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Not available in the USA...
There's a new game
We like to play you see
A game with added reality
You treat me like a dog
Get me down on my knees
We call it master and servant
We call it master and servant
It's a lot like life
This play between the sheets
With you on top and me underneath
Forget all about equality
Let's play master and servant
Let's play master and servant
It's a lot like life
And that's what's appealing
If you despise that throwaway feeling
From disposable fun
Then this is the one
Domination's the name of the game
In bed or in life
They're both just the same
Except in one you're fulfilled
At the end of the day
Let's play master and servant
Let's play master and servant
It's a lot like life
And that's what's appealing
If you despise that throwaway feeling
From disposable fun
Then this is the one
Let's play master and servant
Let's play master and servant
Let's play master and servant
Come on, master and servant
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.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18520121
Bit of a random article, but its 75 years since 999 was introduced in the UK as the world's first emergency services phone number. Some quite interesting anecdotes in the article (and interesting given how things have changed too). A week after the number was launched, the first arrest from a 999 call was made 5 minutes after it was made - impressive really!
Weirdest of all the quotes:Quite surprised to read that the USA didn't follow suit with the 911 number until 1968. Can't understand why not."When the raucous buzzer sounded in the quiet disciplined switchrooms a few of the girls found the situation too much for them and had to be carried out."
What I found odd was that one of my older phones could be unlocked simply by dialing the emergency number, but only responded to 112 or 911, not 999. Guess it wasn't sold in the UK?
Phones sold in the UK, 999 will always work from a locked phone and a phone without a SIM.
Hence why Christmas day is the day when most 999 calls are made.
People reporting a Santa break-in?
Hope is the denial of reality
Same here for 112, I was just surprised it was apparantly for euro and us markets, but not uk :s
I think pocketdialing the emergency number is a big problem.
The Australian national emergency number is 000 - which caused a surprising problem with the rise of the internet. All of a sudden they were getting flooded by calls from automated Coca-Cola style vending machines ... these were programmed to dial out to request a stock refill when necessary but after a power failure some models would have the phone number reset and replaced with a string of 0000's - thus dialing the emergency services instead.
I remember pocket-dialing 999 a few times with old mobile phones, don't think I've ever done it since switching to the iPhone though. I imagine its less of a problem with any touch-screen phone rather than a phone with physical numbers.
Yeah, I don't really see how I could pocketdial 112 with my touchscreen.
How old were your phones? I have a $20 phone and its keys get locked automatically after a few seconds.
Hope is the denial of reality
The point is that key-locked phones still let you dial the Emergency Services without needing to be unlocked in case of emergencies (so could pocket-dial by mistake). Try dialling 999 without unlocking your phone (don't actually dial obv.)
What do you know.
Hope is the denial of reality
US phones behave the same way for 911. They can dial when locked, without being activated, and without a SIM. Brandy and I have both pocket dialed 911 at least once. They hang up and called back.
Verizon got in trouble a couple of years ago because they were making their alarms emit an alarm sound when 911 was dialed. Idiots.
"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."
My high school reunion ended with my wife hula hooping against my high school/college ex. The concept of banging one and marrying the other did not seem to escape most of my classmates with their high fives and backslapping congratulations.
Didn't know Brandy could hula hoop, much less hula hoop while shaking her ass. We don't even own a hulahoop; but we will tomorrow!
"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."
On my way to Brussels to be 2nd assistent director on a film set for a week
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
And the cast/crew (I only knew one person well before) is nice, good atmosphere. And yesterday we were ahead of schedule, yay!On my way to Brussels to be 2nd assistent director on a film set for a week
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
EU CoJ ruled that digital licenses are protected by the first sale doctrine and the part of the EULA that tries to override this can go to hell.
One can only hope that the resulting change will bleed over into the US until we finally get a court with some common sense to make a similar ruling.
"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."
That the happy thread is outnumbering the groove thread. It proves that the CC has not become a group of grumpy old men yet.
Tomorrow is like an empty canvas that extends endlessly, what should I sketch on it?
ACTA is dead
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
On a different note, seems like Origin, Steam et al. have to prepare for being able to offer their users the opportunity to sell their games.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012...nloaded-games/
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
^^ OG actually posted that news already.
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
SLEEP-IN
Oh god it was so nice... this entire week I've first been woken by my poor ginger who has to get up at 05:45, and then I've had to get up shortly afterwards to get to the morning meeting on time. Today we were laaaaaazy and it was blissful
Spent the day idly reading and cleaning and the missus treated me to delicious lunch as a reward for exceptionally skilled princess-service.
Then I went to pester the on-call neurologist in the hopes of getting to experience some serious emergencies before my first night alone on call. Of course nothing--absolutely nothing--happened so we just chatted for a few hours about all sorts of things and then I came home to more delicious food and a row of small jars filled with rhubarb-and-strawberry marmalade. As if this wasn't wonderful enough, it turns out the lottery tickets I'd left for the ginger as entertainment--collected over the past month as souvenirs from various places--netted us a 100% profit! We's rich! Woop woopthe nest-egg is secured
okay okay slight exaggeration perhaps but boy am I chuffed even so
Best of all, the night's not over... and I'm just half-way through the weekend! Next week will be rough, but right now life is goood-OH.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
It was 12 years ago today, that I booked a flight for a spur of the moment weekend in California, to propose to my hunny.
12 amazing years!
Congrats to your dirty dozen
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
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.
Aww, I was gonna make you a thread.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Scored 2 tickets to a local taping of The Daily Show thats being held during the RNC. Finally, something positive has come from that clusterfuck of a disaster.
"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."
Congrats
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
Valve's sale seems to include their apparel store. Just ordered the girls a selection of shirts for $3 a pop.
"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."
Work is planning to send me to Syracuse, New York for about a week in October. Some sort of database training to prepare me for the move to the new item catalog.
Last time I was in New York I was still pissing into a diaper.
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