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| Favorite song |
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Posted by: Maynard - 08-14-2002, 09:10 PM - Forum: Noise Pollution
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What is your favorite song right now?
Mine change all the time, but for a few months now, I have two favorites.
Radiohead - Everything In It's Right Place
Sigur Rós - Svefn-G-Englar
Both songs are on the mellower side, but both take me to another place when I listen to them. Radiohead puts me in a trance and really seeps into my brain. Sigur Ros just creates this amazing musical landscape that in my opinion is unparalleled in that genre.
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| If you could.... - Let's make it a game. |
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Posted by: Arthur Dent - 08-14-2002, 07:27 PM - Forum: The Pit
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Simple, I as a "If you could..." then the next person answers and asks another "If you could..."
To start:
If you could live forever, but noone else could, including your spouse, kids and relatives, would you want to?
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| How would you 'like' to die? |
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Posted by: Hey Ladi - 08-14-2002, 06:38 PM - Forum: The Pit
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Would you like to live like a rock star? Live fast die young? A plane crash or parachuting w/out a chute?
Old, at home w/your family? With the French maid, in the library, with the lead pipe?
I could stand the OD rock star death, because I'd be famous first, hopefully. :thumbs-up:
Otherwise, in my bed one night, old & peaceful. I wouldn;t want anyone to be there, trying to revive me either.
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| My maynard problem |
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Posted by: Ken'sPen - 08-14-2002, 04:50 PM - Forum: The Faggy Artistic Forum
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Similar to OAS,
Maynard got a bug up his butt with me back on oa.com...
I think it was when I was flirting with Ladi.
I became an obsession with him,
I could not escape,
he aim'd about me, chatted about me, posted about me,
thread stalked me....
I came here and it continued.....
If I ignore him people believe what he writes
If I insult him he cries... but won't stop.
Maynard I implore you, the minute your obsession with me ends, is the minute I will never say another cross word about you.
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| My oas problem...... |
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Posted by: Ken'sPen - 08-14-2002, 04:21 PM - Forum: The Faggy Artistic Forum
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I can't shake him,
I can't get rid of him....
I have tried ignoring him, responding to him, insulting him, ignoring him some more and still he follows me with his innane comments and smilies....
I don't know what to do...
So Starting RIGHT NOW I will refresh this thread and add to the tally of posts he makes about me, hopefully this will illustrate to him that he is too consumed with me and should just move along.
so as of now......0
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| They're tracking you |
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Posted by: Arthur Dent - 08-14-2002, 03:29 PM - Forum: The Pit
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Well, I knew it was bound to happen...
Quote:Out of bounds: Pinpointing workers by their mobile phones
August 14, 2002 Posted: 8:17 AM EDT (1217 GMT)
Companies are paying on average $20 dollars per month to keep tabs on each of their employees
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From Andrew Brown
CNN Correspondent
HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- The movie "Enemy of the State" featured high tech bugs, small enough to fit into the sole of a shoe.
But in the real world you may not need such sophisticated devices to pin down a target -- at least not if they're carrying a mobile phone.
If Watson's Water want to know where employee Thomas Chui is, they contact his mobile phone. It is no problem if he doesn't pick up, as Chui's phone is linked to a computer that tracks his movements.
As he roams around Hong Kong, dispatchers from his company can see his position on a map. The information is delivered in real time and while not as accurate as the GPS tracking technology, it is accurate within 200 meters.
That's not a precise fix -- but it can be delivered without the use of expensive satellite technology.
"Previous technologies have tried to address these issues but unfortunately have tended to rely on hardware driven solutions. And that has proven to be an expensive proposition," says Michael Tang from the Pinpoint Company.
The Pinpoint Company has developed a tracking service for the Hong Kong market.
Regular GSM mobile phones are used and subscribers are also able to receive text messages from their employer.
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The service has been adopted by -- among others -- Watson's Water which has hundreds of workers out in the field delivering supplies and fixing water coolers -- that's what Thomas Chui does.
Companies are paying on average $20 dollars per month to keep tabs on each of their employees. Firms use the tracking system to improve efficiency.
"It typically ranges anywhere between 10 to 15 per cent increase in productivity. That is a tangible saving which you can measure by how many additional jobs the field workers are doing each month," says Tang.
Intrusive
Some analysts point out these systems can be intrusive since employees are always carrying a mobile.
"As an employee there's frankly not much you can do about it if your boss wants to know where you are," comments Duncan Clark, managing director at BDA China, a technology consulting and research firm.
"You could in the past say you were at the office when in fact you were at the bar -- in fact there are some bars called the office where you could actually tell your boss or your spouse truthfully that you're still in the office."
"All of our services are very developed in that we must protect the privacy of the user," says Tang.
It's too early to say where this technology is heading.
But in Hong Kong the impact could be far reaching.
Tracked by phone.
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