My mother is working for google marketing "unofficially."
I sent her a new computer with a firefox homepage of her shiny new google account. She is seriously computer illiterate and already she has fallen in love with it. (she used to have mail.com - ugh!)
Now she wants all her friends to use gmail. It's kinda cute.
If your employer or an enthusiastic supporter demands to see your receipt it could influence the vote.
It seems to be pretty important that there is no way for a 3rd party to determine your vote. Even just a number you remember isn't good enough - if your boss says everyone not giving me a number with particular votes is fired.
It was around 11,000' elevation in the rocky mountains, in february. Everything we had froze, except for some vodka kept in my sleeping bag. It just got really viscous. I'd say it was at least -30C.
Next time I'm going to check the forecast before I camp!
I'm astonished that porn is such a lucrative business. Everything, and I mean EVERY THING that I've looked for is there, free.
My poor Mule has to carry porn 24 hours a day up the pipe. I've got these nice open softwares and cc musics that get 1 or 2 downloads a month. But porn? tens of thousands.
Who the hell is buying porn and why the hell are they buying it?
I'm gonna guess idiots that install malware and buy herbal viagra from spam.
Anything that seeds the crystallization will do - an ice crystal works best, but particles or shock will do.
I had a bottle of cider camping (I don't know the temperature, but my kerosene froze) that stayed liquid until I opened it. Spiderwebs of ice forming inside, quite beautiful, followed by the crack of the bottle breaking.
If only I could come up with a script to clean a machine reliably I'd save plenty of time. Just today I tried and failed to de-crapify a horribly compromised Win ME/kazaa-induced nightmare.
I spent nearly an hour with ad-aware, hijackthis, and spybot s&d before realizing best case I'd end up with a limping Win ME system.
Now it's happily running 2k, fully patched, and the ignorant user warned.
Wow, you probably ruined your own father's placebo.
And I thought I was a bad kid...
I was reading about placebos and was surprised how effective they are. Many prescription medications aren't much better than the Mighty Placebo. The amusing part was when patients were told they were taking a placebo many of them demanded to continue the treatment.
The US Postal Service has a relatively new policy that cc must be signed. SEE ID is not allowed. They had a crazy flyer explaining in great detail why this was, helped me pass the time in line.
I don't recall the details, but it involved the contract between merchant and issuing bank.
I rubbed off SEE ID and signed the thing before it caused me any trouble.
I'm old enough to remember when not everything was plastic. I bet we get by without it. We'll have to do without or find a non-petroleum substitute at some point anyway.
There are plenty of liquor bottles, used shag carpet, and other suitable cases for our computers.
Besides, who designs something "built to last" and thinks of the most durable material available being plastic?
You can't replace a brand name that has no generic. Pharma companies make sure there are enough barely tweaked packaging or formulation to have some brandname only drugs in every category they can.
A pharmacist cannot substitute an equivalent drug, only the exact same drug.
Hm, I see what you're saying. It comes off a bit condescending, pretentious, and yuppie.
I think you don't need to make it a movie country club or a nouveau cuisine type horror to get what you want.
I've thought about the same thing myself and don't see any problem with this scenario:
Offer alcohol, nice coffee, good food and charge for it. (there are 2 theaters in denver alone that already do this, so hurry) Monitor behaviour and kick people out for talking, cell phones, etc. They will rant and rave and never come back. Yay. Only show movies you think are good. Maybe if nothing is good cut your hours back, show classics/cult favorites, or a nice live show - burlesque is very big here right now.
I think if you have a nice theater, preferably a restored ~100 year old film palace with the above policies you will do great business. You don't have to charge more to keep the riffraff out, just have strict policies and enforce them. Heck, if you play to a full house most of the time you could probably charge $5/ticket and still make more than a megaplex.
You're correct. I think it is an annoying and obvious book full of puffed-up advice, aimed at people with a 4th-grade education. I'd have no problem with it if it hadn't become so trendy. I had a job I liked that got bought by an evil tulsa-based corporation. The new management kept trying to convince me that my job hadn't become far less enjoyable, they had simply moved my cheese and I had better get used to it.
I am fine at adjusting to change. I think it is crucial to be honest about change. If change makes things worse, it is imperative to recognize and express it. Stupid cheese book doesn't mean things aren't going down the drain.
At the denver library they bought a copy for every single employee and had special "cheese moving" parties. Complete with actual cheese. To introduce draconian budget cuts. Morons.
I've put up with a lot in large corporations with their moving cheese and other management fads. Try despair.com for some demotivational support - it helps to laugh about it.
I'm finally happy at a small plant where I am the IT department. Lower pay, but life is too short to be miserable most of your day. Oddly I have more free cash now than I did making 2x and hating my life.
I realize things differ greatly even within the same country - I've lived in Southern California, San Francisco, and now Denver, Colorado. Even the same city can be very different 10 years later.
It sure makes comparison difficult when considering a move. I would have trouble comparing another city in the US to mine as far as financial viability, let alone another country.
I've got family in edmunton who like it there, but the politics seem nearly as depressing as the US...in any case, I've sort of been thinking about canada.
I'm assuming you make CA$100k each, that doesn't seem like very good pay. Taxes and the cost of living are much higher (at least my relatives complain about it) and there is no mortgage deduction. I don't really know though, it isn't comfortable to ask about their finances. How are my assumptions incorrect?
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I sent her a new computer with a firefox homepage of her shiny new google account. She is seriously computer illiterate and already she has fallen in love with it. (she used to have mail.com - ugh!)
Now she wants all her friends to use gmail. It's kinda cute.
Yep, although I'd add inventory controls on the paper so the machine can't print out a ballot & log it when nobody is looking.
It seems to be pretty important that there is no way for a 3rd party to determine your vote. Even just a number you remember isn't good enough - if your boss says everyone not giving me a number with particular votes is fired.
I've watched some xvid files of shows that look good enough on my modest rig, only 300mb/hour
SCSI interface, you might be able to upgrade it to 25.
I'm not using it anymore...
Next time I'm going to check the forecast before I camp!
I'm astonished that porn is such a lucrative business. Everything, and I mean EVERY THING that I've looked for is there, free.
My poor Mule has to carry porn 24 hours a day up the pipe. I've got these nice open softwares and cc musics that get 1 or 2 downloads a month. But porn? tens of thousands.
Who the hell is buying porn and why the hell are they buying it?
I'm gonna guess idiots that install malware and buy herbal viagra from spam.
Anything that seeds the crystallization will do - an ice crystal works best, but particles or shock will do.
I had a bottle of cider camping (I don't know the temperature, but my kerosene froze) that stayed liquid until I opened it. Spiderwebs of ice forming inside, quite beautiful, followed by the crack of the bottle breaking.
Neat page w/video
I've heard of water as cold as -40C.
Now if they leak the hardon pill database I'm screwed...
Hardly. I simply warned the user that if they ever brought me a spammed-out zombie again I'd charge double.
And be crabbier.
Sure, your cousin did it. Nobody installs bad software on their own machine.
If only I could come up with a script to clean a machine reliably I'd save plenty of time. Just today I tried and failed to de-crapify a horribly compromised Win ME/kazaa-induced nightmare.
I spent nearly an hour with ad-aware, hijackthis, and spybot s&d before realizing best case I'd end up with a limping Win ME system.
Now it's happily running 2k, fully patched, and the ignorant user warned.
And I thought I was a bad kid...
I was reading about placebos and was surprised how effective they are. Many prescription medications aren't much better than the Mighty Placebo. The amusing part was when patients were told they were taking a placebo many of them demanded to continue the treatment.
You get $1 off if you bring 'em back.
Seriously though, my local grocer sells really good milk in glass jars, and it's about the same price as disposable if you bring them back.
I don't recall the details, but it involved the contract between merchant and issuing bank.
I rubbed off SEE ID and signed the thing before it caused me any trouble.
There are plenty of liquor bottles, used shag carpet, and other suitable cases for our computers.
Besides, who designs something "built to last" and thinks of the most durable material available being plastic?
A pharmacist cannot substitute an equivalent drug, only the exact same drug.
If chug fails you don't need another beer.
I think you don't need to make it a movie country club or a nouveau cuisine type horror to get what you want.
I've thought about the same thing myself and don't see any problem with this scenario:
Offer alcohol, nice coffee, good food and charge for it. (there are 2 theaters in denver alone that already do this, so hurry)
Monitor behaviour and kick people out for talking, cell phones, etc. They will rant and rave and never come back. Yay.
Only show movies you think are good. Maybe if nothing is good cut your hours back, show classics/cult favorites, or a nice live show - burlesque is very big here right now.
I think if you have a nice theater, preferably a restored ~100 year old film palace with the above policies you will do great business. You don't have to charge more to keep the riffraff out, just have strict policies and enforce them. Heck, if you play to a full house most of the time you could probably charge $5/ticket and still make more than a megaplex.
I am fine at adjusting to change. I think it is crucial to be honest about change. If change makes things worse, it is imperative to recognize and express it. Stupid cheese book doesn't mean things aren't going down the drain.
At the denver library they bought a copy for every single employee and had special "cheese moving" parties. Complete with actual cheese. To introduce draconian budget cuts. Morons.
I've put up with a lot in large corporations with their moving cheese and other management fads. Try despair.com for some demotivational support - it helps to laugh about it.
I'm finally happy at a small plant where I am the IT department. Lower pay, but life is too short to be miserable most of your day. Oddly I have more free cash now than I did making 2x and hating my life.
I realize things differ greatly even within the same country - I've lived in Southern California, San Francisco, and now Denver, Colorado. Even the same city can be very different 10 years later.
It sure makes comparison difficult when considering a move. I would have trouble comparing another city in the US to mine as far as financial viability, let alone another country.
I'm assuming you make CA$100k each, that doesn't seem like very good pay. Taxes and the cost of living are much higher (at least my relatives complain about it) and there is no mortgage deduction. I don't really know though, it isn't comfortable to ask about their finances. How are my assumptions incorrect?
I tried keeping some cc music around as a service, but the porn requests absolutely drowned everything else.
I was going to post this myself, but this AC took care of it already.