They're talking about an event on June 3rd. Males can take advantage of this time frame by 1. growing a full beard, if they don't normally have a beard, or 2. if they do normally wear a beard, shave it off on June 2nd. That, a couple of team logo decals on your cheeks and forehead, and a pair of dazzle glasses or sunglasses should take care of it. A celebrity-face t-shirt (perhaps an image of one of your team's players) will help.
Maybe some gimmick sunglasses with LEDs flashing away around the rims.
robots.txt is a polite way of saying "please don't"
But your website is there for the world to see. If someone, anyone chooses to ignore your polite request, well, so what? Why did you put your content up there for the world to see?
Yeah, it's more about the sender covering their arse. It's one of the reasons I left my last employer.
That, and the practice of my boss' boss copying his boss in the CC, and using read receipts, and getting pissed off when people used the "don't send the read receipt" function in Outlook. Being management, his inbox limit was....large.....so he had a sub-folder for each and every employee he dealt with, above and below him, and a processing rule that put the read receipts into the employee's sub-folder, i.e. send an email to dwywit, and the read receipt would be placed into the sub-folder 'dwywit' (except I never sent them). Obviously this was his practice so that he could come down on staff who didn't read his emails. He came down heavy-handed on one of my underlings, accusing the kid of not reading his emails. The look on his face when I pointed out that 1. read receipts were optional, so there were probably a lot of people who chose not to send them, and 2. making read receipts non-optional acros the organisation would quickly fill up the mail server, was, as they say, priceless. Bonus, said underling was able to quote the email in question and answer its concerns.
Said manager was later named in an audit report - being named in such a report is one step away from being referred to the public prosecutor. He didn't last long after that.
And that's what happens when you promote an accountant beyond his competence, and put him in charge of IT.
The first doctor I saw after I saw blood in a bowel movement (not my regular GP - he was away) advised me to increase fibre intake, including metamucil.
This was after I told him that it was a rare day for me to have less than two visits to the porcelain throne. I described my routine in detail - consistency, volume, colour (other than blood, of course), diet, etc. So he suggested metamucil.
Fortunately my GP, when I finally got to see him, agreed with me that *more* fibre was not the solution.
A "low-cost" device sent into LEO? So it's being sold on the admittedly astonishingly low cost compared to traditional launch costs.
So any additional costs (such as end-of-life mechanisms designed to put it into a burn trajectory) are going to have a proportionally greater impact on that "low cost" selling point, which means the proponents have a motive to resist such extra mechanisms and costs.
Anything sold on its main benefit being "low cost" will eventually result in a race to the bottom, and the cost-cutting that entails - "hey, our module is lighter and cheaper to get into orbit (because we decided to do without expensive impact shielding/temperature control/whatever)"
Except that W10 trashed the partitions on one of my customers' machines. HP laptop, and I could see the recovery partition when viewed in a cradle via gparted, but the computer absolutely could not access that partition. Had to stump up for recovery discs (cheap, but a long time coming from HP) to get it back to out-of-box condition.
W10 is an abomination. I'll stick to W7 until something better comes along.
If that's an offer, thanks, but I'm way out of the game.
Hadn't touched an AS400 since 2004, but I'm still keen, so a little while ago I made an account on pub400.com to play around. I re-keyed a short RPG program from my source code printout and it compiled the second time. For some reason I couldn't get it to recognise a compile-time array, so I changed it to static data structure and BOOM! I was quite pleased with myself - it came from a V3-era F35. I plan to spend a few hours a week bringing my RPG up to current standards, then maybe I'll put a few feelers out.
And every time someone mentions agricultural runoff (specifically from sugarcane), the lobbyists hit up the national party, and we're all reminded that natural resources and agriculture are untouchables.
No, it can't be the farmers, they're all "generational custodians" who couldn't possibly do anything harmful to the environment.
Apologies to those farmers who actually give a crap.
The number of cars transporting people for cash greatly exceeds the number of cars with "Taxi" painted on them. You can't contact them by telephone, but hang around any popular public place (e.g. museum, train station) looking lost and they'll approach you, asking if you need transport. You can usually negotiate a price down to 2/3 or even 1/2 the starting amount.
OTOH, I've walked up to the first taxi parked on a rank, loaded with bags of groceries and souvenirs (i.e. "rich" tourist), and been refused a ride. I think it was because the distance and therefore the fare was too small. I was exhausted after the day's walking around and just wanted to get back to my apartment, about 5 - 10 minutes drive, but noooooo. When I looked at the second guy in the rank, he just shook his head sadly - apparently it's against union rules for anyone other than the first position in the rank to accept a ride (I found this out later from the apartment owner).
So as far as I'm concerned, I hope Uber wins this one.
Yes, the debt is excessive, no doubt about that, and will likely get worse before it gets better. The income from selling resources is nowhere near what it was in the "boom". BTW, how much debt did the LNP inherit from Labor? You can't fix multi-billion-dollar national debts in one election cycle.
The narrative is a familiar one. Labor gets into power, and proceeds to spend, spend, spend (hint: you may or may not remember what happened in the 1970s under Whitlam). If the money isn't in the bank, Labor will borrow it, leaving the debt to be paid by future governments. Then the libs/nats win an election because the debt-ridden economy is in the shitter, and they get criticized for austerity measures needed to bring the debt under control. Labor loves to spend money on social programs, they just have no idea how to obtain the money other than borrowing it.
Anyway, Howard & Costello socked away a lot of money during the resources boom. Guess what? They were trying to create a national wealth fund! They also handed out a lot of money in welfare - Family Tax A&B (which progressively reduces as your income increases, so it's not going to the "well off", it's going to low-and-middle-income families), Child allowance (baby bonus), etc which *could* have gone into a national wealth fund, but they decided that the Australian people should enjoy some of the wealth *now*. I can't fault that thinking - "here's a lot of money, you can have some to spend, but we're going to put some in the bank, too."
What would you have had them do? Put it *all* into a national wealth fund? That would have left pensioners, unemployed AND the middle class all worse off. Spend it *all* on welfare? That would have left Rudd & Swan with nothing to spend to keep us afloat. Or should the welfare handouts have gone to pensioners and unemployed instead? I notice that Labor in 2008-2009 didn't exactly cut off the "middle-class welfare" and hand it all over to the pensioners and unemployed.
I don't mind that Rudd & Swan spent what was in the bank, it was pretty much the only sensible thing to do under the circumstances. What I mind is that they continued to spend, borrowing to do so, and leaving us with a huge debt.
I also had the pleasure of running a 5225 shuttle-matrix printer. Fairly fast, and quite noisy. Some of the actuators needed replacing at some point and the IBM CSR told me some interesting facts about the drive motor - the only one I remember is that it was about 1/2 horsepower, and you'd break your wrist if you used your hand to stop it turning. He left a 'dead' actuator behind for me to play with - I put a car battery's 12VDC across its terminals and it got very hot very quickly - I suppose the duty cycle was a few milliseconds on, then many milliseconds off, and it was designed to cool during the 'off' period.
A blend of band printer speed, with dot-matrix flexibility. The print stream could include a change of fonts, so a title or chapter could print in large, bold font, and the body in regular serif font.
You can't keep throwing public money at private companies to preserve local jobs when it's become obvious that we simply can't compete with manufacturing in developing countries. The big automakers have closed because it's just cheaper to make cars in other countries, regardless of how many govt "incentives" they get.
You may as well have the govt nationalise the auto industry if they're going to keep funding it.
We survived the GFC better than most, true, and most schools got major infastructure upgrades (there's good and bad sides to that, but it's another story), but at the end of the surplus, the labor govt didn't stop spending, so we ended up with massive foreign debt again.
There's a surplus of apartments because developers can't get their hands on land for traditional quarter-acre blocks for housing, and that's because local and state governments won't co-operate to release the land. Councils *are* allowing older large blocks to be re-aligned into two or more small blocks for redevelopment. What used to be the low-stress, spacious 3 or 4 bedroom Queenslander on a quarter-acre block has now become two pokey little places on as little as 600 square meters (about 1/7 acre).
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They're talking about an event on June 3rd. Males can take advantage of this time frame by 1. growing a full beard, if they don't normally have a beard, or 2. if they do normally wear a beard, shave it off on June 2nd. That, a couple of team logo decals on your cheeks and forehead, and a pair of dazzle glasses or sunglasses should take care of it. A celebrity-face t-shirt (perhaps an image of one of your team's players) will help.
Maybe some gimmick sunglasses with LEDs flashing away around the rims.
Why stop at the dead? How about you make avatars of living people, especially people you hate, so you can be mean to them.
Think about Harry Mudd.
robots.txt is a polite way of saying "please don't"
But your website is there for the world to see. If someone, anyone chooses to ignore your polite request, well, so what? Why did you put your content up there for the world to see?
Yeah, it's more about the sender covering their arse. It's one of the reasons I left my last employer.
That, and the practice of my boss' boss copying his boss in the CC, and using read receipts, and getting pissed off when people used the "don't send the read receipt" function in Outlook. Being management, his inbox limit was....large.....so he had a sub-folder for each and every employee he dealt with, above and below him, and a processing rule that put the read receipts into the employee's sub-folder, i.e. send an email to dwywit, and the read receipt would be placed into the sub-folder 'dwywit' (except I never sent them). Obviously this was his practice so that he could come down on staff who didn't read his emails. He came down heavy-handed on one of my underlings, accusing the kid of not reading his emails. The look on his face when I pointed out that 1. read receipts were optional, so there were probably a lot of people who chose not to send them, and 2. making read receipts non-optional acros the organisation would quickly fill up the mail server, was, as they say, priceless. Bonus, said underling was able to quote the email in question and answer its concerns.
Said manager was later named in an audit report - being named in such a report is one step away from being referred to the public prosecutor. He didn't last long after that.
And that's what happens when you promote an accountant beyond his competence, and put him in charge of IT.
The first doctor I saw after I saw blood in a bowel movement (not my regular GP - he was away) advised me to increase fibre intake, including metamucil.
This was after I told him that it was a rare day for me to have less than two visits to the porcelain throne. I described my routine in detail - consistency, volume, colour (other than blood, of course), diet, etc. So he suggested metamucil.
Fortunately my GP, when I finally got to see him, agreed with me that *more* fibre was not the solution.
A "low-cost" device sent into LEO? So it's being sold on the admittedly astonishingly low cost compared to traditional launch costs.
So any additional costs (such as end-of-life mechanisms designed to put it into a burn trajectory) are going to have a proportionally greater impact on that "low cost" selling point, which means the proponents have a motive to resist such extra mechanisms and costs.
Anything sold on its main benefit being "low cost" will eventually result in a race to the bottom, and the cost-cutting that entails - "hey, our module is lighter and cheaper to get into orbit (because we decided to do without expensive impact shielding/temperature control/whatever)"
Except that W10 trashed the partitions on one of my customers' machines. HP laptop, and I could see the recovery partition when viewed in a cradle via gparted, but the computer absolutely could not access that partition. Had to stump up for recovery discs (cheap, but a long time coming from HP) to get it back to out-of-box condition.
W10 is an abomination. I'll stick to W7 until something better comes along.
If that's an offer, thanks, but I'm way out of the game.
Hadn't touched an AS400 since 2004, but I'm still keen, so a little while ago I made an account on pub400.com to play around. I re-keyed a short RPG program from my source code printout and it compiled the second time. For some reason I couldn't get it to recognise a compile-time array, so I changed it to static data structure and BOOM! I was quite pleased with myself - it came from a V3-era F35. I plan to spend a few hours a week bringing my RPG up to current standards, then maybe I'll put a few feelers out.
RPG, by any chance?
It's free-form, these days. I don't know how I feel about that.
And every time someone mentions agricultural runoff (specifically from sugarcane), the lobbyists hit up the national party, and we're all reminded that natural resources and agriculture are untouchables.
No, it can't be the farmers, they're all "generational custodians" who couldn't possibly do anything harmful to the environment.
Apologies to those farmers who actually give a crap.
I loved the 3180 - it could display 27x132.
Staring in awe at the boxes and boxes of IBM manuals that came with 'my' first AS400 in 1989.
Systems administration, user command reference, programming reference, APIs, and more.
Well, when your application software is allowed to talk directly to hardware, there's going to be some less than desirable results.
OTOH, people got a *lot* of work done using programs like Wordstar, WordPerfect 5.1, Lotus 1-2-3, dBase III/IV, and so on.
with "more self-service functions".
So the end-users take more of their time to do stuff traditionally done by IT staff.
Microsoft giveth, and Microsoft taketh away.
Perhaps an ATDT bust rather than dot com.
and I'm still poor.
That's no-one else's fault, and it's no-one else's problem.
Fuck all of you motherfuckers
And with that attitude, you'll stay poor and die poor.
I've been to Italy a couple of times.
The number of cars transporting people for cash greatly exceeds the number of cars with "Taxi" painted on them. You can't contact them by telephone, but hang around any popular public place (e.g. museum, train station) looking lost and they'll approach you, asking if you need transport. You can usually negotiate a price down to 2/3 or even 1/2 the starting amount.
OTOH, I've walked up to the first taxi parked on a rank, loaded with bags of groceries and souvenirs (i.e. "rich" tourist), and been refused a ride. I think it was because the distance and therefore the fare was too small. I was exhausted after the day's walking around and just wanted to get back to my apartment, about 5 - 10 minutes drive, but noooooo. When I looked at the second guy in the rank, he just shook his head sadly - apparently it's against union rules for anyone other than the first position in the rank to accept a ride (I found this out later from the apartment owner).
So as far as I'm concerned, I hope Uber wins this one.
Yes, the debt is excessive, no doubt about that, and will likely get worse before it gets better. The income from selling resources is nowhere near what it was in the "boom". BTW, how much debt did the LNP inherit from Labor? You can't fix multi-billion-dollar national debts in one election cycle.
The narrative is a familiar one. Labor gets into power, and proceeds to spend, spend, spend (hint: you may or may not remember what happened in the 1970s under Whitlam). If the money isn't in the bank, Labor will borrow it, leaving the debt to be paid by future governments. Then the libs/nats win an election because the debt-ridden economy is in the shitter, and they get criticized for austerity measures needed to bring the debt under control. Labor loves to spend money on social programs, they just have no idea how to obtain the money other than borrowing it.
Anyway, Howard & Costello socked away a lot of money during the resources boom. Guess what? They were trying to create a national wealth fund! They also handed out a lot of money in welfare - Family Tax A&B (which progressively reduces as your income increases, so it's not going to the "well off", it's going to low-and-middle-income families), Child allowance (baby bonus), etc which *could* have gone into a national wealth fund, but they decided that the Australian people should enjoy some of the wealth *now*. I can't fault that thinking - "here's a lot of money, you can have some to spend, but we're going to put some in the bank, too."
What would you have had them do? Put it *all* into a national wealth fund? That would have left pensioners, unemployed AND the middle class all worse off. Spend it *all* on welfare? That would have left Rudd & Swan with nothing to spend to keep us afloat. Or should the welfare handouts have gone to pensioners and unemployed instead? I notice that Labor in 2008-2009 didn't exactly cut off the "middle-class welfare" and hand it all over to the pensioners and unemployed.
I don't mind that Rudd & Swan spent what was in the bank, it was pretty much the only sensible thing to do under the circumstances. What I mind is that they continued to spend, borrowing to do so, and leaving us with a huge debt.
I also had the pleasure of running a 5225 shuttle-matrix printer. Fairly fast, and quite noisy. Some of the actuators needed replacing at some point and the IBM CSR told me some interesting facts about the drive motor - the only one I remember is that it was about 1/2 horsepower, and you'd break your wrist if you used your hand to stop it turning. He left a 'dead' actuator behind for me to play with - I put a car battery's 12VDC across its terminals and it got very hot very quickly - I suppose the duty cycle was a few milliseconds on, then many milliseconds off, and it was designed to cool during the 'off' period.
A blend of band printer speed, with dot-matrix flexibility. The print stream could include a change of fonts, so a title or chapter could print in large, bold font, and the body in regular serif font.
'can oath!
'ken oath
my oath
bloody oath
oath of allegiance
oath of fealty
oath of blood
He had all of the theory and none of the practice. I eventually quit, but he "decided to leave" a little later.
You can't keep throwing public money at private companies to preserve local jobs when it's become obvious that we simply can't compete with manufacturing in developing countries. The big automakers have closed because it's just cheaper to make cars in other countries, regardless of how many govt "incentives" they get.
You may as well have the govt nationalise the auto industry if they're going to keep funding it.
Don't tell PETA they're made from rabbit fur. They *are* nice hats, though. Check back in a couple of years when you've worn it in ;-)
We survived the GFC better than most, true, and most schools got major infastructure upgrades (there's good and bad sides to that, but it's another story), but at the end of the surplus, the labor govt didn't stop spending, so we ended up with massive foreign debt again.
There's a surplus of apartments because developers can't get their hands on land for traditional quarter-acre blocks for housing, and that's because local and state governments won't co-operate to release the land. Councils *are* allowing older large blocks to be re-aligned into two or more small blocks for redevelopment. What used to be the low-stress, spacious 3 or 4 bedroom Queenslander on a quarter-acre block has now become two pokey little places on as little as 600 square meters (about 1/7 acre).