Heh. We had some kind of kid's toy duck that would quack. I forget exactly what triggered it, but it only made noise when either squeezed or moved or some kind of interaction. About 3 a.m. one night it gave a random quack from the bathroom, even though hit hadn't been touched in days. After it did it a couple of times over the span of a week, I think we got rid of it, just because we didn't want to keep being woken up.
Women are interested in people and men are interested in things. Making movies is a thing.
It's a thing, but it's a thing that's mostly about and done by people. Having not directed, I may be wrong about how much time is spent on technical matters versus story and character, but I would have thought understanding people and how they relate is key to making a good film, both in terms of managing the actors, and in telling the story. So, unlike engineering, I'd expect this one to appeal more or less equally to both sexes.
Companies have a history of taking advantage of people. Remember 12 hour work days, 6-day weeks, and deadly working conditions? There's often someone desperate enough, and society has an extended history of needing to dictate to companies at what point they're mistreating or abusing their workers, rather than entering into an equitable business relationship.
Now, you could argue that it those adjustments from the past were necessary to fix criminal abuses, and that the point we have today is just right and needs no further adjustment. (Though I suspect many, many people said the same thing about 12-hour days, child labor, and people losing a fingers to machinery.)
Of course there's also a pretty big spread between "abusive" and "guaranteed living wage" and I'm not necessarily arguing for the latter. But I don't think you can point to the fact that there's someone desperate enough to take the job as proof, by itself, that the job isn't inherently unfair at some level.
Did you only use it once? That seems a little premature. I mean, if 4 out of 5 suggestions are good, that'd be a decent track record. Particularly the movies we really hate, sometimes it's just one or two little things, which might be an issue for one but not others, like the way some people taste a weird flavor in cilantro and others don't.
I can also think of a couple of movies that I liked on one viewing and hated on another, or vice versa. Mood and circumstance can always play a role.
Can you imagine the paperwork for keeping track of precise publication dates for every creative work, and holding it for 95 years? A few months is a rounding error, literally at or less than 1%. I for one am glad they had the sense to just make it Jan 1 for everything.
Generally, I'd agree. But my to-do lists have consisted of draft emails sitting in Gmail for the past 5 years anyway, spread across 3 different topics. Might as well put it in one single list with some additional functionality (reminders for hard deadlines, maybe?). Yeah, it might go away, but I can cut and paste it back into an unsent email pretty quick if it happens.
I'm seeing 1080 versions on the web site for under $300, some as low as $150. Maybe they're just dumping extra stock. Even your model is on sale for $250 right now.
Man, that's cheap. I'd been wanting to upgrade a 32" 720 to something more like 48" 1080p. Didn't realize they'd dropped so much.
How is the Sceptre? My last Walmart internet special TV looks ok, but the interface is downright terrible. (It turns itself on daily... with a setting that resets daily, so that you can't stop it. And the bios update was so unintuitive it took me 2 weeks and 5 support calls to get it working.) That was an RCA, though. Might be what I get for going name brand.
Considering most of the people on this site lived through the turn of the millennium on January 1, 2001, I'm really surprised this still confuses anyone.
Wait, isn't dreaming part of sleep? How does ending a dream get you more sleep?
Asking in part because, as far as I can tell, my sleep is 100% dreams. I know they say that's not how it works, but it's been decades since I woke up and couldn't tell you what I had just been dreaming.
While I feel that way about life, too, I also know that, once I had that freedom of choice, I'd be doing all kinds of productive things - writing, programming, carpentry, planning group projects. Many of those things might not be very profitable, but right now I don't have the time and energy to find out, and when I do have a little inclination to do something, it almost *has* to be designed around the profit to justify it. With the total freedom to attempt things regardless of their financial aspects, there's a decent chance many of them would end up at least somewhat productive in the long run.
Most people have had 3 months in which this payment could have been completed. And if they're able to spend their day at the office doing taxes, they can probably also bail from that same work long enough to go to the post office.
Do we care about equally representing states or people? Because we can choose one or the other, not both.
Are you kidding? That is precisely, literally, what the compromise of two houses of Congress is. One house to equally represent the people, the other to equally represent the states. This compromise is congressional theory #1, and if you don't know anything else about Congress, this is the one thing everyone should know.
We once had a client tell us they didn't like the length of some pull-down bars in the demo version of the software, and demanded that we take out the actual pull-down and replace it with an image of a shorter pull-down.
"But when you get the final version, it's going to have to be bigger to fit the real contents."
"Oh, we know, but it looks messy now, so just fudge it until the design phase is over with."
I'm not taking advice from a company whose best attempt at naming *themselves* is "SerNet GmbH". Four capital letters in two words, and there aren't even any vowels in that second one. How the hell am I supposed to pronounce that?
* I am aware of German corporate names. Though "GmbH" is still awkward, and as an American I've got no idea how to pronounce it.
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Heh. We had some kind of kid's toy duck that would quack. I forget exactly what triggered it, but it only made noise when either squeezed or moved or some kind of interaction. About 3 a.m. one night it gave a random quack from the bathroom, even though hit hadn't been touched in days. After it did it a couple of times over the span of a week, I think we got rid of it, just because we didn't want to keep being woken up.
Women are interested in people and men are interested in things. Making movies is a thing.
It's a thing, but it's a thing that's mostly about and done by people. Having not directed, I may be wrong about how much time is spent on technical matters versus story and character, but I would have thought understanding people and how they relate is key to making a good film, both in terms of managing the actors, and in telling the story. So, unlike engineering, I'd expect this one to appeal more or less equally to both sexes.
when I hire somebody to fix my fence that's a contractor. When I hire somebody to fix fences for my fence repair business that's an employee.
So, is Uber a transportation company? A people-coordinating company? An app company? I'm not actually sure where they fall between your two examples.
Companies have a history of taking advantage of people. Remember 12 hour work days, 6-day weeks, and deadly working conditions? There's often someone desperate enough, and society has an extended history of needing to dictate to companies at what point they're mistreating or abusing their workers, rather than entering into an equitable business relationship.
Now, you could argue that it those adjustments from the past were necessary to fix criminal abuses, and that the point we have today is just right and needs no further adjustment. (Though I suspect many, many people said the same thing about 12-hour days, child labor, and people losing a fingers to machinery.)
Of course there's also a pretty big spread between "abusive" and "guaranteed living wage" and I'm not necessarily arguing for the latter. But I don't think you can point to the fact that there's someone desperate enough to take the job as proof, by itself, that the job isn't inherently unfair at some level.
Did you only use it once? That seems a little premature. I mean, if 4 out of 5 suggestions are good, that'd be a decent track record. Particularly the movies we really hate, sometimes it's just one or two little things, which might be an issue for one but not others, like the way some people taste a weird flavor in cilantro and others don't.
I can also think of a couple of movies that I liked on one viewing and hated on another, or vice versa. Mood and circumstance can always play a role.
That said, some recommendations are just bad.
Can you imagine the paperwork for keeping track of precise publication dates for every creative work, and holding it for 95 years? A few months is a rounding error, literally at or less than 1%. I for one am glad they had the sense to just make it Jan 1 for everything.
Now I want to see this so bad.
Generally, I'd agree. But my to-do lists have consisted of draft emails sitting in Gmail for the past 5 years anyway, spread across 3 different topics. Might as well put it in one single list with some additional functionality (reminders for hard deadlines, maybe?). Yeah, it might go away, but I can cut and paste it back into an unsent email pretty quick if it happens.
Thanks for the rundown.
I'm seeing 1080 versions on the web site for under $300, some as low as $150. Maybe they're just dumping extra stock. Even your model is on sale for $250 right now.
My company directory has at last 9 Clouds. It may not be common, but it can be a name.
Man, that's cheap. I'd been wanting to upgrade a 32" 720 to something more like 48" 1080p. Didn't realize they'd dropped so much.
How is the Sceptre? My last Walmart internet special TV looks ok, but the interface is downright terrible. (It turns itself on daily ... with a setting that resets daily, so that you can't stop it. And the bios update was so unintuitive it took me 2 weeks and 5 support calls to get it working.) That was an RCA, though. Might be what I get for going name brand.
Considering most of the people on this site lived through the turn of the millennium on January 1, 2001, I'm really surprised this still confuses anyone.
Wait, isn't dreaming part of sleep? How does ending a dream get you more sleep?
Asking in part because, as far as I can tell, my sleep is 100% dreams. I know they say that's not how it works, but it's been decades since I woke up and couldn't tell you what I had just been dreaming.
A sideways flop off a plank of irrelevent length? It's got a ring to it, I guess.
While I feel that way about life, too, I also know that, once I had that freedom of choice, I'd be doing all kinds of productive things - writing, programming, carpentry, planning group projects. Many of those things might not be very profitable, but right now I don't have the time and energy to find out, and when I do have a little inclination to do something, it almost *has* to be designed around the profit to justify it. With the total freedom to attempt things regardless of their financial aspects, there's a decent chance many of them would end up at least somewhat productive in the long run.
Wouldn't the cars that are actually driving be putting out more of the pollutants than the idling ones? Idling is a relatively low-consumption state.
no politicians screaming "think of the children"
Maybe because no children were killed in this particular incident?
Most people have had 3 months in which this payment could have been completed. And if they're able to spend their day at the office doing taxes, they can probably also bail from that same work long enough to go to the post office.
If it prevents rugrats, rubber might be an anti-PET.
The human pupil is pretty circular, isn't it?
Do we care about equally representing states or people? Because we can choose one or the other, not both.
Are you kidding? That is precisely, literally, what the compromise of two houses of Congress is. One house to equally represent the people, the other to equally represent the states. This compromise is congressional theory #1, and if you don't know anything else about Congress, this is the one thing everyone should know.
Otherwise, Florida and California and New York would simply be in charge and no one else would have any say.
Texas would beg to differ with that statement.
We once had a client tell us they didn't like the length of some pull-down bars in the demo version of the software, and demanded that we take out the actual pull-down and replace it with an image of a shorter pull-down.
"But when you get the final version, it's going to have to be bigger to fit the real contents."
"Oh, we know, but it looks messy now, so just fudge it until the design phase is over with."
Just rolls off the tongue. Thank you for the information. Even I have to admit that GmbH appears to be, in comparison, a short and easy handle.
I'm not taking advice from a company whose best attempt at naming *themselves* is "SerNet GmbH". Four capital letters in two words, and there aren't even any vowels in that second one. How the hell am I supposed to pronounce that?
* I am aware of German corporate names. Though "GmbH" is still awkward, and as an American I've got no idea how to pronounce it.