@joe.edwards said:
(I tried and failed five different methods of remotely starting a fire, mostly involving lava and/or netherrack).
Why not use a fire charge and a dispenser?
@joe.edwards said:
(I tried and failed five different methods of remotely starting a fire, mostly involving lava and/or netherrack).
@dhromed said:
That kind of happened, because 0.0003 is a tiny figure, but exponential growth you know.
What exponential growth? I don't know how things are where you live, but even with the brith rate being below the rate needed for replacement and immigration being controlled the US had linear population growth for the last 50 years and is predicted to have linear growth for the next 50 years.
@AndyCanfield said:
Confusion. Your data proves the opposite of what you are saying. My post was made at 29 Nov 2011 10:08 AM THAI TIME. That is 28 Nov 2011 10:08 pm EST. If you are sitting in New York, it looks as if my post was made twelve hours into your future.
Shouldn't they by now have taught the school teachers and children how to identify explosive devices?
A mine awareness team... visited a school to teach children how to spot bombs
Isn't that exactly what they were working on doing?
@morbiuswilters said:
@shepd said:And I'm sure if you no longer worked for that company you'd be a really high priority for whoever was stuck with that request.To keep Revenue Canada (like the IRS, but much less forgiving) happy if/when I get audited.If I was ever audited, I would just request a hard copy of my pay history and/or W-2.
@shepd said:Or you exceed the maximum taxable amount for Social Security, or you exceed the maximum annual contribution to your 401(k), or you get a raise. I've seen all three screwed up.Also to ensure deductions (RRSP [like your 401(k)], pogey [you look it up], and CPP [like your social security]) are correct.They're the same every month for me, so it's only something I have to check once. Then I can just know the same amount being deposited is always correct. I suppose if you were hourly or non-salaried in some way, you would need to check every pay stub carefully.
@shepd said:Since I don't trust idiots who can't design a website to actually perform backups, I'd prefer either an email (that I can then backup properly) or a hardcopy.How would an email only backed up on your computer be useful? I can't imagine it would serve as official proof of anything. You'd probably want to request a historical hardcopy if you were being audited...
@rakdver said:
I know it's true. Getting my wireless to work on windows is stupidly simple, windows did all the work for me.I think some things just need to be said:
@mrprogguy said:
Some bullet points:
* Linux (and indeed, Unix, Solaris, and all the other variants) are OSes for people who like to get their hands dirty. That wouldn't include my senior-citizen parents or in-laws. That doesn't include most people.
This I think is manifestly false. The desktop user oriented distrubutions (SuSE/Redhat/Ubuntu) are as easy to install as Windows (i.e., my grandmother cannot do it, but anyone at least marginally skilled with computers can), and as long as you are "www and internet are the same thing, right?" kind of user, you won't notice any significant differences in usage.
@xan said:
Which was almost exactly the case as it happened (something I didn't make explicit in my original post). One of the companies requirements (for a tool programmer) was something along the lines of: "at least 3 years industry experiance and several demonstratable examples of visual applications designed to the highest standard.... I hadn't even graduated from uni at that point and had never developed tools with GUI's, to any standard, beyond "here is a button on a form"!
In my experience:
Not mentioning experience means they're looking for someone with a pulse.
Saying 2-5 years means they'll accept none.
Saying 5-8 means 2-8 and saying 10+ actually means 10+ (usually some sort of leadership position).
@xan said:
A few days later she called me again to tell me about the opportunities available. There were three she thought I would be suitable for... every one I had already seen advertised elsewhere, had looked into and had disregarded as well out of my league! Each wanted much more experienced candidates than myself; I told her I was not prepared to waste their precious time, or my own, and left it at that.
This isn't always a good idea. In job hunting is that the experience levels in the job postings are frequently totally independent of the experience levels the company is willing to accept. Often times the experience level being asked for is set by some god-awful policy that the actual person trying to fill a position has no control over. I know several people in charge of hiring who would complain about the fact that they were forced to ask for X years of experience for a job, despite the fact they were actually looking for less. This was generally due to goverment regulations, but in atleast one case it was due to a one-size-fits-all corporate policy that worked fine for most of the company, but not for all of it. The one that really sticks to my mind was someone who worked for the State of New York, who was required to ask for two years of experience, even when he was trying to hire someone straight out of college.
The guy at the company who reads your resume can make the call about deciding if you have enough experience or not. If they're really need X years of experince, they'll see you don't have it and throw your resume in the trash. Total time wasted, probably less then half an hour. I'd also say that the recruiter, who is actually talking to the company, probably has a heck of a lot better idea then you about what is going on at the company.
@vt_mruhlin said:
I think "The WTF" here was supposed to be, "WTF is there a gun on the space station for?"
@medialint said:
Kinda like ...
GE ... we bring good things to life
Why did you pick that search string? What does GE have to do with love canal?