"So says the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in this press release, describing a lawsuit it filed today (May 9) against a Miami company. According to the EEOC, the company required employees to take Scientology courses and engage in a variety of scientological Scientologish scientary stupid practices: According to the EEOC's suit, the company required ... employees to spend at least half their work days in courses that involved Scientology religious practices, such as screaming at ashtrays or staring at someone for eight hours without moving. The company also instructed employees to attend courses at the Church of Scientology. Additionally, the company required [one] to undergo an "audit" by connecting herself to an "E-meter," which Scientologists believe is a religious artifact, and required her to undergo "purification" treatment at the Church of Scientology. According to the EEOC's suit, employees repeatedly asked not to attend the courses but were told it was a requirement...
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- Me
from Bookmarklet
Hello, I've just got to let you know, 'Cause I wonder where you are And I wonder what you do Are you somewhere feeling lonely, or is someone loving you?
- SteVe C
Where did your children go? Where is your family? Did they turn into the adults that you'd always hoped they'd be? Did you finally retire from that job that tortured you?... Why are you depressed when your life's at its best? Is it really cause it's not what it seems? Or are you unable to see that you should be happy, 'cause your still living in yesterday's dreams?... And the woman you wed, was she better in bed when there wasn't a ring on her finger?
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
My best interest? How do you know what *my* best interest is?
- Victor Ganata
(ohhh I like Victors last one) Birds fly over the rainbow Why then, oh why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow Why, oh why can't I?
- SteVe C
How can you say what *my* best interest is? What are you trying to say, that I"m crazy? When I went to your schools and your churches, I went to your institutional learning facilities? So how can you say I'm crazy?
- Victor Ganata
How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Won't you ever know that I'm in love with you?
- Bren
Hey little sister what have you done? Hey little sister who's the only one? Hey little sister who's your superman? Hey little sister who's the one you want?
- Katy S
Do you see me? Do you see? Do you like me? Do you like me standing there? Do you notice? Do you know? Do you see me? Do you see me? Does anyone care?
- Katy S
Wha-Wha-What did you say? [Oh, you're breaking up on me]
- Cloris Leachman
Who are these men with their finger's in everybody's pie?
- April Russo
What do you picture when you read my Words and thoughts and dreams? Do they all come alive and breathe?
- April Russo
When did the rich and powerful elite, slowly and unnoticed, come and steal our innocence?
- April Russo
What if I cross the line and I show you I mean business, prove that we're alike, and send some rain on down?
- April Russo
Where are all the answers and visionary wisdom from the stately and esteemed?
- April Russo
Can we counter this undeserved hatred through our science and our research and the wisdom of our age, or are we doomed to suffer at the hands of the Andromeda Strain?
- April Russo
Who was born in a house full of pain? Who was trained not to spit in the fan? Who was told what to do by the man? Who was broken by trained personnel? Who was fitted with collar and chain? Who was given a pat on the back? Who was breaking away from the pack? Who was only a stranger at home? Who was ground down in the end? Who was found dead on the phone? Who was dragged down by the stone?
- April Russo
"What will I regret the most? The things I do or the things I don't?"
- Cloris Leachman
Do you feel my heart beating? Do you understand? Do you feel the same? Am I only dreaming? Is this burning an eternal flame?
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
Is this love? Is this love? Is this love? Is this love that I'm feeling?
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
If I fell in love with you, would you promise to be true, and help me understand?
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
- ronin
What the fuck is this world Running to? You didn't leave a message At least I could have Heard your voice one last time. Daily minefield This could be my time How 'bout you? Would you hit me? Would you hit me?
- SteVe C
Mommy, can I go out and kill tonight?
- Val
from FFHound!
ahaha, tüh ya AKP gençlik kollarını falan hiç hesaba katmadım :) (fotoyu kim çekmiş bilmiyorum da, biraz cropladım ben) altını oranı görmek isterseniz her yerde görür, uydurursunuz zaten, fake bir şey yapmak zor değil. http://www.lhup.edu/~dsiman...
- Mistaken Identity
Bu kadar insan birbirini takip etsin ve kurtulsun onerisini getirebiliriz. ''Yasatilan feed - yasatilan Friendfeed ayrimi'' kurtulusu.
- Charlo††e Flax
ahaha çok verimli bir feed oldu, yeni lorem ipsum tekstleri de doğdu :) şimdi resme bakarken aklıma takıldı, acaba RTE fibonacci'yi, altın oranı falan duymuş mudur diye.
- Mistaken Identity
http://rosehill.net/ , 12 -27 http://www.nytimes.com/2010... , 10 - 15 -12 In antiquity, publicans (Greek τελώνης telōnēs; Latin publicanus (singular); publicani (plural)) were public contractors, in which role they often supplied the Roman legions and military, managed the collection of port duties, and oversaw public building projects. In...
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- Thomas Page
On today's Fresh Air, Washington Post national security reporter Dana Priest, the co-author of both the Post's investigative series and the book Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State, joins Terry Gross for a discussion about how the "terrorism industrial complex" created in response to the Sept. 11 attacks grew to be so big....
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- Thomas Page
More Thoughts On Weaponized Keynesianism http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011... , 12 -3 And the perverted fear of violence Chokes the smile on every face And common sense is ringing out the bell This ain't no technological breakdown ~ And all the roads jam up with credit And there's nothing you can do It's all just pieces of paper flying away from you Oh look out world, take a good look What comes down here ~ http://www.songmeanings.net/songs...
- Thomas Page
The Joint Chiefs of Lobbyists Pentagon honchos loudly claim that national debt is the greatest security threat to America. They're dead wrong -- they just want more money for the military. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/article...
- Thomas Page
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Dana Priest traces the journey from 9/11 to the Marathon bombings and investigates the secret history of the 12-year battle against terrorism. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh... Transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh...
- Thomas Page
"We're making a browser-based game that lets people build anything they can imagine. It's like virtual Lego, except anyone can contribute a new piece simply by drawing it. The 2D drawings are bounding-boxed into 2.5D objects that can be used to build in 3D space."
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
Can you remind me again where to find those stats?
- Brian Johns
Brian, go to "Me" link (http://friendfeed.com/brianjo...) which defaults to the Feed tab. Look at the sidebar on the right, below Discussion.
- Micah
0.75 (926/1226) - still relatively new here
- mikepk
I only see my stats for the last week (17/14 = 1.21) Please tell me your 670 number is for more than just a week!
- Brian Johns
1.44 (566/391) for brianjohns (after week tally you should see a comma then 'all time' count - I can see it on your page)
- Micah
OK, sorry. I'm a total dumbass. I stopped reading after the weekly totals...
- Brian Johns
3.74, which seems way off of everybody else's. I wonder what that says. I comment a lot more than I like.
- Cyrus Lendvay
FFers use FF with their own strategy or simply default tendencies. The ratio is an interesting snapshot of behaviour. Thanks for joining in everyone, hope more keep flowing in.
- Micah
from twhirl
0.66 - I tend to 'like' things without needing to comment further, I guess, and I notice I usually like the things upon which I comment. Well, frequently.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
.39 (2457/6242) I guess I don't comment much. I do 'like' a lot of things, it would seem.
- Bren
0.62 then again i have over 11,000 comments
- Cee Bee
1.23 (5287/4229) - I am put to shame by Cee Bee's participation, good grief!
- Lindsay
So far: Average: 1.27 | Median: 0.81 ... (if you average 1 comment per like, you'd be 1.0 ... if you're 0.xx you might herd content more than discuss ... if you're whole numbers above 1 you may not 'like' much or discuss plenty or both)
- Micah
InPerpetualMotion(Gina k), I really liked this 'Like' of yours (in a series of pics, so I flickr fav'd it): http://friendfeed.com/e... and commented. Thanks!
- Micah
.68 6986/10194 Someone wrote a great article on the comment-like ratio a few months ago. Search on FriendFeed is crashing on me... I'll try to get the link.
- Mitchell Tsai
Thanks Mitchell (btw, search crashing on me too - lots)
- Micah
1316 comments/20221 likes (0.06), according to Windows Calculator, although I probably screwed up.
- Tyson Key
A recent change in FF: now the comment count shows total number of comments (previously multiple comments in one thread only counted as one) http://friendfeed.com/e... so all the numbers above are from the old methodology....
- David HC Soul
My new ratio: 0.76 all time (old methodology .52).... this week 1.39
- David HC Soul
Looks like my ratio as flipped again (comments back to dominating again). Seems to match my own awareness I've lately been commenting without Liking (commenting is my inherent recognition of value to me and the additional Like is when it merits an extra bump to help discovery by others).
- Micah
Rick, you mean that face with glasses I photoshopped tint into with an apparently disembodied arm which is actually very much attached to my eldest son? It's mostly just me :)
- Micah
Thanks, Michael. Yes, you have a rising tide of comment percentage (oh, wow, you were one of the originals from January - cool!)
- Micah
Yeah, that's a decent upward rise in comments, Nicholas.
- Micah
.6 (6,000/10,000) 3rd update - Now it's time to flip this on its head. My goal is to have (16,000/16,000) next time I post here. Regardless of what happens, I'm just looking forward to the next 10,000 comments, likes, posts, and new relationships I make here. It's all good!
- Michael Fidler
1.76 (7539/4290) My commenting habits haven't chanced much, but it felt like I clicked Like a lot less, and this ratio confirms that for me.
- Micah
.82 as of right now. edit: on January 8th it was 0.39 -- when I saw that, I decided to make more of an effort to comment. When I hit 10k "likes" I decided I wouldn't "like" anything else until I also had 10k comments.
- Bren
Jimminy, I'm copyrighting every single number. It's kind of a honeypot ;) Actually, it was curiosity mostly, but I also hope to build a sampling (small and self-selecting as it may be) for anyone who might want to analyze it.
- Micah
12.23 (844 / 69 ) I guess I take my likes seriously ;)
- Chris Myles
Wow I didn't realize I was so out of whack!! 12.23 that's got to be a record (and I don't even import my feeds with the summary as a comment)!!
- Chris Myles
Thanks JA, Chris (wow, 12+ is unusual :), Serkan and Nine!
- Micah
Micah.. I told you I take my likes seriously; ). You *might* want to ask (in a separate post) what percentage of likes were used to "bookmark" a post or save it for later VS actually "liking it". I NEVER used like for that.. but I did use a private group that if filled with my own topics (and comments)..
- Chris Myles
Likes are down relative to comments, which matches my much lower frequency of liking. I'm a more selective liker than ever.
- Micah
I don't think I could argue that any particular kind of ratio is "best", because if Lurkers like to Lurk and cultivate (via Likes) and the Chatty-ites love to chat, to pump out much many more comments than Likes, each can be happy and make for a great social experience.
- Micah
wow, what a difference time makes, when i 1st posted on this thread, 6.43%, now = 1.25%, for a 5.18% difference, :o (and this is the earliest post to date i've recovered of my activity on ff)
- chaz2b
chaz, I think there's been a big fluctuation for most people (maybe not that much). This is the oldest post on which you commented that you've recovered?
- Micah
When I first saw this: 1.91 Sept 28: 1.94
- MiniMage
536 comments in the last month has me at .8736...still creeping toward 1.00
- Bren
that was my third post... It's interesting to see how the number has changed. of course, I manipulated the number to a degree, because I stopped "liking" things for a while...
- Bren
Bren, the other thing that can seriously throw off someone's stats is a feed that upon each item it imports adds a comment automatically.
- Micah
true. that can seriously inflate comment stats, of course. Then you have someone like RAPatton, who posts a gazillion comments, in part because of his playlist posts where he will list each song in a separate comment. I found, after this post in fact, that I tended to "like" things much more frequently than comment on them, that I was lurking instead of participating. I have changed the way I use ff rather considerably, and I think for the better.
- Bren
In 4 days it will be 1 year since my first recorded stat here. My comments/like were almost a 1:1 ratio then. Now comments are almost double likes for me.
- Micah
75,415 comments/1,286 likes = 58.64 - i wish the auto inserted comments didn't get counted... the true number is probably much much close ot my number of likes
- Chris Heath
1.97%. thanks again micah, this has been a great metric to measure my first year here on ff. As the year went (this being the first record of me being here that i've found): , 6.43%:1.25%:1.97%
- chaz2b
Chris, Bren, thank you. And chaz2b, thank you too - glad it's a special marker for you. :)
- Micah
63.58 (97,534/1,534) -- interesting that my last three digits are the same there, eh? (note, i already posted a month or two ago when i first saw this thread)
- Chris Heath
0.87 (3770/4312), so I'm either getting more commenty or less likey. [0.74 (1970/2667) was what I previously reported back in June]
- In Search of Gender
Last year my comments were around 7000 and likes around 2500, for a ratio of 2.80. I consciously chose to do more liking over the last year. As of today my comments number 10,782 and likes number 7,666, for a ratio of 1.41.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Jason, Stephen - cool. Thanks for keeping updated here. :)
- Micah
Okay, Micah. <----I had to resist the urge not to post that because I know it's going to up my comment count. ;)
- Jenny H
But how many of those primordial, high interest posts are still active. Uh huh. :)
- Micah
Thanks, Morton. BTW, when you posted in February, it was exactly 0.13 also.
- Micah
Jenny, resistance is futile; embrace the rising tide of comments.
- Micah
Comments are more difficult and time consuming than Likes. I'd be happy about a high comment:likes ratio except that many are surely imported from feeds, while every Like is manual.
- Mike Chelen
it has changed to 2.2256 now as Sep, 6 2010.Labor Day. :) I added the date for future references.
- ۳۰ مرغ Loves Y'ALLLLL
Two years later and my ratio has climbed from 3.4 to 4.675. I've got a lot to say, apparently.
- Kevin Fox
Funnily, I didn't notice until after leaving that comment that when I reported my stat in 2009 I also followed it up with "I've got stuff to say." I didn't say it was *new* stuff...
- Kevin Fox
2.91; 6.43% (@ 2yrs ago) 2.33% (@ 1yr ago). for history's sake, this thread was started shortly after i found friendfeed, or friendfeed found me, so it holds a special place in my heart. thanks for keeping it around mr micah
- chaz2b
You're certainly welcome, chaz2b. In some way it feels like a living heirloom to me. :)
- Micah
3 (2.991) (and now the list has become too lengthy for me to track my progress, ;) [dumb me, i have a post not 10 lines ago in history, from 090711 2.91; 6.43% (@ 2yrs ago) 2.33% (@ 1yr ago) ;) ]
- chaz2b
0.75 (38,250 comments / 50,175 likes) (My entry above from 2 years ago said I had 10,782 comments and 7,666 likes for a ratio of 1.41. I've been busy, and my pattern seems to have changed.)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Happy birthday to my beautiful son, Joaquin Valentino! He always has a smile on his face even through visits to the hospital with asthma (and some epic pouts). I love you!
Attended Michael's Trisagion Service tonight, will go to the funeral tomorrow. Family OK w photos, will post as memorial to Michael.
- Norman Demetrios Fletcher
Wish he could have seen us tonight. He just may have.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
"when tomorrow starts without me....." My heart and prayers go to you, Michael and you're family. May you're family find peace and comfort in the days ahead. <3
- Lynda Dmoch
Happy Birthday Michael. nice to see your account is still here.
- Mike Nencetti
On FB he kept turning up on "People You May Know" even a few months ago. Bittersweet to see him there. Happy Birthday to Michael.
- Russian Space Lizard
Our data center (SVColo) performed an upgrade to their core network switch this evening. Something went wrong, and the operation took 30 minutes instead of 5. We apologize for the problem.
Jason: we would love to host FriendFeed but any hoster will screw up from time to time so I would rather win their business on the strength of our technology and service. Our CEO puts his personal cell phone out there (I don't know of any other hosting company CEO that does that, plus mine is +1-425-205-1921). not to mention I have some major motivation to make sure FriendFeed stays up. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Compete with Wave and let people run their own Friendfeed servers.
- Vezquex
Thanks! I almost sent SOS via Twitter...but u guys were fast! :D
- Roshan Ramachandran
Oh, and it was nice of you guys to arrange your downtime for when I was flying and off the net! :-)
- Robert Scoble
The upside is I saw the 'new and improved' twitter web interface for the first time. When do I have time to do that normally :D
- Micah
@scoble, that's just it. I've only known Rackspace to screw up once and it was due to some guy driving a car into the data center. Plus, all the other perks you mentioned.
- Jason Cronkhite
Hmm. That's fairly far away, but I'd still be tempted to get someone in to look. At the very least, you might want to dig at a small amount near your house on that side to see if you see any of them in the soil. I think they'd usually recommend a barrier treatment if you don't find any very near (more than a foot away.)
- Jennifer Dittrich
How is the condition of your foundation or footings? Any cracks they could be crawling in through? Do you have a few inches of bare concrete footing separating any wood parts of your house from the ground? (Earth-to-wood contact is the worst)
- Brian Johns
This is all talking about subterranean termites. Keep in mind that the airborne kind have a completely different method of infestation, detection, etc.
- Brian Johns
Thanks, Brian. As far as I know my foundation is solid and there's no wood touching the ground on the house. I think that one of the main runners for the deck is barely off the ground on concrete though and that's untreated lumber.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
"he couple had run out of milk for their son, Holden, while their neighborhood was on lockdown during Friday’s manhunt. Shortly after noon, McKenzie Wells' mother, Trish Sommers, walked down the block to take a chance at asking an officer if he could help, and he more than obliged. “It just meant the world that he literally went out and got two gallons of milk,’’ McKenzie Wells told TODAY.com. “We wanted to pay him but he wouldn’t take money from us. He was just so generous.’’
- SteVe C
from Bookmarklet
@Patrick,point noted. But over all , circumstances may call for it.
- Peter Dawson
sure. my only problem is that as an Iranian-American sometimes I think there should be a difference between my birth country and the land of freedom. instead of relying on individuals' personality perhaps the system should make sure that there isn't a place for government employees to misuse/abuse their power.
- ؛ patrick
pstp bev prohib "The cost of enforcing Prohibition was high, and the lack of tax revenues on alcohol (some $500 million annually nationwide)[citation needed] affected government coffers. When repeal of Prohibition occurred in 1933, organized crime lost nearly all of its black market alcohol profits in most states (states still had the right to enforce their own laws concerning alcohol consumption) because of competition with low-priced alcohol sales at legal liquor stores. Prohibition had a notable effect on the alcohol brewing industry in the United States. When Prohibition ended, only half the breweries that previously existed reopened. The post-Prohibition period saw the introduction of the American lager style of beer, which dominates today. 4 -14http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki......
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- Thomas Page
from Bookmarklet
PROHIBITION is a three-part, five-and-a-half-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed. http://www.pbs.org/kenburn...
- Thomas Page
Innovation and Improvement? Drug War Politics: Governing Culture Through Prohibition, Intoxicants as Customary Practice and the Challenge of Drug Normalisation http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi... This article on the American administration’s war on drugs policy uses an interdisciplinary approach to assess the assumptions of drug prohibition. It...
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- Thomas Page
<bingo) sorry for the repeats trying to add to my discussions still not ^ (posts not always going to comments/my discussions ) Google+ Announces Drug War Debate via Hangout ( March 13 at 7:00 p.m. GMT 12pm pdt ) http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... , 3 -11 'This Debate Will No Longer be Suppressed': Legalizing Drugs Breaks Into the...
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- Thomas Page
Destroying drug cartels, the mathematical way http://www.newscientist.com/article... , VORTEX provides inputs for policy making under integrative science. By integrating different areas of human knowledge we propose models for understanding and facing social challenges. Ensuring global security, demanding governmental efficiency, improving transparency and securing human...
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- Thomas Page
"Snake Plissken: Got a smoke? Malloy: The United States is a non-smoking nation! No smoking, no drugs, no alcohol, no women - unless you're married - no foul language, no red meat! Snake Plissken: Land of the free. " , 4 -22 sort No Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise...
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- Thomas Page
"When poutine is made properly, the gravy should be hot enough to melt the cheese curds and make the fries soggy. What you're left with is an awesomely goopy, gravy-licous, hot potato mess. For people who enjoy a night of drinking, poutine works perfectly as a calorie-rich after-bar snack -- or the most ideal hangover food in human history. You don't have to be a drunk to enjoy it. You do, however, have to be unconcerned with eating more than 1500 calories in a single, carb-heavy cholesterol-soaked meal. And if you're a real American, you shouldn't be."
- Andrew C (✓)
from Bookmarklet
"1. America treats poutine like it's a side dish or an appetizer. WRONG. [...] 2. America treats poutine like it's for special occasions. WRONG. [...] 3. America tries to "improve" upon poutine. WRONG."
- Andrew C (✓)
"The above poutine from La Banquise in Montreal has bacon, grilled onions and peppers. It is great. But we American are not READY to add or take away any of the three main ingredients. We are trying to enter a cheat code to get ahead to the most advance levels of poutine, and when we get there, we fail."
- Andrew C (✓)
I honestly don't understand how people screw this up so often -- but then again, I don't understand people who put mayonnaise or corn on pizza either, or try to make spaghetti sauce with ketchup. Foods are often lost in translation, even when they shouldn't be.
- Jennifer Dittrich
I am not sure my stomach is able to handle any version of this dish.
- babeuf
Derrick: yeah, that's often the case. Sharing a poutine on a cold day is one of life's pleasures. But I've been known to wolf down a plate/bowl of poutine more than once. I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in that lol
- Brent Schaus
from iPhone
how people manage to eat (and even like!) this will remain a mystery for me.
- grizabella
This thread is just making me crave this like mad :D
- Jennifer Dittrich
i have a packet of poutine gravy mix in the pantry. *eyes*
- holly #ravingfangirl
Now this makes me think about french fry po boys: French fries on a french roll with roast beef gravy and debris with cheese. Oof.
- Derrick
I wonder why LA reputedly has bad poutine. The carne asada fries are pretty good...
- Andrew C (✓)
OMG, carne asada fries I grew up on in San Diego? I might have to try to recreate that. I wish I could find a good marinade recipe.
- Derrick
I've tried poutine in Montreal but I didn't like all those ingredients together. Chili cheese fries are big here in Texas, but I'm not really a huge fan of those, either.
- Trish R
If you have an In-N-Out handy, order the fries Animal Style. Not poutine, but similar philosophy.
- Brian Johns
Yes, but INO's fries are not good. They're always too soggy (even if you don't order them animal style). But if you try ordering them 'extra crispy' or 'dark' or whatever the secret menu term is for double-frying, then they're finally crispy but dried out.
- Andrew C (✓)
Plus, neither carne asada fries nor animal-style INO fries have the 'squeak' of poutine cheese curds.
- Andrew C (✓)
I loved the poutine I got at Senate in Cincinnati. As for making it, myself, I wouldn't have the foggiest idea where to get the right cheese curds.
- MiniMage
I was listening to a short piece this am on how PC sales have gone down overall for the first time. The market's going mobile. Yet I still don't see myself going entirely with that because digital audio, video editing and graphic design need more space and power than mobile currently has.
- Spidra Webster
Once you get past a hunnert of anything, my mind is blown.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Some people say the slowdown in desktop/notebook sales is Windows 8's fault.
- Victor Ganata
If you can find one, going back to work on a Mac 512k will give you real appreciation of how inefficient code has become. They did so much with so little back then.
- Spidra Webster
I am still amazed that a GUI could run on a machine that only had, at most, 40k of RAM available for use.
- Victor Ganata
512k? Luxury! Why my first computer had 48k and the first one I used had just 128 1-bit registers and a 2 character display and it had to walk uphill in the snow and soda cost a nickel and we hadn't invented color and and and yeah why doesn't my phone have a terabyte?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Being that one of the first terabyte USB sticks costs $3,400 and was released in January, you may have to wait another 12 months.
- Eric - seven eleven
I still have a computer with RAM measured in KB. But yeah, 2TB is my minimum HD size now. I want 2TB SSD for $200 :D
- Tinfoil 2.0
My mind is still blown by 4GB USB sticks! My first drive was 360KB and sent me back $1700, or about $6500 today. But it was worth it cuz I could play Hammurabi. :)
- ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
My first computer had two floppy disk drives. Standard versions were 90KB each, but I sprang for the DOUBLE DENSITY option and had a cool 190KB each! 4 years later I had a HUGE 10MB hard disk to brag about. To follow up on Ken's comment, our first MASSIVE Hard disk was a 60MB Priam that needed a drive bay nearly 6" high and 10" deep. It cost over $6000 in 1986 (and that was a quantity price.)
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Has anyone here tried surfing the web or getting work done from a desktop PC that has only 64mb of RAM, in the last 5 years? Great way to find out just how bloated everything has become.
- April Russo
Thanks, Scott. I think this dog is more for me than Waif. I need a dog in my life right now.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Anika you love that dog and you know it. Andrew, I would love a cat but Wife does not care for them. Wife: "They're sneaky." Me: "Well yeah, they're cats. Though I prefer 'stealthy.'" Wife:"Perfume that pig all you want. We're not getting one."
- MoTO #TeamMonique
I had to explain my squeal and laugh. Damn, I should start my own Naughty Bacon Fragrance line.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
from FFHound!
Loving this thread! And then I got a spam call on the landline from Boonville. They're making the military school kids do telemarketing?
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
Also, the whole thing with cats is to get two, boys, who are littermates. We find boys are more doglike and affectionate than girls - based on our sample of one (Emily) who seems to wish she were an only cat. The boys are a constant show of wrestling and tumbling! But neuter them EARLY - apparently in New England they do microsurgery at 4-6 weeks.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
Perhaps "need" is too strong. I definitely want a dog. I've always enjoyed having a one. I enjoy the company of dogs and I enjoy taking care of them.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
I wouldn't like to live with one, and I don't like it when people bring their dogs cross-country skiing. And I hate it when people don't pick up the turds after their dogs. I like to hang out with dogs on occasion, though :)
- Eivind
Dogs never repeat the things you tell them. Dogs listen to your every woe and don't judge.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
from FFHound!
Bre'er Eivind: Like you said, "all kinds" Edit: And it sounds like you have more issues with the owners than the dogs, IMHO
- MoTO #TeamMonique
I'm very excited! I want to hear all about the new dog, the process of choosing the new dog, etc.
- maʀtha
I said, "slow-ly"... this may take a few more months. Though I'm hoping to make this happen by mid-summer.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Summertime is a good time to get a new doggle - easier for potty training before things get cold and folks go back to school.
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
"The unusually large hive was discovered by local police officers after they had received numerous calls from concerned members of the community regarding large numbers of wasps swarming around an uninhabited house in San Sebastián de La Gomera. After breaking into the abandoned building they were shocked to discover a giant wasp nest in the hallway that experts say is home to millions of aggressive stingers. Measuring no less than 7 meters in size, the gargantuan structure doesn’t seem to have been built by the common type of wasp found in European gardens, but by an invasive species that must have migrated from Africa."
- esther
from Bookmarklet
Well, this is a first for me: the review I wrote of last weekend's opera just hit the stands. The baritone, whose performance as the villain I lauded, asked to friend me on Facebook. I was, like, "Luxembourg? I don't know anyone from Luxembourg!" :)
Kicking the tires on Mirantis Fuel product for Openstack. Definitely makes it easier. We'll see if downsizing the controller and compute VMs will help my 4GB iMac survive the normal 16GB RAM requirement.
The fuel-pm node definitely needs more than 512MB - looks like swapping causes timeouts in puppet. Bumping up to 1GB solved that problem. On to the next obstacle...
- Kevin Johnson
I should be done setting up an instance. I do not rock very much this week.
- Kevin Johnson
This exercise is part of a job interview. Three guesses how this is turning out... :-|
- Kevin Johnson
Ugh... lack of sufficient ram is causing serious issues. Anything less than 1GB in a VM is causing serious swapping. Not good for virtual disks. Would seriously love to go buy a bigger machine, but that's not likely given the current employment status... :(
- Kevin Johnson
I gave up getting Fuel up and running in my environment. Not enough RAM and my attempts to resolve other issues in the installation are taking too much time - impacting my job hunt. #fail
- Kevin Johnson
"All you have to do to prevent this is sign in to Facebook and click through to (get ready) -> Settings -> Privacy -> News Feed and Wall -> Facebook Ads -> Appearance in Facebook Ads and click "no one." Unless, of course, you want to be semifamous and have your picture used to push some garbage product or website without your knowledge. (note: when I tried to make this change just now, the site returned an error. oh, and it might not work in Firefox either due to a 'bug.')"
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
Nice... The coming Facebook backlash is going to be interesting to watch. I give it 1 to 1.5 years.
- mikepk
And I was surprised to see my setting set to "Appear on Facebook Ads". x_x Go here---> Settings -> Privacy -> News Feed and Wall -> Facebook Ads -> Appearance in Facebook Ads and click "no one."
- AJ Batac
Interesting ownership of content rules over there, heh?
- Jason Nunnelley
My Facebook Ads page is blank. Maybe because I only have my stuff opened to friends?
- Anika
I disabled my AdBlock Plus to view that page Anika.
- AJ Batac
Ah, okay let me try that. EDIT: Thanks! That worked. I was already selected to not appear in ads.
- Anika
Good! Mine was set to appear to friends initially. Changed it to "none".
- AJ Batac
I went to that part of the settings and this is the popup I got... "Worried about privacy? Your photos are safe. There have been misleading rumors recently about the use of your photos in ads. Don't believe them. These rumors were related to third-party applications, and not ads shown by Facebook. Get the whole story at the Facebook Blog, or check out the Help Center."
- Tony Miller
Third party content as in FB apps? Big difference there, eh?
- Michael W. May
The problem xtill unsolved by Flipboard and ths rest, how do sites share teh wealth with the content providers, aggregators, curators who drive those eyeballs to the lovely ads? I put up a photo and a hundred peeps come to see and I get....? Unless blogger, photographers etc get paid, the content drys up and blows away. And content is all
- WarLord
I wonder if some payment mechanism could be devised to reward URLs (and their owners) by number of times clicked on. There may be a huge business opportunity there.
- Sean McBride
The guy who can figure out how to apportion "micro-payments" to content providers based on "real" traffic metrics will own web 3.0 post mobile
- WarLord
Oh that's too bad. It was a hilarious thread.
- Anika
Heh, Eric, thanks. But I don't think you had to delete the whole thing -- as Derrick had said on the now-deleted post, just edit out the name.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Bring it back, there are more spoils to be had.
- Adrian
from Android
"The American Badger is a fossorial carnivore. It preys predominantly on (pocket gophers (Geomyidae) http://wdfw.wa.gov/living... , http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG... , 2 -13 http://www.wa-hay.org/Proceed... ), ground squirrels (Spermophilus), moles (Talpidae), marmots (Marmota), prairie dogs (Cynomys), pika (Ochotona), woodrats (Neotoma), kangaroo rats (Dipodomys), deer mice (Peromyscus), and voles (Microtus), often digging to pursue prey into their dens, and sometimes plugging tunnel entrances with objects"
- Thomas Page
from Bookmarklet
I can't help but think of Badger in Wind in the Willows. One of my favorite characters.
- Melanie Reed
As food Although rarely eaten today in the United States or the United Kingdom,[18] badger was once one of the main meat sources in the diets of Native Americans and white colonists.[19][20][21][22][23] Badgers were also eaten in Britain during World War II and the 1950s.[20] In Russia, the consumption of badger meat is still widespread.[24] Badger, along with dog and pork, shish kebabs...
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- Thomas Page
Doing some research on Badgers. We are both after Gophers so hopefully I can figure out how to get along with Badgers.
- Thomas Page
In North America, coyotes sometimes eat badgers and vice versa, but the majority of their interactions seem to be mutual or neutral.[10] American badgers and coyotes have been seen hunting together, in a cooperative fashion.http://animal.discovery.com/videos... , http://icwdm.org/handboo...
- Thomas Page
I think the only realistic way to avoid spoilers is to turn off the Internet until you watch/read whatever you don't want spoiled. Because the more you complain about spoilers, the more you're going to get trolled by spoilers.
I think it's funny that people still complain about it. It's such a egocentric way to live. Even with my husband we accidentally give details. It happens. There's more serious things to worry about.
- Anika
"I think the only realistic way to avoid [horrible thing] is to [completely avoid something most people use and enjoy]." Really?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
It works. The only realistic way for me to avoid Tom Cruise is to not go to movies. Done! Easy peasy!
- Anika
Hah! And I agree there are more serious things to worry about. But there's always going to be far more content that I haven't seen than content I have seen. I personally try not to spoil stuff. If I saw someone who intentionally trolls with spoilers a lot, I guess I'd block that person.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
The only realistic way to avoid [horrible thing] is to completely avoid exposure to [horrible thing]. Quarantines and jury sequestration are no fun and people hate them, but they work! :)
- Victor Ganata
Fortunately with Google Glass a spoiler system will be aware of what you have seen, parse everything you see, and filter out any spoilers. The future is safe.
- Todd Hoff
I never post spoilers because I can never watch anything when it fucking airs. When I do I /still/ don't post spoilers. That's just evil.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
Yeah, Bible class is a terrible spoiler for that new Bible movie. And btw, Stephen, I'M SORRY I commented on that thread with the spoiler!!! I am still going to watch Season 3, though. Some day.
- Laura Norvig
Brian, if you send me your addy and are willing to wait for this and a hat to be finished, i will totally do that for you. Oh, and a color preference.
- Mary Carmen
I was joking -- my wife is already on the case -- I think she has finished one already. But there is nothing better than hand knit socks so there might be other takers.
- Brian Sullivan
I love knit socks....though i never knit them for myself.
- Mary Carmen
You've been knitting non-stop for 3 and a half years?
- Heleninstitches
In a way, yes. I usually knit a bit every day. I've just ended a dry spell. Now that I'm thinking, I've knit for well over 15 years. Scary.
- Mary Carmen