Setting up a client/server retail installation for one of my clients.
First store I had extention cables from other stores to my server, and to one front computer at a time. Meanwhile i'm crawling on my hands/feet with construction still going on. Then they started painting and I had to remove everything.
Sadly, next installation wasn't any better (why they always scheduled painting/flooring for the same time as computer setup is just insane.) Just had the giant puddle of water in the center of the store where a floor was supposed to be.
So glad I mostly code, and rather leave setting stuff up to others.
I know its been covered a lot elsewhere (scienceblogs.com) but I don't think it can be understated. Colbert Report is a great venue for science, a wonderful public face. He's had on lots of scientists, more than any show I can recall in a couple decades.
I don't recall the last fun show that had the host actually talking to an Astronaut in orbit.
So even if NASA goes with Serenity for the name, I'm glad they went onto Colbert to announce it.
I would agree with you except every day for the last 8 years we heard about Bushisms. Just because Obama is your guy (not you personally, just in general) shouldn't mean that you quit pointing out the idiotic things that he does.
Obama has already had plenty of Obamaisms (basically anytime he isn't in front of a teleprompter), yet I don't see people like Olberman leading off their show with them they way he did with Bush.
All I want is consistency from people.
This is fun, since you just came from Red State I presume, I'll speak in slow words so you can understand.
Bushisms are like the President Grooping a Prime Minister, or congratulating the Queen on her 200th birthday.
Obama mistake? Giving a thoughtful gift with sight for forethought. Or a gift that the kids will enjoy (toy helicopter.)
Bush used a Teleprompter his whole term, when it was pulled away we got Bushisms. Obama uses a teleprompter just like Bush, but when its pulled away he speaks English and people enjoy and cheer.
See, my point here, you have no point yourself. You live by a set of rules that are inconsistent at best. You project your own foibles on your enemy, while Democrats don't even consider Republicans their enemy.
Please, step back from your computer before you hurt yourself... All you do is repeat what Red State tells you, you dont' have a single thought of your own up there (if you did, you wouldn't be even bring up teleprompters or a personal gift with meaning.) The rest of the world doesn't care about those... They do care if The President gives a Prime Minister a back-rub (a little care.) They do care when the president breaks the Geneva Convention (a lot.) But in the Republican world, torture isn't as important as an iPod.
When they first opened up, they offered upgrades for stereo equipment. I bought some crappy speakers as I went to college, at the end of the year (when summer job income appeared) I went back and got full price refund while upgrading to something not to be embarrassed about.
A year later they started with their DiVX plan to conquer the world and I rarely went back (okay, picked up some speaker cable once.)
and all this time I took the direct highway (93) from Golden to Boulder, who knew I should have gone out of the way the whole time, just to avoid 2 traffic lights.
I went to college in Golden, you're more accurate about Golden than the original posters is.
Plus you already have 3 highways already going into the city, so that would never have been the complaint. The problem was space, Golden is small and sandwiched between mountains and mesa's. There wasn't room there unless you stacked 460 over 6. If they bent it around the east side of mesa's they'd bypass the space issues.
The rich upscale folks are in Evergreen, just west up Lookout Mountain, where the productive antenna's are. If they tried installing anything on the Mesa's I'd understand Golden fighting it. Everytime someone tries to build there they regret it (the ground, it moves a lot, ask the houses that fell down on Green Mountain, or those ones sliding on south mesa.) The engineers know not to build anything there (not even a road to the top of the 2 mesa's), there are roads up to lookout mountain, where you can deal with Evergreen people, and just replace their current antenna's that no one can see but provide coverage for all of the Denver area.
There is no Global DDT Ban. Due to overuse in America we ended up poising ourselves (basically when we were to spread it, the scientists/instructions said use 1 bag, the spreader used 10 bags, to be sure.)
DDT is still legal to use in Africa, and in fact, is being used. Its one of the most cost efficient methods at controlling Malaria. Its just more highly monitored than it was before (due to people using way too much.)
Go hit your wiki's, and find out more about the great DDT Myth, FUD brought to you by the anti-environmental movement, and embraced by the USA.
Don't quote me on this, but I believe that they are against the eating of human beings.
Actually many of their press releases push the eating of CEO's of fast food companies and such. Along with their recent push for human breast milk as our main source of cows milk substitute.
If you ever think there's a line PETA won't cross, they already crossed it 10 times.
I know my food used to be alive, and I know it had internal organs. Some of them are quite tasty.
Some? most of them are tasty, okay I'm not a big fan of tripe, but then that could have a lot more to do with preparation (cleaning.) This country needs to embrace Offal (and insects while we're at it.)
and while you're at, can you make this a bit more efficient.
Tried to post my own regexp, but the post filter didn't like it, too many "junk" characters. I knew I wasn't good at regexp, but how dare this system call it junk.
Where's the proof of all those "facts" cited in this post.
I mean, I've only gone Bankrupt once so far due to Medical reasons. All because Mental Care was not considered Health Care by my previous Insurance (which I promptly lost due to my Business going bye bye, as the investors fled with Enrons collapse.)
Or my non-snark post. Having Health Care tied to Job Employment is completely nonsense. That has to change, the people who need it most won't have a job. Sadly neither Candidate wants to go the distance here, even if large Corporations all back the idea of Universal Government backed Health Care.
Wow has managed in this new expansion to actually make story matter to the actual world you exist in. Their phasing tech means that as you progress in the game/story the world itself changes to match.
If you can, you'll have to experience the Death Knight starting zone. Also at 80 in Icecrown there are a few areas that change completely based off of quests you've done.
No longer do you kill a villain to see him still there afterwards (see Battle for Undercity.) I'd say Blizzard is again making a big change in what people think MMO's can do, and i'm sure Bioware is aware of this and will work hard to make it possible in their new game.
I've experienced the horrors that we all have, but that's why a travel incident stands out to much so much, from last January.
Austin Texas. The TSA agents were courteous, helpful and even working at making people smile or laugh. I've never seen anything like it, I enjoyed my time in that airport, didn't feel rushed, or treated like the enemy.
To me, it was like seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. I know that they can fix this, they can undo the damage of the last decade. That they could making air travel something people don't dread (and to think just a year ago, we only dreaded the airport, now we dislike the flight as we're nickle and dimed in the air.)
As a vegan, I can at least speak for myself: the answer is definitely "yes."
Veganism is neither irrational nor difficult to understand; if you're making an animal suffer unnecessarily, vegans are against it. It's amazing to me how such a simple position seems to confuse people. Define unnecessary suffering? Did you define it based on human standards or the animals.
Do you want everyone to be Vegan?
Do you want the extinction of whole swaths of animals?
Do you use any parts of dead animals?
Unfertilized eggs?
If a human life is saved from Animal Research, was it worth it?
Are you a diabetic, if so be sure to refuse all the medicine since that came from research that caused animal suffering.
Are you, as a human an animal? If so (I would hope you say yes) shouldn't you be trying to end human suffering first.
I personally have nothing against a Vegetarian diet. But Veganism will always lead to trouble. It is not healthy (i'm not talking diet, i'm talking civilization here.)
I want you to be honest with yourself. Why should you change the order of nature that has existed for millions of years, just because you can suddenly afford it. Does it make you feel superior that you can survive a Vegan lifestyle while poorer people in other nations can not. What about the 2 kids this past year in SF who were forced a Vegan lifestyle from birth and ended up suffering from mal-nutrition rarely ever seen in modern society. If they were simply allowed milk would their bones not have broken so easily. Their mothers milk was useless.
Maybe there is another place, where you try and minimize suffering, but realize you can't end it. Maybe there is a place where you can find animals are animals and not furry people.
Animals are not people, I'm sure you realize this. But many Vegans have a problem with Anthropomorphising, its not right to give animals human qualities. I will give you one example to close these thoughts.
Geese and their lovely liver. You've heard of the cruel method of over-feeding them called Galvage, and it absolutely outraged you to hear how a tube was stuffed down the Geese throat and it was force fed. Following so far, right? Well where do you think humans got the idea for feeding the Geese like that? Why from their parents, as its the method the parents use to feed their kids. They stick their large hard bill deep down their childrens throat, as their throat is very strong and thick, designed to withstand that. The geese engorge their liver at the end of summer, part of their forced over-eating before traveling south for the winter. It seems our ancestors killed some of the Geese and while enjoying every single bit of the animal, also enjoyed the engorged liver.
But now many Vegans and other Animal Activists push to end this practice, a practice the species uses on its own.
Some of us nutjobs have a simple self-consistent view of the world. Sapient life has intrinsic value, which includes developed babies (not early fetuses), people from ALL nations, and does not include cows.
Of course, this view is so simple and radical that it is excluded by those on both extremes. You're not alone. I'm proud of the same belief.
That's a commonly held misconception. They're in favor of ethical treatment of animals, which for them precludes farming. PETA actually offers free euthanasia for sick animals for people that can't afford to have it done by vets. I hate to tell you, you've bought the PETA line, hook and sinker.
They want you to think they're for ethical treatment of animals.
Instead they are one of the cruellest organizations out there. They kill around 99% of the animals they "rescue" and then just dump them in the freezer.
They fund the terrorist organization ALF, they approve of the maiming/killing of humans to save ANY animal.
They are against science, and will do everything to stop you from getting your diabetes medicine (though not their own diabetes medicine) or anything else done via Animal Research.
Human on Human terrorism is fine in their eyes, but if an animal dies they send out a press-release.
They seek to end House-Pets and all pets for the disabled (see and eye dogs for example.)
They treat females as a substandard gender, and constantly portray us as nothing but flesh. They purchase models, wearing next to nothing and lock them in cages, to display.
PETA is an evil Shock Organization, with not one single redeeming value.
If you want animals treated properly, donate time and money to your local SPCA.
PETA will not pay the million, this is just another one of the hundreds of stunts a year to gain press.
If they didn't have this type of immune system there's no way they would have survived all the super-bugs that have appeared and wiped out countless other species.
The world is nothing at all like it was when they started roaming the Earth, and yet they are still here. Its not too surprising to find out it wasn't just their excellent killing ability and family raising techniques, but also a powerful immune system.
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Setting up a client/server retail installation for one of my clients.
First store I had extention cables from other stores to my server, and to one front computer at a time. Meanwhile i'm crawling on my hands/feet with construction still going on. Then they started painting and I had to remove everything.
Sadly, next installation wasn't any better (why they always scheduled painting/flooring for the same time as computer setup is just insane.) Just had the giant puddle of water in the center of the store where a floor was supposed to be.
So glad I mostly code, and rather leave setting stuff up to others.
I know its been covered a lot elsewhere (scienceblogs.com) but I don't think it can be understated. Colbert Report is a great venue for science, a wonderful public face. He's had on lots of scientists, more than any show I can recall in a couple decades.
I don't recall the last fun show that had the host actually talking to an Astronaut in orbit.
So even if NASA goes with Serenity for the name, I'm glad they went onto Colbert to announce it.
I would agree with you except every day for the last 8 years we heard about Bushisms. Just because Obama is your guy (not you personally, just in general) shouldn't mean that you quit pointing out the idiotic things that he does.
Obama has already had plenty of Obamaisms (basically anytime he isn't in front of a teleprompter), yet I don't see people like Olberman leading off their show with them they way he did with Bush.
All I want is consistency from people.
This is fun, since you just came from Red State I presume, I'll speak in slow words so you can understand.
Bushisms are like the President Grooping a Prime Minister, or congratulating the Queen on her 200th birthday.
Obama mistake? Giving a thoughtful gift with sight for forethought. Or a gift that the kids will enjoy (toy helicopter.)
Bush used a Teleprompter his whole term, when it was pulled away we got Bushisms. Obama uses a teleprompter just like Bush, but when its pulled away he speaks English and people enjoy and cheer.
See, my point here, you have no point yourself. You live by a set of rules that are inconsistent at best. You project your own foibles on your enemy, while Democrats don't even consider Republicans their enemy.
Please, step back from your computer before you hurt yourself... All you do is repeat what Red State tells you, you dont' have a single thought of your own up there (if you did, you wouldn't be even bring up teleprompters or a personal gift with meaning.) The rest of the world doesn't care about those... They do care if The President gives a Prime Minister a back-rub (a little care.) They do care when the president breaks the Geneva Convention (a lot.) But in the Republican world, torture isn't as important as an iPod.
I like this idea, sadly I would have never found it from a plebeian like yourself.
Only 2 points for my ID, i'm so sad. Why no achievement for meta-moderating 5 days in a row?
When they first opened up, they offered upgrades for stereo equipment. I bought some crappy speakers as I went to college, at the end of the year (when summer job income appeared) I went back and got full price refund while upgrading to something not to be embarrassed about.
A year later they started with their DiVX plan to conquer the world and I rarely went back (okay, picked up some speaker cable once.)
and all this time I took the direct highway (93) from Golden to Boulder, who knew I should have gone out of the way the whole time, just to avoid 2 traffic lights.
I went to college in Golden, you're more accurate about Golden than the original posters is.
Plus you already have 3 highways already going into the city, so that would never have been the complaint. The problem was space, Golden is small and sandwiched between mountains and mesa's. There wasn't room there unless you stacked 460 over 6. If they bent it around the east side of mesa's they'd bypass the space issues.
The rich upscale folks are in Evergreen, just west up Lookout Mountain, where the productive antenna's are. If they tried installing anything on the Mesa's I'd understand Golden fighting it. Everytime someone tries to build there they regret it (the ground, it moves a lot, ask the houses that fell down on Green Mountain, or those ones sliding on south mesa.) The engineers know not to build anything there (not even a road to the top of the 2 mesa's), there are roads up to lookout mountain, where you can deal with Evergreen people, and just replace their current antenna's that no one can see but provide coverage for all of the Denver area.
Interesting. So its my imagination every day with those large signs all over the Beltway that say the price at each exit and toll plaza.
Nice conspiracy you've got going on. Too bad its all in your head.
Yay, Urban Myths live on.
There is no Global DDT Ban. Due to overuse in America we ended up poising ourselves (basically when we were to spread it, the scientists/instructions said use 1 bag, the spreader used 10 bags, to be sure.)
DDT is still legal to use in Africa, and in fact, is being used. Its one of the most cost efficient methods at controlling Malaria. Its just more highly monitored than it was before (due to people using way too much.)
Go hit your wiki's, and find out more about the great DDT Myth, FUD brought to you by the anti-environmental movement, and embraced by the USA.
What's PETAs stand on human cruelty?
Don't quote me on this, but I believe that they are against the eating of human beings.
Actually many of their press releases push the eating of CEO's of fast food companies and such. Along with their recent push for human breast milk as our main source of cows milk substitute.
If you ever think there's a line PETA won't cross, they already crossed it 10 times.
I know my food used to be alive, and I know it had internal organs. Some of them are quite tasty.
Some? most of them are tasty, okay I'm not a big fan of tripe, but then that could have a lot more to do with preparation (cleaning.) This country needs to embrace Offal (and insects while we're at it.)
Step 1 is admit your addiction... yup, i'm addicted.
Well if step 2 is submit to a higher authority.
Well, I have submitted to the power of Google.
Now leave me alone, I got me some good internet.
Get off my lawn you whippersnapper!
and while you're at, can you make this a bit more efficient.
Tried to post my own regexp, but the post filter didn't like it, too many "junk" characters. I knew I wasn't good at regexp, but how dare this system call it junk.
Don't worry, they'll ignore that. Reality and its liberal bias means they have to ignore any hard fact put in front of them.
The 2 laws of Republican Thinking
1. Ignore reality
2. Accuse your opponent of your own malfeasance
So you're saying all those hundreds of Republicans and 50+ Republican Senators that did everything Bush wanted, and then some for 6 years.
Those people, they had nothing to do with how they voted?
Good to know that.
By the way, the strongest Bush supporters are all thats left in Congress and Senate now. The moderate Republicans have been kicked out of the party.
Where's the proof of all those "facts" cited in this post.
I mean, I've only gone Bankrupt once so far due to Medical reasons. All because Mental Care was not considered Health Care by my previous Insurance (which I promptly lost due to my Business going bye bye, as the investors fled with Enrons collapse.)
Or my non-snark post. Having Health Care tied to Job Employment is completely nonsense. That has to change, the people who need it most won't have a job. Sadly neither Candidate wants to go the distance here, even if large Corporations all back the idea of Universal Government backed Health Care.
Wow has managed in this new expansion to actually make story matter to the actual world you exist in. Their phasing tech means that as you progress in the game/story the world itself changes to match.
If you can, you'll have to experience the Death Knight starting zone. Also at 80 in Icecrown there are a few areas that change completely based off of quests you've done.
No longer do you kill a villain to see him still there afterwards (see Battle for Undercity.) I'd say Blizzard is again making a big change in what people think MMO's can do, and i'm sure Bioware is aware of this and will work hard to make it possible in their new game.
I've experienced the horrors that we all have, but that's why a travel incident stands out to much so much, from last January.
Austin Texas. The TSA agents were courteous, helpful and even working at making people smile or laugh. I've never seen anything like it, I enjoyed my time in that airport, didn't feel rushed, or treated like the enemy.
To me, it was like seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. I know that they can fix this, they can undo the damage of the last decade. That they could making air travel something people don't dread (and to think just a year ago, we only dreaded the airport, now we dislike the flight as we're nickle and dimed in the air.)
If the material is strong enough, it could be used in a Yurt, where the fabric is the wall.
That could be fantastic if you think about an easy to build shelter that powers its own electronics inside.
Veganism is neither irrational nor difficult to understand; if you're making an animal suffer unnecessarily, vegans are against it. It's amazing to me how such a simple position seems to confuse people. Define unnecessary suffering? Did you define it based on human standards or the animals.
Do you want everyone to be Vegan?
Do you want the extinction of whole swaths of animals?
Do you use any parts of dead animals?
Unfertilized eggs?
If a human life is saved from Animal Research, was it worth it?
Are you a diabetic, if so be sure to refuse all the medicine since that came from research that caused animal suffering.
Are you, as a human an animal? If so (I would hope you say yes) shouldn't you be trying to end human suffering first.
I personally have nothing against a Vegetarian diet. But Veganism will always lead to trouble. It is not healthy (i'm not talking diet, i'm talking civilization here.)
I want you to be honest with yourself. Why should you change the order of nature that has existed for millions of years, just because you can suddenly afford it. Does it make you feel superior that you can survive a Vegan lifestyle while poorer people in other nations can not. What about the 2 kids this past year in SF who were forced a Vegan lifestyle from birth and ended up suffering from mal-nutrition rarely ever seen in modern society. If they were simply allowed milk would their bones not have broken so easily. Their mothers milk was useless.
Maybe there is another place, where you try and minimize suffering, but realize you can't end it. Maybe there is a place where you can find animals are animals and not furry people.
Animals are not people, I'm sure you realize this. But many Vegans have a problem with Anthropomorphising, its not right to give animals human qualities. I will give you one example to close these thoughts.
Geese and their lovely liver. You've heard of the cruel method of over-feeding them called Galvage, and it absolutely outraged you to hear how a tube was stuffed down the Geese throat and it was force fed. Following so far, right? Well where do you think humans got the idea for feeding the Geese like that? Why from their parents, as its the method the parents use to feed their kids. They stick their large hard bill deep down their childrens throat, as their throat is very strong and thick, designed to withstand that. The geese engorge their liver at the end of summer, part of their forced over-eating before traveling south for the winter. It seems our ancestors killed some of the Geese and while enjoying every single bit of the animal, also enjoyed the engorged liver.
But now many Vegans and other Animal Activists push to end this practice, a practice the species uses on its own.
Thank you for reading.
Of course, this view is so simple and radical that it is excluded by those on both extremes. You're not alone. I'm proud of the same belief.
They want you to think they're for ethical treatment of animals.
Instead they are one of the cruellest organizations out there. They kill around 99% of the animals they "rescue" and then just dump them in the freezer.
They fund the terrorist organization ALF, they approve of the maiming/killing of humans to save ANY animal.
They are against science, and will do everything to stop you from getting your diabetes medicine (though not their own diabetes medicine) or anything else done via Animal Research.
Human on Human terrorism is fine in their eyes, but if an animal dies they send out a press-release.
They seek to end House-Pets and all pets for the disabled (see and eye dogs for example.)
They treat females as a substandard gender, and constantly portray us as nothing but flesh. They purchase models, wearing next to nothing and lock them in cages, to display.
PETA is an evil Shock Organization, with not one single redeeming value.
If you want animals treated properly, donate time and money to your local SPCA.
PETA will not pay the million, this is just another one of the hundreds of stunts a year to gain press.
Its so easy to bring your own bag, I love it too.
I actually have 2 grocery bags. One large Canvas tote and a slightly smaller one made out of recycled milk bottles.
Occasionally I do have to use a grocery bag. But I just save those for dog walks, they can come in handy.
If they didn't have this type of immune system there's no way they would have survived all the super-bugs that have appeared and wiped out countless other species.
The world is nothing at all like it was when they started roaming the Earth, and yet they are still here. Its not too surprising to find out it wasn't just their excellent killing ability and family raising techniques, but also a powerful immune system.