Its even worste than that, the article mentions "teen and 20-something employees", its not even fresh out of college, its fresh out of high school.
I'm pretty fresh out of Uni myself and well I am spoiled compared to most of my friends that took the arts. I don't have a company car or an attractive secretary to take to Hawaii, but I do have a company mobile phone, new labtop ever six months, waterfront window shared office, medical, dental and life insurance. Most of friends don't have any of that, but then again I work about 20 hours a week more then them, so its about even.
Up here in Canada we have an easy system. It has worked for over 125 years. Here you put a Pine Cone in a box if you want the man currently in power to stay and a piece of Birch Bark if you want to vote for the opponent.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GuyfmvnwoG8&feature=related
Wow, sounds like my rules for picking up women, only insert "pretend to " before both statements. So its
1) Pretend to Remember names!
2) Pretend to Be genuinely interested in other people. Everyone has something interesting about them. Figure out what it is and then let them talk about it. Remember, whoever talks most in a conversation is generally going to think it was a good conversation.
I too a big fan of having CDs/records. The problem is in the city that I live in (pop ~100k) its becoming increasingly hard to buy anything I want. The one big record store in town has started selling electronics and now has 1/10th of the music it had five years ago. All the mall record stores here now have five times as many DVD's as CD's.
A friend and I use to go out almost every Tuesday and buy one or two new releases. In the last year in about fifteen tries I have only been successful in finding the album I wanted twice. The record stores here just aren't bringing in anything except top 40 albums.
Its no excuse, but most of the time I will have already downloaded the music I like months before its release and so if I can't get a physical copy, unless I really like it I'm not going to buy it from iTunes. Don't get me wrong I still buy a fair amount of CD's and Vinyl from the Internet, but nowhere near as much I did before, or would now if I could walk down the street and buy it.
From where I am sitting right now I can see 13 wireless networks. Of those six (46%) are unsecured and five (38%) have what I believe to default names (linksys, default, DLinkVWR, DLinkWBR, NETGEAR). That doesn't include hidden points. Its too lazy to Google the default passwords and check if the access points are changed but I'd doubt it.
The easiest way to keep your New Years Resolutions are to start with a non issue. If you already go to the gym three days a week, make your resolution to get in shape. If you are 20 lbs underweight then make your resolution to not not get fat.
I can relate to the post it notes on the screen. I have made for my tv two special paper cutout to cover the "ticker" and the space where scores pop up without notice. I watch alot of sports and I don't want to know other scores. I've never understood why so many stations will flash the score on screen without notice of a game they themselves are timeshifting directly after the current one.
I haven't had much luck searching for people on google. Its just too hard to find info on the right firstname lastname. Using facebook to find out about people is far easier. Even if you only have a first name and know they are local it is fast. I do it all the time. After I meet a girl at the bar, I'll always look her up on facebook before I call her up. It works both ways though, and can be pretty scary sometimes. I went out on a date with a girl last month and she knew everything about me. I was very weird... a real turn off. So I would advise anyone to keep their facebook/google intellegence quiet.
I use to buy a fair amount of CD singles. Not to avoid buying the entire album, but to get the b-sides and to collect. They were really expensive, something like $5-8 each. I haven't bought one in a long time, mostly because the 'big' record store in the city I live in starting selling electronics too, and now was about a tenth of music selection it had five years ago.
My local land line company is almost as bad with all the add on crap they sell. Call Display, Caller Reveal, Voice Mail, Voicemail Plus, Call Waiting, Call waiting plus, Call Forwarding, Smart Ring, Anonymous caller ID, Call gate, Call Screen, Talking Call Waiting, Internet Call Director, Long Distance 200, Long Distance Saver, Long Distance Saver Plus, etc...
Still their basic phone rate is around the same as Vonage with unlimited long distance.
It is a little bit silly. I can see the iMac, if you needed a new family computer anyways. I think my parents got my siblings and I an Apple II back in the day for Christmas.
What I really hate is all these ads on TV about giving a Mobile Phone as a Christmas gift. A gift with a contract... its as bad as a pet.
I wonder what the law would say about honestly not knowing the passphrase. For instance if you had a very long and difficult passphrase written on a piece of paper that if my data was compromised I'd eat, burn or otherwise dispose of. What could the law do? Not that I break any laws except jaywalking, just wondering.
Yah the Lupo was an amazing car. It isn't made anymore though, it was replaced by the VW Fox. Which doesn't have the same mileage: Urban 36.2 mpg, Extra Urban 55.4 mpg, Combined 46.3 mpg. Volkswagen makes an even smaller car for the south American market, called the Gol.
Its crashed and burned when they tried to redo it stateside, but I think Coupling would do really well here. Its so funny. Hell air Footballers Wives in the Desperate Housewives time slot, and see I'd would think it would be a mini hit. Little Britain might be the first as the show is moving over now anyways.
...Bah, your looking at this the wrong way. I say orginize your own books and data a girl who works at Lululemon (a self-described as a yoga-inspired athletic apparel company). Thats what I do. And while we don't have emacs vs vim arguments, we make much better use of our time.
They weren't 'stolen', HM Revenue and Customs lost them in the mail which is way worse. They sent two discs contain the names, addresses, dates of birth and bank account details of 25 m people in the mail, and they never showed up. Ok so they were most likely stolen, but it wasn't like a grand robbery, they went missing in the mail. There is a 200m pound reward for the return of the discs.
This article's timing is very interesting given all the talk about 'superlorries' in the uk press this week. The 'superlorry' is a 60-tonne vehicles, that will fit 60% more goods than the current big trucks in the UK. The government is considering allowing them in the UK, and according to BBC this morning they are currently on test at some small airport. The haulage companies say if approved they will only operate on motorways, but groups are already concerted about these trucks going through small towns, much like this story.
Here is an article from the Times: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article2943573.ece
Trucks have gotten really bad up here in around Vancouver, Canada. Especially late at night. They pay no attention to street lights, they simply blow their horn and if your lucky you get out of the way. My father wasn't so lucky a few years back. The driver didn't even deny that he ran the red, just said he didn't see my dad. Actually my father was lucky as he wasn't seriously hurt, although that was the end of that van. Everyone I know has a story about how "they almost got killed by a big truck".
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't a big chunk of Verizon owned by Vodafone? Vodafone got a temporary injunction issued against T-Mobile in Germany, and now this. Is Vodafone is going to war?
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Its even worste than that, the article mentions "teen and 20-something employees", its not even fresh out of college, its fresh out of high school.
I'm pretty fresh out of Uni myself and well I am spoiled compared to most of my friends that took the arts. I don't have a company car or an attractive secretary to take to Hawaii, but I do have a company mobile phone, new labtop ever six months, waterfront window shared office, medical, dental and life insurance. Most of friends don't have any of that, but then again I work about 20 hours a week more then them, so its about even.
No, but I would love that everyone with water at home pay $5 a month, so I got unlimited beer.
Up here in Canada we have an easy system. It has worked for over 125 years. Here you put a Pine Cone in a box if you want the man currently in power to stay and a piece of Birch Bark if you want to vote for the opponent. http://youtube.com/watch?v=GuyfmvnwoG8&feature=related
Wow, sounds like my rules for picking up women, only insert "pretend to " before both statements. So its 1) Pretend to Remember names! 2) Pretend to Be genuinely interested in other people. Everyone has something interesting about them. Figure out what it is and then let them talk about it. Remember, whoever talks most in a conversation is generally going to think it was a good conversation.
I too a big fan of having CDs/records. The problem is in the city that I live in (pop ~100k) its becoming increasingly hard to buy anything I want. The one big record store in town has started selling electronics and now has 1/10th of the music it had five years ago. All the mall record stores here now have five times as many DVD's as CD's.
A friend and I use to go out almost every Tuesday and buy one or two new releases. In the last year in about fifteen tries I have only been successful in finding the album I wanted twice. The record stores here just aren't bringing in anything except top 40 albums.
Its no excuse, but most of the time I will have already downloaded the music I like months before its release and so if I can't get a physical copy, unless I really like it I'm not going to buy it from iTunes. Don't get me wrong I still buy a fair amount of CD's and Vinyl from the Internet, but nowhere near as much I did before, or would now if I could walk down the street and buy it.
From where I am sitting right now I can see 13 wireless networks. Of those six (46%) are unsecured and five (38%) have what I believe to default names (linksys, default, DLinkVWR, DLinkWBR, NETGEAR). That doesn't include hidden points. Its too lazy to Google the default passwords and check if the access points are changed but I'd doubt it.
An Engineering Approach? Let me guess the same resolution as last year and all years past for that matter, talk to a woman this year
The easiest way to keep your New Years Resolutions are to start with a non issue. If you already go to the gym three days a week, make your resolution to get in shape. If you are 20 lbs underweight then make your resolution to not not get fat.
I can relate to the post it notes on the screen. I have made for my tv two special paper cutout to cover the "ticker" and the space where scores pop up without notice. I watch alot of sports and I don't want to know other scores. I've never understood why so many stations will flash the score on screen without notice of a game they themselves are timeshifting directly after the current one.
I haven't had much luck searching for people on google. Its just too hard to find info on the right firstname lastname. Using facebook to find out about people is far easier. Even if you only have a first name and know they are local it is fast. I do it all the time. After I meet a girl at the bar, I'll always look her up on facebook before I call her up. It works both ways though, and can be pretty scary sometimes. I went out on a date with a girl last month and she knew everything about me. I was very weird ... a real turn off. So I would advise anyone to keep their facebook/google intellegence quiet.
I use to buy a fair amount of CD singles. Not to avoid buying the entire album, but to get the b-sides and to collect. They were really expensive, something like $5-8 each. I haven't bought one in a long time, mostly because the 'big' record store in the city I live in starting selling electronics too, and now was about a tenth of music selection it had five years ago.
My local land line company is almost as bad with all the add on crap they sell. Call Display, Caller Reveal, Voice Mail, Voicemail Plus, Call Waiting, Call waiting plus, Call Forwarding, Smart Ring, Anonymous caller ID, Call gate, Call Screen, Talking Call Waiting, Internet Call Director, Long Distance 200, Long Distance Saver, Long Distance Saver Plus, etc...
Still their basic phone rate is around the same as Vonage with unlimited long distance.
It is a little bit silly. I can see the iMac, if you needed a new family computer anyways. I think my parents got my siblings and I an Apple II back in the day for Christmas.
... its as bad as a pet.
What I really hate is all these ads on TV about giving a Mobile Phone as a Christmas gift. A gift with a contract
I wonder what the law would say about honestly not knowing the passphrase. For instance if you had a very long and difficult passphrase written on a piece of paper that if my data was compromised I'd eat, burn or otherwise dispose of. What could the law do? Not that I break any laws except jaywalking, just wondering.
Yah the Lupo was an amazing car. It isn't made anymore though, it was replaced by the VW Fox. Which doesn't have the same mileage: Urban 36.2 mpg, Extra Urban 55.4 mpg, Combined 46.3 mpg. Volkswagen makes an even smaller car for the south American market, called the Gol.
Its crashed and burned when they tried to redo it stateside, but I think Coupling would do really well here. Its so funny. Hell air Footballers Wives in the Desperate Housewives time slot, and see I'd would think it would be a mini hit. Little Britain might be the first as the show is moving over now anyways.
Who searhes for "w00t"?
...Bah, your looking at this the wrong way. I say orginize your own books and data a girl who works at Lululemon (a self-described as a yoga-inspired athletic apparel company). Thats what I do. And while we don't have emacs vs vim arguments, we make much better use of our time.
Its ok they are both member of the "Axis of Evil", so I'm sure they have a "Strategic Alliance"
They weren't 'stolen', HM Revenue and Customs lost them in the mail which is way worse. They sent two discs contain the names, addresses, dates of birth and bank account details of 25 m people in the mail, and they never showed up. Ok so they were most likely stolen, but it wasn't like a grand robbery, they went missing in the mail. There is a 200m pound reward for the return of the discs.
Here is a bbc timeline of events: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7104368.stm
Do you think it will be any different on mars? The first thing Nasa will do on mars is rape and pillage the poor Martians.
This article's timing is very interesting given all the talk about 'superlorries' in the uk press this week. The 'superlorry' is a 60-tonne vehicles, that will fit 60% more goods than the current big trucks in the UK. The government is considering allowing them in the UK, and according to BBC this morning they are currently on test at some small airport. The haulage companies say if approved they will only operate on motorways, but groups are already concerted about these trucks going through small towns, much like this story. Here is an article from the Times: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article2943573.ece
Trucks have gotten really bad up here in around Vancouver, Canada. Especially late at night. They pay no attention to street lights, they simply blow their horn and if your lucky you get out of the way. My father wasn't so lucky a few years back. The driver didn't even deny that he ran the red, just said he didn't see my dad. Actually my father was lucky as he wasn't seriously hurt, although that was the end of that van. Everyone I know has a story about how "they almost got killed by a big truck".
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't a big chunk of Verizon owned by Vodafone? Vodafone got a temporary injunction issued against T-Mobile in Germany, and now this. Is Vodafone is going to war?
The fact that you asked for her email and not her phone number shows shows a shift in culture itself.