diving into the water and have issues keeping their bikini bottoms on
You kidding me? You've never been swimming with friends and see someone dive in and then have to look around to find out where their clothing ended up?
Happens more to men than women in my experience, but that's also because - men tend not to wear one-piece swimsuits - men have large bellies making it easier for clothing attached to the waist to slide down past the hips - men are more likely to dive in while socially swimming
But hey, a little accidental nakedness is harmless.
Yeah, but buying car or home insurance these days consists of entering your details into a website and clicking the button marked, "show me the cheapest price". No real need for you to do any calculations yourself.
Gas providers on the other hand use complex pricing schemes that require a full on bloody spreadsheet to cope with. I hate switching power supplies, but do so regularly to mitigate the repeated price rises.
Not to mention, what the fuck is difficult about calculating a tip? It doesn't have to be precisely 10, 12 or 15% of the price. If I pay £18 for a meal, here, have a £20 note. I don't know what percentage that is because frankly it doesn't matter.
If I'm in a group of 8-9 people and we spend around £400 on food & drinks and the bill includes a service fee, the tip is £0. If it doesn't, the tip is around a fiver each. Tell you what, I'll pay the bill, you pick up the tip.
Stop getting so fucking anal about it, and learn the basic arithmetic needed to get "close enough" in your head.
Never subscribed to alt.folklore.computers. Even in '93 Usenet had too much content for one person to read it all. Who is this Dave Fischer bloke anyway?
I'm currently job hunting. I check up the people that will be interviewing me on LinkedIn. I find out who I know that knows them, or knows their contacts.
The UK only has 60 million people in it. Narrow down to people working in my field, in the industries I have experience in, in the regions of the UK in which I've worked, and LinkedIn interconnects around two-thirds of the people I search for.
So my CV aligns to my LinkedIn profile. Same jobs, same timeframes, and my LinkedIn contacts are available if people want to verify my history.
More interesting are the number of potential employers and job agencies that approach me because of my LinkedIn profile. So yeah, they're already aware, and they will notice if my CV differs, on work experience or hobbies.
My hobbies are diverse and cause a degree of interest in other people anyway, so they're easy to tell the truth about. That's not why they're my hobbies, but it's a nice way to end your CV anyway.
Thanks for the link, but their prices are too high.
I can buy a second hand CD for £2-3 and rip it myself for sufficiently high quality music; downloading the same content for £5-15 isn't a good deal for me.
Of course we won't know anything for sure until Asus releases the product details.
All of which will be utterly irrelevant, as the Transformer Prime experience has demonstrate that Asus will be wholly incapable of meeting market demand or indeed of fixing the initial design flaws that prevent it being a truly great piece of hardware.
I speak from a position of disappointment. It's taken so long to acquire a working Prime that I've given up trying and I'll wait for the next tablet+keyboard combo instead.
Personally I want my phone to be successfully streaming media from the 'net, playing it through my bluetooth headset, waiting for inbound calls and rendering web pages correctly all at the same time.
Given the web page rendering can max out a single core all by itself, how were you planning to avoid stuttering audio, interrupted audio feeds or missed calls?
Sure, it _can_ be done - but it can be done better and quicker with multiple hardware threads.
If a barman abuses my credit card in the few seconds he hasit, he's doing well, he's easily caught and card guarantees mean that I dont lose money anyway. Plus I usually pay in cash in bars.
If a barman has my car key I have to trust him to be honest, he has to not leave it somewhere anybody else can get it, he has to know it's my key not someone else's, he has to avoid losing it.. the threat window is massive in comparison to handing over a card.
Shit, we dont even hand over cards these days, welcome to the 21st century.
Your plan doesnt stop drunk driving. Now where's my medal?
This is France, where a meal is not deemed a meal without a glass of wine. That's not an alcohol problem, that's a cultural difference.
(Medical studies keep being reported as demonstrating that a glass of red wine every day helps prevent heart disease or some other illness; alcohol in moderation is not a problem)
(And why should the police waste their time and yours, which are probably worth a great deal more, haranguing you to see if you have your state-mandated drunk-o-meter?)
Revenue generation, from the drivers traversing France en-route to/from the UK.
If I've had 1 drink I can't be confident that I'm legal so I try my best to judge whether that night I've had enough to not be able to get myself safely home or buy the cab.
You missed a couple of options. One obvious one is to just not drink. Is that so hard? Another is to get someone else to drive. Another is to stay overnight. Another is to move closer to work. Another is to find another job.
I'm not seeing the option for "be a cunt and endanger other road users" - clearly your stupid arse is sat on it.
What the fuck? People only drink in locations that have bartenders? You'd trust a bartender with the keys to your car?
"Carrying a car key while intoxicated" isn't a crime anywhere I'm aware of anyway. If I drive to a bar, become inebriated, stagger to a friend's house, flirt with his sister for a couple of hours, fall unconcious for several hours, wake up and stroll to the local carvery for lunch, why the fuck should I wait for the bar to open to then drive home?
If I drive to the bar, drink orange juice then skip merrily to my friend's house and let his sister give me a red wine enema then I'm even more pissed and the bartender's never seen me anything other than sober. Your plan fails even more badly. I probably have a more interesting night. I still don't fucking drive when drunk.
Using the breathalyzer as a "can I drive" magic 8 ball is absolutely not what you should be doing.
Which is why this law is if anything going to cause an increase in accidents. Right now responsible people will err on the side of caution, and on the whole people tend to be responsible.
Instead of "I've had a drink so I wont drive" it'll be as you say, "I'm under the limit so I can drive", irrespective of whether they're safe to drive or not.
Me, I've played racing games after half a litre of vodka. I know I can drive while drunk, as long as the car bounces off things and corners remain optional.
Driving without due care and attention? Dangerous driving? Failing to be in control of a motor vehicle? Driving without insurance? Reckless endangerment? Breach of the peace? Failing to stop for the police?
A self driving car would break more laws than I can think of in the UK, without needing any specific "You may not allow your automated vehicle onto the public roads" type law.
[At this point maybe I should confess that I spent all my mainframe time allocation at Uni playing the original MUD...:-P ]
Hmm. A couple of years behind you, but I spent six months online time in just one mud alone (of the dozens I played) during my three years at university.
As a result I left university able to do OO programming with an understanding of Unix systems, basic TCP/IP and protocols, web development (such as it was in '94) and self-directed learning.
None of which was explicitly taught on my course, but which did get factored into my honours degree grade by a tutor that understood that my coursework had suffered because I was having too much fun learning more interesting stuff elsewhere.
I still respect his massive contribution to my career.
please tell me what the sites he listed have to do with his education?
You have a horribly narrow view of 'education'.
I have been on site at places where just all the people streaming pandora has put enough load on the network to cause problems when added to the normal course of work network use.
So use traffic shaping. Do not censor the internet.
Slashdot Mirror
diving into the water and have issues keeping their bikini bottoms on
You kidding me? You've never been swimming with friends and see someone dive in and then have to look around to find out where their clothing ended up?
Happens more to men than women in my experience, but that's also because
- men tend not to wear one-piece swimsuits
- men have large bellies making it easier for clothing attached to the waist to slide down past the hips
- men are more likely to dive in while socially swimming
But hey, a little accidental nakedness is harmless.
I don't think I know two people that own their homes outright.
Wait until you get older. My elder colleagues are there already, one friend is and I'm £4k short if I want to (but I don't want to).
Yeah, but buying car or home insurance these days consists of entering your details into a website and clicking the button marked, "show me the cheapest price". No real need for you to do any calculations yourself.
Gas providers on the other hand use complex pricing schemes that require a full on bloody spreadsheet to cope with. I hate switching power supplies, but do so regularly to mitigate the repeated price rises.
Not to mention, what the fuck is difficult about calculating a tip? It doesn't have to be precisely 10, 12 or 15% of the price. If I pay £18 for a meal, here, have a £20 note. I don't know what percentage that is because frankly it doesn't matter.
If I'm in a group of 8-9 people and we spend around £400 on food & drinks and the bill includes a service fee, the tip is £0. If it doesn't, the tip is around a fiver each. Tell you what, I'll pay the bill, you pick up the tip.
Stop getting so fucking anal about it, and learn the basic arithmetic needed to get "close enough" in your head.
Never subscribed to alt.folklore.computers. Even in '93 Usenet had too much content for one person to read it all. Who is this Dave Fischer bloke anyway?
The internet was popular, successful and an essential part of some peoples lives long before it got commercialised.
What's "eternal Septemeber" anyway? I don't recall that one.
I'm currently job hunting. I check up the people that will be interviewing me on LinkedIn. I find out who I know that knows them, or knows their contacts.
The UK only has 60 million people in it. Narrow down to people working in my field, in the industries I have experience in, in the regions of the UK in which I've worked, and LinkedIn interconnects around two-thirds of the people I search for.
So my CV aligns to my LinkedIn profile. Same jobs, same timeframes, and my LinkedIn contacts are available if people want to verify my history.
More interesting are the number of potential employers and job agencies that approach me because of my LinkedIn profile. So yeah, they're already aware, and they will notice if my CV differs, on work experience or hobbies.
My hobbies are diverse and cause a degree of interest in other people anyway, so they're easy to tell the truth about. That's not why they're my hobbies, but it's a nice way to end your CV anyway.
Interesting observations, at least one of which is clearly wrong. None of them however change or address the fact that Americans drive heavier cars.
Outside of SUVs and trucks
SUVs are cars.
A truck bought for commuting to work, going shopping or visiting friends is a car.
How many super-mini cars do you see, daily? They're very common here.
How many trucks do you see, daily? They're very rare here.
So yes, Americans on the whole drive bigger heavier cars. That's not a subjective critique, merely an objective observation.
Thanks for the link, but their prices are too high.
I can buy a second hand CD for £2-3 and rip it myself for sufficiently high quality music; downloading the same content for £5-15 isn't a good deal for me.
I'll him the bother. Just go to Wikipedia, it has 27 models mentioned in the same paragraph:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Nseries
Of course we won't know anything for sure until Asus releases the product details.
All of which will be utterly irrelevant, as the Transformer Prime experience has demonstrate that Asus will be wholly incapable of meeting market demand or indeed of fixing the initial design flaws that prevent it being a truly great piece of hardware.
I speak from a position of disappointment. It's taken so long to acquire a working Prime that I've given up trying and I'll wait for the next tablet+keyboard combo instead.
Personally I want my phone to be successfully streaming media from the 'net, playing it through my bluetooth headset, waiting for inbound calls and rendering web pages correctly all at the same time.
Given the web page rendering can max out a single core all by itself, how were you planning to avoid stuttering audio, interrupted audio feeds or missed calls?
Sure, it _can_ be done - but it can be done better and quicker with multiple hardware threads.
The kids :)
If a barman abuses my credit card in the few seconds he hasit, he's doing well, he's easily caught and card guarantees mean that I dont lose money anyway. Plus I usually pay in cash in bars.
If a barman has my car key I have to trust him to be honest, he has to not leave it somewhere anybody else can get it, he has to know it's my key not someone else's, he has to avoid losing it.. the threat window is massive in comparison to handing over a card.
Shit, we dont even hand over cards these days, welcome to the 21st century.
Your plan doesnt stop drunk driving. Now where's my medal?
This is France, where a meal is not deemed a meal without a glass of wine. That's not an alcohol problem, that's a cultural difference.
(Medical studies keep being reported as demonstrating that a glass of red wine every day helps prevent heart disease or some other illness; alcohol in moderation is not a problem)
(And why should the police waste their time and yours, which are probably worth a great deal more, haranguing you to see if you have your state-mandated drunk-o-meter?)
Revenue generation, from the drivers traversing France en-route to/from the UK.
If I've had 1 drink I can't be confident that I'm legal so I try my best to judge whether that night I've had enough to not be able to get myself safely home or buy the cab.
You missed a couple of options. One obvious one is to just not drink. Is that so hard?
Another is to get someone else to drive.
Another is to stay overnight.
Another is to move closer to work.
Another is to find another job.
I'm not seeing the option for "be a cunt and endanger other road users" - clearly your stupid arse is sat on it.
What the fuck? People only drink in locations that have bartenders? You'd trust a bartender with the keys to your car?
"Carrying a car key while intoxicated" isn't a crime anywhere I'm aware of anyway. If I drive to a bar, become inebriated, stagger to a friend's house, flirt with his sister for a couple of hours, fall unconcious for several hours, wake up and stroll to the local carvery for lunch, why the fuck should I wait for the bar to open to then drive home?
If I drive to the bar, drink orange juice then skip merrily to my friend's house and let his sister give me a red wine enema then I'm even more pissed and the bartender's never seen me anything other than sober. Your plan fails even more badly. I probably have a more interesting night. I still don't fucking drive when drunk.
Using the breathalyzer as a "can I drive" magic 8 ball is absolutely not what you should be doing.
Which is why this law is if anything going to cause an increase in accidents. Right now responsible people will err on the side of caution, and on the whole people tend to be responsible.
Instead of "I've had a drink so I wont drive" it'll be as you say, "I'm under the limit so I can drive", irrespective of whether they're safe to drive or not.
Me, I've played racing games after half a litre of vodka. I know I can drive while drunk, as long as the car bounces off things and corners remain optional.
you're forgetting drunken mothers that beat up their loved ones too.
Domestic violence: It's bad whoever does it.
Driving without due care and attention?
Dangerous driving?
Failing to be in control of a motor vehicle?
Driving without insurance?
Reckless endangerment?
Breach of the peace?
Failing to stop for the police?
A self driving car would break more laws than I can think of in the UK, without needing any specific "You may not allow your automated vehicle onto the public roads" type law.
Which is interesting. Was that concern justified? Was there a higher, lower or equivalent prevalence of sexual assault in that environment?
Were the victims more or less likely to be male or female?
[At this point maybe I should confess that I spent all my mainframe time allocation at Uni playing the original MUD... :-P ]
Hmm. A couple of years behind you, but I spent six months online time in just one mud alone (of the dozens I played) during my three years at university.
As a result I left university able to do OO programming with an understanding of Unix systems, basic TCP/IP and protocols, web development (such as it was in '94) and self-directed learning.
None of which was explicitly taught on my course, but which did get factored into my honours degree grade by a tutor that understood that my coursework had suffered because I was having too much fun learning more interesting stuff elsewhere.
I still respect his massive contribution to my career.
please tell me what the sites he listed have to do with his education?
You have a horribly narrow view of 'education'.
I have been on site at places where just all the people streaming pandora has put enough load on the network to cause problems when added to the normal course of work network use.
So use traffic shaping. Do not censor the internet.