Heh. Reminds me of Linkin Park. The lead guy has a useful range of about two and a half steps in which his voice actually sounds interesting, and they have managed to make multiple albums entirely constrained to that range.
Ryan Seacrest probably doesn't even know about the 7/7 memorial. I know I didn't. Remember, Ryan Seacrest is not just from the United States, he's a celebrity in the United States, which means he has almost no knowledge of what happens in the real world.
Well, the little detail that makes the scientist in me ignore this story is the one about having to be so darn accurate to hit Mars. To be more accurate, the Mars shot would be like an Olympic golfer teeing off in London and after thousands of tiny course corrections from the golfball's on-board thrusters, hitting a hole-in-one in Auckland, New Zealand.
But, just to make them happy, I also won't watch the Olympics. I mean, they're not even nude. That's not the Olympics.
At my company, they give you two weeks vacation that you can use any time you want. Well, except for dates when an important project is being worked on, which is all the time. Then on December 31st, when you haven't used any of your vacation, all your days go away because they don't roll over.
To get around this problem, I just take vacation whenever I want to, and if anybody calls me or sends me an e-mail, then it wasn't a vacation day. Then I keep track of how many extra hours I have worked and how many vacation days I haven't been allowed to take that were rightfully mine in preparation for the eventual lawsuit.
Perhaps someone is all but hurt about the obama comment.
Yes, indeed, I am "all but hurt" about the Obama comment.
Obama fans, however, are "all butt hurt" about the comment.
Hey, at least we know that it reality it takes at least a dozen dumbass kids now to ruin it for everyone else... The Onion pegged it at three [theonion.com], back in the day.
Apparently, as far as gas cans go, the number is 5. Biltz USA, which owned 75% of the portable gasoline container market, has been successfully sued out of existence. Most of the litigation involved the containers content catching fire when poured onto an open flame. Apparently, it was felt that the three existing warnings on the can were not sufficient to alert the public to the dangers of pouring gasoline on an open flame. So now, no more gas cans for us. When we run out of gas on the side of the road, we'll just have to leave our car there, or use some other container which is not approved for the transport of gasoline. Or we'll just have to buy them from China, where our pesky laws can't reach out and sue them.
Facebook = Evil, and I refuse to use sites that only use facebook as a signon.
And I can't user sites that only use facebook as a signon, because 1) I don't have or want to have a facebook account and 2) my company blocks facebook and anything that links to, mentions or smells like facebook.
I have in the past clicked on some ads, but 100% of them were either to another ad consolidation site or they were deliberately misleading me into believing that they had the product I was looking for just to get me onto their site. As such, I have never clicked another ad. I have never clicked an ad on my phone at all. I trust ads on my phone even less than ads on the internet.
In any case, adwords was worthless and over priced for us, didn't lead to enough sales to justify the cost
I think that is the general case. Advertising never generates enough sales to justify the cost. The only people who make money off of advertising is advertising companies.
I literally don't know a single person under 30 who doesn't smoke once in a while.
Smoking is not illegal, it just should be. Now , if you are referring to smoking banned substances, than I have to say that I literally don't know a single person who does smoke once in awhile.
You don't pay people to not have jobs, you pay them to keep them going while they look for another job. With the money they themselves paid into the system during their time of employment, and that all of us pay in case of this exact scenario.
That depends whether the people you are referring to are just on unemployment or are on some other program, like disability. I know several people who are on disability, and they struggle from month to month, but they can't get a job because the job would pay less than the disability and the disability would be cut off completely if they get a job.
Of course, then there is the whole question of why they are on disability when they really COULD work if it came down to it.
Plus anyone who wears a phone clipped to themselves looks like a total asshat. That is what pockets are for. Oh, unless that is the form of birth control you prefer.
Phones don't go in pockets. I'm surprised that doesn't void the warranty. I couldn't imagine having to dig my phone out of my pocket every time it rang. Having to stand up no matter where you are, such as in a car, because there is no way you are going to be able to dig it out sitting down. I would imagine that having to look like a total asshat every time your phone rings must be the type of birth control that you prefer.
It all depends. I want my phone to be small and have abundant battery life. But if it is a smartphone, then I want it to be big (and still have abundant battery life). If I am going to use the thing to try to view web pages and whatnot, then i need it to have a reasonably sized screen. If I just have a phone that makes calls, then small is fine, but not so small that it can't reach my ear and my mouth (which I don't believe that any phone manufactured in the last 20 years can do).
I'm pretty certain if he didn't have a gun it wouldn't have happened, so there is that?
If he didn't have a gun, he absolutely would not have shot anybody with a gun, I'll give you that. But I would bet large sums of money that he still would have done some sort of destructive deed. He probably just would have a killed either less or more people with whatever weapon he chose. Most likely a bomb, judging by the fact that he used a smoke bomb as well.
I guess when you're big enough you can do a six billion dollar oops and nothing much happens.
They didn't lose $6 billion, only $583 million. And if they fired the right 50 people, then they would have broken even (well, except for having to pay the golden parachutes of those same 50 people).
Well, the other answer is that people answer subjectively about a subjective question and objectively about an objective question. It is pretty hard to deny that a flood or drought is occurring, but the temperature on average changes so little (about half a degree Celcius in the last 70 years) that it comes down to a matter of opinion.
It's been wicked hot lately, so I'm thinking of becoming a Republican and denouncing global-warming to cool things off.
It has been much hotter than usual where I live the last two years as well, but not nearly as hot as it was when I was a kid, so given that data I am unable to determine what my political affiliation is.
Oh, and I call BS on the whole study. Liberals and Conservatives are equally likely to complain about the heat or the cold. All that differs is whether they blame it on Global Warming or just the weather.
It would be nice if THE DATA were available and they had GONE INTO DETAIL in the article, but what can you do?
Well, they were trying to prove a point and the data could probably be interpreted by different parties as disagreeing with the point.
That's $56 a month per person.
Back in the day, we had to pay $20 a month for a family plan. In our case, that worked out to $5 a person. Of course, understandably there has been some inflation since then, but there has also been increases in technology which have outpaced inflation, so family plans probably ought to be down to $5 per family now.
If I was the operator on the US 800 line, I would at least have given him the number for the FR 800 line. I certainly understand that the US branch of a multinational corporation may not be able to do anything about an incident that occurred in a French store.
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Heard a great song today. It was B flat for three minute.
Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo....
It rocks!
I'm guessing "Rumor has it" by Adelle?
Don't get me started on Rap.
Someone please mod this off topic. We're talking about music.
Heh. Reminds me of Linkin Park. The lead guy has a useful range of about two and a half steps in which his voice actually sounds interesting, and they have managed to make multiple albums entirely constrained to that range.
1984 was the last time I watched the Olympics.
Ryan Seacrest probably doesn't even know about the 7/7 memorial. I know I didn't. Remember, Ryan Seacrest is not just from the United States, he's a celebrity in the United States, which means he has almost no knowledge of what happens in the real world.
Well, the little detail that makes the scientist in me ignore this story is the one about having to be so darn accurate to hit Mars. To be more accurate, the Mars shot would be like an Olympic golfer teeing off in London and after thousands of tiny course corrections from the golfball's on-board thrusters, hitting a hole-in-one in Auckland, New Zealand.
But, just to make them happy, I also won't watch the Olympics. I mean, they're not even nude. That's not the Olympics.
At my company, they give you two weeks vacation that you can use any time you want. Well, except for dates when an important project is being worked on, which is all the time. Then on December 31st, when you haven't used any of your vacation, all your days go away because they don't roll over.
To get around this problem, I just take vacation whenever I want to, and if anybody calls me or sends me an e-mail, then it wasn't a vacation day. Then I keep track of how many extra hours I have worked and how many vacation days I haven't been allowed to take that were rightfully mine in preparation for the eventual lawsuit.
Perhaps someone is all but hurt about the obama comment.
Yes, indeed, I am "all but hurt" about the Obama comment.
Obama fans, however, are "all butt hurt" about the comment.
Hey, at least we know that it reality it takes at least a dozen dumbass kids now to ruin it for everyone else... The Onion pegged it at three [theonion.com], back in the day.
Apparently, as far as gas cans go, the number is 5. Biltz USA, which owned 75% of the portable gasoline container market, has been successfully sued out of existence. Most of the litigation involved the containers content catching fire when poured onto an open flame. Apparently, it was felt that the three existing warnings on the can were not sufficient to alert the public to the dangers of pouring gasoline on an open flame. So now, no more gas cans for us. When we run out of gas on the side of the road, we'll just have to leave our car there, or use some other container which is not approved for the transport of gasoline. Or we'll just have to buy them from China, where our pesky laws can't reach out and sue them.
Facebook = Evil, and I refuse to use sites that only use facebook as a signon.
And I can't user sites that only use facebook as a signon, because 1) I don't have or want to have a facebook account and 2) my company blocks facebook and anything that links to, mentions or smells like facebook.
I have in the past clicked on some ads, but 100% of them were either to another ad consolidation site or they were deliberately misleading me into believing that they had the product I was looking for just to get me onto their site. As such, I have never clicked another ad. I have never clicked an ad on my phone at all. I trust ads on my phone even less than ads on the internet.
In any case, adwords was worthless and over priced for us, didn't lead to enough sales to justify the cost
I think that is the general case. Advertising never generates enough sales to justify the cost. The only people who make money off of advertising is advertising companies.
I literally don't know a single person under 30 who doesn't smoke once in a while.
Smoking is not illegal, it just should be. Now , if you are referring to smoking banned substances, than I have to say that I literally don't know a single person who does smoke once in awhile.
More than 490.000.000.000 tonnes of meat
So, if I understand correctly, the average human weighs 70 tonnes? And my Doctor says I am obese.
You don't pay people to not have jobs, you pay them to keep them going while they look for another job. With the money they themselves paid into the system during their time of employment, and that all of us pay in case of this exact scenario.
That depends whether the people you are referring to are just on unemployment or are on some other program, like disability. I know several people who are on disability, and they struggle from month to month, but they can't get a job because the job would pay less than the disability and the disability would be cut off completely if they get a job.
Of course, then there is the whole question of why they are on disability when they really COULD work if it came down to it.
Plus anyone who wears a phone clipped to themselves looks like a total asshat. That is what pockets are for. Oh, unless that is the form of birth control you prefer.
Phones don't go in pockets. I'm surprised that doesn't void the warranty. I couldn't imagine having to dig my phone out of my pocket every time it rang. Having to stand up no matter where you are, such as in a car, because there is no way you are going to be able to dig it out sitting down. I would imagine that having to look like a total asshat every time your phone rings must be the type of birth control that you prefer.
It all depends. I want my phone to be small and have abundant battery life. But if it is a smartphone, then I want it to be big (and still have abundant battery life). If I am going to use the thing to try to view web pages and whatnot, then i need it to have a reasonably sized screen. If I just have a phone that makes calls, then small is fine, but not so small that it can't reach my ear and my mouth (which I don't believe that any phone manufactured in the last 20 years can do).
I'm pretty certain if he didn't have a gun it wouldn't have happened, so there is that?
If he didn't have a gun, he absolutely would not have shot anybody with a gun, I'll give you that. But I would bet large sums of money that he still would have done some sort of destructive deed. He probably just would have a killed either less or more people with whatever weapon he chose. Most likely a bomb, judging by the fact that he used a smoke bomb as well.
I guess when you're big enough you can do a six billion dollar oops and nothing much happens.
They didn't lose $6 billion, only $583 million. And if they fired the right 50 people, then they would have broken even (well, except for having to pay the golden parachutes of those same 50 people).
Well, the other answer is that people answer subjectively about a subjective question and objectively about an objective question. It is pretty hard to deny that a flood or drought is occurring, but the temperature on average changes so little (about half a degree Celcius in the last 70 years) that it comes down to a matter of opinion.
It's been wicked hot lately, so I'm thinking of becoming a Republican and denouncing global-warming to cool things off.
It has been much hotter than usual where I live the last two years as well, but not nearly as hot as it was when I was a kid, so given that data I am unable to determine what my political affiliation is.
Oh, and I call BS on the whole study. Liberals and Conservatives are equally likely to complain about the heat or the cold. All that differs is whether they blame it on Global Warming or just the weather.
It would be nice if THE DATA were available and they had GONE INTO DETAIL in the article, but what can you do?
Well, they were trying to prove a point and the data could probably be interpreted by different parties as disagreeing with the point.
I for one am not ready to make the switch yet from not using Facebook to not using Google+.
That's $56 a month per person.
Back in the day, we had to pay $20 a month for a family plan. In our case, that worked out to $5 a person. Of course, understandably there has been some inflation since then, but there has also been increases in technology which have outpaced inflation, so family plans probably ought to be down to $5 per family now.
If I was the operator on the US 800 line, I would at least have given him the number for the FR 800 line. I certainly understand that the US branch of a multinational corporation may not be able to do anything about an incident that occurred in a French store.