Reminds me of a friend said her grandfather (old school Italian guy) lived to 97 (or 98), always had a glass of wine everyday. He never drank water because he said, "fish pee in water."
variety of grape that stands out the most in the flavor of wine,
I'm wondering perhaps the grape contents is what is good, instead of eating a lot of grapes you can get same amount of the "good stuff" those grapes contain in a liquid form. The wine may have the same as the grape juice, maybe drink the juice before turning it into wine (though might not be as much fun, drinking grape juice doesn't have that "wine connoisseur" image that gets respect at parties of sophisticated people. Are certain grapes more beneficial than others? Right now I'm too lazy to do research so I'll post opinions on the forum.
Way back when I thought there were only two kinds of grapes: Red grapes and light green grapes. Cabernet sauvignon, merlot, etc. were company names of the grapes. It wasn't till much much later when I learned those names were the grapes themselves. Also back then while riding a bike through vineyards near Salinas, I see lots of grapes, hey stop and have a snack. Yuck, them grapes even though they were ripe tasted awful. Just as well probably covered with pesticides that would have killed me.
Usual headline for article about studies performed by doctors, studies funded by companies in the Napa county area of Calif when wine sales are sluggish. Need positive articles to help boost sales. I haven't RFTA, done data analysis on wine sales, but I wonder at times...
That series has profited $6.5 Billion. Profited. Not grossed. Net.
Interesting. There was diatribe of a thread here on slashdot about several blockbuster movies that lost money which included HP series. Reason is to keep net profits low as possible to avoid paying taxes. Well crap, another one bites the dust to "fake news?"
hey Ricky, maybe you didn't write PO in your original post but I think you are definitely on to something. Others have implied the same pitfalls:
ErichTheRed writes, "I've worked for big companies most of my career, and regular employees making purchases, signing contracts, etc. takes an act of God. I can't spend $100 on supplies without getting competitive bids. But there are apparently some very stupid people who have full unrestricted access to the bank accounts."
OrangeTide writes, "Dealing with manufacturing in Asia is already a process that feels sketchy as hell, and we often wonder if we'll ever see the money again when we setup a manufacturing agreement because the process feels so ad hoc. It wouldn't take much for a conman to insert himself into this process without arousing suspicions."
See, that's where you're going wrong. I've actually had clients tell me that a proposal has to be _over_ a certain dollar amount - if it's less than (for example) $50k, it's subject to a lot more oversight than, say, $1M.
It seems to me procurements are very mysterious. I'm constantly having to justify whatever purchase even for $100. What you suggest is proposal over a certain amount, maybe it is when high level people get this "OMG we need this capability now, buy it!" And then zoom, order screams through. Most of the time it feels technical procurements are as touchy-feely-emotional like a choreographer preparing a dance routine that will resonant with the audience.
Old guy here, I rarely go to movie theaters because most films don't interest me (last film I saw was Hidden Figures, before it was The Aviator), it is a PITA to get to the theater (even on weekends driving in Silicon Valley with so many stoplights and heavy traffic), and it seems I have so many other activities that taking 3 to 4 hours to go watch a movie is a good chunk of time. It probably is same for many other generations, it seems theaters are not as packed as it was years ago (back in the days large parking lots were full and huge long lines for tickets). So while everyone argues political reasons, what another offtopic discussion such as "Hollywood Accounting?" You know where there are huge gross revenues, actors making millions, and Hollywood says they are losing big money due to piracy or various movies didn't make much profits (i.e. Harry Potter).
here we go again... both Musk and NASA are doomed to keep a single course to Mars.
(borrowing a few sentences from Tom Matula on NASAwatch): I blame most of the destination argument on the creation of the Mars underground in the 1980's. Prior to that NASA was focused on using the Shuttle for industrialization in LEO with projects like demonstrating the repair and return of satellites, building structural items in orbit, tethers, etc., all logical starting points for building a Cislunar industrial capability that would have given us the Solar System. NASA didn't even have plans to send robots to Mars. By advocating that we needed to skip the Moon and go rushing off to Mars they started this entire useless destination debate that has paralyzed space policy ever since.
Exactly. Not sure what to gain if hack a ebay account unless make bids or buy-it-now of cheap crap from China that is always relisted again (and again, again, again). It seems their business model is best suited for those that do it full time. Those wanting to unload junk (but there are buyers who find these as treasures) like they do at a garage sales or flea markets probably find ebay difficult to work with.
I guess you didn't see Chelsea Clinton's tweet: "If you have less money one year versus the previous year, that is called ____ ("cut"), otherwise know as _____ ("less money").
as "we will have a man on Mars in 20 years" for the past 50 years. Now it has been extended to infinity. This only trumps up the Mission To Nowhere as everyone loves to talk about Mars because you can defer costs to build real hardware to some other smucks 20 years into the future. Unlike if Moon is the goal then gotta come up with some real money now to build a lander, transfer stage, etc.
because all gear is made in China that has backdoors connected to systems in China. No need to tap or intercept guvmint comms because Russia already has interactions with high level people appointed by Trump.
Reminds me back in the days textbook had an example of missing comma in a legal document. Results was large sums of money and time spent in court. I have to admit there are times when I get scared of using a comma. I will avoid them in this post.
Same reason is when we want to find out activities of other countries we employ intelligence agents. When these other countries do the same to us, we accuse them of using spies.
Under the SHEEPLE system, govt would have TAXED YOUR ASS INTO POVERTY
uhmmm, no. Poor people don't pay much taxes because they don't have much money, that is why they are poor. What kills is high living expenses. Housing pricing more and more people out (i.e. lots more sleeping in cars and under bridges). Good healthy food much more expensive than unhealthy junk food. And damned if you get ill medical expenses can bankrupt you. The election theme was to "take back the government and give that power to the people." Yeah right, put a bunch of billionaires as if they will do anything except give themselves tax breaks.
I cannot explain and I don't really understand it myself how my data is valuable to me. What fish_in_the_c is hinting is many of us are like the Native Americans who at the time simply didn't understand value of land ownership and how can land be owned by someone.
Your comment reminds me of this lecture of 20th century suburbs by Evan Friss on CSPAN https://www.c-span.org/video/?... and he describes the garage as a house for a car.
Reminds me of someone who just moved from So Cal to the bay area. She said down there is freeway construction but they actually do something and finish the work. Here there are many sites of freeway construction but nothing ever gets done (the temporary barriers have become permanent fixtures), i.e. 101 in Palo Alto where more lanes being added/repaired. Except mods to Wolfe Ave exits from 280 for the new Apple Saucer.
"put up temporary traffic-flow restrictions..." There is one of those I saw in Cupertino some years ago (before Waze). I don't remember exactly but while parked on a residential street in Cupertino neighborhood, friend was getting something from another, I noticed the flower bed divider in middle of road was on a rotating pedestial. Looking more closely and also a sign prohibiting thru traffic on weekday mornings and early evenings I can see this rotates 90 deg to block traffic. Damndest thing I ever saw, I have yet to go find this thing, maybe take video as it rotates to block cars.
Los Gatos prohibits traffic exiting hwy 17 into downtown LG on a particular exit (not all of them). It sure seems like this is deliberately planned to stop the Waze traffic using LG as a thru way.
I dunno, I never taken any of these classes and haven't looked to see if such are available. I learned in early days of "publishing" in 1990s when a friend gave me the book "The PC is not a typewriter" by Robin Williams (not the comedian). This person has done publishing from linotype machines to desktop systems. One thing I learned from him is use minimum types of fonts so your publications don't look like ransom notes (the kind where sentences are formed from cutting out letters from various magazines and glued to a piece of paper).
Maybe not exactly OT for this discussion, I found this an interesting comment by Chris Johnson, saved it in my Diatribes folder, I snipped out paragraphs that discussed mostly walmart and amazon so get right to the point of uber:
Re:Amazon's Self-Reinforcing Decline in Hires (Score:5, Interesting)
by Chris Johnson (580)
The trouble with this situation is a bit like Uber: it preys upon people who've lost all perspective.
One woman in the article was said to spend her own money hiring someone in India to do data entry so she could get more personally done. At her own expense.
[snip]
Re:Amazon's Self-Reinforcing Decline in Hires (Score:2)
by taxman_10m (41083)
Could you expound on Uber?
Re:Amazon's Self-Reinforcing Decline in Hires (Score:5, Insightful)
by Chris Johnson (580)
Sure, a bit. Uber's the same thing. It's designed to make maximum use of crazy people and force the others to live up to that standard or be fired.
I'll define 'crazy Uber people' not as 'danger to customers', but 'people who are bringing more value in terms of vehicle, skill and desire to please, than they are getting back in pay and benefits'. So the crazy Uber person is the one who keeps buying a new Lexus or whatever, vacuums their car three times a day and busts their ass to outperform all the other Uber drivers, so they can continue to win out over anybody else seeking to be a driver.
The key factor is that they are giving more than they get back, in the belief that they're cornering some kind of market or buying in to something important.
If you make a business that relies on people like this, you can demolish anybody else because you've worked out how to get voluntary unpaid labor, like the Amazon exec who was said to use her own money to hire subcontractors to do more. As long as there are people who are willing to do that, the market breaks and Amazon/Uber get to do what Wal-Mart did in small towns, break the back of other market participants so they can't break even or continue.
Another way to be a crazy Uber person is to put more depreciation and wear and tear on your car than you can afford to repair (or replace). It's easy to be crazy in these ways. It's externalities which are easy to overlook. These Amazon/Uber business models are designed to leverage that kind of crazy as hard as possible, and kick out everybody who's not willing to lose (one way or another) on the deal. Psychology is useful in getting people to buy into this stuff.
I mean really is there ever such a thing as unlimited smooth action video that does not cost lotsa bux. Sure there are times when watching some cutesy youtube clip for 90 seconds but what about watching full 90 minutes of a fascinating documentary (like what they used to show on broadcast TV) without it always pausing (and 90 minutes becomes 5 hours). Or streaming an activity i.e. Parachute Mobile mission where video is very basic 340 size but for the whole day. This has been done because one of our people has grandfathered unlimited data from years ago, his cellular service keeps asking for him to "upgrade."
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Reminds me of a friend said her grandfather (old school Italian guy) lived to 97 (or 98), always had a glass of wine everyday. He never drank water because he said, "fish pee in water."
variety of grape that stands out the most in the flavor of wine,
I'm wondering perhaps the grape contents is what is good, instead of eating a lot of grapes you can get same amount of the "good stuff" those grapes contain in a liquid form. The wine may have the same as the grape juice, maybe drink the juice before turning it into wine (though might not be as much fun, drinking grape juice doesn't have that "wine connoisseur" image that gets respect at parties of sophisticated people. Are certain grapes more beneficial than others? Right now I'm too lazy to do research so I'll post opinions on the forum.
Way back when I thought there were only two kinds of grapes: Red grapes and light green grapes. Cabernet sauvignon, merlot, etc. were company names of the grapes. It wasn't till much much later when I learned those names were the grapes themselves. Also back then while riding a bike through vineyards near Salinas, I see lots of grapes, hey stop and have a snack. Yuck, them grapes even though they were ripe tasted awful. Just as well probably covered with pesticides that would have killed me.
Usual headline for article about studies performed by doctors, studies funded by companies in the Napa county area of Calif when wine sales are sluggish. Need positive articles to help boost sales. I haven't RFTA, done data analysis on wine sales, but I wonder at times...
That series has profited $6.5 Billion. Profited. Not grossed. Net.
Interesting. There was diatribe of a thread here on slashdot about several blockbuster movies that lost money which included HP series. Reason is to keep net profits low as possible to avoid paying taxes. Well crap, another one bites the dust to "fake news?"
hey Ricky, maybe you didn't write PO in your original post but I think you are definitely on to something. Others have implied the same pitfalls:
ErichTheRed writes, "I've worked for big companies most of my career, and regular employees making purchases, signing contracts, etc. takes an act of God. I can't spend $100 on supplies without getting competitive bids. But there are apparently some very stupid people who have full unrestricted access to the bank accounts."
OrangeTide writes, "Dealing with manufacturing in Asia is already a process that feels sketchy as hell, and we often wonder if we'll ever see the money again when we setup a manufacturing agreement because the process feels so ad hoc. It wouldn't take much for a conman to insert himself into this process without arousing suspicions."
See, that's where you're going wrong. I've actually had clients tell me that a proposal has to be _over_ a certain dollar amount - if it's less than (for example) $50k, it's subject to a lot more oversight than, say, $1M.
It seems to me procurements are very mysterious. I'm constantly having to justify whatever purchase even for $100. What you suggest is proposal over a certain amount, maybe it is when high level people get this "OMG we need this capability now, buy it!" And then zoom, order screams through. Most of the time it feels technical procurements are as touchy-feely-emotional like a choreographer preparing a dance routine that will resonant with the audience.
Old guy here, I rarely go to movie theaters because most films don't interest me (last film I saw was Hidden Figures, before it was The Aviator), it is a PITA to get to the theater (even on weekends driving in Silicon Valley with so many stoplights and heavy traffic), and it seems I have so many other activities that taking 3 to 4 hours to go watch a movie is a good chunk of time. It probably is same for many other generations, it seems theaters are not as packed as it was years ago (back in the days large parking lots were full and huge long lines for tickets). So while everyone argues political reasons, what another offtopic discussion such as "Hollywood Accounting?" You know where there are huge gross revenues, actors making millions, and Hollywood says they are losing big money due to piracy or various movies didn't make much profits (i.e. Harry Potter).
here we go again... both Musk and NASA are doomed to keep a single course to Mars.
(borrowing a few sentences from Tom Matula on NASAwatch): I blame most of the destination argument on the creation of the Mars underground in the 1980's. Prior to that NASA was focused on using the Shuttle for industrialization in LEO with projects like demonstrating the repair and return of satellites, building structural items in orbit, tethers, etc., all logical starting points for building a Cislunar industrial capability that would have given us the Solar System. NASA didn't even have plans to send robots to Mars. By advocating that we needed to skip the Moon and go rushing off to Mars they started this entire useless destination debate that has paralyzed space policy ever since.
Exactly. Not sure what to gain if hack a ebay account unless make bids or buy-it-now of cheap crap from China that is always relisted again (and again, again, again). It seems their business model is best suited for those that do it full time. Those wanting to unload junk (but there are buyers who find these as treasures) like they do at a garage sales or flea markets probably find ebay difficult to work with.
I guess you didn't see Chelsea Clinton's tweet: "If you have less money one year versus the previous year, that is called ____ ("cut"), otherwise know as _____ ("less money").
NASAWatch added a Capt Picard facepalm picture.
as "we will have a man on Mars in 20 years" for the past 50 years. Now it has been extended to infinity. This only trumps up the Mission To Nowhere as everyone loves to talk about Mars because you can defer costs to build real hardware to some other smucks 20 years into the future. Unlike if Moon is the goal then gotta come up with some real money now to build a lander, transfer stage, etc.
But wait, there are some people talking about the Moon besides Spudis and Wingo. Maybe we get some action before we are all dead of old age:
http://www.spacex.com/news/201...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
And Spudis blog has some interesting comments, http://www.spudislunarresource...
because all gear is made in China that has backdoors connected to systems in China. No need to tap or intercept guvmint comms because Russia already has interactions with high level people appointed by Trump.
Reminds me back in the days textbook had an example of missing comma in a legal document. Results was large sums of money and time spent in court. I have to admit there are times when I get scared of using a comma. I will avoid them in this post.
Same reason is when we want to find out activities of other countries we employ intelligence agents. When these other countries do the same to us, we accuse them of using spies.
variation of Godwin's law. Any discussion on the forums with on-going comments will eventually lead to someone mentioning Trump.
Under the SHEEPLE system, govt would have TAXED YOUR ASS INTO POVERTY
uhmmm, no. Poor people don't pay much taxes because they don't have much money, that is why they are poor. What kills is high living expenses. Housing pricing more and more people out (i.e. lots more sleeping in cars and under bridges). Good healthy food much more expensive than unhealthy junk food. And damned if you get ill medical expenses can bankrupt you. The election theme was to "take back the government and give that power to the people." Yeah right, put a bunch of billionaires as if they will do anything except give themselves tax breaks.
Explain to me how my data is valuable to me?
I cannot explain and I don't really understand it myself how my data is valuable to me. What fish_in_the_c is hinting is many of us are like the Native Americans who at the time simply didn't understand value of land ownership and how can land be owned by someone.
Your comment reminds me of this lecture of 20th century suburbs by Evan Friss on CSPAN https://www.c-span.org/video/?... and he describes the garage as a house for a car.
Reminds me of someone who just moved from So Cal to the bay area. She said down there is freeway construction but they actually do something and finish the work. Here there are many sites of freeway construction but nothing ever gets done (the temporary barriers have become permanent fixtures), i.e. 101 in Palo Alto where more lanes being added/repaired. Except mods to Wolfe Ave exits from 280 for the new Apple Saucer.
"put up temporary traffic-flow restrictions..." There is one of those I saw in Cupertino some years ago (before Waze). I don't remember exactly but while parked on a residential street in Cupertino neighborhood, friend was getting something from another, I noticed the flower bed divider in middle of road was on a rotating pedestial. Looking more closely and also a sign prohibiting thru traffic on weekday mornings and early evenings I can see this rotates 90 deg to block traffic. Damndest thing I ever saw, I have yet to go find this thing, maybe take video as it rotates to block cars.
Los Gatos prohibits traffic exiting hwy 17 into downtown LG on a particular exit (not all of them). It sure seems like this is deliberately planned to stop the Waze traffic using LG as a thru way.
when police would investigate things like burglaries instead of focused on databases and surveillance. just a minor bitch from me this morning.
Like the water well that was poisoned but later cleaned up. Problem is nobody trusts the well anymore, and this is what happened to news media.
I dunno, I never taken any of these classes and haven't looked to see if such are available. I learned in early days of "publishing" in 1990s when a friend gave me the book "The PC is not a typewriter" by Robin Williams (not the comedian). This person has done publishing from linotype machines to desktop systems. One thing I learned from him is use minimum types of fonts so your publications don't look like ransom notes (the kind where sentences are formed from cutting out letters from various magazines and glued to a piece of paper).
Re:Amazon's Self-Reinforcing Decline in Hires (Score:5, Interesting)
by Chris Johnson (580)
The trouble with this situation is a bit like Uber: it preys upon people who've lost all perspective.
One woman in the article was said to spend her own money hiring someone in India to do data entry so she could get more personally done. At her own expense.
[snip]
Re:Amazon's Self-Reinforcing Decline in Hires (Score:2)
by taxman_10m (41083)
Could you expound on Uber?
Re:Amazon's Self-Reinforcing Decline in Hires (Score:5, Insightful)
by Chris Johnson (580)
Sure, a bit. Uber's the same thing. It's designed to make maximum use of crazy people and force the others to live up to that standard or be fired.
I'll define 'crazy Uber people' not as 'danger to customers', but 'people who are bringing more value in terms of vehicle, skill and desire to please, than they are getting back in pay and benefits'. So the crazy Uber person is the one who keeps buying a new Lexus or whatever, vacuums their car three times a day and busts their ass to outperform all the other Uber drivers, so they can continue to win out over anybody else seeking to be a driver.
The key factor is that they are giving more than they get back, in the belief that they're cornering some kind of market or buying in to something important.
If you make a business that relies on people like this, you can demolish anybody else because you've worked out how to get voluntary unpaid labor, like the Amazon exec who was said to use her own money to hire subcontractors to do more. As long as there are people who are willing to do that, the market breaks and Amazon/Uber get to do what Wal-Mart did in small towns, break the back of other market participants so they can't break even or continue.
Another way to be a crazy Uber person is to put more depreciation and wear and tear on your car than you can afford to repair (or replace). It's easy to be crazy in these ways. It's externalities which are easy to overlook. These Amazon/Uber business models are designed to leverage that kind of crazy as hard as possible, and kick out everybody who's not willing to lose (one way or another) on the deal. Psychology is useful in getting people to buy into this stuff.
As they say, a cult.
I mean really is there ever such a thing as unlimited smooth action video that does not cost lotsa bux. Sure there are times when watching some cutesy youtube clip for 90 seconds but what about watching full 90 minutes of a fascinating documentary (like what they used to show on broadcast TV) without it always pausing (and 90 minutes becomes 5 hours). Or streaming an activity i.e. Parachute Mobile mission where video is very basic 340 size but for the whole day. This has been done because one of our people has grandfathered unlimited data from years ago, his cellular service keeps asking for him to "upgrade."