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Hey Draco!
Happy Birthday!
Yes, I checked the wiki page too. Doesn't change the fact that I never heard the alternate name used.Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
Hope is the denial of reality
My wife hates football, loves sex, but I think she has started enjoying putting together the superbowl party more. It gives her a chance to receive praise from a large number of people for her most favorite thing of all ...cooking.
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The worst job in the world is better than being broke and homeless
Well there ya go. That's the Super Bowl Sunday.
... and now for something completely different:
Last August I contracted to install some cabinetry and trim for a residence. I warranty my work for one year. Completed the job, homeowner was amazed by how nice it turned out. Last week he had some pipes burst, ruining some the cabinets. He called me, and I ordered replacement cabinets and installed them. Today he calls me all pissed off because he recieved my bill for the replacement cabinets and time installing them. He's willing to pay for the cabinets he says, but tells me I'm ripping him off because my work is still under warranty. The s.o.b. can't get it through his head that a warranty on my work doesn't cover his pipes bursting. Now he refuses to pay any of it. So I have to go through the hassle of putting a lien on his property, something I hate to do. WTF is wrong with people?
The worst job in the world is better than being broke and homeless
I'm on your side on this but I'll play devil's advocate and ask if you gave him a formal estimate before doing the work?
Faith is Hope (see Loki's sig for details)
If hindsight is 20-20, why is it so often ignored?
Formal? As in a written estimate? Not on the replacement work. I did inform him that the cabinets would cost the same as the original ones installed plus a 10% rush charge on shipping. I told my hourly rate was also the same. All this was, unfotunately, verbal and apparently unclear to him at the time. It's a small community, and I've never had any issue with such agreements before, should've known beter.
The worst job in the world is better than being broke and homeless
Thank you
So the other day, this security firm claims they had the personal information on the ring leaders of the Anon group. They wanted to sell this information to the FBI.
So whats Anon do?
Reminds them to check the security of their shit.
Anon seized control of the internet security firm's website, defaced its pages, acquired 60,000 company e-mails, deleted backup files, seized Barr's Twitter account, and took down the founder's website rootkit.com.screenshot of message left on defaced website:
On Evolution, Biology Teachers Stray From Lesson Plan
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/science/08creationism.html?src=unTeaching creationism in public schools has consistently been ruled unconstitutional in federal courts, but according to a national survey of more than 900 public high school biology teachers, it continues to flourish in the nation’s classrooms.
Researchers found that only 28 percent of biology teachers consistently follow the recommendations of the National Research Council to describe straightforwardly the evidence for evolution and explain the ways in which it is a unifying theme in all of biology. At the other extreme, 13 percent explicitly advocate creationism, and spend at least an hour of class time presenting it in a positive light.
That leaves what the authors call “the cautious 60 percent,” who avoid controversy by endorsing neither evolution nor its unscientific alternatives. In various ways, they compromise...
Hope is the denial of reality
Some people I work with have received death threats when they lived in the US, because evolution is Satan. Ugh. And it's only marginally better here
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
I suspected as much tbh.
Curriculum recommendations and guides are just recommendations and guides.
How a teacher chooses to follow those recommendations and guides, or even the curriculum itself, is going to vary enormously.
And if a teacher is a creationist, has creationist leanings, or is simply too cautious to cause any controversy in the classroom, there is little to stop them disregarding those recommendations and guides.
Classrooms are hardly policed.
Now, now.
What's more important.
Your immortal soul, or actually being educated and intelligent.
Those teachers are heroes.
*gags*
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Hooray for cyber bullies? Granted, this 'security' firm apparently made a colossal mistake in trying to wheedle money out of the feds, to sell out a faction MUCH bigger than themselves and underestimated their power, but really?So the other day, this security firm claims they had the personal information on the ring leaders of the Anon group. They wanted to sell this information to the FBI.
So whats Anon do?
Reminds them to check the security of their shit.
screenshot of message left on defaced website:
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Thats why its in the WTF thread...
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Wow just wow. The pharmacist who issued the abortion drug should be fired.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/health/82...for-antibioticA US teen could lose her baby after a pharmacist mistakenly gave her a powerful abortion drug instead of the antibiotic her doctor prescribed.
I giggled, I really did.A former Indiana mayor who won four terms in the 1930s and 1950s is proving less popular with modern-day city leaders, who say they probably won't name a new government center for him because of the jokes his moniker could inspire.
Harry Baals is the runaway favorite in online voting to name the new building in Fort Wayne, about 120 miles northeast of Indianapolis. But Deputy Mayor Beth Malloy said that probably won't be enough to put the name of the city's longest-tenured mayor on the center.
The issue is pronunciation. The former mayor pronounced his last name "balls." His descendants have since changed it to "bales."
Supporters said it's unfair that the former mayor can't be recognized simply because his name makes some people snicker. But opponents fear that naming the center after Baals would make Fort Wayne the target of late-night television jokes.
"We realize that while Harry Baals was a respected mayor, not everyone outside of Fort Wayne will know that," Malloy said Tuesday in a statement to The Associated Press. "We wanted to pick something that would reflect our pride in our community beyond the boundaries of Fort Wayne."
An online site taking suggestions for names showed more than 1,000 votes Tuesday for the Harry Baals Government Center. That's more than three times the votes received by the closest contender.
City spokesman Frank Suarez said the city has no regrets about opening the name selection up to people online.
"It is a new way of reaching out to the community," he said. "The fact that 17,000 votes have come in tell us the buzz created by this is really good. When was the last time somebody could say they had fun with their government? We've had fun with this."
Suarez told The Journal Gazette that Mayor Tom Henry will meet with local groups and choose from up to 10 finalists from the suggestions submitted. Online voting ends Friday.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Whoops, sorry, for some reason I though you where hooraying the Anon's.
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I guess this is as good a place as any for posting a riddle. (NCIS viewers please abstain).
A man walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a glass of water. The bartender pulls a shotgun from behind the bar and fires, narrowly missing the man's head. The man thanks the bartender, puts a tip on the bar and leaves.
Why the thanks and tip?
Faith is Hope (see Loki's sig for details)
If hindsight is 20-20, why is it so often ignored?
UK has a very well known Labour MP, who is now the Shadow Chancellor, called Ed Balls.
I haven't heard so much as a snigger from anyone.
I don't find Ed nearly as funny as Harry.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Don't get me wrong, I support most of Operation Payback, the WTF part here was how this two-bit security firm was outed so easily by the target they were trying to profit off of. Some pretty interesting stuff came out because of it too, like the presentations multiple security firms made to Bank of America in different ways to destory wikileaks.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Junk food makes woman have orgasms
Domestic goddess Nigella Lawson made cooking a raunchy, sensual experience but she has nothing on Gabi Jones. When Miss Jones eats to excess, she has an orgasm.
The 25-year-old has now ballooned in weight to 223kg (35st) after eating enough ice-cream, cakes and pizzas to reach the height of sexual pleasure.
She suffers from a medical condition called persistent genital arousal syndrome, where orgasms are triggered without direct sexual arousal.
In extreme cases, sufferers of the condition experience 300 orgasms a day.
She first noticed something unusual was happening as she tucked into a tub of ice-cream.
‘My friends thought I was making it up,’ said Miss Jones, of Colorado, ‘I was stunned but in no doubt of what had happened.’
She has put on 95kg (15st) in the past five years as she gorged and climaxed.
She decided to profit from her affliction by setting up a fetish website where punters pay to watch her scoff herself to orgasm.
Something for everyone?....setting up a fetish website where punters pay to watch her scoff herself to orgasm.
Gotta pay for the food and medical care somehow...
So, I got a package from Nielsen Ratings asking me to fill out a TV diary this week and mail it back to them for their survey.
There was $30 cash in the envelope. I was probably going to do the survey anyway, but now I really feel obligated. Why would they put money in there?! I feel so weird about it.
So they could play on your feelings of obligation when you saw the cash in the envelope, of course.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
IBM's Watson computer competed on Jeopardy last night. He is besting my favorite, Ken, who I remember watching so many years ago.
But even machines understand that you don't name He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named! (he wasn't quick enough when Voldemort was the question). He had a few other issues as well, but I really think Watson is handicapped here. It could ring in instantly and do the answer processing before his time ran out; even if he missed one, his answers were right enough often enough to keep him positive, and to keep the others from scoring. Ken picked this up after the commercial break.
Wonder how the second half will turn out.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
I missed the last half of that due to Ms Fussy Pants needing her bath. I hope to get to watch the whole show tonight. It was really neat to watch him spank Ken in the first half that I did see: he only had $200 and Watson had $5000+.
Due to government dilly-dallying, I had about 12 hours notice that I have to be in Washington DC by 9AM tomorrow morning.
FML.
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