Agreed, the arrogance is thick in government bureaucracies. EVERYTHING is political, nothing is done on merit or because it is the most efficient. It is really tiring to watch this day-in and day-out when you come from the business world or a non-profit where you had to make choices based solely on efficiency or merit. Having worked in one of these government environments I can safely say that any lifer (employee of ten years or more) is sucking down tax payer money, floating jobs to their friends, and trading favors on a constant basis. This reality is also openly talked about as these people feel immune from accountability.
I was talking with someone not to long ago about whether or not magnetic fields can be disturbed if passed through light. This came up in a convo about eavesdropping on network lines, as they mentioned fiber was immune I wondered if you could pass a magnetic field through a fiber line and note a disturbance on some scale allowing you to decode the data. It seems that if light polarization can be changed by a magnetic field that an inverse of this can somehow be possible. Is the polarization change only possible in a vacuum?
Yes, you can buy drug addicted females to exploit but you can't buy ammo, or facilitate the exchange of firearms on a person-to-person basis, no no no, that is baaaad.
Some of the department heads at my last job were cliquey to the point they would ignore other departments unless a problem they ignored snowballed into their domain.
I'm a registered Republican, and this year when they called for a donation I told them: "I will not be giving money to any party this year." That was the quickest I have ever gotten off the phone with them. I hope many others told them the same thing.
Except that no, Mormonism is much like Scientology in that they keep a large laundry list of things "not to be discussed with outsiders."
This is the very thing that most layman do not understand about these cults. Cults by their very definition redefine commonplace words and euphemisms to mean something completely different within their group. Their very core is the act of hiding their true beliefs from outsiders. The upper-echelon of their leadership know that if their disposition was public they would have no hope of winning more converts. They require exemplary behavior of their flock, float an amazing story to rook you in, and after they win your trust and devotion, they come on with the rest of the rules.
Operating Procedure: Get you to love and depend on them Gain your devotion to the faith Teach you the rest of the rules Threaten you with abandonment if you step out of line (in a nice way)
Bullshit. They just don't advertise it. I have seen it with my own eyes on numerous occasions from protestant religious sects who profess themselves the enemies of the Catholic church.
Except South Park does a good job in this respect. For people who have first hand knowledge of the sickness of fundamentalist christian religious cults, it is therapeutic to have them maligned and exposed for the weirdness they exhibit.
Because they are. They are hiding the fact that they do not like you, and judge you,in that you are not a chosen one of their flock of the grand spiritual Israel (Zion). You think I'm spouting weird and exaggerated rhetoric? Then you are obviously completely ignorant of American fundamentalist christian religious sect such as the Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Baptists, Pentecostals, and probably many other ilks. I have had the unfortunate experience of involvement with several of these sects (and subsequent research) and I can honestly say that these people are a threat to a harmonious society. They do not include themselves with you as a "part of this world," and "non-believers" are never included in their view of the future....period. In their eyes they long for the return of their savior who IS going to kill you and preserve them. They do a good job of acting slightly normal and using people for their gain, but it is all an act.
In the next five years bricks and mortar retailers are going to drop like flies. Online sales are growing exponentially--15 to 20% per year. It will be interesting to see how the market adapts. Target thinks they have problems now? Just wait. I see C-levels jumping ship soon.
There are a bunch of people that are straight loco over Google docs. Google Maps? Pwns. Google Earth? Gee let me think. Google Analytics? Yeah, no one uses that. Should I keep going? Your dumb.
How is it freakish? Your whole life is ZERO data on the cosmic scale of a planet. My whole life there has been a storm on Jupiter. If it stops all the sudden next year am I supposed to ascribe some special meaning to it. Jesus Christ people--grow up. It is like the fucking superstitious dark ages with intellectual midgets. Change is constant. Nothing about the existence of matter is static at all. What is all stop, no change? When does matter cease to move? Answer: 0 Kelvin. Where is it zero Kelvin? Nowhere. Everything is always changing state.
The Sun in conjunction with the magnetic fields of the Earth, and gravity all combine their chaos to make what we call "the weather." Don't expect it to take a black and white approach to making you comfortable.
The point is to setup a trust that can't be taxed out of existence. When you die, and you try to leave a bunch of money to someone, the government, in America, takes a very large portion of it in taxes (your legacy dies off quickly with you). To curtail this you have to use a trust. Billionaires are control freaks and they want to direct their money from the grave--trusts allow them to do that. The trust is a "non-profit" that can live on under a charter that must be adhered to by the web (check and balance of sorts) of trustees. The preservation of great wealth is way over your little head.
Actually, it is true. Bill Gates has done more than any one person to hold back the progress of technology on the planet. This in itself is enough to cause a chain reaction possibly inciting an unnecessary continuation or prolongation in the mitigation of disease. So, no, it doesn't make up for IE6.
Besides it is dumb. There are other higher level problems that need solved which would ultimately lead to an organic evolution of mankind and a subsequent eradication of disease. But go on living in your black and white world.
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They [are] also cannot differentiate between flirting and "just being nice"
There's a difference!? You just blew my mind.
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Agreed, the arrogance is thick in government bureaucracies. EVERYTHING is political, nothing is done on merit or because it is the most efficient. It is really tiring to watch this day-in and day-out when you come from the business world or a non-profit where you had to make choices based solely on efficiency or merit. Having worked in one of these government environments I can safely say that any lifer (employee of ten years or more) is sucking down tax payer money, floating jobs to their friends, and trading favors on a constant basis. This reality is also openly talked about as these people feel immune from accountability.
I was talking with someone not to long ago about whether or not magnetic fields can be disturbed if passed through light. This came up in a convo about eavesdropping on network lines, as they mentioned fiber was immune I wondered if you could pass a magnetic field through a fiber line and note a disturbance on some scale allowing you to decode the data. It seems that if light polarization can be changed by a magnetic field that an inverse of this can somehow be possible. Is the polarization change only possible in a vacuum?
Yes, you can buy drug addicted females to exploit but you can't buy ammo, or facilitate the exchange of firearms on a person-to-person basis, no no no, that is baaaad.
Some of the department heads at my last job were cliquey to the point they would ignore other departments unless a problem they ignored snowballed into their domain.
Oh my god, you work in government!
I'm a registered Republican, and this year when they called for a donation I told them: "I will not be giving money to any party this year." That was the quickest I have ever gotten off the phone with them. I hope many others told them the same thing.
Except that no, Mormonism is much like Scientology in that they keep a large laundry list of things "not to be discussed with outsiders."
This is the very thing that most layman do not understand about these cults. Cults by their very definition redefine commonplace words and euphemisms to mean something completely different within their group. Their very core is the act of hiding their true beliefs from outsiders. The upper-echelon of their leadership know that if their disposition was public they would have no hope of winning more converts. They require exemplary behavior of their flock, float an amazing story to rook you in, and after they win your trust and devotion, they come on with the rest of the rules.
Operating Procedure:
Get you to love and depend on them
Gain your devotion to the faith
Teach you the rest of the rules
Threaten you with abandonment if you step out of line (in a nice way)
Bullshit. They just don't advertise it. I have seen it with my own eyes on numerous occasions from protestant religious sects who profess themselves the enemies of the Catholic church.
Except South Park does a good job in this respect. For people who have first hand knowledge of the sickness of fundamentalist christian religious cults, it is therapeutic to have them maligned and exposed for the weirdness they exhibit.
Because they are. They are hiding the fact that they do not like you, and judge you ,in that you are not a chosen one of their flock of the grand spiritual Israel (Zion). You think I'm spouting weird and exaggerated rhetoric? Then you are obviously completely ignorant of American fundamentalist christian religious sect such as the Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Baptists, Pentecostals, and probably many other ilks. I have had the unfortunate experience of involvement with several of these sects (and subsequent research) and I can honestly say that these people are a threat to a harmonious society. They do not include themselves with you as a "part of this world," and "non-believers" are never included in their view of the future....period. In their eyes they long for the return of their savior who IS going to kill you and preserve them. They do a good job of acting slightly normal and using people for their gain, but it is all an act.
You don't get it, Romney *is* a robot. A Mormon banker robot.
Required reading:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203716204577014262225551278.html
Relax, the interstellar matter has been identified as Mitt Romney. Nothing to see here.
In the next five years bricks and mortar retailers are going to drop like flies. Online sales are growing exponentially--15 to 20% per year. It will be interesting to see how the market adapts. Target thinks they have problems now? Just wait. I see C-levels jumping ship soon.
QUICK! Innovate for us and solve our problems! Or else........
Eye of the Liger? hmm...hmmm?
There are a bunch of people that are straight loco over Google docs. Google Maps? Pwns. Google Earth? Gee let me think. Google Analytics? Yeah, no one uses that. Should I keep going? Your dumb.
They've mastered the domain of the "simple but elegant" web UI, and everything hinges on that.
I suggest you crack open an Adwords account and STFU. Adwords is an abysmal clusterfuck that is far from elegant and simple.
--Google fanboi
How is it freakish? Your whole life is ZERO data on the cosmic scale of a planet. My whole life there has been a storm on Jupiter. If it stops all the sudden next year am I supposed to ascribe some special meaning to it. Jesus Christ people--grow up. It is like the fucking superstitious dark ages with intellectual midgets. Change is constant. Nothing about the existence of matter is static at all. What is all stop, no change? When does matter cease to move? Answer: 0 Kelvin. Where is it zero Kelvin? Nowhere. Everything is always changing state.
The Sun in conjunction with the magnetic fields of the Earth, and gravity all combine their chaos to make what we call "the weather." Don't expect it to take a black and white approach to making you comfortable.
It's about glory and legacy. The 750milllion is but a small small fraction of the controlled wealth.
The point is to setup a trust that can't be taxed out of existence. When you die, and you try to leave a bunch of money to someone, the government, in America, takes a very large portion of it in taxes (your legacy dies off quickly with you). To curtail this you have to use a trust. Billionaires are control freaks and they want to direct their money from the grave--trusts allow them to do that. The trust is a "non-profit" that can live on under a charter that must be adhered to by the web (check and balance of sorts) of trustees. The preservation of great wealth is way over your little head.
Actually, it is true. Bill Gates has done more than any one person to hold back the progress of technology on the planet. This in itself is enough to cause a chain reaction possibly inciting an unnecessary continuation or prolongation in the mitigation of disease. So, no, it doesn't make up for IE6.
Besides it is dumb. There are other higher level problems that need solved which would ultimately lead to an organic evolution of mankind and a subsequent eradication of disease. But go on living in your black and white world.
ID too high, shut up.