Posts by James Butler
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Indeed, he should cop a line from Barack Obama and say “people like us should pay our way”.
OK that was my poorly-remembered paraphrase. The actual quote I was thinking of is:
They want to give people like me a $200,000 tax cut that’s paid for by asking 33 seniors each to pay $6,000 more in health costs. That's not right.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to B Jones,
My work got some flash new F&P dishwashers a few months back, and a System (a little sign) was established to make sure staff didn’t load dirty cups into a clean load, or put away a dirty one. After the third or fourth callout, the technicians were mystified over why they kept failing – resetting to factory settings somehow. The only reason they’d do that was if someone put a strong magnet against them, and why would anyone do that?
The System now attaches the sign to the front of the dishwasher with velcro.
LOL we have exactly the same system with a double DishDraw - but our magnets never seem to be a problem. The big killer of dishwashers at $REALJOB is colleagues (who have apparently never done their own dishes) putting hand-wash detergent into the dishwasher. The suds go everywhere and somehow kill the electronics.
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You'll lie melting against the element FOR ETERNITY, apostates!
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Hard News: Radio NZ: Sailing on in…, in reply to Raymond A Francis,
Berlusconification:
Word of the year?Mmmmm, Berluscones. Flavoursome at first, but not filling, and leaves a vile aftertaste.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to bmk,
Yes clearly this dishwasher hasn’t been programmed in accordance with Asimov’s Three Law’s of Robotics. Which is obviously a serious AI fail.
I dunno, it seems to be very assiduous at not allowing, by inaction, any harm to come to its user.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Andre Alessi,
I misread that and thought for a moment we were talking about Juha Saarinen.
I initially assumed that Nokia had jumped on the iPad bandwagon.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to bmk,
Front-loaders FTW!
Are they really better?
The basic idea is that they use less water + are gentler on the clothes. As a bonus, ours provided several weeks of entertainment for our children when it was new - they would happily lie in front of it for a whole cycle, watching the clothes go around through the glass door.
Danielle's right though, they take forever to run.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to bmk,
What I do which others don’t is stack each of the same utensil together. Doesn’t take much longer to stack but makes the emptying far quicker.
But then don't your spoons all clump together, preventing the water getting in to wash them?
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Megan Wegan,
Oi! What depravity?
It's a priori evident from your lack of a tangible dishwasher...
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Paul Campbell,
some are more automatic than others
Or more saved.