yes, but shareholders are generally the problem because they are usually "friends" of the directors i.e. of the same mind. They give pay rises to directors even when the public company is failing..
Now that Craftsman have turned to shit, especially their ratchets, I have no use for Sears. There are plenty of other tool vendors.
The K-martization of Sears is vile. I hope both companies crash and burn.
Yeah, once they turned the once-vaunted Craftsman tool line into run-of-the-mill cheap Chinese shit, it was game over. Luckily, there's still Snap On and SK. That being said, the last 3 appliances I got was from Sears.
I was indifferent about YouTube until it inexplicably linked itself to my Gmail account and now wants me to create a Google+ page in order to comment on videos. Now, I'd like nothing more to see it go up in flames, like a Tesla that hit some road debris.
I compensated for that by deleting my YouTube channel account. I encourage every one else to do the same.
What's even more stupid is DSLRs have built in wireless now. Unless they ban tablets, smartphones, and oh, computers, they're totally fscked. How silly. But totalitarians usually are.
The Olympic Committee has been pushing for YEARS that they be the sole source of any information, media or other materials originating from the events. It's only a matter of time before they ban external reporters altogether and simply provide their own press releases throughout the days from their own staffers.
Good. Let it collapse under that bullshit rule then.
Go ahead and start banning something that we struggle every four years to continue to justify from every perspective. The cities left behind in the aftermath of hosting an Olympics would certainly agree. It's far from the financial whirlwind everyone wants to believe it is.
And the only thing I'm going to be surprised over with these games is if Sochi somehow doesn't turn it into a complete clusterfuck. Between their logistical planning to the anti-gay sentiment being broadcast over these games as if it were Nazi Germany again, I don't hold much hope for success.
Don't forget what global warming is doing to winters, too. I can easily see them trying to have their Olympics while Sochi is hitting 45-50F.
I'd dispute that. Though they're no doubt capable of inflicting massive damage, the Chinese military does not have the overconfidence borne of defeating a major power in war, like the Japanese had against Russia.
Exactly. Being that you know something of early-mid 20th century history, are you allowed to participate in this thread?
My standard answer on Atlas Shrugged is the end of Douglas Adams' second Hitchhiker novel (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe), where Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect meet the people from Golgafrincham. Those people are the leftovers when the elite on Golgafrincham turned their planet into an Randian paradise, with the econonomical elite ruling without bounds, and an army of slave like serfs are working for them.
In the end, only the leftovers, the seemingly superfluous, tedious people, involved in regulations, law enforcement and taxing, the people Dent and Prefect met, survive, and are able to found a new civilisation on Earth, while the Randian Golgafrincham dies out due to an infection.
Just remember one thing about Atlas Shrugged: As mentioned in the preface, it's not about men as they are, it's men as they should be. We don't have any morality and ethics in business or government: In other words, instead of a Midas Mulligan we have a Jamie Dimon, instead of a John Galt we have John Boehner, instead of a Hugh Akston we have Twitter....
Socializing costs, privatizing profits. That's how money is made in science (and banking and almost everything else) these days.
And sports stadium funding (at least in the US; that's all I know about). In that case though, they socialize the costs and the risk, and privatize the profits.
We'll, I'm sure it's the "we have a better chance of having it upheld now than we do down the road" though this isn't a traditional conservative vs. liberal wing of the Court issue.
The funny thing is that film (negative, not slide) has *more* dynamic range and exposure latitude than digital. Getting differing subjects exposed correctly is mostly in the lighting, which has always been possible.
For still photography, the trick was in the darkroom where you could dodge and burn. In pre-digital, pre-photoshop, the approach was referred to as "expose for shadow, develop for highlights." In camera, the photographer would expose for the shadows, while in the darkroom, develop for the highlights. In a wedding portrait, for example, it would also include dodging the wedding dress to keep it from getting blown out, and burning the tux to try and get more shadow detail.
Methinks you got dodge and burn backwards. You burn to make darker and dodge to make lighter.
Yes, and light meters don't see color. The 18% grey that they're calibrated for is a darker tone than Caucasian skin and a lighter tone than black skin.
Not if the punishment is commensurate with the harm caused. With regard to armed robbery, as long as that was the only offense, the impact of the crime is of relatively short duration. It is theft of property under threat of violence. Assuming you can get over being threatened with violence, it's just theft of property, and the impact of the loss of that property (assuming total loss) to an individual is really a minor impact in the overall lifetime of the individual. Bullying can be threats of violence against an individual (like armed robbery), except it also often involves continued harassement, literal violence, and an implication that the threats/violence/harassement will continue, day after day, with no real way out.
Think of a kid who goes to school, maybe it is only once a week he is cornered and detained, physically attacked, perhaps robbed, and harassed..
Those are battery, and robbery. Distinct crimes under the criminal code that are already punishable, not just something a nebulous and undefined as "bullying."
Backups don't always work - that's why you test them. This time they did not work - much better that you experience problems when you anticipate them than when everything else is going wrong, too. It's unfortunate that the system was down, but it seems they got it back up in a reasonably quick time frame. Moreover, merchants are supposed to have manual means of recording EBT payments for just such a scenario.
Exactly. Imagine a more catastrophic meltdown down the road and all of the Nancy Naysayers saying, "WhyoWhy didn't anyone test it?"
It's hardly fair to expect people to get a job just to eat. Everyone is entitled to food, shelter and reasonable transportation. It say's so in the US Constitution.
It does? Where? Since when?? The closest my US Constitution comes is "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
I remember watching my packets FTP'ing UCSD to update NOS. A whole 300k download over a 300 baud, two meter link. It took a day, but never failed. My first wireless connectivity.
LOL, you win. My 300 baud connected to a mainframe and then that amazing thing called Compuserve. Imagine...getting tech support without having to spend hours on the phone! Woo hoo! No radio. And no carrier pigeon, either.
This. Every cheater knows that to stay undetected, you can't win too often. Even aimbots quickly included code to intentionally miss a shot every now and then.
There are only two ways to get away with stealing money at a casino. One is to remain within the margin if probability - appear to be lucky, but not impossibly lucky. Either win some, lose some, with a total just slightly in your favour, or lose mostly, but then get the jackpot and stop playing after that. Make it a huge thing. Celebrate, rent a limo, marry a stranger, whatever. Don't pocket it and vanish, that'll be crazy suspicious.
Oh, the second way. That is, of course, to own the casino.
As Pittsburgh Phil is reputed to have said oh-so-many years ago, and just as applicable to casinos: "If you could beat the ponies they wouldn't be running 'em."
What was he convicted ON? What charge? Obstruction of justice? Article doesn't sat. Lying itself can't be a crime (else every politician and lawyer would be in jail).
Ah, older article did: Dixon, 34, pleaded guilty late last year to charges of obstruction and wire fraud after federal agents targeted him in an undercover sting that was first reported by McClatchy.
Since he pleaded guilty, my sympathy level just went way down.
What was he convicted ON? What charge? Obstruction of justice? Article doesn't sat. Lying itself can't be a crime (else every politician and lawyer would be in jail).
...but one downside (to Snowden/Wikileaks) of them giving interested government parties the key is then they will know exactly what can be used against them, and can then mitigate against the damage. Right now, the government is just being caught in a snare of lies; each subsequent release of information exposes the prior release's damage control efforts.
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yes, but shareholders are generally the problem because they are usually "friends" of the directors i.e. of the same mind. They give pay rises to directors even when the public company is failing. .
I think you mean board members, not shareholders?
it's call the BCS. yeah, right.
The BCS works? Since WHEN?
Now that Craftsman have turned to shit, especially their ratchets, I have no use for Sears. There are plenty of other tool vendors.
The K-martization of Sears is vile. I hope both companies crash and burn.
Yeah, once they turned the once-vaunted Craftsman tool line into run-of-the-mill cheap Chinese shit, it was game over. Luckily, there's still Snap On and SK. That being said, the last 3 appliances I got was from Sears.
I was indifferent about YouTube until it inexplicably linked itself to my Gmail account and now wants me to create a Google+ page in order to comment on videos. Now, I'd like nothing more to see it go up in flames, like a Tesla that hit some road debris.
I compensated for that by deleting my YouTube channel account. I encourage every one else to do the same.
What's even more stupid is DSLRs have built in wireless now. Unless they ban tablets, smartphones, and oh, computers, they're totally fscked. How silly. But totalitarians usually are.
The Olympic Committee has been pushing for YEARS that they be the sole source of any information, media or other materials originating from the events. It's only a matter of time before they ban external reporters altogether and simply provide their own press releases throughout the days from their own staffers.
Good. Let it collapse under that bullshit rule then.
Go ahead and start banning something that we struggle every four years to continue to justify from every perspective. The cities left behind in the aftermath of hosting an Olympics would certainly agree. It's far from the financial whirlwind everyone wants to believe it is.
And the only thing I'm going to be surprised over with these games is if Sochi somehow doesn't turn it into a complete clusterfuck. Between their logistical planning to the anti-gay sentiment being broadcast over these games as if it were Nazi Germany again, I don't hold much hope for success.
Don't forget what global warming is doing to winters, too. I can easily see them trying to have their Olympics while Sochi is hitting 45-50F.
I'd dispute that. Though they're no doubt capable of inflicting massive damage, the Chinese military does not have the overconfidence borne of defeating a major power in war, like the Japanese had against Russia.
Exactly. Being that you know something of early-mid 20th century history, are you allowed to participate in this thread?
My standard answer on Atlas Shrugged is the end of Douglas Adams' second Hitchhiker novel (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe), where Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect meet the people from Golgafrincham. Those people are the leftovers when the elite on Golgafrincham turned their planet into an Randian paradise, with the econonomical elite ruling without bounds, and an army of slave like serfs are working for them.
In the end, only the leftovers, the seemingly superfluous, tedious people, involved in regulations, law enforcement and taxing, the people Dent and Prefect met, survive, and are able to found a new civilisation on Earth, while the Randian Golgafrincham dies out due to an infection.
Just remember one thing about Atlas Shrugged: As mentioned in the preface, it's not about men as they are, it's men as they should be. We don't have any morality and ethics in business or government: In other words, instead of a Midas Mulligan we have a Jamie Dimon, instead of a John Galt we have John Boehner, instead of a Hugh Akston we have Twitter....
Socializing costs, privatizing profits. That's how money is made in science (and banking and almost everything else) these days.
And sports stadium funding (at least in the US; that's all I know about). In that case though, they socialize the costs and the risk, and privatize the profits.
We'll, I'm sure it's the "we have a better chance of having it upheld now than we do down the road" though this isn't a traditional conservative vs. liberal wing of the Court issue.
The funny thing is that film (negative, not slide) has *more* dynamic range and exposure latitude than digital. Getting differing subjects exposed correctly is mostly in the lighting, which has always been possible.
For still photography, the trick was in the darkroom where you could dodge and burn. In pre-digital, pre-photoshop, the approach was referred to as "expose for shadow, develop for highlights." In camera, the photographer would expose for the shadows, while in the darkroom, develop for the highlights. In a wedding portrait, for example, it would also include dodging the wedding dress to keep it from getting blown out, and burning the tux to try and get more shadow detail.
Methinks you got dodge and burn backwards. You burn to make darker and dodge to make lighter.
Yes, and light meters don't see color. The 18% grey that they're calibrated for is a darker tone than Caucasian skin and a lighter tone than black skin.
It is wrong, but it trivialises harder crimes.
Not if the punishment is commensurate with the harm caused. With regard to armed robbery, as long as that was the only offense, the impact of the crime is of relatively short duration. It is theft of property under threat of violence. Assuming you can get over being threatened with violence, it's just theft of property, and the impact of the loss of that property (assuming total loss) to an individual is really a minor impact in the overall lifetime of the individual. Bullying can be threats of violence against an individual (like armed robbery), except it also often involves continued harassement, literal violence, and an implication that the threats/violence/harassement will continue, day after day, with no real way out.
Think of a kid who goes to school, maybe it is only once a week he is cornered and detained, physically attacked, perhaps robbed, and harassed. .
Those are battery, and robbery. Distinct crimes under the criminal code that are already punishable, not just something a nebulous and undefined as "bullying."
Backups don't always work - that's why you test them. This time they did not work - much better that you experience problems when you anticipate them than when everything else is going wrong, too. It's unfortunate that the system was down, but it seems they got it back up in a reasonably quick time frame. Moreover, merchants are supposed to have manual means of recording EBT payments for just such a scenario.
Exactly. Imagine a more catastrophic meltdown down the road and all of the Nancy Naysayers saying, "WhyoWhy didn't anyone test it?"
It's hardly fair to expect people to get a job just to eat. Everyone is entitled to food, shelter and reasonable transportation. It say's so in the US Constitution.
It does? Where? Since when?? The closest my US Constitution comes is "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
I remember watching my packets FTP'ing UCSD to update NOS. A whole 300k download over a 300 baud, two meter link. It took a day, but never failed. My first wireless connectivity.
LOL, you win. My 300 baud connected to a mainframe and then that amazing thing called Compuserve. Imagine...getting tech support without having to spend hours on the phone! Woo hoo! No radio. And no carrier pigeon, either.
This article isn't quite as geeze-worthy as something earlier this week I'd mentioned: Fidonet!
Archie and Veronica.
...and good old command line ftp.
This. Every cheater knows that to stay undetected, you can't win too often. Even aimbots quickly included code to intentionally miss a shot every now and then.
There are only two ways to get away with stealing money at a casino. One is to remain within the margin if probability - appear to be lucky, but not impossibly lucky. Either win some, lose some, with a total just slightly in your favour, or lose mostly, but then get the jackpot and stop playing after that. Make it a huge thing. Celebrate, rent a limo, marry a stranger, whatever. Don't pocket it and vanish, that'll be crazy suspicious.
Oh, the second way. That is, of course, to own the casino.
As Pittsburgh Phil is reputed to have said oh-so-many years ago, and just as applicable to casinos: "If you could beat the ponies they wouldn't be running 'em."
Why don't they just outsource to China and cut out the middleman?
....I can't swat the damn things. They have an unfair advantage!
What was he convicted ON? What charge? Obstruction of justice? Article doesn't sat. Lying itself can't be a crime (else every politician and lawyer would be in jail).
Ah, older article did: Dixon, 34, pleaded guilty late last year to charges of obstruction and wire fraud after federal agents targeted him in an undercover sting that was first reported by McClatchy.
Since he pleaded guilty, my sympathy level just went way down.
What was he convicted ON? What charge? Obstruction of justice? Article doesn't sat. Lying itself can't be a crime (else every politician and lawyer would be in jail).
Partner implies that he was his journalistic partner in Snowden case.
And that was exactly how I interpreted "partner."
...but one downside (to Snowden/Wikileaks) of them giving interested government parties the key is then they will know exactly what can be used against them, and can then mitigate against the damage. Right now, the government is just being caught in a snare of lies; each subsequent release of information exposes the prior release's damage control efforts.