In case of Sonic Attack on your district, follow these rules.....
If you are making love it is imperative to bring all bodies to orgasm
simultaneously
Do not waste time blocking your ears.
Do not waste time seeking a soundproof shelter.
Try to get as far away from the sonic source as possible,
but do not panic.....
Use your wheels. It is what they are for.
Small babies may be placed inside the special cocoons,
which should be left if possible, in a shelter.
Do not attempt to use your own limbs.
If no wheels are available, metal, not organic, limbs
should be employed whenever possible.....
Remember, in the case of Sonic Attack, Survival means every man for himself.
Statistically more people survive if they think only of themselves.
Do not attempt to rescue friends, relatives, loved ones.
You have only a few seconds to escape.
Use those seconds sensibly or you will inevitably die.
Do not panic.
Think only of yourself....
These are the first signs of Sonic Attack:
You will notice small objects, such as ornaments, oscillating.
You will notice a vibration in your diaphragm.
You will hear a distant hissing in your ears.
You will feel dizzy.
You will feel the need to vomit.
There will be bleeding from orifices.
There will be an ache in the pelvic region.
You may be subject to fits of hysterical shouting, or even laughter.
These are all sign of imminent Sonic destruction.
Your only real protection is flight.
If you are less than ten years old, then remain in your shelter and use
your cocoon.
But remember:
You can help no-one else, No-one else, No-one else......
Here they have a news crawler saying that the Bank of Canada is going to lower interests or something, but they abbreviate it BOC and I always wonder why the Blue Oyster Cult is setting financial policy.
I mostly don't reply to AC rants, but in this case you are 100% correct. The content on the linked page takes up less than 10% of the width of my screen.
Either you have bad noisy power or really horrible wiring or the worst luck ever. I have CFLs in some of my outside fixtures that I haven't changed in seven years.
"by and large they want a hollywood ending as opposed to the artistic ending, which is what their real problem with it is" - 100% entirely incorrect. We don't want a "happy" ending. Nobody seriously expected to see Shepard and Garrus on a beach somewhere drinking mai tais at the end. We know shepard's destiny is destroy the reapers at the cost of her (his) own life. Sure as hell we don't want a hollywood ending. We want an ending that 1. doesn't introduce a blue glowing deus ex machina child 5 minutes before the end of the game. 2. Allows our choices as a player to have some effect (Choose Krogans or Salarians, Choose Geth or Quarians, no difference) 3. Makes sense 4. provides a proper denoument, instead of absolutely everything blows up, normandy crashes, farmboy asks for another shepard story?? WTF??) What happens to galactic civilization? Did we actually save it or did the mass relay explosions wipe out everything and everyone we knew? 5. Doesn't feel like it was hastily cobbled together in about 5 minutes and pasted on without any thought.
I think some people choose IT or Engineering because they like black and white answers to everything. You can't BS past the laws of physics. This I-beam meets the load requirements or it doesn't; this cable can carry sufficient current for the motor or it can't, this hard drive can hold all the data or it can't. No nasty grey areas.
Of course, once you add human beings and their conflicting needs and desires into the mix the grey areas abound. The problem for this kind of person comes comes when they start treating their own rules and policies as if they were laws of physics (and expect everyone else to do so also). They see themselves and their policies as holy guardians of their systems integrity and despise the "lusers" who try to work around them and violate their rules. Their users see them as rigid, obstructionist and in the way of productivity.
IT security and operational flexibility are opposing goals. If your systems are completely open you'll be down with viruses and trojans, lock them down 100% and nobody will get any work done. You can't go all one way or the other, you need to find workable compromises.
We have a mail app for our (employee owned) iphones which encrypts the message store on the phone, and can be remotely wiped. It's not quite as functional as the built in apple mail app but it's good enough. If you want company mail on your personal phone you have to use the app. You can still have your own personal mail accounts, if we nuke the company mail, (by revoking the encryption key) your personal mail is untouched. Company pays for the app. Employee purchases and owns phone, company splits cost of voice and data plan 50/50 with employee and pays for work related long distance calls. It is sensible, and works ok.
Once you have left 6th grade behind you can add, subtract, multiply and divide on paper. Why would you then want to spend any more time doing these calculations by hand when you could spend the time learning math concepts instead?
"People tend to buy the largest most powerful car they can afford unless they are trying to make a statement"
That's funny, I think you have it backwards. People tend to buy the smallest cheapest car that meets their transportation needs, unless they are trying to make a statement. I see a whole lot more civics and corrollas and mazda 3s on the road than I see chrysler 300s. There are always exceptions, like my neighboor who bought a ginormous F350 to commute to work in every day, because once a year he tows his boat from the marina to the storage lot.
Lately I've started hearing this a lot: - the oo sound like in moo is becoming the dipthong ee-oo, or maybe y-oo. Now some words were always 50-50 on this ie - "tune" is sometimes t-oo-n and sometime t-y-oo-n. It just lately that it seems to be creeping into all sorts of words that were only oo sounds before. The most common one is the name of the city, Van-key-oo-ver.
"Why do so many Slashdotters always feel like the best answer to a question is "you're doing it wrong"?"
This happens everywhere on the internets where you ask a question. Ask a Microsoft support website how to do something that "should" be possible, but isn't. (Can't think of an example now) You'll get 10 answers telling you how to "work around" what you asked, and another 20 answers questioning why you or any one else would want to do this thing. What you will never ever get is even 1 person saying "Our product cannot do this thing".
Slashdot Mirror
toe the line. Not tow, toe. TOE. ok, thanks.
In Japan and Canada, private citizens aren't allowed to even own handguns.
Don't know about Japan but Canadians are most definitely allowed to own handguns. "Them gophers aren't gonna shoot themselves"
In case of Sonic Attack on your district, follow these rules.....
If you are making love it is imperative to bring all bodies to orgasm simultaneously
Do not waste time blocking your ears.
Do not waste time seeking a soundproof shelter.
Try to get as far away from the sonic source as possible,
but do not panic.....
Use your wheels. It is what they are for.
Small babies may be placed inside the special cocoons,
which should be left if possible, in a shelter.
Do not attempt to use your own limbs.
If no wheels are available, metal, not organic, limbs should be employed whenever possible.....
Remember, in the case of Sonic Attack, Survival means every man for himself.
Statistically more people survive if they think only of themselves.
Do not attempt to rescue friends, relatives, loved ones.
You have only a few seconds to escape.
Use those seconds sensibly or you will inevitably die.
Do not panic.
Think only of yourself....
These are the first signs of Sonic Attack:
You will notice small objects, such as ornaments, oscillating.
You will notice a vibration in your diaphragm.
You will hear a distant hissing in your ears.
You will feel dizzy.
You will feel the need to vomit.
There will be bleeding from orifices.
There will be an ache in the pelvic region.
You may be subject to fits of hysterical shouting, or even laughter.
These are all sign of imminent Sonic destruction.
Your only real protection is flight.
If you are less than ten years old, then remain in your shelter and use your cocoon.
But remember:
You can help no-one else, No-one else, No-one else......
Here they have a news crawler saying that the Bank of Canada is going to lower interests or something, but they abbreviate it BOC and I always wonder why the Blue Oyster Cult is setting financial policy.
I mostly don't reply to AC rants, but in this case you are 100% correct. The content on the linked page takes up less than 10% of the width of my screen.
your spellchecker accidentally replaced humiliation with humility just before you posted.
Time is an illusion, Life is but time, Steep is the mountain which we climb.
Holocaust
The Small Hours
Either you have bad noisy power or really horrible wiring or the worst luck ever. I have CFLs in some of my outside fixtures that I haven't changed in seven years.
"by and large they want a hollywood ending as opposed to the artistic ending, which is what their real problem with it is" - 100% entirely incorrect. We don't want a "happy" ending. Nobody seriously expected to see Shepard and Garrus on a beach somewhere drinking mai tais at the end. We know shepard's destiny is destroy the reapers at the cost of her (his) own life. Sure as hell we don't want a hollywood ending. We want an ending that 1. doesn't introduce a blue glowing deus ex machina child 5 minutes before the end of the game. 2. Allows our choices as a player to have some effect (Choose Krogans or Salarians, Choose Geth or Quarians, no difference) 3. Makes sense 4. provides a proper denoument, instead of absolutely everything blows up, normandy crashes, farmboy asks for another shepard story?? WTF??) What happens to galactic civilization? Did we actually save it or did the mass relay explosions wipe out everything and everyone we knew? 5. Doesn't feel like it was hastily cobbled together in about 5 minutes and pasted on without any thought.
No, the smectic tubes are older.
Thank you for the Cracked link. I laughed so hard my sides ache.
Not one word of your post is true...Sorry.
I thought they were in tight with the Catholics. You know "Gott mit Uns" and all that stuff.
So Elspeth Bathory was at least half right.
I think some people choose IT or Engineering because they like black and white answers to everything. You can't BS past the laws of physics. This I-beam meets the load requirements or it doesn't; this cable can carry sufficient current for the motor or it can't, this hard drive can hold all the data or it can't. No nasty grey areas.
Of course, once you add human beings and their conflicting needs and desires into the mix the grey areas abound. The problem for this kind of person comes comes when they start treating their own rules and policies as if they were laws of physics (and expect everyone else to do so also). They see themselves and their policies as holy guardians of their systems integrity and despise the "lusers" who try to work around them and violate their rules. Their users see them as rigid, obstructionist and in the way of productivity.
IT security and operational flexibility are opposing goals. If your systems are completely open you'll be down with viruses and trojans, lock them down 100% and nobody will get any work done. You can't go all one way or the other, you need to find workable compromises.
We have a mail app for our (employee owned) iphones which encrypts the message store on the phone, and can be remotely wiped. It's not quite as functional as the built in apple mail app but it's good enough. If you want company mail on your personal phone you have to use the app. You can still have your own personal mail accounts, if we nuke the company mail, (by revoking the encryption key) your personal mail is untouched. Company pays for the app. Employee purchases and owns phone, company splits cost of voice and data plan 50/50 with employee and pays for work related long distance calls. It is sensible, and works ok.
Once you have left 6th grade behind you can add, subtract, multiply and divide on paper. Why would you then want to spend any more time doing these calculations by hand when you could spend the time learning math concepts instead?
S.C.U.B.A divers with a L.A.S.E.R.
"People tend to buy the largest most powerful car they can afford unless they are trying to make a statement"
That's funny, I think you have it backwards. People tend to buy the smallest cheapest car that meets their transportation needs, unless they are trying to make a statement. I see a whole lot more civics and corrollas and mazda 3s on the road than I see chrysler 300s. There are always exceptions, like my neighboor who bought a ginormous F350 to commute to work in every day, because once a year he tows his boat from the marina to the storage lot.
"A thermostat at a town house the Chamber owns on Capitol Hill at one point was communicating with an Internet address in China".
Hey Larry, does it seem a little warm in here today?
Yeah, it is kinda warm.
Oh my God! We've been hacked by the Chinese!!!
Cronism? WTF is Cronism? If you mean Cronyism, that word doesn't fit either.??
Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all have planetary magnetic fields.
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (and Pluto but that's not a planet any more) all have moons.
This suggests that these things are not rare.
Lately I've started hearing this a lot: - the oo sound like in moo is becoming the dipthong ee-oo, or maybe y-oo. Now some words were always 50-50 on this ie - "tune" is sometimes t-oo-n and sometime t-y-oo-n. It just lately that it seems to be creeping into all sorts of words that were only oo sounds before. The most common one is the name of the city, Van-key-oo-ver.
"Why do so many Slashdotters always feel like the best answer to a question is "you're doing it wrong"?"
This happens everywhere on the internets where you ask a question. Ask a Microsoft support website how to do something that "should" be possible, but isn't. (Can't think of an example now) You'll get 10 answers telling you how to "work around" what you asked, and another 20 answers questioning why you or any one else would want to do this thing. What you will never ever get is even 1 person saying "Our product cannot do this thing".
At the risk of sounding like a dick, I have to say that's not even wrong. Lightning and em fields don't work that way.