Walmart Corporate got a hold of me after I posted several microcomplaints online and satisfied my situation much in my benefit within a few hours. Instead of losing my business forever (especially since a Costco just recently opened, they earned it back).
Those were not microcomplaints on your part. That was a legit response to bad service.
A microcomplaint is something like getting all pissed off about the font on the mattress not being bold instead of regular.
Or taking a snowflake off of a coffee cup and igniting a shitstorm.
Or me complaining that microcomplaint annoys my spell checker.
The problem was that they disbanded the army and police force instead of just throwing the top tier in jail and then put the rest of it under the control of the US military. That was Brenner's stupid decision.
Yeah, That was a bonehead move. Plus allegiences shift so easily. I don't have a count on the number of times that a presumptive ally suddenly becomes enemy in that neighborhood, but it has to be many times.
I figured that I'd use my little Latin to make them aware that they were wrong in their correction of your post.;-) I understood you, well enough. Then again, my Latin is terrible. It does mean that I do manage well enough if I don't know a word in Spanish, so there's that.
I made the mistake of taking both Spanish and French. And use them little enough that I slip seamlessly from one to the other in conversations. Maybe that's why the native speakers laugh at me some times. "Franish', or "Spench" I guess.
One in three adults in the USA is an "Earl", they own a gun. You can say they're stupid, and you are smart. Smart, stupid, whatever....they have the guns.
So do I. Not all gun owners are stupid. I'm a gun owner. You folks have to stop thinking that anyone who says anything remotely disagreeable to you is a liberal anti-gun commie. Seriously, that's what I'm talking about. I have weapons and will defend myself. I'm just not a kook about it. It isn't this weird black and white world you have been brainwashed into believing. Not everyone with guns is swallowing the NRA koolaid.
Now go back to the playbook, and escalate a few levels like you've been taught. Make certain you ignore the fact that I'm a patriotic gun owner, and call me a few names like libtard, and gun control freak. That should make you feel much better, and your cognitive dissonance with be sated.
The U.S. chose to withdraw from both Iraq and Afghanistan (though in reality they only withdrew to Iraq, and stopped withdrawing from Afghanistan once they realized how badly they had screwed up Iraq by withdrawing way too soon).
Obama claims he had no choice but to withdraw, but he very much wanted to and you'd have to be an idiot to think we couldn't have stayed had we just asked. We should have at least asked.
It's called taking a breather. When Bush and the neocons wanted to settle a family squabble they could have made a quick strike and left. But instead, the hopelessly romantic and completely wrong "hearts and minds", regime change, and institution of Democracy nonsense just put us into the now permanent warfare mode.
So worry not, muchacho, we'll be back over there soon enough, especially if a Republican other than Rand Paul is elected. This isn't a political matter, everyone of them is itching to get boots on the ground again - except Paul, who calls the endless war model "liberal".
I agree with him about the difficulties of endless warfare spending, and not going bankrupt, but not so much about the billions being the fault of the mythical liberal. I guess that's just what you call someone who disagrees with you. Must suck to have a problem on where to go to dinner in some households.
Viri is man, not virri. This doesn't make them right, but, well... If you don't know Latin then...
And no, I don't agree (and I'm assuming you don't either) that viri should be even considered a 'non-standard' use by sites like Wiktionary. Vir is man. However, Wiktionary now has it listed under "English." Which means, well, something... *sighs* I guess it's better than the last site that I checked which had it listed under Latin still.
Anyhow, no, 'virri' means nothing. At least not in any language I'm familiar with (it probably does, somewhere). But virri most certainly does not mean 'man.'
Viruses.
It never ceases to amaze this old man how people can get wrapped around teh axle about simple shit like this.
And I spelled the as teh so as to piss the spelling cops off.
There are more important things to get pissed off about , like Starbucks latest coffee cup.
Look at the times though....both of those phones were charged to ~50% in five minutes. That's some fast charging. (Why didn't they report the time to a total charge? I don't know).
Because we now have an attention span less than a goldfish
5 minutes is inconceivable to today's smartphone addicted. A total charge? Might as well be to the end of the universe. Call them back when charging time is 5 seconds, and they might comprehend (5 seconds is within the thought focusing of 8 seconds the modern person has)
Also, you may not want to read about early research, but I do. If you want nothing but product announcements, go read manufacturer press releases instead of coming to Slashdot.
Battery History and physics is a fascinating subject. And once you know about the physics involved:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You can see we aren't even close to done yet. OP has no clue about battery advances, Compared to even five years ago, we've come quite a way.
But once we pay attention to the physics, and not Top Gear or disgruntled NYT reviewers, there are real reasons to get excited about the potential of electric vehicles.
No, not really. Rest assured that any response containing a link will not be clicked on - no matter how tempting you make it sound. I am not new to Slashdot. I don't even usually click the links in the summaries!
Rest assured, I do think more highly of you for that!!!
You know, two consenting adults and all, but some things just can't be made not weird.
No. I'm merely offering an alternative to the almost universal Slashdotter opinion that you dare not work more than 40 hours.
The scientists and engineers I worked with were right there with me in most cases, except whne I was preparing something in a real panic for the director. And despite slash dotters view of the suits as sociopaths, most aren't, and when I made the big guy look good, I look good, and that has its rewards.
Maybe I come from a different world, maybe the almost universal slashdotter is a wage worker, with a fear that any extra time is a violation ot their dignity and human rights.
We were professionals, doing professional work and research. And it doesn't always conform to a time clock punch.
And "whipping boy"? Oh dear, not even remotely. Not a whipping boy, not a house boy. The only thing my employer took advantage of was my abilities. Probably something you and many wouldn't understand, I'm beginning to believe. It does seem like an impediment to upward mobility, to be frank.
But I'm curious. When slash dotters brag about how no one will take advantage of them and make them work more than 40 hours a week, and I offer an alternative viewpoint, its so curious how many people take this as a personal affront. I worked hard, was well respected, and was well compensated, and had a rather nice career. Why that's aa apparent personal problem with some people is worth investigating.
I pretty much agree. The problem with construction on the moon is you will be in a gravity well. It's only one sixth that of earth but still a problem.
Definitely a problem. Because now you have another escape velocity to deal with.
Best to build in high orbit and take it one step at a time. I hate to think of working on a project on the moon and realizing some contractor sent the wrong size panel for a module under construction. It's not like you can just drive over and get the right one.
And it does happen.
THere is one more issue that has an analogy in ethanol production. I think it is always a bad idea to mix comestibles or life critical things like water with fuel. Making ethanol form Corn is ethically wron in my book. If a nation is at war, needs fuel, has only invested in corn based ethanol, and they have to make a choice - fuel versus food.
A moon base, assuming there is water to be made into fuel at the moon, also needs water to exist at all. If there is not enough water for both, we have a problem, Houston.
You are the militia, You gonna do well with your assault rifle against a tank or staring down a Warthog dropping cluster bombs?
Thanks for the propaganda.
And then you spew the NRA line of propaganda in reply. I use and enjoy weapons. I have a number of them, and don't even try to take them away from me. I just have no patience for people who are not quite rational about the whole business.
And you kind sir, are not quite rational about the whole business. Don't worry, you have a fair amount of company. I'll stand by while you rachet up the crazy some more. Call me names - that's usually the next step.
I'm in a similar position, but I get my work done in the allotted time. I've just noticed that a vast majority of people who work long hours do a hell of a lot of fucking around.
And people who can't work over 40 hours are often lazy. Spare me the innuendo.
You're amazing productivity wouldn't work if you had my job. Very often the work came in at 1655, and was due at 0800. Or I was in a remote field test, where things happen when they happen. Or the meeting I was in started early, and ended late.
Oddly enough, a fair number of co-workers always had a reason they couldn't come in early or leave late, or go on field testing. Car pooling, making dinner for the husband, so there were even times I took over their tasks to get them finished. I'm not certain that counts as their productivity. I was probably a dillemma for some as well, because while they might dislike me making them look bad by comparison, my willingness to get things done sort of kept them out of problems at times.
I've noted before, when downturns came, and people had ot be cut, it wasn't the highest paid guy in the group, but the person who was so productive they never worked more than 40 hours? Gone.
there are ways to take out tanks and it doesn't even require firearms.
Warthogs? a government doesn't attack their citizens that way, the people in that case would revolt against the politicians who are NOT as small-arm proof as the Warthogs. That's the correct argument against naysayers who say "armed forces have nukes, bombers, etc.etc so what good are small arms". The small arms are used to change the government.
This study shows that both sides of the moon/Mars debate can get what they want - at least in a fantasy world where NASA can keep the same mandate for more than eight years.
So you are saying that we should both assume there is water on the moon, and that we should not consider the cost of a moon base at all?
Accountants work a lot of dubious majick these days, but that one's beyond the pale in my book.
As well, wouldn't a major justification for a moon base. be to provide fuel for martian missions? A perfect circular argument.
Also, is my tram concept not feasible? It has nothing whatsoever to do with a one shot Apollo type mission. It's in another post, but is a continual earth to mars orbiting platform that ferrys landers and supplies between Mars and earth.
Regardless, all it takes is not enough water on the moon to make the moobased Mars missions unfeasible.
It does hover, actually. It's more like a drone in behavior than a rocket. So you could pick someone up, drop off breathing equipment, use it to figure out where a fire has spread to, if people are stuck somewhere, etc...
And you can really turbocharge the flames making certain the fire goes out sooner. I'm not for certain that two big props sending all that air to fires is all that great an idea. Now for fun though - that's pretty cool.
Let me be the first to say "uh oh", not because I think it's a bad thing (I don't, I think it's an amazing discovery) but because right now some fuckface ad exec is rubbing his sweaty little hands together wondering how he can implement this to sell more fucking widgets.
And his counterparts in the government are doing the same thing, albeit with different aims in mind.
So you guys figure that these new brain cells are going to be pre-implanted with thoughts or something? I RTFA and will probably be marked as a troll for violating the Slashdot code of ethics by doing so, but seriously - making new cells, implanting them in a person, and having other cells recognize and accept them isn't at all likely to ever result in mind control.
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Walmart Corporate got a hold of me after I posted several microcomplaints online and satisfied my situation much in my benefit within a few hours. Instead of losing my business forever (especially since a Costco just recently opened, they earned it back).
Those were not microcomplaints on your part. That was a legit response to bad service.
A microcomplaint is something like getting all pissed off about the font on the mattress not being bold instead of regular. Or taking a snowflake off of a coffee cup and igniting a shitstorm.
Or me complaining that microcomplaint annoys my spell checker.
Just microignore them.
That's a microagression! Not cool dude, not cool.
Once, I had a Liberal hiding under my bed AND an SJW in my closet!
And I have a lovely bunch of coconuts.
The problem was that they disbanded the army and police force instead of just throwing the top tier in jail and then put the rest of it under the control of the US military. That was Brenner's stupid decision.
Yeah, That was a bonehead move. Plus allegiences shift so easily. I don't have a count on the number of times that a presumptive ally suddenly becomes enemy in that neighborhood, but it has to be many times.
I figured that I'd use my little Latin to make them aware that they were wrong in their correction of your post. ;-) I understood you, well enough. Then again, my Latin is terrible. It does mean that I do manage well enough if I don't know a word in Spanish, so there's that.
I made the mistake of taking both Spanish and French. And use them little enough that I slip seamlessly from one to the other in conversations. Maybe that's why the native speakers laugh at me some times. "Franish', or "Spench" I guess.
One in three adults in the USA is an "Earl", they own a gun. You can say they're stupid, and you are smart. Smart, stupid, whatever....they have the guns.
So do I. Not all gun owners are stupid. I'm a gun owner. You folks have to stop thinking that anyone who says anything remotely disagreeable to you is a liberal anti-gun commie. Seriously, that's what I'm talking about. I have weapons and will defend myself. I'm just not a kook about it. It isn't this weird black and white world you have been brainwashed into believing. Not everyone with guns is swallowing the NRA koolaid.
Now go back to the playbook, and escalate a few levels like you've been taught. Make certain you ignore the fact that I'm a patriotic gun owner, and call me a few names like libtard, and gun control freak. That should make you feel much better, and your cognitive dissonance with be sated.
The U.S. chose to withdraw from both Iraq and Afghanistan (though in reality they only withdrew to Iraq, and stopped withdrawing from Afghanistan once they realized how badly they had screwed up Iraq by withdrawing way too soon).
Obama claims he had no choice but to withdraw, but he very much wanted to and you'd have to be an idiot to think we couldn't have stayed had we just asked. We should have at least asked.
It's called taking a breather. When Bush and the neocons wanted to settle a family squabble they could have made a quick strike and left. But instead, the hopelessly romantic and completely wrong "hearts and minds", regime change, and institution of Democracy nonsense just put us into the now permanent warfare mode.
So worry not, muchacho, we'll be back over there soon enough, especially if a Republican other than Rand Paul is elected. This isn't a political matter, everyone of them is itching to get boots on the ground again - except Paul, who calls the endless war model "liberal".
I agree with him about the difficulties of endless warfare spending, and not going bankrupt, but not so much about the billions being the fault of the mythical liberal. I guess that's just what you call someone who disagrees with you. Must suck to have a problem on where to go to dinner in some households.
Well, the police themselves often come with malware installed (bully syndrome) so this doesn't really surprise me.
Also, as near as I can tell, "viruses" is a perfectly acceptable term, but "virii" isn't really even a word.
"Viruses" doesn't roll off the tongue quite as nicely, but both the Boeing and Microsoft style guides recommend it (as does Teh Google).
Yeah - they have bad thingys on them.
I'm now going to call viruses bad thingys.
Viri is man, not virri. This doesn't make them right, but, well... If you don't know Latin then...
And no, I don't agree (and I'm assuming you don't either) that viri should be even considered a 'non-standard' use by sites like Wiktionary. Vir is man. However, Wiktionary now has it listed under "English." Which means, well, something... *sighs* I guess it's better than the last site that I checked which had it listed under Latin still.
Anyhow, no, 'virri' means nothing. At least not in any language I'm familiar with (it probably does, somewhere). But virri most certainly does not mean 'man.'
Viruses.
It never ceases to amaze this old man how people can get wrapped around teh axle about simple shit like this.
And I spelled the as teh so as to piss the spelling cops off.
There are more important things to get pissed off about , like Starbucks latest coffee cup.
Look at the times though....both of those phones were charged to ~50% in five minutes. That's some fast charging. (Why didn't they report the time to a total charge? I don't know).
Because we now have an attention span less than a goldfish
http://time.com/3858309/attent...
5 minutes is inconceivable to today's smartphone addicted. A total charge? Might as well be to the end of the universe. Call them back when charging time is 5 seconds, and they might comprehend (5 seconds is within the thought focusing of 8 seconds the modern person has)
Also, you may not want to read about early research, but I do. If you want nothing but product announcements, go read manufacturer press releases instead of coming to Slashdot.
Battery History and physics is a fascinating subject. And once you know about the physics involved: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/An...
You can see we aren't even close to done yet. OP has no clue about battery advances, Compared to even five years ago, we've come quite a way.
But once we pay attention to the physics, and not Top Gear or disgruntled NYT reviewers, there are real reasons to get excited about the potential of electric vehicles.
Now that's socially responsible.
Can we skip christmas this year - but keep the holiday?
As long as we remember to keep the official symbols of Jeebus on our coffee cups. You know, Snowflakes and snowmen.
Link?
No, not really. Rest assured that any response containing a link will not be clicked on - no matter how tempting you make it sound. I am not new to Slashdot. I don't even usually click the links in the summaries!
Rest assured, I do think more highly of you for that!!! You know, two consenting adults and all, but some things just can't be made not weird.
So you are bragging about being the whipping boy.
No. I'm merely offering an alternative to the almost universal Slashdotter opinion that you dare not work more than 40 hours.
The scientists and engineers I worked with were right there with me in most cases, except whne I was preparing something in a real panic for the director. And despite slash dotters view of the suits as sociopaths, most aren't, and when I made the big guy look good, I look good, and that has its rewards.
Maybe I come from a different world, maybe the almost universal slashdotter is a wage worker, with a fear that any extra time is a violation ot their dignity and human rights.
We were professionals, doing professional work and research. And it doesn't always conform to a time clock punch.
And "whipping boy"? Oh dear, not even remotely. Not a whipping boy, not a house boy. The only thing my employer took advantage of was my abilities. Probably something you and many wouldn't understand, I'm beginning to believe. It does seem like an impediment to upward mobility, to be frank.
But I'm curious. When slash dotters brag about how no one will take advantage of them and make them work more than 40 hours a week, and I offer an alternative viewpoint, its so curious how many people take this as a personal affront. I worked hard, was well respected, and was well compensated, and had a rather nice career. Why that's aa apparent personal problem with some people is worth investigating.
Yoiu need to shut up and stand in line and wait patiently for a Sharia hair cut.
I have no intentions of shutting up. Your time to ramp it up. Will you get the whole way to physical threats against me?
I pretty much agree. The problem with construction on the moon is you will be in a gravity well. It's only one sixth that of earth but still a problem.
Definitely a problem. Because now you have another escape velocity to deal with.
Best to build in high orbit and take it one step at a time. I hate to think of working on a project on the moon and realizing some contractor sent the wrong size panel for a module under construction. It's not like you can just drive over and get the right one.
And it does happen.
THere is one more issue that has an analogy in ethanol production. I think it is always a bad idea to mix comestibles or life critical things like water with fuel. Making ethanol form Corn is ethically wron in my book. If a nation is at war, needs fuel, has only invested in corn based ethanol, and they have to make a choice - fuel versus food.
A moon base, assuming there is water to be made into fuel at the moon, also needs water to exist at all. If there is not enough water for both, we have a problem, Houston.
You are the militia, You gonna do well with your assault rifle against a tank or staring down a Warthog dropping cluster bombs?
Thanks for the propaganda.
And then you spew the NRA line of propaganda in reply. I use and enjoy weapons. I have a number of them, and don't even try to take them away from me. I just have no patience for people who are not quite rational about the whole business.
And you kind sir, are not quite rational about the whole business. Don't worry, you have a fair amount of company. I'll stand by while you rachet up the crazy some more. Call me names - that's usually the next step.
I'm in a similar position, but I get my work done in the allotted time. I've just noticed that a vast majority of people who work long hours do a hell of a lot of fucking around.
And people who can't work over 40 hours are often lazy. Spare me the innuendo. You're amazing productivity wouldn't work if you had my job. Very often the work came in at 1655, and was due at 0800. Or I was in a remote field test, where things happen when they happen. Or the meeting I was in started early, and ended late.
Oddly enough, a fair number of co-workers always had a reason they couldn't come in early or leave late, or go on field testing. Car pooling, making dinner for the husband, so there were even times I took over their tasks to get them finished. I'm not certain that counts as their productivity. I was probably a dillemma for some as well, because while they might dislike me making them look bad by comparison, my willingness to get things done sort of kept them out of problems at times.
I've noted before, when downturns came, and people had ot be cut, it wasn't the highest paid guy in the group, but the person who was so productive they never worked more than 40 hours? Gone.
there are ways to take out tanks and it doesn't even require firearms.
Warthogs? a government doesn't attack their citizens that way, the people in that case would revolt against the politicians who are NOT as small-arm proof as the Warthogs. That's the correct argument against naysayers who say "armed forces have nukes, bombers, etc.etc so what good are small arms". The small arms are used to change the government.
So you are this guy?
http://www.theonion.com/articl...
This study shows that both sides of the moon/Mars debate can get what they want - at least in a fantasy world where NASA can keep the same mandate for more than eight years.
So you are saying that we should both assume there is water on the moon, and that we should not consider the cost of a moon base at all?
Accountants work a lot of dubious majick these days, but that one's beyond the pale in my book.
As well, wouldn't a major justification for a moon base. be to provide fuel for martian missions? A perfect circular argument.
Also, is my tram concept not feasible? It has nothing whatsoever to do with a one shot Apollo type mission. It's in another post, but is a continual earth to mars orbiting platform that ferrys landers and supplies between Mars and earth.
Regardless, all it takes is not enough water on the moon to make the moobased Mars missions unfeasible.
It does hover, actually. It's more like a drone in behavior than a rocket. So you could pick someone up, drop off breathing equipment, use it to figure out where a fire has spread to, if people are stuck somewhere, etc...
Recent Stability and engine tests
And you can really turbocharge the flames making certain the fire goes out sooner. I'm not for certain that two big props sending all that air to fires is all that great an idea. Now for fun though - that's pretty cool.
What would it take to get you jaded miserable sods excited?
Midget shemale scat porn?
You are aware that the attacks yesterday were by - mostly - Belgians? CLOSE THE BORDERS TO BELGIUM. You know it makes sense.
Nah - just make waffles out of them.
Let me be the first to say "uh oh", not because I think it's a bad thing (I don't, I think it's an amazing discovery) but because right now some fuckface ad exec is rubbing his sweaty little hands together wondering how he can implement this to sell more fucking widgets.
And his counterparts in the government are doing the same thing, albeit with different aims in mind.
So you guys figure that these new brain cells are going to be pre-implanted with thoughts or something? I RTFA and will probably be marked as a troll for violating the Slashdot code of ethics by doing so, but seriously - making new cells, implanting them in a person, and having other cells recognize and accept them isn't at all likely to ever result in mind control.