First, I don't want to lose my job. I resemble that employee. Ok, maybe not, but it's a great slashdot mime.
Second, attrition get's to be a problem when you start cracking down too tightly on productivity. I left one job due to a "butts in seats" policy that I didn't agree with. They started requiring everyone to be in the office for 8 hours a day 5 days a week no mater how much over time you put in at night or on the weekends.
Third, no politician is going to do anything that forces a bunch of people to lose their job. This is part of the problem with allowing the government to control these things. When things go bad there isn't much they can do. At least in a private industry if things are going bad, layoffs are an option and the CEO will not get fired for making that good decision. It's a short term crappy situation for the people that get laid off, but at least the company may continue, grow and possibly hire more people. The government doesn't do this, it just re-adjusts taxes in hopes of getting more revenue. (Democrats prefer higher taxes to increase revenue, but this makes for slower economy and less transactions to tax, while Republicans favor lower taxes to increase revenue by speeding up the economy and making more transactions to tax) Either way those politicians would be out of a job if they cut other peoples jobs even if it was a good decision.
No, let me put together a car analogy for you that fits more closely.
Blaming Bush for the country's economic woes is like blaming the driver for where your car ends up. Sure you can point to the engine (people) for powering that car. Sure you can blame the wheels (banks) for carrying the car there. Sure you could blame the exhaust fumes (Democrats) for causing global warming. Of course you can blame the drive train (government) for allowing it all to be connected, but in the end it was the driver that persuaded all those parts to go where you ended up.
Actually it does have a lot of humor value. It was a joke that was made to parody the dot com era of business plans saying 1) register a.com, 3) profit. and then selling that to VCs that were handing out cash to anyone with that as their business plan. 2 didn't need to exist.
Anyway I do stand somewhat corrected as someone else posted there was a sign with step 2 having a '?' at one point in the episode. Always when spoken it was just completely left out.
we are talking serious comedy here right? I also find it very amusing that people don't find an overly serous analysis of a joke amusing in it's self. Perhaps I should be less subtle and just say, "fart" or "butsecks". That should simplify the humor.
Of course it is. Microsoft spent billions building an aura of acceptably broken software. People will even claim that it is all ok, then just accept the hang of their entire system while they launch another application. Apple broke this expectation by making a quality OS that doesn't require an in flight missile repair man to maintain.
Charges n. 1) Anything the cops and district attorney think they can scare you enough with to get you to plea to a lower crime whether or not you actually did it.
I'm surprised they didn't through in other stuff like a drug charge and a DUI, and threaten to make you register with the sex offenders list. Maybe throw in a parking ticket for good measure.
Question: What's step 3? Answer: Step 5 will cure cancer.
I always feel the need to correct this joke. Get rid of the ??? step as part of the joke is that it doesn't exist and ruins the entire thing. By adding the ??? step it's as if you are looking for the step when the idea is that you deny it is even needed.
Only way for touch screen voting to be useful is for initial counts. Process as such:
1) voter votes on touch screen which pops out a card with his/her votes clearly shown on the card. 2) card gets dropped in sealed ballot box with custody chain documentation. 3) at the end of the voting cycle the machines report the results. 4) the losing campaign at that time can request a manual recount.
This gets both the speed of machine counted votes and the "security" of hand counted votes if requested.
The error was not small- any amateur telescope maker with a razor blade and a pen laser would have found it in five minutes.
Hmm, from what I remember of that, the problem wasn't detectable until it was in zero G. It was ground perfectly flat in earth gravity, but then bubbled slightly once put into space. I think it'd require a quite a bit more than a razor blade and a pen laser (of which were really really expensive at the time and not many people had them) to detect the problem.
fast forward a few billion years when we have populated most of the galaxy. We start dumping our waist into black holes and the hippies come out of the woodwork, "What? We already messed up our dimension why are we ruining another dimension?"
For desktop systems this is bad, but an even worse place to me is servers. Under normal circumstances a long boot time doesn't seem like it should be a big deal, but if it's a server that needs a reboot, often times, every second counts. Also, the times that a server does need to be rebooted, like when developing a new server build image it adds literally hours to the process of finalizing the server build just waiting the 7-10 minutes of POST processes that most server hardware goes through. There should be a flag within the bios that records the last time a full POST has succeeded and then not do it again for 24 hours, if requested by a prompt, or if the case had been opened assuming that hardware changed.
Republicans: The Democrat measure to increase DST to 7 months goes to far!! Democrats: The Republican measure to increase DST to 7 months doesn't go far enough!!
"Take any small round object (a ball is preferable, but not indispensable), put some stones a couple of meters apart on an alley and get some buddies..."
A local place we go quite often we can have a dinner at about $8-9 a plate (includes chips and 4 kinds of dip, as well as soppapias for dessert) and drinks around $2-3. If we don't drink much at the restaurant we can get out sometimes after tip around $26. And the food is really good New Mexico style Mexican food.
That breaks down to: "Why do the struggle to pay the rent and feed their children?"
I know I can live, pay rent, have a nice car, and a social life on around $10 an hour. I could cut some of that easily to pay for food for a kid. You can make more money that $10 an hour delivering pizza. Perhaps they should evaluate their lifestyle and adjust it to their income.
Sorry not everyone gets whisked off to be the fresh prince of Bel-Air. The sooner you accept your position in life the sooner you can work on improving it. Denying your position and living on credit cards, spending more than you make, and not working an real self improvement will insure a steadily declining lifestyle.
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First, I don't want to lose my job. I resemble that employee. Ok, maybe not, but it's a great slashdot mime.
Second, attrition get's to be a problem when you start cracking down too tightly on productivity. I left one job due to a "butts in seats" policy that I didn't agree with. They started requiring everyone to be in the office for 8 hours a day 5 days a week no mater how much over time you put in at night or on the weekends.
Third, no politician is going to do anything that forces a bunch of people to lose their job. This is part of the problem with allowing the government to control these things. When things go bad there isn't much they can do. At least in a private industry if things are going bad, layoffs are an option and the CEO will not get fired for making that good decision. It's a short term crappy situation for the people that get laid off, but at least the company may continue, grow and possibly hire more people. The government doesn't do this, it just re-adjusts taxes in hopes of getting more revenue. (Democrats prefer higher taxes to increase revenue, but this makes for slower economy and less transactions to tax, while Republicans favor lower taxes to increase revenue by speeding up the economy and making more transactions to tax) Either way those politicians would be out of a job if they cut other peoples jobs even if it was a good decision.
Yea, I have to reboot my OOXML like 4 times a day.
I'm sure the story tellers of old laughed in the same was as the cave painter said, "Ug draw this story on wall."
No, let me put together a car analogy for you that fits more closely.
Blaming Bush for the country's economic woes is like blaming the driver for where your car ends up. Sure you can point to the engine (people) for powering that car. Sure you can blame the wheels (banks) for carrying the car there. Sure you could blame the exhaust fumes (Democrats) for causing global warming. Of course you can blame the drive train (government) for allowing it all to be connected, but in the end it was the driver that persuaded all those parts to go where you ended up.
Actually it does have a lot of humor value. It was a joke that was made to parody the dot com era of business plans saying 1) register a .com, 3) profit. and then selling that to VCs that were handing out cash to anyone with that as their business plan. 2 didn't need to exist.
Anyway I do stand somewhat corrected as someone else posted there was a sign with step 2 having a '?' at one point in the episode. Always when spoken it was just completely left out.
we are talking serious comedy here right? I also find it very amusing that people don't find an overly serous analysis of a joke amusing in it's self. Perhaps I should be less subtle and just say, "fart" or "butsecks". That should simplify the humor.
Of course it is. Microsoft spent billions building an aura of acceptably broken software. People will even claim that it is all ok, then just accept the hang of their entire system while they launch another application. Apple broke this expectation by making a quality OS that doesn't require an in flight missile repair man to maintain.
Charges
n. 1) Anything the cops and district attorney think they can scare you enough with to get you to plea to a lower crime whether or not you actually did it.
I'm surprised they didn't through in other stuff like a drug charge and a DUI, and threaten to make you register with the sex offenders list. Maybe throw in a parking ticket for good measure.
1. Decentralize bittorrent
2. Share pirated stuff
4. profit
5. Cure cancer?
Question: What's step 3?
Answer: Step 5 will cure cancer.
I always feel the need to correct this joke. Get rid of the ??? step as part of the joke is that it doesn't exist and ruins the entire thing. By adding the ??? step it's as if you are looking for the step when the idea is that you deny it is even needed.
Hey, I take my jokes very serious.
Only way for touch screen voting to be useful is for initial counts. Process as such:
1) voter votes on touch screen which pops out a card with his/her votes clearly shown on the card.
2) card gets dropped in sealed ballot box with custody chain documentation.
3) at the end of the voting cycle the machines report the results.
4) the losing campaign at that time can request a manual recount.
This gets both the speed of machine counted votes and the "security" of hand counted votes if requested.
The error was not small- any amateur telescope maker with a razor blade and a pen laser would have found it in five minutes.
Hmm, from what I remember of that, the problem wasn't detectable until it was in zero G. It was ground perfectly flat in earth gravity, but then bubbled slightly once put into space. I think it'd require a quite a bit more than a razor blade and a pen laser (of which were really really expensive at the time and not many people had them) to detect the problem.
fast forward a few billion years when we have populated most of the galaxy. We start dumping our waist into black holes and the hippies come out of the woodwork, "What? We already messed up our dimension why are we ruining another dimension?"
No, it's fiction attempted by some to be passed as fact. Therefore a hoax.
For desktop systems this is bad, but an even worse place to me is servers. Under normal circumstances a long boot time doesn't seem like it should be a big deal, but if it's a server that needs a reboot, often times, every second counts. Also, the times that a server does need to be rebooted, like when developing a new server build image it adds literally hours to the process of finalizing the server build just waiting the 7-10 minutes of POST processes that most server hardware goes through. There should be a flag within the bios that records the last time a full POST has succeeded and then not do it again for 24 hours, if requested by a prompt, or if the case had been opened assuming that hardware changed.
(and skin cancer, early blindness, etc...)
Republicans: The Democrat measure to increase DST to 7 months goes to far!!
Democrats: The Republican measure to increase DST to 7 months doesn't go far enough!!
Can I put "It's just a game" on the list with "It's just a theory" and "It's just a book."
There are floors other than the basement?
What else have you NOT TOLD ME!!
"Take any small round object (a ball is preferable, but not indispensable), put some stones a couple of meters apart on an alley and get some buddies..."
Those are freaking expensive!!!
A local place we go quite often we can have a dinner at about $8-9 a plate (includes chips and 4 kinds of dip, as well as soppapias for dessert) and drinks around $2-3. If we don't drink much at the restaurant we can get out sometimes after tip around $26. And the food is really good New Mexico style Mexican food.
That breaks down to: "Why do the struggle to pay the rent and feed their children?"
I know I can live, pay rent, have a nice car, and a social life on around $10 an hour. I could cut some of that easily to pay for food for a kid. You can make more money that $10 an hour delivering pizza. Perhaps they should evaluate their lifestyle and adjust it to their income.
Sorry not everyone gets whisked off to be the fresh prince of Bel-Air. The sooner you accept your position in life the sooner you can work on improving it. Denying your position and living on credit cards, spending more than you make, and not working an real self improvement will insure a steadily declining lifestyle.
or 15 mins so I can get back to raiding.
There are still people that don't understand the diffrance between supressive fire and herding people and bad shooting.
http://www.adpov.net/2005/03/09/adpov-001/
They claim it two posts above yours.
exactly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_law
If my daylight savings account had better interest rates I'd be all for it. Really I suggest we migrate to good growth stock daylight mutual funds.