So HP lays off almost 20,000 people. They have several employees that have worked to do outsourced work for GM. GM announces they will no longer outsource the work that these employees were doing. They will do it in-house now. HP Employees conclude from this, that they will soon lose their jobs, as the contract will get cut. They smartly apply at the very place they've been doing work for... and easily get the jobs because they clearly know how to do them. Nothing in violation of their contracts had to happen here. Those employees jobs were in clear jeopardy. If HP doesn't want their employees looking for work, they need to make them feel secure. This was obviously not happening.
It's too late. I've been a hardcore AMD/ATI guy for over 10 years and I'm done. They could have fixed this crap BEFORE they were nearly bankrupt, now it's a bit late. It's one thing when AMD was getting beat up by intel and ATI was getting beat up by NVIDIA. But drivers from both companies were just shit. I was buying $600 video cards and getting crappy performance for years... Their duel monitor implementation is ridiculous. AMDs CPU setup on older systems was borderline ridiculous... they finally fixed that but then they started having heat problems. I'm sick of it.
I just had a friend put in a request and I built him an Intel/Nvidia system. It's over, I'm out.
One would have to essentially wrap a spacecraft in a six-foot block of lead or concrete.
Or... build it inside a per-existing asteroid. Something that solves numerous problems. These aren't problems that are a surprise to anyone that's spent any time at all researching the subject. It's like saying "researchers have found that prolonged activity underwater will lead to death my inhalation of water! And Pressures down deep get so extremely high, the only way to protect the diver would be to wrap them in a solid steel tube several inches thick!!!" Gasp! oh however will we do it?!?!
Go ahead... try another method. This isn't something I have to worry about anymore, I'm an adult now... lol. But I never failed a test in my youth and I took dozens. I drank 2 gallons of water and felt no ill health effects. I believe the mistake you're making is thinking that you're retaining 2 gallons of water. You're not. You're pissing constantly... that's the entire point. And no, you shouldn't just beer bong a gallon of water... You drink it a normal pace. it'll probably take you the whole hour to finish it. You'll probably be peeing 10 min in.
If you have a test coming up in a week or two, just drink something acidic like grapefruit juice or lemonade. A pitcher full every day for a couple of days before the test. Then the gallon of water the day of. You'll piss completely clear. You don't have to think it's safe, it doesn't matter. This is how people do it, and have done it for years. It's very easy. Swapping the urine works, but it's a lot more gross, you have to get the urine, and the DO check you over sometimes... and there's always the "Watch you pee" kind of tests. They can reject my pee for being "Too diluted" all they want. They can't fire me for abusing water.
And you realize that every first world country in the world is currently in the middle of a huge financial catastrophe mostly brought about by huge amounts of public and private debt? Your argument is like my wife telling me we should take that trip to Cancun because all of our neighbors are in foreclosure to. You take for granted that our government needs to spend money on the things you see every day, and you don't question it. We have aircraft that cost over a billion dollars each. Think about that. We still have over 50 military installations in Germany... just in case the Kaiser rises from the dead or something. FIFTY. We subsidize farmers to NOT plant corn and leave fields fallow. My father owns some acreage that a farmer rents from him but never plants. He's renting the fields to collect subsidies not to plant. Think about THAT. This is what happens when the government has too much of the public's money.
Passing a PT is about the easiest thing in the world. Drink lots of water... that's all you have to do. They are looking for parts per million, so you just need to dilute your urine. If they walk up to you, grab you by the arm and say "pee in this cup" that's a little harder. But if you have chance to hit a water fountain an hour or more before the test you're set. The best situation is having 1.5 to 2hrs of notice. So you can drink a gallon, flush your system, then drink another so you have something ready for the cup. You'll test cleaner than your grandmother. Worst case scenario is they wake you up at dawn, you really have to pee and the stand there and watch you fill the cup. You're doomed then... and your grandmother would likely fail as well... lol
Blood tests are another story. You're pretty much screwed if they draw blood.
Microsoft Denys they put a backdoor into Windows, but the NSA worked directly with them on development of every OS since XP: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141105/NSA_helped_with_Windows_7_development The NSA doesn't generally help private companies with their products, and Microsoft doesn't generally take advice from their customers on their design. I doubt that whatever the NSA was really doing to help with the product was anything we'd consider good.
Yes, from what my niece has been telling me and what I've read between the lines, Facebook is no more that a way for her to trick her parents and teachers into believing in some double life where she studies all night, is dating some guy that doesn't even live near here and never drinks.
Hindsight is always 20/20 right? You need to remember that the cases that are most famous today are the spectacular ones. The thousands of procedures that were (at the time) done in secret because they were stigmatized, often lead to a person leading a much better life. Did some doctors go off the rails? Often trying to invent some new procedure to garner themselves fame and glory? Of course, that happens in almost every discipline. But fault the Doctors, the families, the laws lack of understanding... not the procedures. Lobotomies are still used today. Usually with great success. Some day will have the medicine and technology to end this procedure. That will be a great thing. But there's no reason to doom someone to a miserable life simply because you can not understand the unimaginable hell that psychological diseases can cause.
They did work out well in the past. It's easy to call treatments of the past barbaric without perspective. Often those treated with labotomies would have spent the rest of their lives in strait jackets or worse if not for the treatment. If your drug addiction is going to kill you in the next 6 months is this treatment really that terrible? Granted, governments always take this sort of thing too far "he's addicted to MMOs!" etc...
I suspect the social media backlash is going to begin pretty damn soon.
It wont. People are fucking stupid. They have absolutely no idea what's happening to them. The only thing that will push the public as a whole to care is if holywood makes a movie about it and makes it glaringly obvious what's going on. But this isn't something that makes for good theater, and advertisers are going to squash any attempt to make such a movie just like they killed that Mythbusters episode about RFID.
On the bright side however, those same stupid people that are using these services are also Fickle. I have a niece that's your typical tall blond bombshell, most popular girl in a very large school, won state sports championships, etc... Has something like 3000 facebook friends. According to her, facebooks on its way out. They are mostly annoyed by it and all the drama on it now. One girls opinion but she holds sway over quite a few clueless youth so who knows. I suspect that she's one of those "keystone" members that social networking sites fear losing.
Wow... a forum about lightbulbs. The true power of the internet is it lets people with similar interests, even if their interests are totally insane, get together. It never ceases to amaze me.
I have a better idea. Stop spending money on stupid shit, and spend it on this instead. We have troops in over 100 countries at the moment. Cut that down to 50 (still ridiculous) and we'd have plenty of money for this program. End farm subsidies. Stop borrowing money so 30cents of every dollar isn't spent on interest anymore. This is a very simple problem, but the governments of the world are so addicted to spending money in the least efficient way possible that they have to invent a crisis like this to try and extort even more money out of us. Going over the "Fiscal cliff" will likely be one of the best things that could happen to this country.
People are selfish by nature. Capitalism exploits that fact, and makes the "Selfish thing to do" something that's good for the public as a whole. But Capitalism doesn't work without transparency. Secrets allow you to game the system. If you look at any particular situation, like this one for example, and you see lots of secrecy, you can be sure someones trying to cheat.
As usual, someone that lives in a large city has no concept of what it's like to live outside their metropolis. His plan might work in New York, but in Iowa, not so much.
Perhaps, but what little good drones over corporate lands would do would likely be far outweighed by the good a law that prevents the pervert down the street from doing the same to you. I welcome any law that stops this nonsense before it gets out of hand. One good deed does not make drones a good thing.
#1. Make all games use OpenGL or some other newly invented standard that is cross platform. #2. Have congress declare that "virtual goods" or whatever you want to call them are no more than poker chips. Selling items in game is probably the most detrimental change in the history of gaming as it leads to developers intentionally making the game un-fun and grindy so you'll sink real money to obtain imaginary items to make your play easier. Also... they really are poker chips... it's wrong that they are sold to children. #3. Games that are online and can not work without the servers provided by the publisher should be required by law to provide service for a certain period of time after you buy the game. A certain portion of the proceeds of the sale of the game should go into a 3rd party account to pay for the continued operation of the servers even if the original producers of the game go out of business. At least someone buying the game could be guaranteed a certain about of play before it just stopped working all together. But better yet, hopefully producers of games would not want to have to put money into a trust and instead would open up the server platform to the players.
It's funny how our government can easily pass laws like this that the public is almost universally apposed to with very little effort what-so-ever. But when it comes to balancing the budget, something we're almost universally in favor of, they can't do a damned thing.
Yea, I had this problem with my mazda as my wife didn't have a remote and was always setting it off. You need to put your manual key in and turn the car off and on 3 times to reset it. Might be different for your ford. Then I read that there was an alarm "reset" button in the fusebox. So I found it, and taped it down... no more alarm. So I ripped out the stupid button and soldered the leads together so I'd never have to bother with it again. You want to steel my car? I'll give you my friggen address.
The only train I've been on that's had food was a steam engine and it was trying to be all retro.
Most of the trains I've taken went from somewhere in the middle of Wisconsin to Chicago. Usually a 2 to 5 hour trip depending on where I was coming from. So I dunno if that was a commuter or not. I imagine the trains out east are a tad better... but the ones here suck. Again, I have limited experience. Probably less than 10 trips total.
Oh wait, on one trip, one of the passangers brought on 2 cases of Miller Highlife and was passing them out. Then the ticket guy came in the car and I though "Uh oh" until he said "Oh hey frank!" and grabbed a beer. Must be a fun job.
Well, this has a lot to do with our politics. It's a lot like the budget... the president introduces his proposal for the next 10 years. "Ok, I have 2 years left in office so NASA's 10 year plan is to go to the moon, then mars, meet some aliens and invent warp drive. The first 2 years will be the planning stages, funding will begin at 4 years..."
Next president gets into office "Ok, my 20 year plan for NASA is..."
and on and on. What we need are presidents that propose plans and budgets for their CURRENT term. Nearly every budget we've seen in modern times is a 20yr budget, but they rewrite the budget every year. So it's all a bunch of nonsense. "We'll spend more right now, but as soon as I'm out of office we'll cut spending my 50%!!!" yea, that'll happen.
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So HP lays off almost 20,000 people.
They have several employees that have worked to do outsourced work for GM.
GM announces they will no longer outsource the work that these employees were doing. They will do it in-house now.
HP Employees conclude from this, that they will soon lose their jobs, as the contract will get cut.
They smartly apply at the very place they've been doing work for... and easily get the jobs because they clearly know how to do them.
Nothing in violation of their contracts had to happen here. Those employees jobs were in clear jeopardy. If HP doesn't want their employees looking for work, they need to make them feel secure. This was obviously not happening.
It's too late. I've been a hardcore AMD/ATI guy for over 10 years and I'm done. They could have fixed this crap BEFORE they were nearly bankrupt, now it's a bit late. It's one thing when AMD was getting beat up by intel and ATI was getting beat up by NVIDIA. But drivers from both companies were just shit. I was buying $600 video cards and getting crappy performance for years... Their duel monitor implementation is ridiculous. AMDs CPU setup on older systems was borderline ridiculous... they finally fixed that but then they started having heat problems. I'm sick of it.
I just had a friend put in a request and I built him an Intel/Nvidia system. It's over, I'm out.
Or the naive assumption that we have any choice in who we vote for.
One would have to essentially wrap a spacecraft in a six-foot block of lead or concrete.
Or... build it inside a per-existing asteroid. Something that solves numerous problems. These aren't problems that are a surprise to anyone that's spent any time at all researching the subject. It's like saying "researchers have found that prolonged activity underwater will lead to death my inhalation of water! And Pressures down deep get so extremely high, the only way to protect the diver would be to wrap them in a solid steel tube several inches thick!!!" Gasp! oh however will we do it?!?!
so this is the oldest known poop every discovered?
Go ahead... try another method. This isn't something I have to worry about anymore, I'm an adult now... lol. But I never failed a test in my youth and I took dozens. I drank 2 gallons of water and felt no ill health effects. I believe the mistake you're making is thinking that you're retaining 2 gallons of water. You're not. You're pissing constantly... that's the entire point. And no, you shouldn't just beer bong a gallon of water... You drink it a normal pace. it'll probably take you the whole hour to finish it. You'll probably be peeing 10 min in.
If you have a test coming up in a week or two, just drink something acidic like grapefruit juice or lemonade. A pitcher full every day for a couple of days before the test. Then the gallon of water the day of. You'll piss completely clear. You don't have to think it's safe, it doesn't matter. This is how people do it, and have done it for years. It's very easy. Swapping the urine works, but it's a lot more gross, you have to get the urine, and the DO check you over sometimes... and there's always the "Watch you pee" kind of tests. They can reject my pee for being "Too diluted" all they want. They can't fire me for abusing water.
And you realize that every first world country in the world is currently in the middle of a huge financial catastrophe mostly brought about by huge amounts of public and private debt? Your argument is like my wife telling me we should take that trip to Cancun because all of our neighbors are in foreclosure to. You take for granted that our government needs to spend money on the things you see every day, and you don't question it. We have aircraft that cost over a billion dollars each. Think about that. We still have over 50 military installations in Germany... just in case the Kaiser rises from the dead or something. FIFTY. We subsidize farmers to NOT plant corn and leave fields fallow. My father owns some acreage that a farmer rents from him but never plants. He's renting the fields to collect subsidies not to plant. Think about THAT. This is what happens when the government has too much of the public's money.
Passing a PT is about the easiest thing in the world. Drink lots of water... that's all you have to do. They are looking for parts per million, so you just need to dilute your urine. If they walk up to you, grab you by the arm and say "pee in this cup" that's a little harder. But if you have chance to hit a water fountain an hour or more before the test you're set. The best situation is having 1.5 to 2hrs of notice. So you can drink a gallon, flush your system, then drink another so you have something ready for the cup. You'll test cleaner than your grandmother. Worst case scenario is they wake you up at dawn, you really have to pee and the stand there and watch you fill the cup. You're doomed then... and your grandmother would likely fail as well... lol
Blood tests are another story. You're pretty much screwed if they draw blood.
A question like yours could be easily answered by a visit to Google.
How about strait from Ciscos documentation?
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_2sb/feature/guide/ht_ssi.html
Microsoft Denys they put a backdoor into Windows, but the NSA worked directly with them on development of every OS since XP:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141105/NSA_helped_with_Windows_7_development
The NSA doesn't generally help private companies with their products, and Microsoft doesn't generally take advice from their customers on their design. I doubt that whatever the NSA was really doing to help with the product was anything we'd consider good.
Yes, from what my niece has been telling me and what I've read between the lines, Facebook is no more that a way for her to trick her parents and teachers into believing in some double life where she studies all night, is dating some guy that doesn't even live near here and never drinks.
Hindsight is always 20/20 right? You need to remember that the cases that are most famous today are the spectacular ones. The thousands of procedures that were (at the time) done in secret because they were stigmatized, often lead to a person leading a much better life. Did some doctors go off the rails? Often trying to invent some new procedure to garner themselves fame and glory? Of course, that happens in almost every discipline. But fault the Doctors, the families, the laws lack of understanding... not the procedures. Lobotomies are still used today. Usually with great success. Some day will have the medicine and technology to end this procedure. That will be a great thing. But there's no reason to doom someone to a miserable life simply because you can not understand the unimaginable hell that psychological diseases can cause.
They did work out well in the past. It's easy to call treatments of the past barbaric without perspective. Often those treated with labotomies would have spent the rest of their lives in strait jackets or worse if not for the treatment. If your drug addiction is going to kill you in the next 6 months is this treatment really that terrible? Granted, governments always take this sort of thing too far "he's addicted to MMOs!" etc...
Um... the coming war with Iran is going to be Obamas War... along with the other 2 he's running right now.
I suspect the social media backlash is going to begin pretty damn soon.
It wont. People are fucking stupid. They have absolutely no idea what's happening to them. The only thing that will push the public as a whole to care is if holywood makes a movie about it and makes it glaringly obvious what's going on. But this isn't something that makes for good theater, and advertisers are going to squash any attempt to make such a movie just like they killed that Mythbusters episode about RFID.
On the bright side however, those same stupid people that are using these services are also Fickle. I have a niece that's your typical tall blond bombshell, most popular girl in a very large school, won state sports championships, etc... Has something like 3000 facebook friends. According to her, facebooks on its way out. They are mostly annoyed by it and all the drama on it now. One girls opinion but she holds sway over quite a few clueless youth so who knows. I suspect that she's one of those "keystone" members that social networking sites fear losing.
I bet the government is giving them tax breaks for implementing it.
I bet they're not.
They basically don't pay taxes anyway, so the point is moot.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/28/facebook-foreign-taxes-profit_n_2376055.html
Wow... a forum about lightbulbs. The true power of the internet is it lets people with similar interests, even if their interests are totally insane, get together. It never ceases to amaze me.
I have a better idea. Stop spending money on stupid shit, and spend it on this instead. We have troops in over 100 countries at the moment. Cut that down to 50 (still ridiculous) and we'd have plenty of money for this program. End farm subsidies. Stop borrowing money so 30cents of every dollar isn't spent on interest anymore. This is a very simple problem, but the governments of the world are so addicted to spending money in the least efficient way possible that they have to invent a crisis like this to try and extort even more money out of us. Going over the "Fiscal cliff" will likely be one of the best things that could happen to this country.
People are selfish by nature. Capitalism exploits that fact, and makes the "Selfish thing to do" something that's good for the public as a whole. But Capitalism doesn't work without transparency. Secrets allow you to game the system. If you look at any particular situation, like this one for example, and you see lots of secrecy, you can be sure someones trying to cheat.
As usual, someone that lives in a large city has no concept of what it's like to live outside their metropolis. His plan might work in New York, but in Iowa, not so much.
Perhaps, but what little good drones over corporate lands would do would likely be far outweighed by the good a law that prevents the pervert down the street from doing the same to you. I welcome any law that stops this nonsense before it gets out of hand. One good deed does not make drones a good thing.
#1. Make all games use OpenGL or some other newly invented standard that is cross platform.
#2. Have congress declare that "virtual goods" or whatever you want to call them are no more than poker chips. Selling items in game is probably the most detrimental change in the history of gaming as it leads to developers intentionally making the game un-fun and grindy so you'll sink real money to obtain imaginary items to make your play easier. Also... they really are poker chips... it's wrong that they are sold to children.
#3. Games that are online and can not work without the servers provided by the publisher should be required by law to provide service for a certain period of time after you buy the game. A certain portion of the proceeds of the sale of the game should go into a 3rd party account to pay for the continued operation of the servers even if the original producers of the game go out of business. At least someone buying the game could be guaranteed a certain about of play before it just stopped working all together. But better yet, hopefully producers of games would not want to have to put money into a trust and instead would open up the server platform to the players.
It's funny how our government can easily pass laws like this that the public is almost universally apposed to with very little effort what-so-ever. But when it comes to balancing the budget, something we're almost universally in favor of, they can't do a damned thing.
Yea, I had this problem with my mazda as my wife didn't have a remote and was always setting it off. You need to put your manual key in and turn the car off and on 3 times to reset it. Might be different for your ford. Then I read that there was an alarm "reset" button in the fusebox. So I found it, and taped it down... no more alarm. So I ripped out the stupid button and soldered the leads together so I'd never have to bother with it again. You want to steel my car? I'll give you my friggen address.
The only train I've been on that's had food was a steam engine and it was trying to be all retro.
Most of the trains I've taken went from somewhere in the middle of Wisconsin to Chicago. Usually a 2 to 5 hour trip depending on where I was coming from. So I dunno if that was a commuter or not. I imagine the trains out east are a tad better... but the ones here suck. Again, I have limited experience. Probably less than 10 trips total.
Oh wait, on one trip, one of the passangers brought on 2 cases of Miller Highlife and was passing them out. Then the ticket guy came in the car and I though "Uh oh" until he said "Oh hey frank!" and grabbed a beer. Must be a fun job.
Well, this has a lot to do with our politics. It's a lot like the budget... the president introduces his proposal for the next 10 years. "Ok, I have 2 years left in office so NASA's 10 year plan is to go to the moon, then mars, meet some aliens and invent warp drive. The first 2 years will be the planning stages, funding will begin at 4 years..."
Next president gets into office "Ok, my 20 year plan for NASA is..."
and on and on. What we need are presidents that propose plans and budgets for their CURRENT term. Nearly every budget we've seen in modern times is a 20yr budget, but they rewrite the budget every year. So it's all a bunch of nonsense. "We'll spend more right now, but as soon as I'm out of office we'll cut spending my 50%!!!" yea, that'll happen.