Recycling in general is BS. The saying is Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and should be in that order. Instead what has happened is it has become Recycle, Recycle, Recycle. From what I recall Germany has taken the statement to heart and implemented packaging taxes. With the clamshell designs in packaging it has created more landfill/recycle waste. Impose a packaging tax and you will probably start seeing small things like USB keys and the like being held behind counters instead or at least the retailer will have their own theft proof cases.
Re Dog poop pickup good luck with that, to keep taxes down my area have started removing trash cans from local walking paths. Before they did that it was convenient enough that people would pick up after their dogs now they can't be bothered to walk up to a mile before they find a place to get rid of them so the paths are becoming mine fields of the smelly kind. Talk to the local counselor falls on deaf ears.
No they send you an email and that's it. I have received three and am still with them. It's literally the minimum any company can do to ensure that they don't get wrapped in to this.
Rogers and Bell have not played ball with any of these situations. Them as well as Videotron were asked to provide names with the whole Hurt Locker fiasco and only Videotron obliged. Rogers and Bell told them to get a warrant otherwise go and take a hike. Hell I downloaded Hurt Locker to see what all the hoopla was. Didn't get anything from that. Of course at that point the Oscars were over. May do that with O Dark Thirty as well.
I have one and it is collecting dust since I picked up a Nexus 7. The hardware is good, it's just the OS that was crap. The youtube app which I use a lot had an annoying feature where the video would stop after 5 seconds if you had paused and resumed playing. The wireless networking was flakey. Confirmed this when I got the Nexus and had rock solid signal in my house. The video player doesn't have AC3 nor DTS support so I need to reencode everything. Nexus 7 with MX player has played everything I have thrown at it. Whenever I went to look for new apps they were predominantly ebooks and the lack of try before you buy is annoying (yes I know ipads have the same thing so it isn't an isolated Rim issue). Now when BB10 comes out I may dust it off and recharge the battery to see what it is like and give it to the wife.if she wants it that is.
well I am definitely one critic who did not extoll the virtues of the playbook UI. I hated it so much I bought an android tablet and haven't looked back.
My experience when looking for a job found it is more like the fact that schools work on a shoe-string budget when it comes to their infrastructure especially IT. They don't want to (can't) pay industry rates or if they do you end up doing more than just IT work as part of your role. So they end up getting people willing to take their lower pay.
This is the truth of the matter. Bunch of us consultants went and talked to a corp contract lawyer about non-compete clauses. The gist of it is that in 99% of the cases it is unenforcable but what happens is you spend (around here) $80k in lawyer fees to win and get about $60k back. Most companies know perfectly well that independent contractors don't have that kind of money to throw around.
Microsoft could probably care less if touch doesn't take off. It's Kinect that they want to flourish. Why smear across the screen when you can switch between apps with the wave of an arm
I used to get calls from family members all the time to help fix their machines. I got fed up and told them I don't do it anymore since I have minions at work to do it for me. That seemed to stop it and in a lot of cases they have become self sufficient. I know this as it is obvious non-geek solutions that have been implemented (i.e. buy a new laptop with Windows 7 on it rather than getting new hard drive and still keep Windows 98SE limping along).
It's no better getting it after Xmas. My first real job was the Tuesday after New Years. Personally I would rather have been fired a month before. People (me at least) have a tendency to go whole hog for the holidays. If you know there is an end in site, it might keep you in line. I also had a contract end on Dec 31 but I knew about that mid November that it was being cut.
Firstly I do think Canada mandatory training before getting a license to purchase a gun is a great thing. I think it ensures people really want a gun as well as educates on responsible ownership. However I do believe some of the laws are hypocritical for example an AR15 setup as a 22 is still restricted and can only be have a 5 round clip but a Ruger 1022 semiautohas has no round limit and is effectively the same gun but is not restricted. Also an M1 Garand has more stopping power and is allowed 8 rounds but is not restricted
Yep, I just got a Sony and I tried it out and it can't hold a candle against XBMC. The interface is clunky and slow which I have heard as well about it with Samsung. Now if Samsung was smart they would be using Android instead...
Good to hear since coincidently I ordered one and Brown Santa should be dropping it off today (total cost with Shipping from Newark with case, power plug and SD Card was $58). Any tips?
Banning anything is senseless, it never stops people, this has been seen with the war on drugs, terrorism, etc. Pretty much if a person is of legal age and chooses to do something as long as it doesn't impact someone else, why stop them? Granted you are going to have people become addicted and potentially get worse but that happens already.
The money spent on busting recreational users could be used better in rehab, counseling/mental health fields (a lot of the hard users have underlying mental illness).
It's not even the less technically inclined who want it. I would rather have a tv that can do this than a computer whirring away in my living room as it doesn't go with the decor. I am running 9 fullblown computers of various OS in the house (4 in a VM Lab)
The best part is it is hitting the media here and all it will end up doing is informing people of their rights and the limitations that are now in place
Really? I paid 14% taxes last year and that was on $84k. For this year I think it will be in the low 20's.
Explain that one. Our taxes are higher than the states but you need to be making a buttload to get high percentages and at that point you probably need to hire an accountant to keep track of everything.
Teksavvy has already sent out an email stating what is going on. They have also stated they requested a court order before they give up names. They have also stated that 1200 people have been notified that they were identified. If I had been one (I am not on Teksavvy (yet), my excuse would have been I have an Open Access Point, oops I broke the agreement with Teksavvy (I assume it has a no bandwidth sharing clause) but prove I broke the law.
I do agree with what you are saying. If anything the movie was not about the Iraq War it was purely about a bomb tech who was an adrenaline junky. The fact he was there had zero to do with him just like all soldiers. Someone else had set the policies that led him to be where is. This is the whole reason for the Support the Troops movement. They are their doing their job they volunteered for. It's not their fault they are there. What they do when they are there is a different story. I saw it and found it mildly entertaining, mostly because I have worked around people like this. You can tell them as they are the ones who are excited to go on another tour.
I know you are being funny but we actually have a sledge hammer in our server room we call the degaussinator. We have tempest severs and just in case the hordes decide to invade our office we can pull the drives and at least slow them down from getting data. Which there is nothing there that would be interesting to say the least.
I find leathermans are handy if you don't have the tools. They are very much jacks of all trades, masters of none. Unless he works on a huge campus the tools are in a building over, I think the leatherman would be redundant.
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Recycling in general is BS. The saying is Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and should be in that order. Instead what has happened is it has become Recycle, Recycle, Recycle. From what I recall Germany has taken the statement to heart and implemented packaging taxes. With the clamshell designs in packaging it has created more landfill/recycle waste. Impose a packaging tax and you will probably start seeing small things like USB keys and the like being held behind counters instead or at least the retailer will have their own theft proof cases.
Re Dog poop pickup good luck with that, to keep taxes down my area have started removing trash cans from local walking paths. Before they did that it was convenient enough that people would pick up after their dogs now they can't be bothered to walk up to a mile before they find a place to get rid of them so the paths are becoming mine fields of the smelly kind. Talk to the local counselor falls on deaf ears.
No they send you an email and that's it. I have received three and am still with them. It's literally the minimum any company can do to ensure that they don't get wrapped in to this.
Rogers and Bell have not played ball with any of these situations. Them as well as Videotron were asked to provide names with the whole Hurt Locker fiasco and only Videotron obliged. Rogers and Bell told them to get a warrant otherwise go and take a hike. Hell I downloaded Hurt Locker to see what all the hoopla was. Didn't get anything from that. Of course at that point the Oscars were over. May do that with O Dark Thirty as well.
I have one and it is collecting dust since I picked up a Nexus 7. The hardware is good, it's just the OS that was crap. The youtube app which I use a lot had an annoying feature where the video would stop after 5 seconds if you had paused and resumed playing. The wireless networking was flakey. Confirmed this when I got the Nexus and had rock solid signal in my house. The video player doesn't have AC3 nor DTS support so I need to reencode everything. Nexus 7 with MX player has played everything I have thrown at it.
Whenever I went to look for new apps they were predominantly ebooks and the lack of try before you buy is annoying (yes I know ipads have the same thing so it isn't an isolated Rim issue). Now when BB10 comes out I may dust it off and recharge the battery to see what it is like and give it to the wife.if she wants it that is.
well I am definitely one critic who did not extoll the virtues of the playbook UI. I hated it so much I bought an android tablet and haven't looked back.
My experience when looking for a job found it is more like the fact that schools work on a shoe-string budget when it comes to their infrastructure especially IT. They don't want to (can't) pay industry rates or if they do you end up doing more than just IT work as part of your role. So they end up getting people willing to take their lower pay.
This is the truth of the matter. Bunch of us consultants went and talked to a corp contract lawyer about non-compete clauses. The gist of it is that in 99% of the cases it is unenforcable but what happens is you spend (around here) $80k in lawyer fees to win and get about $60k back. Most companies know perfectly well that independent contractors don't have that kind of money to throw around.
You could hook it up to your Grammar checker
FTFY
Which means you have to remember to always have your tablet handy if you are about to cook something.
Point still stands
Which opens a whole other can of worms with risks of colon perforation, reactions to the anesthetic, etc...
Microsoft could probably care less if touch doesn't take off. It's Kinect that they want to flourish. Why smear across the screen when you can switch between apps with the wave of an arm
I used to get calls from family members all the time to help fix their machines. I got fed up and told them I don't do it anymore since I have minions at work to do it for me.
That seemed to stop it and in a lot of cases they have become self sufficient. I know this as it is obvious non-geek solutions that have been implemented (i.e. buy a new laptop with Windows 7 on it rather than getting new hard drive and still keep Windows 98SE limping along).
It's no better getting it after Xmas. My first real job was the Tuesday after New Years. Personally I would rather have been fired a month before. People (me at least) have a tendency to go whole hog for the holidays. If you know there is an end in site, it might keep you in line. I also had a contract end on Dec 31 but I knew about that mid November that it was being cut.
Firstly I do think Canada mandatory training before getting a license to purchase a gun is a great thing. I think it ensures people really want a gun as well as educates on responsible ownership. However I do believe some of the laws are hypocritical for example an AR15 setup as a 22 is still restricted and can only be have a 5 round clip but a Ruger 1022 semiautohas has no round limit and is effectively the same gun but is not restricted. Also an M1 Garand has more stopping power and is allowed 8 rounds but is not restricted
Yep, I just got a Sony and I tried it out and it can't hold a candle against XBMC. The interface is clunky and slow which I have heard as well about it with Samsung. Now if Samsung was smart they would be using Android instead...
Good to hear since coincidently I ordered one and Brown Santa should be dropping it off today (total cost with Shipping from Newark with case, power plug and SD Card was $58).
Any tips?
Banning anything is senseless, it never stops people, this has been seen with the war on drugs, terrorism, etc. Pretty much if a person is of legal age and chooses to do something as long as it doesn't impact someone else, why stop them? Granted you are going to have people become addicted and potentially get worse but that happens already.
The money spent on busting recreational users could be used better in rehab, counseling/mental health fields (a lot of the hard users have underlying mental illness).
Let's not talk about the chemicals that are created as part of the manufacturing of solar panels.
It's not even the less technically inclined who want it. I would rather have a tv that can do this than a computer whirring away in my living room as it doesn't go with the decor.
I am running 9 fullblown computers of various OS in the house (4 in a VM Lab)
The best part is it is hitting the media here and all it will end up doing is informing people of their rights and the limitations that are now in place
Really? I paid 14% taxes last year and that was on $84k. For this year I think it will be in the low 20's.
Explain that one. Our taxes are higher than the states but you need to be making a buttload to get high percentages and at that point you probably need to hire an accountant to keep track of everything.
Teksavvy has already sent out an email stating what is going on. They have also stated they requested a court order before they give up names. They have also stated that 1200 people have been notified that they were identified. If I had been one (I am not on Teksavvy (yet), my excuse would have been I have an Open Access Point, oops I broke the agreement with Teksavvy (I assume it has a no bandwidth sharing clause) but prove I broke the law.
I do agree with what you are saying. If anything the movie was not about the Iraq War it was purely about a bomb tech who was an adrenaline junky. The fact he was there had zero to do with him just like all soldiers. Someone else had set the policies that led him to be where is. This is the whole reason for the Support the Troops movement. They are their doing their job they volunteered for. It's not their fault they are there. What they do when they are there is a different story.
I saw it and found it mildly entertaining, mostly because I have worked around people like this. You can tell them as they are the ones who are excited to go on another tour.
I know you are being funny but we actually have a sledge hammer in our server room we call the degaussinator. We have tempest severs and just in case the hordes decide to invade our office we can pull the drives and at least slow them down from getting data. Which there is nothing there that would be interesting to say the least.
I find leathermans are handy if you don't have the tools. They are very much jacks of all trades, masters of none. Unless he works on a huge campus the tools are in a building over, I think the leatherman would be redundant.
Thanks!