Also a woman is seens as a risk. Yes, I know it's sexist and no employer will ever admit it because he could be dragged to court for it, but there is the "risk" that she will get pregnant and go on maternity leave. Depending on the country you're in, that could well mean not only that you are going to miss an experienced worker but also that she may even be entitled to getting her job back after being away 2-3 years. That in turn means that you would have to hire someone new, train him, then fire him after 2-3 years when he finally reached productivity level, only to rehire someone who has been out of the loop for 2-3 years and maybe has to be retrained.
See why many companies refuse to hire women for any job but the ones that require the least training? And thus also usually have the lowest pay?
It also probably has nothing to do with the fact that most men won't frequently break down in tears when you tell them to do their job. When it comes down to it they seem to expect to get paid the same for doing less actual work. If you point this out your just being mean.
What I don't understand is why evolution would self-select for prettier women, but not prettier men. A man who is ugly is not going to get any play or opportunity to pass his ugly genes to the next generation. Right? So then men should be becoming more attractive.
The only reason I can think is that women are being honest when they say, "We don't care what the guy looks like."
What you are noticing is the fact that men are "attractive" to women for different reasons than women are attractive to men.
"There is no rational justification for why retention of all of this data from everyone who comes into the club.⦠There really isn't," said Vonn.
I love how he thinks just repeating this over and over will make it true even though they already said why it was necessary. Definitely lawyer think. I honestly hope cooler heads prevail and they keep the scanners. Here's an idea if you don't want your id scanned don't go to places that do it. Or choose to act in a civilized manner. They should not be selling the data but working with police and other public records systems seems perfectly reasonable and necessary to me.
A humorous nugget from the article not mentioned in the summary. This was a prepaid Visa. Just makes it that much more ridiculous. Perhaps it was his choice of storing this amount of money on a secured credit card that had him sweating. He must of built a time machine and drained his grandchild's bank account. Of course in the future that was their monthly salary.
This has nothing to do with "error management". Geolocation by IP is based off a combination of who leased the IP and where the packets are routed. If you are working through a dedicated T3 in Orange County, you're likely to resolve to Seattle. This is a persistent problem for geolocation services, not specifically Google. I'm not sure the point of the article, when anyone who's used commercial and free lookups, knows this is par.
In other news, they probably heard that Vista is a next generation OS.
Thank you Jack9. This is what I was thinking the whole time. Have they been living under a rock. If you really need to find your location, with a still far from perfect but higher consistency GPS is within most peoples reach. This IP location technology at its best is on the level of amusement rather than anything to rely on.
everything that's already in the world when you're born is just normal
anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it
anything that gets invented after you're thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it's been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.
That is so true. I think of this when I hear the phrase "classic controller". This is new fangled and weird. I can't imagine playing Star Raiders, or Crossfire with one. (Well, I could, it's just that all my reflexes are trained to have a fire button under my left thumb.)
Just proves that everything is relative. Even though I am old enough to have used a "Joy-Stick" when I read classic controller I thought of the rectangular NES controllers that I spent many a hour of my youth button mashing.
....one could with almost equal validity assert that ninjas were protecting us from global warming, since a decrease in ninjas over time has correlated to an increase in global temps. (The hitch being, of course, that it's REALLY hard to count ninjas.)
So what your saying is that we need to give Ninja's government protection. Like adding Ninja's to the endangered species list? Put them in something like a witness protection program. That would probably go over better than the whole burn less fossil fuels thing. We likey our fossil fuels, yum.
I find it interesting that mentioning Obama's middle name is considered "taboo". Now, why is that? Hmmmm???
It's not a taboo, it's just doing that makes you look stupid. After all, people don't usually write "George Walker Bush" or "Franklin Delano Roosevelt" in full, either. Same goes for Obama - only context when his middle name is spelt out is generally when someone is trying to hint at his "un-American" ancestry.
Actually every time I hear President Roosevelt's name it is his complete name. I wonder if that is an artifact of some communist having the name Delano and therefore his political foes constantly trying to remind everyone. Naw it's probably just that Frank Roosevelt makes you think "Who is that?" but Franklin Delano Roosevelt oh yeah the president. Now Barak Obama is kind of hard to miss on it's own.
Your wish is my command.
Panasonic Phone W/Bluetooth to Cell linking I have one sitting on my desk right now. It also has a cool ring tone recording ability. You can use a Bluetooth headset with it etc.
If the news sites aren't having any problems serving their pages could they cache the ads as well so their users get a consistent experience? Just curious.
well technically Iran is a democracy
with democratic elections
and president elected by people.
obviously there are problems
and problems with ballot counting,
however Florida also had ballots accounting problem...
I do not say Iran is a happy place to live
but it is more open than many think.
do you think manifestations would happen in North Corea ?
do you think people would be able to play WoW or use Twitter in many Burma ?
I guess the difference is after the problems in Florida no one died. In America our elections are usually decided by a couple percent that means that nearly half the population disagrees with the outcome still no one dies over it. Maybe we should make more noise but usually there isn't even a protest.
Of course our political parties are very similar you might say opposite sides of the same coin. I guess if loosing meant our livelihood or lives were in danger we might be a little more involved.
If she is that bad, kick her to the curb, and get another one out there...there are plenty of them....
One little problem. Their all the same. Just varying degrees of the same story. So you either die a lonely bitter man or...
When you think you found the one who is not like the others then one day you wake up and realize she is just like the others and at that point it doesn't make sense to leave because she will ruin you financially and put your kids through an emotional blender. Then you die a not so lonely but still bitter old man. Your choice...
Of course you could work with her and put up with her crap sometimes but pick your battles. All your friends will think your a puss but you may be a little happier.
For men with smaller or chopped foreskins, condoms interfere with sexual pleasure and frankly, when I'm in bed with a beautiful naked girl, the last thing I need is for a cock sock. Pretty naked girl overrides sanity, to the point where if the condom gets in the way, the logical answer is to rip it off and go without.
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I don't understand this. I have my foreskin removed and the condom stretches so thin that I still feel everything. I also write the serial number down in my LBB.
Why they hell would your girlfriend get mad at YOU for spending your own money on something you wanted?!?!
Secondly...why would you care?
It's not about whether they can spend without guilt or not I've known women on both ends of that spectrum. It is about the double standard they have. What is yours is ours and what is theirs is theirs. Think about it. How many guys do you know who work and pay the bills to support their woman. But when their woman gets a job it's her money she earned it. BTW you care because women are skilled at making your life a living hell if you don't.
OK. If you provide me with the hardware necessary to run it.
I've always stated the theory that Notes was actually written by Soviet government programmers in the early 80's and that Lotus actually bought it from them in a fire sale after the USSR collapsed for a case of cigarettes.
...usually users will be bitching to each other about something being 'a bit flakey' long before it gets to IT as a critical fault.
lol Yes, the problem that they told you about around 9am that just has to be fixed before lunch. Then after fixing it they say offhand thank you so much it's been like that for 6 months.
You have to find just the right mix of firm handedness and being really genuinely friendly. Even though you may have every right to tell them what an id10t error it was.
I went through that. By the end of mandatory education I'd stopped caring altogether, not turning up on half the days and failing most of the exams, just to make the condescending remarks stop.
It took a few years to recover from that damage.
Ditto here. But chew on this. If you try to fail and succeed which have you really done?
Or maybe you didn't have the gift of exploiting your "giftedness". Some people start a business or invent things or go into research. Maybe it's not that the world didn't know what to do with gifted people, but that these "gifted" people didn't figure out what to do with themselves.
Or blame the world. I'm sure that falls under some high-brow philosophical school of thinking.
It's not about blame. You're treated like a circus act and when their done with you it's all over your on your own. Once I hit adulthood I figured it out for myself. But, we're talking about children here. They only know what their parents and teachers have been feeding them. Then all of a sudden all the bull meets with reality and you can't blame someone for being a little tiny bit disillusioned by that.
But I'm sure that blame the victim is some popular philosophical school of thinking.
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more than 3 children should be illegal
Why? Because you have to oppress someone else because you do not want to have children of your own to compete?
Maybe he means "Eric-x having more than 3 children should be illegal." If we're putting it to a vote I think he shouldn't have any.
Also a woman is seens as a risk. Yes, I know it's sexist and no employer will ever admit it because he could be dragged to court for it, but there is the "risk" that she will get pregnant and go on maternity leave. Depending on the country you're in, that could well mean not only that you are going to miss an experienced worker but also that she may even be entitled to getting her job back after being away 2-3 years. That in turn means that you would have to hire someone new, train him, then fire him after 2-3 years when he finally reached productivity level, only to rehire someone who has been out of the loop for 2-3 years and maybe has to be retrained.
See why many companies refuse to hire women for any job but the ones that require the least training? And thus also usually have the lowest pay?
It also probably has nothing to do with the fact that most men won't frequently break down in tears when you tell them to do their job. When it comes down to it they seem to expect to get paid the same for doing less actual work. If you point this out your just being mean.
That's true.
What I don't understand is why evolution would self-select for prettier women, but not prettier men. A man who is ugly is not going to get any play or opportunity to pass his ugly genes to the next generation. Right? So then men should be becoming more attractive.
The only reason I can think is that women are being honest when they say, "We don't care what the guy looks like."
What you are noticing is the fact that men are "attractive" to women for different reasons than women are attractive to men.
"There is no rational justification for why retention of all of this data from everyone who comes into the club.⦠There really isn't," said Vonn.
I love how he thinks just repeating this over and over will make it true even though they already said why it was necessary. Definitely lawyer think. I honestly hope cooler heads prevail and they keep the scanners. Here's an idea if you don't want your id scanned don't go to places that do it. Or choose to act in a civilized manner. They should not be selling the data but working with police and other public records systems seems perfectly reasonable and necessary to me.
A humorous nugget from the article not mentioned in the summary. This was a prepaid Visa. Just makes it that much more ridiculous. Perhaps it was his choice of storing this amount of money on a secured credit card that had him sweating. He must of built a time machine and drained his grandchild's bank account. Of course in the future that was their monthly salary.
This has nothing to do with "error management". Geolocation by IP is based off a combination of who leased the IP and where the packets are routed. If you are working through a dedicated T3 in Orange County, you're likely to resolve to Seattle. This is a persistent problem for geolocation services, not specifically Google. I'm not sure the point of the article, when anyone who's used commercial and free lookups, knows this is par.
In other news, they probably heard that Vista is a next generation OS.
Thank you Jack9. This is what I was thinking the whole time. Have they been living under a rock. If you really need to find your location, with a still far from perfect but higher consistency GPS is within most peoples reach. This IP location technology at its best is on the level of amusement rather than anything to rely on.
I was until I shot myself in the head after destroying the nations credit system.
You my friend are the all knowing all seeing cr*p of the world.
That is so true. I think of this when I hear the phrase "classic controller". This is new fangled and weird. I can't imagine playing Star Raiders, or Crossfire with one. (Well, I could, it's just that all my reflexes are trained to have a fire button under my left thumb.)
Just proves that everything is relative. Even though I am old enough to have used a "Joy-Stick" when I read classic controller I thought of the rectangular NES controllers that I spent many a hour of my youth button mashing.
....one could with almost equal validity assert that ninjas were protecting us from global warming, since a decrease in ninjas over time has correlated to an increase in global temps. (The hitch being, of course, that it's REALLY hard to count ninjas.)
So what your saying is that we need to give Ninja's government protection. Like adding Ninja's to the endangered species list? Put them in something like a witness protection program. That would probably go over better than the whole burn less fossil fuels thing. We likey our fossil fuels, yum.
I find it interesting that mentioning Obama's middle name is considered "taboo". Now, why is that? Hmmmm???
It's not a taboo, it's just doing that makes you look stupid. After all, people don't usually write "George Walker Bush" or "Franklin Delano Roosevelt" in full, either. Same goes for Obama - only context when his middle name is spelt out is generally when someone is trying to hint at his "un-American" ancestry.
Actually every time I hear President Roosevelt's name it is his complete name. I wonder if that is an artifact of some communist having the name Delano and therefore his political foes constantly trying to remind everyone. Naw it's probably just that Frank Roosevelt makes you think "Who is that?" but Franklin Delano Roosevelt oh yeah the president. Now Barak Obama is kind of hard to miss on it's own.
Link?
Your wish is my command. Panasonic Phone W/Bluetooth to Cell linking I have one sitting on my desk right now. It also has a cool ring tone recording ability. You can use a Bluetooth headset with it etc.
Did they try Googling for alternatives to Google?
They called this one wrong. Because they are idiots and almost always call them wrong. After a poorly conceived and executed "test."
There fixed that for ya. That said, I still like to watch them blow stuff up. As well as argue incessantly with my friends over what they did wrong.
If the news sites aren't having any problems serving their pages could they cache the ads as well so their users get a consistent experience? Just curious.
when reading the post. I thought, "What does a satire news site have to do with routing?" The Onion
well technically Iran is a democracy with democratic elections and president elected by people.
obviously there are problems and problems with ballot counting, however Florida also had ballots accounting problem...
I do not say Iran is a happy place to live but it is more open than many think.
do you think manifestations would happen in North Corea ? do you think people would be able to play WoW or use Twitter in many Burma ?
I guess the difference is after the problems in Florida no one died. In America our elections are usually decided by a couple percent that means that nearly half the population disagrees with the outcome still no one dies over it. Maybe we should make more noise but usually there isn't even a protest.
Of course our political parties are very similar you might say opposite sides of the same coin. I guess if loosing meant our livelihood or lives were in danger we might be a little more involved.
If she is that bad, kick her to the curb, and get another one out there...there are plenty of them. ...
One little problem. Their all the same. Just varying degrees of the same story. So you either die a lonely bitter man or...
When you think you found the one who is not like the others then one day you wake up and realize she is just like the others and at that point it doesn't make sense to leave because she will ruin you financially and put your kids through an emotional blender. Then you die a not so lonely but still bitter old man. Your choice...
Of course you could work with her and put up with her crap sometimes but pick your battles. All your friends will think your a puss but you may be a little happier.
For men with smaller or chopped foreskins, condoms interfere with sexual pleasure and frankly, when I'm in bed with a beautiful naked girl, the last thing I need is for a cock sock. Pretty naked girl overrides sanity, to the point where if the condom gets in the way, the logical answer is to rip it off and go without.
Slashdot, news for nerds. Now bringing you, sex for geeks.
I don't understand this. I have my foreskin removed and the condom stretches so thin that I still feel everything. I also write the serial number down in my LBB.
I didn't know my ex-wife trolled slashdot...
There, fixed that for you.
Here is another article with a CG Drawing of it.
Why they hell would your girlfriend get mad at YOU for spending your own money on something you wanted?!?!
Secondly...why would you care?
It's not about whether they can spend without guilt or not I've known women on both ends of that spectrum. It is about the double standard they have. What is yours is ours and what is theirs is theirs. Think about it. How many guys do you know who work and pay the bills to support their woman. But when their woman gets a job it's her money she earned it. BTW you care because women are skilled at making your life a living hell if you don't.
OK. If you provide me with the hardware necessary to run it.
I've always stated the theory that Notes was actually written by Soviet government programmers in the early 80's and that Lotus actually bought it from them in a fire sale after the USSR collapsed for a case of cigarettes.
Are you suggesting Ray Ozzie is a Soviet spy?
...usually users will be bitching to each other about something being 'a bit flakey' long before it gets to IT as a critical fault.
lol Yes, the problem that they told you about around 9am that just has to be fixed before lunch. Then after fixing it they say offhand thank you so much it's been like that for 6 months.
You have to find just the right mix of firm handedness and being really genuinely friendly. Even though you may have every right to tell them what an id10t error it was.
I went through that. By the end of mandatory education I'd stopped caring altogether, not turning up on half the days and failing most of the exams, just to make the condescending remarks stop.
It took a few years to recover from that damage.
Ditto here. But chew on this. If you try to fail and succeed which have you really done?
Or maybe you didn't have the gift of exploiting your "giftedness". Some people start a business or invent things or go into research. Maybe it's not that the world didn't know what to do with gifted people, but that these "gifted" people didn't figure out what to do with themselves.
Or blame the world. I'm sure that falls under some high-brow philosophical school of thinking.
It's not about blame. You're treated like a circus act and when their done with you it's all over your on your own. Once I hit adulthood I figured it out for myself. But, we're talking about children here. They only know what their parents and teachers have been feeding them. Then all of a sudden all the bull meets with reality and you can't blame someone for being a little tiny bit disillusioned by that.
But I'm sure that blame the victim is some popular philosophical school of thinking.