Sounds like your friend was one of the lucky ones.
Last time I got canned, I was told part of it was because of my "toxic attitude". A few days prior I had sent an email describing how to do something correctly (based on industry accepted practices) and had a conversation with the "Director" about some of the developers in India that were making a mess of several of my projects (he told me to send the email).
After they gave me my severance and I got home, I started to realize just how lucky I was. Thank god I don't work for that outfit anymore.
We've seen in the past that pumping this water out lowers the ground level. No big surprise there (not now, at least). Try and work out what will happen if coastal/off-shore aquifers are pumped instead. One could suppose that some type of "ocean subsidence" might occur, so the ground level of the ocean floor will lower.
This might be a convenience when it comes rising sea levels, but you might also want to consider how the relationship between coastal and off-shore aquifers might change. With a lower ocean floor from subsidence, will coastal aquifers simply start "flowing downhill" to fill in off-shore aquifers, causing additional land subsidence? Will there be saline contamination between the two?
At one time, I'd wager someone penned the words, "I haven't read the paper discussing this, but since Antarctica is way at the bottom, I'm pretty sure it's melting ice has got nothing to do with the Gulf Stream way at the top."
...or do you just really enjoy the idea of overpopulation, and people killing each other for resources?
I get the impression that it is the same kind of "enjoyment" that Polynesians get from eating poi. That is, it's not really enjoyment at all, but rather something they are simply so accustomed to that there is comfort in "normalcy".
...professors can be quite removed from that world
Or not. What if the engineers are students that are morally opposed to developing a weapon, but their professor is lying to them about its purpose? See: Professor Jerry Hathaway.
The good news is that technology built with the intention of killing people can be flipped around and used to, say, fill someone's house with popcorn.
I think what Orwell meant by "rough" is that these are men capable of following through. It's not that they were grizzled war veterans looking for someone to kill. Sure, at one time they *were* ordinary. The moment you put the uniform on and are given orders, you become rough despite what type of person you were or will be in the future.
I wonder if the Boeing effect might be at play here as well. We've seen, time and again, how off-shoring to China has killed the job market in small towns. With an employer as large as Boeing, I don't think Seattle would be immune to the same effects.
However, a gunpoint robbery is a trigger-pull from a murder (and often ends up that way.)
Why are there so many people posting that don't understand this? I see all these apologists stating that these guys don't deserve to die for the crimes they committed. Why don't they?
I fail to see the difference between committing crimes that might kill someone (as these guys did) and committing crimes that do kill someone. Just because they got lucky and nobody died does that mean they should receive a lesser punishment?
Calling Hidalgo State "one of the most poverty stricken, violent places in the western hemisphere" is a bit of a reach. If you were simply referring to Mexico as a whole, you might want to turn off the news and get out a little more often.
Ehh, not really since it would just be better to use periods.
This is really cool because it's a piece of history and an engineering accomplishment. The only reason it was 'lost' was because the US sank it. They then pretended they forgot where they sank it so that they didn't have to give it back and have the Soviets study it.
Well of course they were nice socks... I can buy crappy socks from the Kmart down the way and all the trendy "look at me I moved to Colorado and now I snowboard" shops sell the nice socks on a much higher margin than you find with online retailers.
I am more than a layman when it comes to biology of this sort, but my girlfriend is a molecular biologist that was working on diabetic research before she switched labs.
One of the things she worked on (I will explain best I can) is how diabetes gets transferred to offspring. She's told me before that they have wild-types that are not predisposed to diabetes, but when given diets that affect this, the predisposition of the offspring to have diabetes increases.
I understand that this is not quite the same thing as TFA, but the similarities strike me as interesting.
UPS once left an order under some shrubs in the front that I didn't notice until several months later and a replacement delivery sent. Ended up doubling the order for free (too bad it was just a pair of nice winter socks, though you can never have too many).
Honestly, I figured it was either hoya (as in La Jolla) or hawl-ah (like hollar/holla). But if they want to name their phone after a crappy little boat that's their deal, though, I can see why they would prefer to keep it a secret.
I don't really understand the thought mechanism that allows my 60 year old father to somehow install all these browser toolbars and related debaucherous software, but I know for damn sure it's got nothing to do with "being greedy".
Maybe if you took a look in the mirror every time a lay-user asked you a question you simply rolled your eyes to and gave a smart-ass response, you might see that the problem isn't always with the user. Sometimes the heart of the problem lies in the "experts" being unwilling or incapable of educating the non-expert user base.
In my experience, "computer geeks" are notoriously bad at feeling empathy.
I work at home, and last night my gf gets home and is bugging me while I'm in the middle of migrating a development site to a staging server...
"I'm making chocolate turkeys to bring to work, want to come downstairs and help me decorate them?"
WTF?!?!?!?! Of fucking course I don't!
Do the results of the poll surprise me? Not the least, and maybe it's this way for a good reason, since source code that has been decorated has been found to be about 22% less efficient.
... but none of it would have happened if they had simply honored their CSRs original promise.
So you caused a company to lose money and you expect them to be happy about it and serve you with a smile? Maybe none of it would have happened if you didn't make the wrong purchase. Have some personal accountability.
I'd probably not allow you to do business with me either if you were making uninformed purchases and returning them *on my dime*. They have every right to charge that 15% restocking fee, and as a Newegg customer, I'm glad my purchases aren't subsidizing your inability to make a sound decision.
As a former Fry's employee (before they built that giant Fremont store) I'm not sure where you get this concept of hassle free RMA/returns. Even when I worked there and was a model employee they would give me the run around if I was returning something I bought there. I even had returns refused because, "you work in computer service, don't you? You must have broken this trying to modify it".
I was even stopped by their loss prevention guys and almost fired because I borrowed a burned diagnostic CD from a co-worker (I already paid for the blank discs even).
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Next time you're in Denver, beers are on me.
Your sense of hypocrisy is not without irony.
Sounds like your friend was one of the lucky ones.
Last time I got canned, I was told part of it was because of my "toxic attitude". A few days prior I had sent an email describing how to do something correctly (based on industry accepted practices) and had a conversation with the "Director" about some of the developers in India that were making a mess of several of my projects (he told me to send the email).
After they gave me my severance and I got home, I started to realize just how lucky I was. Thank god I don't work for that outfit anymore.
Consider Land Subsidence
We've seen in the past that pumping this water out lowers the ground level. No big surprise there (not now, at least). Try and work out what will happen if coastal/off-shore aquifers are pumped instead. One could suppose that some type of "ocean subsidence" might occur, so the ground level of the ocean floor will lower.
This might be a convenience when it comes rising sea levels, but you might also want to consider how the relationship between coastal and off-shore aquifers might change. With a lower ocean floor from subsidence, will coastal aquifers simply start "flowing downhill" to fill in off-shore aquifers, causing additional land subsidence? Will there be saline contamination between the two?
At one time, I'd wager someone penned the words, "I haven't read the paper discussing this, but since Antarctica is way at the bottom, I'm pretty sure it's melting ice has got nothing to do with the Gulf Stream way at the top."
...or do you just really enjoy the idea of overpopulation, and people killing each other for resources?
I get the impression that it is the same kind of "enjoyment" that Polynesians get from eating poi. That is, it's not really enjoyment at all, but rather something they are simply so accustomed to that there is comfort in "normalcy".
...because women would get hysterical...
I see what you did there.
...professors can be quite removed from that world
Or not. What if the engineers are students that are morally opposed to developing a weapon, but their professor is lying to them about its purpose? See: Professor Jerry Hathaway.
The good news is that technology built with the intention of killing people can be flipped around and used to, say, fill someone's house with popcorn.
I think what Orwell meant by "rough" is that these are men capable of following through. It's not that they were grizzled war veterans looking for someone to kill. Sure, at one time they *were* ordinary. The moment you put the uniform on and are given orders, you become rough despite what type of person you were or will be in the future.
...an excess of military capability and a very low risk of invasion.
I think the Soviets said the same thing prior to 1941.
I wonder if the Boeing effect might be at play here as well. We've seen, time and again, how off-shoring to China has killed the job market in small towns. With an employer as large as Boeing, I don't think Seattle would be immune to the same effects.
However, a gunpoint robbery is a trigger-pull from a murder (and often ends up that way.)
Why are there so many people posting that don't understand this? I see all these apologists stating that these guys don't deserve to die for the crimes they committed. Why don't they?
I fail to see the difference between committing crimes that might kill someone (as these guys did) and committing crimes that do kill someone. Just because they got lucky and nobody died does that mean they should receive a lesser punishment?
Let us sit and thank Jesus for this food. To which Jesus replied, "de nada".
Calling Hidalgo State "one of the most poverty stricken, violent places in the western hemisphere" is a bit of a reach. If you were simply referring to Mexico as a whole, you might want to turn off the news and get out a little more often.
Ehh, not really since it would just be better to use periods.
This is really cool because it's a piece of history and an engineering accomplishment. The only reason it was 'lost' was because the US sank it. They then pretended they forgot where they sank it so that they didn't have to give it back and have the Soviets study it.
The retailer wants to know which of their products are getting surfed for alternative buying.
Uhh... all of them?
Well of course they were nice socks... I can buy crappy socks from the Kmart down the way and all the trendy "look at me I moved to Colorado and now I snowboard" shops sell the nice socks on a much higher margin than you find with online retailers.
I am more than a layman when it comes to biology of this sort, but my girlfriend is a molecular biologist that was working on diabetic research before she switched labs.
One of the things she worked on (I will explain best I can) is how diabetes gets transferred to offspring. She's told me before that they have wild-types that are not predisposed to diabetes, but when given diets that affect this, the predisposition of the offspring to have diabetes increases.
I understand that this is not quite the same thing as TFA, but the similarities strike me as interesting.
UPS once left an order under some shrubs in the front that I didn't notice until several months later and a replacement delivery sent. Ended up doubling the order for free (too bad it was just a pair of nice winter socks, though you can never have too many).
Which I would have never guessed.
Honestly, I figured it was either hoya (as in La Jolla) or hawl-ah (like hollar/holla). But if they want to name their phone after a crappy little boat that's their deal, though, I can see why they would prefer to keep it a secret.
If only we could come up with some kind of bot-net to read them for us.
I don't really understand the thought mechanism that allows my 60 year old father to somehow install all these browser toolbars and related debaucherous software, but I know for damn sure it's got nothing to do with "being greedy".
Maybe if you took a look in the mirror every time a lay-user asked you a question you simply rolled your eyes to and gave a smart-ass response, you might see that the problem isn't always with the user. Sometimes the heart of the problem lies in the "experts" being unwilling or incapable of educating the non-expert user base.
In my experience, "computer geeks" are notoriously bad at feeling empathy.
And you'd think if someone was paying for a slashvertisement, they would want to make sure potential customers/users knew how to pronounce the name.
Since they didn't, I'll just go ahead and let everyone know that it's pronounced JOE-lah and that any other pronunciation is totally incorrect.
I work at home, and last night my gf gets home and is bugging me while I'm in the middle of migrating a development site to a staging server...
"I'm making chocolate turkeys to bring to work, want to come downstairs and help me decorate them?"
WTF?!?!?!?! Of fucking course I don't!
Do the results of the poll surprise me? Not the least, and maybe it's this way for a good reason, since source code that has been decorated has been found to be about 22% less efficient.
... but none of it would have happened if they had simply honored their CSRs original promise.
So you caused a company to lose money and you expect them to be happy about it and serve you with a smile? Maybe none of it would have happened if you didn't make the wrong purchase. Have some personal accountability.
I'd probably not allow you to do business with me either if you were making uninformed purchases and returning them *on my dime*. They have every right to charge that 15% restocking fee, and as a Newegg customer, I'm glad my purchases aren't subsidizing your inability to make a sound decision.
As a former Fry's employee (before they built that giant Fremont store) I'm not sure where you get this concept of hassle free RMA/returns. Even when I worked there and was a model employee they would give me the run around if I was returning something I bought there. I even had returns refused because, "you work in computer service, don't you? You must have broken this trying to modify it".
I was even stopped by their loss prevention guys and almost fired because I borrowed a burned diagnostic CD from a co-worker (I already paid for the blank discs even).