It's great when you ask them how the weather is there,
Try asking them what their name is... really, no really. c'mon with an accent like that your name cant be 'Dave' or 'Rachael' (i get a lot of those...)
I remember seeing a doco' inside a call center that had a board with the names of the day on it... line 1=dave, line 2=sandy, line3=.... and *no* i dont believe it was the roster...
I am getting a lot of these at the moment, or just silence for about 20-30 second before someone "answers" their end. They are all from indian call centers for a range of tellicommunications companies, which i would suspect are just the same people trading under a dozen different names so they can keep calling when i tell them to bugger off...
I once got a wake up call, only to be cheerfully greeted with a "good-afternoon!", now i know this is/. but it *was* the early morning. I completly stumped the droid when i asked them "what time is where you are?" and "where the hell are you calling from anyway?". I then informed them to practice their *australian*-english a little more and try harder next time.
I really want to use the counterscript on them, but they only call when i am busy doing something, and not when i want to sit down and have a deep and meaningfull converstion with someone in another continent...
and the forward section of the shuttle itself, which is believed to have had at least part of the crew alive inside.
AFAIK the crew was only likely alive/concious for a few seconds because they had taken the "shirt sleeve environment" thingy a little too literally and became unconcious quickly due to the low pressure/oxygen. Had they been in pressure suits with a parachute then they might have had the time to open a door and bail out.
In Challenger's case the explosion did a really good job of removing the nasty fuel and bulky fusilage from around the habitable portion... so even if the crew portion just had a 'chute then they might have survived. An escape rocket only gets you away from the exploding rocket behind you. You still have to worry about "the sudden stop at the end", which is what definitively killed the crew who might have survived the intitial explosion.
I was just out shopping for some garden reticulation this morning and your post made me think of those little 4mm taps (the meters of black tubing, and the sprayer at the end... now would that be a full circle spray or a 1/4 jet you would be requiring sir?)
I think its a media muddle (I hope) because while always saying "vaccinating" the media show pictures of tamiflu which is an anti-viral they think might be effective against bird flu, but it has to be administered within 36hrs of exposure, so i dont hold any great hopes for this line of defence...
I say hope, because if the ministers think that stockpiling this drug will atually help in a pandemic they are more than likely mistaken. Sure it would work to control a small outbreak, but there is nowhere near enough of it for the entire population to take routinly while we wait for the virus to go away (if it does)
"The liquid part of the beverage has a barely acceptable berry-like flavor. The addition of the balls, however, make this a completely unpalatable beverage... It tastes like water that came out of a vase used for flowers....the balls make it even worse."... This beverage makes us sick... Stay away from this beverage... We suggest straining out the balls if you are daring enough to try this beverage..."
I dont recall it being in bottles or being that bad...
Ummm, someone does/did make a soda in a clear can. I cant remember the brand, but it had a clear, thicker and harder shell than a soft drink bottle, but it still had an opaque aluminium top. The drink was also clear, but had brightly coloured beads in it, like bubble tea, but not...
I just got a Canon A60 passed to me because of no picture on the screen... They had taken it to a repair centre and told its just busted, will cost too much to fix so buy another. I offered to take a look first, thinking oh... i wonder if the chip has come loose... My father also has a -still working- Dimage Xt (another one listed...)
Oh great... I handle ammonium nitrate and all sorts of other chemicals and go straight through... but oh my god, baby pee and I'd better limber up and hope the nice man with the gloves has small -lubricated- hands...
The local law enforcment started putting drug sniffing dogs in the major train stations here (A few places around Australia). The resulting protest had people squirting passers by (and walkways so people would walk through it) with bong water thus contaminating everyone there with dog-detectable levels of drugs...
Not that i condone drug use, but that type of attack obviously does not require all of one's brain cells...
I must look a little shady, because I *always* get 'randmonly selected' to be drug/bomb 'sniffed' at airports getting swabbed and waiting for a machine to go beep.
The thing is i work in a chemical lab and often handle ammonium nitrate (plant tissue cell culture, great ingredient for pipe bombs i am lead to believe) yet have never had the machine go haywire at me. I always mention this to the nice security guys before the test so i hope they wont shoot first if it ever does go beep beep beep beep...
Interesting point about the nitro glycerine too...
I wonder whether the reset feature is like a Furby's... Turn it upside down and stick your finger in its butt and mouth at the same time... Kind of a Furby shocker...
I'd like to kow why a culture with faster than light space ships and cars that levitate, the ability to install cybernetic limb replacements, recover from near-death hypothermia...
or throw it in reverse to cause a rear-end accident
Someone did this to my grandfather. Reversed into him at a petrol station and then tried to sue him for driving into her. The police admitted something sounded fish with her story, but wouldnt (couldnt?) act appropriately. The petrol station refused to help when *asked nicely*. It took actually asking the court to get the survalience tapes for her to drop it. I dont know if the tapes still existed at that point in time, but it didnt have to go that far...
You do realise that 90 is the speed limit and not a speed requirement..?
And i completely agree with that... but dont expect *anyone* to react nicely when you impose that upon them by doing that it the 'fast' lane, or for your own enjoyment in heavy traffic such that you cant be overtaken.
And especially when you impose your low speed suddenly, abruptly, without warning and without reason when approaching a speed camera, which you (exercising your right to drive driving slowly) would have safely passed without penalty (and i would have too). Which was my original point.
As it is so wide and thin and light, it would only flutter down,
I could try and beat you to death with a piece of unwrapped cling film, but i suspect it would only mildly annoy you. If however i was to use just a yard of it and wrap it around your head I could easily suffocate you. (not trying to get getting personal here...)
So while the impact of ribbon would be marginal, there is certainly a danger similar to "this bag is not a toy"
I would think that the most likely break points are going to be tens of kilometers up in the upper atmosphere, and at hundreds of kilometers from orbital/extraterrestrial debris. So the winder would have to work pretty reliably, and we are talking about failures here anyway, so what if it doesnt work?
from http://www.elevator2010.org/site/primer.html What happens if it breaks? The short answer is that (much like the string-and-weight example) the portion of the elevator above the break point flies outwards, whereas the portion below the break point falls down to earth. We have to remember that the whole ribbon weighs only about 1000 tons (about the same as a Saturn V rocket) and has the density and consistency of Saran Wrap, so if it falls, instead of crashing down in one place it is distributed evenly around the entire planet, with each square mile getting about an ounce of debris. The overall effect will be like a very disappointing global ticker-tape parade - hardly a ground-shattering event.
They certainly do talk this one down... You have 1000 tons of cling film falling to earth. about 60 thousand miles of it, 3 feet wide, is a billion square feet of material. That is one hell of a ticker tape parade that would cling film a city.
What about turtles/manatees/(wont somebody please think of the children!) eating this stuff...
And will it be conductive? there is ordinace designed to take out power grids in just this fashion...
the fact is that Google itself is copying and making use of the whole work.
I guess librarys do have to actually pay for the whole book they display, but i cant see libraries being a cash cow for publishers (only having one copy for thousands of users)
And like a library Google enforces the generally regarded copyright usage by limiting their users to small portions of the book. Sure you *could* defeat this, but i *could* go to a library also. And maybe i might just buy the darn book...
All Google needs to do is convince everyone that they are a library service. Even if they do operate a for-profit company, they are in the spirit of the law and not facilitating copyright breaching.
(However i remember someone posting about a library being done for copyright infringment by having a photocopier too close to books... thus enticing people to copy. I dont know if that was in jest or not.)
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It's great when you ask them how the weather is there,
Try asking them what their name is... really, no really. c'mon with an accent like that your name cant be 'Dave' or 'Rachael' (i get a lot of those...)
I remember seeing a doco' inside a call center that had a board with the names of the day on it... line 1=dave, line 2=sandy, line3=.... and *no* i dont believe it was the roster...
I am getting a lot of these at the moment, or just silence for about 20-30 second before someone "answers" their end. They are all from indian call centers for a range of tellicommunications companies, which i would suspect are just the same people trading under a dozen different names so they can keep calling when i tell them to bugger off...
/. but it *was* the early morning. I completly stumped the droid when i asked them "what time is where you are?" and "where the hell are you calling from anyway?". I then informed them to practice their *australian*-english a little more and try harder next time.
I once got a wake up call, only to be cheerfully greeted with a "good-afternoon!", now i know this is
I really want to use the counterscript on them, but they only call when i am busy doing something, and not when i want to sit down and have a deep and meaningfull converstion with someone in another continent...
... there is a 'Soviet' invasion, the lights go to 'emergency dim/flicker' and everyone cranks out the paintball guns.
and the forward section of the shuttle itself, which is believed to have had at least part of the crew alive inside.
AFAIK the crew was only likely alive/concious for a few seconds because they had taken the "shirt sleeve environment" thingy a little too literally and became unconcious quickly due to the low pressure/oxygen. Had they been in pressure suits with a parachute then they might have had the time to open a door and bail out.
In Challenger's case the explosion did a really good job of removing the nasty fuel and bulky fusilage from around the habitable portion... so even if the crew portion just had a 'chute then they might have survived. An escape rocket only gets you away from the exploding rocket behind you. You still have to worry about "the sudden stop at the end", which is what definitively killed the crew who might have survived the intitial explosion.
I was just out shopping for some garden reticulation this morning and your post made me think of those little 4mm taps (the meters of black tubing, and the sprayer at the end... now would that be a full circle spray or a 1/4 jet you would be requiring sir?)
I think its a media muddle (I hope) because while always saying "vaccinating" the media show pictures of tamiflu which is an anti-viral they think might be effective against bird flu, but it has to be administered within 36hrs of exposure, so i dont hold any great hopes for this line of defence...
I say hope, because if the ministers think that stockpiling this drug will atually help in a pandemic they are more than likely mistaken. Sure it would work to control a small outbreak, but there is nowhere near enough of it for the entire population to take routinly while we wait for the virus to go away (if it does)
Although it appears this stuff is noxious:
I dont recall it being in bottles or being that bad...
Ummm, someone does/did make a soda in a clear can. I cant remember the brand, but it had a clear, thicker and harder shell than a soft drink bottle, but it still had an opaque aluminium top. The drink was also clear, but had brightly coloured beads in it, like bubble tea, but not...
This wasnt it, but you get the idea...
bugger it, i was going to mod in this discussion, but i have to respond...
3 - How impressive would it really be to crush a see-through ARMOUR PLATED, BULLET PROOF can on your forehead?
...pretty impressive i would have to say.
Find someone who is a coder and bribe them with money/pizza/Mountain Dew/etc?
you forgot to mention women...
Ohhhh.... I though you wanted to bribe the coders with women. But yes, yes, chocolate would work in that case...
Good for 100 million uses!
Actually that would be good for 100 million individual beats...
Still, a rather resilient prophylactic.
I just got a Canon A60 passed to me because of no picture on the screen... They had taken it to a repair centre and told its just busted, will cost too much to fix so buy another. I offered to take a look first, thinking oh... i wonder if the chip has come loose... My father also has a -still working- Dimage Xt (another one listed...)
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Oh great... I handle ammonium nitrate and all sorts of other chemicals and go straight through... but oh my god, baby pee and I'd better limber up and hope the nice man with the gloves has small -lubricated- hands...
The local law enforcment started putting drug sniffing dogs in the major train stations here (A few places around Australia). The resulting protest had people squirting passers by (and walkways so people would walk through it) with bong water thus contaminating everyone there with dog-detectable levels of drugs...
Not that i condone drug use, but that type of attack obviously does not require all of one's brain cells...
I must look a little shady, because I *always* get 'randmonly selected' to be drug/bomb 'sniffed' at airports getting swabbed and waiting for a machine to go beep.
The thing is i work in a chemical lab and often handle ammonium nitrate (plant tissue cell culture, great ingredient for pipe bombs i am lead to believe) yet have never had the machine go haywire at me. I always mention this to the nice security guys before the test so i hope they wont shoot first if it ever does go beep beep beep beep...
Interesting point about the nitro glycerine too...
I wonder whether the reset feature is like a Furby's... Turn it upside down and stick your finger in its butt and mouth at the same time... Kind of a Furby shocker...
I'd like to kow why a culture with faster than light space ships and cars that levitate, the ability to install cybernetic limb replacements, recover from near-death hypothermia...
still uses swords...
or throw it in reverse to cause a rear-end accident
Someone did this to my grandfather. Reversed into him at a petrol station and then tried to sue him for driving into her. The police admitted something sounded fish with her story, but wouldnt (couldnt?) act appropriately. The petrol station refused to help when *asked nicely*. It took actually asking the court to get the survalience tapes for her to drop it. I dont know if the tapes still existed at that point in time, but it didnt have to go that far...
You do realise that 90 is the speed limit and not a speed requirement..?
And i completely agree with that... but dont expect *anyone* to react nicely when you impose that upon them by doing that it the 'fast' lane, or for your own enjoyment in heavy traffic such that you cant be overtaken.
And especially when you impose your low speed suddenly, abruptly, without warning and without reason when approaching a speed camera, which you (exercising your right to drive driving slowly) would have safely passed without penalty (and i would have too). Which was my original point.
As it is so wide and thin and light, it would only flutter down,
I could try and beat you to death with a piece of unwrapped cling film, but i suspect it would only mildly annoy you. If however i was to use just a yard of it and wrap it around your head I could easily suffocate you. (not trying to get getting personal here...)
So while the impact of ribbon would be marginal, there is certainly a danger similar to "this bag is not a toy"
I would think that the most likely break points are going to be tens of kilometers up in the upper atmosphere, and at hundreds of kilometers from orbital/extraterrestrial debris. So the winder would have to work pretty reliably, and we are talking about failures here anyway, so what if it doesnt work?
from http://www.elevator2010.org/site/primer.html
What happens if it breaks?
The short answer is that (much like the string-and-weight example) the portion of the elevator above the break point flies outwards, whereas the portion below the break point falls down to earth. We have to remember that the whole ribbon weighs only about 1000 tons (about the same as a Saturn V rocket) and has the density and consistency of Saran Wrap, so if it falls, instead of crashing down in one place it is distributed evenly around the entire planet, with each square mile getting about an ounce of debris. The overall effect will be like a very disappointing global ticker-tape parade - hardly a ground-shattering event.
They certainly do talk this one down... You have 1000 tons of cling film falling to earth. about 60 thousand miles of it, 3 feet wide, is a billion square feet of material. That is one hell of a ticker tape parade that would cling film a city.
What about turtles/manatees/(wont somebody please think of the children!) eating this stuff...
And will it be conductive? there is ordinace designed to take out power grids in just this fashion...
just thinking out loud...
and hey, the 'submit' and 'preview' buttons have swapped sides, so i almost did it again !
the fact is that Google itself is copying and making use of the whole work.
I guess librarys do have to actually pay for the whole book they display, but i cant see libraries being a cash cow for publishers (only having one copy for thousands of users)
And like a library Google enforces the generally regarded copyright usage by limiting their users to small portions of the book. Sure you *could* defeat this, but i *could* go to a library also. And maybe i might just buy the darn book...
All Google needs to do is convince everyone that they are a library service. Even if they do operate a for-profit company, they are in the spirit of the law and not facilitating copyright breaching.
(However i remember someone posting about a library being done for copyright infringment by having a photocopier too close to books... thus enticing people to copy. I dont know if that was in jest or not.)
must preview... D'OH
you might be funny, but seriously how about telling them not to cache your valuable pages?
Although your point is a little valid as it is opt-out, not opt-in. But the system is there none the less.
meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow,noarchive">
pesky opposite >
you might be funny, but seriously how about telling them not to cache your valuable pages?
Although your point is a little valid as it is opt-out, not opt-in. But the system is there none the less.