Well, the thing is that they likely ARE getting paid off in the back room. Nestle likely just missed it's payment or balked at paying the new, higher rates.
You gave that secret out for nothing. Way to go. You could have made millions on ebay if you'd gone that route first. "MAKE YOUR TV APPEAR MUCH BIGGER"
Next to penis enlargement, TV enlargement is the next thing on the average man's mind; just ahead of thoughts like "I wonder if that spray on hair stuff really works"
How would running YEWA (yet another windows app) under WINE? It won't HELP time dependant operations much, and it'll still be subject to the windows compatible crashes.
On another note, who said that the sound application would have to necessarily be open source? The question asked if there were any Linux audio program - not if there were any that were freely available. Where does the assumption that a program must cost nothing in order to be a viable linux application come from?
That alone is reason enough to change.... Government employees would finally be able to open all the I LOVE YOU attachments that they wanted to without consequence.
The sad part is that, assuming you are Wil, you have a user number that's so much higher than the original karma whore that posted those questions that he'd never TRULY respect you anyhow.
The answers DO sound in line with the Wheaton blogs I've been reading. So, not unlike all the quotes attributed to Winston Churchill, this one may as well be slapped in the Wheaton FAQ as reference Wil.
Though, there are some who would think you'd jumped the gun and given precidence to a troll's post... heh
I worked in a soliciting house back in high school. That kind of response generally got a number flagged as "no answer, call back." Seemed to be pretty standard procedure; best way to get back at someone who cursed at you and hung up was to call back.
I've seen these, and I have a feeling that they're brought to you by the same people who sell the auto dialler machines to the tele-spam companies. The auto-dial machines listen for the "beep-beep-beep" bit that begins the "this number is out of service" announcement the phone company uses, and deletes the number from it's rotation.
So, they then market a machine to home users to bypass their own auto dialer, making money on both ends.
THEN they market an upgrade to the auto-dialer to be smarter about how it deletes numbers.
THEN they market an upgrade to the answering system to be smarter about getting deleted.
Nice product upgrade path, hmmm?
Add to that the benefit of having all of your calls answered with a "beep beep beep" when you pick up. This is just my theory on how it works, so it might not be THAT aggravating, but I'd be willing to bet it's close.
Great... I thought that they were doing just fine as is. Maybe even on the way to having a decent standard central payment system that wasn't restricted to the Microsoft Passport system.
Now an IPO.
They're going to fold in 12-18 months just like all the others now.
I'd be willing to say that half of the countries in the world fall into that category. In North America there is at least one, maybe two depending on how you measure smarts.
I find the whole idea of killing those responsible amazingly short sighted.
These are people who are willing to die for The Cause, as was well illustrated by the suicide bombings yesterday. Making a person a martyr to an already militant fundamentalist organization is much more dangerous than any other solution imaginable.
Road Trip, Freddie Got Fingered, Scary Movie, Armaggedon, Red Planet, Mission to Mars, The Animal, Deuce Bigalow, My Myself and Irene, Sixth Day, any movie with cross-promotions at McDonalds or Burger King (whoops... Atlantis?), A Knight's Tale, Dued Where's My Car, Joe Dirt, Mummy Returns, Pearl Harbour, and a number that are escaping me....
These are movies with no saving graces. I only enjoyed 6th Day because it was like watching a travelogue of Vancouver, BC - one where we get to see them destroy our library. Other than that, it was a car wreck.
I liked Tomb Raider. I wasn't going there looking for Shakespeare; I was expecting a genre film. One involving mystical monsters and shooting. Not unlike how I remember the Indiana Jones movies, but I wasn't expecting anything specific.
I had no idea how the movie was going to progress; what little there was of plot was not given away in the first 5 minutes. This is more than I could say of the third Indian Jones movie, or of any Disney cartoon, or any of the movies I mentioned at the start of this post. Hell, I was pleasantly surprised to find any plot at all in Tomb Raider, and was grateful for it.
CmdrTaco's brain has obviously been polluted by too much collect-and-trade-with-your friends of Disney memorabilia at fast food restaurants and ebay. I hate to say it, but I agree with Katz. Go see it at a matinee; at least they're generally cheaper.
And yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre being outlawed is crushing your right to free speech, as is the ability to libel people. Perhaps we all need to think a bit more before we post.
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All I could think was "great, so way to show those kids how to be enterprising and just GIVE them money..."
Well, the thing is that they likely ARE getting paid off in the back room. Nestle likely just missed it's payment or balked at paying the new, higher rates.
I'm willing to bet nobody could do it justice for you.
Next to penis enlargement, TV enlargement is the next thing on the average man's mind; just ahead of thoughts like "I wonder if that spray on hair stuff really works"
On another note, who said that the sound application would have to necessarily be open source? The question asked if there were any Linux audio program - not if there were any that were freely available. Where does the assumption that a program must cost nothing in order to be a viable linux application come from?
That alone is reason enough to change.... Government employees would finally be able to open all the I LOVE YOU attachments that they wanted to without consequence.
The answers DO sound in line with the Wheaton blogs I've been reading. So, not unlike all the quotes attributed to Winston Churchill, this one may as well be slapped in the Wheaton FAQ as reference Wil.
Though, there are some who would think you'd jumped the gun and given precidence to a troll's post... heh
Heh, what with the way they wrote him out completely, time travel to the Bakula days wouldn't be completely out of line with the series' "logic".
The funniest part about minimum wage jobs like that is that you've got nothing BUT time.
I worked in a soliciting house back in high school. That kind of response generally got a number flagged as "no answer, call back." Seemed to be pretty standard procedure; best way to get back at someone who cursed at you and hung up was to call back.
So, they then market a machine to home users to bypass their own auto dialer, making money on both ends.
THEN they market an upgrade to the auto-dialer to be smarter about how it deletes numbers.
THEN they market an upgrade to the answering system to be smarter about getting deleted.
Nice product upgrade path, hmmm?
Add to that the benefit of having all of your calls answered with a "beep beep beep" when you pick up. This is just my theory on how it works, so it might not be THAT aggravating, but I'd be willing to bet it's close.
Now an IPO.
They're going to fold in 12-18 months just like all the others now.
They've been looking for an excuse to ban "Imagine" for years. "Imagine there's no heaven," I mean the NERVE of those pagans.
I didn't think about the Muppets connection... maybe Animal was involved, and if not, that Doctor Honeydew has always worried me. Heh.
I didn't see "Killing an Arab" on there, though...
I'd be willing to say that half of the countries in the world fall into that category. In North America there is at least one, maybe two depending on how you measure smarts.
I find the whole idea of killing those responsible amazingly short sighted.
These are people who are willing to die for The Cause, as was well illustrated by the suicide bombings yesterday. Making a person a martyr to an already militant fundamentalist organization is much more dangerous than any other solution imaginable.
They do not, however, claim to have created MySQL. Perhaps they should link to mysql.com out of courtesy, listing them as the primary developers.
I miss the mindless ranting of the Taco Lord....
Armaggedon was a blockbuster.
Pearl Harbour is a blockbuster
Mission to Mars was.
Red Planet attempted to be one
and so on.
So I'm sure you'll agree that if you think this was awful, it was definately a blockbuster.
My sister said of Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider; "If I were to go that way, she'd be the one"
Should I worry? Heheh
Road Trip, Freddie Got Fingered, Scary Movie, Armaggedon, Red Planet, Mission to Mars, The Animal, Deuce Bigalow, My Myself and Irene, Sixth Day, any movie with cross-promotions at McDonalds or Burger King (whoops... Atlantis?), A Knight's Tale, Dued Where's My Car, Joe Dirt, Mummy Returns, Pearl Harbour, and a number that are escaping me.... These are movies with no saving graces. I only enjoyed 6th Day because it was like watching a travelogue of Vancouver, BC - one where we get to see them destroy our library. Other than that, it was a car wreck. I liked Tomb Raider. I wasn't going there looking for Shakespeare; I was expecting a genre film. One involving mystical monsters and shooting. Not unlike how I remember the Indiana Jones movies, but I wasn't expecting anything specific. I had no idea how the movie was going to progress; what little there was of plot was not given away in the first 5 minutes. This is more than I could say of the third Indian Jones movie, or of any Disney cartoon, or any of the movies I mentioned at the start of this post. Hell, I was pleasantly surprised to find any plot at all in Tomb Raider, and was grateful for it. CmdrTaco's brain has obviously been polluted by too much collect-and-trade-with-your friends of Disney memorabilia at fast food restaurants and ebay. I hate to say it, but I agree with Katz. Go see it at a matinee; at least they're generally cheaper.
Great, with no Red Menace in the form of the USSR, the US has turned it's eye to the Other Red Menace. Mars.
Those Martian Bastards don't stand a chance.
...from the same nation's gov't bureaucracy that can't figure out prior art in patents...
Surprised?
And yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre being outlawed is crushing your right to free speech, as is the ability to libel people. Perhaps we all need to think a bit more before we post.