We haven't colonized the moon yet, and that's just a few days away. What makes anyone think that a manned mission to Mars (let alone any attempt at colonization) would be anything more than a multi-billion dollar suicide mission? Apollo missions were all just a simple malfunction from certain death. That Apollo 13 made it back alive was part luck, part good timing of when the service module exploded, and part *real* men (not millennial snowflakes) working 24/7 back on earth to get them back alive.
As for Antarctica - while supplies and help is less than a day away anywhere on the continent, it's nowhere near the conditions you'd find on Mars because you have water sources (lots of freshwater ice), food sources (penguins, seals, fish, etc..), and oxygen. So long as you have shelter and a heat source - you can live your entire life there - and help is generally a day's flight in and out of there. People do it all the time north of the Arctic circle.
So basically they're fat smelly unemployed losers sitting in their mom's basement wearing underwear and likely show up as level 2 sex offenders on the national registry.
That's because most counter help can barely get out a coherent sentence and/or talk too much by adding choices / suggestive sell options when you're trying to tell them what you want. Or you're standing there while some newbie learns how to work the register screwing everything up. Kiosks are the way to go.
Nuclear power plant cooling towers don't contain anything radioactive. All they do is expel excess heat from the turbine steam condensers via natural draft. In a pressurized water reactor (like the ones in Belgium) the steam isn't radioactive as it's heated via a closed-loop heat exchanger. Even if the cooling towers were destroyed, the reactors would instead be cooled by whatever water of body they're next to (some water is brought into the plant to make up for the water that's evaporated by the steam condenser).
Worked as a 3rd level support engineer for Xerox back from 1999-2003. There was a line of multifunction devices - the Document Centre. Some models were basically the same thing - in one case, the Document Centre 232 and 240. The difference between the two? 32 pages per minute and 40 pages per minute. Same machine - but with the right admin password on the user interface (the control panel), you could turn a 32 page per minute machine into a 40 page per minute machine and jack the price up by several thousand dollars as well as enable some other features that customers were made to pay for.
Theresa Caputo, the "Long Island Medium", records each of her "readings" with her clients on standard cassette tape using an old-school cassette recorder.
... so long as they're not LOUD, invasive, annoying, stupid, repetitive, etc.
But we can expect to see more product placement - which is OK so long as it's not over-the-top. But with the set-top-boxes provided by cable/satellite providers - I can envision ads running superimposed over the content or off to the side in the margins to keep the cord-cutters and DVR fast-forwarder's at bay. They'll always figure out a way to make more money on top of the subscription fees.
If you can't hit your target, the gun and/or ammo makes no difference. Everyone has their preference (my EDC is a SIG P239 chambered in 9mm). Go with whatever you're comfortable handling and have practiced extensively on.
The M9 / 92 is a fine firearm. Personally I don't see the need to change it out.
Because you're not pulsando dos si usted habla español and/or having to navigate a confusing auto-attendant, only to either get someone's voice mailbox that's full (because they retired 6 months ago), or if you do get someone, it's some bottom-feeder civil servant with a 10th grade education who speaks Ebonics and has a shitty attitude.
This is a fucking retarded solution in search of a problem that will result in injured or dead cops. Use a firearm as it was intended, safety off (or no safety), fully loaded, one in the chamber, that you draw from your holster as-is so you can shoot as many bullets as it takes to terminate the threat to you or to another, which generally results in a fatality.
Better yet, if you don't want to be shot/killed by the police, then don't do anything that would justify a police officer using deadly physical thought.
I hope whoever invented this idiotic idea gets sued for everything when one of these devices fucks up and ends up getting someone killed because some poor cop was trained to use this piece of shit first. In deadly situations, you don't have the luxury of additional time to modify your weapon in a manner which it was not designed.
In the real world, "Fabrikam" and "Contoso" do not exist. MS certs are a bigger joke than Cisco certs. I took the same MS OCS 2007 exam 5 times and failed it every time. Found out that the exam itself was flawed.
What about a college degree? At one level, a diploma is no more than a very expensive certification.
Don't discount the value of a college degree. It tells me you set out to do something big and finished it... and learned a few things that you didn't pick up on in high school. Bonus points if you went to school away from home and lived on your own for a while. Shows that you're somewhat responsible. I'd never hire some code-kiddie fresh out of HS.
Sure, I just have an hour chat with the 300+ applicants for my latest posting. No sweat.
Certificates are a SIGNAL. They tell me you are serious about your career, you respect standards, you will use the same terminology as the rest of the team and you understand that not everything can be learned on the job. They are a cheap way of putting yourself ahead of other candidates.
So the real question is, why would you *not* pick up a new cert every 2 years or so? What possible justification could you have for refusing to educate yourself on industry standards? Other than burning desire to stay ignorant?
You must be the darling of the IT training / certification industry. I don't need to spend thousands of dollars for a week-long Cisco class and another $200 for the test itself to prove that I'm "serious" about my career. My resume (and references, and accolades, and bonuses) speaks for itself. Certifications are nothing more than very expensive merit badges to impress some manager during the interview process - who'll probably lay you off in 9 months when he finds an Indian H1B who'll do your job for half the price.
Certifications are little more than an easy HR screening tool and a way for large companies like Cisco to twist the arms of their resellers to get their staff certified because it looks good on paper. When I was an IT manager, I would get resumes from recent college grads with lots of certs, but no experience. Wasn't impressed. At minimum, all a cert did was tell me that the job applicant passed a test (and likely did so with the help of a braindump). Experience is what matters the most.
Big fucking deal. I take care of a number of large critical needs facilities who's phone systems have been around since the early 1990's (and a handful of older ones too). The shit works - why replace it?
The hardware is cheap (most of the time it's just a regular ol' server), the software is practically free. The bulk of those costs are for the per-user licensing - because if you don't have licensing - the system won't work beyond a post-install grace period. Also you need maintenance through a local vendor/reseller - someone who'll show up at 2:00 am when the system shits the bed... along with manufacturer support (i.e., PASS for Nortel/Avaya CallPilot or SmartNET for Cisco Unity) - for which without you cannot get software patches, service packs, upgrades, and support if the local vendor can't figure out the problem.
I just migrated a small rural county from a legacy Nortel PBX to a Cisco UM system and I was surprised at how many analog ports they required for faxing. Quite a few (we ended up installing something like 3 VG224's and 7 VG204's)... and they are used quite a bit - so the fax isn't dead yet. And I've yet to run into a customer that has said "nah - we don't need no stinking voice mail system!".
I'm starting to see corporate instant messaging and "presence" more and more commonplace. Easier to send a quick IM, or see if they're "green" (as in available) to shoot them a quick call... rather than call, wait 4 rings, listen to their stupid outgoing message if I can't get past it with #, and leave a message that won't get returned. Internally, we use Microsoft Lync - which in spite of it being a Microsoft product - works really well. Voice mails go to e-mail - so I can read the (not always perfect) speech to text transcription. But for the most part - we use IM and e-mail.
Here's what I don't get. You got an advanced plane like the A320 that has all sorts of fail-safes built in to it to prevent the dopey pilot from making a sudden move and crashing the damn thing. But nothing to say "hey - I'm flying at over 400 kts, the left seat is empty, the cockpit door is locked / overriding the keypad, and the dope in the right seat just told my autopilot to descend to 100 feet above sea level when what's in front of me are mountains that are much higher than that and he's increasing my speed too... maybe I should take over and resume level flight well above terrain - seeing how sensors indicate all is well with the aircraft, squawk 7700 on the transponder, start spitting out what's happening on ACARS, open the door and wait until the left seat is occupied and this gets sorted out".
As for flights like AF447 - when things like pitots and pressure sensors stop functioning, the plane should then revert to GPS to give the pilots a referential ground speed (yes I understand the difference between that and air speed... but when your pitots shit the bed... what else do you got?), direction and altitude... along with rate of climb/descent, and basic navigation like a waypoint to the airfield. Because in the middle of the night over the ocean you're flying on instruments. When your instruments go out and all you see is pitch black outside - you're fucked. A $99 Garmin GPS will do this. A free GPS app for your smartphone will do this.
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We haven't colonized the moon yet, and that's just a few days away. What makes anyone think that a manned mission to Mars (let alone any attempt at colonization) would be anything more than a multi-billion dollar suicide mission? Apollo missions were all just a simple malfunction from certain death. That Apollo 13 made it back alive was part luck, part good timing of when the service module exploded, and part *real* men (not millennial snowflakes) working 24/7 back on earth to get them back alive.
As for Antarctica - while supplies and help is less than a day away anywhere on the continent, it's nowhere near the conditions you'd find on Mars because you have water sources (lots of freshwater ice), food sources (penguins, seals, fish, etc..), and oxygen. So long as you have shelter and a heat source - you can live your entire life there - and help is generally a day's flight in and out of there. People do it all the time north of the Arctic circle.
So basically they're fat smelly unemployed losers sitting in their mom's basement wearing underwear and likely show up as level 2 sex offenders on the national registry.
This assumes that said homeless person isn't mentally ill and/or addicted to drugs. That $1000 will last less than a week if not properly managed.
That's because most counter help can barely get out a coherent sentence and/or talk too much by adding choices / suggestive sell options when you're trying to tell them what you want. Or you're standing there while some newbie learns how to work the register screwing everything up. Kiosks are the way to go.
Nuclear power plant cooling towers don't contain anything radioactive. All they do is expel excess heat from the turbine steam condensers via natural draft. In a pressurized water reactor (like the ones in Belgium) the steam isn't radioactive as it's heated via a closed-loop heat exchanger. Even if the cooling towers were destroyed, the reactors would instead be cooled by whatever water of body they're next to (some water is brought into the plant to make up for the water that's evaporated by the steam condenser).
Worked as a 3rd level support engineer for Xerox back from 1999-2003. There was a line of multifunction devices - the Document Centre. Some models were basically the same thing - in one case, the Document Centre 232 and 240. The difference between the two? 32 pages per minute and 40 pages per minute. Same machine - but with the right admin password on the user interface (the control panel), you could turn a 32 page per minute machine into a 40 page per minute machine and jack the price up by several thousand dollars as well as enable some other features that customers were made to pay for.
Theresa Caputo, the "Long Island Medium", records each of her "readings" with her clients on standard cassette tape using an old-school cassette recorder.
www.tlc.com/tv-shows/long-island-medium/videos/about-a-tape-recorder/
PuTTY - and sometimes ProComm.
... so long as they're not LOUD, invasive, annoying, stupid, repetitive, etc.
But we can expect to see more product placement - which is OK so long as it's not over-the-top. But with the set-top-boxes provided by cable/satellite providers - I can envision ads running superimposed over the content or off to the side in the margins to keep the cord-cutters and DVR fast-forwarder's at bay. They'll always figure out a way to make more money on top of the subscription fees.
If you can't hit your target, the gun and/or ammo makes no difference. Everyone has their preference (my EDC is a SIG P239 chambered in 9mm). Go with whatever you're comfortable handling and have practiced extensively on.
The M9 / 92 is a fine firearm. Personally I don't see the need to change it out.
That's great. Too bad Detroit has millions of other problems. I hope there is an app for that.
There is. Ask Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Because you're not pulsando dos si usted habla español and/or having to navigate a confusing auto-attendant, only to either get someone's voice mailbox that's full (because they retired 6 months ago), or if you do get someone, it's some bottom-feeder civil servant with a 10th grade education who speaks Ebonics and has a shitty attitude.
This is a fucking retarded solution in search of a problem that will result in injured or dead cops. Use a firearm as it was intended, safety off (or no safety), fully loaded, one in the chamber, that you draw from your holster as-is so you can shoot as many bullets as it takes to terminate the threat to you or to another, which generally results in a fatality.
Better yet, if you don't want to be shot/killed by the police, then don't do anything that would justify a police officer using deadly physical thought.
I hope whoever invented this idiotic idea gets sued for everything when one of these devices fucks up and ends up getting someone killed because some poor cop was trained to use this piece of shit first. In deadly situations, you don't have the luxury of additional time to modify your weapon in a manner which it was not designed.
That will result in a stovepiped brass casing jamming the gun and/or a squib load blocking the barrel, rendering the weapon useless.
Bullshit. $75k to a college grad with nothing more than helpdesk / PC repair experience?
In the real world, "Fabrikam" and "Contoso" do not exist. MS certs are a bigger joke than Cisco certs. I took the same MS OCS 2007 exam 5 times and failed it every time. Found out that the exam itself was flawed.
What about a college degree? At one level, a diploma is no more than a very expensive certification.
Don't discount the value of a college degree. It tells me you set out to do something big and finished it... and learned a few things that you didn't pick up on in high school. Bonus points if you went to school away from home and lived on your own for a while. Shows that you're somewhat responsible. I'd never hire some code-kiddie fresh out of HS.
Sure, I just have an hour chat with the 300+ applicants for my latest posting. No sweat.
Certificates are a SIGNAL. They tell me you are serious about your career, you respect standards, you will use the same terminology as the rest of the team and you understand that not everything can be learned on the job. They are a cheap way of putting yourself ahead of other candidates.
So the real question is, why would you *not* pick up a new cert every 2 years or so? What possible justification could you have for refusing to educate yourself on industry standards? Other than burning desire to stay ignorant?
You must be the darling of the IT training / certification industry. I don't need to spend thousands of dollars for a week-long Cisco class and another $200 for the test itself to prove that I'm "serious" about my career. My resume (and references, and accolades, and bonuses) speaks for itself. Certifications are nothing more than very expensive merit badges to impress some manager during the interview process - who'll probably lay you off in 9 months when he finds an Indian H1B who'll do your job for half the price.
Certifications are little more than an easy HR screening tool and a way for large companies like Cisco to twist the arms of their resellers to get their staff certified because it looks good on paper. When I was an IT manager, I would get resumes from recent college grads with lots of certs, but no experience. Wasn't impressed. At minimum, all a cert did was tell me that the job applicant passed a test (and likely did so with the help of a braindump). Experience is what matters the most.
Big fucking deal. I take care of a number of large critical needs facilities who's phone systems have been around since the early 1990's (and a handful of older ones too). The shit works - why replace it?
The hardware is cheap (most of the time it's just a regular ol' server), the software is practically free. The bulk of those costs are for the per-user licensing - because if you don't have licensing - the system won't work beyond a post-install grace period. Also you need maintenance through a local vendor/reseller - someone who'll show up at 2:00 am when the system shits the bed... along with manufacturer support (i.e., PASS for Nortel/Avaya CallPilot or SmartNET for Cisco Unity) - for which without you cannot get software patches, service packs, upgrades, and support if the local vendor can't figure out the problem.
I just migrated a small rural county from a legacy Nortel PBX to a Cisco UM system and I was surprised at how many analog ports they required for faxing. Quite a few (we ended up installing something like 3 VG224's and 7 VG204's)... and they are used quite a bit - so the fax isn't dead yet. And I've yet to run into a customer that has said "nah - we don't need no stinking voice mail system!".
I'm starting to see corporate instant messaging and "presence" more and more commonplace. Easier to send a quick IM, or see if they're "green" (as in available) to shoot them a quick call... rather than call, wait 4 rings, listen to their stupid outgoing message if I can't get past it with #, and leave a message that won't get returned. Internally, we use Microsoft Lync - which in spite of it being a Microsoft product - works really well. Voice mails go to e-mail - so I can read the (not always perfect) speech to text transcription. But for the most part - we use IM and e-mail.
Primary everyday keyring:
Company car key
House key
Bottle opener
Secondary keyring:
Planet Fitness membership mini-card
Security fob for doors to rod and gun club
Thumb drive
Shed key
In-law's house key
Other keyrings:
Wife's car key
Wife's car remote starter
Keys for large customer A
Keys for branch office I visit once in a while
Just take a truck with a full hazmat load, and set it loose on I-95 in New Jersey. What could possibly go wrong?
Here's what I don't get. You got an advanced plane like the A320 that has all sorts of fail-safes built in to it to prevent the dopey pilot from making a sudden move and crashing the damn thing. But nothing to say "hey - I'm flying at over 400 kts, the left seat is empty, the cockpit door is locked / overriding the keypad, and the dope in the right seat just told my autopilot to descend to 100 feet above sea level when what's in front of me are mountains that are much higher than that and he's increasing my speed too... maybe I should take over and resume level flight well above terrain - seeing how sensors indicate all is well with the aircraft, squawk 7700 on the transponder, start spitting out what's happening on ACARS, open the door and wait until the left seat is occupied and this gets sorted out".
As for flights like AF447 - when things like pitots and pressure sensors stop functioning, the plane should then revert to GPS to give the pilots a referential ground speed (yes I understand the difference between that and air speed... but when your pitots shit the bed... what else do you got?), direction and altitude... along with rate of climb/descent, and basic navigation like a waypoint to the airfield. Because in the middle of the night over the ocean you're flying on instruments. When your instruments go out and all you see is pitch black outside - you're fucked. A $99 Garmin GPS will do this. A free GPS app for your smartphone will do this.