Don't know if you got the memo, but the feds pay others to do the dirty work for them.
Fed: "Wanna work with the FBI, Fido? Wanna help us catch bad guys?" Snitch: "Yeahyeahyeahyeahyeahyeah! Fed: "There's an athiest group that looks suspicious. I think they're laundering money to fund their picnics. You need to infiltrate them, earn their trust, and if you don't find anything make something up so we have a good excuse to raid their headquarters. You will get a pat on the head and a nice, big doggy bone if we get convictions.Snitch: "Yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah!
[ Months later, a number of the atheist group's members are arrested for child pornography for unwittingly having nude pics of their 17 year-old sons and daughters who kept them stored "privately" in facebook ]
Fed: "Bad news, Fido. The D.A. wants to charge you with computer crimes. You're expected to do 5 years in the pen." Snitch: *whimper* Fed: "It's okay, you helped us save the children. Just suck it up and don't drop the soap."
Small companies are the only way to go. Once the 'professional manager' types get a foodhold any company is screwed.
Usually when the mothership buys out your small company. I have to disagree with you on this point:
I gave up on big companies after working for a well known oil multinational only to find it was impossible to get anything done without justifying every tiny step to a whole bunch of clueless losers who don't understand any of it.
If the division is profitable enough, then they don't want the newbies to fully understand what is going on...tribal knowledge is job security.
Beautiful comment. And sometimes you have to lie as much as they do, especially if they're asking for 5 years experience with a technology that was invented 2 years ago. Those bastards are often as guilty at buzzword bingo as we have to be.
"-See if I can in any way justify adding them to my resume without outright lying"
Way back in my stupid days, I applied for a calibration technician position. The technical director asked me if I knew how to calibrate a Spectrum Analyzer, and of course I did. It was simple - you just navigated the menus and activated the autocal. He told me that calbrating a specan requires actually opening it up and performing over 200 adjustments. Then he chuckled and told me to GTFO.
Yes, and job interviews are often like dating: a scripted, mechanical jump through hoops in which questions are asked and only the canned, standard answers are accepted. They want to see that you're not a weirdo or a kook and that you're properly assimilated, using the right keywords, spinning negative experience into positive, etc.
He tells me, "I eatz da bananas, ja, den I shit on your chest!" Man, when after he's been eating those bananas, his feces are smoooth as silk. I smear them all over me and pretend it's a silk dress of chocolate while he fucks me in the ass.
I tried to invite Theo de Raadt to join us for a threesome, but he declined, citing that he was a pedophile and only interested in Cheese Pizza parties at Chuck E. Cheese's.
1,2,3 came out we would all be disappointed as our imagination was replaced with someone else's.
No, Episodes 1 thru 3 just fucking sucked. The problem was that George Lucas is a greedy bastard and had fuckin' kids and filled the first few episodes with "goo-goo, ga-ga" dialog, piss-poor acting, and no sense of urgency.
Wait, you are right about one thing - the mysterious and all-powerful force was explained away, which made an already sterile trilogy even moreso.
But what of Star Wars vs. Star Trek? I like to think of Star Wars as Metallica and Star Trek as Megadeth. Metallica were more talented until they whored themselves out and went pop. Megadeth were not as talented, but were much more consistent and I can listen to them without becoming angry at their violating my childhood with their bed-wetting, infantile trash.
Yes. But, it could work to control the sound-generating element of a partial orchestra (orchestras that cut costs by laying off some of their musicians and play their parts with a synthesizer).
Though wouldn't a few accelerometers inside the conductor's electronic wand be a more proven method of control?
No. Unlike the Southern religious hypocrisy, we Californians are into a "green" kind of hypocrisy.
Take, for example, a mandate that buildings have flushless urinals installed to save water. Yet, the same buildings often feature auto-flushing toilets which flush everytime you wipe your ass(that is, at least twice, and often more) where each flush has enough power to swallow a basketball-sized dump. Wasteful, and very hypocritical.
This kind of thing is what scares the shit out of me, especially in California's economy:
Law enforcement shifting its focus to revenue collection. Most infamous are so-called "DUI" checkpoints in which citizens are searched throuroughly and ticketted for every little infraction. There was a story in the local reader about how somebody had their vehicle impounded ($300 bucks right off the bat here) because they didn't have updated insurance paperwork for their valid policy.
I have laptop with a mobility radeon, 9000 running 'Buntu 9.10, and it's rock-solid. I can spin the cube smoothly with multiple youtube videos playing in real-time with the rotation. Now, before 9.10, the damn thing crashed all the time. You may want to switch to a more recent version of your distro if you want things to work.
I also had an integrated radeon (don't remember which, but still more powerful than the laptop) in my desktop which always froze up under Linux. I blamed buggy drivers as you did, but eventually Windows also started locking up. I determined that it was a hardware problem that Linux, for some reason, triggered more than Windows did.
Everybody knows how to use Googles' services, but not everybody's had the displeasure of working with Oracle's often slow-as-shit Java databases. Oracle's balls in this case are a typical indication of its niche-but-top-heavy domination in the 'states.
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Note: the pictures' most relevant bits are blacked out...but they have me curious, especially about the wrist-worn device.
That's his ESD strap. You've been trolled.
Don't know if you got the memo, but the feds pay others to do the dirty work for them.
Fed: "Wanna work with the FBI, Fido? Wanna help us catch bad guys?"
Snitch: "Yeahyeahyeahyeahyeahyeah!
Fed: "There's an athiest group that looks suspicious. I think they're laundering money to fund their picnics. You need to infiltrate them, earn their trust, and if you don't find anything make something up so we have a good excuse to raid their headquarters. You will get a pat on the head and a nice, big doggy bone if we get convictions. Snitch: "Yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah!
[ Months later, a number of the atheist group's members are arrested for child pornography for unwittingly having nude pics of their 17 year-old sons and daughters who kept them stored "privately" in facebook ]
Fed: "Bad news, Fido. The D.A. wants to charge you with computer crimes. You're expected to do 5 years in the pen."
Snitch: *whimper*
Fed: "It's okay, you helped us save the children. Just suck it up and don't drop the soap."
I like how he begins his post by saying,"Holy crap," and ends it with,"SHUT THE FUCK UP."
Makes perfect sense, actually. Feces are more filthy than sex and must be rendered sanitary.
Nice troll, dude.
Who needs real-life women when there is this most relevant example?
p.s. Dolan Duck is the best meme ever.
not all biological feats can be scaled up or down.
Not all biological feets can be scaled up or down.
Small companies are the only way to go. Once the 'professional manager' types get a foodhold any company is screwed.
Usually when the mothership buys out your small company. I have to disagree with you on this point:
I gave up on big companies after working for a well known oil multinational only to find it was impossible to get anything done without justifying every tiny step to a whole bunch of clueless losers who don't understand any of it.
If the division is profitable enough, then they don't want the newbies to fully understand what is going on...tribal knowledge is job security.
But what exactly is it? Guilt-free layoff?
"-See if I can in any way justify adding them to my resume without outright lying"
Way back in my stupid days, I applied for a calibration technician position. The technical director asked me if I knew how to calibrate a Spectrum Analyzer, and of course I did. It was simple - you just navigated the menus and activated the autocal. He told me that calbrating a specan requires actually opening it up and performing over 200 adjustments. Then he chuckled and told me to GTFO.
Yes, and job interviews are often like dating: a scripted, mechanical jump through hoops in which questions are asked and only the canned, standard answers are accepted. They want to see that you're not a weirdo or a kook and that you're properly assimilated, using the right keywords, spinning negative experience into positive, etc.
Here in San Diego, there are "Tsunami Evacuation Route" signs posted for a tsunami that hasn't happened yet.
When money and power are king, and technology is sufficiently advanced, the only thing we are left with is disaster capitalism.
Oh boy, do I ever.
He tells me, "I eatz da bananas, ja, den I shit on your chest!" Man, when after he's been eating those bananas, his feces are smoooth as silk. I smear them all over me and pretend it's a silk dress of chocolate while he fucks me in the ass.
I tried to invite Theo de Raadt to join us for a threesome, but he declined, citing that he was a pedophile and only interested in Cheese Pizza parties at Chuck E. Cheese's.
It's nothing new. They've been facilitating botnets for at least a decade now.
There are ways to hide stuff like that from view on Windows. They magically show up when the USB device is plugged into a Linux box.
Related note: A similar piece of malware and the ensuing hassle is what prompted me to switch to Linux for good.
1,2,3 came out we would all be disappointed as our imagination was replaced with someone else's.
No, Episodes 1 thru 3 just fucking sucked. The problem was that George Lucas is a greedy bastard and had fuckin' kids and filled the first few episodes with "goo-goo, ga-ga" dialog, piss-poor acting, and no sense of urgency.
Wait, you are right about one thing - the mysterious and all-powerful force was explained away, which made an already sterile trilogy even moreso.
But what of Star Wars vs. Star Trek? I like to think of Star Wars as Metallica and Star Trek as Megadeth. Metallica were more talented until they whored themselves out and went pop. Megadeth were not as talented, but were much more consistent and I can listen to them without becoming angry at their violating my childhood with their bed-wetting, infantile trash.
A rag soaked with Chloroform.
Yes. But, it could work to control the sound-generating element of a partial orchestra (orchestras that cut costs by laying off some of their musicians and play their parts with a synthesizer).
Though wouldn't a few accelerometers inside the conductor's electronic wand be a more proven method of control?
Oh, that's rich. I can hardly wait until sex is reduced to just wearing a helmet, like on Demolition man.
I'll continue to get my pussy the old-fasioned way, good sir.
...and sterilize them so that they cannot contaminate the rest of the world. Especially the gamers.
No. Unlike the Southern religious hypocrisy, we Californians are into a "green" kind of hypocrisy.
Take, for example, a mandate that buildings have flushless urinals installed to save water. Yet, the same buildings often feature auto-flushing toilets which flush everytime you wipe your ass(that is, at least twice, and often more) where each flush has enough power to swallow a basketball-sized dump. Wasteful, and very hypocritical.
Well, last I checked plenty of people, myself included, still use Wikipedia. Heh heh, pedia.
Have the black person smile.
Oh, wait. Black people never smile on-camera.
This kind of thing is what scares the shit out of me, especially in California's economy:
Law enforcement shifting its focus to revenue collection. Most infamous are so-called "DUI" checkpoints in which citizens are searched throuroughly and ticketted for every little infraction. There was a story in the local reader about how somebody had their vehicle impounded ($300 bucks right off the bat here) because they didn't have updated insurance paperwork for their valid policy.
And it's only going to get worse.
Then you'll agree with me that the "space elevator" is a fucking retarded and irrational idea perpetuated by professional trolls and clueless rubes.
Man, that "space elevator" idea is fucking stupid on so many fundamental levels.
I have laptop with a mobility radeon, 9000 running 'Buntu 9.10, and it's rock-solid. I can spin the cube smoothly with multiple youtube videos playing in real-time with the rotation. Now, before 9.10, the damn thing crashed all the time. You may want to switch to a more recent version of your distro if you want things to work.
I also had an integrated radeon (don't remember which, but still more powerful than the laptop) in my desktop which always froze up under Linux. I blamed buggy drivers as you did, but eventually Windows also started locking up. I determined that it was a hardware problem that Linux, for some reason, triggered more than Windows did.
Everybody knows how to use Googles' services, but not everybody's had the displeasure of working with Oracle's often slow-as-shit Java databases. Oracle's balls in this case are a typical indication of its niche-but-top-heavy domination in the 'states.