The well tested method of manipulating the masses to turn on and fight amongst themselves is a sure way to deflect attention from those causing the real harm. A perfect example I noted recently was of a politician (don't know who, I was on an elliptical machine) who was trying to stir resentment and anger on a national cable news channel (Fox?) over highway toll operators some of which made 80k per year (lots of overtime). There was all this outrage expressed at these people because they made a good living and were going to retire with a nice pension. All I could think was: good for them, and what about the Congress who get paid a salary (80k per year) and windfall medical benefits for the rest of their lives because they were elected once (regardless of what they did while in office). Text book example of how government and banks turn people against each other. They were talking (smearing) about regular working people making them out to seem like they were robber barons or worse. Sure 80k per year seems like a lot for a toll booth worker, but you have to consider cost of living and other factors before you can make a judgment. The politicians really wanted those out of work to be mad at the toll workers instead of at the people who really created some of their problems. The truth is, government determined a long time ago that they needed to put pressure on the American people for whatever reason (NWO?, globalism?) and the politicians are nothing but paid front men who's job is to manipulate and deflect the attention from the people who really make the decisions.
Military R&D is often utilized to retain top talent and preserve experience and knowledge as it relates to the technology. People get worked up over "wasteful" projects that cost billions and supposedly never yield any direct benefit. You have to have jobs here in this country for researchers and technical specialists or you will lose the talent. One day when you need that talent it will not be available. Furthermore, if you do not constantly have a project going, for instance an aircraft carrier, you will lose the ability to build them since no one with the knowledge to do so will be available. It is like a legacy enterprise app in which no one has opened the code for ten years and then all the sudden you need to maintain it for some reason. Someone then has to RELEARN the whole thing to be able to work on it. The same goes for military hardware, you simply cannot let knowledge of these types of projects and systems go stale. The public doesn't understand these requirements so there are interesting stories about "wasteful " projects in the media that are publicly debated. The truth is, these projects are never going to cease and the "waste" will continue because the people in charge of our military readiness understand this aspect. It isn't waste, it is Research and Development; it is necessary though benefits are rarely ever immediately tangible and those in power who do not realize this are dangerous (cough...HP CEOs...cough).
I just realized I haven't been to the movies since the unwashed masses obtained cell phones. I've never been blinded by one in a theater, and I'm guessing I would be rather infuriated if I was.
I understand that in the Muslim world an open mouth (wide) is an offensive sexual gesture, or so I hear. Anyone know if this is true? If you don't want it turning into MySpace I wouldn't allow alcohol or branded items to appear either. With the gradual move towards specialized social media they should develop Google+ to be an effective hub for all of your other social media sites you like to visit. FaceBook is not especially tuned to this and its current setup is not good for organizing your on-line social presence. There are other sites like Project Noah, and Etsy that are strong specialized social media sites, but using FaceBook to tie them all together is a pathetic mess. You need a way to organize and segregate all of your social stuff under one hub AND make it easy to search AND easy to use. FaceBook is a mess, it reminds me of that mission critical enterprise app developed in Excel by someone in marketing.
Limit maximum POST size: Limiting the maximum POST request size can reduce the number of possible predictable collisions, thus reducing the impact of an attack.
Limit maximum request parameters: Some servers offer the option to limit the number of parameters per request, which can also minimize impact.
If you aren't already doing the above you are bat shit crazy anyway.
You need a buffer between you and the people you owe money to. Getting cajoled into automatic payments is a trap. They often take place by ACH (bank draft) and you are at the mercy of the vendor for any refunds unless they draft a credit card. Watch that option slip away soon.
You cannot dump Verizon unless you are OK with losing communications ability. Period. They got us. Everyone else I know who has another service can't wait to leave their old master for their soon to be new master, Verizon. This situation has made me wish the government built and maintained all the towers with tax money and made these large companies beg to use them. They are sovereign now.
True indeed. Verizon is a special animal. They have the best wireless network in the US and we all pay for it. Their only "competitor" is AT&T and they are have a lack-luster network in comparison, worse customer service (yes, it is possible), and they make no attempt to compete or better their service to nudge Verizon aside. Both companies (an effective abused monopoly to consumers) are happy with the current situation. Communications in the US is at a stalemate and it sucks!
Yeah, it is hilarious. Someone pulls out a check, eyes roll (people in line), they do their little ritual of writing and signing, and then the cashier runs it like a debit card. One time a gaggle of people surrounded this old lady at the grocery store to witness for themselves a check (and subsequent writing) in real life--they had never seen one before.
I think there needs to be a ban on non-C block languages. I hate it when a language has to be implicit with its blocks, so childish. Just use C style blocks and end the damn expression with a semi-colon. We have to learn so many languages it is crap to have to reprogram your mind to deal with someone's "smart" constructs that diverge from a well known style that has no learning curve and with no real reason. VBScript is a pain in the ass; why? Maybe they were trying to hang with the impossible crap you have to deal with in a batch file.
What is it with the goatse obsession? Am I missing something. I was a victim once, not agitated, but concerned that I had a goatse image waiting for me in a tab. Not funny, not infuriating, just a tab I had to close. Quite nasty though.
This subject is certainly worthy of study to find the net subsidies. It looks rather tangled. Consumers in Ohio are getting taxed at the pump to the tune of at least 45 cents per gallon last I checked. My question: What is the money derived from taxes going towards? Is it being invested in alternate energy sources? Is this even necessary? Energy policy is still a mystery. Above all it seems global economic circumstances require it to be a private endeavor instead of a public service
There are energy/holding companies investing in wind energy. There are wind farms installed atop leveled mountains in the east US. They are not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. Don't know if they are getting subsidized.
It is common for faculty to negotiate ownership of content built on school time much less in their personal time. So this shouldn't be a difficult thing to work out and is not a foreign subject for the administration. I would just offer to sell it to them. If anything form a company they can do business with. As an employee it would look really bad if audited by the state and it was found they paid you, an employee, extra money for what the auditors could assume is already your job. All of this has to take place under a contract.
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Race doesn't matter to intelligent people. In fact I would guess most people don't even consciously notice race, I know I don't.
The well tested method of manipulating the masses to turn on and fight amongst themselves is a sure way to deflect attention from those causing the real harm. A perfect example I noted recently was of a politician (don't know who, I was on an elliptical machine) who was trying to stir resentment and anger on a national cable news channel (Fox?) over highway toll operators some of which made 80k per year (lots of overtime). There was all this outrage expressed at these people because they made a good living and were going to retire with a nice pension. All I could think was: good for them, and what about the Congress who get paid a salary (80k per year) and windfall medical benefits for the rest of their lives because they were elected once (regardless of what they did while in office). Text book example of how government and banks turn people against each other. They were talking (smearing) about regular working people making them out to seem like they were robber barons or worse. Sure 80k per year seems like a lot for a toll booth worker, but you have to consider cost of living and other factors before you can make a judgment. The politicians really wanted those out of work to be mad at the toll workers instead of at the people who really created some of their problems. The truth is, government determined a long time ago that they needed to put pressure on the American people for whatever reason (NWO?, globalism?) and the politicians are nothing but paid front men who's job is to manipulate and deflect the attention from the people who really make the decisions.
It happens to the best of us. Your forgiven.
Military R&D is often utilized to retain top talent and preserve experience and knowledge as it relates to the technology. People get worked up over "wasteful" projects that cost billions and supposedly never yield any direct benefit. You have to have jobs here in this country for researchers and technical specialists or you will lose the talent. One day when you need that talent it will not be available. Furthermore, if you do not constantly have a project going, for instance an aircraft carrier, you will lose the ability to build them since no one with the knowledge to do so will be available. It is like a legacy enterprise app in which no one has opened the code for ten years and then all the sudden you need to maintain it for some reason. Someone then has to RELEARN the whole thing to be able to work on it. The same goes for military hardware, you simply cannot let knowledge of these types of projects and systems go stale. The public doesn't understand these requirements so there are interesting stories about "wasteful " projects in the media that are publicly debated. The truth is, these projects are never going to cease and the "waste" will continue because the people in charge of our military readiness understand this aspect. It isn't waste, it is Research and Development; it is necessary though benefits are rarely ever immediately tangible and those in power who do not realize this are dangerous (cough...HP CEOs...cough).
I just realized I haven't been to the movies since the unwashed masses obtained cell phones. I've never been blinded by one in a theater, and I'm guessing I would be rather infuriated if I was.
It is not about saving you, it is about saving the insurance companies money and providing an additional revenue stream for the state. Everybody wins!
I understand that in the Muslim world an open mouth (wide) is an offensive sexual gesture, or so I hear. Anyone know if this is true? If you don't want it turning into MySpace I wouldn't allow alcohol or branded items to appear either. With the gradual move towards specialized social media they should develop Google+ to be an effective hub for all of your other social media sites you like to visit. FaceBook is not especially tuned to this and its current setup is not good for organizing your on-line social presence. There are other sites like Project Noah, and Etsy that are strong specialized social media sites, but using FaceBook to tie them all together is a pathetic mess. You need a way to organize and segregate all of your social stuff under one hub AND make it easy to search AND easy to use. FaceBook is a mess, it reminds me of that mission critical enterprise app developed in Excel by someone in marketing.
What do you run, a System/36?
Not always. It is important to have AC despite the idiots who use it most often. Why is this even a discussion?
Because of this:
Limit maximum POST size: Limiting the maximum POST request size can reduce the number of possible predictable collisions, thus reducing the impact of an attack.
Limit maximum request parameters: Some servers offer the option to limit the number of parameters per request, which can also minimize impact.
If you aren't already doing the above you are bat shit crazy anyway.
You need a buffer between you and the people you owe money to. Getting cajoled into automatic payments is a trap. They often take place by ACH (bank draft) and you are at the mercy of the vendor for any refunds unless they draft a credit card. Watch that option slip away soon.
You cannot dump Verizon unless you are OK with losing communications ability. Period. They got us. Everyone else I know who has another service can't wait to leave their old master for their soon to be new master, Verizon. This situation has made me wish the government built and maintained all the towers with tax money and made these large companies beg to use them. They are sovereign now.
True indeed. Verizon is a special animal. They have the best wireless network in the US and we all pay for it. Their only "competitor" is AT&T and they are have a lack-luster network in comparison, worse customer service (yes, it is possible), and they make no attempt to compete or better their service to nudge Verizon aside. Both companies (an effective abused monopoly to consumers) are happy with the current situation. Communications in the US is at a stalemate and it sucks!
Yeah, it is hilarious. Someone pulls out a check, eyes roll (people in line), they do their little ritual of writing and signing, and then the cashier runs it like a debit card. One time a gaggle of people surrounded this old lady at the grocery store to witness for themselves a check (and subsequent writing) in real life--they had never seen one before.
Using a debit card as Credit in transactions gives you the vendor buffer. No other "rewards" though.
I think there needs to be a ban on non-C block languages. I hate it when a language has to be implicit with its blocks, so childish. Just use C style blocks and end the damn expression with a semi-colon. We have to learn so many languages it is crap to have to reprogram your mind to deal with someone's "smart" constructs that diverge from a well known style that has no learning curve and with no real reason. VBScript is a pain in the ass; why? Maybe they were trying to hang with the impossible crap you have to deal with in a batch file.
how is this modded down?
It is nothing but an ad trough now.
What is it with the goatse obsession? Am I missing something. I was a victim once, not agitated, but concerned that I had a goatse image waiting for me in a tab. Not funny, not infuriating, just a tab I had to close. Quite nasty though.
This subject is certainly worthy of study to find the net subsidies. It looks rather tangled. Consumers in Ohio are getting taxed at the pump to the tune of at least 45 cents per gallon last I checked. My question: What is the money derived from taxes going towards? Is it being invested in alternate energy sources? Is this even necessary? Energy policy is still a mystery. Above all it seems global economic circumstances require it to be a private endeavor instead of a public service
There are energy/holding companies investing in wind energy. There are wind farms installed atop leveled mountains in the east US. They are not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. Don't know if they are getting subsidized.
Forget it, this thread is now about toilets.
As a young child I'll never forget stepping over streams of pee on the sidewalk while walking through New York city.
Everyone knows you need at least 20oz capacity to pee in a bottle. I guess he never peed in a bottle before!
It is common for faculty to negotiate ownership of content built on school time much less in their personal time. So this shouldn't be a difficult thing to work out and is not a foreign subject for the administration. I would just offer to sell it to them. If anything form a company they can do business with. As an employee it would look really bad if audited by the state and it was found they paid you, an employee, extra money for what the auditors could assume is already your job. All of this has to take place under a contract.