Of course, I suppose the fact that I actually bother checking my account activity regularly makes me some sort of Fiscal Wizard compared to your average person.:p
Not bad. Now proceed to that hole in the ground for proctology class.
Of course, by no means is stupid shit professional itself, but "professional behavior" and "stupid shit" can come from the same person, given different sets of circumstances. Being in the latter half of my twenties myself, I find that my tolerance for shenanigans is going down, as is my desire to incite or perform them, for what it's worth.
Being 20 years older than you I'd say "professional behavior" is stupider than any shit I've ever seen. Have you ever watched they ways how gorillas act within their natural hierarchies? Like the things "superior" males do to demonstrate their position and how the weaker/younger males and femals react? Look at your colleges (or any company enywhere) at lunch, compare and think...
I have come to the conclusion that the gorillas are not half as ridiculous as the human horde. Actually, they are not ridiculous at all. They don't know much but they know what they are -a bunch of apes- and they are perfectly o.k. with it.
And then there's the other kind of monkeys who don't know even that much...
Just bill mocketing for plenty of your working hours you allegedly 'spent astroturfing' - and use the time to find a better job. That will serve them right. If your company can't find a better way to increase their revenues (writing better apps for example) they are on their way down anyway.
Uh-oh... Issues with "granted" heathcare in Europe can easily become a bureaucratic, financial and legal nightmare. There are plenty of them. And it's you health or even your life that's on dispute, then.
Tell me that next time you're arrested for crossing a perfectly ordinary road (even with zero traffic on it), or "failing to come to a complete stop at a stop sign".
hehehe... That's the price you pay for fast cars and high speed limits. Also traffic tickets are used to fill community budgets. But did you really get arrested for that? I mean, I know that stop signs can be quite expensive, but I've never heard of someone getting arrested for not stopping.
The topic of "things you're not allowed to so", however, is endless. Having to keep beer bottles in paper bags just to start with... I've been in a few places and I've come to the conclusion that people, societies and general madness are -while particular exeptions/extremes do occur- the same everywhere in the world. It's just the symptoms that differ...
A four-year investigation by The Australian Financial Review has revealed a global trail of corporate dirty tricks directed against competitors by a secretive group of former policemen and intelligence officers within News Corp known as Operational Security.
The US is building a vast system of paranoid security to protect... its vast security systems. Soon there will be nothing of much significance left but the military and its contractors. Then they might find out that they can't survive as a pure self-serving system. The shame is that they won't see until it's too late, stupid and arrogant as the military is (no matter which one), exercising their pompous and useless traditions, weaving flags and shooting in the air. Mankind should have known better since the first industrial war (WW1), but governments and systems have come and gone since then, the steel and cannon barons, however, have been staying in charge almost erverywhere...
Yes, exactly. Sounds fair enough to me. If you don't want your music "covered" then don't publish it. I don't see why anyone would need the copmoser's (or rather "rightholder's", nowadays) consent to play, record or remix any original works. As long as they pay royalties, if required.
So much attention from the wrong perspective that is. What the Romans feared most of all was a christian pontifex - for good reason. As soon as the pontifex' throne and the roman religio fell, the empire and the Roman Peace were past. 2000 years of darkness, hatred and religious wars followed and are still going on.
Not really. I had some minor troubles recently with a brand new Thinkpad and Debian (both, stable and testing). It took me an hour or two to find the right firmware and fix the loader.
Slightly OT, but migrating my Windows-based Ableton Live projects -together with some rather costly audio hard- and software- from my old Laptop to the same machine took weeks, lots of money and was a pure nightmare of incompatibilies, no longer available or not yet updated drivers and all sorts of crap you'd expect to have died out with ISA cards.
A dishwasher is not really hard to get into. All you need is a screwdriver to open any dishwasher/laundry machine or dryer, I've seen so far. I fixed ours a year ago. Though it was impossible to get original parts, as the manufacturer had just gone titsup, I was able to fix within two hours. There was a minor one-man-reenactment of "Poseidon Inferno" when I turned the water back on and realized that I forgot to tighten the hose, but finding the fault and fixing it was not too complicated. There's really no rocket science in household devices....and your car, by the way, is a walled garden. They have been for years and there were several antitrust suits all over the world because of locking out independent mechanics - or forcing them to buy vendor locked diagnosis and programming devices for monopolist prices.
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Of course, I suppose the fact that I actually bother checking my account activity regularly makes me some sort of Fiscal Wizard compared to your average person. :p
Not bad. Now proceed to that hole in the ground for proctology class.
Linux doesn't fragment. Windoze does.
How can you accidentally collect WiFi data?
Of course, by no means is stupid shit professional itself, but "professional behavior" and "stupid shit" can come from the same person, given different sets of circumstances. Being in the latter half of my twenties myself, I find that my tolerance for shenanigans is going down, as is my desire to incite or perform them, for what it's worth.
Being 20 years older than you I'd say "professional behavior" is stupider than any shit I've ever seen. Have you ever watched they ways how gorillas act within their natural hierarchies? Like the things "superior" males do to demonstrate their position and how the weaker/younger males and femals react? Look at your colleges (or any company enywhere) at lunch, compare and think... I have come to the conclusion that the gorillas are not half as ridiculous as the human horde. Actually, they are not ridiculous at all. They don't know much but they know what they are -a bunch of apes- and they are perfectly o.k. with it. And then there's the other kind of monkeys who don't know even that much...
I happen to be married with a Java enterprise developer - and she really hates women.
Just bill mocketing for plenty of your working hours you allegedly 'spent astroturfing' - and use the time to find a better job. That will serve them right. If your company can't find a better way to increase their revenues (writing better apps for example) they are on their way down anyway.
Uh-oh... Issues with "granted" heathcare in Europe can easily become a bureaucratic, financial and legal nightmare. There are plenty of them. And it's you health or even your life that's on dispute, then.
Tell me that next time you're arrested for crossing a perfectly ordinary road (even with zero traffic on it), or "failing to come to a complete stop at a stop sign".
hehehe... That's the price you pay for fast cars and high speed limits. Also traffic tickets are used to fill community budgets. But did you really get arrested for that? I mean, I know that stop signs can be quite expensive, but I've never heard of someone getting arrested for not stopping.
The topic of "things you're not allowed to so", however, is endless. Having to keep beer bottles in paper bags just to start with... I've been in a few places and I've come to the conclusion that people, societies and general madness are -while particular exeptions/extremes do occur- the same everywhere in the world. It's just the symptoms that differ...
So, downsizing their customer base didn't work anymore?
If that's not a conspiracy, what else is?
The US is building a vast system of paranoid security to protect... its vast security systems. Soon there will be nothing of much significance left but the military and its contractors. Then they might find out that they can't survive as a pure self-serving system. The shame is that they won't see until it's too late, stupid and arrogant as the military is (no matter which one), exercising their pompous and useless traditions, weaving flags and shooting in the air. Mankind should have known better since the first industrial war (WW1), but governments and systems have come and gone since then, the steel and cannon barons, however, have been staying in charge almost erverywhere...
Does it fart loudly?
Agreed. Leaves some interesting questions to think about. Like what Samarkand might have become.
Yes, exactly. Sounds fair enough to me. If you don't want your music "covered" then don't publish it. I don't see why anyone would need the copmoser's (or rather "rightholder's", nowadays) consent to play, record or remix any original works. As long as they pay royalties, if required.
So much attention from the wrong perspective that is. What the Romans feared most of all was a christian pontifex - for good reason. As soon as the pontifex' throne and the roman religio fell, the empire and the Roman Peace were past. 2000 years of darkness, hatred and religious wars followed and are still going on.
More or less. Thin air contains ~2 micrograms of zinc per cubic metre.
No, they might just be made from wood.
Yes. And the whole French House scene is singing... to french houses!
Take mine instead: http://soundcloud.com/ax11/cosmodrome-intro-the-long-run :)
Yes! That was as low, cheap and shabby as only the true artist will get.
It might have even been better with BSD making the proposal...
Not really. I had some minor troubles recently with a brand new Thinkpad and Debian (both, stable and testing). It took me an hour or two to find the right firmware and fix the loader. Slightly OT, but migrating my Windows-based Ableton Live projects -together with some rather costly audio hard- and software- from my old Laptop to the same machine took weeks, lots of money and was a pure nightmare of incompatibilies, no longer available or not yet updated drivers and all sorts of crap you'd expect to have died out with ISA cards.
They copied that phony practice from Google: if you want to get uncensored results you have to "log in" which means give up your privacy/anonymity.
Surviving the Cashless Cataclysm? You're kidding. I have been dating her for 15 years...
Wise words. Sorry, that I can't mod this one up, as I just commented.
A dishwasher is not really hard to get into. All you need is a screwdriver to open any dishwasher/laundry machine or dryer, I've seen so far. I fixed ours a year ago. Though it was impossible to get original parts, as the manufacturer had just gone titsup, I was able to fix within two hours. There was a minor one-man-reenactment of "Poseidon Inferno" when I turned the water back on and realized that I forgot to tighten the hose, but finding the fault and fixing it was not too complicated. There's really no rocket science in household devices. ...and your car, by the way, is a walled garden. They have been for years and there were several antitrust suits all over the world because of locking out independent mechanics - or forcing them to buy vendor locked diagnosis and programming devices for monopolist prices.