The article says, somewhat misleadingly, that they were mammal-like. They were part of a group called mammal-like reptiles, which were ancestral to mammals. They possessed some physiological characteristics not seen in other reptile lineages, and the groups would ultimately diverge into mammals, birds, dinosaurs etc. You certainly wouldn't look at one of these critters and think it resembled a mammal.
This happened to me as a child, my uncle's business was next to the sewage works and I strayed into the sludge lagoon. It can look like solid dry mud when in warm weather but under the crust it's like quicksand. Managed to crawl out losing only one boot, but I had to ride home in the back of the pickup, and then strip and get hosed off in the yard. Golden days of childhood indeed.
...and I'm not ashamed to admit it! I did have my servers at my last place named after characters from Norse mythology, but no-one could spell so it was a problem. My routers were named after Marx brothers but after Zeppo I had to use Karl, which segued nicely into Engels, Lenin, Trotsky...
...remember how crappy and impractical the early petrol bikes were - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildebrand_&_Wolfm%C3%BCller They'll get there in a few years, especially if they keep racing them.
Read about this stuff in MCN - the police are tracking them down, and possibly taking their bikes off them. Now I'm not in favour of our ridiculously tight speeding laws, but the fact is that idiots like this give the rest of us motorcyclists a bad name and just give more ammunition to the groups campaigning to restrict what vehicles can do.
Before we go nuts building these monstrosities all over the place, how about we get some mileage out of the ones we have? There are two sites in my area, and there are never more than a third of the turbines working when I drive past.
I worked retail a few years ago and this was on the piped Xmas music we got sent by head office, it wasn't beeped out instead there was a gap where faggot was!
Might as well ban the whole song anyway, its awful!
"Our stores have come on leaps and bounds over the last two years since we stopped paying commision to make sure that we offer impartial advice to customers."
Bollocks - its more than 2 years since the old commission structure was changed - and it was changed, not scrapped. All that guff about service team bonuses and store bonuses so you have demotivated sales staff who feel they aren't rewarded for their job and service staff who feel pressured to be selling. I know, I was there.
We weren't called Tech Guys when I worked there but we damn well had sales targets, especially when we were pushed to offer more expensive instant repairs when the shelves were empty of jobs anyway. All the best techs were eventually pushed out and replaced with cheaper part-timers anyway. Compare how many staff in a PCW are over 20 now than a few years ago.
I can definitely state that here in Newcastle area, we've been saying charver since at least the early nineties - chav was new to us much later. We always understood it to be a contraction of "chart raver" referring to the hordes of pilled up scallies that invaded the rave scene and spoiled it for everyone else.
I choose the smiley due to the obvious drug culture reference.
I can guarantee you it does happen - I used to work in a repair centre (I'll give you a clue, cheesy TV adverts) and was present when a colleague found a load of child porn on a laptop brought in for a wipe. The guy was arrested and had a house full of kiddie porn tapes. I have to say I don't feel bad that we invaded his privacy.
In my place the only ones that wear ties are managers and customer-facing sales - ie people who have to look professional and have some authority. On civvy Friday we still wear polo shirts, how much respect can you have for a manager in a football shirt or whatever?
Granted not everyone in a suit is competent (most aren't perhaps) but many companies simply don't want scruffy-looking employees and that's up to them.
Without re-stating the calculations, I got 7 minutes too (I'm 27, GCSE in maths). Mind you, a girl in my office yesterday who's about my age asked for help working out postage for the franking machine because she couldn't add 1250g and 250g...
Not dissimilar to my home village near Durham, which has bloated from a small, close-knit community to a faceless commuter town over the last twenty years. I couldn't afford to live there any more.
... no-one draws notice to the correlation between warming on Earth and Mars at the same time, implying that warming on Earth might, even in part, be due to cosmic phenomena such as solar activity or cosmic rays. Human-influenced global warming is now taken as dogmatic fact, conveniently enough for those who want to bump up tax on fuels etc.
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Su Bo
Dreamed a dream of sustainability eh?
I'll get my coat...
Geordie lass?
Try again - if you're from Teesside you're a smoggy, not a geordie!
tomorrowtoday!Great, I'm on a plane tomorrow...
..flying the length of England. Mine's the one with the parachute on the back.
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obvious what caused the failure...
...bloody volcanic ash AGAIN!
of course
You're right, it's obviously much better to be good because you are told to be good, rather than because you think it's right.
Boffin
Indeed! I aspired to be a boffin but had to settle for geek.
http://www.exitmundi.nl/graygoo.htm
Well I don't know about drive and talk on the phone...
...I found reading the article and posting this reply whilst driving a bit tricky!
boracic?
"If you were boracic, there was always Evostick." I assume you mean brassic?
No-one said they were mammals...
The article says, somewhat misleadingly, that they were mammal-like. They were part of a group called mammal-like reptiles, which were ancestral to mammals. They possessed some physiological characteristics not seen in other reptile lineages, and the groups would ultimately diverge into mammals, birds, dinosaurs etc. You certainly wouldn't look at one of these critters and think it resembled a mammal.
not a bad looking girl...
...pity she opens her mouth and ruins it.
all these worlds are yours....
...had to jump on the bandwagon, sorry!
Sludge lagoons
This happened to me as a child, my uncle's business was next to the sewage works and I strayed into the sludge lagoon. It can look like solid dry mud when in warm weather but under the crust it's like quicksand. Managed to crawl out losing only one boot, but I had to ride home in the back of the pickup, and then strip and get hosed off in the yard. Golden days of childhood indeed.
I have a HAL9000 on the domain...
...and I'm not ashamed to admit it! I did have my servers at my last place named after characters from Norse mythology, but no-one could spell so it was a problem. My routers were named after Marx brothers but after Zeppo I had to use Karl, which segued nicely into Engels, Lenin, Trotsky...
Religion...
... b**locks to the lot of them.
That is all.
let's not be too harsh...
...remember how crappy and impractical the early petrol bikes were - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildebrand_&_Wolfm%C3%BCller They'll get there in a few years, especially if they keep racing them.
lucky for them..
He wasn't one of Van Vogt's Slans
Bah
I can't say I'm interested in their next crappy release. This means nothing to me... oh Vienna.
what a fool
Read about this stuff in MCN - the police are tracking them down, and possibly taking their bikes off them. Now I'm not in favour of our ridiculously tight speeding laws, but the fact is that idiots like this give the rest of us motorcyclists a bad name and just give more ammunition to the groups campaigning to restrict what vehicles can do.
wind turbines
Before we go nuts building these monstrosities all over the place, how about we get some mileage out of the ones we have? There are two sites in my area, and there are never more than a third of the turbines working when I drive past.
Now new here...
I worked retail a few years ago and this was on the piped Xmas music we got sent by head office, it wasn't beeped out instead there was a gap where faggot was!
Might as well ban the whole song anyway, its awful!
@ Adam et al
"Our stores have come on leaps and bounds over the last two years since we stopped paying commision to make sure that we offer impartial advice to customers."
Bollocks - its more than 2 years since the old commission structure was changed - and it was changed, not scrapped. All that guff about service team bonuses and store bonuses so you have demotivated sales staff who feel they aren't rewarded for their job and service staff who feel pressured to be selling. I know, I was there.
We weren't called Tech Guys when I worked there but we damn well had sales targets, especially when we were pushed to offer more expensive instant repairs when the shelves were empty of jobs anyway. All the best techs were eventually pushed out and replaced with cheaper part-timers anyway. Compare how many staff in a PCW are over 20 now than a few years ago.
Charva indeed
I can definitely state that here in Newcastle area, we've been saying charver since at least the early nineties - chav was new to us much later. We always understood it to be a contraction of "chart raver" referring to the hordes of pilled up scallies that invaded the rave scene and spoiled it for everyone else.
I choose the smiley due to the obvious drug culture reference.
I will not buy this record...
... it is scratched.
IGMC
"Bitterman said he had put the Hebrew religion on the same plane as any other"
There's where he went wrong - nobody wants snakes on a plane.
re: Doesn't sound likely to me
I can guarantee you it does happen - I used to work in a repair centre (I'll give you a clue, cheesy TV adverts) and was present when a colleague found a load of child porn on a laptop brought in for a wipe. The guy was arrested and had a house full of kiddie porn tapes. I have to say I don't feel bad that we invaded his privacy.
image matters
In my place the only ones that wear ties are managers and customer-facing sales - ie people who have to look professional and have some authority. On civvy Friday we still wear polo shirts, how much respect can you have for a manager in a football shirt or whatever?
Granted not everyone in a suit is competent (most aren't perhaps) but many companies simply don't want scruffy-looking employees and that's up to them.
thermodynamics
As soon as you see thermodynamics mentioned you might as well stop reading, its another creationist.
Maths
Without re-stating the calculations, I got 7 minutes too (I'm 27, GCSE in maths). Mind you, a girl in my office yesterday who's about my age asked for help working out postage for the franking machine because she couldn't add 1250g and 250g...
Sad but true
Not dissimilar to my home village near Durham, which has bloated from a small, close-knit community to a faceless commuter town over the last twenty years. I couldn't afford to live there any more.
Impartial eh...
"...possibly referring to a future race of proto-humans who may find the bone-blistering heat from an environmental apocalypse pleasurable..."
Some impartial, professional journalism here then?
Bah...
Real beer isn't chilled anyway...
not a hoax?
That won't stop the conspiracy nuts - they'll just claim the Chinese footage is fake too!
Little green open boxes...
I bet that's Durham... we have those damned things, when they don't blow away!
re:What to do....what to do?
Be fair, Navel training is not for everyone... it depends on if you're an "innie" or an "outie"...
I'll get my coat.
Of course...
... no-one draws notice to the correlation between warming on Earth and Mars at the same time, implying that warming on Earth might, even in part, be due to cosmic phenomena such as solar activity or cosmic rays. Human-influenced global warming is now taken as dogmatic fact, conveniently enough for those who want to bump up tax on fuels etc.
Perfecting beer?
There's no need for other countries to waste time and money "perfecting" beer - in the UK we did that centuries ago, they should just learn from us.