My old commute back in The Bay Area took me over the San Mateo Bridge.
I started working night-shift for awhile, and left early one morning (4am?) to find myself driving eastbound over the high span portion in very dense fog. It was like flying in space. It was awesome, and I have never been more attentive at the wheel.
Solution? Build roads inside space tunnels to prevent people from being bored.
In a previous (and less enjoyable) life, I worked at a school treatment facility, where, on occasion, some of the more seriously developmentally delayed students would need assistance in the bathroom (use your imagination).
I was fortunate enough that I didn't have to deal with this very often, but the times that I did, I always recalled the principal being willing to do exactly the same thing just a few weeks after I started.
This all translates to:
If you're going to tell me to do something, you better know how to do it yourself, otherwise you are simply asking me to do something, and... well... I'm kinda busy right now.
Yeah, but what about streaking? It's basically not allowed, and I'm quite okay with that, since my freedom to streak is certainly less important than my emotional security of not having to see other people streak.
It's such an over-used quote, really. It might have been more apropo when it was coined, but these days "freedom" increasingly means that the neighbors will be allowed to do the same things, and it is not in fact referring to a country suppressed by a foreign state.
Don't you think that Civil Rights activists gave up some of their freedoms to help ensure security down the road? They may not have thought it at the time, but that's what has happened.
This quote is certainly a great one, but I think it might be time that it got updated to more accurately reflect the position of the average citizen in the 21st Century.
Those who surrender their desire for socio-economic freedom in exchange for the security proposed by those in control deserve neither one.
Exclusivity has its place. If the remaining 10-20% finds that it is worth it to keep those other cretins out, you'd be a fool to do something that allowed these masses of dolts inside the wall.
Main reason I often don't read TFA? Because of trash sites like the one linked in TFS.
Anything where normal parts of the article are disguised as ads (or vice versa) is an immediate bounce for me. Present your content like a responsible adult and people might read.
That's my point, when I watch PBS online, any attempts at fundraising are almost invisible. No nagging pop-ups, no 10 minute breaks to their telethon room, none of that. Just some 15 second ads here and there. Whatever it is they're doing to get donations is far far far less annoying than what a company like Hulu does to their customers who have already paid.
Oh, nonsense. I've been watching PBS shows online for what, eight years now? The quality of their programs are top notch.
If you watch, for instance, a recent episode of Nature, there will be a quick 15 second ad at the beginning, and another 15 second ad somewhere around the halfway point. That's it. That's a hell of a deal considering the amount of ads that are played on Hulu (a paid-for service) dwarf what are shown on PBS, and they're all for Viagra to boot.
Does PBS nag a little bit sometimes to try and persuade users to donate? Sure, of course they do, but the best persuasion is the quality of their programming. Frontline, Nova, and Nature are probably three of the best programs in the world.
I'm sure Google will commission an app that turns Google Glass into a sleep mask which will gradually go from opaque to translucent as the night turns into day (for those of extreme latitudes).
Dealing, in the last week, with a 30 user Exchange outage (MB blew a capacitor, HDDs needed a restore) installed on-site, it made me realize why I originally chose to offsite the new domain's email instead of hosting it locally. The MS shop guys had a different plan and moved it all over to the Exchange server.
So it's now been like three days while they wait for a MB replacement when there would have been nearly no downtime had we been on the service I originally set up.
Reliability doesn't matter when you still have to wait a few days for parts (yes, this happens). Meanwhile you have some MS shop dictating things when a proper cloud service option is clearly the smarter deal.
There's certainly something to be said for hosting locally (or at least keeping a copy), but for most businesses that don't want to deal with some random employee being "the IT guy", offloading this to some facility somewhere for $70/mo simply makes sense. You think Cathy the checkout girl (who took an IT class in college) wants to wake up at 2am to deal with a blown capacitor?
IMDB publishes public information about works of entertainment. NCAA Football is a fictional representation based on works of entertainment.
IMDB is fine to publish factual items about "The Phantom Menace", but they can't publish a video game based on the same thing.
It will be interesting to see how this might affect fantasy sports games, but I suppose they differ in the simple fact that the video game creates an alternate and fictional world where these people exist, rather than simply taking the public statistics and known abilities and running math on the results.
When I visited Venice Beach last summer on a business trip, I was amazingly surprised at how polite most of the homeless people there were. There wasn't a constant nagging for "money for bus fare", a handful of pennies for a cigarette, or any of the type of nonsense you find among homeless elsewhere.
I found this in stark contrast to the homeless in Santa Cruz. You'd think that the two cities would be similar in many ways; beach bums, boardwalk, tourists, expensive ocean view properties, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
Per capita, I have never been to a city with a worse homeless problem than Santa Cruz. While that doesn't mean a whole lot considering the majority of my travels have been across the Western US, but this does include other cities like Denver, Boulder, Reno/Tahoe, Vegas, LA, SF, Seattle (the homeless there are just creepy), and Phoenix.
Incorrect. Highway 1 comes in from the north and south on the coast. Highway 9 comes in from SLV, and 152 comes in through Watsonville.
Yes, Hwy 17 is the highest capacity road that comes in, but if you're out to spend a leisurely day in Santa Cruz, why not take one of the more scenic routes to get there?
You have to remember, though, that there are some fantastic places to live that are very close by.
The whole San Lorenzo Valley to the north (Felton, Ben Lomond, Boulder Creek) has more of the feel of a place where alum might settle down after landing a nice job down in San Jose. My step-dad bought a nice secluded lot while still working for Cisco (before he got to ca$h out) and it's turning into a great home where retirement is nothing more than spending more time in the yard.
The area is also desirable for those who may tele-commute, since it's still close enough to pop in for those once-a-week free lunches (err... "meetings")
On the occasion that the area receives snowfall in the winter, 17 can be absolutely treacherous, though, in general it's no different than your average windy, four-lane freeway over a moderate mountain pass, with drivers leaving at least five feet between them and the cars in front of/behind.
Still, there are some backroads in the SC mountains that are far, far worse. Bear Creek Road at 6am on a Monday headed toward San Jose is like a narrow, two-lane Autobahn (with occasional landslides that take out one of the two lanes). If you're not familiar with the road and you find yourself driving it, just do everyone a favor and pull over at a turn-out when someone is behind you and let them pass. Locals hate it when you drive any slower than 15mph over the speed limit.
Another gem is the backroad into Boulder Creek from the UCSC area (Empire Grade?) that passes by the mysterious Lockheed Martin facility. Lose attention for a split second and you'll find yourself at the bottom of a ravine (probably covered in poison oak and brown recluses) and there will be absolutely nobody to hear your cries.
it also looks at the city's campaign to reverse perceptions that it's an anti-business haven for beach bums and pot smokers.
Perceptions? If by that you mean, "what people see when they walk down Pacific Ave/Front St", then I would understand wanting to reverse that.
I've spent a lot of time in SC and the surrounding areas, and used to live in Boulder Creek for some time. I'm not so sure about the "anti-business" part, but it certainly IS a haven for bums. Pot smoking is irrelevant, it's Santa Cruz, nobody cares.
Now, if they were instead try to "reverse the perception" that there is a problem with high crime, that might interest me since it might be nice to feel safe down at the Boardwalk at 10pm. Maybe it is by now, I have no idea, I haven't gone down there in over 10 years.
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My old commute back in The Bay Area took me over the San Mateo Bridge.
I started working night-shift for awhile, and left early one morning (4am?) to find myself driving eastbound over the high span portion in very dense fog. It was like flying in space. It was awesome, and I have never been more attentive at the wheel.
Solution? Build roads inside space tunnels to prevent people from being bored.
I like my women like I like my sectors, industrial.
Shovel gun thread... best thread ever.
In a previous (and less enjoyable) life, I worked at a school treatment facility, where, on occasion, some of the more seriously developmentally delayed students would need assistance in the bathroom (use your imagination).
I was fortunate enough that I didn't have to deal with this very often, but the times that I did, I always recalled the principal being willing to do exactly the same thing just a few weeks after I started.
This all translates to:
If you're going to tell me to do something, you better know how to do it yourself, otherwise you are simply asking me to do something, and... well... I'm kinda busy right now.
Suggest new mod: +10 Softball
Yeah, but what about streaking? It's basically not allowed, and I'm quite okay with that, since my freedom to streak is certainly less important than my emotional security of not having to see other people streak.
It's such an over-used quote, really. It might have been more apropo when it was coined, but these days "freedom" increasingly means that the neighbors will be allowed to do the same things, and it is not in fact referring to a country suppressed by a foreign state.
Don't you think that Civil Rights activists gave up some of their freedoms to help ensure security down the road? They may not have thought it at the time, but that's what has happened.
This quote is certainly a great one, but I think it might be time that it got updated to more accurately reflect the position of the average citizen in the 21st Century.
Those who surrender their desire for socio-economic freedom in exchange for the security proposed by those in control deserve neither one.
Exclusivity has its place. If the remaining 10-20% finds that it is worth it to keep those other cretins out, you'd be a fool to do something that allowed these masses of dolts inside the wall.
Main reason I often don't read TFA? Because of trash sites like the one linked in TFS.
Anything where normal parts of the article are disguised as ads (or vice versa) is an immediate bounce for me. Present your content like a responsible adult and people might read.
So the conservative wackos have mod points? I was under the impression that you got mod points because you did something good.
Shit. I'm confused. Do I like Mr. Sparkle? I am Mr. Sparkle.
Tell it to this guy
That's my point, when I watch PBS online, any attempts at fundraising are almost invisible. No nagging pop-ups, no 10 minute breaks to their telethon room, none of that. Just some 15 second ads here and there. Whatever it is they're doing to get donations is far far far less annoying than what a company like Hulu does to their customers who have already paid.
Oh, nonsense. I've been watching PBS shows online for what, eight years now? The quality of their programs are top notch.
If you watch, for instance, a recent episode of Nature, there will be a quick 15 second ad at the beginning, and another 15 second ad somewhere around the halfway point. That's it. That's a hell of a deal considering the amount of ads that are played on Hulu (a paid-for service) dwarf what are shown on PBS, and they're all for Viagra to boot.
Does PBS nag a little bit sometimes to try and persuade users to donate? Sure, of course they do, but the best persuasion is the quality of their programming. Frontline, Nova, and Nature are probably three of the best programs in the world.
I'm sure Google will commission an app that turns Google Glass into a sleep mask which will gradually go from opaque to translucent as the night turns into day (for those of extreme latitudes).
What problem can't technology solve?
why don't you have 2 Exchange servers?
No, the simple question would be, why haven't we just migrated to Gmail?
But is it only about reliability?
Dealing, in the last week, with a 30 user Exchange outage (MB blew a capacitor, HDDs needed a restore) installed on-site, it made me realize why I originally chose to offsite the new domain's email instead of hosting it locally. The MS shop guys had a different plan and moved it all over to the Exchange server.
So it's now been like three days while they wait for a MB replacement when there would have been nearly no downtime had we been on the service I originally set up.
Reliability doesn't matter when you still have to wait a few days for parts (yes, this happens). Meanwhile you have some MS shop dictating things when a proper cloud service option is clearly the smarter deal.
There's certainly something to be said for hosting locally (or at least keeping a copy), but for most businesses that don't want to deal with some random employee being "the IT guy", offloading this to some facility somewhere for $70/mo simply makes sense. You think Cathy the checkout girl (who took an IT class in college) wants to wake up at 2am to deal with a blown capacitor?
IMDB publishes public information about works of entertainment. NCAA Football is a fictional representation based on works of entertainment.
IMDB is fine to publish factual items about "The Phantom Menace", but they can't publish a video game based on the same thing.
It will be interesting to see how this might affect fantasy sports games, but I suppose they differ in the simple fact that the video game creates an alternate and fictional world where these people exist, rather than simply taking the public statistics and known abilities and running math on the results.
"Pot dealer" would seem more appropriate for Aptos or Capitola.
When I visited Venice Beach last summer on a business trip, I was amazingly surprised at how polite most of the homeless people there were. There wasn't a constant nagging for "money for bus fare", a handful of pennies for a cigarette, or any of the type of nonsense you find among homeless elsewhere.
I found this in stark contrast to the homeless in Santa Cruz. You'd think that the two cities would be similar in many ways; beach bums, boardwalk, tourists, expensive ocean view properties, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
Per capita, I have never been to a city with a worse homeless problem than Santa Cruz. While that doesn't mean a whole lot considering the majority of my travels have been across the Western US, but this does include other cities like Denver, Boulder, Reno/Tahoe, Vegas, LA, SF, Seattle (the homeless there are just creepy), and Phoenix.
And that's the ONLY way to get there.
Incorrect. Highway 1 comes in from the north and south on the coast. Highway 9 comes in from SLV, and 152 comes in through Watsonville.
Yes, Hwy 17 is the highest capacity road that comes in, but if you're out to spend a leisurely day in Santa Cruz, why not take one of the more scenic routes to get there?
You have to remember, though, that there are some fantastic places to live that are very close by.
The whole San Lorenzo Valley to the north (Felton, Ben Lomond, Boulder Creek) has more of the feel of a place where alum might settle down after landing a nice job down in San Jose. My step-dad bought a nice secluded lot while still working for Cisco (before he got to ca$h out) and it's turning into a great home where retirement is nothing more than spending more time in the yard.
The area is also desirable for those who may tele-commute, since it's still close enough to pop in for those once-a-week free lunches (err... "meetings")
On the occasion that the area receives snowfall in the winter, 17 can be absolutely treacherous, though, in general it's no different than your average windy, four-lane freeway over a moderate mountain pass, with drivers leaving at least five feet between them and the cars in front of/behind.
Still, there are some backroads in the SC mountains that are far, far worse. Bear Creek Road at 6am on a Monday headed toward San Jose is like a narrow, two-lane Autobahn (with occasional landslides that take out one of the two lanes). If you're not familiar with the road and you find yourself driving it, just do everyone a favor and pull over at a turn-out when someone is behind you and let them pass. Locals hate it when you drive any slower than 15mph over the speed limit.
Another gem is the backroad into Boulder Creek from the UCSC area (Empire Grade?) that passes by the mysterious Lockheed Martin facility. Lose attention for a split second and you'll find yourself at the bottom of a ravine (probably covered in poison oak and brown recluses) and there will be absolutely nobody to hear your cries.
it also looks at the city's campaign to reverse perceptions that it's an anti-business haven for beach bums and pot smokers.
Perceptions? If by that you mean, "what people see when they walk down Pacific Ave/Front St", then I would understand wanting to reverse that.
I've spent a lot of time in SC and the surrounding areas, and used to live in Boulder Creek for some time. I'm not so sure about the "anti-business" part, but it certainly IS a haven for bums. Pot smoking is irrelevant, it's Santa Cruz, nobody cares.
Now, if they were instead try to "reverse the perception" that there is a problem with high crime, that might interest me since it might be nice to feel safe down at the Boardwalk at 10pm. Maybe it is by now, I have no idea, I haven't gone down there in over 10 years.
Ah, but I am browsing (and do all my searching) in "Incognito Mode"... so I'm safe, right? Riiight?
"I was sworrrrrrn to the NSA! I was sworrrrn to the NSA!"
Does it count as prior art if the prior art is biogenic? If so... meh, this is old news!