I see your point, but I also wonder if the public has a right to see through the false smiles and disingenuous handshaking that is the norm in global relations. This facade of politeness obfuscates what is really happening in the world, and we then expect the democratic masses to form their opinions and choices... based upon a series of charades? I have to say, that is a concept I am equally uncomfortable with.
As someone who used to work for UPS years ago, my rule of thumb for friends and family was "If you're not comfortable drop kicking your (small) package across the room, or pushing your (large) package down the stairs, it's not ready to ship."
I worked for UPS a long time ago, and one time someone shipped something that worked quite well as a spear. It was maybe a foot long and looked like a giant screw-eye hook. Must have weighed 30 pounds. My co-worker javelin-hurled it at a bunch of packages. It punched a giant hole in the side of something. We all laughed because we were young and stupid.
Surely it's not the workers, because when Big'n'Big Co pulls up their tent pegs and moves shop, all the workers are suddenly unemployed.
It's probably not the consumer, because when Big'n'Big Co finds a way to half their cost of production, it's not guaranteed to drive prices down. Why bother cutting prices and taking a bigger market share when you can just shovel up a pile of cash big enough to buy your competitors (or a controlling interest in their stock)? Hell, why not just collude with your competitors to keep prices artificially inflated - then everyone's happy!
Surely then, it is the desperate - those poor starving people in $Third_World_Nation who desperately need employment of any sort. Except that, after their standard of living starts to rise, Big'n'Big Co just moves on to the next shithole and leaves the desperate unemployed too.
Well fuck, if it's not the middle class or the lower class, who the hell is left? Oh, right, the bourgeois. Well, as long as they're doing all right, everything is just peachy! Hurray for Capitalism!:P
That's not entirely true. You could avoid Castrol products, as they're owned by BP. Unfortunately I don't think their commercial sales are nearly as important as their industrial ones. Ah well.
Of course we're skeptics! Every year we hear about this crazy bastard flying around in a sleigh all night. Any sane Canuck knows that, during winter, you get your shit done during the two and a half hours of daylight in the afternoon. After that you stay the hell inside because its fucking cold! We just wanna meet the guy so we can tell him he's got everything ass backwards. He must be an American.;)
Solution: Don't like the dogs? Walk through the scanner and get some creepy TSA guy to fondle your junk.
Speaking of which, where's the Muslim outrage at these scanners seeing through the burka (etc). I thought women weren't supposed to reveal their figures to anyone outside of their home?
And lastly, isn't there some kind of exception in these Abrahamic holy texts specifically for working dogs? AFAIK dogs have been used for farming and herding all over the world by all religions and cultures. In fact, I recently saw a documentary (on dogs) that claimed it was the advent of the working dog that ushered in the age of agriculture. Essentially, all of human civilization owes its origins to the relationship between man and dog. Surely these religions could make exceptions to bomb-dogs (as working dogs) just as they would for a herding dog or assistance dog.
It's not just you. I haven't touched my Wii in months. I haven't purchased a new game for it in over a year. The Wii is drowning in shovelware and it's pushed the "traditional" market far, far away. That's ok though, because the casual market is proving more than enough hookers and blow for Nintendo's shareholders. I can only hope that, come next generation, this somehow bites Nintendo in the ass... and hard.
I use a phone, usually. For calling and texting people, I mean. The things we used to use phones for, before this all-I-use-my-phone-for-is-facebook-and-twitter crap. But i'm old school like that.:>
Try being a Canadian. We're caught between you guys and the rest of the world. So while my drivers license has my height in metres and my weight in kilograms, I honestly can't think of anyone (myself included) who uses those units in real life. When the newscasts give reports on a person of interest, it's always given in feet and pounds, because most people have no clue what a 1.75m, 80kg man looks like (but they can quite quickly imagine someone 5 foot 9, 176lbs). Yet small measurements of weight (for example, at any grocery store i've ever seen in Canada) are typically in grams or kilograms. Speed and distance are usually given in kilometres (/per hour), but older and/or rural folk still use miles because the entire township/rangeroad grid is still based on miles. So you have to know that driving 6 miles down the road is going to read as 10km on your odometer. But go to the drag strip and trap speeds are all given in mph. Volume is usually in litres, but due to the US being our largest trading partner, many industries still use gallons too (especially in bulk). When I worked for an oil distributor this was always something we had to watch out for, because our holding tanks were marked in litres, but everything we ordered from the US came in gallons. It was an important concept to understand when trying to calculate how many 20,000 gallon rail-cars of oil were needed to fill three 50,000 litre storage tanks. Oh and temperatures are mostly in celcius, but a good portion of the population (especially older people) have something of a working knowledge of fahrenheit. Typically, people know room temperature is about 72 (~23C) and that anything over 100 is "damn hot" (38C), usually from/for travel. Interestingly, one of the places this all gets REALLY frustrating is in cooking. While I just stated that temperature is usually in celcius, almost everyone I know gives oven temperatures in fahrenheit, which is funny because cooking always sounds really-really-hot: a 300 degree oven sounds like a LOT, but in celcius its only 150 - actually fairly cold to cook with. This is because so much of our media (like cooking shows, books, magazines, etc) is shared. Yet so few of our small measurements are, so many recipes are given in units people don't always have a lot of experience with. I cannot count how many times i've been at the grocery store looking for an 8fl-oz can of something, and I have to stand there and scratch my head to rough it in mililitres. Oh, and a quarter-pounder here is still a quarter-pounder - come to think of it, all the burger commercials i've ever seen have been in pounds. So much for small measurements in kilo/grams.
Anyways, the TLDR version is that Canada has the most screwed up measurement conventions of any country on the planet, hands down. The day the US switches to metric will be a very, very happy one for all Canadians. Not that i'm holding my breath.;)
Yeah, I thought this was common knowledge. I mean, who HASN'T experienced a severe homicidal urge while trying to plug a USB connection into the backside of some device?
"Does it go... this way? Nope, lets try the other... no that's not it, maybe the first time was right... well.. no, no I think it IS upside down, hang on... oh fuck, I dropped it! I swear to god if I meet the motherfucker who designed this piece of shit i'm gonna rip his fucking... wait, I GOT IT! Oh thank god! Now, no one touch it, or I will strangle you with the cord and then use it to hang your corpse from a tree. Seriously."
Why would they be? I don't think they've ever advocated assault, genocide, or unfair treatment of a specific group of people. "Hate speech" isn't the same thing as having an opinion (no matter how ignorant it may be).
Hrm, my Sony Ericsson T715a has a proprietary plug, and it's only a year and a half old. Mind you, it's "just a dumbphone." Oh well, it's still one of my all-time favorite phones.
Cute, but I still think my home security system is better. Unlike a robot with a camera, mine will actually scare a burglar away.
Plus, she's warm and cuddly in the winter and is almost trained to fetch a beer for me. If only beer came in plastic bottles (she doesn't like the glass, and aluminum is too thin), i'd be set!:)
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I see your point, but I also wonder if the public has a right to see through the false smiles and disingenuous handshaking that is the norm in global relations. This facade of politeness obfuscates what is really happening in the world, and we then expect the democratic masses to form their opinions and choices... based upon a series of charades?
I have to say, that is a concept I am equally uncomfortable with.
When I worked for them, we always called ourselves "Ur Package... Somewhere?"
As someone who used to work for UPS years ago, my rule of thumb for friends and family was "If you're not comfortable drop kicking your (small) package across the room, or pushing your (large) package down the stairs, it's not ready to ship."
I worked for UPS a long time ago, and one time someone shipped something that worked quite well as a spear. It was maybe a foot long and looked like a giant screw-eye hook. Must have weighed 30 pounds. My co-worker javelin-hurled it at a bunch of packages. It punched a giant hole in the side of something. We all laughed because we were young and stupid.
According to whom?
Surely it's not the workers, because when Big'n'Big Co pulls up their tent pegs and moves shop, all the workers are suddenly unemployed.
It's probably not the consumer, because when Big'n'Big Co finds a way to half their cost of production, it's not guaranteed to drive prices down. Why bother cutting prices and taking a bigger market share when you can just shovel up a pile of cash big enough to buy your competitors (or a controlling interest in their stock)? Hell, why not just collude with your competitors to keep prices artificially inflated - then everyone's happy!
Surely then, it is the desperate - those poor starving people in $Third_World_Nation who desperately need employment of any sort. Except that, after their standard of living starts to rise, Big'n'Big Co just moves on to the next shithole and leaves the desperate unemployed too.
Well fuck, if it's not the middle class or the lower class, who the hell is left? :P
Oh, right, the bourgeois. Well, as long as they're doing all right, everything is just peachy! Hurray for Capitalism!
You mean deficit. Debt is bad.
Hrm, I always thought planes went: "Nnnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrowwwwwwwwwwwwmmmmmmmmmmmmm"
Have I really been doing it wrong for 20 plus years?! My world is shattered! :*(
That's not entirely true. You could avoid Castrol products, as they're owned by BP. Unfortunately I don't think their commercial sales are nearly as important as their industrial ones. Ah well.
Of course we're skeptics! Every year we hear about this crazy bastard flying around in a sleigh all night. Any sane Canuck knows that, during winter, you get your shit done during the two and a half hours of daylight in the afternoon. After that you stay the hell inside because its fucking cold! We just wanna meet the guy so we can tell him he's got everything ass backwards. He must be an American. ;)
Solution: Don't like the dogs? Walk through the scanner and get some creepy TSA guy to fondle your junk.
Speaking of which, where's the Muslim outrage at these scanners seeing through the burka (etc). I thought women weren't supposed to reveal their figures to anyone outside of their home?
And lastly, isn't there some kind of exception in these Abrahamic holy texts specifically for working dogs? AFAIK dogs have been used for farming and herding all over the world by all religions and cultures. In fact, I recently saw a documentary (on dogs) that claimed it was the advent of the working dog that ushered in the age of agriculture. Essentially, all of human civilization owes its origins to the relationship between man and dog. Surely these religions could make exceptions to bomb-dogs (as working dogs) just as they would for a herding dog or assistance dog.
It's not just you. I haven't touched my Wii in months. I haven't purchased a new game for it in over a year. The Wii is drowning in shovelware and it's pushed the "traditional" market far, far away. That's ok though, because the casual market is proving more than enough hookers and blow for Nintendo's shareholders. I can only hope that, come next generation, this somehow bites Nintendo in the ass... and hard.
B-b-b-but how am I supposed to get on teh intertubes at school? :(
Yeah, I mean who doesn't know about ctrl+z? ;P
I use a phone, usually. For calling and texting people, I mean. The things we used to use phones for, before this all-I-use-my-phone-for-is-facebook-and-twitter crap. :>
But i'm old school like that.
Try being a Canadian. We're caught between you guys and the rest of the world. So while my drivers license has my height in metres and my weight in kilograms, I honestly can't think of anyone (myself included) who uses those units in real life. When the newscasts give reports on a person of interest, it's always given in feet and pounds, because most people have no clue what a 1.75m, 80kg man looks like (but they can quite quickly imagine someone 5 foot 9, 176lbs). Yet small measurements of weight (for example, at any grocery store i've ever seen in Canada) are typically in grams or kilograms. Speed and distance are usually given in kilometres (/per hour), but older and/or rural folk still use miles because the entire township/rangeroad grid is still based on miles. So you have to know that driving 6 miles down the road is going to read as 10km on your odometer. But go to the drag strip and trap speeds are all given in mph. Volume is usually in litres, but due to the US being our largest trading partner, many industries still use gallons too (especially in bulk). When I worked for an oil distributor this was always something we had to watch out for, because our holding tanks were marked in litres, but everything we ordered from the US came in gallons. It was an important concept to understand when trying to calculate how many 20,000 gallon rail-cars of oil were needed to fill three 50,000 litre storage tanks. Oh and temperatures are mostly in celcius, but a good portion of the population (especially older people) have something of a working knowledge of fahrenheit. Typically, people know room temperature is about 72 (~23C) and that anything over 100 is "damn hot" (38C), usually from/for travel. Interestingly, one of the places this all gets REALLY frustrating is in cooking. While I just stated that temperature is usually in celcius, almost everyone I know gives oven temperatures in fahrenheit, which is funny because cooking always sounds really-really-hot: a 300 degree oven sounds like a LOT, but in celcius its only 150 - actually fairly cold to cook with. This is because so much of our media (like cooking shows, books, magazines, etc) is shared. Yet so few of our small measurements are, so many recipes are given in units people don't always have a lot of experience with. I cannot count how many times i've been at the grocery store looking for an 8fl-oz can of something, and I have to stand there and scratch my head to rough it in mililitres. Oh, and a quarter-pounder here is still a quarter-pounder - come to think of it, all the burger commercials i've ever seen have been in pounds. So much for small measurements in kilo/grams.
Anyways, the TLDR version is that Canada has the most screwed up measurement conventions of any country on the planet, hands down. ;)
The day the US switches to metric will be a very, very happy one for all Canadians. Not that i'm holding my breath.
I believe that's supposed to be written...
"Cap-tin Jean-Luc-Pic-ard ofthe U-S-S En-ter-prise" /technobeat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN6pJ7nP1yA
Yeah, I thought this was common knowledge. I mean, who HASN'T experienced a severe homicidal urge while trying to plug a USB connection into the backside of some device?
"Does it go... this way? Nope, lets try the other... no that's not it, maybe the first time was right... well.. no, no I think it IS upside down, hang on... oh fuck, I dropped it! I swear to god if I meet the motherfucker who designed this piece of shit i'm gonna rip his fucking... wait, I GOT IT! Oh thank god! Now, no one touch it, or I will strangle you with the cord and then use it to hang your corpse from a tree. Seriously."
Well, maybe it's just me.
Why would they be? I don't think they've ever advocated assault, genocide, or unfair treatment of a specific group of people. "Hate speech" isn't the same thing as having an opinion (no matter how ignorant it may be).
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IsMyScanHotOrNot.com
etc.
Better go register them quick!
It's ok, it doesn't appear to be his mother tongue either. ;)
Why am I suddenly reminded of this t-shirt? :)
Hrm, my Sony Ericsson T715a has a proprietary plug, and it's only a year and a half old. Mind you, it's "just a dumbphone."
Oh well, it's still one of my all-time favorite phones.
Cute, but I still think my home security system is better. Unlike a robot with a camera, mine will actually scare a burglar away.
Plus, she's warm and cuddly in the winter and is almost trained to fetch a beer for me. If only beer came in plastic bottles (she doesn't like the glass, and aluminum is too thin), i'd be set! :)
I have $4.88 CAD in my pocket, can I get in on the bidding?