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- If I ever own a Best Buy store or a McDonald's restaurant, the first thing I'm going to do is abolish the multiple-line checkout counter system. If you're at the store and you're waiting for the next cashier, you should be able to wait without going through the stress of deciding which line looks fastest, how many people are in each line, and if little Suzy McFirstDay knows how to open the register yet. These places of business really need to establish a pure FIFO (First In, First Out) model of customer service. There's nothing worse than waiting in a line for a few minutes only to see some clown jump into a recently-opened line while he shoots you that “ha ha” look as you're stuck clutching your box of Tender Vittles and tub of Cherry Garcia. Man I want to punch that guy. |
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- If I ever own a Best Buy store or a McDonald's restaurant, the first thing I'm going to do is abolish the multiple-line checkout counter system. If you're at the store and you're waiting for the next cashier, you should be able to wait without going through the stress of deciding which line looks fastest, how many people are in each line, and if little Suzy McFirstDay knows how to open the register yet. These places of business really need to establish a pure FIFO (First In, First Out) model of customer service. There's nothing worse than waiting in a line for a few minutes only to see some clown jump into a recently-opened line while he shoots you that “ha ha” look as you're stuck clutching your box of Tender Vittles and tub of Cherry Garcia. Man I want to punch that guy. |
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- Blizzard:: J:: Control:: Self Blood:: Bath Mysterious:: |
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- Blizzard:: J:: Control:: Self Blood:: Bath Mysterious:: |
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- right. so new (old) pics of the house in teh gallery... oh you can't see them? too baaddd, you have to register.... hey you can see in to my mind, but not my images... |
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Cornbread (Dec 08 2003 00:58 GMT) - They want cornbread.That's right. Cornbread.After all the wondrous breads I have created, just a common ordinary pan of cornbread.I suppose all the great artists of history had to paint the shingles when they started to peel and crack after a... |
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- NASA's funding displaced by 'pork' When House and Senate budget negotiators announced a deal on a massive $328 billion federal spending bill, lawmakers proudly noted that they had funded NASA at the amount requested by President Bush in February. But a closer look at the $15.5 billion bill shows that budget writers axed more than $300 million from NASA's budget request and replaced those dollars with money for line items of their own choosing. Many of them are hometown "pork" projects that win legislators political favor at home but no fans inside the federal agencies they affect. |
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- The Small Initiatives Spam Index (explanation) broke the 1,200 barrier for the week ending Dec. 6 -- just barely, closing at a record 1,201. That's up 122, or 11.3 percent, from the preceding week. The SI Board of Spamologists, after watching its beloved Indianapolis Colts nip the Tennessee Titans,... |
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- Clearly, the President's objectives for the space program have been achieved. Today, on Face the Nation, after pressing Chief of Staff Andrew Card on the challenges facing the administration in Iraq, the host devoted his last question to the leaked proposal to return to the Moon. I doubt that diverting attention from a massive boondoggle is one of NASA's official duties, but this week that was clearly one of the unofficial ones, and it clearly worked. |
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- Project description: SushiWiki is a WikiWikiWeb like Web application running on .NET platforms. It is written in C#, uses ASP.NET features and stores data in SQL databases or flat XML files. |
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- Project administrators: egroise |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 5 Dec 2003): Ranking: 5655, Activity percentile: 62.13%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 5 Dec 2003): Download count: 3 |
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- Public mailing lists: sushiwiki-devel |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Tech Support Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Patch Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Feature Request Tracking System |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 5 Dec 2003): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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- Wired News: "We fully support the conclusion in the Motorola case, [said Bob Bowman, the CEO of MLB Advanced Media]. We don't think of broadcasting of the score every half-inning as an exhibition of the game. But if you're describing what happens every ti |
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- QUOTE (Slothmania @ Dec 7 2003, 01:42 PM) was close to thrash, cause it was like transitioning between thrash and death metal, and yes some of them have some low vocals, none are really gutteral growls but are low-ish Maby one of the first death metal recordings that featured a low gutteral growl was Deicide's demo "Amon Feasting The Beast" in 87.(I think). |
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- WATCH THIS MOVIE I'm FINALLY done with my animation and I have free time again. No more staying up until... |
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Wonder Boys (Dec 08 2003 00:56 GMT) - Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson, 2000), vhs o'r llyfrgell. Ffilm llawn o hiwmor du iawn, sy'n wastad yn beth da. Mae... |
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- (Vizzah) i decided it was time to indulge myself again. it's not the best picture (next on indulgence list: digital camera), but you get the idea. it's the beginning and centerpiece of what will probably be a much bigger back piece - my family's coat of arms. big ups to jeremiah at bluebyrd for hooking me up and keeping me laughing through the pain. |
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Jot Wiki (Dec 08 2003 00:55 GMT) - [new page] |
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- Here's a list (by the Refugee Council) of UK newspapers that have spread false information about refugees: Daily Star Sunday Express Daily Mail Daily Express The Sun "niceties" appearing on the esteemed papers above between August and September 2003 include "Britain still the world's asylum capital" (it isn't, by a long shot) and asylum seekers described as "scroungers", apart of course from the usual implication that asylum seekers are criminals Surely it was only a case of corrections being printed in the following days? no comment maurizio@morabito.name Mr Omnology Ganesha Guru |
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- Here's a list (by the Refugee Council) of UK newspapers that have spread false information about refugees: Daily Star Sunday Express Daily Mail Daily Express The Sun "niceties" appearing on the esteemed papers above between August and September 2003 include "Britain still the world's asylum capital" (it isn't, by a long shot) and asylum seekers described as "scroungers", apart of course from the usual implication that asylum seekers are criminals Surely it was only a case of corrections being printed in the following days? no comment maurizio@morabito.name Mr Omnology Ganesha Guru |
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Drugs? (Dec 08 2003 00:54 GMT) |
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- Vincent Flanders: Presidential Candidates' Web Sites Suck. But you knew that.[Web Pages That Suck -- Examples of Bad Web Design] |
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- What picture of American society is likely to be imprinted on the consciousness of average Europeans? Given what they read |
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- The Jobless Recovery Continues. The Economist's take on the latest labor market news: Economist.com | America's labour market: ... |
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- bbNetwork Ltd - UK, though international applications are welcome., Telecommute (2003-12-07) |
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- After meeting with BCS officials late Sunday afternoon, NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue announced that the NFL has rescinded the Patriots' 2001 Championship."A lot of people have always thought that the Patriots weren't really the best team that year," said Tagliabue. "Just because the Patriots got lucky that one day against the AFC's consensus #1 team in Pittsburgh and lucky the week before and lucky the week after against the NFL's consensus best team in the Super Bowl, the BCS guys make a persuasive case that what happens on the field is just one method of analysis.""We owe our fans the best matchup, and that would have required the 2nd best team, Pittsburgh, to play the best team, St. Louis. |
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