• xoonyzyz (unregistered) in reply to Bob
    Bob:
    Neither ButtFingering nor Twinks are American...

    I know, it's so lame over here.

  • the zune system (unregistered) in reply to Joel B
    Oral-B (I always thought that was dirty enough as it is):
    Define medical care. I'm sure you could buy an exacto knife, rope, some crazy glue, some chloroform, some astro-glide, a mask, a body bag, a shovel, rubbing alcohol, and a roll of ductape at Canadian Tire.

    Sounds like a Friday night to me. Whoooooooooooo!

  • the zune system (unregistered) in reply to Sigbert

    Ok, now this one's a stretch...

    Sigbert:
    The post stamp says it's from Vienna...

    Vienna...

    V-Enna...

    V-Enma...

    V-Enema...

    Va-Enema...

    Vag-Enema...

    ...wait, we're we just talking about this the other day.

  • (cs) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    hoodaticus:
    Blue neck:
    You might not have realized but our loony money (Canadian dollar) is actually worth more than your Yankee money... put that down your pipe and smoke it.
    Any currency that won't be worth it's own weigth tomorrow is arguably not a real currency.
    FTFY
    The U.S. won't need money where we're going. Except perhaps a pair of coins to cover our eyes...
  • (cs) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    hoodaticus:
    Blue neck:
    You might not have realized but our loony money (Canadian dollar) is actually worth more than your Yankee money... put that down your pipe and smoke it.
    Any currency that won't be worth it's own weigth tomorrow is arguably not a real currency.
    FTFY
    There's something deeply reminiscent of September 1, 1939, when thinking about what happens when a superpower's economy collapses. The only difference is that this time, there won't be any America to stop said superpower, being that said superpower is, in fact, America.

    On the bright side, at least the leftists will finally have some actual fascists to complain about.

  • Shinobu (unregistered) in reply to Rosuav
    Rosuav:
    (can never seem to get Windows past 1-2 months without a reboot)
    That's only because WU wants to reboot your box most Tuesdays.
    the zune system:
    Oral-B (I always thought that was dirty enough as it is):
    Define medical care. I'm sure you could buy an exacto knife, rope, some crazy glue, some chloroform, some astro-glide, a mask, a body bag, a shovel, rubbing alcohol, and a roll of ductape at Canadian Tire.
    Sounds like a Friday night to me. Whoooooooooooo!
    In case you haven't read this classic yet: http://allegedly.petebevin.com/surgery.html
  • (cs) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    C-Octothorpe:
    hoodaticus:
    Blue neck:
    You might not have realized but our loony money (Canadian dollar) is actually worth more than your Yankee money... put that down your pipe and smoke it.
    Any currency that won't be worth it's own weigth tomorrow is arguably not a real currency.
    FTFY
    There's something deeply reminiscent of September 1, 1939, when thinking about what happens when a superpower's economy collapses. The only difference is that this time, there won't be any America to stop said superpower, being that said superpower is, in fact, America.

    On the bright side, at least the leftists will finally have some actual fascists to complain about.

    Don't worry, I'm sure one of your Asian allies will lend you a few bucks... Oh, wait, they already did, didn't they? ;P

  • mm47 (unregistered) in reply to Blue neck

    What he said. In fact when I last looked it was worth $1.055 in USD.

  • Tyler (unregistered) in reply to SysKoll
    SysKoll:
    Wait, you mean Canada is allowed to print its own money? *scoff* What's next? Why can't my coffee shop start printing its own currency then?

    All of the 57 states have to use the US dollar.

    Not to nitpick, but us Canadians print money for a lot of countries. Must be something to do with the ahem cough colour cough

  • Ewen McNeill (unregistered) in reply to Patagonicus
    Patagonicus:
    Nice idea, e21b81e7a47c5d3c26a3560be040aedeb18cb9b4, was fun to "crack" this encryption :)
    Indeed, it was fun. Reminded me of typing in those 8-bit computer games from magazines before they included per-line checksums though!

    Ewen

  • Μ Ρλανγκ (unregistered) in reply to Reynoldsjt

    My inner theoretical physicist has always sorely wept for the nonexistence of OS/2π.

  • I AM THE FUCKING SODOMIZER!!! (unregistered)

    I AM THE FUCKING SODOMIZER!!!

    http://www.anus.com/metal/about/news/images/i_am_the_fucking_sodomizer.gif

  • I AM THE FUCKING SODOMIZER!!! (unregistered) in reply to I AM THE FUCKING SODOMIZER!!!
    I AM THE FUCKING SODOMIZER!!!:
    I AM THE FUCKING SODOMIZER!!!

    [image]

  • (cs) in reply to Reynoldsjt

    I dont agree with the above....but, IBM really did have a chance to take over the market with OS/2 - and completely blew it. The story of what happened should be required reading by everyone in the technology field, especially those who straddle the world between technology and marketing.

    The story is MUCH bigger than even the story behind why Beta lost out to VHS, and most of the others where potential leaders dropped the ball.

  • (cs) in reply to Tyler
    Tyler:
    Not to nitpick, but us Canadians print money for a lot of countries. Must be something to do with the ahem *cough* colour *cough*

    America prints colored money too. You can buy houses and hotels with it, or blow it all on Community Chest.

  • Dave (unregistered) in reply to YourMum
    YourMum:
    For a moment I thought one of those candy bars was called ButtFinger...

    You really have to understand Bokmål to get it, the one in the blue wrapper is Norwegian for "Felch-lover". Bit of a limited market, unfortunately.

  • Dave (unregistered) in reply to Tyler
    Tyler:
    Not to nitpick, but us Canadians print money for a lot of countries. Must be something to do with the ahem *cough* colour *cough*

    Russian private enterprise prints money for a lot of countries as well. What's your point?

  • schoschie (unregistered)

    About the American candy you sent back: you can buy all Mars products (Mars, Twix, Snickers, etc.) all over Europe. It's nothing special :) Same goes for Nestlé stuff (btw, Nestlé is not American, it is Swiss). Only the Reese’s thing is one that I haven’t seen here (Europe, specifically: Germany) before. They only difference might be that the formulation is different in the US and in Europe.

    That postcard you got with the code on it is from Austria. The card says it's from the Austrian post office, and the text at the top left is an Easter greeting. The card was mailed from Vienna according to the postmark.

  • Le Forgeron (unregistered) in reply to Reynoldsjt
    Reynoldsjt:
    IBM missed its chance, they should have brought OS/2 back when vista hit.
    Yes... but they have a marketing problem: who wants half an OS ? The warps edition is just even worse, an OS should be straight and flat as a table. Nobody wants a warped table.
  • Whoey (unregistered)

    Not sure about Norway, but in Spain we have both Snickers and Twix...

  • (cs)

    Getting OS/2 to run under virtualization is a bitch. I believe mostly because of the fact that it uses more x86 features than the average OS; including processor ring 2 (which was apparently the stumbling block for VMWare).

    I think Parallels is the only one that actually officially supports running it (in fact it's why Parallels Inc even exists).

  • (cs) in reply to schoschie
    schoschie:
    They only difference might be that the formulation is different in the US and in Europe.

    More corn syrup and less real sugar?

  • Meep (unregistered) in reply to Blue neck
    Blue neck:
    You might not have realized but our loony money (Canadian dollar) is actually worth more than your Yankee money... put that down your pipe and smoke it.

    The loon is worth a percent or two more than the greenback, but you're paying a 5% federal GST in addition to higher provincial and local sales taxes. So your real purchasing power is easily 10% less than a dollar in America.

  • Some dogga (unregistered) in reply to Glenn
    Glenn:
    "there are things even more worthless than Canadian money" -- indeed: American money

    http://finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter/#from=CAD;to=USD;amt=1

    And the Aussie dollar is stronger again....Stiff shit!!

  • Some dogga (unregistered) in reply to Turcogj
    Turcogj:
    I was about to say our money is worth more now and soon will last a lot longer than american paper currency.

    CAPTCHA: OPTO - I opto for CAD vs US currency

    What? New fangled polymer banknotes...Fuck, we been using them for the last 20 years...

  • acsi (unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    moz:
    Governments have had something similar happen to them (such as Haiti to pay for all those slaves they took), but no-one's going to tow Hawaii away if the USA stops paying them.
    I don't know about that one... China has some deep pockets which could buy a really nice tugboat.
    PMSL. Coffee and orifices!
  • ingenium (unregistered) in reply to Dave
    Dave:
    Tyler:
    Not to nitpick, but us Canadians print money for a lot of countries. Must be something to do with the ahem *cough* colour *cough*

    Russian private enterprise prints money for a lot of countries as well. What's your point?

    Hillarious!!

  • Matt Rose (unregistered) in reply to Reynoldsjt

    Back when I started doing support for an ISP, OS/2 warp was the ONLY OS that had a TCP stack built in. For windows and Mac, you needed to get a third-party addon just to hook up to the internet.

    Sigh, I kinda miss trumpet winsock.

  • (cs) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    hoodaticus:
    C-Octothorpe:
    hoodaticus:
    Blue neck:
    You might not have realized but our loony money (Canadian dollar) is actually worth more than your Yankee money... put that down your pipe and smoke it.
    Any currency that won't be worth it's own weigth tomorrow is arguably not a real currency.
    FTFY
    There's something deeply reminiscent of September 1, 1939, when thinking about what happens when a superpower's economy collapses. The only difference is that this time, there won't be any America to stop said superpower, being that said superpower is, in fact, America.

    On the bright side, at least the leftists will finally have some actual fascists to complain about.

    Don't worry, I'm sure one of your Asian allies will lend you a few bucks... Oh, wait, they already did, didn't they? ;P
    Americans have destroyed their economy and ruined the environment. Their time is over... it is Canada's time now! LOL!!!!

  • (cs) in reply to da Doctah
    da Doctah:
    Tyler:
    Not to nitpick, but us Canadians print money for a lot of countries. Must be something to do with the ahem *cough* colour *cough*

    America prints colored money too. You can buy houses and hotels with it, or blow it all on Community Chest.

    This.

  • John W (unregistered) in reply to Blue neck
    Blue neck:
    You might not have realized but our loony money (Canadian dollar) is actually worth more than your Yankee money... put that down your pipe and smoke it.
    So is our Aussie dollar !
  • someone (unregistered)

    C-Octothorpe: thank you for using such a lovely nickname! I googled until I found it. C# really reads as C octothorpe because the musical note is written differently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%E2%99%AF_%28musical_note%29

    And it was a stupid name for a general programming language which doesn't have anything to do with music anyway. Java is standardized, there is no need to clone it and reinvent the wheel.

    From now on, I shall read C# properly as C octothorpe. Yay! It'll be especially enjoyable in front of some C# patients..err developers.

  • Xythar (unregistered)

    I would have put Alex's title as "Chief Functionality Overseer" or similar. That way he can tell everyone he's the CFO.

  • (cs) in reply to John W
    John W:
    Blue neck:
    You might not have realized but our loony money (Canadian dollar) is actually worth more than your Yankee money... put that down your pipe and smoke it.
    So is our Aussie dollar !

    Just don't smoke it. Burning polymers bad.

  • Loony Yank (unregistered) in reply to Blue neck

    Thank you for printing it on hemp paper!

  • Jefferson (unregistered) in reply to Reynoldsjt

    Back? It never left. (At least it was still running at the job I left about a month and a half ago.)

    I'm pretty sure they still have that box sitting around.

  • yossi (unregistered)

    that Israeli half shekel coin, while ostensibly worth only 15 cents American, is actually the exact same size as our American dollar coins, and will fool most older vending machines.

  • CWC (unregistered) in reply to Meep
    Meep:
    Blue neck:
    You might not have realized but our loony money (Canadian dollar) is actually worth more than your Yankee money... put that down your pipe and smoke it.

    The loon is worth a percent or two more than the greenback, but you're paying a 5% federal GST in addition to higher provincial and local sales taxes. So your real purchasing power is easily 10% less than a dollar in America.

    The value of a currency in domestic use is hardly of interest to anyone except domestic users. At the moment, it's cheaper for me to order stuff from the USA and have it delivered to my door by the most expensive overseas shipping option available (whatever that may be) than it is to buy the same stuff locally. Not so with Canada.

  • (cs) in reply to someone
    someone:
    C-Octothorpe: thank you for using such a lovely nickname! I googled until I found it. C# really reads as C octothorpe because the musical note is written differently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%E2%99%AF_%28musical_note%29
    I'm glad it amuses you, it's the same reason I picked it.
    someone:
    And it was a stupid name for a general programming language which doesn't have anything to do with music anyway. Java is standardized, there is no need to clone it and reinvent the wheel.
    That was quite chock-full of fail, so I'll just let it speak for itself...
    someone:
    From now on, I shall read C# properly as C octothorpe. Yay! It'll be especially enjoyable in front of some C# patients..err developers.
    You're right, it's best to say "C octothorpe". Especially during an interview to demonstrate your depth and breadth of knowledge and experience in the IT industry.
  • dörte (unregistered)

    € beats CAD beats $ :)

    http://finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter/#from=EUR;to=USD;amt=1

  • (cs) in reply to dörte
    dörte:
    € beats CAD beats $ :)

    http://finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter/#from=EUR;to=USD;amt=1

    omg and KG is so much better than lb cause its twice as big!!!1!

  • Someone who can't be bothered to login from work (unregistered) in reply to someone
    someone:
    C-Octothorpe: thank you for using such a lovely nickname! I googled until I found it. C# really reads as C octothorpe because the musical note is written differently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%E2%99%AF_%28musical_note%29

    And it was a stupid name for a general programming language which doesn't have anything to do with music anyway. Java is standardized, there is no need to clone it and reinvent the wheel.

    From now on, I shall read C# properly as C octothorpe. Yay! It'll be especially enjoyable in front of some C# patients..err developers.

    Actually, the programming language's correct name is C♯​, C# is just the accepted way of writing it when using the correct musical sharp symbol isn't possible or is just inconvenient. When possible Microsoft use "C♯​".

  • eVil (unregistered) in reply to Blue neck
    Blue neck:
    You might not have realized but our loony money (Canadian dollar) is actually worth more than your Yankee money... put that down your pipe and smoke it.

    Lets say you're trying to negotiate a wholesale narcotics deal with a particularly agressive looking warlord in some terrible African hell-hole.

    Which currency do you think is more likely to ensure your personal safety?

  • Herr_Reese (unregistered) in reply to Blue neck

    By fractions of a penny, dear boy. Let's not start a whose better than who argument, else we'll all lose.

  • someone (unregistered) in reply to Someone who can't be bothered to login from work

    not really, Microsoft uses C# even though it'd be possible to use C♯ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/aa336809

    I like the following article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/07/09/why_microsoft_csharp_is_paralysed/

  • someone (unregistered) in reply to Someone who can't be bothered to login from work
    Someone who can't be bothered to login from work:
    someone:
    C-Octothorpe: thank you for using such a lovely nickname! I googled until I found it. C# really reads as C octothorpe because the musical note is written differently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%E2%99%AF_%28musical_note%29

    And it was a stupid name for a general programming language which doesn't have anything to do with music anyway. Java is standardized, there is no need to clone it and reinvent the wheel.

    From now on, I shall read C# properly as C octothorpe. Yay! It'll be especially enjoyable in front of some C# patients..err developers.

    Actually, the programming language's correct name is C♯​, C# is just the accepted way of writing it when using the correct musical sharp symbol isn't possible or is just inconvenient. When possible Microsoft use "C♯​".

    ^^

  • Hortical (unregistered) in reply to CWC
    CWC:
    Meep:
    Blue neck:
    You might not have realized but our loony money (Canadian dollar) is actually worth more than your Yankee money... put that down your pipe and smoke it.

    The loon is worth a percent or two more than the greenback, but you're paying a 5% federal GST in addition to higher provincial and local sales taxes. So your real purchasing power is easily 10% less than a dollar in America.

    The value of a currency in domestic use is hardly of interest to anyone except domestic users.

    Maybe, but this is a "we're better than you" argument, so we're comparing one set of domestic users and their domestic currency to ANOTHER set of domestic users and THEIR domestic currency.

    That's how identity conflicts work.

  • the zune system (unregistered) in reply to Shinobu
    Shinobu:
    the zune system:
    Oral-B (I always thought that was dirty enough as it is):
    Define medical care. I'm sure you could buy an exacto knife, rope, some crazy glue, some chloroform, some astro-glide, a mask, a body bag, a shovel, rubbing alcohol, and a roll of ductape at Canadian Tire.
    Sounds like a Friday night to me. Whoooooooooooo!
    In case you haven't read this classic yet: http://allegedly.petebevin.com/surgery.html
    Oh, now you've got me all hot and bothered.
  • Canadian Anon (unregistered) in reply to Blue neck

    It's true...the Canadian dollar is pretty high right now. It's rather nice.

    But to be fair, crappy tire money is still pretty much worthless. :)

  • (cs) in reply to Canadian Anon
    Canadian Anon:
    But to be fair, crappy tire money is still pretty much worthless. :)
    You shut your whore mouth!

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