" You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill I will choose a path that's clear I will choose freewill " - Rush, Freewill
My job is dull, and it makes me weird.
I feel as though having even the most basic understanding of logic seems to make me completely alienated from the 90% of the world who consists of idiots who write worthless turds of "journalism", or other non-producing careers. Enjoy your meaningless, pathetic, existence, you piece of useless crap journalists. I hope some slashdotter automates your job, tomorrow.
OK. Fine, your snarky remark doesn't seem to release any hatred for completely ignoring weight on something so important. They aren't even considering a linear approximation, and they can't comprehend a fifth order equation. They are very clearly asking for drivers of regular vehicles to subisidize the damage caused by the large vehicles. So take your details and send them to your government (aka shove them up your ass)
Taxing by Miles Driven is absolute nonsense when discussing 'road wear'.
The wear on the road rises exponentially as the weight of the vehicle increases. This must be included or all the light cars are subsidizing the wear caused by the heavy ones.
So accounting for the weight of the vehicle, we need to come up with units of (weight * distance)
For Example,
A Harley that drives a thousand miles would get something like ( 1000 lbs * 1000 miles ) = 1,000,000 lb*miles
And, a Semi Truck that drives a thousand miles would get something like ( 50,000 lbs * 1000 miles ) = 50,000,000 lb*miles
The tax rate would increase with the weight of the vehicle, accounting for the fact that the wear is exponentially growing with weight...
Then you take your 'lb*miles' value and multiply by the tax rate.
This is at least not completely moronic... but probably still doesn't reflect the true reality of the situation.
Best Buy has laptops for about 250, which are good enough for web work.
Just make the backup CDs and refresh it when they fuck it up.
Or use Norton Ghost to image it
Initially, it seems like you couldn't get a wind-powered vehicle to go faster than the wind. For example, let us imagine a wind going 20mph North. If our vehicle is going to travel North with the wind at its back, the max speed would be 20 mph because any greater speed would result in an opposing force. However, if your vehicle is traveling West, and your sail is near perpedicular to the North-going wind, the translational velocity of the vehicle has no effect on the sail and the vehicles top speed would be set by the force applied to the sail and vehicle friction & weight, and if you got a good run at it, I don't see any reason you couldn't break wind speed that way.
I'm a bigger guy, broad shouldered, 5'9" 225 lbs. Yes, I'm a bit over fighting weight but I'd hardly consider my weight out of control. I barely fit into a southwest seat. It is miserable, I spend the whole thing with my shoulders shrugged, trying not to steal the armrest from my neighbor. Yes, they have the cheapest fare but its the most uncomfortable trip you'll ever take. My wife, a 5'7 120 lb'er says the same thing- she complains we're slapped in there like sardines. Perhaps they just got cheap and crammed an extra seat into each row, completely sacrificing comfort for all aboard.
Would anybody really bitch if they just had bigger seats? This is a design problem that the airline figures they can shed the blame onto heavy people. This is probably the fault of some penny pinching executive, but you all want to blame the hamburgers.
Allowing Hollywood dipshits would write something that would appeal to your average slashdotter would be an epic fail. What we need, is for somebody to sort out the decent fiction, and then, find somebody to direct & produce it who wouldn't make a complete abomination out of something that is awesome and classic.
I've been waiting for YEARS for the chance to eat extinct animals! T-Rex Burgers, Bald Eagle Sandwiches, Dodo Egg Omelettes, Saber-toothed McNuggets! Yummmm!
I worked in the gaming industry for two years and found that feeling partially responsible for completely fucking people over and selling false hope and abusing peoples addictive personalities left me feeling like a true piece of shit. There are great opportunities to to learn and grow in this industry, but if you want your life's work to be more than the abuse of human nature for profit then go somewhere else- thats what I did, and it was my best career move yet.
From this I do not think better of Barack Obama, as intended. Instead, I think less of the Nobel Peace Prize, as it is obviously being abused as a political tool instead of a method of honoring people who actually do things that benefit humanity.
YES. GREAT BOOK.
Rama 2 lost me though, I enjoyed the mystery of the ship in the first book, while the second took that leap into pure fantasy crab-robot stuff.
OK, seriously though we really don't need to make science about doing a whole crapload of partial derivatives by hand. These are problems that were solved in times past. What we need to do now is start kids extremely early on using MathCAD, MatLAB, or Maple to solve problems. A TI-89 can do all the crap they spent years teaching me. Just teach them to use software to solve interesting equations.
Taking the goal from lame mathematical memorizations to analyzing applicable situations will in itself boost interest in the sciences because kids might actually have a grasp of what a scientist actually does.
The passage of time is definitely the only attribute that makes you a good programmer.
Thats why I don't take tests, either- Because I've been around for almost 30 years and I would just blow the competition away so bad that it wouldn't be fair.
Unless, of course, I want my potential employer to know that I can actually program and that I'm not just lying my ass off about my skills.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! NO NO NO!!! 1984198419841984
I would fight it but they would just haul me off to the ministry of truth and lobotomize me.
Besides, they will just wait till the argument gets old and continue with their plans for our evil, stinking, orwellian hellhole futures.
It seems to me that this country is forgetting the whole point of a job: to make your employer money. No company is going to want to pay IT folks to dick around learning basic networking from google. Im STILL in school, finishing a decade of hell in mechanical engineering. I got my 3.0 GPA, but I learned to make myself useful in the process. And you don't learn that in school- you learn that by working shit jobs for years. If you are bitching about being unemployed, you set the bar too high and its your own fault. Go wash dishes, flip burgers, and clean bathrooms- you can still apply to that six figure job, and if you get it you'll work harder because you will know the alternative.
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"
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose freewill
" - Rush, Freewill
How is this any different from physical currency?
They keep changing the money to make it 'harder' to counterfeit, but I don't think they're succeeding...
Hacking bank accounts or investment portfolios and adding ten zeroes to the balance would have the same effect, no?
My job is dull, and it makes me weird. I feel as though having even the most basic understanding of logic seems to make me completely alienated from the 90% of the world who consists of idiots who write worthless turds of "journalism", or other non-producing careers. Enjoy your meaningless, pathetic, existence, you piece of useless crap journalists. I hope some slashdotter automates your job, tomorrow.
OK. Fine, your snarky remark doesn't seem to release any hatred for completely ignoring weight on something so important. They aren't even considering a linear approximation, and they can't comprehend a fifth order equation. They are very clearly asking for drivers of regular vehicles to subisidize the damage caused by the large vehicles. So take your details and send them to your government (aka shove them up your ass)
Taxing by Miles Driven is absolute nonsense when discussing 'road wear'. The wear on the road rises exponentially as the weight of the vehicle increases. This must be included or all the light cars are subsidizing the wear caused by the heavy ones. So accounting for the weight of the vehicle, we need to come up with units of (weight * distance) For Example, A Harley that drives a thousand miles would get something like ( 1000 lbs * 1000 miles ) = 1,000,000 lb*miles And, a Semi Truck that drives a thousand miles would get something like ( 50,000 lbs * 1000 miles ) = 50,000,000 lb*miles The tax rate would increase with the weight of the vehicle, accounting for the fact that the wear is exponentially growing with weight... Then you take your 'lb*miles' value and multiply by the tax rate. This is at least not completely moronic... but probably still doesn't reflect the true reality of the situation.
Certain materials might just get zapped a bit. Seems like this could be kind of like putting Grandpa in the microwave on low...
Its because management shoved a shitty product out the door without letting the engineers finish their job.
Thats no planet, thats a battle station!
Just install XP on it!
Best Buy has laptops for about 250, which are good enough for web work. Just make the backup CDs and refresh it when they fuck it up. Or use Norton Ghost to image it
Initially, it seems like you couldn't get a wind-powered vehicle to go faster than the wind. For example, let us imagine a wind going 20mph North. If our vehicle is going to travel North with the wind at its back, the max speed would be 20 mph because any greater speed would result in an opposing force. However, if your vehicle is traveling West, and your sail is near perpedicular to the North-going wind, the translational velocity of the vehicle has no effect on the sail and the vehicles top speed would be set by the force applied to the sail and vehicle friction & weight, and if you got a good run at it, I don't see any reason you couldn't break wind speed that way.
I'm a bigger guy, broad shouldered, 5'9" 225 lbs. Yes, I'm a bit over fighting weight but I'd hardly consider my weight out of control. I barely fit into a southwest seat. It is miserable, I spend the whole thing with my shoulders shrugged, trying not to steal the armrest from my neighbor. Yes, they have the cheapest fare but its the most uncomfortable trip you'll ever take. My wife, a 5'7 120 lb'er says the same thing- she complains we're slapped in there like sardines. Perhaps they just got cheap and crammed an extra seat into each row, completely sacrificing comfort for all aboard. Would anybody really bitch if they just had bigger seats? This is a design problem that the airline figures they can shed the blame onto heavy people. This is probably the fault of some penny pinching executive, but you all want to blame the hamburgers.
Allowing Hollywood dipshits would write something that would appeal to your average slashdotter would be an epic fail. What we need, is for somebody to sort out the decent fiction, and then, find somebody to direct & produce it who wouldn't make a complete abomination out of something that is awesome and classic.
But they are off the menu...
I've been waiting for YEARS for the chance to eat extinct animals! T-Rex Burgers, Bald Eagle Sandwiches, Dodo Egg Omelettes, Saber-toothed McNuggets! Yummmm!
I'm not getting into this crap where you can control what I can and cannot read. Take your orwellian device and cram it.
I worked in the gaming industry for two years and found that feeling partially responsible for completely fucking people over and selling false hope and abusing peoples addictive personalities left me feeling like a true piece of shit. There are great opportunities to to learn and grow in this industry, but if you want your life's work to be more than the abuse of human nature for profit then go somewhere else- thats what I did, and it was my best career move yet.
From this I do not think better of Barack Obama, as intended. Instead, I think less of the Nobel Peace Prize, as it is obviously being abused as a political tool instead of a method of honoring people who actually do things that benefit humanity.
YES. GREAT BOOK. Rama 2 lost me though, I enjoyed the mystery of the ship in the first book, while the second took that leap into pure fantasy crab-robot stuff.
OK, seriously though we really don't need to make science about doing a whole crapload of partial derivatives by hand. These are problems that were solved in times past. What we need to do now is start kids extremely early on using MathCAD, MatLAB, or Maple to solve problems. A TI-89 can do all the crap they spent years teaching me. Just teach them to use software to solve interesting equations. Taking the goal from lame mathematical memorizations to analyzing applicable situations will in itself boost interest in the sciences because kids might actually have a grasp of what a scientist actually does.
Yes, but it kills healthy kids, teenagers, and young adults at a much lower percentage than normal flu strains. http://articles.latimes.com/2009/apr/30/science/sci-swine-reality30 You are being controlled through fear.
The passage of time is definitely the only attribute that makes you a good programmer. Thats why I don't take tests, either- Because I've been around for almost 30 years and I would just blow the competition away so bad that it wouldn't be fair. Unless, of course, I want my potential employer to know that I can actually program and that I'm not just lying my ass off about my skills.
This would be like winning a thousand battles in world war 3 in terms of creating a unified world government.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! NO NO NO!!! 1984198419841984 I would fight it but they would just haul me off to the ministry of truth and lobotomize me. Besides, they will just wait till the argument gets old and continue with their plans for our evil, stinking, orwellian hellhole futures.
It seems to me that this country is forgetting the whole point of a job: to make your employer money. No company is going to want to pay IT folks to dick around learning basic networking from google. Im STILL in school, finishing a decade of hell in mechanical engineering. I got my 3.0 GPA, but I learned to make myself useful in the process. And you don't learn that in school- you learn that by working shit jobs for years. If you are bitching about being unemployed, you set the bar too high and its your own fault. Go wash dishes, flip burgers, and clean bathrooms- you can still apply to that six figure job, and if you get it you'll work harder because you will know the alternative.