I had a grad school friend with a similar job at Photobucket in Denver. They had similar no-nudity policies to Facebook but were slightly more permissive about violence. Said roommate was pretty sick of it after 3 months of having to click REJECT for images of breastfeeding and ACCEPT on videos of curb-stomping. On the bright side, when she joined the military she was one of the only recruits not to bat an eyelash when they showed them "this is your brain on IEDs" imagery.
I'm in Ann Arbor (very close to that hand position) Michigan, and for me, my ability to seed seems to vary by tracker. I'm not even sure that makes any sense, but it's the closest thing to a pattern that I've noticed. I also seem to have an easier time seeding if I'm still downloading the same file at the time.
On one hand, yeah, I agree with you on the professional thing. On the other hand, the word "smackdown" currently appears in CNN's RSS feed, and regardless of its true origins, this word was propelled into popular use by professional wrestling. Not sure what it's supposed to signify, but I thought I'd point it out. Even the professionals are using slang in their RSS.
When I was taking my parents up into the Rockies in September (they were out for a visit and dad had never been), we were at a pull-off on the road up to Mt. Evans when we saw these guys. They told us they were mostly done with the filming, but had come back to Colorado to get a little more material they needed for part of it. One guy with a camera and a big van was filming another guy on a Segway. They'd chosen some particularly beautiful scenery as a backdrop, which I imagine was the point.
Anyway, I guess my point was that the format for their filming was Segway + Big Van, not 2 Guys + 1 Segway.
Through a series of circumstances my former gas company (Columbia Gas of Ohio) was never willing to explain, I had my account with them cancelled by someone who may not have known I existed. This happened several years ago when I was renting a house. This fellow from the other side of town changed his billing address to mine, then cancelled his account. I noticed because one month I got a bill for "Gregorio Santos" but not one to me. The next month I recieved no bill at all. It turned out that when Mr. Santos cancelled his service, it didn't just cancel his account, but rather service at that address.
The point I'm trying to get to is that without knowing I existed, someone else cancelled my account with my gas company. In order to find out what happened, I had to provide my name, phone number, social security number, and father's middle name. It really unnerved me that things like this can happen without the service company noticing.
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I had a grad school friend with a similar job at Photobucket in Denver. They had similar no-nudity policies to Facebook but were slightly more permissive about violence. Said roommate was pretty sick of it after 3 months of having to click REJECT for images of breastfeeding and ACCEPT on videos of curb-stomping. On the bright side, when she joined the military she was one of the only recruits not to bat an eyelash when they showed them "this is your brain on IEDs" imagery.
I'm in Ann Arbor (very close to that hand position) Michigan, and for me, my ability to seed seems to vary by tracker. I'm not even sure that makes any sense, but it's the closest thing to a pattern that I've noticed. I also seem to have an easier time seeding if I'm still downloading the same file at the time.
On one hand, yeah, I agree with you on the professional thing. On the other hand, the word "smackdown" currently appears in CNN's RSS feed, and regardless of its true origins, this word was propelled into popular use by professional wrestling. Not sure what it's supposed to signify, but I thought I'd point it out. Even the professionals are using slang in their RSS.
When I was taking my parents up into the Rockies in September (they were out for a visit and dad had never been), we were at a pull-off on the road up to Mt. Evans when we saw these guys. They told us they were mostly done with the filming, but had come back to Colorado to get a little more material they needed for part of it. One guy with a camera and a big van was filming another guy on a Segway. They'd chosen some particularly beautiful scenery as a backdrop, which I imagine was the point. Anyway, I guess my point was that the format for their filming was Segway + Big Van, not 2 Guys + 1 Segway.
Through a series of circumstances my former gas company (Columbia Gas of Ohio) was never willing to explain, I had my account with them cancelled by someone who may not have known I existed. This happened several years ago when I was renting a house. This fellow from the other side of town changed his billing address to mine, then cancelled his account. I noticed because one month I got a bill for "Gregorio Santos" but not one to me. The next month I recieved no bill at all. It turned out that when Mr. Santos cancelled his service, it didn't just cancel his account, but rather service at that address.
The point I'm trying to get to is that without knowing I existed, someone else cancelled my account with my gas company. In order to find out what happened, I had to provide my name, phone number, social security number, and father's middle name. It really unnerved me that things like this can happen without the service company noticing.