Just goes to show
Whether Scotland chooses independence or not, they're still going to end up with politicians as shit as the rest of us have.
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Aldi staff used to beat EPOS software.
I worked for a company years ago who tried to sell EPOS software to them. They lined a cashier up against the software saleman and he was beaten hands down by the Aldi cashier. Aldi also paid their staff way more than the other supermarkets did per hour, (dont know if they still do).
Hold on I have to issues with your Paragraph
1. The animals are not happy though. Why do you think so many captive breeding programs fail? The animals know they are safe and no longer feel a need to reproduce?
Which likely by definition means they are less stressed, although I'd argue that there's all sorts of factors that effect breeding programs - some animals need stress, some don't some need the right temps all sorts of things.
2. Saying that 25 acres is plenty of room is ridiculous. That's trying to impose Human views onto animals and that just doesn't work.
If you can't impose human views on animals doesn't that negate point 1 about the animals being happy or not anyway?
Biggest shame is that we are likely to be needing zoos to keep wild populations away from extinction
Your comment about the crossing the line is so true.
I was bullied and was caught by a teacher pasting one of my bullies who decided to push me without his usual back up. In fact I was so gone at that point I looked at the teacher who had entered the room and then turned back and hit him a few more times before stopping and basically standing there not giving a fuck.
I was quite willing at that point to take any punishment in fact it was at the point I felt it might stop it or give me an excuse to out my problem, in a school that had a don't grass culture.
Kudos though to the math teacher though who I'm pretty sure had guessed at the causes me being a mild geeky pupil, and who just calmly asked me if I had finished and then said well "both of you write 500 words on why you think fighting's doesn't solve everything". I probably should have been way more punished considering the lovely cathartic kicking I had given this guy and the state he was in.
"even said that there is an inherent risk that every government is corrupt"
So doesnt that mean that this is putting his thoughts along simialr lines of people such as, Tacitus, Plutarch, Jefferson, Sagan, Nietzche, Bernard Shaw, Lord Acton etc etc?
Seriously is this head an idiot? Some of the greatest minds around have made comments and addressed issues such as this, (not saying the kid is one of them btw), personally I'd be quite worried about the lack of general education and knowledge in the school head.
Not necessarily.
I was in Thailand earlier this year, it was quite handy being able to sit in my hammock and do a quick surf of the web. Do some ID of things I had seen on a dive, look up ferry times for an island hop, check out some recommended places to wander across to, stuff like that.
It didn't detract from my holiday to laze in my hammock for an hour or so doing this, and it didn't mean I wasn't keeping myself plenty occupied during the rest of the days or evenings.
I wouldn't have missed it much either though I'd have just read a book, and I definitely wouldn't have answered an email from work that was work related.
Doxycycline is not a cure.
Its a prophylatic - its works to prevent you from catching it but you have to dose yourself with it all of the time when you are in a malaria infested area, Malarones another one, they can both have pretty bad side effects as well. Can't remember which ones the worst (think its Doxy) but they can be really bad, friend of mine has malaria because they ended up stopping taking the stuff because it was fucking em up so bad whilst they were on it.
While I see where you are coming from.
I think you don't really show much knowledge of why people are being affected by malaria and why its such a killer in poor countries.
For example
Its alright knowing what causes it but affording mosquito nets and being able to eradicate issues such as stagnant water to prevent it aren't that easy in some of these areas.
Likewise knowing that prophylactics are available is all well and good, but that's a lot of cash for someone whose poor to dose themselves with all of the time. (Plus some pretty unpleasant side effects - especially in the older type ones).
I have to agree with you and have an upvote. I consider myself an environmentalist and reasonably well informed, and sensible enough to want to analyse the evidence first. Problem is there's a heck of a lot of people who don't and just have a knee jerk reaction or think that because someone works for an environmental lobby group of some sort they are such paragons of virtue that they will definitely and everything written must be the truth, ironically whilst usually assuring us the other side will definitely be biased because they have an agenda.
Clamshells are so much more convenient if you don't take to much care of your stuff.
My V3 used to be in my pocket all the time, and that included plenty of wandering round like a bum in different countries with it just shoved in shorts, admittedly the outside looked like it had been used for ballistic testing for small arms fire at the end with loads of nicks and dints, but I never had to care about it. The thing lasted being mistreated from being bought when it first came out at a stupid price, to last year.
I was a little upset when it died.
Now doing the same stuff I find myself always worrying about keys and coins in my pocket whenever I put my smart phone away.
That does not surprise me at all, its always struck me when in SEA that they are very thrifty about stuff like that. I don't know if its cultural because the areas used to be really poor but to me its seems something we lack in a way.
Why not re-use the nails rather than discard them just pay to have slightly shinier ones to use?
You see the re-use of items a lot, I've stayed in places that have basically been built from collected scrap and actually look pretty nice, I've been to all you can eat buffets that will charge you extra if you fill your plate and don't eat it all (but don't care if you make multiple visits) its the waste of food they find objectionable.
It makes them rather nifty at building things from what we would often regard as crap of landfill as well, in a Heath Robinson engineering sort of way.
Dr Who was never scary for me because you thought Quatermass and the pit, and Sapphire and Steel*, and Hammer house of horror was not only suitable but must have viewing for a young child.
Then again giving me The Rats, The Shining and Cujo to read when about 12 or 13 probably didn't help either. :)
*which El Reg you should also do an article on.
Apart from the third party cookies you may need for your shopping cart. I would have thought the blocking of tracking cookies does a favour for the small business. These sort of things strike me as the realm of the companies that can afford big marketing departments and talk of things like metrics. Not some little online shop.
Nice one Mozilla your helping the small business stay competitive.
While trying to clear up the mess of a terrible ERP implementation at a company, the MD used to get me to come and copy files across for him from the network to his laptop. since the files he wanted always came from the same place I wrote a little batch file to do it and save me the bother.
He still used to call me in to do it, when I asked why his answer was, "If I have to bother learning about this stuff, why should I hire you?"
@ I aint spartacus.
Its a practice, could remove contacts lenses after nights out clubbing getting seriously twisted, it becomes automatic. Likewise putting them in I once you do it a few times you learn the muscle memory you don't need a mirror.
Hell i once removed the contact lenses with no bother and I was wrecked enough that I was laying in bed thinking I was going to get lucky with the missus, before I realised I had been stroking my own leg for 5 minutes.
@Ed yep done that. :)
My soft contacts stay on underwater when diving on those occasions I have had to remove a mask, I would think hard lenses would not.
However as the poster above says if you do, its worth taking them out on deco times or when you are back on shore and giving them a good rinse, there's loads of bacteria in see water especially tropical waters. (Same reason you shouldn't dive with open wounds if you dive a lot).
All of the above movements does seem to imply a superiority from our whole bodies physiology. Thinking of throwing and martial arts moves powers really delivered from us being able to get all the muscles to work in a co-ordination with each other, whether its a whipping action or coming of the back foot I've seen lightly built people deliver real powerful kicks and punches in comparison with weightlifting types who don't train on getting that synergy.
Wasn't there also some research that said that human muscle strength is inhibited to give us better muscular control? Which I would think makes all the difference on fine control for a throw, or snapping out a punch with the hand eye co-ordination to hit where you intend on the target.
Chimps wouldn't seem to have the hips to use some of the kinetic actions we use, or the fine muscle control to hit a target with an accurate punch. Admittedly a chimps more likely to just run at you screaming and bite you with its canines or tear your arm off and hit you with it, so having the brains to think a pointy stick and tactics would be handy has got to be some help as well.
Aaah that sounds like Orange, I once moved my number across to them, they kept the contract going on the number it had replaced as well.
Course they didn't tell me that no apparently a major communications company has no means of working out how to contact one of their customers on their phones, it was far easier to send a bailiff round 3 yrs later.
Also major telecoms companies should not have their complaints department only reachable by PO Box.
Actually I have a friend who does this and apart from the fact its sales. It sounds a really interesting job, they have to know and practice performing different types of surgery related to their job, have been in theater seeing things like the da vinci machine being used, and have to know and do a whole host of other quite geeky stuff.
It also pays quite well.
Everyone comments about how much it costs the tax payer, and they're right but its not going to make a difference that sort of culture seems endemic in councils.
I've worked in a few and it always seems to me that a large percentage of the wastage money wise with a council is because its not earned just given so no one is as accountable. If you went to your boss in a private company and had to explain how you were pissing money up the wall because of x,y,z and that you wasn't doing anything about it, how long do you reckon you'd last?
Yet I have worked for council departments who don't even bother finding out the x,y,z let alone try and fix it or have to explain it.
Working for the council really made me resent paying my council tax - not because I don't think we should contribute to society I do, but because if I do I don't want it being sodding wasted by idiots.*
*Apparently commenting this to your boss whilst working for the council shows a bad attitude.
If you turn up to an environmentally protected area, that has endangered species in it and think fuck it lets get some bulldozers in so I can be totally indulgent to my own whims, without once caring about any possible impact. You should expect people will talk about you like you're a wanker.