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2002/6/19 [Health, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll] UID:25144 Activity:kinda low |
6/18 I think all you trolls and flamers should read this and take it to heart: http://www.firelily.com/support/depression/trolls.html \_ Not that valid points are not potentially being made, but it's difficult to seriously listen to someone who uses contrived pronouns like 'hir.' \_ Silly. It isn't about self-hate. How stupid. 'Hir' trolls are much different than motd trolls. Here you're a troll for having a non-leftist political philosophy or not agreeing at all times with the RIDE BIKE USE LINUX crowd. |
2002/6/19 [Academia/UCLA] UID:25145 Activity:nil |
6/18 UCLA ee guy, I just got the URSA letter. To get everything right, we're suppose to get a bill after Sep 1? And can we get a BruinCard before paying it? Also, they haven't told us who my advisor is, how do I know what classes I should take in my first quarter? My enrollment period is 6/26, how about you? Also, did you get a TA job? I applied but they never responded. |
2002/6/19-20 [Industry/Jobs] UID:25146 Activity:insanely high |
6/19 How many hours a week do you work? \_ during the dot com boom, +75 hr/week. After, 30 hr/week. The funny thing is that now I enjoy my life more than before even though I was almost a paper millionaire. \_ do you have a 4 day workweek? or just slack off? \_ A little bit more than 40. \_ 0. -grad student \_ 60+ -grad student -- not all grad students are lazy fucks. \_ sign your name. \_ why? what do you care? \_ Yeah, some get the energy to moan. \_ Work is relative. Does being _at_ work count as work even if I'm just surfing? Total time lost is 40-100/wk plus commute. Real work time is 10-65 + commute. \_ 30 hr/week physically at work...actual work, 10hr/week. \_ 40 hr/wk, 45 if you include commute, 35 if you deduct breaks. \_ seems like people are working less post-boom. Is work getting boring? \_ 65 hrs/wk during the boom, 35 or so now. \_ 50 hrs/wk at a dot-com during the boom, 40 or so now. Now my salary is 20% higher, but I now get tiny options on stock which probably won't go up. \_ 0. -laid off dotcommer \_ seems like a lot of people are working less than during the dot com boom. Some are happier now. But are you getting bored with your work? Are you doing more fun things with your free time? \_ I'm getting more, I'm working the same, I'm not any happier. My problem is I don't want to work *at all* but can't afford to just quit and not have an income. Starvation is so annoying. [and stop deleting my stuff. i was here first you motd smushing pig] \_ I'd like to work about 20-25 hours per week with 8-10 weeks vacation per year, but unfortunately, there is the 40 hour work week and only 3 weeks vacation per year. Actual time spent working is less than 40 hours, maybe less than 30. Time spent at work probably 45-50. \_ Since we're project-based, it's roughly 35-40 hrs during non-project time, and x hrs during project crunch time. (x = whatever it takes) |
2002/6/19 [Uncategorized] UID:25147 Activity:nil |
6/18 In Lilo&Stitch, is Lilo pronounced as Lie-Lo or Lee-Lo? \_ commercials say /Lee-Lo/ |
2002/6/19-20 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:25148 Activity:nil |
6/19 just installed xemacs for the 1st time (on a pc running win 2000). never used it before. the dired doesnt seem to work from the keyboard. is this one of those 'differences' between xemacs and emacs? or is there a way to get dired to work the same way as in emacs? thanks in advance, hahnak \_In my xemacs, the dired button on the toolbar opens a windows dialog box, but "M-x dired" runs the regular text-based dired. I'm sure you can customize this behavior, check http://xemacs.org |
2002/6/19-20 [Health] UID:25149 Activity:very high |
6/19 Can someone recommend an effective, painless pubic hair removal technique? I tried tweezing it recently but this almost always results in an infection. Thanks. \_ squssors! see the bottom of the page. we use them in my lab to cut .5 mil wires, which are much finer than a human hair. http://www.thesilverneedle.com/scissors.html Unless they launch themselves a half-inch out of your nose I bet no one notices. Unless you've got a nose-hair inspector to deal with? ...and they're only 12 bucks. \_ .5 mil? As in 0.5 mm? That's orders of magnitude thicker than the average human hair. \_ 1 mil means one thousanth of an inch, which is about 25 microns. a human hair is about 70-100 microns, or 3-4 mils in diameter(a micron is 10^-6 m). \_ Who the hell uses this unit and, more importantly, WHY? \_ It's very common in circuit board manufacturing, for instance. Why ask why? --dim \_ what about one of those spinning blade "shavers", made by Braun or companies like that. \_ yes, what about them? Do they work well? \_ Why bother? Who could possibly be interested in your nose hairs? Unless they launch themselves a half-inch out of your nose and wave madly at passers-by, I'd bet that no one notices. Unless you've got a nose-hair inspector to deal with? \_ Because he doesn't want to look like an ugly unkempt sloppy nerd? \_ I bet your wife has visible nose-hairs \_ Um... scissors? \_ Scissors works well for me. As for why bother, when my nose hair is too long it makes the inside of my nose itchy. \_ Fire. Light those suckers up! Works for me! \_ Just don't inhale at the same time. Very bad. \_ I just grab 'em and yank 'em out. Not really painless, though. \_ Whatever the solution, it don't cure ugly \_ It's not a cure, but it does temporarily fix one of the symptoms. \_ Nads! |
2002/6/19-20 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:25150 Activity:kinda low |
6/19 Is there a free program that does scp on window 95? (This is for a machine at work, over which I have no control.) \_ I don't know if it works on Win95, but it works on Win2k and Win98: putty and pscp. Do a google search. \_ As the above person said, pscp works. Also try WinSCP. Has some issues with its interface (at least the version I have), but does the job. \_ The link is: http://winscp.vse.cz/download2.php?file=WinSCP2.exe \_ the scp (and ssh) programs for cygwin work pretty well. I realize that this is overkill for this problem, but you may find cygwin generally useful as well. |
2002/6/19 [Uncategorized] UID:25151 Activity:nil |
6/19 Happier before, during, and after sex? before: . during: . after: . |
2002/6/19 [Politics/Foreign/Europe, Politics/Foreign/Asia/Others] UID:25152 Activity:nil |
6/19 Is this true or bogus or biased: \_ biased. ---------- Ah, Gandhi, the one that sat on his ass for months while the Indian National Army men(those former Indian soldiers under the Japanese) were campaigning for the release of their leaders and rioting on the streets even getting killed. When Gandhi began to see an opportunity opening he began a peace march which seem laughable to the Brits because all they had to do was wait until they go away. But the riots and mutiny was another matter. "In 1956 Lord Attlee(former Prime Minister of Great Britain) was asked a question about Britain's hurried withdrawal from India in 1947. The British statesman who presided over the transfer of power to the leaders of India and Pakistan was halting in Calcutta for two days during his passage through India...Attlee was as good as his reputation for plain speaking. Without caring about the official British propaganda line, he mentioned a number of reasons for Britain's momentous decision, the most important among which, he emphasized, was that "the loyalty of the men of the Indian Army to their British commanders had been UNDERMINED by Subhas Chandra Bose's (Leader of Indian National Army) actions..." Incidentally, Governor P.B. Chakaravarti asked Lord Attlee his opinion on an allied subject as well. "Toward the end of the discussion", he wrote, "I wanted to know to what extent Mahatma Gandhi's non-violent movement had influenced the British decision to leave India. There was the flicker of a cautious smile on Attlee's lips as he uttered with slow deliberation the word 'MI-NI-MAL'..." Who had brought the country(India) so near its goal? General Sinha's answer is: "The above facts confirm that the INA(Indian National Army, which Japan helped to create) had a great psychological and political impact even though its military impact was not so significant. They also bring out that the Indian Army played a silent but significant role toward bringing about the independence of India. (Pandit's "The Last Days of Netaji") ---------- |
2002/6/19-20 [Computer/Companies/Google] UID:25153 Activity:high |
6/19 All knowing motd, What is the nationality/ethnicity/origin of the surname "Kanarek." Maybe someone who has more search web fu than me can recommend how to find out. The origin-surname-genealogy sites given by google are too weak for this name. \_ Most likely Polish, but could be Czech, Slovak, or one of the minority western slavic languages (Sorbian or whatnot), hypothetically speaking. Based on 3 minutes of googling and knowledge of a Slavic language, I'm fairly convinced that the main occurence of the name is from Polish "kanarek", for (small?) canary. "Kanar-" is the obvious borrowed root, and -ek is a common Slavic diminutive suffix. Not that this precludes the Oriya theory below, but Google gives tons of hits in Poland and with Polish first names, and none with Indian names or in India, so the Polish theory is more likely. (To substantiate this -- do a google image search for "kanarek" and you'll see a few pictures of canaries.) -alexf \_ why don't you just ask her? \- Konarak is famous sun temple in the indian state of Orissa. Are you sure about the spelling? \_ fine. if you dont want to ask her, then go to google and type kanarek and look for other people with that last name to get clue. As a last resort, call up someone in the phone book. These techniques work even when you have no fu. \_ None of these will work if the name is sufficiently rare or a very unusual spelling of a common name. \_ PicsP \_ http://www.republika.pl/aniapal/images/kanarek.jpg <DEAD>www.hobit-pv.cz/obrazky/kanarek.gif<DEAD> -alexf \_ Wow! She's hot! Better than all the h0t 4z1an ch1kz!!! |