This is why I dislike the "get a nice comfy state job, work for 30 years, and retire" attitude that my dad has. At 65 he's been enjoying his pension... but he can barely walk since he keeps pulling muscles any time he tries to exercise. He's got low energy most of the time, and as the years go on, has less and less of a will to do anything other than sit in front of his computer and tinker.
Why would I want to piss away 30 years of my life (30 of the best years) working for someone else, and then finally get to "have my fun".
So instead, I've been running a business with my brother for the past bunch of years (and I'm 26 now) and I've been having the time of my life. I've gone on big road trips, hiked the Appalachian Trail, and generally had tons of fun, all while earning an income... and saving away for later.
If a teacher found the bottle, that's another story (you're right, confiscate it and punish her)
Punish her for what? They should find out if she has a legitimate reason to have it first. I used to carry all kinds of stuff in school. My asthma inhaler, a bottle of antibiotics when I was sick and had to take it three times a day, etc etc.
I've noticed that in our current society, and schools especially, there tends to be a do-completely-idiotic-kneejerk-reaction-and-get sued-later mentality.
When I was in high school I got "written up" by a teacher for using my asthma inhaler. It went something like this.
I feel an attack coming on, I take out the inhaler and I'm about to use it. Teacher says "You need permission from the nurse to use that". I take a puff, and start breathing better. I say "uhh, since when?". She proceeds to attempt to take it from me. I put it away to safeguard it and refuse to give it up. Teacher proceeds to write up a "problem kid" report.
In the end, nothing happened. The report fell into the cracks of all the other meaningless paperwork.
If my kid was harassed for using life-saving drugs, or even some pain killers, there would be hell to pay,
The iPhone should also come with a beat-the-hell-out-of-the-inept-with-a-cluebat option too.
I parked in downtown LA to check out the tar pits while I was in town. I put in a quarter, the timer said 30:00, I figured that was plenty of time. I hit my stopwatch to make sure.
I walk back to my car, I have 5 minutes almost exactly on my watch. And there's some schmuck at my car writing up a parking ticket. He was trying to drive away so I stood in front of his car while attempting to talk. He said "not my problem" and hit the gas.
Contesting the ticket proved pointless. "Upon inspection of the meter, it is performing within the standards".
Hmmm, very interesting. I have stock certificates and everything. But, I did a search on sec.gov for company filings and it seems there are no records at all for the company.
Are there any other public sec databases other than IDEA? Or is that it.
Right of rescission is mostly for loans and credit. But, one would have a right of rescission of stock if the company in question violated law/regulation.
I vote for revenue sharing all the way. Having learned from experience.
I joined a startup two years ago. I liked the technology, I liked the founder, I liked the direction of the company. The company needed some cash and I became an investor. I own about 20% of the company.
I made the mistake of not insisting on being part of the operation of the company (I thought that was a given due to having a decent chunk of ownership). I made the mistake of not talking to a lawyer about what I should do. The founder would involve me in planning and etc, but we tended to have bitter arguments where myself and the development team would be in agreement and he would be against it. Never work for anyone who has an "I'm always right and you're always wrong" mentality
The shot across the bow was 6 months after investing, the founder asked everyone about taking a pay cut to conserve cash. It was supposed to be for 3 months until some pending deals were finalized.
10 months later, still making less than working at burger king, I had it. By then I grew to hate the founder and his complete ineptitude. His personality reminds me of a 2 year old, and his skills are found wanting.
Due to not having any sort of non-compete, myself, my brother (who was also working there), the VP, and the sales guy jumped ship and now we have exactly the same company minus the original founder and we've made more sales and more progress in 3 months than we did in 1.5 years with the original startup.
The other company is still going, they got another round of funding to keep them going, they almost have a product now. Lets hope they can make something so I can see something from my 20%.
I agree that could very well be... But we all know that society's stance on "adult content" is ridiculous.
Had the teacher's computer shown pictures of guns, or someone getting maimed from styleproject, this would have never gone to court. If it had gotten any media attention at all, it would have been 10 seconds on the nightly news about a computer mishap.
I think the whole thing about honest people never getting conned until they turn greedy is totally true.
My ex-landlord was conned with a Nigerian scam. I even explained how it all worked to him, while he was going through it. I told him he would get a series of fat checks and the scammer would ask him to send off some of it to a third party. The checks of course bounced after two weeks. Meanwhile the landlord (a PhD at a local college), was in the hole -$300,000.
I begged him not to fall for it. He went for it anyway, even after many many conversations about exactly how the scam operates.
No spammers on the personals? Really? Have you looked lately? Or even posted an ad?
I've had some pretty decent results on craigslist. Lately it's all spam. Try posting a regular ad in any of the personals sections. Proceed to wait about 24 hours, and then watch the spam roll in. It's all dating site spam in the form of "I can't give my number out, so visit my site at getahotdate.com"
The best luck I've had on craigslist was when I bought a car ski rack from a girl who posted a for sale ad... now we're dating.
I'm always syncing stuff from one place to another (we use rsync to deploy product updates). rsync -craP is a pretty good one.
some other favorites (none of which are particularly stupid) jnettop (see exactly where your bandwidth is going) tcpdump netcat ps auxf (f for listing process parent/child tree) netstat -plunt (to figure out which process is using what port) shutdown -c (for those whoops moments) echo * (for when you have no 'ls' (whoops)) nohup (no console output, but save it in a file instead) x11vnc (export your *current* display, rather than spawn a new independent vnc server)
There are already laws against cell phone use while driving (depending on the state).
Using a cell phone (ie: puching in digits to dial... not talking) is just about as unsafe as tuning your radio or popping in a cd. If done properly, talking on a cell phone is no more dangerous than talking to a passenger.
Now here's where we get to the differences: Generally, talking to a passenger is a safe thing to do. Both people are yak yak yakking and all of a sudden the traffic gets heavier and the conversation stops. On the other hand, the person on the other end of the cell phone has no idea that the traffic just got worse and keeps talking. Many times, the person on the other end of the cell is fairly important (boss, client, significant other, etc). The driver doesn't want to sound rude so they keep talking, distracting themselves from driving. So... Mr-High-Profile-Executive-Cell-Phone-User thinks about those latest sales projections and drifts into another lane and causes an accident.
This is why there is a complete ban on using cell phones (depending on the state), Using a hands free gadget is not going to solve any problems at all. And in fact, it may make things much worse. Now we have people who have a hands free cell phone and think "I can chat on my cell all day long and be perfectly safe while driving".
And, in conclusion. That's 1.3 million violent crimes per *YEAR*. Our p2p population downloads daily.
With 1.3 million violent crimes a year, that's 3745.1 violent crimes on average across the country every day, versus 3 to 6 million p2p users every day. So, for some quick numbers that don't really mean anything, if we compare apples to apples, we have a low end average of 1,095,000,000 p2p users per year. Why are they represented as a minority in government?
I completely and totally agree. With all the recent reports of the millions and millions of people using p2p, it makes you wonder about society in general and it's views on right and wrong.
From The US Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2004: Population at the time: 293,655,404 Average violent crimes per 100,000 persons in the USA: 465.5
A quick calculation brings us to an average of 1,366,965.9 violent crimes a year in the USA.
From some quick research, estimates range from 10 million to 25 million p2p users worldwide. Estimates range from 3 million to 6 million users in the USA alone. 6 million is 2% of the current population of roughly 300 million.
We have a difference of twice as many p2p users as violent criminals in the USA. P2P is not a violent crime, it does not deprive anyone of anything (one can argue about lost sales till the cows come home, but copying some bits is what we are talking about here). In the long run, I predict violent crimes will drop and p2p will be ever increasing. What happens when 10% of the American population are on p2p networks downloading their favorite shows? What about when it's 25% or 50%? I smell some changes yet to come.
It's painfully obvious who is renting our government these days, and it's no surprise as to their agenda. The next question is, when is the revolution going to start?
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This is why I dislike the "get a nice comfy state job, work for 30 years, and retire" attitude that my dad has. At 65 he's been enjoying his pension... but he can barely walk since he keeps pulling muscles any time he tries to exercise. He's got low energy most of the time, and as the years go on, has less and less of a will to do anything other than sit in front of his computer and tinker.
Why would I want to piss away 30 years of my life (30 of the best years) working for someone else, and then finally get to "have my fun".
So instead, I've been running a business with my brother for the past bunch of years (and I'm 26 now) and I've been having the time of my life. I've gone on big road trips, hiked the Appalachian Trail, and generally had tons of fun, all while earning an income... and saving away for later.
It goes around the damages and routes the censors.
If a teacher found the bottle, that's another story (you're right, confiscate it and punish her)
Punish her for what? They should find out if she has a legitimate reason to have it first. I used to carry all kinds of stuff in school. My asthma inhaler, a bottle of antibiotics when I was sick and had to take it three times a day, etc etc.
I've noticed that in our current society, and schools especially, there tends to be a do-completely-idiotic-kneejerk-reaction-and-get sued-later mentality.
and even inhalers!
When I was in high school I got "written up" by a teacher for using my asthma inhaler. It went something like this.
I feel an attack coming on, I take out the inhaler and I'm about to use it. Teacher says "You need permission from the nurse to use that". I take a puff, and start breathing better. I say "uhh, since when?". She proceeds to attempt to take it from me. I put it away to safeguard it and refuse to give it up. Teacher proceeds to write up a "problem kid" report.
In the end, nothing happened. The report fell into the cracks of all the other meaningless paperwork.
If my kid was harassed for using life-saving drugs, or even some pain killers, there would be hell to pay,
The iPhone should also come with a beat-the-hell-out-of-the-inept-with-a-cluebat option too.
I parked in downtown LA to check out the tar pits while I was in town. I put in a quarter, the timer said 30:00, I figured that was plenty of time. I hit my stopwatch to make sure.
I walk back to my car, I have 5 minutes almost exactly on my watch. And there's some schmuck at my car writing up a parking ticket. He was trying to drive away so I stood in front of his car while attempting to talk. He said "not my problem" and hit the gas.
Contesting the ticket proved pointless. "Upon inspection of the meter, it is performing within the standards".
Tickets are a TAX.
Yeap, that's what I searched. The search for "Company Filings" goes to http://www.sec.gov/idea.
Soooo, if the company isn't found on this list... it's safe to say they aren't registered with the SEC and I should call my lawyer etc etc?
Hmmm, very interesting. I have stock certificates and everything. But, I did a search on sec.gov for company filings and it seems there are no records at all for the company.
Are there any other public sec databases other than IDEA? Or is that it.
Right of rescission is mostly for loans and credit. But, one would have a right of rescission of stock if the company in question violated law/regulation.
I vote for revenue sharing all the way. Having learned from experience.
I joined a startup two years ago. I liked the technology, I liked the founder, I liked the direction of the company. The company needed some cash and I became an investor. I own about 20% of the company.
I made the mistake of not insisting on being part of the operation of the company (I thought that was a given due to having a decent chunk of ownership). I made the mistake of not talking to a lawyer about what I should do. The founder would involve me in planning and etc, but we tended to have bitter arguments where myself and the development team would be in agreement and he would be against it. Never work for anyone who has an "I'm always right and you're always wrong" mentality
The shot across the bow was 6 months after investing, the founder asked everyone about taking a pay cut to conserve cash. It was supposed to be for 3 months until some pending deals were finalized.
10 months later, still making less than working at burger king, I had it. By then I grew to hate the founder and his complete ineptitude. His personality reminds me of a 2 year old, and his skills are found wanting.
Due to not having any sort of non-compete, myself, my brother (who was also working there), the VP, and the sales guy jumped ship and now we have exactly the same company minus the original founder and we've made more sales and more progress in 3 months than we did in 1.5 years with the original startup.
The other company is still going, they got another round of funding to keep them going, they almost have a product now. Lets hope they can make something so I can see something from my 20%.
But then you wont get reward points!
This is why I use federal reserve notes for everything I can. I bought my Wii with federal reserve notes. I bought my PS3 with federal reserve notes.
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End The Fed
But then you don't get rewards points!
Not for anyone who watched "Into thin air".
Or Vertical Limit.
Vertical limit had as much fact about mountaineering as the movie "Hackers" had about computers.
Er, yeah... stileproject. It shows you how non-often I visit that site...
I was referring to the stileproject-esque shock pictures... a tame one being something like: http://static.stileproject.com/rnd/img/tum7.jpg
I agree that could very well be... But we all know that society's stance on "adult content" is ridiculous.
Had the teacher's computer shown pictures of guns, or someone getting maimed from styleproject, this would have never gone to court. If it had gotten any media attention at all, it would have been 10 seconds on the nightly news about a computer mishap.
It's about "making an example" rather than finding the truth and having the case dismissed entirely.
I think the whole thing about honest people never getting conned until they turn greedy is totally true.
My ex-landlord was conned with a Nigerian scam. I even explained how it all worked to him, while he was going through it. I told him he would get a series of fat checks and the scammer would ask him to send off some of it to a third party. The checks of course bounced after two weeks. Meanwhile the landlord (a PhD at a local college), was in the hole -$300,000.
I begged him not to fall for it. He went for it anyway, even after many many conversations about exactly how the scam operates.
It's affected, not effected.
I can affect the results of...
The effect of the study was...
Birds are affected by...
I will effect a change in...
No spammers on the personals? Really? Have you looked lately? Or even posted an ad?
I've had some pretty decent results on craigslist. Lately it's all spam. Try posting a regular ad in any of the personals sections. Proceed to wait about 24 hours, and then watch the spam roll in. It's all dating site spam in the form of "I can't give my number out, so visit my site at getahotdate.com"
The best luck I've had on craigslist was when I bought a car ski rack from a girl who posted a for sale ad... now we're dating.
I'm always syncing stuff from one place to another (we use rsync to deploy product updates).
rsync -craP is a pretty good one.
some other favorites (none of which are particularly stupid)
jnettop (see exactly where your bandwidth is going)
tcpdump
netcat
ps auxf (f for listing process parent/child tree)
netstat -plunt (to figure out which process is using what port)
shutdown -c (for those whoops moments)
echo * (for when you have no 'ls' (whoops))
nohup (no console output, but save it in a file instead)
x11vnc (export your *current* display, rather than spawn a new independent vnc server)
I would be interested to just download it and play around to see if 3.1a2 passes the acid 1/2/3 tests.
I wonder how chrome does on the acid tests as well.
or nuclear
There are already laws against cell phone use while driving (depending on the state).
Using a cell phone (ie: puching in digits to dial... not talking) is just about as unsafe as tuning your radio or popping in a cd. If done properly, talking on a cell phone is no more dangerous than talking to a passenger.
Now here's where we get to the differences: Generally, talking to a passenger is a safe thing to do. Both people are yak yak yakking and all of a sudden the traffic gets heavier and the conversation stops. On the other hand, the person on the other end of the cell phone has no idea that the traffic just got worse and keeps talking. Many times, the person on the other end of the cell is fairly important (boss, client, significant other, etc). The driver doesn't want to sound rude so they keep talking, distracting themselves from driving. So... Mr-High-Profile-Executive-Cell-Phone-User thinks about those latest sales projections and drifts into another lane and causes an accident.
This is why there is a complete ban on using cell phones (depending on the state), Using a hands free gadget is not going to solve any problems at all. And in fact, it may make things much worse. Now we have people who have a hands free cell phone and think "I can chat on my cell all day long and be perfectly safe while driving".
And, in conclusion. That's 1.3 million violent crimes per *YEAR*. Our p2p population downloads daily.
With 1.3 million violent crimes a year, that's 3745.1 violent crimes on average across the country every day, versus 3 to 6 million p2p users every day. So, for some quick numbers that don't really mean anything, if we compare apples to apples, we have a low end average of 1,095,000,000 p2p users per year. Why are they represented as a minority in government?
I completely and totally agree. With all the recent reports of the millions and millions of people using p2p, it makes you wonder about society in general and it's views on right and wrong.
From The US Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2004:
Population at the time: 293,655,404
Average violent crimes per 100,000 persons in the USA: 465.5
A quick calculation brings us to an average of 1,366,965.9 violent crimes a year in the USA.
From some quick research, estimates range from 10 million to 25 million p2p users worldwide.
Estimates range from 3 million to 6 million users in the USA alone. 6 million is 2% of the current population of roughly 300 million.
We have a difference of twice as many p2p users as violent criminals in the USA. P2P is not a violent crime, it does not deprive anyone of anything (one can argue about lost sales till the cows come home, but copying some bits is what we are talking about here). In the long run, I predict violent crimes will drop and p2p will be ever increasing. What happens when 10% of the American population are on p2p networks downloading their favorite shows? What about when it's 25% or 50%? I smell some changes yet to come.
It's painfully obvious who is renting our government these days, and it's no surprise as to their agenda. The next question is, when is the revolution going to start?
Hah, am I the only one who got that?