I worked for a digital imaging reseller back in the early '90s. We were a Kodak agent and sold the Kodak DCS series of camera and the LEAF camera backs. The Kodaks used a standard Nikon SLR camera body. There were options for an infra-red and aerial photography filmbacks. They were fairly advanced when you think about it.
They released a DCS with burst capture and voice annotations for the '92 Olympics for sports photographers.
I still listen to commercial radio, but haven't watch live-to-air TV in I don't know how long, a number of years. We mostly consume TV shows via DVDs or downloads.
I see far more print advertisements (in the mail box, the free commuter newspaper and the local broadhseet's webpage) than any other source.
The Paranoia rulebook is unusual in a number of ways; demonstrating any knowledge of the rules is forbidden, and most of the rulebook is written in an easy, conversational tone that often makes fun of the players and their characters, while occasionally taking digs at other notable role-playing games. Source
Thus the challenge to design metrics that encourage positive behaviours. I currently work as an OLA administrator for a large IT support provider. We are in the process of reviewing our customer SLAs with a view to defining what OLAs we think will improve our customer satisfaction ratings.
While bushfires are a tragic event, they don't get a monopoly on naming conventions. Wikipedia even has a list of Black Fridays which include dates prior to the 1939 Victoria bushfires, noteably the 1881 Eyemouth disaster with a death toll more than double that of the 1939 bushfires.
Should I get pissy about Ash Wednesday? Also a day of terrible bushfires in Victoria, and one I have personal links to given I was sitting on the beach watching the fires come down the hills at Anglesea, it came within two houses of taking out my childhood home. We move on and most people associate Ash Wednesday with the Catholic holy day. That's not a bad thing.
Personally, I like to have written confirmation of instructions to minimise confusion and to have something to point at if things get off the rails. But sometimes you will get an email and have to ring the sender just to short circuit a conversation that is spiralling out of control. Communication is a two-way street, and sometimes it is much easier and faster to clarify verbally than to keep ping-ponging emails back and forth when it's obvious you are talking at cross purposes.
The trick is to write a follow up email after the phone call confirming your understanding of the conversation.
I'd prefer to put the spaghetti on the pizza. One of our local pizza delivery places does spaghetti pizza, i order it occasionally.:)
The best pizza I've ever had was pear and walnut in a sugar and cinnamon syrup. The pizza I usually order is a meat lovers with garlic and green capsicum.
Speaking of stereotypes, I know what you need - you need me to feed you Ben and Jerry's Ice cream while massaging your callused feet, building up the foreplay while we watch Law and Order and discus what pigs men are. You want to cuff me to the bed and slap me around for being the naughty boy that I am. Oh Yeah, give it to me, baby!
While I know a couple of women who roll that way, they would probably charge you extra for that kind of fantasy play.
One of the better definitions I've heard are that:
Psychopath does not understand that there are social rules of behaviour and is largely incapable of following them. They rarely correlate the likelihood of punishment with their behaviour and fear of punishment is unlikely to restrain their choices.
Sociopath clearly understands that there are social rules, but does not believe the rules apply to them. Sociopaths may comprehend that if caught they will be punished, but will often see themselves as being too smart to be caught.
Psychopaths tend to be more visible because their lack of understanding makes their anti-social behaviour more 'public' and likely to be noticed.
Sociopaths understand the rules enough that they can fly under the radar when they want to, choosing why to play nice and when to do what they want.
I don't know the answer to this, but the question is: is autism rarely diagnosed in developing countries because the suffererd are more likely to have died from other complications, such as poor nutrition, before the symptoms of autism would manifest.
I recall reading a comment somewhere some years ago that one of the reasons that we are seeing more cancers is that people are now living long enough to devlop cancer, where as previously they would have died of other causes earlier.
Back when I used to do full time IT support, I loathed getting customers who told me they were too stupid to operate their computers correctly (e.g. how to select a printer from a list, how to quit an application). What they were really saying was that they had decided they were incapable of learning.
Because they had declared themselves too stupid, it absolved them from any responsibility to try and manage things for themselves. They would come back with the same problems time and again because they didn't want to learn from their mistakes.
Some of them I could bring around with patience to teach them the basics. Some of the others... I had one client offer to fly me interstate to show his son how to select a printer in the Mac OS Chooser (back in System 7.x days).
I have a friend who paid for a very expensive MBA course and to the best of my knowledge has never used it as she has been a stay at home mother for the last 5 years.
I believe the agreement she has with her husband is that she will return to work when the youngest reaches school age, but I don't know how realistically either of them have assessed the types of roles she is likely to get after a 7 year absence from the job market in the current economy.
There has been a lot of discussion in the local broadsheet recently about homelessness and mental health issues. A significant percentage of homeless, if not the majority, are homeless due to mental helth issues. Even where housing was provided, many of them have slid back into life on the street because they have not received the medical treatment they needed to deal with life in 'modern' society.
Of those who weren't mentally ill before they got onto the street, most of the remainder now have issues, ranging from fairly obvious depression through to paranoia and schizophrenia. They also have chronic illnesses linked to poor nutrition and exposure.
Australia has a 'work for the dole' program, requiring people on unemployment benefits to attend mandatory training and make work programs or face losing their benefit. We also have a national disdain for 'dole bludgers', that is people who live on benefits without trying to get paid work. This doesn't stop people from doing it, but creates social divisions in our communities. we have families where multiple generations have never held a paid job and don't see why they should.
My personal theory is that to turn this around we need to find a way of engendering a sense of belonging in the greater community, possibly through compulsary public service of some form after finishing high school, whether it be serving in the military or working in aged care homes. Until people feel they have some investment in the community, some connection to it, they have no incentive to participate beyond picking up a cheque and saying FU to the government at every opportunity.
In return, the handicapped and the mentally ill shouldn't be living in poverty if they don't have a family who can afford to support them. They should receive the treatment they need free of stigma. The aged should have a safetynet, this will become even more critical as job security falls due to automation and job offshoring. I know my superannuation will barely cover the cost of printing the statement, largely because I've moved jobs on average every 2 years since I started working nearly 20 years ago, and the funds used to make it nearly impossible to roll them into a single account. This has improved but I still have half a dozen accounts scattered around waiting to be cleaned up.
I'm largely rambling now, but TL:DR version - making social welfare work will require a change in society values across the board, both recipeints and non-recipients.
But these problems should be cleared up when the new homeowner or tenant checks the registry and notifies his local police that the former registrant no longer lives there.
I see two small flaws with that idea;
You're assuming everyone checks to see if the previous resident of their home was a registered sex offender upon moving into a new address.
That the authorities are even allowed to take your word for it that OffenderX no longer resides at your address.
I lived in a share house for some time as a university student, and we had the sherrif's office on the door step multiple times to arrest one of the previous occupants for traffic violations. New infringement notices arrived by mail at an average rate of twice per week for the first 6 months we lived there. It was easier to let them search the house to prove he wasn't there than to get into an argument with them.
Years later, my husband and I bought a house from a guy who went bankrupt. We had months of debt collectors showing up on the doorstep after we moved in. 10 years on I still receive mail for him. Sending them back as RTS - not known at this address has done nothing to stem the tide.
See the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - the mice [1] built a computer called Deep Thought to answer 'the question' of Life, the Universe and Everything. After 7.5 million years it came up with the answer 42. Upon being challenged for the reasoning behind such a useless answer, Deep Thought responded that they didn't really know what the question was.
The mice [1] asked if Deep Thought could tell them what the question was. Apparently not, but what Deep Thought could do is design the computer that would tell them the question. That computer would be called 'The Earth'.
[1] They only looked like mice to use, there's more to the story that rodents of course.
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I worked for a digital imaging reseller back in the early '90s. We were a Kodak agent and sold the Kodak DCS series of camera and the LEAF camera backs. The Kodaks used a standard Nikon SLR camera body. There were options for an infra-red and aerial photography filmbacks. They were fairly advanced when you think about it.
They released a DCS with burst capture and voice annotations for the '92 Olympics for sports photographers.
I still listen to commercial radio, but haven't watch live-to-air TV in I don't know how long, a number of years. We mostly consume TV shows via DVDs or downloads.
I see far more print advertisements (in the mail box, the free commuter newspaper and the local broadhseet's webpage) than any other source.
The Paranoia rulebook is unusual in a number of ways; demonstrating any knowledge of the rules is forbidden, and most of the rulebook is written in an easy, conversational tone that often makes fun of the players and their characters, while occasionally taking digs at other notable role-playing games. Source
Isn't it something that occurs during office Christmas parties in the copy room?
It's linked to the following activity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh67ljIJ-_w
Rolex is a UK brand...
Thus the challenge to design metrics that encourage positive behaviours. I currently work as an OLA administrator for a large IT support provider. We are in the process of reviewing our customer SLAs with a view to defining what OLAs we think will improve our customer satisfaction ratings.
I feel dirty just saying all that.
While bushfires are a tragic event, they don't get a monopoly on naming conventions. Wikipedia even has a list of Black Fridays which include dates prior to the 1939 Victoria bushfires, noteably the 1881 Eyemouth disaster with a death toll more than double that of the 1939 bushfires.
Should I get pissy about Ash Wednesday? Also a day of terrible bushfires in Victoria, and one I have personal links to given I was sitting on the beach watching the fires come down the hills at Anglesea, it came within two houses of taking out my childhood home. We move on and most people associate Ash Wednesday with the Catholic holy day. That's not a bad thing.
This!
... from the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
Personally, I like to have written confirmation of instructions to minimise confusion and to have something to point at if things get off the rails. But sometimes you will get an email and have to ring the sender just to short circuit a conversation that is spiralling out of control. Communication is a two-way street, and sometimes it is much easier and faster to clarify verbally than to keep ping-ponging emails back and forth when it's obvious you are talking at cross purposes.
The trick is to write a follow up email after the phone call confirming your understanding of the conversation.
I'd prefer to put the spaghetti on the pizza. One of our local pizza delivery places does spaghetti pizza, i order it occasionally. :)
The best pizza I've ever had was pear and walnut in a sugar and cinnamon syrup. The pizza I usually order is a meat lovers with garlic and green capsicum.
... and this is why you can't have nice things.
I thought the whole point of SCADA was that it was dark fibre and not connected to teh ebil interwebs.
While I know a couple of women who roll that way, they would probably charge you extra for that kind of fantasy play.
Most of our friends take portable hard drives with them when visiting now to swap media of interest.
One of the better definitions I've heard are that:
Psychopath does not understand that there are social rules of behaviour and is largely incapable of following them. They rarely correlate the likelihood of punishment with their behaviour and fear of punishment is unlikely to restrain their choices.
Sociopath clearly understands that there are social rules, but does not believe the rules apply to them. Sociopaths may comprehend that if caught they will be punished, but will often see themselves as being too smart to be caught.
Psychopaths tend to be more visible because their lack of understanding makes their anti-social behaviour more 'public' and likely to be noticed.
Sociopaths understand the rules enough that they can fly under the radar when they want to, choosing why to play nice and when to do what they want.
I don't know the answer to this, but the question is: is autism rarely diagnosed in developing countries because the suffererd are more likely to have died from other complications, such as poor nutrition, before the symptoms of autism would manifest.
I recall reading a comment somewhere some years ago that one of the reasons that we are seeing more cancers is that people are now living long enough to devlop cancer, where as previously they would have died of other causes earlier.
Back when I used to do full time IT support, I loathed getting customers who told me they were too stupid to operate their computers correctly (e.g. how to select a printer from a list, how to quit an application). What they were really saying was that they had decided they were incapable of learning.
Because they had declared themselves too stupid, it absolved them from any responsibility to try and manage things for themselves. They would come back with the same problems time and again because they didn't want to learn from their mistakes.
Some of them I could bring around with patience to teach them the basics. Some of the others... I had one client offer to fly me interstate to show his son how to select a printer in the Mac OS Chooser (back in System 7.x days).
I have a friend who paid for a very expensive MBA course and to the best of my knowledge has never used it as she has been a stay at home mother for the last 5 years.
I believe the agreement she has with her husband is that she will return to work when the youngest reaches school age, but I don't know how realistically either of them have assessed the types of roles she is likely to get after a 7 year absence from the job market in the current economy.
There has been a lot of discussion in the local broadsheet recently about homelessness and mental health issues. A significant percentage of homeless, if not the majority, are homeless due to mental helth issues. Even where housing was provided, many of them have slid back into life on the street because they have not received the medical treatment they needed to deal with life in 'modern' society.
Of those who weren't mentally ill before they got onto the street, most of the remainder now have issues, ranging from fairly obvious depression through to paranoia and schizophrenia. They also have chronic illnesses linked to poor nutrition and exposure.
Australia has a 'work for the dole' program, requiring people on unemployment benefits to attend mandatory training and make work programs or face losing their benefit. We also have a national disdain for 'dole bludgers', that is people who live on benefits without trying to get paid work. This doesn't stop people from doing it, but creates social divisions in our communities. we have families where multiple generations have never held a paid job and don't see why they should.
My personal theory is that to turn this around we need to find a way of engendering a sense of belonging in the greater community, possibly through compulsary public service of some form after finishing high school, whether it be serving in the military or working in aged care homes. Until people feel they have some investment in the community, some connection to it, they have no incentive to participate beyond picking up a cheque and saying FU to the government at every opportunity.
In return, the handicapped and the mentally ill shouldn't be living in poverty if they don't have a family who can afford to support them. They should receive the treatment they need free of stigma. The aged should have a safetynet, this will become even more critical as job security falls due to automation and job offshoring. I know my superannuation will barely cover the cost of printing the statement, largely because I've moved jobs on average every 2 years since I started working nearly 20 years ago, and the funds used to make it nearly impossible to roll them into a single account. This has improved but I still have half a dozen accounts scattered around waiting to be cleaned up.
I'm largely rambling now, but TL:DR version - making social welfare work will require a change in society values across the board, both recipeints and non-recipients.
That's an unfortunate juxtaposition to a statement about use of prepsitions at the end of sentances and IQ levels...
*snort* Fortunately, I'd already put my coffee down.
I see two small flaws with that idea;
I lived in a share house for some time as a university student, and we had the sherrif's office on the door step multiple times to arrest one of the previous occupants for traffic violations. New infringement notices arrived by mail at an average rate of twice per week for the first 6 months we lived there. It was easier to let them search the house to prove he wasn't there than to get into an argument with them.
Years later, my husband and I bought a house from a guy who went bankrupt. We had months of debt collectors showing up on the doorstep after we moved in. 10 years on I still receive mail for him. Sending them back as RTS - not known at this address has done nothing to stem the tide.
I'm trying to remember, but the limitation your mentioning - didn't they apply to Borders while they were under receivership?
I think it was a way of allowing gift card holders to realise at least partial value rather than deny all of them.
See the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - the mice [1] built a computer called Deep Thought to answer 'the question' of Life, the Universe and Everything. After 7.5 million years it came up with the answer 42. Upon being challenged for the reasoning behind such a useless answer, Deep Thought responded that they didn't really know what the question was.
The mice [1] asked if Deep Thought could tell them what the question was. Apparently not, but what Deep Thought could do is design the computer that would tell them the question. That computer would be called 'The Earth'.
[1] They only looked like mice to use, there's more to the story that rodents of course.