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Films need to do this more, if only to piss off the people who have to feed it into the projector.
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You either lead, follow or get out of the way--Guess who's in the lead??
Apparently me because I can't hear a damned thing, lol
his job is pretty awesome, he gets payed to party and dance
Over the past few weeks, we have been receiving numerous complaints from employees about the slow performance of the Internet during business hours. These complaints are specifically regarding people's inability to effectively perform their jobs which include the need to access Google Apps (email, docs & spreadsheets, and calendar), remote servers, and certain websites necessary for research and problem resolution. Each time these complaints were received, investigation revealed that during these times other employees were streaming media that was clearly not work related.
As a reminder of what is clearly stated in the Employee Handbook, our policy pertaining to acceptable Internet usage is that gaming, [non work related] downloading, accessing interactive entertainment, and other ways that diminish your effectiveness or productivity or that of other employees is strongly discouraged.
Please note it is not our objective to single people out, nor is it our intention to prevent anyone from using the Internet for personal business that is sometimes necessary during business hours. However, everyone should be aware that as part of our ongoing IT preventative maintenance, Internet and bandwidth performance is regularly monitored. If someone is accessing a web site that is utilizing an inordinate amount of bandwidth, they may be asked to demonstrate the work related need for such usage.
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Hmm, didn't have anything in my clipboard.
My brain hurts. Where's my lawyer, I need to sue someone for damaging my intellectual property!
Nothing kills a live session more than a request for an Adobe PDF viewer update request in the middle of a session. I got this one during a live presentation while playing a DVD. The DVD on the projector simply stopped. Going to the laptop, we discovered that despite the fact were in the field with no internet connection, Adobe needed our permission to get an update. The fact a PDF viewer has permission to stop the show by having Windows Vista stop it to ask permission for an update without a net connection convinced me that Vista is unsuitable for presentation and digital audio workstation applications.
Swedish police are probing a malodorous fermented flying fish incident in which an open can of local delicacy surströmming was launched through the bedroom window of a 52-year-old Motala man.
Sweden's The Local describes the result as "breakfast in bed with a cruel and unusual twist", and according to our correspondent Mike Richards that pretty well sums it up, since he categorises the smell of surströmming as akin to "composted gorgonzola in a Viking's jockstrap".
The cops are treating the piscine projectile launch as "property damage", and reckon they have a pretty good idea who was responsible.
For the record, surströmming comprises fermented Baltic herring which are brewed "in-the-can", allowing bacteria to work their magic and produce the distinctive odour.
The tins are apparently banned by some airlines, since they may pose an explosive risk. Mercifully, al-Qaeda is unlikely to avail itself of this property to down aircraft because, according to Mike, you have to be "clinically Swedish" to even look at a can of the stuff without fainting. ®
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Nordic Blondes and Irish redheads get frisked pretty throughly. If they are very large breasted then we have to really check them over, make them get naked, take photos, oil them up and take more photos, etc...
"To initiate a war of aggression," said the judges in the Nuremberg trial of the Nazi leadership, "is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." In stating this guiding principle of international law, the judges specifically rejected German arguments of the "necessity" for pre-emptive attacks against other countries.
"To initiate a war of aggression," said the judges in the Nuremberg trial of the Nazi leadership, "is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." In stating this guiding principle of international law, the judges specifically rejected German arguments of the "necessity" for pre-emptive attacks against other countries.
was hoping it'd just finish itself off.
2: Isolated (starport X, Red zone, remove +DMs to TL from A/B/C starports (do NOT -4 for X).
Min TL is environmental TL minimum, TL can be > 8, society not interested in space travel or contact)3: Major social collapse (pop decrease by 1d6, roll starport as if pop 0, roll unmodified 1d6-1
for new TL. If TL is below environmental minimum, pop=0 and world is Barren) 4: Major environmental disaster (pop decrease by 1d3, if atm is 3/5/6/8 then atm is tainted to 2/4/7/9)
5: Ongoing Plague/War (pop decrease by 1d3, travel zone increase)
6: Recent starport downgrade (decrease starport by one step. minimum E)
7: Recent revolution (re-roll gov (on appropriate pop table) and law)
8: Recent starport upgrade (increase starport by one step. maximum A)
9: State of Emergency (increase law by 1d6)
10: Population increase (Pop+1, max A)
11: Recent Balkanization (gov 7, keep law, TL+1)
12: Technologically advanced (increase TL by 1d3)
Changes in Starport alter the TL (remove or add the difference in TL that is appropriate to the new starport), but have not had a chance to affect the population yet (so you can have a type A with pop 5, or a B with pop 3). Minimum TL is the environmental minimum unless otherwise stated.
Note that trade codes will be affected by these changes.
Yeah, in the same sense as when some hysterical woman shouts "Won't someone think of the children!" and Michael Jackson raises his hand to say "I am!"
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Visualization exercises
Here's a progressive, four-step visualization exercise to help you sharpen your skills. Don't force yourself to complete each step in only one session. It takes time to develop great skills.
Exercise 1: Get into a comfortable position, close your eyes and relax. Take a few deep breaths and clear your mind. Allow pictures to pop into your head. Choose one and hold it. Don't let anything else enter your mind. Concentrate solely on that picture. Hold the picture for as long as you can. When you let it go, end the session. When you can hold the picture for five minutes, move on to the next exercise.
Exercise 2: Choose a very simple physical object, like a pencil, book, etc. Hold it in your hands. Memorize all you can about it: How does it feel, where to the shadows fall, how does it feel in your hands. When you are ready, set the object down and close your eyes. Recreate the object with all the detail you can in your mind. Can you feel it in your hands? Do you see the shadows playing on it? When you can hold the image for five minutes, move on.
Exercise 3: This gets tricky. This time, you create an image that exists no where on this Earth. What would a plant look like that grew on a distant planet? Create that plant in your mind with as much detail as you can. What does it look like? How does it feel? What is it's texture? Look at it from all angles. Let the picture vanish. Now recall it and hold it for as long as you can. When you can hold it for five minutes, move on.
Exercise 4: Recall your made up plant from outerspace. Once you have a solid picture of it in your mind, open your eyes and "see" that plant in the physical world. Look around you, keeping that plant firmly in the center of your vision everywhere you look. Make it as real as you can, like you could reach out and expect to touch it. When you can hold this for five minutes, you are finished.
Being able to visualize energy as well as the expected outcome of our magickal workings is vital to success. Continue to visualize items to make them real in the physical world like in exercise 4. The easier it becomes for you, the longer you'll be able to hold an image and the quicker you will become at visualization.
If you are feeling ambitious, try this exercise for a moving visualization. When working with magickal energy, you will need to move it. It is a good idea to practice making an object move, fast, without losing any of its visual quality.
Exercise 5: Imagine an object, such as a hotwheels car or a train. Visualize it down to the last detail. Open your eyes and see that object. Now, without losing any detail, make the object move. Make it race across the floor, up the wall, across the ceiling, all over the room. Continue this exercise, building up to the point where you can keep your vision moving for 5 minutes.
man: Hey Sister, does the Catholic Church save bad girls?
nun: Why yes sir, the Catholic Church does indeed save bad girls.
man: Well, do you suppose you could save ONE FOR ME?
Well if you want to get down to the nitty gritty, everything is waves and empty space anyway, and yet Heisenberg's uncertainty principle asserts that this thing we call "empty space" is practically foaming at the mouth with spontaneous creation of particles and antiparticles at any one specific moment in time.
doesn't putting Heisenberg in anything make it sound all scientific and plausible?
for instance: The Heisenberg effect is the blue glow experienced when observing submersed reactors. It's actually called the Cherenkov effect, but Heisenberg sounded just as good.
SCIENCE: Heisenberg
The phenomenon was discovered by Nikola Tesla during high frequency research he conducted between 1888 and 1897.
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Creds: got here in 1962, written for just about everybody, won the Writers Guild Award four times for solo work, sat on the WGAw Board twice, worked on negotiating committees, and was out on the picket lines with my NICK COUNTER SLEEPS WITH THE FISHE$$$ sign. You may have heard my name. I am a Union guy, I am a Guild guy, I am loyal. I fuckin' LOVE the Guild.
And I voted NO on accepting this deal.
My reasons are good, and they are plentiful; Patric Verrone will be saddened by what I am about to say; long-time friends will shake their heads; but this I say without equivocation...
THEY BEAT US LIKE A YELLOW DOG. IT IS A SHIT DEAL. We finally got a timorous generation that has never had to strike, to get their asses out there, and we had to put up with the usual cowardly spineless babbling horse's asses who kept mumbling "lessgo bac'ta work" over and over, as if it would make them one iota a better writer. But after months on the line, and them finally bouncing that pus-sucking dipthong Nick Counter, we rushed headlong into a shabby, scabrous, underfed shovelfulla shit clutched to the affections of toss-in-the-towel
summer soldiers trembling before the Awe of the Alliance.
My Guild did what it did in 1988. It trembled and sold us out. It gave away the EXACT co-terminus expiration date with SAG for some bullshit short-line substitute; it got us no more control of our words; it sneak-abandoned the animator and reality beanfield hands before anyone even forced it on them; it made nice so no one would think we were meanies; it let the Alliance play us like the village idiot. The WGAw folded like a Texaco Road Map from back in the day.
And I am ashamed of this Guild, as I was when Shavelson was the prexy, and we wasted our efforts and lost out on technology that we had to strike for THIS time. 17 days of streaming tv!!!????? Geezus, you bleating wimps, why not just turn over your old granny for gang-rape?
You deserve all the opprobrium you get. While this nutty festschrift of demented pleasure at being allowed to go back to work in the rice paddy is filling your cowardly hearts with joy and relief that the grips and the staff at the Ivy and street sweepers won't be saying nasty shit behind your back, remember this:
You are their bitches. They outslugged you, outthought you, outmaneuvered you; and in the end you ripped off your pants, painted yer asses blue, and said yes sir, may I have another.
Please excuse my temerity. I'm just a sad old man who has fallen among Quislings, Turncoats, Hacks and Cowards.
I must go now to whoops. My gorge has become buoyant.
Respectfully, Yr. Pal, Harlan Ellison
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The same scientists that say there is a reactor at the very center of the earth, also say the reactor is running out of Uranium fuel. It is possible that it will run out of fuel between 2012 and 2025.
That would be a shame. Without all that fuel, how will we power the giant rockets which keep the Earth moving around the sun?
I mean, think of the permutations! Why won't anyone think of the permutations?
This was on the 9:00 o'clock news the other night and this works THIS TOOK TWO PAGES OF THE TUES! DAY USA TODAY - IT IS FOR REAL.PLEEEEEEASE READ!!!! it was on the news! This thing is for real. Rest assured AOL and Intel will follow through with their promises for fear of facing a multimillion-dollar class action suit similar to the one filed by PepsiCo against General Electric not too long ago.
Dear Friends; Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill Gates sharing his fortune. If you ignore this, You will repent later. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail beta test.
When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will track it (If you are a Microsoft Windows user)? For a two weeks time period.
For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $245.00 For every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will pay you $243.00 and ! for every third person that receives it, You will be paid $241.00. Within two weeks, Microsoft will contact you for your address and then send you a check.
Regards
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I thought this was a scam myself, But two weeks after receiving this e-mail and forwarding it on. Microsoft contacted me for my address and within days, I receive a check for $24, 800.00. You need to respond before the beta testing is over. If anyone can afford this, Bill gates is the man.
It's all marketing expense to him. Please forward this to as many people as possible. You are bound to get at least $10,000
I haven't copied anything yet...
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We don't know why they're rioting. I think it's because they're bored.
They're only banning tobacco because it neutralizes the effects of Valium.
it's all in the name of security! If we did not do this terrorists would be blowing up EVERYTHING!!!!
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Mark Bunker is thoguht to be backed by the peddlers of pyschotic drugs to school children, the psychiatrits, the group now revealed as being the guides of behind Hilter, a role Bunker has assumed with the Anonymous group:
We don't have the brains to predict what super-human artificial intelligence will be like.
it turns out that the problem is not just hard - that would make it solvable given sufficient effort and money - it's actually impossible.
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I live downtown Chicago. I don't even want to fucking shower with the tap water
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For 80 years the Design Bureau designed and developed more than 300 projects of air vehicles of different types, small aircraft and airsledges. Almost 90 projects were embodied in metal and about 40 projects were realized in serial production. More than 18 thousands aircraft with gTUh logo were lifted in to the skies of our country in the XX-th century. Hundreds of gTUh aircraft were exported and showed excellent operational characteristics. To-day a substantial portion of aircraft passengers in Russia and in CIS are transported by Tupolevfs aircraft. In Russian Air Force aviation component of nuclear defense triad is defined by Tupolevfs long-range and intercontinental carriers.
At the turn of the century the Design Bureau was incorporated in to a new structure ? gTUPOLEVh PSC comprising besides the Design Bureau test facility and serial aircraft manufacturing plant gAVIASTARh in Ulianovsk. Integration with Kazan Aviation Manufacturing Corporation is currently under process. Now the main trends of gTUPOLEVh PSC activity are as follows:
To-day issues on long-range aviation and Navy modernization are under consideration.
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I hate to be a pestiferous virago and contradict your amative mien, but in my opinion the aberrant misspelling of said "word of the day" was not copacetic. It may be ineffectual, but some day I hope to overcome this perdurable ennui.
So do you use the "correct" option
Surely, it's an ethical violation, fraternizing perhaps. What you have is a consensual relationship which resulted in new life being created. How warped is the society to scorn such natural behavior? How strange are the times in which we live where what has in the past been normal sexual attraction is now condemned and gets one tagged and bagged for life?
Hi, I find that if I eat something heavy in garlic and onions, my vagina (specifically, discharges) will smell like it, too.
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I don't actually think we'll have a shift back to single-threaded apps. The fact is that most programs run "fast enough" now, even single-threaded on quadcore systems. The ones that don't (mostly games and some professional software) are frequently relatively easy to multithread. I suspect most programs will stay single-threaded, and the ones that need maximum speed will become extremely multithreaded.
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ust blackmail them, threatening to sue them for harboring FAGS.
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The next scene in my movie: a girl complains to her boyfriend that smoking is bad while she is drinking a diet coke.
In September 2007 ORB made public its finding that an estimated 1.2 million violent deaths had taken place in Iraq since March 2003. The agency commented at the time that US-occupied Iraq had ga murder rate that now exceeds the Rwanda genocide from 1994 (800,000 murdered),h with another one million wounded and millions more driven from their homes into exile, either internal or foreign.
i thought they were great.
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