How about HR? HR sends out company-wide memos about policy changes.
We use e-mail for everything... and I just sent my boss an e-mail last week that used "D'oh!" in it.
Which is completely unprofessional in the case of a company-wide memo. How would you feel about receiving a memo that said, "Yo, yo, yo. All you biznatches are gonna have part of yo medical benefits taken out of yo salary! D'OH! HA, HA! You fail it!"
Speaking like an aristocrat no longer impresses anybody.
Speaking like an idiot also fails to impress anybody.
...there's a reason the Wellesley bus is called "the fuck truck."
It's probably called that mostly by the MIT girls!;)
Becker College had the same reputation when I was at WPI. The girls at WPI used to *hate* it when WPI guys would date Becker girls. The language they'd use to vilify every girl at Becker was quite amusing (i.e. "those Black and Decker Becker Pecker Wreckers"). Most of Becker girls were, however, very nice, and what usually came as a complete astonishment to many of the WPI girls was that many of the Becker girls actually had a brain. The reason they got asked out at all is not because they were easy, but because WPI's ratio was 1 to 5 at the time, and Becker girls did not usually refer to guys as "lays", which WPI girls had been known to do on more than one occasion.
The most hilarious moment, though, was when one of the WPI girls let slip something really insulting behind the back of a Becker girl my friend was dating. My friend's girlfriend just whipped around and said very calmly, "Maybe if you stopped treating guys like total shit, your next date wouldn't be plastic." Priceless. It was a Kodak moment.
The latest news is that one of the MP's stated that she (and probably) other reservists never received training on the Geneva Convention's rules on POW treatments.
Apparently it requires military training to know how to treat a human being fairly. Seems to me she should have learned it when she was a child.
The famous Iwo Jima photo was not the actual flag raising right after the battle, but a re-enactment for the camera (God I hope I'm right about that, actually)
This was just on the History Channel within the past two weeks. Yes, it's a picture of the second team that was sent to the top of the mountain. Their job was to get the original flag back for the officer that donated it for the first raising (the only flag they could find on short notice) and put a bigger flag in its place. Two photographers were assigned to the group, one to take photos and the other to make a movie of the event.
50 BMG will penetrate damn near anything and will have a nice range to boot.
Okay, I've read a couple of your responses, and you really need to check your facts before posting.
Other Sandia tests evaluated a terrorist attack, subjecting a container to a device
30 times more powerful than a typical anti-tank weapon. The test resulted in a quarter-inch-diameter hole through the primary containment wall. The NRC estimates that the hole produced by the test would have resulted in the release of less than 10 grams--one-third of an ounce-- of used fuel. The container's protective shielding would prevent a large release of radiation.
So basically, a 50 caliber projectile won't do shit to these containers.
I'd rather have a 500k carpet that ends up turning out some men who'll protect my skinny butt rather than turn the nation into a bunch of wimps.
Astroturf does not build character. More expensive equipment does not make you better players. Case in point: When I was in highschool, our track team was the best in the county even though we had the worst track (it was cinder, everyone else had rubberized). Since they've gotten the new track facility, they haven't done as well.
I fail to see the harm in having folks who aren't as educated as you and I, if that's what they've chosen for themselves.
These kids didn't choose it. A bunch of adults told them that it wasn't important to know how to read, but it is important to have astroturf.
The MIT AI lab had a pizza command years ago. I'm not going to post the entire man page, but here are some excepts from the 1991 man page. The BUGS section is especially amusing. Enjoy...
PIZZA(1) USER COMMANDS PIZZA(1)
NAME
pizza - "Hi-Fi Pizza" food-by-fax delivery orderer for the
MIT AI Lab
DESCRIPTION
Pizza is a program that allows denizens of the MIT AI Lab to
order food for delivery from "Hi-Fi Pizza" (496 Mass Ave.)
quickly and easily. Pizza saves time by automatically gen-
erating and faxing an order that includes the user's phone
and office number, and contains delivery instructions that
vary depending on whether the inner lab doors are currently
open or not. Pizza also checks to see whether Hi-Fi is
currently open for business, and warns the user if it's not.
BUGS
The delivery instructions may no longer be valid by the time
the food arrives (e.g., if Pizza is run just before 5pm).
Also, Pizza doesn't know about holidays.
The global Locations file should contain the physical loca-
tion of every machine in the lab, plus locations for lounges
and conference rooms.
It would be nice if Pizza had a variety of restaurants to
choose from.
Some of the employees at Hi-Fi don't know how to work the
fax.
If the food arrives after hours, you have to be near your
phone when the driver calls up, and you have to physically
get up and go to the elevator lobby to get the food. Also,
you have to have money to pay for the food. What a pain!
NON-COPYRIGHT
Created 1991 by Michael Frank and Mark Torrance. This
software is public domain.
IIRC, it was added rather recently (within the last 15 years), because people didn't know how to use "regardless".
Just because a word is in the dictionary, doesn't mean that its use is acceptable grammatically. For instance, the Simpson's reference, "doh", is also listed in the dictionary, but you probably shouldn't put it in a memo.
How do you know what a real terrorist will or won't do anyway?
The parent seems suspicious to me as well. I mean, look at his name - chemical symbols for two of the most dangerous substances known to man. This guy definitely needs investigation.
He had only two passwords, really: "guessit" and "secret".
I had a conversation like this once:
Him: "I need to do a pkgadd for the ATM cards. What's the root password?"
Me: "thereisnone"
Him (disbelief): There's NO root password?!?!
Me: *snicker*
Him (typing): What the? I hit return, but it didn't let me in. I thought you said there wasn't a pass... Wait a minute...
Me: *cough*
Him (typing): You greasy bastard!!!!
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If it's good enough for the DoD, Peter Gutmann, and Bruce Schneier, it's good enough for you.
Let's ask the White House about this:
Huh? Since when does the White House have a foreign host?!?Tinfoil Hat Brigade... ASSEMBLE!!!!!!!!!!
Secondary tests revealed that he doesn't have glaucoma.
(I hate that damn 100 PSI glaucoma test. You might think your dentist is sadistic. I *know* my opthamologist is a complete psycho.)
Bah! Anybody can use statistics. Research has proven that an astounding 3 out or 4 people make up 75% of the population.
Well, for one thing, the ratio is a lot better now. Oh, and they finally have a campus center.
How about HR? HR sends out company-wide memos about policy changes.
We use e-mail for everything... and I just sent my boss an e-mail last week that used "D'oh!" in it.
Which is completely unprofessional in the case of a company-wide memo. How would you feel about receiving a memo that said, "Yo, yo, yo. All you biznatches are gonna have part of yo medical benefits taken out of yo salary! D'OH! HA, HA! You fail it!"
Speaking like an aristocrat no longer impresses anybody.
Speaking like an idiot also fails to impress anybody.
It's probably called that mostly by the MIT girls! ;)
Becker College had the same reputation when I was at WPI. The girls at WPI used to *hate* it when WPI guys would date Becker girls. The language they'd use to vilify every girl at Becker was quite amusing (i.e. "those Black and Decker Becker Pecker Wreckers"). Most of Becker girls were, however, very nice, and what usually came as a complete astonishment to many of the WPI girls was that many of the Becker girls actually had a brain. The reason they got asked out at all is not because they were easy, but because WPI's ratio was 1 to 5 at the time, and Becker girls did not usually refer to guys as "lays", which WPI girls had been known to do on more than one occasion.
The most hilarious moment, though, was when one of the WPI girls let slip something really insulting behind the back of a Becker girl my friend was dating. My friend's girlfriend just whipped around and said very calmly, "Maybe if you stopped treating guys like total shit, your next date wouldn't be plastic." Priceless. It was a Kodak moment.
Two words: virtual pr0n
They were rattlesnakes, and after being lightly fried, they were delicious. Then they were eliminated some time later.
What are they going to do after they stop the vehicle? It's escorted by armed guards, and tracked by satellite.
Apparently it requires military training to know how to treat a human being fairly. Seems to me she should have learned it when she was a child.
This was just on the History Channel within the past two weeks. Yes, it's a picture of the second team that was sent to the top of the mountain. Their job was to get the original flag back for the officer that donated it for the first raising (the only flag they could find on short notice) and put a bigger flag in its place. Two photographers were assigned to the group, one to take photos and the other to make a movie of the event.
Okay, I've read a couple of your responses, and you really need to check your facts before posting.
So basically, a 50 caliber projectile won't do shit to these containers.In the Bibical sense?
and his sister's cousin
Wouldn't it just be easier to say, "his cousin"?
Astroturf does not build character. More expensive equipment does not make you better players. Case in point: When I was in highschool, our track team was the best in the county even though we had the worst track (it was cinder, everyone else had rubberized). Since they've gotten the new track facility, they haven't done as well.
I fail to see the harm in having folks who aren't as educated as you and I, if that's what they've chosen for themselves.
These kids didn't choose it. A bunch of adults told them that it wasn't important to know how to read, but it is important to have astroturf.
The MIT AI lab had a pizza command years ago. I'm not going to post the entire man page, but here are some excepts from the 1991 man page. The BUGS section is especially amusing. Enjoy...
PIZZA(1) USER COMMANDS PIZZA(1)
NAME
pizza - "Hi-Fi Pizza" food-by-fax delivery orderer for the
MIT AI Lab
SYNOPSIS
pizza [-d(ebug)] [-h(elp)] [-m(ail)] [-s(leep)] [-t(est)]
xpizza [-d(ebug)] [-h(elp)] [-m(ail)] [-n(osleep)] [-t(est)]
DESCRIPTION
Pizza is a program that allows denizens of the MIT AI Lab to
order food for delivery from "Hi-Fi Pizza" (496 Mass Ave.)
quickly and easily. Pizza saves time by automatically gen-
erating and faxing an order that includes the user's phone
and office number, and contains delivery instructions that
vary depending on whether the inner lab doors are currently
open or not. Pizza also checks to see whether Hi-Fi is
currently open for business, and warns the user if it's not.
BUGS
The delivery instructions may no longer be valid by the time
the food arrives (e.g., if Pizza is run just before 5pm).
Also, Pizza doesn't know about holidays.
The global Locations file should contain the physical loca-
tion of every machine in the lab, plus locations for lounges
and conference rooms.
It would be nice if Pizza had a variety of restaurants to
choose from.
Some of the employees at Hi-Fi don't know how to work the
fax.
If the food arrives after hours, you have to be near your
phone when the driver calls up, and you have to physically
get up and go to the elevator lobby to get the food. Also,
you have to have money to pay for the food. What a pain!
NON-COPYRIGHT
Created 1991 by Michael Frank and Mark Torrance. This
software is public domain.
No they didn't. Jimmy Page was very careful about getting exactly the sound that the group wanted on the albums.
But really, why are you still buying their albums? Are they still releasing them?!
Yes, last year they had two releases:
IIRC, it was added rather recently (within the last 15 years), because people didn't know how to use "regardless".
Just because a word is in the dictionary, doesn't mean that its use is acceptable grammatically. For instance, the Simpson's reference, "doh", is also listed in the dictionary, but you probably shouldn't put it in a memo.
The parent seems suspicious to me as well. I mean, look at his name - chemical symbols for two of the most dangerous substances known to man. This guy definitely needs investigation.
I had a conversation like this once:
Him: "I need to do a pkgadd for the ATM cards. What's the root password?"
Me: "thereisnone"
Him (disbelief): There's NO root password?!?!
Me: *snicker*
Him (typing): What the? I hit return, but it didn't let me in. I thought you said there wasn't a pass... Wait a minute...
Me: *cough*
Him (typing): You greasy bastard!!!!
I use the name of my cat as a password. Her name is "qzX184v.sdR19", but I change it monthly. She's so confused.
Well, it's time to update the authentication token again. Here kitty, kitty...
OMG! You're an "else cuddler". That's just not right! :)
Same rule applies. If you have to trace through a bunch of methods, it's time to refactor, because something has gone wrong.