Seriously, I'm not trying to troll or offend here. I see bikes go past on my way to and from work, or even if i'm just out for a walk. These are local people, out on a bike ride. There is no race and as far as I can tell, no rush either. So why do they wear the look-at-my-labia (or testicles) bike pants? Trying to shave a second off the time it takes to go around the block twice? I really don't understand it because there is no way that my little neighbourhood has hundreds of competition-level cyclists who just happen to be in training year 'round.
To paraphrase something I once read (maybe even here?): Tights are not pants, if I wanted to be that intimately familiar with your crotch, I would at least buy you dinner first.
Main Entry: 1remote Pronunciation: \ri-mt\ Function: adjective Inflected Form(s): remoter; remotest Etymology: Middle English, from Latin remotus, from past participle of removre to remove
I'm with you. I cannot believe that in this day and age such an old and more-or-less "respected" establishment such as the Freemasons would practice this. I can believe that the "rule" is still printed on their books, but if this is actually the case and Freemasons to this day still perform animal sacrifice, then I suspect there ought to be some law enforcement getting involved ASAP.
But seriously, that would explain why they didn't notice the "holding the phone with the left hand" antenna issue, and given what's said above that means the proximity sensor would be at the bottom of the ear instead of the top when held against the head.
And what about composers like this guy? He composes scores for musical productions (likely among other things). Should he be like Tommy Dorsey and go get his own Orchestra to perform these songs? Or maybe he should also hire an acting troupe and rent out space at a theatre (perhaps just buy his own?) so he can produce entire musicals at night while he writes the music all day?
The huge list of names at the back of your program when you go to the theatre aren't just there to make it look good. Hundreds of people are involved in putting together any single night's production. Same goes for TV or Movies - those names scrolling on the screen at the end of the show are called "credits" for a reason. Most of those people get paid (credit) for their efforts.
Guess where the money comes from? (hint: it's not from people who are copying the sheet music/audio recordings/scripts)
No, you don't get it. It was an economic stimulus effort, they loosed wild jobs into the streets of California hoping that people would pick them up and take over the necessary duties.
It's funny, our current PM's party had "Reform the Senate" as one of the planks in their platform in both of our last two elections. It hasn't gone anywhere though, and PM Harper has appointed 32 Conservative Senators since 2008! One interesting twist is that he got them all to agree to step down after a set term (I think it's 8 years but can't find a reference) before he gave them the appointments.
Of course, nobody's terribly impressed considering how loud he talks about reforming the Senate and how little has actually been done about it to date.
Doesn't Australia use the same Parliamentary system as the UK and Canada? If so, then you've never voted directly for a PM anyway, since you vote in your local member of a party and then the leader of the party who gets the majority of the seats is the new Prime Minister.
This is exactly how Canada got our first female PM, Kim Campbell. When Mulroney stepped down the party voted her in as their new leader. Since they had a majority in Parliament at the time, she became the new Prime Minister.
I don't even think it's required that Gillard call an election but it's usually what happens given that most people in the country generally don't understand how Parliament works and start saying things like "What? I didn't vote for her!"
There's nothing wrong with what's happened here. This is how it works in a "real" election too, except usually you know who the party leader is before you vote.
The last big earthquake in the region was in October 1998 when an earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale struck southern Ontario.
Earthquakes in Lake Ontario aren't rare, we get a couple dozen a year, just not big enough to feel them. This one was at least 3 or 4 times as long as the last one I felt, and I've heard of 2 or 3 since then that others felt but I didn't.
Just because you haven't felt them doesn't mean they haven't happened!
They can dispute all they like, Evolution doesn't lie. How many of those half-billion have to take supplements along with their Vegetarian or Vegan diet just to stay alive?
Just because they choose to not eat meat doesn't mean they're not carnivores.
I'm not condoning animal cruelty (and you're not saying that I am), but you will no doubt have noticed that even after inventing food technology, we're still carnivores and require meat that needs to be killed before we eat it.
"Stunt"? She was participating in the traditional lifestyle of some of Canada's Native People. It was no stunt, it's called respect, and it's something I sure-as-hell hope our Governer General has in spades when it comes to dealing with the citizens of our country.
She speaks French in Quebec, She eats Lobster in Nova Scotia and she eats seal heart when she's visiting Inuit people.
Not to worry, Canada will get plenty of worldly recognition this coming weekend when we host the G8 and G20 conferences. You may have also heard about an event back in February called the 2010 Winter Olympics. I'm pretty sure we got noticed.
Shatner is a Canadian icon. Do I want him to represent our Country internationally? No way. He's already an unofficial "Canadian Spokesman", let's let him stay in that nostalgic role and remember the good times. I think he'll do a much better job playing a cranky old man in Shit My Dad Says.
Should he be the one swearing in the next Prime Minister? I... Sure... Hope... Not!
Just think of the portraits at Rideau Hall for our last run of Governers General: Romeo LeBlanc, Adrienne Clarkson, Michaelle Jean and.. William Shatner?? If nothing else, we're at least due for someone who didn't come from (or reside in) Quebec. It would be nice if they were somewhat experienced with Politics and Parliamentary Procedure. I don't think the Enterprise's Court-Martial rules are similar enough to be called "experience".
I disagree, in fact I think that you've proved my point. "Customers" don't actually know what they want. They go out and find something they think they want, and once it's in their head that bells, whistles and flying toasters are the goal, there isn't much one can do to stop them except fire them and go find the next client. (who will most likely do the same thing.)
The six-month flip to HTML is a great example of customers educating themselves and researching their market BEFORE they come and make ridiculous requests with no room for discussion to the Web developer. Of course this is what they should have done in the first place.
Unfortunately, even in 2010 customers don't want to educate themselves first. I wonder if that's a function of it not being 1998 anymore and they think they "know more about what they need" by virtue of "being online for 12 years", but actually nothing has changed and they still don't have a clue.
Scratch that, I don't wonder - that's exactly what's happening.
That is an interesting question, and one I've asked of my customer (and potential) customers quite often. One of my most often-repeated phrases is "Your Website isn't for you it's for your customers." Unfortunately, time and time again, most Website upgrades I've helped manage and develop (I don't design, and I don't know ActionScript/Flash, but my designers do) almost always are born on the boardroom table when Carbon-Based-Lifeform #1 says to CBL #2, "Their website is so much cooler/snappier/flashier/more popular than ours".
You've definitely hit the nail on the head, and if the goal of the site is to drive people to the "Buy Now" button, but has flying toasters, etc all over the site getting in their way then we've found ourselves in a classic case of feature-creep. The Oatmeal has a great one pager that illustrates this situation nicely. This happens all too often, regardless of contracts, plans, step-by-step processes, or what have you. You can plan the site 'til the cows come home but ultimately if the boss wants the flying toasters live on the site before you get paid, then it's flying toasters all around.
Then there are the sites that are there so the CEO/Principal/Boss can take to his buddy and brag about how great his site is. There truly is no other benefit to the project, their customers all come via word-of-mouth, and they have no Web traffic to speak of. They just want to be able to whip out the laptop at CEO Happy Hour and e-stroke for the guy beside him.
I refer to this as the Internet equivalent of buying the Maserati instead of the Mercedes.
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But why? Why do they wear them?
Seriously, I'm not trying to troll or offend here. I see bikes go past on my way to and from work, or even if i'm just out for a walk. These are local people, out on a bike ride. There is no race and as far as I can tell, no rush either. So why do they wear the look-at-my-labia (or testicles) bike pants? Trying to shave a second off the time it takes to go around the block twice? I really don't understand it because there is no way that my little neighbourhood has hundreds of competition-level cyclists who just happen to be in training year 'round.
To paraphrase something I once read (maybe even here?): Tights are not pants, if I wanted to be that intimately familiar with your crotch, I would at least buy you dinner first.
Can someone please explain this?
Well, it was Shark Week last week...
Main Entry: 1remote
Pronunciation: \ri-mt\
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): remoter; remotest
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin remotus, from past participle of removre to remove
http://east.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/remotest
(emphasis mine)
I'm with you. I cannot believe that in this day and age such an old and more-or-less "respected" establishment such as the Freemasons would practice this. I can believe that the "rule" is still printed on their books, but if this is actually the case and Freemasons to this day still perform animal sacrifice, then I suspect there ought to be some law enforcement getting involved ASAP.
"You guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off."
-Zaphod Beeblebrox
Maybe all of their testers were left-handed?
But seriously, that would explain why they didn't notice the "holding the phone with the left hand" antenna issue, and given what's said above that means the proximity sensor would be at the bottom of the ear instead of the top when held against the head.
And what about composers like this guy? He composes scores for musical productions (likely among other things). Should he be like Tommy Dorsey and go get his own Orchestra to perform these songs? Or maybe he should also hire an acting troupe and rent out space at a theatre (perhaps just buy his own?) so he can produce entire musicals at night while he writes the music all day?
The huge list of names at the back of your program when you go to the theatre aren't just there to make it look good. Hundreds of people are involved in putting together any single night's production. Same goes for TV or Movies - those names scrolling on the screen at the end of the show are called "credits" for a reason. Most of those people get paid (credit) for their efforts.
Guess where the money comes from? (hint: it's not from people who are copying the sheet music/audio recordings/scripts)
Seconded.
No, you don't get it. It was an economic stimulus effort, they loosed wild jobs into the streets of California hoping that people would pick them up and take over the necessary duties.
It's funny, our current PM's party had "Reform the Senate" as one of the planks in their platform in both of our last two elections. It hasn't gone anywhere though, and PM Harper has appointed 32 Conservative Senators since 2008! One interesting twist is that he got them all to agree to step down after a set term (I think it's 8 years but can't find a reference) before he gave them the appointments.
Of course, nobody's terribly impressed considering how loud he talks about reforming the Senate and how little has actually been done about it to date.
Doesn't Australia use the same Parliamentary system as the UK and Canada? If so, then you've never voted directly for a PM anyway, since you vote in your local member of a party and then the leader of the party who gets the majority of the seats is the new Prime Minister.
This is exactly how Canada got our first female PM, Kim Campbell. When Mulroney stepped down the party voted her in as their new leader. Since they had a majority in Parliament at the time, she became the new Prime Minister.
I don't even think it's required that Gillard call an election but it's usually what happens given that most people in the country generally don't understand how Parliament works and start saying things like "What? I didn't vote for her!"
There's nothing wrong with what's happened here. This is how it works in a "real" election too, except usually you know who the party leader is before you vote.
The last one I felt on the shores of Lake Ontario was over 5.0 and was around 1998 (confirmed by today's article in the Toronto Star).
Earthquakes in Lake Ontario aren't rare, we get a couple dozen a year, just not big enough to feel them. This one was at least 3 or 4 times as long as the last one I felt, and I've heard of 2 or 3 since then that others felt but I didn't.
Just because you haven't felt them doesn't mean they haven't happened!
They can dispute all they like, Evolution doesn't lie. How many of those half-billion have to take supplements along with their Vegetarian or Vegan diet just to stay alive?
Just because they choose to not eat meat doesn't mean they're not carnivores.
I'm not condoning animal cruelty (and you're not saying that I am), but you will no doubt have noticed that even after inventing food technology, we're still carnivores and require meat that needs to be killed before we eat it.
Ah, and now your true colours shine through. You don't care at all about the Governor General.
Protip: Humans are carnivores, get over it.
"Stunt"? She was participating in the traditional lifestyle of some of Canada's Native People. It was no stunt, it's called respect, and it's something I sure-as-hell hope our Governer General has in spades when it comes to dealing with the citizens of our country.
She speaks French in Quebec, She eats Lobster in Nova Scotia and she eats seal heart when she's visiting Inuit people.
Not to worry, Canada will get plenty of worldly recognition this coming weekend when we host the G8 and G20 conferences.
You may have also heard about an event back in February called the 2010 Winter Olympics. I'm pretty sure we got noticed.
Shatner is a Canadian icon. Do I want him to represent our Country internationally? No way. He's already an unofficial "Canadian Spokesman", let's let him stay in that nostalgic role and remember the good times. I think he'll do a much better job playing a cranky old man in Shit My Dad Says.
Should he be the one swearing in the next Prime Minister? I... Sure... Hope... Not!
Just think of the portraits at Rideau Hall for our last run of Governers General: Romeo LeBlanc, Adrienne Clarkson, Michaelle Jean and.. William Shatner?? If nothing else, we're at least due for someone who didn't come from (or reside in) Quebec. It would be nice if they were somewhat experienced with Politics and Parliamentary Procedure. I don't think the Enterprise's Court-Martial rules are similar enough to be called "experience".
You may ask yourself, "Why such a large suit?"
There's a luggage joke in here somewhere but I can't find it.
To get to the other side!
I clicked on it just in case.
Relax, this is "just a bill"
I disagree, in fact I think that you've proved my point. "Customers" don't actually know what they want. They go out and find something they think they want, and once it's in their head that bells, whistles and flying toasters are the goal, there isn't much one can do to stop them except fire them and go find the next client. (who will most likely do the same thing.)
The six-month flip to HTML is a great example of customers educating themselves and researching their market BEFORE they come and make ridiculous requests with no room for discussion to the Web developer. Of course this is what they should have done in the first place.
Unfortunately, even in 2010 customers don't want to educate themselves first. I wonder if that's a function of it not being 1998 anymore and they think they "know more about what they need" by virtue of "being online for 12 years", but actually nothing has changed and they still don't have a clue.
Scratch that, I don't wonder - that's exactly what's happening.
That is an interesting question, and one I've asked of my customer (and potential) customers quite often. One of my most often-repeated phrases is "Your Website isn't for you it's for your customers." Unfortunately, time and time again, most Website upgrades I've helped manage and develop (I don't design, and I don't know ActionScript/Flash, but my designers do) almost always are born on the boardroom table when Carbon-Based-Lifeform #1 says to CBL #2, "Their website is so much cooler/snappier/flashier/more popular than ours".
You've definitely hit the nail on the head, and if the goal of the site is to drive people to the "Buy Now" button, but has flying toasters, etc all over the site getting in their way then we've found ourselves in a classic case of feature-creep. The Oatmeal has a great one pager that illustrates this situation nicely. This happens all too often, regardless of contracts, plans, step-by-step processes, or what have you. You can plan the site 'til the cows come home but ultimately if the boss wants the flying toasters live on the site before you get paid, then it's flying toasters all around.
Then there are the sites that are there so the CEO/Principal/Boss can take to his buddy and brag about how great his site is. There truly is no other benefit to the project, their customers all come via word-of-mouth, and they have no Web traffic to speak of. They just want to be able to whip out the laptop at CEO Happy Hour and e-stroke for the guy beside him.
I refer to this as the Internet equivalent of buying the Maserati instead of the Mercedes.