And look at how much your computer would cost if you had to rent it from Rent-a-Center. And how much if you had to pay for someone to clean your work area. Phone service? Free lighting? Man, we're all just scamming the system...
I used to periodically sort things into hanging folders then dispose of anything nonessential after 3-4 years. A few years back I decided to switch to scanning. So I started collecting a pile of stuff to scan. In the intervening years, that pile has grown and grown and now the scanning would be such a big chore that I don't even like to contemplate it anymore.
The simple fact is that most documents are not something you will ever need again so deserve the minimal effort you can put towards temporary mid-term storage and worth 0 effort for archiving. Others may disagree but I suspect I already keep too much for too long. To be honest, there's not really been much that would have been an issue if I didn't shred immediately after reading.
Blue-Collar Man: Three months ago I was offered a job up in the hills. A beautiful house with tons of property. It was a simple reshingling job, but I was told that if it was finished within a day, my price would be doubled. Then I realized whose house it was. Dante: Whose house was it? Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's. Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster? Blue-Collar Man: The same. The money was right, but the risk was too big. I knew who he was, and based on that, I passed the job on to a friend of mine. Dante: Based on personal politics. Blue-Collar Man: Right. And that week, the Foresci family put a hit on Babyface's house. My friend was shot and killed. He wasn't even finished shingling. Randal: No way! Blue-Collar Man: (paying for coffee) I'm alive because I knew there were risks involved taking on that particular client. My friend wasn't so lucky. (pauses to reflect) You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault. A roofer listens to this... (taps his heart) not his wallet
April Fools on Slashdot is always lame because it's overdone and *every* story is part of it. There's real news today and it's just going to be ignored (Bitcoin just made $100 for example). It's a shame because if Slashdot raised its aim just a little, it could be back to its old glory. Instead, it is happy to ride the inertia into the ground.
Companies make money buy producing goods and services that people choose to purchase over other things they might want or need. Government just takes it, whatever.
It's all about the mindset. When you think of it as play money instead of money that people have sweated to earn and might otherwise be used for medical procedures, safer environments for children or otherwise improving quality of life, you get this kind of thing happening and it's symptomatic of a much bigger problem.
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And look at how much your computer would cost if you had to rent it from Rent-a-Center. And how much if you had to pay for someone to clean your work area. Phone service? Free lighting? Man, we're all just scamming the system...
Don't forget payroll tax which the company pays before the employee even gets it on their paycheck.
Dude, it's not Google's money, it's all the government's money. Google should be grateful for being allowed to use it.
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+1. This kind of mentality is why we're in the mess we are today.
If it's like mine, you also have to manually set it for each of the timezones. So most of them are wrong for 1/2 of the year.
But word on the wire is that the number of "Super sayanim" outed were "Over 9000"
I used to periodically sort things into hanging folders then dispose of anything nonessential after 3-4 years. A few years back I decided to switch to scanning. So I started collecting a pile of stuff to scan. In the intervening years, that pile has grown and grown and now the scanning would be such a big chore that I don't even like to contemplate it anymore.
The simple fact is that most documents are not something you will ever need again so deserve the minimal effort you can put towards temporary mid-term storage and worth 0 effort for archiving. Others may disagree but I suspect I already keep too much for too long. To be honest, there's not really been much that would have been an issue if I didn't shred immediately after reading.
Security: If you don't protect the unimportant bits, everyone knows which *are* the important bits.
Blue-Collar Man: Three months ago I was offered a job up in the hills. A beautiful house with tons of property. It was a simple reshingling job, but I was told that if it was finished within a day, my price would be doubled. Then I realized whose house it was.
Dante: Whose house was it?
Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's.
Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?
Blue-Collar Man: The same. The money was right, but the risk was too big. I knew who he was, and based on that, I passed the job on to a friend of mine.
Dante: Based on personal politics.
Blue-Collar Man: Right. And that week, the Foresci family put a hit on Babyface's house. My friend was shot and killed. He wasn't even finished shingling.
Randal: No way!
Blue-Collar Man: (paying for coffee) I'm alive because I knew there were risks involved taking on that particular client. My friend wasn't so lucky. (pauses to reflect) You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault. A roofer listens to this... (taps his heart) not his wallet
But if I sell a few crates of guns to a visitting African warlord for cash, well....
...you're probably working for the government.
Vegans were covered with sugar and bone char.
Sounds like a recipe. First preheat a six-foot grille to 450F...
Except 2007 was the year of the "set you could not put a box on top of".
"Arguing"? Hardly. And I never read down to the table. I figured you were referring to the paragraph at the top.
Oh yeah!!! I didn't win that £10 gift voucher in that highway code quiz for nothing...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_speed_limits_in_the_United_Kingdom#National_speed_limits
Possibly.
"With street lighting".
I believe the HWY code is 30mph in a built up area with streetlighting, 70mph on dual carriageway and 60 otherwise unless signed.
And the advertising revenue will just keep rolling out...
That would give a blank page. Cause Slashdot is that unfunny guy who thinks he's funny and does a joke to death.
April Fools on Slashdot is always lame because it's overdone and *every* story is part of it. There's real news today and it's just going to be ignored (Bitcoin just made $100 for example). It's a shame because if Slashdot raised its aim just a little, it could be back to its old glory. Instead, it is happy to ride the inertia into the ground.
Incorrect unless the highway code has changed since I took my test (a possibility, I admit).
s/fans/funders/
Companies make money buy producing goods and services that people choose to purchase over other things they might want or need. Government just takes it, whatever.
Do less.
It's all about the mindset. When you think of it as play money instead of money that people have sweated to earn and might otherwise be used for medical procedures, safer environments for children or otherwise improving quality of life, you get this kind of thing happening and it's symptomatic of a much bigger problem.
It's the beginning of the end of the current DNS system. About time too. The internet should never have tolerated such a centralized abomination