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Wasted The Great said:
Oh man, how did the people at work take that one?
Here, they took that stuff away, then turned off the firewall, then took it away again. Guess how that went.
Yeah. Not too hot.
Yeah. Not too hot.
It didn't go that bad. I heard a few people grumble, but they don't say much to us in IT. The policy has always been 'no internet radio' but we are now enforcing it.
So, yesterday I was sitting in the uni with a friend, and we were both busy writing our papers, as this girl walked by us phoning with somebody and just as she went by, she said: "Last night, I dreamed of my cellphone. That hasn't happened in a while."
My friend and I looked at each other and we couldn't write for another five minutes. Another girl sitting at the same table felt the same way about it.
My friend and I looked at each other and we couldn't write for another five minutes. Another girl sitting at the same table felt the same way about it.
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I see the ghost of navigators.
Reminds me of a conversation I overheard between a couple of guys on the train one day.
Guy 1 to Guy 2: "Going window shopping later today".
Guy 2: "Why are you shopping for windows?" (with a serious look on his face).
<Insert facepalm smiley here>
Guy 1 to Guy 2: "Going window shopping later today".
Guy 2: "Why are you shopping for windows?" (with a serious look on his face).
<Insert facepalm smiley here>
People like that just crack me up!
Anyway, it's friday, its raining like a big dog outside, the river has come up enough to flood one of our parking lots, so we are all packed tightly into the other one. They are sandbagging, and if I can get a good pic, I'll take one and post it.
Yeay for a river that floods every year. You'd think an intelligent population would come up with some different way to cope with this.
Anyway, it's friday, its raining like a big dog outside, the river has come up enough to flood one of our parking lots, so we are all packed tightly into the other one. They are sandbagging, and if I can get a good pic, I'll take one and post it.
Yeay for a river that floods every year. You'd think an intelligent population would come up with some different way to cope with this.
It's funny, because flooding isn't something you can really plan for without doing superb damage to the ecosystem, except for with levies. And in the USA, levies have been underfunded. Nobody wants to pay to build them.
I love today. I'm getting paid double time and a half.
I love today. I'm getting paid double time and a half.
Awesome on the pay!!
What I was actually thinking is to stop building in the flood plains= They know what happens every year, but people flood out, go back to rebuild and get flooded again a year or two later...
What I was actually thinking is to stop building in the flood plains= They know what happens every year, but people flood out, go back to rebuild and get flooded again a year or two later...
People have been saying that for millennia (quite literally).
There's a very good reason we build on the flood plains: up until very recently, flood plains were the prime breadbaskets for humanity. Villages, towns, and the cities that developed out of them, therefore, had to be near-to the sources of food. When your town/city was first settled, Wasted, the idea of refrigeration, moving food from one continent to another and keeping it fresh, etc, was at best a pipe dream, if it had ever been conceived of. The only food you could get from outside of local growing was salted, smoked, or pickled. The best cities and towns are in places that flooded every year. Cairo, for instance, has had to deal with yearly floods since the time of the Pharaohs - until the construction of the Aswan High Dam. The classical centres of civilization - Baghdad, Mumbai, Beijing - are all on rivers that flood. It is only very recent technology that allows us to consider dropping a city away from rivers, but we still tend not to do it when possible. They just make it easier.
There's a very good reason we build on the flood plains: up until very recently, flood plains were the prime breadbaskets for humanity. Villages, towns, and the cities that developed out of them, therefore, had to be near-to the sources of food. When your town/city was first settled, Wasted, the idea of refrigeration, moving food from one continent to another and keeping it fresh, etc, was at best a pipe dream, if it had ever been conceived of. The only food you could get from outside of local growing was salted, smoked, or pickled. The best cities and towns are in places that flooded every year. Cairo, for instance, has had to deal with yearly floods since the time of the Pharaohs - until the construction of the Aswan High Dam. The classical centres of civilization - Baghdad, Mumbai, Beijing - are all on rivers that flood. It is only very recent technology that allows us to consider dropping a city away from rivers, but we still tend not to do it when possible. They just make it easier.
If I was salaried I'd get a paid day off in the future for working today. Not too bad.
Something incredible is currently happening in Canadian politics. Recent polls show the Quebec separatist party the Bloq Quebecois have lost their lead in Quebec. The BQ has been the dominant party in Quebec since their formation in 1993; the New Democrat Party, a left-wing labour-affiliated party, has usurped their lead according to most polls. The BQ has lost the youth of Quebec to the NDP almost 3:1, and are seen as losing relevance in a Quebec that feels more Canadian with each year.
Fascinating. Fascinating.
Something incredible is currently happening in Canadian politics. Recent polls show the Quebec separatist party the Bloq Quebecois have lost their lead in Quebec. The BQ has been the dominant party in Quebec since their formation in 1993; the New Democrat Party, a left-wing labour-affiliated party, has usurped their lead according to most polls. The BQ has lost the youth of Quebec to the NDP almost 3:1, and are seen as losing relevance in a Quebec that feels more Canadian with each year.
Fascinating. Fascinating.
Wow, that is crazy.
The BQ isn't really identifiable on the traditional right-left scale. They're a combination of Quebecois separatists which includes rural, more conservative folk who barely speak English and upper-class, more traditionally liberal people from primarily Quebec city, and democratic socialists who think that a Quebec-first mandate will ensure greater government programs in Quebec. It's not an alliance that can stand strong without the overwhelming demon of Ottawa's domination to scare them. What's going on is the latter group, the social democrats, are jumping off the BQ's bandwagon (since they aren't really wanting Quebec to separate anymore) and moving to their natural ally, the NDP.
It goes to show how things have changed in Quebec. 16 years ago they were very close (54,000 votes in a province of over 5,000,000) to declaring sovereignty. Now? Things have stepped back from that precipice quite a lot.
It goes to show how things have changed in Quebec. 16 years ago they were very close (54,000 votes in a province of over 5,000,000) to declaring sovereignty. Now? Things have stepped back from that precipice quite a lot.
I was wondering about that. I know that was a big deal for quite some time. Interesting to hear that they are now less inclined for that to happen. So, when this was a bigger issue, if they had voted to leave, what would Canada's stance have been? Or is that common knowledge?
Nobody really knows. It's not like secession was in the USA...it wouldn't have been an instant withdrawal. Constitutional scholars really aren't sure what it would have meant.
There likely would have been a negotiated settlement between Quebec and the rest of Canada, where the Canadian government could no longer speak for certain issues. The most apt comparison is how Scotland is now.
There likely would have been a negotiated settlement between Quebec and the rest of Canada, where the Canadian government could no longer speak for certain issues. The most apt comparison is how Scotland is now.
Yeah, that makes sense. I see what you are meaning, comparing Scotland with the UK.
River is still rising-- I have some pics I'll try to load.
River is still rising-- I have some pics I'll try to load.
Cornfed Hick
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As this thread is at risk of verging into intelligent discussion about important world events, I hereby bring it back to where it belongs.
May I present...the $6000 super-toilet!
May I present...the $6000 super-toilet!
Thank you for the insanity.
I have no words...
I have no words...