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Actually I found it incredibly annoying. If they only had size attributes on the image it would've been a lot better. Unfortunately almost every time I went to an article and tried to follow a link before the image loaded I ended up clicking on something else as the browser moved the page down...
Yeah, those things. But I really enjoyed mine as a kid, I had at least a dozen reels or so for it and watched them over and over... I think my collection is still in a Snoopy lunchbox in storage in my hometown...
Now if both parties end up doing this sort of thing to each other, elections will end up being the worst candidates that neither party really wanted and things would be worse.
...the way to get out of a parking spot is to ram the cars in front and behind of you until you have space to pull out....
Someone did that the other day here in Brooklyn, New York. Probably more often, but when I stepped off the curb to cross the street, with a walk signal telling me to go, I got hit by the car that got rammed from the other side.
I wasn't expecting that. I'd already checked to see no one was in the car before I walked behind it... Fortunately I was surprised a lot more than hurt.
What if you're in India and there's no line at all? Just a huge mass of people crowding against the service counter shouting for what they want, over and over till the clerk serves them. All while more people are pushing and shoving and yelling...
As an American, used to neat, orderly queues, waiting to make eye contact with the clerk, I end up waiting a long, long time...
Or at some of the big department stores there... Each checkout has a separate line going to cashier, but once you're finished, your goods are in bags and you've paid, the exit isn't ahead, you then have to turn around and go back through the line to exit at the same entrance, all while people in the line are pushing and shoving and trying to cut in front of one another...
I'm sure glad I'm back in the U.S. again this year...
When I was in second grade my best friend and I enjoyed studying mathematics. At one point we'd worked many pages ahead in the class's math workbook, and had fun.
But then Mrs. Cooper, our teacher found out. We got in trouble and had to go stand out in the hallway, and then after eating our lunch stand up with the other troublemakers against the wall instead of getting to go out and play.
Well, I learned my lesson from that. Don't get ahead in math!
Maybe they should just have the exams spoken aloud. That way there won't be any controversy about spell checkers. If words sound the same, they can swap them any way they see fit.
..While I personally agree this is a bad thing, a lot of non-geeks don't appear to agree. Heck, I've even got geek friends who obviously don't care about being tracked...
I don't see what being a geek or non-geek has to do with it. I'd consider myself a geek and I think it's fun to have all those location updates when I'm out and about (especially if I can find something whitty to say about the places I go).
The difference, though, is as a geek, I at least understand what I'm sharing.
The first company I worked for was a small software company and the dress code only listed what the men could and couldn't wear (shirts & ties every day, no jeans, the only loophole I could find was no mention of shoes, so I wore my Converse high tops with my suit...). I asked the boss how come it was only for men and since there was only one woman working there he said "Angie already knows how to dress."
Our boss, who enforced the dress code in the office spent two to three weeks a month at our biggest client's office out of state. The client had casual Fridays and the boss would tell us on the phone how nice it was not to dress up every day while he was there, but still wouldn't relent and let us dress casual on Fridays in our own office.
The dress code was based on the philosophy "you have to dress like an accounting to write accounting software." The next company where I worked the accounting department mostly came to work in tie dye and Birkenstock sandals, and according to someone, were out smoking dope in the parking lot during their lunch breaks...
Actually, I could use something like that... I live in the Sunset Park neighborhood in Brooklyn and for a few blocks in every direction nearly everything is in Spanish. Most of the shops have names in Spanish, packages inside are often Spanish... And I don't read Spanish...
The pope has been found to be catholic, birds fly, fish swim and bears defecate in woods.
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While I don't know about the pope, but there's birds that swim, fish that fly, bears that defecate outside the woods and other things that defecate in the woods...
Nooo... After living in Pune, India for ten years, I've just moved to New York City, and snow is one of the things I'm really looking forward to. I miss cold winters! And so far, it's been sandal weather since I got here three months ago...
I'm sure some writers probably said (and probably still do) the same thing about switching from typewriters to word processors... Or pens to typewriters... Things'll change...
A shrink-wrapped software company I used to work for (and is long out of business) had a big poster on the wall of the office from the SPA with "Don't Copy that Floppy" on it.
...he does not believe the incentives would violate the principle of church-state separation because the 14-year-old tax incentives law wasn’t approved for the purpose of benefiting the Ark Encounter
Huh? Does that mean we can violate laws if they weren't specifically meant for benefit of what we're doing?
When I flew to India they had just as much (and more) security. The actual threat of a bomb was much greater but they probably had 1/3rd as many workers and numerous faster checkpoints. In America there is 1 'do or die' scanner and then another check for a ticket at the gate.
In India they won't even let you in the building unless your flight leaves within the next 3 hours, don't bother showing up early. Every door is staffed by military. Full gun and uniform, you don't get into the building unless you have a ticket. (Sorry hopeless romantics). Then there is the main body/carry-on scanner. Your carry on gets a tag stamped. You get passed through. But you're still in Purgatory. You have to got through another scanner / ticket check to get out to the gates. Then at the gate they check for the carry-on stamp & ticket.
TSA is a joke, there are better methods out there implemented by countries where terrorism is a REAL threat (Israel, India, etc).
Is this the same India I've been flying in and out of the last few years? Okay, yeah, the military uniforms, sure... But you make it sound like they're totally competent or something.
I've almost always showed up more than three hours early for my flight, just to be prepared for the slow, chaotic crawl through the first security checkpoint after getting out of Immigration, where everyone's going every which way and the soldiers operating it go slow and hardly pay enough attention to passengers to get them through quickly, because they're all too busy chit-chatting with each other.
Then, of course, you get through the security checkpoint and there's construction inside the terminal where workers leave their wire cutters, knives, torches and other tools, many listed on the signs that say they're not allowed by passengers, just lying around while they go for a tea break, no one supervising or anything...
True, the screeners as you get closer and closer to the airplane seem a bit more competent, but they usually don't check bags, only do the metal detector wand on the passengers and sometimes a manual paw through the bags. They are faster, though, and pay more attention to the passengers.
Cargo ships are the most efficient way, from a fuel and CO2 perspective, to move a given mass of freight (even more than trains), at nearly 500 miles per gallon per ton.
Yeah, especially where they travel. I'll bet a train wouldn't be anywhere near as efficient in open water.
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The non-invasive banner ad at the top was too much for you? Or was it the begging?
Actually I found it incredibly annoying. If they only had size attributes on the image it would've been a lot better. Unfortunately almost every time I went to an article and tried to follow a link before the image loaded I ended up clicking on something else as the browser moved the page down...
Yeah, those things. But I really enjoyed mine as a kid, I had at least a dozen reels or so for it and watched them over and over... I think my collection is still in a Snoopy lunchbox in storage in my hometown...
Now if both parties end up doing this sort of thing to each other, elections will end up being the worst candidates that neither party really wanted and things would be worse.
With all this controversy about 3-D and vision, what about kids growing up watching stories on their View-Masters?
When I first got email in the late 1800s there were no junk filters.
Did you get it by telegraph?
...the way to get out of a parking spot is to ram the cars in front and behind of you until you have space to pull out....
Someone did that the other day here in Brooklyn, New York. Probably more often, but when I stepped off the curb to cross the street, with a walk signal telling me to go, I got hit by the car that got rammed from the other side.
I wasn't expecting that. I'd already checked to see no one was in the car before I walked behind it... Fortunately I was surprised a lot more than hurt.
What if you're in India and there's no line at all? Just a huge mass of people crowding against the service counter shouting for what they want, over and over till the clerk serves them. All while more people are pushing and shoving and yelling...
As an American, used to neat, orderly queues, waiting to make eye contact with the clerk, I end up waiting a long, long time...
Or at some of the big department stores there... Each checkout has a separate line going to cashier, but once you're finished, your goods are in bags and you've paid, the exit isn't ahead, you then have to turn around and go back through the line to exit at the same entrance, all while people in the line are pushing and shoving and trying to cut in front of one another...
I'm sure glad I'm back in the U.S. again this year...
When I was in second grade my best friend and I enjoyed studying mathematics. At one point we'd worked many pages ahead in the class's math workbook, and had fun.
But then Mrs. Cooper, our teacher found out. We got in trouble and had to go stand out in the hallway, and then after eating our lunch stand up with the other troublemakers against the wall instead of getting to go out and play.
Well, I learned my lesson from that. Don't get ahead in math!
Maybe they should just have the exams spoken aloud. That way there won't be any controversy about spell checkers. If words sound the same, they can swap them any way they see fit.
..While I personally agree this is a bad thing, a lot of non-geeks don't appear to agree. Heck, I've even got geek friends who obviously don't care about being tracked...
I don't see what being a geek or non-geek has to do with it. I'd consider myself a geek and I think it's fun to have all those location updates when I'm out and about (especially if I can find something whitty to say about the places I go).
The difference, though, is as a geek, I at least understand what I'm sharing.
Some packets are more equal than others.
sex game for the Xbox 360 console ... Xbox is a family friendly games and entertainment console
But isn't that how couples become families? That should be the ultimate in "family friendly."
The first company I worked for was a small software company and the dress code only listed what the men could and couldn't wear (shirts & ties every day, no jeans, the only loophole I could find was no mention of shoes, so I wore my Converse high tops with my suit...). I asked the boss how come it was only for men and since there was only one woman working there he said "Angie already knows how to dress."
Our boss, who enforced the dress code in the office spent two to three weeks a month at our biggest client's office out of state. The client had casual Fridays and the boss would tell us on the phone how nice it was not to dress up every day while he was there, but still wouldn't relent and let us dress casual on Fridays in our own office.
The dress code was based on the philosophy "you have to dress like an accounting to write accounting software." The next company where I worked the accounting department mostly came to work in tie dye and Birkenstock sandals, and according to someone, were out smoking dope in the parking lot during their lunch breaks...
Actually, I could use something like that... I live in the Sunset Park neighborhood in Brooklyn and for a few blocks in every direction nearly everything is in Spanish. Most of the shops have names in Spanish, packages inside are often Spanish... And I don't read Spanish...
I guess it's somewhat related to Moore's law... As the tools we work with get a greater capacity in a small space, so do we.
The pope has been found to be catholic, birds fly, fish swim and bears defecate in woods.
quote>
While I don't know about the pope, but there's birds that swim, fish that fly, bears that defecate outside the woods and other things that defecate in the woods...
"People are probably comfortable with having a single value for the atomic weight, but that is not the reality for our natural world"
They didn't consult Karl Rove for this, did they?
Nooo... After living in Pune, India for ten years, I've just moved to New York City, and snow is one of the things I'm really looking forward to. I miss cold winters! And so far, it's been sandal weather since I got here three months ago...
And that is one truly titanic feast table for a microbe...
Well, it's not like it was going to sail again... So, it's the natural order of things, no great loss...
I'm sure some writers probably said (and probably still do) the same thing about switching from typewriters to word processors... Or pens to typewriters... Things'll change...
A shrink-wrapped software company I used to work for (and is long out of business) had a big poster on the wall of the office from the SPA with "Don't Copy that Floppy" on it.
...he does not believe the incentives would violate the principle of church-state separation because the 14-year-old tax incentives law wasn’t approved for the purpose of benefiting the Ark Encounter
Huh? Does that mean we can violate laws if they weren't specifically meant for benefit of what we're doing?
When I flew to India they had just as much (and more) security. The actual threat of a bomb was much greater but they probably had 1/3rd as many workers and numerous faster checkpoints. In America there is 1 'do or die' scanner and then another check for a ticket at the gate.
In India they won't even let you in the building unless your flight leaves within the next 3 hours, don't bother showing up early. Every door is staffed by military. Full gun and uniform, you don't get into the building unless you have a ticket. (Sorry hopeless romantics). Then there is the main body/carry-on scanner. Your carry on gets a tag stamped. You get passed through. But you're still in Purgatory. You have to got through another scanner / ticket check to get out to the gates. Then at the gate they check for the carry-on stamp & ticket.
TSA is a joke, there are better methods out there implemented by countries where terrorism is a REAL threat (Israel, India, etc).
Is this the same India I've been flying in and out of the last few years? Okay, yeah, the military uniforms, sure... But you make it sound like they're totally competent or something.
I've almost always showed up more than three hours early for my flight, just to be prepared for the slow, chaotic crawl through the first security checkpoint after getting out of Immigration, where everyone's going every which way and the soldiers operating it go slow and hardly pay enough attention to passengers to get them through quickly, because they're all too busy chit-chatting with each other.
Then, of course, you get through the security checkpoint and there's construction inside the terminal where workers leave their wire cutters, knives, torches and other tools, many listed on the signs that say they're not allowed by passengers, just lying around while they go for a tea break, no one supervising or anything...
True, the screeners as you get closer and closer to the airplane seem a bit more competent, but they usually don't check bags, only do the metal detector wand on the passengers and sometimes a manual paw through the bags. They are faster, though, and pay more attention to the passengers.
Cargo ships are the most efficient way, from a fuel and CO2 perspective, to move a given mass of freight (even more than trains), at nearly 500 miles per gallon per ton.
Yeah, especially where they travel. I'll bet a train wouldn't be anywhere near as efficient in open water.