I'm just 26 and I feel old at my company...they hired me at 20 fresh out of college and have more than doubled in size since I was hired--most all of them fresh out of college. So in the five years I've been with the company, more early-20s employees have come on. I sometimes wonder how long they keep people around over 30!
people crying that free speech here isn't as free as that in Europe. It's not true! It's legal in the U.S. to be racist, homophobic, a Holocaust denier, to be for or against abortion, or any other issue. Hell, it's legal to film sex and sell it here! In Europe, there are a lot of places it's not legal to be any of those things. While they're hateful positions that we can silence by not giving any attention to, the fact you can speak anything without fear is our greatest treasure, in my opinion. In several places in Europe, you go to jail for denying the Holocaust. You go to jail for preaching against homosexuals from your pulpit.
I'm sure I'll be modded down for saying it, but it needs to be said. Free speech is damn free in this country, and I'm glad we're going to even further lengths to protect it!
You don't necessarily have the right to shoot it, or keep it on your desk and loaded. Depending on your state and municipality, it may have to be unloaded in a gun safe, or even disassembled, even at home. Even if you can keep it loaded and out, if you shoot it and hit nothing, if someone sees or hears it, you can get charged with "discharging a firearm within city limits" or "disorderly conduct while armed." I know for sure Wisconsin is strict on this sort of thing.
Google's hesitancy to move into places where DoubleClick once trod with near impunity. I don't mind Internet ads on websites. What I hate are the scummy, one-flat-stomach rule, teeth whitening, acai berry, and other similar ads that show up on almost every website, major and minor. This says nothing of the older types of annoying ads, like audio, flashing banners and pop-ups. I don't even like seeing the graphics of these sorts of ads because they're so visually displeasing. These sorts of ads are why I use Ad-Block, not because I am opposed to all advertising. Cookies had a reputation similar to these ads, and that's why Google was so hesitant.
that the U.S. would actually "arrest" this guy. If we have laws that keep us from assassinating leaders of countries we don't like, such as Fidel Castro, Kim Song Il, and so on, I seriously doubt we would have the legal authority to arrest a non-political person (i.e. private citizen) that has no ties to the U.S. whatsoever. I don't think the U.S. would try to do it, either, even under Bush. If the guy was dumb enough to wander into Iraq or Afghanistan maybe we'd have some ground to classify him as an enemy combatant or something. This op-ed is ridiculous, though. Even if he were brought to the U.S. by some covert operation, how long before a U.S. judge ruled everything they did illegal and make them let him go?
Well, the main exception to your claim is that the amount of data some of these programs must work with is ever increasing, too. Information available to humanity in general and to applications is increasing at an accelerating rate, and the program still needs to be efficient if it is to work with these ever-increasing amounts of data. Even though hardware is getting far faster, and perhaps for desktop applications where the machine has plenty of extra horsepower to absorb inefficiencies in the code or the programming language it was written in, for serious computing, such as scientific, database or other "big iron" applications, the optimization still matters a great deal, just because of the sheer volume of data it has to process.
One thing the article didn't mention was the radius of the new star. It's obviously larger than the sun, but is it the "largest" star found or simply the most massive? It seems with that kind of mass it might be denser than your average supergiant and have less volume, and therefore less radius.
I'm not an executive level employee, and my non-compete agreement clearly states I may not own stock in certain companies (mainly competitors), and I had to verify I did not own any stock in them prior to beginning employment. Odder still, the company I work for is private.
I'm not saying this is the case everywhere, however I'd say it's more common than not.
Wow, talk about bureaucracy. There's no way I would have gotten away with downloading that much on a work connection, even if it was Linux ISOs or legal, harmless data. How did these guys get away with it for so long? Let's say this guy had a 500 GB hard drive...then stacks of DVDs at 4.7 GB each...that's a lot of smut a day. My network admins would have been knocking on my office door. Once they found out what it was, I'd never find a job again.
Something tells me the network admins for that government department must have been doing the same thing, or were incompetent, or playing WoW (or maybe some hellish combination).
I think it depends on your "style" of perception. If you're a tactile or kinetic person (like me) the chips are more "real." If you're primarily visual, the value on the screen might seem more "real." For example, when I buy something expensive at the store, if I just swipe my debit card, I know internally how much I spent because I can see the total, but it doesn't resonate with me like it does if I have to open my wallet and count the twenties, and then hand a big stack of them over.
I drank enough energy drinks/coffee this morning to be equivalent to several hundred millgrams of caffeine, and it's sharpened my focus and calmed me down, though I've gotten a bit jangled. I suspect I have ADHD though, so the reverse stimulant effect is not surprising.
I was reading a lot of the earlier posts about bullying and how to deal with it. As someone who was bullied past high school and well into college, let me make a couple of points that seem to be true across the Western world about it:
1. The bully never gets in trouble. No matter who you tell, be it a teacher, parent, administrator or even the police, the bully never gets in trouble. If he does it's minor. Bullying is a rarely-enforced, low priority offense, even in this day where the victim may go ape-shit and shoot the bully plus ten or fifteen innocent kids because some drooling mongoloid of a principal wouldn't shut the bully up.
2. If you retaliate, the punishment is the maximum possible. The few times I snapped and beat the crap out of the bullies, even when I didn't do it in front of anyone else, their word against mine was enough to get me in deep trouble when the told someone. The consequences were dire for someone who hoped to get into a good college, I was told. Suspension, expulsion, jail. Low grades. A criminal record wouldn't allow me into college, I was told. I even got alternative school (nearly expelled) when I retaliated my senior year in high school. The bully got nothing--see point 1. I was told it was either my future or ignoring them...I chose ignoring them. I'm successful career-wise, but I'm a wreck socially. Which one was worth more?
3. Existing rules and laws are insufficient, as are all proposed methods for dealing with it. Yes, the best way 30 years ago was to confront and fight. Even if you lost, the respect was there. Nowadays, we're never going back to that time, so the only way to deal with bullying is to punish bullies as harshly as they deserve. Push a kid on the playground? Three day suspension, no questions asked. Post a video of yourself beating up a kid? Suspension and criminal charges. What should the victim do? Defend themselves if necessary, then tell an administration that will come down like fire and brimstone on the bully. If the victim isn't allowed to stand up for himself due to points 1 and 2, then point 1 has to become null and void.
4. The most important thing when you're being bullied is to have some support mechanism. If you're a loner nerd like I was, you don't have a lot of peer options. Friends are best, but parents, clergy, teachers, even God (if you believe in Him) can be a support network...just have someone you can always rely on when all other lights go out. But if you're a victim of bullying and one of the more unpopular kids, and the administration doesn't care about bullying, and your parents side with the school that you're bringing it on yourself, then you need something...I chose God. I think the ones who have nothing, who don't believe in anything and don't rely on anyone, and who are just a bit too psycho, are the ones who end up shooting, because there's no other way in their minds to shut people up. The ones who don't shoot others sometimes kill themselves.
Anyway, that's my rant on bullying. I'm 24, it's been years since I've been bullied, and I'm still shedding scars. Those of you who say man up and take it, it's not so easy. If you're a small, weak kid, with no one who is really coming up to bat with you against overwhelming authority and peers, it's not enough to say "ignore it" or "take it" or "defend yourself." There's too much to lose by doing all three of those. If you ignore it, it only gets worse. If you take it, you snap, or you bottle it up and while you may be "manly" you'll be dysfunctional as hell. If you defend yourself, you get in far worse trouble than you bargained for (unless you're lucky). The solution is to stop it. Have effective anti-bullying laws and rules. Hell, start a war on bullying. The point is, do something. I wish I could now, but I wouldn't know where to start.
Google employees checking every single one periodically? That is impossible. Also, why not demand that Youtube employees would watch through every video?
Seriously though, isn't this in the tradition of the UAE where they don't know what to do with all the oil money and just try to buy the biggest skyscraper in the world?
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I'm just 26 and I feel old at my company...they hired me at 20 fresh out of college and have more than doubled in size since I was hired--most all of them fresh out of college. So in the five years I've been with the company, more early-20s employees have come on. I sometimes wonder how long they keep people around over 30!
people crying that free speech here isn't as free as that in Europe. It's not true! It's legal in the U.S. to be racist, homophobic, a Holocaust denier, to be for or against abortion, or any other issue. Hell, it's legal to film sex and sell it here! In Europe, there are a lot of places it's not legal to be any of those things. While they're hateful positions that we can silence by not giving any attention to, the fact you can speak anything without fear is our greatest treasure, in my opinion. In several places in Europe, you go to jail for denying the Holocaust. You go to jail for preaching against homosexuals from your pulpit.
I'm sure I'll be modded down for saying it, but it needs to be said. Free speech is damn free in this country, and I'm glad we're going to even further lengths to protect it!
Doesn't DoodleJump have an addiction warning in the App Store?
You don't necessarily have the right to shoot it, or keep it on your desk and loaded. Depending on your state and municipality, it may have to be unloaded in a gun safe, or even disassembled, even at home. Even if you can keep it loaded and out, if you shoot it and hit nothing, if someone sees or hears it, you can get charged with "discharging a firearm within city limits" or "disorderly conduct while armed." I know for sure Wisconsin is strict on this sort of thing.
Google's hesitancy to move into places where DoubleClick once trod with near impunity. I don't mind Internet ads on websites. What I hate are the scummy, one-flat-stomach rule, teeth whitening, acai berry, and other similar ads that show up on almost every website, major and minor. This says nothing of the older types of annoying ads, like audio, flashing banners and pop-ups. I don't even like seeing the graphics of these sorts of ads because they're so visually displeasing. These sorts of ads are why I use Ad-Block, not because I am opposed to all advertising. Cookies had a reputation similar to these ads, and that's why Google was so hesitant.
that the U.S. would actually "arrest" this guy. If we have laws that keep us from assassinating leaders of countries we don't like, such as Fidel Castro, Kim Song Il, and so on, I seriously doubt we would have the legal authority to arrest a non-political person (i.e. private citizen) that has no ties to the U.S. whatsoever. I don't think the U.S. would try to do it, either, even under Bush. If the guy was dumb enough to wander into Iraq or Afghanistan maybe we'd have some ground to classify him as an enemy combatant or something. This op-ed is ridiculous, though. Even if he were brought to the U.S. by some covert operation, how long before a U.S. judge ruled everything they did illegal and make them let him go?
It was only a matter of time. Besides, isn't rooting the phone separate from the bootloader, which modifying triggers the eFuse?
Well, the main exception to your claim is that the amount of data some of these programs must work with is ever increasing, too. Information available to humanity in general and to applications is increasing at an accelerating rate, and the program still needs to be efficient if it is to work with these ever-increasing amounts of data. Even though hardware is getting far faster, and perhaps for desktop applications where the machine has plenty of extra horsepower to absorb inefficiencies in the code or the programming language it was written in, for serious computing, such as scientific, database or other "big iron" applications, the optimization still matters a great deal, just because of the sheer volume of data it has to process.
One thing the article didn't mention was the radius of the new star. It's obviously larger than the sun, but is it the "largest" star found or simply the most massive? It seems with that kind of mass it might be denser than your average supergiant and have less volume, and therefore less radius.
I'm not an executive level employee, and my non-compete agreement clearly states I may not own stock in certain companies (mainly competitors), and I had to verify I did not own any stock in them prior to beginning employment. Odder still, the company I work for is private.
I'm not saying this is the case everywhere, however I'd say it's more common than not.
I wish I had mod points. Your rendition was so accurate I could see the commercial in my head with his voice. +1 Funny.
Wow, talk about bureaucracy. There's no way I would have gotten away with downloading that much on a work connection, even if it was Linux ISOs or legal, harmless data. How did these guys get away with it for so long? Let's say this guy had a 500 GB hard drive...then stacks of DVDs at 4.7 GB each...that's a lot of smut a day. My network admins would have been knocking on my office door. Once they found out what it was, I'd never find a job again.
Something tells me the network admins for that government department must have been doing the same thing, or were incompetent, or playing WoW (or maybe some hellish combination).
Haha, "Safari" jacket.
I can't believe what a bunch of nerds we are that we had to look up money laundering in a dictionary.
/Office space
I think it depends on your "style" of perception. If you're a tactile or kinetic person (like me) the chips are more "real." If you're primarily visual, the value on the screen might seem more "real." For example, when I buy something expensive at the store, if I just swipe my debit card, I know internally how much I spent because I can see the total, but it doesn't resonate with me like it does if I have to open my wallet and count the twenties, and then hand a big stack of them over.
Titanium oxide?
I ain't got a gat, but I got a solderin' gun!
Windows Starter edition comes without the Pipes screensaver?
I drank enough energy drinks/coffee this morning to be equivalent to several hundred millgrams of caffeine, and it's sharpened my focus and calmed me down, though I've gotten a bit jangled. I suspect I have ADHD though, so the reverse stimulant effect is not surprising.
I was reading a lot of the earlier posts about bullying and how to deal with it. As someone who was bullied past high school and well into college, let me make a couple of points that seem to be true across the Western world about it:
1. The bully never gets in trouble. No matter who you tell, be it a teacher, parent, administrator or even the police, the bully never gets in trouble. If he does it's minor. Bullying is a rarely-enforced, low priority offense, even in this day where the victim may go ape-shit and shoot the bully plus ten or fifteen innocent kids because some drooling mongoloid of a principal wouldn't shut the bully up.
2. If you retaliate, the punishment is the maximum possible. The few times I snapped and beat the crap out of the bullies, even when I didn't do it in front of anyone else, their word against mine was enough to get me in deep trouble when the told someone. The consequences were dire for someone who hoped to get into a good college, I was told. Suspension, expulsion, jail. Low grades. A criminal record wouldn't allow me into college, I was told. I even got alternative school (nearly expelled) when I retaliated my senior year in high school. The bully got nothing--see point 1. I was told it was either my future or ignoring them...I chose ignoring them. I'm successful career-wise, but I'm a wreck socially. Which one was worth more?
3. Existing rules and laws are insufficient, as are all proposed methods for dealing with it. Yes, the best way 30 years ago was to confront and fight. Even if you lost, the respect was there. Nowadays, we're never going back to that time, so the only way to deal with bullying is to punish bullies as harshly as they deserve. Push a kid on the playground? Three day suspension, no questions asked. Post a video of yourself beating up a kid? Suspension and criminal charges. What should the victim do? Defend themselves if necessary, then tell an administration that will come down like fire and brimstone on the bully. If the victim isn't allowed to stand up for himself due to points 1 and 2, then point 1 has to become null and void.
4. The most important thing when you're being bullied is to have some support mechanism. If you're a loner nerd like I was, you don't have a lot of peer options. Friends are best, but parents, clergy, teachers, even God (if you believe in Him) can be a support network...just have someone you can always rely on when all other lights go out. But if you're a victim of bullying and one of the more unpopular kids, and the administration doesn't care about bullying, and your parents side with the school that you're bringing it on yourself, then you need something...I chose God. I think the ones who have nothing, who don't believe in anything and don't rely on anyone, and who are just a bit too psycho, are the ones who end up shooting, because there's no other way in their minds to shut people up. The ones who don't shoot others sometimes kill themselves.
Anyway, that's my rant on bullying. I'm 24, it's been years since I've been bullied, and I'm still shedding scars. Those of you who say man up and take it, it's not so easy. If you're a small, weak kid, with no one who is really coming up to bat with you against overwhelming authority and peers, it's not enough to say "ignore it" or "take it" or "defend yourself." There's too much to lose by doing all three of those. If you ignore it, it only gets worse. If you take it, you snap, or you bottle it up and while you may be "manly" you'll be dysfunctional as hell. If you defend yourself, you get in far worse trouble than you bargained for (unless you're lucky). The solution is to stop it. Have effective anti-bullying laws and rules. Hell, start a war on bullying. The point is, do something. I wish I could now, but I wouldn't know where to start.
Google employees checking every single one periodically? That is impossible. Also, why not demand that Youtube employees would watch through every video?
Don't give Viacom any bright ideas...
Domo aregato, Mr. Roboto.
In other news, a salon discount card with Amelia Earheart's name and picture was found floating in the South Atlantic by a passing schooner.
Don't we have a device that removes CO2 from the air? I thought they were called "trees."
I was Hungarian, then I ate lunch.
Seriously though, isn't this in the tradition of the UAE where they don't know what to do with all the oil money and just try to buy the biggest skyscraper in the world?