Besides, take a walk through my neighbourhood and if you have any sort of compassion, you will wish there was something you could do for these PEOPLE that are trapped in a very destructive cycle.
I foresee undercover cops selling this stuff on the street. A couple weeks selling "spiked" cocaine and my neighbourhood will clean itself up.
I hear he had to represent himself because he kicked his own lawyer's ass when he saw the bill, then kicked the opposition lawyer's ass to even the playing field.
I had a severe shortage of USB-mini cables one day. A friend had suggested checking out a certain dollar store that he had seen them at previously. Normally I avoid dollar stores like the plague, (all that cheap crap makes me shudder. My sister-in-law buys my kids toys from them all the time. Toys that last 5 minutes then it is nothing but tears)but sure enough, $8 later and I had 4 usb cables! (and a sense of moral victory over futureshop)
That's why after 6 years of Telus, I switched to Rogers... only to find they are the same. They just don't care about customer service. What we need is some good European style competition!
How about try this on rabbits, then turn loose a whole bunch in Australia. A few years later you may have a boom in Dingo population, but if we then breed Dingo's that are scared of Kangaroos...
I kinda agree with Shelly. My wife's Grandmother should be classified as a "terrorist" with her digital camera. It used to be that the high cost of film and developing would somewhat limit how much she could terrorize everyone at family functions, but since she got her digital camera a few years ago, along with several large memory sticks, the terror has been unrelenting!
Don't think I am mocking you, because I am not, but I wish I could give you some of my rain! I was hoping that it would dry up for a few days, so I would have a chance to get the grass cut once more before winter. I won't let the kids go out to the back yard for fear they will turn my precious green lawn into mud!
As a robotics technician with close to 7 years experience working with Automated machines, all I can say is "PLEASE DON'T GIVE THEM GUNS!!!"
Many times I have seen an automated system go out of control due to something as simple as a broken wire on an encoder to an entirely failed controller. Closest thing to this that we ever got was one day a SCARA robot (about the size and shape of a human arm) ran away (out of control) and hit the door on the work cell. Wouldn't have been a big deal except that another of the robotics guys was walking by and walked into the door as it swung open. Good times, good times, but I would never want to be around an automated machine with a gun, just too big of a chance for something to go wrong.
Hey, I just bought a house next to a "water reclamation plant" and those jerks in city hall UPGRADED the thing! Not only did they pump millions of dollars into making it NOT stink, but the more efficient facility has resulted in bare land that was turned into a PARK!!11!!1!
I bought my house next to a STINKPIT AND I LIKED IT!!!
Next thing you know my local property values will go up and my welfare neighbours will have to move out and take their stack of old car batteries and expired appliances with them! The new owners will prolly even mow the lawn! This isn't the view that I bought into darn it! And that guy with the rusty camero, loud exhaust, and squeeky fan belt? I'm gonna miss his stereo when he has to move!
Stupid urban development!
But yeah, I agree. People complaining about Google spending THEIR money making THEIR business more efficient/fun all because people living next to an airport have to hear an airplane once in a while?
Larry: "Hey Sergey, you wanna know what REALLY grinds my gears?"
Sergey: "America?"
Larry: "Shut up Sergey, you're such a geek. I was thinking about how much time we waste stuck in traffic, waiting at security gates, then sitting in our fricken plane at the end of the runway waiting for our turn to TAKE OFF!11!2!"
I think its awesome that they can, and did that. I can just imagine how much international travel is required for their business, and how much wasted time that translates into waiting for their slot to take off, security checks, even traffic to the airport.
Meanwhile, NASA has to maintain a virtually unused airstrip for their operations. No reason Google can't rent it.
I use my credit card for the same two reasons as you, (credit, and rewards), but also for company expenses. I have to do a fair amount of traveling for work, and there would be NO way that I would personally float my hotel room until the company paid me back.
Then there is emergency use and remote purchases. I can't say that I would always have enough cash in my chequing account to say tow my car across town and replace the starter. Any extra cash SHOULD be sent over to a savings account (2 day wait for my money), or a mutual fund (even harder to get).
Good thing my wife is a budget nazi so I (almost) never pay interest!
Removes the incentive to re-use? I would argue that by increasing the replacement price you have added an incentive to hang on to it for a while longer.
But I am in BC, and not eager about the chance to pay more for my electronics. Hopefully they don't fill in the internet hole for a while.
Exactly. Linspire is valuable to the Linux community as a "gateway drug" leading into harder substances... I think. If Linspire somehow achieved a significant percentage of home computer users, it would no longer be acceptable for something to work ONLY on a Microsoft product. Suddenly hardware makers would not be able to release windows only products, and maybe, just maybe, media companies would need to address the difference.
I worked for a lottery corporation for a short time after college until I found a real job. I was offered a pretty good paying job in the "slot depot", but turned it down strictly due to ethical reasons.
As far as I understood it, all the slot machines would be programmed for a 95-98% pay back to the player, but there would always be one or two in a casino that is programmed to a 105% payback. The higher pay machine would always be changed so that if you went back for you "lucky" machine, you might not get it.
would you be considered a bigamist? Would you have to convert to Mormonism? Would all their birthdays be on the same day? Would "mr. grouchy" come all at the same time (DEFINITELY gotta go fishing THAT week). If all your cloned wifes were to become pregnant, would their children be siblings, or half siblings?
I rented a 20' shipping container for moving last month. It cost the same as a scrU-Haul, but I got to keep it for a whole month. That and I didn't have to drive it. Told the wife that I one day when we get a house with a big enough yard, one of those suckers is gonna be my shop.
Check out http://www.bigsteelbox.com/ 20' cost $2500 for a used one. Put your shop in it, and if you have to move, just cram everything to one end, load all your other stuff in the rest of the space and call them to come pick it up.
Buddy and I were thinking you could get 5 or 6 of them, arrange them in a star shape, weld them together, put a roof on top, then pile dirt on the whole thing. Industrial meet Hobbit.
Old buddy of mine built an emergency shelter for a mountain top site out of one of them. If you get stranded, just pull the generator out, fire it up, go inside and close the door.
I know a guy... that knows a guy... that knows a guy...
that was doing some work on a yacht installing a kaleidescape like media system, and noticed exactly that. 50+ gigs of MP3's. I forget what shipyard it was at, but it was in Asia somewhere. Everyone (all the contractors etc) went out and bought portable harddrives... wish I had gotten a copy...
If I see someone steal a little old ladies purse, I'm calling the cops. If I see someone back into a car, then take off, I'm calling the cops. If see someone molesting a woman/child, I'm calling the cops. Where do you get off saying you have no sympathy for snitches? In order for society to work, we need rules. As a democracy, we as a people, decide those rules. If someone breaks those rules, they need to pay the consequences that we the people determine are necessary.
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You're too paranoid.
Besides, take a walk through my neighbourhood and if you have any sort of compassion, you will wish there was something you could do for these PEOPLE that are trapped in a very destructive cycle.
I foresee undercover cops selling this stuff on the street. A couple weeks selling "spiked" cocaine and my neighbourhood will clean itself up.
I hear he had to represent himself because he kicked his own lawyer's ass when he saw the bill, then kicked the opposition lawyer's ass to even the playing field.
Dollar store.
I had a severe shortage of USB-mini cables one day. A friend had suggested checking out a certain dollar store that he had seen them at previously. Normally I avoid dollar stores like the plague, (all that cheap crap makes me shudder. My sister-in-law buys my kids toys from them all the time. Toys that last 5 minutes then it is nothing but tears)but sure enough, $8 later and I had 4 usb cables! (and a sense of moral victory over futureshop)
do they still win? The FCC set the minimum bid so high, anyone who bids, loses.
That's why after 6 years of Telus, I switched to Rogers... only to find they are the same. They just don't care about customer service. What we need is some good European style competition!
How about try this on rabbits, then turn loose a whole bunch in Australia. A few years later you may have a boom in Dingo population, but if we then breed Dingo's that are scared of Kangaroos...
I kinda agree with Shelly. My wife's Grandmother should be classified as a "terrorist" with her digital camera. It used to be that the high cost of film and developing would somewhat limit how much she could terrorize everyone at family functions, but since she got her digital camera a few years ago, along with several large memory sticks, the terror has been unrelenting!
Don't think I am mocking you, because I am not, but I wish I could give you some of my rain! I was hoping that it would dry up for a few days, so I would have a chance to get the grass cut once more before winter. I won't let the kids go out to the back yard for fear they will turn my precious green lawn into mud!
As a robotics technician with close to 7 years experience working with Automated machines, all I can say is "PLEASE DON'T GIVE THEM GUNS!!!"
Many times I have seen an automated system go out of control due to something as simple as a broken wire on an encoder to an entirely failed controller. Closest thing to this that we ever got was one day a SCARA robot (about the size and shape of a human arm) ran away (out of control) and hit the door on the work cell. Wouldn't have been a big deal except that another of the robotics guys was walking by and walked into the door as it swung open. Good times, good times, but I would never want to be around an automated machine with a gun, just too big of a chance for something to go wrong.
Hey, I just bought a house next to a "water reclamation plant" and those jerks in city hall UPGRADED the thing! Not only did they pump millions of dollars into making it NOT stink, but the more efficient facility has resulted in bare land that was turned into a PARK!!11!!1!
I bought my house next to a STINKPIT AND I LIKED IT!!!
Next thing you know my local property values will go up and my welfare neighbours will have to move out and take their stack of old car batteries and expired appliances with them! The new owners will prolly even mow the lawn! This isn't the view that I bought into darn it! And that guy with the rusty camero, loud exhaust, and squeeky fan belt? I'm gonna miss his stereo when he has to move!
Stupid urban development!
But yeah, I agree. People complaining about Google spending THEIR money making THEIR business more efficient/fun all because people living next to an airport have to hear an airplane once in a while?
How about:
Larry: "Hey Sergey, you wanna know what REALLY grinds my gears?"
Sergey: "America?"
Larry: "Shut up Sergey, you're such a geek. I was thinking about how much time we waste stuck in traffic, waiting at security gates, then sitting in our fricken plane at the end of the runway waiting for our turn to TAKE OFF!11!2!"
Sergey: "...um... we're fricken BILLIONAIRES, aren't we?"
I think its awesome that they can, and did that. I can just imagine how much international travel is required for their business, and how much wasted time that translates into waiting for their slot to take off, security checks, even traffic to the airport.
Meanwhile, NASA has to maintain a virtually unused airstrip for their operations. No reason Google can't rent it.
other then eliminating a voter.
I use my credit card for the same two reasons as you, (credit, and rewards), but also for company expenses. I have to do a fair amount of traveling for work, and there would be NO way that I would personally float my hotel room until the company paid me back.
Then there is emergency use and remote purchases. I can't say that I would always have enough cash in my chequing account to say tow my car across town and replace the starter. Any extra cash SHOULD be sent over to a savings account (2 day wait for my money), or a mutual fund (even harder to get).
Good thing my wife is a budget nazi so I (almost) never pay interest!
Removes the incentive to re-use? I would argue that by increasing the replacement price you have added an incentive to hang on to it for a while longer.
But I am in BC, and not eager about the chance to pay more for my electronics. Hopefully they don't fill in the internet hole for a while.
Under User Pressure... We just think it's a great license
which is it?
(SARCASM)
Are you saying that we SHOULDN'T use these truck mounted LASER beams to melt parachutes of pilots that were shot down? dang... cancel my order...
Exactly. Linspire is valuable to the Linux community as a "gateway drug" leading into harder substances... I think. If Linspire somehow achieved a significant percentage of home computer users, it would no longer be acceptable for something to work ONLY on a Microsoft product. Suddenly hardware makers would not be able to release windows only products, and maybe, just maybe, media companies would need to address the difference.
I worked for a lottery corporation for a short time after college until I found a real job. I was offered a pretty good paying job in the "slot depot", but turned it down strictly due to ethical reasons.
As far as I understood it, all the slot machines would be programmed for a 95-98% pay back to the player, but there would always be one or two in a casino that is programmed to a 105% payback. The higher pay machine would always be changed so that if you went back for you "lucky" machine, you might not get it.
Nasty. That's why I didn't take the job.
I want GPS based alarms.
I can't tell you how many times my wife has sent me an SMS message before I left work:
"Stop at the butcher shop on your way home and pick up..."
Followed by me remembering the butcher shop as I pull in the driveway.
Now, if she could send an event that alarms when I am 3 blocks from the butcher shop, we will hopefully have a little bit of marital bliss.
Of course, if she can also send an alarm if I get too close to a pub, or spend too much time in the electronic store...
What if you created multiple clones of your wife.
would you be considered a bigamist? Would you have to convert to Mormonism? Would all their birthdays be on the same day? Would "mr. grouchy" come all at the same time (DEFINITELY gotta go fishing THAT week). If all your cloned wifes were to become pregnant, would their children be siblings, or half siblings?
Ever smoke salmon?
It's good, once you get it lit...
I rented a 20' shipping container for moving last month. It cost the same as a scrU-Haul, but I got to keep it for a whole month. That and I didn't have to drive it. Told the wife that I one day when we get a house with a big enough yard, one of those suckers is gonna be my shop.
Check out http://www.bigsteelbox.com/ 20' cost $2500 for a used one. Put your shop in it, and if you have to move, just cram everything to one end, load all your other stuff in the rest of the space and call them to come pick it up.
Buddy and I were thinking you could get 5 or 6 of them, arrange them in a star shape, weld them together, put a roof on top, then pile dirt on the whole thing. Industrial meet Hobbit.
Old buddy of mine built an emergency shelter for a mountain top site out of one of them. If you get stranded, just pull the generator out, fire it up, go inside and close the door.
These containers are so cool! 5,000lb tare!
Seems like an efficient way to intercept an ICBM. Shouldn't be a problem mounting a 50 calibre machine gun on the belly.
Ha ha ha, funny that you say that...
I know a guy... that knows a guy... that knows a guy...
that was doing some work on a yacht installing a kaleidescape like media system, and noticed exactly that. 50+ gigs of MP3's. I forget what shipyard it was at, but it was in Asia somewhere. Everyone (all the contractors etc) went out and bought portable harddrives... wish I had gotten a copy...
Come on, seriously, give me a break!
If I see someone steal a little old ladies purse, I'm calling the cops. If I see someone back into a car, then take off, I'm calling the cops. If see someone molesting a woman/child, I'm calling the cops. Where do you get off saying you have no sympathy for snitches? In order for society to work, we need rules. As a democracy, we as a people, decide those rules. If someone breaks those rules, they need to pay the consequences that we the people determine are necessary.
Go back to your libertarian tin hat.
(note: I am Canadian)