lay asleep waiting for me to join her in bed, and working all night towards more creative ends again with her waiting for me to join her. I have to say that if she hadn't been so loving and patient with me I would have lost her.
It's one thing if a Sig. Other doesn't support a productive hobby or career (she would be in the wrong if she did this, then ditching her may be appropriate), but for her to be neglected because of a game, TV or (insert time consuming non-productive hobby) is just downright wrong. What I did in each of those situations was reprehensible at worst, and deeply lacking in respect for her at best. Relationships are built on mutual respect. Now why should she respect my hobbies if they cause me to show that I don't respect her? Any self-respecting woman will not stand for that and they shouldn't, and any self respecting man shouldn't stand for what you went through either.
I'll get to my point since i'm begriming to ramble. I don't think the original poster needs to ditch is SO because she doesn't like his video game playing, I think he, and anyone reading this for advice, should look at what they're doing, and question the benefits and motives behind them. The parent poster has been extremely satisfied with the way his life turned out, but had he had nothing to show for his efforts (as with video games), he may have felt differently.
I think you must mean 4.76%.
Remember, mind those decimal points!
You're not. I was extecting somthing like that, only far more sinister, with the **AA ending and all.
I sometimes wonder whether another purpose of "the rules" is to provide moral protection to those with power from those without.
I don't think there is a conspiracy involved in helping the wounded and sick or respecting the dead.
Going to war without declaring it is illegal acording to the rules of war (The Hague Conventions specifically). IIRC (correct me if i'm wrong) the rules of war only apply to countries that abide by them. Doesn't this make our armed forces and citezens subject to torture, medical experiments and other horrendous acts? It may be a purely ideological desitincetion, but that seems like a pretty reckless move on the part of our goverment.
Somehow MUG seems like an appropriate name for this group.
Maybe the requirements are so high just so it can manage all the DRM schemes.
Glass shower doors would be just as clean as the rest of the tub and shower surround.
A glass shower door can be easily and regularly cleaned. Most people don't ever clean their shower curtains, and if they do I doubt it's easy to do very successfully due to the folds in the curtain, and flexibility of the material.
No, just much shinier foil hats to reflect sunlight into the monitor eyes and cameras.
Funny! Sad, but funny.
Someone mod this up!
How long until we have one in the US?
We wouldn't want to be left out after all.
I know this may not be ideal answer, but my company typically uses software written inhouse.
If you use a web based app. you should be able to make it easy and accesible for anyone that you can do away with the passing-in-the-hall requests and the like.
In typography classes i've taken, I've been taught that we read word shapes, not all the letters, that's why the first and last letter correct words seem to work, especially with short words.
Read and Raed have the same shape, as well as similarly shapped characters. "a" and "e" are both roughly round in shape, as such they read are quite interchangeable.
When the word becomes much longer the subtle differences in have a greater effect.
Take "reading" for example:
"rnediag" might work, but "rianedg" does not.
replacing some similarly shapped letters actually seems to be more effective. i.e. "rsedimg"
"rxxdixg" can be read as "reading" relatively easily, especially within context, "rixxxdg" is much less likely to.
Actually "rxxdixg" more easily reads as asd "reading" than "rnediag" for me, so having all the letters is much less important than the shape.
Could our ability to read mixed up words be one that is learned by frequent exposure to misstyped words?
"Teh" the a very common typo despite being so common, is still rather dificult to read a "The", another good example of the above.
Let the kids think independantly, and creatively, then smash their dreams and ideas.
Just what they do to their starving artists.
Looks like a side benifit will be that the RIAA will continue to have future "artists" they can easily control. Since they'll already be used to the RIAA telling them what they can and cant do.
I didn't sign up for this. Now the do not call list will become a call list for telemarketers. At least in Oklahoma. Hopefully this will not happen in other states too.
Except there isn't a version of Evolution for Windows. If they were running Linux already, they wouldn't be replacing Outlook.