Exactly - and a lot of the data is public and just waiting to be aggregated. Lexis Nexis has a service like this. As does Verizon. As does Experian. We give up a lot of data for services, and when it is consolidated it can be surprising what is known. Some of my favorite questions from those types of things are 'in what county does your younger sister live' or 'what hospital was your oldest child born in'.

I could explain things with thumbnail view, but thanks for the ridicule.

So a coworker found a usb key in the parking lot and wisely didn't plug it in. Instead he asked me to check it out before he did. So dutifully I fired up my live CD, plugged it in and quickly saw it belonged to a coworker. But which one in a company of 300+? Well, that was actually pretty easy to figure out, since there was a nice folder with pictures of himself naked in a mirror. Many of them. All alone. So I gave the guy the USB key, told him what I'd seen, washed my hands (and disinfected my cubicle) and was sooooo glad when the photographer took a different job.
So there may be a virus, or maybe just a lonely coworker.

How have I not seen this before!?!?!?! You have made my life more complete. Thank you!

Maybe it will work for you??

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I'd laugh if you weren't right. If only I had mod points...

No fair!!! If I wanted something accurate, insightful, and relevant I wouldn't be on the internet now would I!!! Please leave me alone so I can go back to my bistromathmatics.

I always thought the swearing and yelling in Chinese was a realistic outcome as the world becomes more meshed. It looks like it may come sooner than later.

I felt a bit guilty after the last post. I did work for UPS, and I did learn those phrases. And while I saw my fair share of kicked in, mangled, or shredded packages (some of them at my hand), I never saw it done deliberately. You have a lot of work to do in a short time and things get treated rough. Things that say "this side up" or "fragile" just get handled more as a result of the instructions and thus they will be more prone to error on statistics alone. If you care about your stuff, pack it well and then the company doesn't really matter.

I worked for the aforementioned shipping company. I unloaded trucks. Here I learned that Fragile is a French word, meaning, "to drop kick". Also, the phrase, "UPS, where the Q Stands for Quality". There's no Q in UPS you say??? EXACTLY! Of course I still use them...

I spent some time in Kazakhstan during early winter. They had turned on the steam powered heat for the city and the only thing to regulate it in the apartment I was in was opening the windows to the sub zero outside. So it was either 110 (near the radiators) or 30 below (near the windows). Comfort was half your body freezing and the other half sweating. I'm sure other places heat the same way, but it was interesting to experience.

While I do think complexity does lose most people, I think syncopation is a requisite in any popular music. Even a simple song like Every Breath You Take by the Police uses syncopation when you consider the vocal rhythm over the music. It may be basic syncopation, but the only music that seems to be strictly 'downbeat' is disco.

What is odd to me especially is that symphonic music like Mozart, etc are widely regarded as excellent music while using a variety of tempos and rhythms. Yet in the majority of popular music it is eschewed or only marginally considered.

And while I may not want music that zags when at a club, when I am enjoying music for pure enjoyment I want to feel a push and pull that can only come with complexity. Undoubtedly I am in the minority but this is an area I really have a hard time understanding others perspective. Of course, I am one of your nerds at the Rush concerts.