There was a recent class action settlement against eBay which I accidentally was a part of. I received a check for $1.63. $1.63!! You Ticketmaster users only got $1.50. Eat my dust!
Speaking of cursive... Have you older people noticed that modern teens no longer write in cursive at all? I heard that some schools were no longer teaching cursive writing. There's something sad about this in a Sherlock Holmes kind of way.
I have personally witnessed this happen with my former employer. Higher ups seemed to think that there was some benefit to the company "memory" or "team experience" if we almost brought a product to market. People would argue that at least we now had the experience to do this again in the future if we had to. Totally wrong. Teams were broken up and key players re-assigned. Some people left the company or moved to divisions physically remote from their former bosses. Any reports written could not be used to replicate anything useful and, to be honest, who would write a report explaining the history of an unsuccessful product? It never happens. Real knowledge is lost in a barrage of wasteful spending.
"immanentizing this monoculture eschaton"
Wow. I actually had to look this up. So I was ignorant. I sought wisdom. Now I am more educated. This is what the Slashdot effect should be.
You realize that new creatures inhabiting the the toxic lake must now be protected from anyone wishing to clean up the water. The toxic lifestyle must be preserved! My head is going to explode.
Assume for environmental reasons that you don't want to burn the docs and you want to recycle the paper. One tactic might be to scrape off the top layer of the doc so the printing is removed. Another method might be to shred the paper so that a human cannot handle the pieces for re-assembly either by making the pieces really small or by tearing the edges so they are too hairy to fit together.
Drug company strategies:
1) Drug companies should go back to inventing diseases like restless leg syndrome or pre-osteoporosis (osteopenia) instead of new drugs. It will be safer for all of us. Maybe not. 2) I have noticed the latest tactic is to get people to start taking drugs in childhood and keep them on it FOREVER.
3) Make drugs that are very expensive where you have to wait 6 months to see if they work.
4) Keep lowering the official safe cholesterol level so more people need statins.
5) My favorite innovation has to be medications that kill you if you stop taking them.
I think the same people that invent new bank fees are working on new medications.
We used to hear that American workers priced themselves out of jobs because of high wages and benefits. Now I'm hearing that we can't build a factory because there are no trained workers OR because the competing factories in China are huge and can make multiple kinds of products. You can't possible build anything like that in the US (apparently). Sigh.
But since every government attempt to do something is incompetent, you are actually doing the public a favor by preventing government agencies from accomplishing anything.
While I'm sure your tongue was firmly in cheek: "Curie died in 1934 of aplastic anemia brought on by her years of exposure to radiation."
However her husband fared better: "Pierre Curie died in a street accident in Paris on 19 April 1906. Crossing the busy Rue Dauphine in the rain at the Quai de Conti, he slipped and fell under a heavy horse drawn cart. He died instantly when one of the wheels ran over his head, fracturing his skull."
Never mind the copyright arguments. How do you prove you are not a member of some group? Do you need official papers stating all the groups you don't belong to?
My college roommate grew up on a farm in Chestertown, NY. As a result of his exposure to chickens and how they were raised, he felt they were so disgusting that he would never eat them. Your comment about the chicken hutch brought back memories.
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Exactly. The available content sucks and I'm not paying for it. After Perry Mason, Dick Van Dyke and Gunsmoke, everything went to hell!
They are amateurs compared to the real evil - Stubhub. Bribing legislators to repeal anti-scalping laws etc. Owned by eBay.
There was a recent class action settlement against eBay which I accidentally was a part of. I received a check for $1.63. $1.63!! You Ticketmaster users only got $1.50. Eat my dust!
Speaking of cursive... Have you older people noticed that modern teens no longer write in cursive at all? I heard that some schools were no longer teaching cursive writing. There's something sad about this in a Sherlock Holmes kind of way.
I have personally witnessed this happen with my former employer. Higher ups seemed to think that there was some benefit to the company "memory" or "team experience" if we almost brought a product to market. People would argue that at least we now had the experience to do this again in the future if we had to. Totally wrong. Teams were broken up and key players re-assigned. Some people left the company or moved to divisions physically remote from their former bosses. Any reports written could not be used to replicate anything useful and, to be honest, who would write a report explaining the history of an unsuccessful product? It never happens. Real knowledge is lost in a barrage of wasteful spending.
"immanentizing this monoculture eschaton"
Wow. I actually had to look this up. So I was ignorant. I sought wisdom. Now I am more educated. This is what the Slashdot effect should be.
I got better.
You realize that new creatures inhabiting the the toxic lake must now be protected from anyone wishing to clean up the water. The toxic lifestyle must be preserved! My head is going to explode.
Assume for environmental reasons that you don't want to burn the docs and you want to recycle the paper. One tactic might be to scrape off the top layer of the doc so the printing is removed. Another method might be to shred the paper so that a human cannot handle the pieces for re-assembly either by making the pieces really small or by tearing the edges so they are too hairy to fit together.
but you can't reason with a spider!!!
1) Drug companies should go back to inventing diseases like restless leg syndrome or pre-osteoporosis (osteopenia) instead of new drugs. It will be safer for all of us. Maybe not.
2) I have noticed the latest tactic is to get people to start taking drugs in childhood and keep them on it FOREVER.
3) Make drugs that are very expensive where you have to wait 6 months to see if they work.
4) Keep lowering the official safe cholesterol level so more people need statins.
5) My favorite innovation has to be medications that kill you if you stop taking them.
I think the same people that invent new bank fees are working on new medications.
And I will seek to minimize my cost by outsourcing the company management to China or India.
We used to hear that American workers priced themselves out of jobs because of high wages and benefits. Now I'm hearing that we can't build a factory because there are no trained workers OR because the competing factories in China are huge and can make multiple kinds of products. You can't possible build anything like that in the US (apparently). Sigh.
My favorite printer message (printed on paper) said, "Printer Not Available."
Why trouble yourself making fake licenses when you can get a real one!
or panda.
Personally, I believe the King carrying such a long sword clearly is a futile attempt to compensate for other shortcomings.
But since every government attempt to do something is incompetent, you are actually doing the public a favor by preventing government agencies from accomplishing anything.
Pretty soon our children will be so safe they won't know how to do anything. A risk-free world is a do-nothing world.
No. They just got it ARS backwards.
But I saved $4 billion by not using RDRAM in my home PC!
However her husband fared better: "Pierre Curie died in a street accident in Paris on 19 April 1906. Crossing the busy Rue Dauphine in the rain at the Quai de Conti, he slipped and fell under a heavy horse drawn cart. He died instantly when one of the wheels ran over his head, fracturing his skull."
How is this from Northwestern Univ. if all the author affiliations are Wuhan University?
Never mind the copyright arguments. How do you prove you are not a member of some group? Do you need official papers stating all the groups you don't belong to?
My college roommate grew up on a farm in Chestertown, NY. As a result of his exposure to chickens and how they were raised, he felt they were so disgusting that he would never eat them. Your comment about the chicken hutch brought back memories.