New Orleans is where it is because there was/is a profit in it.
I think it is attitudes like yours that have caused most of the problems.
Every one for themselves and I'm damned if I'll have my tax dollars spent rescuing anyone dumb enough to live below sea level (or on an earthquake zone or next to a volcano or down wind of a nuclear reactor...).
Well you'd be damned if you don't wake up and help those in need. Needy people are not the same as no-good losers. No-good-losers don't deserve to be drowned or starved or dehydrated to death either.
Now wouldn't it be nice if the mouse vibrated when the email arrived (or what ever other event of your choosing occurred).
Then you could put your mouse in your pocket and leave your computer, and go for a wander, and should you get that all important email - you will know, even if you can't see your monitor. Maybe you could even set up your mouse buttons so you have a remotely operated panic button for when the boss arrives unexpectedly and you're in the next cubicle.
Then again - isn't this function available in phones? Perhaps they could put mouse function into phones? But then what happens if you are trying to navigate your computer app and talk on the phone (ie customer support).
Sigh.
Is that a mouse in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?
My bank(s) have security cameras, so your visit would be filmed. Then they have withdrawal limits if you want cash and you haven't given them 24 hours notice. And then there is the 10K transaction notification - all transactions (in Australia) over 10 grand have to be notified to the government in case you are paying your builder but he's not paying tax. Blow gun running, they don't care as long as the tax is paid.
So you can get a large bank cheque for the amount required but you can't get cash without giving notice. And if you don't have a pin you have to produce some additional photo id like a driver's licence.
And I've got half a chance of reproducing the old chart in a test. I've got bugger all chance of drawing that galaxy thing, and the examiners would have even less chance of reading my labels on it if I tried.
What can you program in Unix that you can't in Windows.
A secure system. One that is not readily affected by outside hacks including virii, spyware, malware...
A reliable system. One that does not crash unless the power fails and the back up power fails. And then it will start up and recover all by itself.
A scary system - one that takes your bodgy typo ridden command and eats it, performs it, exactly as typed not as intended, and doesn't tell you what it did.
A customizable system. Of course when building user interfaces for end users, you can program for the typos. In fact you can even tailor your own user interface to catch your most frequent typos or most dangerous ones and not quietly execute them as written.
I've worked in all three environments, I'm old, I've got grey hair, but I will never have a beard.
90% of our Aussie roads have no cell signal at all. If you're in a town, there might be a signal, maybe, but there will be an internet cafe too. As soon as you're a few km out of town - no signal and if you're in the outback and you've got a cell signal - you're not really in the outback.
As for the solar powered thing, I think it might be much cheaper (though perhaps not as ecofriendly) to get a converter for the car cigarette lighter and plug into that.
And I already have a solar panel for recharging the car batteries (I have two), while parked in one spot for a while.
I was dumb enough to subscribe to readers digest for a while.
When the 12 months was up, I thought I'd just let it expire, next thing I know, nasty letters in the mail. I paid up and then I cancelled. They took another four months worth off me after I cancelled, and returned the magazines they sent each month unopened.
I guess I could have sued or something but an hour with a lawyer would cost me more than what their bodgy subscription did. There is no justice. And I don't think we can collect fines for "unsolicited mail" in Australia.
I used to complain about not being able to run fast - and it didn't matter how much I worked at it, I'd picked the wrong parents.
Not everyone has the brains to write computer programs - I'm continually surprised by people who just don't "get it" no matter how easy I try to make it for them.
Not everyone has the head for business - although I like to think this can be learned. For me it means fighting against countless impulses that make me want to avoid doing accounting sums and accurate data entry.
driving around could stir up the dust. Coming to a sudden stop (crashing) could tip a fair bit of it off too. That's how I clean my door mat - belt it against a tree or rock.
There are billboards now that look like TV to me. And all sorts of advertising along the sides of road, deliberately designed to distract drivers. Why ban the in car stuff when you still allow the stuff outside the cars.
45,000 dead people from traffic accidents in the USA alone EVERY year. That's the real terror.
As best I could tell from information is that the argentine ants are very inbred so they don't fight other argentine ants because they recognise each other's chemical signals that mean they are from the same parent colony.
Hence one article that says that the argentine ants from the mediterranean sea to the English Channel are all the same colony. Inbred.
Do schools these days may computers available for girls to use, or do they have to fight off the nerdy guys?
And what happens when they get to uni, are they confronted by a bunch of undersexed drooling geek-lecturers/lechers and matching staff?
And don't forget if she actually survives that, usually by becoming an honorary bloke, there is the work force, where the customers and your co-workers all assume you're the one for the pabx, not the coding. You get put out in the hallway cube, you get zero peace and quiet for actual coding and you get the boss standing over your shoulder, trying to peer down the front of your shirt and then trying to tell you how to do your job when he clearly doesn't know how to work an IBM mainframe editor. Sheesh.
You see the guys who are slack bastards and do half as much work as you, get recommended for promotion ahead of you and your boss says "you aren't ready". Never mind the smary guys hiring at some other company think your fine.
Oh and working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week that some companies expect, severely interferes with having a life.
I can't think why girls want nothing to do with it, even the geeky ones. It's easier to be a maths teacher in high school.
yes but 0.001% will that outweigh the numbers that are pissed off by the spam? That is the question here?
Since spam marketing only measures success by the numbers that do buy their product - not the numbers who say "no way". And a vote against a candidate will mean more than a non-purchase of viagra.
Perhaps spam for Nadar (or some other independent) could thow the required spanner in the works.
Slashdot Mirror
When a geek can't get enough sex to get a real STD, they name their software after one?
.condom?
"I've got mono" is never going to catch on (or is it?). Will Microsoft's next product be
http://www.mamashealth.com/stds/mono.asp
Pictures right here...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/dinosaur
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/pterosauria
and are pterosaurs really dinosaurs at all?
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinosaur.ht
and the nearest relly would be your pet budgie.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/avians.html
And you can even make your own paper pterosaur
http://www.rain.org/~philfear/ptercaddie.html
New Orleans is where it is because there was/is a profit in it.
I think it is attitudes like yours that have caused most of the problems.
Every one for themselves and I'm damned if I'll have my tax dollars spent rescuing anyone dumb enough to live below sea level (or on an earthquake zone or next to a volcano or down wind of a nuclear reactor...).
Well you'd be damned if you don't wake up and help those in need. Needy people are not the same as no-good losers. No-good-losers don't deserve to be drowned or starved or dehydrated to death either.
Now wouldn't it be nice if the mouse vibrated when the email arrived (or what ever other event of your choosing occurred).
Then you could put your mouse in your pocket and leave your computer, and go for a wander, and should you get that all important email - you will know, even if you can't see your monitor. Maybe you could even set up your mouse buttons so you have a remotely operated panic button for when the boss arrives unexpectedly and you're in the next cubicle.
Then again - isn't this function available in phones? Perhaps they could put mouse function into phones? But then what happens if you are trying to navigate your computer app and talk on the phone (ie customer support).
Sigh.
Is that a mouse in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?
Yes. No.
My bank(s) have security cameras, so your visit would be filmed. Then they have withdrawal limits if you want cash and you haven't given them 24 hours notice. And then there is the 10K transaction notification - all transactions (in Australia) over 10 grand have to be notified to the government in case you are paying your builder but he's not paying tax. Blow gun running, they don't care as long as the tax is paid.
So you can get a large bank cheque for the amount required but you can't get cash without giving notice. And if you don't have a pin you have to produce some additional photo id like a driver's licence.
And I've got half a chance of reproducing the old chart in a test. I've got bugger all chance of drawing that galaxy thing, and the examiners would have even less chance of reading my labels on it if I tried.
I've only heard the Gilbert and Sullivan version.
And I'm glad my chem teacher never played Lehrer's version or it would have screwed the mnemonic that my Dad taught me.
h-he-li-bebknof ne na-mg-al-sipsiclarkCa
What can you program in Unix that you can't in Windows.
A secure system. One that is not readily affected by outside hacks including virii, spyware, malware...
A reliable system. One that does not crash unless the power fails and the back up power fails. And then it will start up and recover all by itself.
A scary system - one that takes your bodgy typo ridden command and eats it, performs it, exactly as typed not as intended, and doesn't tell you what it did.
A customizable system. Of course when building user interfaces for end users, you can program for the typos. In fact you can even tailor your own user interface to catch your most frequent typos or most dangerous ones and not quietly execute them as written.
I've worked in all three environments, I'm old, I've got grey hair, but I will never have a beard.
or even a camping trip...
90% of our Aussie roads have no cell signal at all. If you're in a town, there might be a signal, maybe, but there will be an internet cafe too. As soon as you're a few km out of town - no signal and if you're in the outback and you've got a cell signal - you're not really in the outback.
As for the solar powered thing, I think it might be much cheaper (though perhaps not as ecofriendly) to get a converter for the car cigarette lighter and plug into that.
And I already have a solar panel for recharging the car batteries (I have two), while parked in one spot for a while.
I was dumb enough to subscribe to readers digest for a while.
When the 12 months was up, I thought I'd just let it expire, next thing I know, nasty letters in the mail. I paid up and then I cancelled. They took another four months worth off me after I cancelled, and returned the magazines they sent each month unopened.
I guess I could have sued or something but an hour with a lawyer would cost me more than what their bodgy subscription did. There is no justice. And I don't think we can collect fines for "unsolicited mail" in Australia.
just like the way they drag out the answers on who wants to be a millionaire or who gets voted off survivor.
.
.
.
.
.
loop
Firing squad -
ready
aim
(drum rolls)...
we'll be right back after this break....
until spammer screams "shoot me now"
repeat
We've got way too many rats and not nearly enough frogs.
Let's eat (well cooked) rat. With lots of garlic butter sauce.
I used to complain about not being able to run fast - and it didn't matter how much I worked at it, I'd picked the wrong parents.
Not everyone has the brains to write computer programs - I'm continually surprised by people who just don't "get it" no matter how easy I try to make it for them.
Not everyone has the head for business - although I like to think this can be learned. For me it means fighting against countless impulses that make me want to avoid doing accounting sums and accurate data entry.
No not Dubya's wife, his mother.
ARRRGGGGGHHHHHH
We deport our citizens
Just because they can't get their answers straight after a car crash and they might seem foreign. Great.
Anyone with a mental health problem isn't going to survive this, but I guess they're all in USA jails right now anyway.
And what about tourists and international business people. I already have the USA on my black list of places I do not want to go visit.
Say that you're quitting because someone in your immediate family has cancer and you'd like to spend more time with them.
You don't need to mention that "more time" involves two weeks in Hawaii and that you've got a new job afterwards.
If they ask, you can say it was a false alarm or that your relative had an op and is in remission for the time being.
I think I make more out of the bank shares that I own than I do out of the same amount of money in their accounts.
driving around could stir up the dust. Coming to a sudden stop (crashing) could tip a fair bit of it off too. That's how I clean my door mat - belt it against a tree or rock.
There are billboards now that look like TV to me. And all sorts of advertising along the sides of road, deliberately designed to distract drivers. Why ban the in car stuff when you still allow the stuff outside the cars.
45,000 dead people from traffic accidents in the USA alone EVERY year. That's the real terror.
I did laugh at a salesman that told me that if my computer needed rebooting it was a memory fault and that they'd replace the memory.
Needless to say that particular shop was gone less than a year later.
I guess any student at Duke could afford to cough up for a new one if it gets stolen?
before I go flying in the USA, I think I'll change my name to "Tom Ridge", so I won't get hassled...
As best I could tell from information is that the argentine ants are very inbred so they don't fight other argentine ants because they recognise each other's chemical signals that mean they are from the same parent colony.
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Hence one article that says that the argentine ants from the mediterranean sea to the English Channel are all the same colony. Inbred.
With pictures
http://www.boomerangei.com.au/ants.htm#
http://www.abc.net.au/news/indepth/featurei
http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/biosecuri
No pictures
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2004/s
ant management
http://www.csiro.au/index.asp?type=fa
Do schools these days may computers available for girls to use, or do they have to fight off the nerdy guys?
And what happens when they get to uni, are they confronted by a bunch of undersexed drooling geek-lecturers/lechers and matching staff?
And don't forget if she actually survives that, usually by becoming an honorary bloke, there is the work force, where the customers and your co-workers all assume you're the one for the pabx, not the coding. You get put out in the hallway cube, you get zero peace and quiet for actual coding and you get the boss standing over your shoulder, trying to peer down the front of your shirt and then trying to tell you how to do your job when he clearly doesn't know how to work an IBM mainframe editor. Sheesh.
You see the guys who are slack bastards and do half as much work as you, get recommended for promotion ahead of you and your boss says "you aren't ready". Never mind the smary guys hiring at some other company think your fine.
Oh and working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week that some companies expect, severely interferes with having a life.
I can't think why girls want nothing to do with it, even the geeky ones. It's easier to be a maths teacher in high school.
yes but 0.001% will that outweigh the numbers that are pissed off by the spam? That is the question here?
Since spam marketing only measures success by the numbers that do buy their product - not the numbers who say "no way". And a vote against a candidate will mean more than a non-purchase of viagra.
Perhaps spam for Nadar (or some other independent) could thow the required spanner in the works.