This happened where my partner worked (geothermal power station in NZ). She was hired as an electrical engineer about 5 years ago at 22 and was the youngest engineer, along with a group of seven other recient grads. But outside this the next youngest guys are in there mid 50's (some now in their 60's), basically what happened was that the company was privatised from govt control in the 1980's the company decided to stop the practice of hiring new people and training them, and suddenly realised that shit soon all their engineers were going to retire soon so they better get on to that....

To add salt to the wound, the company restructured reciently and my partner was made redundant, not because she wasn't any good but because the company didn't want to pay out the guys with massive retirement/redundancy packages that had been there 35+ years.

As soon as here redundancy was confirmed she rang an old boss from a summer job and had a job offer the next day.

If engineered correctly, the total force applied at ground level could be "up" rather then "down".

Lizard poisons Spock

I have always found the difference is time, "vine ripened" in a store is always until x% are red and therefore can be harvested. Home grown you just pick the ripest 1 or 2 that you want at the time, ripening the rest further. The longer you leave them on the vine the better the taste gets...until they drop off by themselves.

Where as I saw it and thought it was Kung-Fu Panda 10...

The problem with Vista was XP, XP was waaaay to popular and in use too long.

I'm not saying XP was awesome, but with a billion+ daily users there was a lot of momnetum......then they changed where all the things were that people knew that required special ways of doing things to get to work....they renamed things that didn't need renaming.....and there was no option to go back and have a "XP look and feel" with similar/same names etc...

It was at that point I looked at other options....been using linux ever since. Still don't know my way properly around Win7 though I am learning as I sometimes need it for work, Win8 is a mystery to me. I had a new computer with Win 8 on...it lasted 4 days till I was frustrated and changed it to Ubuntu.

Wanted to mod this funny....but unsure if post is serrious? I was thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law but this is more of the reverse situation where I am unsure if the original post is serrious....

On a related note what is the name of the law for this situation? I'm sure slashdot can help me out with this.

Biophysics?

This is possibly the only correct usage of "irregardless" known to exist....made me LOL

16.5V is not dangerous. Unless you lick the contacts....not recommended.

LOL When you just gotta feed the troll, do it with style..

America's cup....nuf said!

This is exactly how I felt when watching that abhorrent Will Smith movie "After Earth". So many stupid choices that didn't need to be made....

I would like to LOL at this...but it makes me sad for the students....

Was going to mod you troll....but eh....so I just tried your example. New writer doc, opened a .bmp file in a photo viewer....ctrl+c...switch to writer ctrl+v and there it is a bitmap pasted into writer.

So exactly what part are you having difficulty with? Are you trolling or is this a real difficulty for you?

As a side note, this method works with .jpg and .png files....I didn't have any convinent files with other extensions.