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Oerwinde

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  1. I love the fact that a system error in the DMV is automatically attributed to "Somebody's rigging the system!" Also http://www.snopes.com/cuban-refugees-clinging-to-air-force-one/ Why would party affiliation be stored in the same database as driver information? I ask as a Canadian where political parties have their own member database rather than the government holding it. Down here, the DMV is basically your one stop shop for any form of registration. Either there or the Post Office, as both are the primary ways the government knows where you live and your primary form of interaction with the Government. For the most part the DMV is where most people register to vote so they have to have that info on file. And yes, the parties do have their own lists of people behind them, but for the most part the federal election commission goes by the DMV selections people make, rather than by what the parties say. Ahh, leadership races here are a party thing not a government thing. The parties organize the leadership elections rather than Elections Canada. I guess if the government organizes the election it makes sense to register your party affiliation with the government.
  2. I love the fact that a system error in the DMV is automatically attributed to "Somebody's rigging the system!" Also http://www.snopes.com/cuban-refugees-clinging-to-air-force-one/ Why would party affiliation be stored in the same database as driver information? I ask as a Canadian where political parties have their own member database rather than the government holding it.
  3. Bernie Sanders is the newest Disney Princess.
  4. Thats good to know, its great when we can use modern medicine to improve our lives....what would you have done 100 years ago ?Made the wife handle it while I went to the bar with my friends. Or beat the everliving crap out of the boy until he behaved.
  5. Bruce asked how my meds were going and such in another thread, so I'll update here. Meds are going great. I haven't lost control on my kids since starting them, I don't hate picking up my daughter from school anymore, and I'm not having trouble getting to sleep without taking melatonin anymore. The boy is still a terror, but with me not losing it we are keeping his messes more under control. Showed my doctor a picture of one of the messes he made and she said she was surprised that the drugs were able to keep my anger under control, as any sane person would be enraged by that.
  6. Critic score 37,audience score 83.so critics don't like it but audiences do. Also, does ktchong have something against posting movie stuff in the movie thread?
  7. A couple years back we got bought out by an american company. Not a lot changed except my supervisor's desire to be seen as invaluable to the new regime. Well now they have decided to completely overhaul the way the warehouse operates and bring in scanners. Which kinda sucks because after meeting with all the managers from all the warehouses across Canada, the other managers seemed dumbfounded by the amount of work we were able to get done the way we have the warehouse set up. For example talking to one manager he was talking about his crew putting away a bulk shipment. Bulk shipments are about 1500-2000 lbs per pallet, usually about 30-50 lbs per box. The procedure we have for putting it all onto the shelves is to check off each item to ensure it was accurately shipped, then put it away. The other manager had 5 guys putting away a 50 pallet shipment without checking it off, and after an 8 hour shift had 6 pallets left over. We can get 50 pallets checked off and put away with 2 guys in 8.5 hours, so for them to have 5 guys and skip a step and still not get it done in a shift was crazy. We also got picking numbers from the Edmonton branch where the average number of lines per day picked by each staff member in the Home Depot department was around 140. Our branch averages around 500. The main reason we are able to do so much more is because we have our warehouse set up numerically by part number, and after a couple of weeks most new employees know where every number is in the warehouse. We were never on scanners, while the other warehouses that do things in 2-4x as much time as we do are generally "wild warehouse" They put things where they have room for it and locate it in the computer. With the new scanner system we have been ordered to do the same, the reason being that being set up numerically wastes shelf space, as some numbers we don't stock as much as others. They are also rolling out this new system in the middle of the summer, and us being a fastener company is the busiest time of the year as its when everyone is doing construction and home renos. To accommodate resetting up the warehouse and learning an entirely new system during the busiest time of the year, head office has issued a vacation blackout for the months of July and August, so no one is allowed to take vacation during those months. The blackout was issued after both months had been fully booked. Many of us will also be required to work weekends in order to do the reset, as we can't be moving product around while people are picking it TL:DR - We are the most efficient branch in our company, head office wants to switch us over to a much less efficient system in order to save shelf space, and to do so no one gets summer holidays.
  8. Didn't read the articles, so don't know if it says it, but supposedly Gawker Media is only worth 89 million. So this is pretty devastating for Gawker.
  9. Gloryhammer just may be my new favorite band. Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards is definitely my favourite album. This one is from their first album, Tales from the Kingdom of Fife. Each album has a story. Space 1992 takes place 1000 years after the first.
  10. EFTN was likely just overhyped for me. I found Kurt Russel the only redeeming part of the movie. Oh, and the chandeliers on the car.
  11. There's already a campaign for Bernthal to get an emmy
  12. Really? I must have missed it. It was a while ago when the video first came out. It's definitely closer to reality now though. As for the robots will rise up and kill us thing, I hope science fiction has taught us to treat robots with respect when they achieve sentience.
  13. It may have been a ripoff of EFNY, but it was also a far more entertaining movie.
  14. Kingpin gets his name! Edit: Ok finished season 2. A lot of good stuff, but I felt like it didn't flow as well as season one. Punisher's costume reveal was nice, but Elektra's kinda fell flat because it looks nothing like her comic outfit. Setup for next season was good. Here's hoping Bullseye shows up.
  15. Brian Menze as lead artist. No wonder its so pretty.
  16. About halfway through Daredevil s2. Punisher's casting was perfect.
  17. Aurora is an oooold engine. You could probably achieve the same with Unity.
  18. Main character is being played the the guy who plays Lincoln on the 100.
  19. I'm just praying that evil doesn't just mean you keep a widow's dead husband's wedding ring and cackle about it when completing a quest for her, or threatening the kid on the street if he doesn't give you his last 2 coins in his inventory. Subtlety. Evil actions done to help you achieve a real purpose, not just to be a bully or a murderous psychopath, is what I'm hoping for. If the personality test was any indication there will be 3 types of evil and a good/neutral option.
  20. Like 10 years ago I bought a membership for Something Awful. Made 3 posts. One of which was in a "google image search your name and post the result!" thread. Turns out remote linking was a banable offense. Worst 5 bucks I ever spent.
  21. I would like a game based on the Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards album by Gloryhammer. Dwarves, knights, and evil wizards, riding robot dragons through space, all to a power metal soundtrack.
  22. I'll be honest I love superhero comics, I grew up on reading Legion of Super Heroes and Justice League but the only series I have ever watched is Daredevil and I enjoyed it So I have never watched Flash, Arrow or Supergirl or any other series. What would people say are there favorites and what would you recommend...compared to Daredevil Flash is really good, its much more fun, less serious than Daredevil. It was a spinoff of Arrow. Arrow was DC trying to do a Dark Knight version of Green Arrow. First half of season one was kinda bland, but it picked up, and the quality went up a lot when they started adding more outlandish comic-booky stuff. Thats when they decided to do the Flash show, which has all the outlandish villains and fun stuff. Legends of Tomorrow isn't quite living up to its potential, but is still good. It struggles because it can't decide if it wants to be a serialized show or an episodic one, the premise is ideal for a serialised show, as they have a clear goal, a singular villain, etc. but the stories about them going about trying to stop the villain are more or less unrelated from week to week. Supergirl is another Greg Berlanti show (he does all the CW DC stuff), so it has a similar tone to Flash, but black underwear model Jimmy Olsen just pisses me off. Going the Marvel Cinematic Universe route, Jessica Jones is really good. Its the other Netflix series. Just as serious, if not more, but more brightly lit. Its less of an action show and more of a psychological thriller/noir tale. Agents of SHIELD took off and has pretty much maintained its quality after the second half of season 1. All 3 of these take place in the same universe as the movies, Agents of SHIELD being the one tied most closely to the movies (Sif, Nick Fury, and Maria Hill have all made cameos). Agent Carter is fun, takes place in the post-war period with the SSR becoming some sort of FBI for mad science. Peggy Carter (Cap's love interest from the first movie) teams up with Howard Stark's butler Edwin Jarvis and does spy stuff. Its much more of a comedy than Agents of SHIELD. Overall I would say Flash is the best of the network TV series, followed by Agents of SHIELD. Jessica Jones is a must if you liked Daredevil.
  23. My understanding of the movie is its not about the superhero registration act, as there are very few heroes, all of which identities are known to the government.
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