As stated, Lynwood, CA. Where Weird Al went to highschool, and his parents lived until their recent deaths. Also one-step away from Compton, with about the same reputation: bunch of good for nothing hoodrats trying to be tough and causing problems (as a former resident I can say that with the utmost certainty).
How about setting reasonable expectations and growing a spine? Demand compensation time for significant amounts of overtime worked, don't be on-call for the little stuff, and tell your boss that the project is X number of man-hours worth of work which won't fit in Y weeks worth of man-hours. I get the same problem here but I let my boss know what the deal is and deliver on a sane time schedule. Just because marketing promised a customer a totally new revision of the system with a completely rebuilt architecture in two weeks doesn't mean they're going to get it. If your boss doesn't recognize this, it's either time to renegotiate your contract to make the stress/overtime worth it or find a company that knows what project planning is. Don't get me wrong, I work overtime on a regular basis but my boss knows that I will take comp time when things settle down and I won't run 20 hour days because of an arbitrary deadline set by a brainless boob in an overpromising department.
I didn't even finish the first page before having to click out of it. Every other answer is "we need to all be friends and share world resources."
If that isn't choke-on-your-own-bullshit stupidity, I don't know what is. It's human nature to want power over something (economical, social, political, etc) and gaining it means struggle against others which in turn means you're going to piss off someone. Communism didn't work multiple times over: stop trying to make it work.
Can you come and explain this concept to my employer? I'm positive I'm not alone in the fact that I spend about 5% planning, 15% testing and 80% coding. Needless to say, I work at a company controlled by the sales staff and promises to customers.
I'm calling out your bullshit! I make $50k/year as a programmer in Orange County (high cost area). I can afford a decent 1 bedroom apartment (700 sq feet), investments, 401k, health & dental insurance, my truck, 2 motorcycles (track and street), and a project car. If I cared to for some reason, I could have my girlfriend move in and only money she'd need to contribute would be anything to go out shopping with.
It's not a high-end life, but it's certainly not "scraping by" nor is it in a bad area (I live 15 minutes from work). That seems to be the norm for this area.
I will agree that if I were making this much in the midwest, I'd own my own home by now but that's the price of gorgeous weather, women, and scenes.
If the RIAA came after you for downloading music and you showed up to court with a stack of physical (manufactured) CDs showing that you had bought the music in some way or form the case would get dismissed in a heartbeat. When you purchase music, you are purchasing the legal right to listen to that music peice for personal use: you can copy it to any damned format you want on any device you damn well please as long as no one else has direct access to it. They'd have more of a chance of going after civic-racers for "broadcasting" their music for free to the public, or at least broadcasting a portion of it (the bass).
The problem is universities REQUIRE the remedial level classes in non 'core' class paths. Yes, they will test you and bump you up in math, literature, and the like but the degree related classes require you to start at the base level and work up in most cases. For those of us who've been doing that shit since highschool or earlier really can't stand it. Even in my 'advanced' classes, I pickup material the first time around where most of the class has to review it 2-3 times and take up precious class time; these days universities slow down for stupid at the expense of the competent.
Example: The university I attend requires you to take 'Intro to Office Suite' your first term. You can opt out by taking the test, but then you have to recite default page margins for 6 different templates as well as know some obscure feature that no one uses. Guess what? The class doesn't even touch on those figures, nor do the books have the figures in them. With a system like that, designed to make you pay for the expensive class with no return on investment (6 credit hours to learn how to type in word), how can you side with the universities?
It really is no wonder we're being passed by Japan and Europe when it comes to education, and they don't even need to give their children laptops to 'optimize the learning curve.'
They were helping to repair the station gyros and delivering supplies among other things. Yes, it was a proof to determine the shuttle can still fly, but it did have a purpose. Whether or not that's to show that a better system is needed we have yet to see.
I know this for a fact to be true for me. Why? When I was pissed as a kid, I'd go beat on my little brother or other such childhood nonsense.
What do I do now? I go vent in a video game. Load up some cheats and mow down pixels in GTA or Halo. After 10-20 minutes of such "mindless violence" my stress levels drop significantly and I'm ready to go about my business.
I believe as long as the child is taught about the line between virtual and actual reality, then there are benefits to video gaming. The ones that can't learn the difference usually have behavior problems anyway and must be cared for differently to begin with.
Depends on where you are, but in most Metro and surrounding areas anything on two wheels is considered a menace to the "cagers." I'm in the LA area and what really annoys them is the fact that we can split lanes so while they're stuck in traffic we're merrily proceeding on our commute. The whole attitude in California generally leads to everything being the fault of the rider regardless of how stupid the other party is. Apparently "I didn't see him" is a good excuse to nearly run someone over. But that's about the worst of it, there are some really fun roads to ride here; espexially if you're into sportbikes.
Depending on why you're choosing to ride, lots of people are more than happy to help you get started in the right direction. If you join the socal board, post up an into thread and I'll help you out.
Except in California. They're nasty about that. This is especially so when you ride a motorcycle in California as a great number of my friends have discovered. If you are in one of the "annoyance to society" minorities you have a much bigger hill to climb for the judge to rule in your favor.
But haven't you seen the Virgin Mary on the bridge and in the Cheese?! Oh, and Jesus on the box-truck? There's no way the daily infinite combinations of material interactions on Earth could somehow get the fuzzy-logic centers of the perfect human brain to see these unique figures without an act of a god!
Not to burst your bubble, but there are many people in the world who believed that before this. Not everyone sees organized religion as a benefitial corporation. It's all just a given subset of peoples' view on the world and no more important than anyone else's. As far as I can see, these "Jedi" have as much reason to believe in the "Force" (even if they can't use it or see it) as you do to believe in your "God" (even if you can't see him/her).
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I thought they were still living across the street from Lynwood High when they died.
Thanks for the correction.
As stated, Lynwood, CA. Where Weird Al went to highschool, and his parents lived until their recent deaths. Also one-step away from Compton, with about the same reputation: bunch of good for nothing hoodrats trying to be tough and causing problems (as a former resident I can say that with the utmost certainty).
How about setting reasonable expectations and growing a spine? Demand compensation time for significant amounts of overtime worked, don't be on-call for the little stuff, and tell your boss that the project is X number of man-hours worth of work which won't fit in Y weeks worth of man-hours. I get the same problem here but I let my boss know what the deal is and deliver on a sane time schedule. Just because marketing promised a customer a totally new revision of the system with a completely rebuilt architecture in two weeks doesn't mean they're going to get it. If your boss doesn't recognize this, it's either time to renegotiate your contract to make the stress/overtime worth it or find a company that knows what project planning is. Don't get me wrong, I work overtime on a regular basis but my boss knows that I will take comp time when things settle down and I won't run 20 hour days because of an arbitrary deadline set by a brainless boob in an overpromising department.
Tell that to my company. 'Crisis' mode is every day, all month.
I can deal with that bundling since I don't download RP. If RP starts coming with Firefox, then FF will be out the window in a heartbeat!
I didn't even finish the first page before having to click out of it. Every other answer is "we need to all be friends and share world resources."
If that isn't choke-on-your-own-bullshit stupidity, I don't know what is. It's human nature to want power over something (economical, social, political, etc) and gaining it means struggle against others which in turn means you're going to piss off someone. Communism didn't work multiple times over: stop trying to make it work.
The NEW mustangs are chick cars. A mid-late 60's Mustang with a 425 in it is NOT a chick car.
Someone's going to be formerly a Yahoo Exec in 3...2...1...
As far as I know there is no state law forbidding this. WaMu dings me every quarter for cumulative 3rd party ATM fees.
If it has changed recently, that would good to know, because they'd owe me a bit of cash.
Can you come and explain this concept to my employer? I'm positive I'm not alone in the fact that I spend about 5% planning, 15% testing and 80% coding. Needless to say, I work at a company controlled by the sales staff and promises to customers.
Whats worse, if it's not signed they'll ask you to sign it right in front of them.
I'm calling out your bullshit! I make $50k/year as a programmer in Orange County (high cost area). I can afford a decent 1 bedroom apartment (700 sq feet), investments, 401k, health & dental insurance, my truck, 2 motorcycles (track and street), and a project car. If I cared to for some reason, I could have my girlfriend move in and only money she'd need to contribute would be anything to go out shopping with.
It's not a high-end life, but it's certainly not "scraping by" nor is it in a bad area (I live 15 minutes from work). That seems to be the norm for this area.
I will agree that if I were making this much in the midwest, I'd own my own home by now but that's the price of gorgeous weather, women, and scenes.
So you are saying his odds of hearing something intelligent are increasing? Lucky bastard...
We said open source, not open minded!
No kidding!
If the RIAA came after you for downloading music and you showed up to court with a stack of physical (manufactured) CDs showing that you had bought the music in some way or form the case would get dismissed in a heartbeat. When you purchase music, you are purchasing the legal right to listen to that music peice for personal use: you can copy it to any damned format you want on any device you damn well please as long as no one else has direct access to it. They'd have more of a chance of going after civic-racers for "broadcasting" their music for free to the public, or at least broadcasting a portion of it (the bass).
The problem is universities REQUIRE the remedial level classes in non 'core' class paths. Yes, they will test you and bump you up in math, literature, and the like but the degree related classes require you to start at the base level and work up in most cases. For those of us who've been doing that shit since highschool or earlier really can't stand it. Even in my 'advanced' classes, I pickup material the first time around where most of the class has to review it 2-3 times and take up precious class time; these days universities slow down for stupid at the expense of the competent.
Example: The university I attend requires you to take 'Intro to Office Suite' your first term. You can opt out by taking the test, but then you have to recite default page margins for 6 different templates as well as know some obscure feature that no one uses. Guess what? The class doesn't even touch on those figures, nor do the books have the figures in them. With a system like that, designed to make you pay for the expensive class with no return on investment (6 credit hours to learn how to type in word), how can you side with the universities?
It really is no wonder we're being passed by Japan and Europe when it comes to education, and they don't even need to give their children laptops to 'optimize the learning curve.'
They were helping to repair the station gyros and delivering supplies among other things. Yes, it was a proof to determine the shuttle can still fly, but it did have a purpose. Whether or not that's to show that a better system is needed we have yet to see.
I know this for a fact to be true for me. Why? When I was pissed as a kid, I'd go beat on my little brother or other such childhood nonsense.
What do I do now? I go vent in a video game. Load up some cheats and mow down pixels in GTA or Halo. After 10-20 minutes of such "mindless violence" my stress levels drop significantly and I'm ready to go about my business.
I believe as long as the child is taught about the line between virtual and actual reality, then there are benefits to video gaming. The ones that can't learn the difference usually have behavior problems anyway and must be cared for differently to begin with.
Depends on where you are, but in most Metro and surrounding areas anything on two wheels is considered a menace to the "cagers." I'm in the LA area and what really annoys them is the fact that we can split lanes so while they're stuck in traffic we're merrily proceeding on our commute. The whole attitude in California generally leads to everything being the fault of the rider regardless of how stupid the other party is. Apparently "I didn't see him" is a good excuse to nearly run someone over. But that's about the worst of it, there are some really fun roads to ride here; espexially if you're into sportbikes.
If you're in Southern Cali: http://www.socalsportbikes.com/
If you're in the Bay Area:
http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/
Depending on why you're choosing to ride, lots of people are more than happy to help you get started in the right direction. If you join the socal board, post up an into thread and I'll help you out.
Except in California. They're nasty about that. This is especially so when you ride a motorcycle in California as a great number of my friends have discovered. If you are in one of the "annoyance to society" minorities you have a much bigger hill to climb for the judge to rule in your favor.
Something tells me with a post to Slashdot this train is about to get very scitzo, very quickly.
And regardless, how many sadists would be trying to crash the train like myself?
And by "hacking" you mean circumventing their "Freedom Firewall" right?
But haven't you seen the Virgin Mary on the bridge and in the Cheese?! Oh, and Jesus on the box-truck? There's no way the daily infinite combinations of material interactions on Earth could somehow get the fuzzy-logic centers of the perfect human brain to see these unique figures without an act of a god!
Not to burst your bubble, but there are many people in the world who believed that before this. Not everyone sees organized religion as a benefitial corporation. It's all just a given subset of peoples' view on the world and no more important than anyone else's. As far as I can see, these "Jedi" have as much reason to believe in the "Force" (even if they can't use it or see it) as you do to believe in your "God" (even if you can't see him/her).
It's a nice thought to have government running something more open, but it'll take something a little bigger than Norway to convince Microsoft.