This guy. Him and I are friends. We get along. The rest of you lots, well, I guess I'd probably let you buy me a beer, but I'm certainly not going to engage in any conversation. I will take my beer and move along.
No, I get it. I'm sure that's how it was when you first had kids. I'm just saying, it's prudent to plan for worst-case scenarios when you're deciding how you're going to financially support a family.
I went for some groceries yesterday evening. The total came to $59.xx and the clerk gave me $42.xx in change.
I looked at the two extra $1's and then at the receipt to double check her error. I handed the money back to the clerk and went on my way.
My point is that I am currently unemployed and "homeless" (currently staying with a friend). Sure, it would have been in my favor to just ignore her error and keep the extra two bucks. Under the circumstances, I gave it back because:
The karma is worth more to me than the two bucks. And,
I don't want that kid coming after me on his bike demanding his two dollars.
Sometimes people are motivated to be honest because they know that even though their honesty might cause them to lose some money, that monetary loss is offset by a gain in reputation and character. Honesty != Selflessness.
You can vote politicians out of power. You can't vote corporations out of power.
Voting with your wallet does count, does it not? Think about the positive change that comes along with consumers voting with their wallet. The difference between corporations and politicians is that corporations are still just after your dollar, and if you demand changes or else will spend elsewhere, they will be forced to comply or else go out of business.
No such mechanism exists for politicians. You can vote for them all you want, but in the end, they have zero obligation to do what you'd like them to. Sure, we can always vote for a new politician, but does anything actually change?
To add my wife and kids to my medical is between $900-$1000/month. That is nearly 1/2 of my net take home per month. There is NO WAY I can afford that, so as of right now, my wife and kids have no insurance.
That sounds a lot like something you should have considered before you decided to have kids.
You make it sound as if all they had to do was get lucky and buy a ticket with the winning numbers.
If a "billionaire college kid" is sort of an idiot for getting rich before they've had a chance to fully develop their craft, how would they compare to a normal college kid who did not strike it rich before they've had a chance to full develop their craft?
"Using the Mobile/Handheld CE Product Developers Kit, we're going to allow the third-party developers to actually develop capabilities that aren't stovepiped,"
So who are the 3rd parties? Anyone notice an upward trend in the hiring of android devs in the defense sector?
I'm at least hoping this gives private citizens more of a "voice" in how their military operates. Hell, just have an idea submission form on the website and let the contractors worry about the development.
If Godaddy is a terrible host and registrar if you are afraid of getting a DMCA notice, then why wouldn't you find a different one if you're that worried about it?
For the rest of us that are not afraid of getting a DMCA notice, what is so bad about Godaddy? Their customer service? I've had several calls to them to resolve some simple cname record issues, and each time I was talking to a knowledgeable human within a minute or so that was friendly and fixed my issue.
That said, I will plug nexcess.net as being a fantastic host for higher traffic sites.
You'll just have to order this month's edition of "How to game Google with SEO".
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explain to me how HFCS is any different, let alone any worse.
I can only speak for myself, but I am a human, as we all are, and so I imagine our physiology is somewhat similar.
If I drink, say, a large soda from some place (anywhere from 32 to 64 oz... basically huge) at some point later that night I will be woken up to horrible abdominal pain followed by a trip to the toilet to release all that demonage.
Simple sugar, on the other hand, has no such effect on my intestinal tract.
Now, assuming that most people do not enjoy being woken up in the middle of the night with crapping pains, it's pretty obvious to me which is different from the other.
Two substances with chemically similar makeups can have drastically different effects when ingested.
...and then, you have the "I actually work in IT in a systems administration capacity" guys split into the "it's my butt on the line, so I'm going to have tunnel vision and instinctively denounce any new services I am unfamiliar with" camp and the "as long as it's legal and prudent, we'll figure out a solution for you" camp.
Listen, we get it. You have procedures and policies and protocols. We're not trying to force you to break the rules. It just gets old being forced to use lousy IT infrastructure when better solutions exist that we can help you implement.
I really have no idea what I'm talking about here. FYI.
That said, I wonder if there is some threshold we might cross at some point when an elaborate house of cards, built with all of these free ad supported services, comes crashing down on everyone
I like the idea of some things being free and supported by ads, but it seems like a kind of feedback loop in a way. Do we need to question, how many free services are too many?
Municipalities have been doing this for awhile. My family's business got nailed with retroactive city specific sales taxes because of delivery services. If a third-party carrier had been used instead to deliver the products, no sales tax would have been levied.
I can't imagine UPS, FedEx, etc will be able to take part in this loophole for much longer.
I know this discussion is long passed over, but if you're paying $50-1/8, you're doing it wrong. It's easy to find them for $40, and with some effort, $60-1/4, and even $150 ozs. Prices are dirt cheap right now.
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This guy. Him and I are friends. We get along. The rest of you lots, well, I guess I'd probably let you buy me a beer, but I'm certainly not going to engage in any conversation. I will take my beer and move along.
Just a PBR is fine.
People aren't happy with passive entertainment like they once were. They want to be engaged.
Some good TV shows can do that, but most of them do not.
I feel like there should be a post above this, but I can just barely detect a faint vapor.
Shame, too, as I was hoping to read some good trollese.
Just put a big mirror next to it.
No, I get it. I'm sure that's how it was when you first had kids. I'm just saying, it's prudent to plan for worst-case scenarios when you're deciding how you're going to financially support a family.
I went for some groceries yesterday evening. The total came to $59.xx and the clerk gave me $42.xx in change.
I looked at the two extra $1's and then at the receipt to double check her error. I handed the money back to the clerk and went on my way.
My point is that I am currently unemployed and "homeless" (currently staying with a friend). Sure, it would have been in my favor to just ignore her error and keep the extra two bucks. Under the circumstances, I gave it back because:
Sometimes people are motivated to be honest because they know that even though their honesty might cause them to lose some money, that monetary loss is offset by a gain in reputation and character. Honesty != Selflessness.
You can vote politicians out of power. You can't vote corporations out of power.
Voting with your wallet does count, does it not? Think about the positive change that comes along with consumers voting with their wallet. The difference between corporations and politicians is that corporations are still just after your dollar, and if you demand changes or else will spend elsewhere, they will be forced to comply or else go out of business.
No such mechanism exists for politicians. You can vote for them all you want, but in the end, they have zero obligation to do what you'd like them to. Sure, we can always vote for a new politician, but does anything actually change?
To add my wife and kids to my medical is between $900-$1000/month. That is nearly 1/2 of my net take home per month. There is NO WAY I can afford that, so as of right now, my wife and kids have no insurance.
That sounds a lot like something you should have considered before you decided to have kids.
I'm down for another civil war. Are you?
You make it sound as if all they had to do was get lucky and buy a ticket with the winning numbers.
If a "billionaire college kid" is sort of an idiot for getting rich before they've had a chance to fully develop their craft, how would they compare to a normal college kid who did not strike it rich before they've had a chance to full develop their craft?
It's playing quietly. Just for you. Your pun was very depressing.
Wireless Security is no longer an academic problem; as we can see from the article
The medium may have changed, but the principles remain the same.
FTA
"Using the Mobile /Handheld CE Product Developers Kit, we're going to allow the third-party developers to actually develop capabilities that aren't stovepiped,"
So who are the 3rd parties? Anyone notice an upward trend in the hiring of android devs in the defense sector?
I'm at least hoping this gives private citizens more of a "voice" in how their military operates. Hell, just have an idea submission form on the website and let the contractors worry about the development.
Honestly, I'm not quite sure I get it.
If Godaddy is a terrible host and registrar if you are afraid of getting a DMCA notice, then why wouldn't you find a different one if you're that worried about it?
For the rest of us that are not afraid of getting a DMCA notice, what is so bad about Godaddy? Their customer service? I've had several calls to them to resolve some simple cname record issues, and each time I was talking to a knowledgeable human within a minute or so that was friendly and fixed my issue.
That said, I will plug nexcess.net as being a fantastic host for higher traffic sites.
Guys like Charles Heston ("Moses" and "Ben Hur".. fine upstanding citizen there)
He also warned us that Soylent Green is people. And let us not forget his efforts to save humanity from The Family.
You do realize how absurd it is to judge someone's character by their characters, right?
You'll just have to order this month's edition of "How to game Google with SEO".
explain to me how HFCS is any different, let alone any worse.
I can only speak for myself, but I am a human, as we all are, and so I imagine our physiology is somewhat similar.
If I drink, say, a large soda from some place (anywhere from 32 to 64 oz... basically huge) at some point later that night I will be woken up to horrible abdominal pain followed by a trip to the toilet to release all that demonage.
Simple sugar, on the other hand, has no such effect on my intestinal tract.
Now, assuming that most people do not enjoy being woken up in the middle of the night with crapping pains, it's pretty obvious to me which is different from the other.
Two substances with chemically similar makeups can have drastically different effects when ingested.
...and then, you have the "I actually work in IT in a systems administration capacity" guys split into the "it's my butt on the line, so I'm going to have tunnel vision and instinctively denounce any new services I am unfamiliar with" camp and the "as long as it's legal and prudent, we'll figure out a solution for you" camp.
Listen, we get it. You have procedures and policies and protocols. We're not trying to force you to break the rules. It just gets old being forced to use lousy IT infrastructure when better solutions exist that we can help you implement.
There is no such thing as an IQ that's too high when dealing with high risk, high stress situations
Have you never been in a situation where you over-analyzed something?
but more likely the chain tends to get broken by trojan horses identity thieves etc...
Darwin 2.0?
*Your local laws may vary.
I really have no idea what I'm talking about here. FYI.
That said, I wonder if there is some threshold we might cross at some point when an elaborate house of cards, built with all of these free ad supported services, comes crashing down on everyone
I like the idea of some things being free and supported by ads, but it seems like a kind of feedback loop in a way. Do we need to question, how many free services are too many?
You know how sometimes words take on the opposite meaning? Like something that is "bad" is actually good?
I hereby propose that if people insist on using the word "retarded" colloquially, that they use it to describe something as fantastic.
Municipalities have been doing this for awhile. My family's business got nailed with retroactive city specific sales taxes because of delivery services. If a third-party carrier had been used instead to deliver the products, no sales tax would have been levied.
I can't imagine UPS, FedEx, etc will be able to take part in this loophole for much longer.
I know this discussion is long passed over, but if you're paying $50-1/8, you're doing it wrong. It's easy to find them for $40, and with some effort, $60-1/4, and even $150 ozs. Prices are dirt cheap right now.