How about WMD-enabled RISK. Have a new card that forces another player to begin the search for WMD. Every country they have a single army in becomes immobilized - they're busy defending themselves against the citizens of that country. Any time you have more than one army, at least one is under attack by the citizens, while the remainder are paralyzed by their search for WMD. This lasts for 20 turns, or until a reelection.
First, there was UNIX. Then, came UN*X. I saw just yesterday, *n*x. And now, *n**. At this rate, in the next 5 minutes, someone will use **** to mean "any unix or unix clone", and someone else will mistake it for them saying "shit".
Thirdly, they're (apparently) less concerned about stopping competing DSL products at every corner (ref: Covad, Northpoint, etc). We could have had this, but the telcos did not (and still do not) want it.
You're getting by on $10K per year and you want to know how I got by on less than $50K per year? It sounds like you're well on the right path there! Just don't let yourself get caught up in the consumerism (such as evidenced in the Matrix DVD article - all the whiners talking about how they "have to buy" the new DVD now that its a "special edition" and how they were screwed by buying the original one before) and marketing and you'll do fine.
Anyways, rent's around a grand a month, utilities (electricity, water, garbage, sewer) top $150 or so, cable + cable internet $100 or so, liability insurance ~$70 (which is high, but I'm still young), $500 food (I eat out a lot:)), and a few hundred for gas or other discretionary stuff, and you're still around $25K before taxes.
I used to, a few years back. I made less then than I do now. I did quite well. I was able to live, eat, buy a brand new car, buy all sorts of furniture and gaming gear, a few new PCs, etc, all while making less than $50K per year. It was incredibly simple. And yes, during that time, I saw people making 2-3x as much as I did having trouble with meeting their financial obligations..
Ah, you have that one important qualifier though - student loans. Others may have bought huge mortgages while getting too much money, or "bought" SUVs with big car loans attached, instead of just saving the difference. Those of us with no debt do quite well on our salaries.
(And I didn't mean to suggest that all of our hires made that or less, I just meant to suggest that most people can live incredibly well on less than $50K a year. I'm speaking from personal experience, from living in the Bay Area for some years and Seattle for other years).
Yes, exactly! You've hit it right on the nose. IT is not worth the money spent on it.
The funny part is that the same people bitching about the markets changing overseas are the people who benefited so much from the rapid change in the IT market in the first place.
Driving a 1981 Civic *is* a wonderful privilege. You have on idea how good we have it here if you think having a car is not a great thing.
Good programmers are still getting work, all the time. We've hired several in the past year. You just have to look around. You may not make the insane late-90's bucks now (150K+), but you can EASILY make enough to live very well (especially since you can live incredibly well on less than 1/3rd of that).
Yeah, really. I gave the MPAA my credit card details to keep on file. Now they won't stop using it to buy me the first DVD release and then all of the subsequent special releases. It's out of control!
If only I had a choice not to buy all of those DVDs, what a wonderous world that would be.
Ah. Well, it was at night, so they had the increased power, and they don't really tell you where they're coming from ('cause they're busy doing 15 hours of ads a day or whatever).
However, none of the stations come through clear day or night, so I'm not so sure the bleed is not an issue. (Other stations come through crystal)
Your "support our troops".sig does a good job carrying the disability angle. Especially the part about how if you're American, you should not protest ongoing wars. I guess it's only ok to protest them before and after. I say, bravo - the ADA may indeed apply!
Every married person I know is having regular to semi-regular sex. However, only one of them are actually with their marriage partner still. The rest are separated. So, sure, married people may be having more sex than us singles, but in my experience, it's not with who you may think it is.
The way it is now is nearly pure competition. If you're good, and with a bit of luck, you'll get the expired domain. There is actual competition over getting the domains.
The way Verisign..excuse me ICANN (little difference) wants it, only Verisign can reserve domain names. Other companies can resell Verisign's reservation system for "only" $24-$28/year.
This matches Verisign's past work, basically killing, neutering and then buying (essentially) ICANN so they remained the one source for.com/.net/etc. It's anti-competitive and it's wrong, and Internet users should be applauding the suit, IMO.
You don't *need* a central authority - they're doing it just fine now as it is. Sure, it's hard to be the one "lucky" enough to get the domain after it expires, but them's the breaks.
The reason the word "monopolistic" is exactly correct is that Verisign themselves will be collecting $24-$28/year from the other registrars to provide this service. It's not like ICANN, or a non-profit, is getting the fee to run this database "for the greater good".
But as we all know (or we all should know) ICANN is firmly in Verisign's pocket - look at the $6/year fee they get for every.com/.net/etc domain registered by anyone, for a single database row.
You say you don't think it's their business who you live/eat/sleep with, then why would you care if they allowed homosexual marriage? If you really don't think it's their business, you wouldn't take advantage of any of the supposed benefits of marrying in any case, eh?
That is very similar if not the game. You'd program robots but you would not always be inside robots. You could get like chips, I think, and give htem to robots? Man... hazy memory. I bet my ol Jr High still has the game in a shelf, ha.
I've done some snooping on the machines that have been used to spam me - all of them were Windows boxes, which was initially a surprise. Some of them allowed passwordless access to their hard drives (thanks MS for the defaults:) ), and every one of them I had access to had AnalogX Proxy installed. The rest that I could not access had proxy ports open. The vast majority of the spam hosts were in Brazil.
I'd like to kick the authors of AnalogX in the jimmy for leaving their system wide open. Who's with me?
It's a great feed of money for the insurance industry, too. Nobody is safe on the road, therefore every driver must piss money out the window to liability insurance companies. We don't need to train drivers to be more safe - they're all insured! It's all good!!
They can track how often you return to the store - helpful if you pay by cash. They can also track who you gave the items you purchased to after they return - helpful for them to understand the relationships between all of their customers.
It'll work even better once the information sharing between the RFID scanner folks becomes prevelant.
I was arguing against your statement that barcodes and RFID tags are identical. They may be for distribution, but they aren't overall. It was a context thing. Sorry for the confusion.
I think using RFID tags during distribution makes sense. Maybe even in the stores. I just want them to be easily identified and removed once I get past the cashier.
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How about WMD-enabled RISK. Have a new card that forces another player to begin the search for WMD. Every country they have a single army in becomes immobilized - they're busy defending themselves against the citizens of that country. Any time you have more than one army, at least one is under attack by the citizens, while the remainder are paralyzed by their search for WMD. This lasts for 20 turns, or until a reelection.
Not to mention that Red vs Blue, based on Halo, is the bomb ( http://www.dpk.net/download/rvb/ - don't have episode 2 yet)
First, there was UNIX. Then, came UN*X. I saw just yesterday, *n*x. And now, *n**. At this rate, in the next 5 minutes, someone will use **** to mean "any unix or unix clone", and someone else will mistake it for them saying "shit".
Thirdly, they're (apparently) less concerned about stopping competing DSL products at every corner (ref: Covad, Northpoint, etc). We could have had this, but the telcos did not (and still do not) want it.
You're getting by on $10K per year and you want to know how I got by on less than $50K per year? It sounds like you're well on the right path there! Just don't let yourself get caught up in the consumerism (such as evidenced in the Matrix DVD article - all the whiners talking about how they "have to buy" the new DVD now that its a "special edition" and how they were screwed by buying the original one before) and marketing and you'll do fine.
:)), and a few hundred for gas or other discretionary stuff, and you're still around $25K before taxes.
Anyways, rent's around a grand a month, utilities (electricity, water, garbage, sewer) top $150 or so, cable + cable internet $100 or so, liability insurance ~$70 (which is high, but I'm still young), $500 food (I eat out a lot
I used to, a few years back. I made less then than I do now. I did quite well. I was able to live, eat, buy a brand new car, buy all sorts of furniture and gaming gear, a few new PCs, etc, all while making less than $50K per year. It was incredibly simple. And yes, during that time, I saw people making 2-3x as much as I did having trouble with meeting their financial obligations..
Ah, you have that one important qualifier though - student loans. Others may have bought huge mortgages while getting too much money, or "bought" SUVs with big car loans attached, instead of just saving the difference. Those of us with no debt do quite well on our salaries.
(And I didn't mean to suggest that all of our hires made that or less, I just meant to suggest that most people can live incredibly well on less than $50K a year. I'm speaking from personal experience, from living in the Bay Area for some years and Seattle for other years).
Yes, exactly! You've hit it right on the nose. IT is not worth the money spent on it.
The funny part is that the same people bitching about the markets changing overseas are the people who benefited so much from the rapid change in the IT market in the first place.
Easy come, easy go.
Driving a 1981 Civic *is* a wonderful privilege. You have on idea how good we have it here if you think having a car is not a great thing.
Good programmers are still getting work, all the time. We've hired several in the past year. You just have to look around. You may not make the insane late-90's bucks now (150K+), but you can EASILY make enough to live very well (especially since you can live incredibly well on less than 1/3rd of that).
Yeah, really. I gave the MPAA my credit card details to keep on file. Now they won't stop using it to buy me the first DVD release and then all of the subsequent special releases. It's out of control!
If only I had a choice not to buy all of those DVDs, what a wonderous world that would be.
Starship? They don't have starships. Maybe you're thinking of the *other* Star Wars, the one that involves space.
Ah. Well, it was at night, so they had the increased power, and they don't really tell you where they're coming from ('cause they're busy doing 15 hours of ads a day or whatever).
However, none of the stations come through clear day or night, so I'm not so sure the bleed is not an issue. (Other stations come through crystal)
Seattle area has that - 104.3, 104.5, 104.7, 104.9 . Just noticed that last night.
Your "support our troops" .sig does a good job carrying the disability angle. Especially the part about how if you're American, you should not protest ongoing wars. I guess it's only ok to protest them before and after. I say, bravo - the ADA may indeed apply!
Every married person I know is having regular to semi-regular sex. However, only one of them are actually with their marriage partner still. The rest are separated. So, sure, married people may be having more sex than us singles, but in my experience, it's not with who you may think it is.
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The way it is now is nearly pure competition. If you're good, and with a bit of luck, you'll get the expired domain. There is actual competition over getting the domains.
.com/.net/etc. It's anti-competitive and it's wrong, and Internet users should be applauding the suit, IMO.
The way Verisign..excuse me ICANN (little difference) wants it, only Verisign can reserve domain names. Other companies can resell Verisign's reservation system for "only" $24-$28/year.
This matches Verisign's past work, basically killing, neutering and then buying (essentially) ICANN so they remained the one source for
You don't *need* a central authority - they're doing it just fine now as it is. Sure, it's hard to be the one "lucky" enough to get the domain after it expires, but them's the breaks.
.com/.net/etc domain registered by anyone, for a single database row.
The reason the word "monopolistic" is exactly correct is that Verisign themselves will be collecting $24-$28/year from the other registrars to provide this service. It's not like ICANN, or a non-profit, is getting the fee to run this database "for the greater good".
But as we all know (or we all should know) ICANN is firmly in Verisign's pocket - look at the $6/year fee they get for every
You say you don't think it's their business who you live/eat/sleep with, then why would you care if they allowed homosexual marriage? If you really don't think it's their business, you wouldn't take advantage of any of the supposed benefits of marrying in any case, eh?
Ah ha!
Robot Odyssey I: Escape from Robotropolis
http://uvl.arteh.com/gameinfo/20412
According to that, it was the unofficial sequel to Rocky's Boots. Thanks for the tip!
That is very similar if not the game. You'd program robots but you would not always be inside robots. You could get like chips, I think, and give htem to robots? Man... hazy memory. I bet my ol Jr High still has the game in a shelf, ha.
I've done some snooping on the machines that have been used to spam me - all of them were Windows boxes, which was initially a surprise. Some of them allowed passwordless access to their hard drives (thanks MS for the defaults :) ), and every one of them I had access to had AnalogX Proxy installed. The rest that I could not access had proxy ports open. The vast majority of the spam hosts were in Brazil.
I'd like to kick the authors of AnalogX in the jimmy for leaving their system wide open. Who's with me?
Do you remember that weird robot maze game? I wish I could remember its name, or even enough details so I can search for it. :)
It's a great feed of money for the insurance industry, too. Nobody is safe on the road, therefore every driver must piss money out the window to liability insurance companies. We don't need to train drivers to be more safe - they're all insured! It's all good!!
Bah.
They can track how often you return to the store - helpful if you pay by cash. They can also track who you gave the items you purchased to after they return - helpful for them to understand the relationships between all of their customers.
It'll work even better once the information sharing between the RFID scanner folks becomes prevelant.
I was arguing against your statement that barcodes and RFID tags are identical. They may be for distribution, but they aren't overall. It was a context thing. Sorry for the confusion.
I think using RFID tags during distribution makes sense. Maybe even in the stores. I just want them to be easily identified and removed once I get past the cashier.