Go find a farm and buy from them. you can even pick out the chicken that is running around for them to kill for you.
Honestly, it has been easy to buy local for centuries, most people dont want to bother because it also involves experiencing the process. several times a year I buy a cow with 3 other families. we end up with 1/4 of it in processed meat that tastes better than anything from a supermarket.
only low grade hamburger. I usually pick out a roast or set of large steaks and ask the butcher to grind it for me. Tastes far better than the prepackaged garbage "ground beef" or "hamburger"
If you go to a real butcher, you end up with better meat for the same price.
Americans don't want to see the face of the pig they are eating, In fact most don't want to hear how you kill and process and animal. Putting a photo of the pig on the package will guarantee a drop in sales.
My employer knows that the second I leave the office my work iPhone is set to mute. it will be unmuted when I arrive the next day. IF I am on call then it does not get muted.
I got a call on my personal phone once from a manager at 11:00pm one night about a stupid question, the next morning, I billed his department for 1 day of On call tech and the hours from 5pm to 11:30pm as well as added that to my timesheet.
He freaked out but was told that once again he was supposed to call the NOC like he had been told 20 times before and they will have the on call guy call him back. Every time he calls someone other than the NOC his department will be charged for the emergency on call even and all the hours from 5pm until the call was resolved.
Solved the problem instantly. Once in a while we get another nimrod in the company that finds someone's cellphone number and bugs them after hours... the guys enjoy the once or twice a year $300.00 bonus in their check for answering a phone off duty because an idiot manager cant follow the rules.
Company bought Iphone with data and phone paid for by the company, or use your own phone and we give you $30.00 a month on your paycheck.
Considering I spend hours on tech support and blow through data like a madman for work, I'll take the company supplied one that coves all my work expenses instead of me paying out of my pocket for work related expenses.
Honestly, if they did not supply it and paid for the service, I will NOT use my personal one for work. So I hope this BYOD is getting companies to pay the employees cellphone bills completely.
1 - give yourself a major head injury, you need to go from a educated professional to a brain damaged "visionary" who has "forward thinking" and "Paradigm Shift" 2 - buy a book on buzzwords and use them all wrong, typically in the wrong spots. "WE need to Empower the diversity of the SQL server! That way we can Achieve a Sea Change OF Spin up!" 3 - learn how to golf.
The IT departments wors t enemy is the guy that thinks he knows better AND has the ear of a CxO who can tell you to do what he says.
A random idiot in marketing is not a problem, it's the one that get's buy in for his idea from upper management that can dictate you give everyone admin rights...
Even a perfect health 20 year old in a scale of 1 to 10, a 10 in pain will not only forget they took a painkiller, but will want the pain to subside so badly that taking another one is certainly a thought process they go through.
Stick a railroad spike in your head and then pour salt and lime juice on it. Then tell me you will sit there and remember you took a pain pill 30 minutes ago.
In civilized countries where you have health care? I agree.
Here in the USA that does not happen. Insurance is garbage so we have to pay the doctor another $250-$300 for a visit to talk to him about the dosage.
Doctors are overpaid, drugs are criminally expensive and insurance is garbage all because a bunch of assholes in the 1% whined about universal healthcare. We hate the poor and working class here in the USA so we make sure that proper medical care is out of reach.
If they were smart, $200.00 base PC's netbooting from a central server.
Doing this with linux = support heaven. Weneed to update Libre Office? ok, 20 minutes later it's done for ALL MACHINES. Update the OS for security issues? Ok, 1 hour later ALL MACHINES are now up to date. Push out a new application.... the same. etc...
Plus a dead workstation is a 10 minute fix. replace the box with a new one, power it on. I can fix a exploded desktop computer while the person is on a smoke break.
Lost documents? don't exist, they all are on the servers and backed up regularly. with an advantage that is hard to achieve in windows. If a user deletes a file, It's still there in the repository. in fact all changes are saved there as well. so a disgruntled employee has zero damage impact capability.
For 80% of the staff and executives this system works perfectly. the 20% which are IT staff, engineers, and Programmers they have their own separate stand alone desktops and/or laptops. All the IT staff have both, a Thin client on their desk and a stand alone laptop.
Number of high power servers dropped from 8 to 5 when we switched, we no longer need a stupid powerful exchange server so that was re-purposed as a application server. and we have a hot backup application server as well.
If you have ran a Citrix farm, it's much like that except easier. the servers need a buttload of ram and fast drives, but configurations allow the thin clients to take advantage of local ram and processor+video. so the browsers, java, and other processor wasting apps run locally to the thin client but store all data to the server and load from the image.
It required competent IT admins though, so we pay 2X the typical MS drone rate, but have 5X less employees in IT to deal with every possible issue.
I dont care what the platform... FPS's SUCK on a portable. the PSP was the best portable yet for FPS and it still sucked, the analog stick on the PSP is garbage.
And anyone that has programmed robotics knows that only the newbies don't put in a fall through switch. Failure to use those will = damaged hardware or death to someone.
No I wont. It's why the PSP Go was a utter failure and people bought older PSP's or switched to the DS.
Sony is doing stupid things, people DONT WANT Download only games because they like selling them used. Battlefield 3 had a HUGE used turn in when MW3 came out.
Binary holograms over the whole badge are easy to apply and if you hire competent security people, it will be easily spotted. we did that at comcast for high level tech jobs, the Id did not say comcast anywhere on the rfid badge. when you looked at it in direct light you could see a pattern of 1's and zeros repeating across it.
The guards were trained to look for that. Plus the image on the badge had to match the one in file at the security entry or the guard did not open the man trap but instead called the local police to retrieve you.
At least that is how it was at the On demand central NOC... All those first run movies in mpeg2 form without any encryption or DRM.....
It already is. I can buy 5KW worth of solar for under $30,000. coupled with changing energy consumption to reasonable levels and having a home that is not a giant screen door for heat like most american homes, one can spend the price of a single mid sized car to go off the grid.
$30K is dirt cheap for that (complete with intertie inverter and battery storage) Most new homes built waste more on marble countertops and other stupidity like too large of a sq footage.
A reasonable sized 1500 sq foot home built by an archetict that actually knows what he/she is doing can be 100% solar with heat and electric in a climate as far north as 45deg latitude and cost the same as a current stupid sized house.
It's already there, Problem is people prefer 3 car garages, 5 bedrooms, 2900 sq foot with cathedral ceilings, marble counters and giant front yards to sane sized homes that are at least energy star in insulation and with near zero costs for Heat, AC and electricity.
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I can tell you how to do this right now.
Go find a farm and buy from them. you can even pick out the chicken that is running around for them to kill for you.
Honestly, it has been easy to buy local for centuries, most people dont want to bother because it also involves experiencing the process. several times a year I buy a cow with 3 other families. we end up with 1/4 of it in processed meat that tastes better than anything from a supermarket.
It's more expensive, but it can easily be done.
only low grade hamburger. I usually pick out a roast or set of large steaks and ask the butcher to grind it for me. Tastes far better than the prepackaged garbage "ground beef" or "hamburger"
If you go to a real butcher, you end up with better meat for the same price.
Americans don't want to see the face of the pig they are eating, In fact most don't want to hear how you kill and process and animal. Putting a photo of the pig on the package will guarantee a drop in sales.
My employer knows that the second I leave the office my work iPhone is set to mute. it will be unmuted when I arrive the next day. IF I am on call then it does not get muted.
I got a call on my personal phone once from a manager at 11:00pm one night about a stupid question, the next morning, I billed his department for 1 day of On call tech and the hours from 5pm to 11:30pm as well as added that to my timesheet.
He freaked out but was told that once again he was supposed to call the NOC like he had been told 20 times before and they will have the on call guy call him back. Every time he calls someone other than the NOC his department will be charged for the emergency on call even and all the hours from 5pm until the call was resolved.
Solved the problem instantly. Once in a while we get another nimrod in the company that finds someone's cellphone number and bugs them after hours... the guys enjoy the once or twice a year $300.00 bonus in their check for answering a phone off duty because an idiot manager cant follow the rules.
Your cousin wont have his tools stolen from him when he leaves, IT will confiscate your laptop as it holds company secrets.
Also your cousins tools are not locked from him, your laptop you will join it to the domain and give up admin control of it.
Work wants me to have a laptop of my own? they either buy it and control it, or compensate me every paycheck for it for trying to control it.
Company bought Iphone with data and phone paid for by the company, or use your own phone and we give you $30.00 a month on your paycheck.
Considering I spend hours on tech support and blow through data like a madman for work, I'll take the company supplied one that coves all my work expenses instead of me paying out of my pocket for work related expenses.
Honestly, if they did not supply it and paid for the service, I will NOT use my personal one for work. So I hope this BYOD is getting companies to pay the employees cellphone bills completely.
Hard drive quality sucks, and almost all of them fail by 5 years so we are cutting back to avoid having to honor the warranty.
1 - give yourself a major head injury, you need to go from a educated professional to a brain damaged "visionary" who has "forward thinking" and "Paradigm Shift"
2 - buy a book on buzzwords and use them all wrong, typically in the wrong spots. "WE need to Empower the diversity of the SQL server! That way we can Achieve a Sea Change OF Spin up!"
3 - learn how to golf.
That is pretty much it.
The 525 dual core atom is a fine performing netbook processor. and honestly you are not using a netbook for high power number crunching.
You are wrong.
The IT departments wors t enemy is the guy that thinks he knows better AND has the ear of a CxO who can tell you to do what he says.
A random idiot in marketing is not a problem, it's the one that get's buy in for his idea from upper management that can dictate you give everyone admin rights...
You've never been in serious pain then.
Even a perfect health 20 year old in a scale of 1 to 10, a 10 in pain will not only forget they took a painkiller, but will want the pain to subside so badly that taking another one is certainly a thought process they go through.
Stick a railroad spike in your head and then pour salt and lime juice on it. Then tell me you will sit there and remember you took a pain pill 30 minutes ago.
In civilized countries where you have health care? I agree.
Here in the USA that does not happen. Insurance is garbage so we have to pay the doctor another $250-$300 for a visit to talk to him about the dosage.
Doctors are overpaid, drugs are criminally expensive and insurance is garbage all because a bunch of assholes in the 1% whined about universal healthcare. We hate the poor and working class here in the USA so we make sure that proper medical care is out of reach.
If they were smart, $200.00 base PC's netbooting from a central server.
Doing this with linux = support heaven. Weneed to update Libre Office? ok, 20 minutes later it's done for ALL MACHINES.
Update the OS for security issues? Ok, 1 hour later ALL MACHINES are now up to date.
Push out a new application.... the same.
etc...
Plus a dead workstation is a 10 minute fix. replace the box with a new one, power it on. I can fix a exploded desktop computer while the person is on a smoke break.
Lost documents? don't exist, they all are on the servers and backed up regularly. with an advantage that is hard to achieve in windows. If a user deletes a file, It's still there in the repository. in fact all changes are saved there as well. so a disgruntled employee has zero damage impact capability.
For 80% of the staff and executives this system works perfectly. the 20% which are IT staff, engineers, and Programmers they have their own separate stand alone desktops and/or laptops. All the IT staff have both, a Thin client on their desk and a stand alone laptop.
Number of high power servers dropped from 8 to 5 when we switched, we no longer need a stupid powerful exchange server so that was re-purposed as a application server. and we have a hot backup application server as well.
If you have ran a Citrix farm, it's much like that except easier. the servers need a buttload of ram and fast drives, but configurations allow the thin clients to take advantage of local ram and processor+video. so the browsers, java, and other processor wasting apps run locally to the thin client but store all data to the server and load from the image.
It required competent IT admins though, so we pay 2X the typical MS drone rate, but have 5X less employees in IT to deal with every possible issue.
And I love that that same search pulls up a naked chick.
And they probably would have stayed with windows if he did not start throwing chairs all over the council chambers.
Because contrary to what apple and google wants you to think, Game controls on phones suck.
Go ahead and play Rage on the iphone or Ipad.. it's frustrating as hell.
I dont care what the platform... FPS's SUCK on a portable. the PSP was the best portable yet for FPS and it still sucked, the analog stick on the PSP is garbage.
And anyone that has programmed robotics knows that only the newbies don't put in a fall through switch. Failure to use those will = damaged hardware or death to someone.
you ALWAYS do a fall through safety.
So it works on magical air charging?
USB charge port or it is a complete FAIL.
No I wont. It's why the PSP Go was a utter failure and people bought older PSP's or switched to the DS.
Sony is doing stupid things, people DONT WANT Download only games because they like selling them used. Battlefield 3 had a HUGE used turn in when MW3 came out.
Sony hates used game sales. Sony hates gamers.
we do at work, they doubled the number of slots for Coke in the vending machine. that's a 50% cola increase!
Binary holograms over the whole badge are easy to apply and if you hire competent security people, it will be easily spotted.
we did that at comcast for high level tech jobs, the Id did not say comcast anywhere on the rfid badge. when you looked at it in direct light you could see a pattern of 1's and zeros repeating across it.
The guards were trained to look for that. Plus the image on the badge had to match the one in file at the security entry or the guard did not open the man trap but instead called the local police to retrieve you.
At least that is how it was at the On demand central NOC... All those first run movies in mpeg2 form without any encryption or DRM.....
Was that installed? or just parts. i am talking completely installed by overpaid electricians. The customer will need to know nothing at all.
It already is. I can buy 5KW worth of solar for under $30,000. coupled with changing energy consumption to reasonable levels and having a home that is not a giant screen door for heat like most american homes, one can spend the price of a single mid sized car to go off the grid.
$30K is dirt cheap for that (complete with intertie inverter and battery storage) Most new homes built waste more on marble countertops and other stupidity like too large of a sq footage.
A reasonable sized 1500 sq foot home built by an archetict that actually knows what he/she is doing can be 100% solar with heat and electric in a climate as far north as 45deg latitude and cost the same as a current stupid sized house.
It's already there, Problem is people prefer 3 car garages, 5 bedrooms, 2900 sq foot with cathedral ceilings, marble counters and giant front yards to sane sized homes that are at least energy star in insulation and with near zero costs for Heat, AC and electricity.
http://www.mapquest.com/?q=52.484,13.3716
That. and yes it's comparable in size. but a giant chunk of concrete that is still sinking to this day.