Absolutely true. I've stayed at companies for up to 5 years and never received more than a 2 or 3% raise, but every time I've left a company I've gotten between 15 - 25% raises. The only reason I'm staying where I am now is because I'm tired of jumping ship every couple of years. I like the benefits where I am and if the owners of the company somehow manage to avoid destroying what few good reasons there are for staying I'm looking to finish off my career here.
I agree we should continue to trust the reports from the IPCC, regardless of whether the data they use is made up or not. It's not the facts that matter but their intent. As long as we believe it's all man made is all that matters. It doesn't matter that their climate models can't even predict the weather accurately a week in advance, we need to give them the benefit of the doubt. I mean we all know the climate is changing, today it is raining, yesterday it wasn't, today it is cold, yesterday it wasn't. It's all our fault. If humans weren't on the earth then every day would be perfect, no hot, no cold, no droughts, no floods, no ice ages, no warm periods. The weather is all our fault! We must stop the weather or we will all die! So pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Listen to what the IPCC says. I mean when has the U.N. ever been wrong?
Everyone in West Virginia knows their Civil War history. If not for the war West Virginia wouldn't exist. Having grown up in WV and now living in the south I am surprised at how few people down here even know WV is a state. I guess after a hundred and forty five years they're still sore over WV seceding from Virginia. They must refuse to teach it in history class while they sit patiently and wait for the northern usurpers to leave.
the newly created Microsoft Motors has had to issue it's 23rd recall notice this year with engine failures reaching 54%. Microsoft is currently in talks with the Obama administration concerning a possible bailout of their Motor Division.
For now the cost of running your car off the grid is cheap, but wait til everyone else is doing it and the price will sky rocket. When the price of coal went up because the EPA banned high sulfur coal many factories and power plants switched to natural gas because it was cheaper. And now we all pay more to heat our homes in winter because the demand for natural gas has gone up. But really, what we need are cars that can be driven manually with gas power on local roads, and on the freeway a lane where they are operated like a personal rapid transit system using electricity.
Sometimes the point of playing isn't to win. Back in the days of Unreal Tournament 99 with all the cool mods and custom maps half the fun was just pissing people off. Specifically the players with "skill" who always took things too seriously and went around trying to impress everyone with their moves. It was always fun to spam the hell out of them so they couldn't even move. Block them from ever reaching the goal. Let them get set up in their favorite camping areas then put a bullet in their head. Then do it again. And again. They would get so pissed and call everyone losers with no skills but we were the ones having all the fun. There was this one map with long tunnels between the two flags and these weapons that shot slugs as big as a football that sent out shock waves of damage, and if you shot two really quick and detonated the first one it would cause the 2nd to move down the hall at about 2 mph killing anyone who tried to move past it. The game would go on for 20 minutes with no one being able to score. Funny as hell.
And where do you get your golden nuggets of knowledge? Going to run out of fossil fuels soon? The last estimates I have seen on coal reserves, and these are just those in the United States, indicate we have at least 300 years left, and every time someone says we're running out of oil some huge deposit is discovered somewhere that makes the one in Saudi Arabia seem like a puddle. If you are referring to the fossil fuels the environmentalists and their allies in Washington will allow us to use then yes, we will run out of fossil fuels very soon and have to import 100% of our energy from countries that would rather kill us than say hello. Thank you for demonstrating the effectiveness of government education.
And all this crap about CO2? CO2 is one of a handful of gasses that contributes less than 3% to the so called green house effect. Water vapor contributes over 96%. When do the environmentalists ever bother to mention that? If you removed 100% of all CO2 from the atmosphere, other than the extermination of all plant life on earth, the net effect on the global temperature would be about 2 degrees. CO2 is not a leading indicator of climate change, it is a trailing indicator. If you look at charts plotting rise in CO2 and rise in temperature in ice cores, tree ring growths, and sediment samples, you see that as temperatures rise, more CO2 is released from rotting vegetation, from ice flows, and methane ice. Correlation does not imply causation. Something they obviously don't teach in schools anymore.
The problem with most new games is as soon as you buy them you realize you need to upgrade or replace your entire system just to play them. I used to build my own gaming machines and year after year I had to upgrade and be my own tech support. I got tired of it and quit. Now all I have is a laptop and a netbook. I used to love playing UT99, not because it was visually stunning, it wasn't, but because it was so much damn fun. With all the cool mods and being able to design your own maps and weapons, it never got dull. Then they came out with "improved" versions of UT with shiny new graphics and reflections and fog, etc. but the game play sucked! And in order to get any kind of responsiveness out of it you had to turn off all the shiny effects or it ran like crap. I stayed with the original for as long as it was still around. I've seen all of the great new games that have come out since, but I refuse to buy a new system just to play them.
I totally agree. If you buy something from Amazon, their website is in one state, their corporate headquarters is in another state, the goods are shipped from a warehouse in another state, you're package arrives in another state. Where did you actually buy the product? Who gets the tax? All the local, state, and federal governments want is your money so they can spend it to buy your votes. If politicians are going to buy our votes then they should pay the damn sales tax. Every state makes deals with corporations to locate their headquarters, factories, and warehouses in their own state by giving tax breaks and other favors to create jobs which increases consumer spending which creates still more jobs which in the end creates more tax revenue. Then other states try to cash in by adding sales tax to goods bought from those corporations in their own states. States can not tax goods made and sold in other states.
The list is endless. I wrote a short story once about a future similar to King's Gunslinger where technology has failed and nature has reclaimed most of our roads and infrastructure and people travel on a road burned into the earth by a slowly orbiting solar reflector that scorches a trail across the world. Of course you gotta know when to get off that road!
We've got scientists telling us the world is getting warmer while at the same time it's getting colder and now they're telling us that the planets might collide billions of years from now. If they can't even get the weather predictions right 5 days in advance what good are their long term predictions?
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Absolutely true. I've stayed at companies for up to 5 years and never received more than a 2 or 3% raise, but every time I've left a company I've gotten between 15 - 25% raises. The only reason I'm staying where I am now is because I'm tired of jumping ship every couple of years. I like the benefits where I am and if the owners of the company somehow manage to avoid destroying what few good reasons there are for staying I'm looking to finish off my career here.
I've been a software developer for over 30 years and I'm still trying to decide if it's a lucrative profession.
I agree we should continue to trust the reports from the IPCC, regardless of whether the data they use is made up or not. It's not the facts that matter but their intent. As long as we believe it's all man made is all that matters. It doesn't matter that their climate models can't even predict the weather accurately a week in advance, we need to give them the benefit of the doubt. I mean we all know the climate is changing, today it is raining, yesterday it wasn't, today it is cold, yesterday it wasn't. It's all our fault. If humans weren't on the earth then every day would be perfect, no hot, no cold, no droughts, no floods, no ice ages, no warm periods. The weather is all our fault! We must stop the weather or we will all die! So pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Listen to what the IPCC says. I mean when has the U.N. ever been wrong?
Does it play Mario Bros?
Everyone in West Virginia knows their Civil War history. If not for the war West Virginia wouldn't exist. Having grown up in WV and now living in the south I am surprised at how few people down here even know WV is a state. I guess after a hundred and forty five years they're still sore over WV seceding from Virginia. They must refuse to teach it in history class while they sit patiently and wait for the northern usurpers to leave.
robot that sweeps floors, or is that the one that cleans gutters?
the newly created Microsoft Motors has had to issue it's 23rd recall notice this year with engine failures reaching 54%. Microsoft is currently in talks with the Obama administration concerning a possible bailout of their Motor Division.
for the coal powered electric plant that produces the electricity to turn that salt water into clean jet fuel.
For now the cost of running your car off the grid is cheap, but wait til everyone else is doing it and the price will sky rocket. When the price of coal went up because the EPA banned high sulfur coal many factories and power plants switched to natural gas because it was cheaper. And now we all pay more to heat our homes in winter because the demand for natural gas has gone up. But really, what we need are cars that can be driven manually with gas power on local roads, and on the freeway a lane where they are operated like a personal rapid transit system using electricity.
Sometimes the point of playing isn't to win. Back in the days of Unreal Tournament 99 with all the cool mods and custom maps half the fun was just pissing people off. Specifically the players with "skill" who always took things too seriously and went around trying to impress everyone with their moves. It was always fun to spam the hell out of them so they couldn't even move. Block them from ever reaching the goal. Let them get set up in their favorite camping areas then put a bullet in their head. Then do it again. And again. They would get so pissed and call everyone losers with no skills but we were the ones having all the fun. There was this one map with long tunnels between the two flags and these weapons that shot slugs as big as a football that sent out shock waves of damage, and if you shot two really quick and detonated the first one it would cause the 2nd to move down the hall at about 2 mph killing anyone who tried to move past it. The game would go on for 20 minutes with no one being able to score. Funny as hell.
So now we can starting using the human body to produce electricity?
And where do you get your golden nuggets of knowledge? Going to run out of fossil fuels soon? The last estimates I have seen on coal reserves, and these are just those in the United States, indicate we have at least 300 years left, and every time someone says we're running out of oil some huge deposit is discovered somewhere that makes the one in Saudi Arabia seem like a puddle. If you are referring to the fossil fuels the environmentalists and their allies in Washington will allow us to use then yes, we will run out of fossil fuels very soon and have to import 100% of our energy from countries that would rather kill us than say hello. Thank you for demonstrating the effectiveness of government education.
And all this crap about CO2? CO2 is one of a handful of gasses that contributes less than 3% to the so called green house effect. Water vapor contributes over 96%. When do the environmentalists ever bother to mention that? If you removed 100% of all CO2 from the atmosphere, other than the extermination of all plant life on earth, the net effect on the global temperature would be about 2 degrees. CO2 is not a leading indicator of climate change, it is a trailing indicator. If you look at charts plotting rise in CO2 and rise in temperature in ice cores, tree ring growths, and sediment samples, you see that as temperatures rise, more CO2 is released from rotting vegetation, from ice flows, and methane ice. Correlation does not imply causation. Something they obviously don't teach in schools anymore.
to get Jimmy Carter to certify the results. Whether the election actually took place is irrelevant.
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And another 12% clicked on the link that said "Install Malware Now" and didn't know why they did it.
And should be executed immediately!
So this is a portable version of that vibrating thing? Oh, sorry, never mind...
Maybe you could just sum up? ;)
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The problem with most new games is as soon as you buy them you realize you need to upgrade or replace your entire system just to play them. I used to build my own gaming machines and year after year I had to upgrade and be my own tech support. I got tired of it and quit. Now all I have is a laptop and a netbook. I used to love playing UT99, not because it was visually stunning, it wasn't, but because it was so much damn fun. With all the cool mods and being able to design your own maps and weapons, it never got dull. Then they came out with "improved" versions of UT with shiny new graphics and reflections and fog, etc. but the game play sucked! And in order to get any kind of responsiveness out of it you had to turn off all the shiny effects or it ran like crap. I stayed with the original for as long as it was still around. I've seen all of the great new games that have come out since, but I refuse to buy a new system just to play them.
I totally agree. If you buy something from Amazon, their website is in one state, their corporate headquarters is in another state, the goods are shipped from a warehouse in another state, you're package arrives in another state. Where did you actually buy the product? Who gets the tax? All the local, state, and federal governments want is your money so they can spend it to buy your votes. If politicians are going to buy our votes then they should pay the damn sales tax. Every state makes deals with corporations to locate their headquarters, factories, and warehouses in their own state by giving tax breaks and other favors to create jobs which increases consumer spending which creates still more jobs which in the end creates more tax revenue. Then other states try to cash in by adding sales tax to goods bought from those corporations in their own states. States can not tax goods made and sold in other states.
The list is endless. I wrote a short story once about a future similar to King's Gunslinger where technology has failed and nature has reclaimed most of our roads and infrastructure and people travel on a road burned into the earth by a slowly orbiting solar reflector that scorches a trail across the world. Of course you gotta know when to get off that road!
Storing all your data on paper is even cheaper than hard disk. Of course access speed is a bit slower ;)
Why don't we just get a really long extension cord and plug it into the sun?
We've got scientists telling us the world is getting warmer while at the same time it's getting colder and now they're telling us that the planets might collide billions of years from now. If they can't even get the weather predictions right 5 days in advance what good are their long term predictions?