So if an adult receives a picture of a naked 16 year old, and reports it to the police, he's still guilty?
Sure; sometimes the phrase "snitches get stitches" applies to oneself. This is an example of why all possession laws are unjust and prone to abuse/framing.
But I don't see how, if the boss isn't using the output of the envelopes to determine who gets fired. Per the article, he's using Secret Shoppers reports to determine who gets the axe.
Why would this guy shell out for "secret shoppers" when he's already collecting "actionable intel" (if you will), at $10/pop? We're talking about a fuel station here, aren't we? Not really a major operation that could incur massive losses due to poor retail employee performance... What's going to happen; a customer won't need gasoline after all, due to exposure to a hat or cellular phone?
I hate when I screw up the blockquotes. Makes me think I'm going senile.
Psst... Word on the street... Your left-leaning arch-nemesis, TurquoiseDefender, was spotted switching your regular coffee with leaded coffee! She's also the one who made off with your autographed, 1st edition copy of The World Wide Web for Dummies!
Go forth, and lay waste to that dastardly dame! Go forth, and avenge yourself, CrimsonAvenger!
[U]nlike SSDs, stepper motor bearings get ground out of round eventually.
Voice coils replaced stepper motors for HDD head actuation a couple decades ago. Also, don't forget about fluid-dynamic bearings or ramped head parking/unloading, the latter of which reduces the occurrence of sticktion (and head crashes).
I'm not disputing that the laws of physics guarantee that all mechanisms will fail; I'm merely pointing out some friction-reducing technologies present in modern HDDs.
PS: Mad props for not forcing apostrophes into pluralized initialisms.
If a microwave oven were leaking enough energy to be harmful, wouldn't that energy be perceptible as warmth/pain? Let's suppose that's not the case; what type of injury could be inflicted that would not be apparent to the exposed person?
Is anyone familiar with any other countries that get a the?
Three from memory: "The United States of America." I've also heard "The Sudan" used; Wikipedia suggests and redirects "The Sudan" to "Sudan," but I didn't see an explanation therein, (nor did I look very hard). I've also heard "The Congo" used, which Wikipedia suggests and redirects to a disambiguation page, which is were I stopped.
[H]ow did the the even come about as common usage when referring to Ukraine?
There was a star trek episode about this, where the computer would report the number of casualties for each city, and that number of citizens would be executed.
That was my favorite TOS episode. Kirk went ape-shit and explosively disassembled their computer.
Kirk [paraphrasing]: "Prime directive? I've got your prime directive right here, asshole."
Who cares? Im tired of seeing this appear in articles.
Then stop reading it or fucking fix it; use AdBlock Plus or Greasemonkey or something. I'm getting tired of reading people's off-topic posts on this matter... The quantity of text used to complain about this issue is greater than the quantity of text being bitched about.
[...] I lived in Texas, and found out that in the south they still call it the light bill, because that was the killer app back when they done got electrified.
Huh... I thought electricity's "killer app" in Texas was the government's electrocution of its citizens. Maybe it's called a "light bill" as in, "Light 'em up, pardner!"
It's also on Netflix as well as on Hulu. Well worth watching; it's one of those that, like Firefly, got cancelled too early. They also did a movie later (made for TV, I think) that was pretty good.
It's also on TPB, for those worldwide and/or who prefer sharing* over stuffing MAFIAA coffers:
I emailed one guy back who was writing to his military son. He got all kinds of pissed off, and accused me of 'intercepting his emails'.
What an asshole. Here's what I would have wrote back: Dear Parent, I regret to inform you that your son was killed in action while on latrine duty. His death has been ruled a suicide, as he was found partially submerged in a latrine bowl. His corpse was buried at sea, as this was the most expedient way to dispose of it.
-Sgt. Slaughter
Mud-hut GREENs can choke on it. Every kilowatt humans produce increases our cultural and individual standard of living. We burn against the everlasting night. Bytch Gaia... the snake-goddess of ebola and rabies, ectopic pregnancy, tsunamis and mongoloids can have energy conservation shoved up her *zzwhole like a pile of burned-out coal slag mixed with the bones of toasted guilt-ridden GREENs.
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So if an adult receives a picture of a naked 16 year old, and reports it to the police, he's still guilty?
Sure; sometimes the phrase "snitches get stitches" applies to oneself. This is an example of why all possession laws are unjust and prone to abuse/framing.
But I don't see how, if the boss isn't using the output of the envelopes to determine who gets fired. Per the article, he's using Secret Shoppers reports to determine who gets the axe.
Why would this guy shell out for "secret shoppers" when he's already collecting "actionable intel" (if you will), at $10/pop? We're talking about a fuel station here, aren't we? Not really a major operation that could incur massive losses due to poor retail employee performance... What's going to happen; a customer won't need gasoline after all, due to exposure to a hat or cellular phone?
I hate when I screw up the blockquotes. Makes me think I'm going senile.
Psst... Word on the street... Your left-leaning arch-nemesis, TurquoiseDefender, was spotted switching your regular coffee with leaded coffee! She's also the one who made off with your autographed, 1st edition copy of The World Wide Web for Dummies!
Go forth, and lay waste to that dastardly dame! Go forth, and avenge yourself, CrimsonAvenger!
=)
[U]nlike SSDs, stepper motor bearings get ground out of round eventually.
Voice coils replaced stepper motors for HDD head actuation a couple decades ago. Also, don't forget about fluid-dynamic bearings or ramped head parking/unloading, the latter of which reduces the occurrence of sticktion (and head crashes).
I'm not disputing that the laws of physics guarantee that all mechanisms will fail; I'm merely pointing out some friction-reducing technologies present in modern HDDs.
PS: Mad props for not forcing apostrophes into pluralized initialisms.
That's a good idea. We could fill the containers with cash, America's #1 export. =)
If a microwave oven were leaking enough energy to be harmful, wouldn't that energy be perceptible as warmth/pain? Let's suppose that's not the case; what type of injury could be inflicted that would not be apparent to the exposed person?
Is anyone familiar with any other countries that get a the?
Three from memory: "The United States of America." I've also heard "The Sudan" used; Wikipedia suggests and redirects "The Sudan" to "Sudan," but I didn't see an explanation therein, (nor did I look very hard). I've also heard "The Congo" used, which Wikipedia suggests and redirects to a disambiguation page, which is were I stopped.
[H]ow did the the even come about as common usage when referring to Ukraine?
Although it's common usage, it's not proper form...
Short version: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ukraine#Etymology
Long version: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Name_of_Ukraine
Thumbs down.
But where will you get the pinball machine parts to replace it?
Easy; 1985!
The MafiAA, as some like to call it [...]
They call themselves that, troll: http://mafiaa.org/
It's easy. You just don't lead 'em so much.
What is "How can you kill women and children?"
There was a star trek episode about this, where the computer would report the number of casualties for each city, and that number of citizens would be executed.
That was my favorite TOS episode. Kirk went ape-shit and explosively disassembled their computer.
Kirk [paraphrasing]: "Prime directive? I've got your prime directive right here, asshole."
Good times.
[U]sers are barely able to distinguish between a document, a website, an email and an application, it is all a blur to them.
This stuff should be taught in school.
=)
You live the real world now.
=|
You can't run to mummy and have her kiss your boo boo and make it better.
=(
If you drop your ice cream, nobody has to buy you another.
=C
- aaaaah, what are you going to do?
Burn more karma, apparently.
In your case, wouldn't that be 'civilisation'?
Pino Grigio is British, ColdWetDog is American; (as well I could infer from the contents of their respective posts).
[...] could really care less [...]
Please stop this madness.
Fucking hardcore.
Who cares? Im tired of seeing this appear in articles.
Then stop reading it or fucking fix it; use AdBlock Plus or Greasemonkey or something. I'm getting tired of reading people's off-topic posts on this matter... The quantity of text used to complain about this issue is greater than the quantity of text being bitched about.
[...] I lived in Texas, and found out that in the south they still call it the light bill, because that was the killer app back when they done got electrified.
Huh... I thought electricity's "killer app" in Texas was the government's electrocution of its citizens. Maybe it's called a "light bill" as in, "Light 'em up, pardner!"
It's also on Netflix as well as on Hulu. Well worth watching; it's one of those that, like Firefly, got cancelled too early. They also did a movie later (made for TV, I think) that was pretty good.
It's also on TPB, for those worldwide and/or who prefer sharing* over stuffing MAFIAA coffers:
S01: https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4999686/Dead_Like_Me_DVDrip_Season_1
S02: https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4999688/Dead_Like_Me_DVDrip_Season_2
LaD: https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4704424/Dead.Like.Me.Life.After.Death.2009.DvDrip.aXXo-SS
* Please seed. =)
You mean like this?
http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=115082
[Sigh]... The headline: "Udupi: Bus Collides with Another, Barges into Hut - One Killed"
Humbly submitted, my own NYC tabloid-inspired remix: "Mookambika Motorcoach Mash-up Mortally Mangles Man, Mattress"
I emailed one guy back who was writing to his military son. He got all kinds of pissed off, and accused me of 'intercepting his emails'.
What an asshole. Here's what I would have wrote back:
Dear Parent,
I regret to inform you that your son was killed in action while on latrine duty. His death has been ruled a suicide, as he was found partially submerged in a latrine bowl. His corpse was buried at sea, as this was the most expedient way to dispose of it.
-Sgt. Slaughter
Mud-hut GREENs can choke on it. Every kilowatt humans produce increases our cultural and individual standard of living. We burn against the everlasting night. Bytch Gaia ... the snake-goddess of ebola and rabies, ectopic pregnancy, tsunamis and mongoloids can have energy conservation shoved up her *zzwhole like a pile of burned-out coal slag mixed with the bones of toasted guilt-ridden GREENs.
Hey everyone it's J.P. Rockefeller himselves!
I think whether someone is "smart" or not is difficult to determine to begin with.
Not on slashdot. We're all fucking geniuses here.
Someone mod this shit way up.