First of all the big bang, evolution and earth's origin doesn't effect massive amounts of the world economy.
Ah, money.
Combating Global Warming, even if wrong, wouldn't be a complete waste of resources. All this money spent on alternative clean energy will not go to waste because eventually, there won't be enough economically useful oil. Sure, there will still be oil, but it'll be at hundreds of dollars a barrel. People won't be able to afford it. There are over 7 billion people on earth who want to live like Americans and we're 300 million of that population using 25% of it - the numbers don't work. demand is increasing exponentially and supply isn't keeping up - and it doesn't look like there's enough oil in the world to keep up.
Which means we have to have other forms of cheap energy and if we wait for oil to increase to the point of being too expensive before developing these other forms of energy, our economy will collapse. At lease with other forms, the pain will be great (all those damn internal combustion engines), but it won't knock us out.
Let's say we don't do anything and the planet cooks. We being the richest country in the World will have people rushing into this country. Meaning, one way or another, it'll cost us.
and these are the kinds of people who will be looking at what are basically naked pictures of your kids? how is this a good idea again?
not just your kids, but you too.
and it's not a good idea.
I think his point was that he was bringing in the "think of the children" mentality and maybe using public hysteria over child porn and whatnot as a means of destroying this intrusive and questionable method of security.
A terrorist, intent on striking against us infidels, will shove explosives up his ass or have something surgically implanted around his body. Now, how will these things prevent that? Are we going to move to full body x-rays just to fly next?
Attackers have been targeting home networking equipment for a couple of years, using a combination of vulnerabilities in the firmware and hardware to get control of home users' outbound Internet traffic
So, regardless if you have Windows, Mac OS or Linux; you could be fucked.
It looks like an attacker can put code in your router's firmware that sends all your traffic through their computers and they sniff it and get your passwords to you bank accounts.
How about going after tail gators and other aggressive driving habits?
And also go after the left lane hogs? Here in GA (I-75N) we get a lot of the *snow birds who insist on staying in the left lane as they go through GA and folks who want to speed are dashing around them. The old people in the land yachts are usually pretty courteous and stay to the right with their other car in tow. And then you get the idiots who are on their cell phone who are traveling at 50, then 75, then 60, then 70 - and it's worse when their in the left hand lane.
* Snow birds: retired people (mostly old) who travel to Florida during the Winter and then move back to their homes in the North during the Summer.
This book depicts incest and child sexual acts and it should be the first to go. It also promotes hate crimes against homo sexuals, slavery and violence towards women.
I have a better one: www.bankofamerica.com.secure.ru.
It has an algorithm that predicts what expenses you will have in the near future and withdraws your money and puts it in a safe account that's unknown to you so that you don't spend it. They did that to me - took all my money out - and then all I have to do is send them an email and they'll pay my bills - all for a $19.95 monthly service fee on my CC. I can't loose!
This is my first month on this program, so I'll let you guys know how it works.
Never getting any job ever again? Assuming you're not talking about becoming seriously disabled, I hope you mean "starting over in a new career"
I'm trying that. And that's not working either. I've been to career councilors and had folks look at my resume - and I took all their feedback and did what I had to do.
I'm basically unemployable. It's been a few years and I'm tarnished goods - so yes, this able bodied person is never getting another job again because I can't. That's how bad it is. When you're 45 with years of IT experience, no one want's to touch you. I can't even get an interview.
I'm just going to have to figure out some sort of business - maybe roofing like that other guy said. Or go to China - Jim Rogers says it's the place to be - America isn't. Maybe they'll be interested in a middle aged guy with a masters degree.
The American dream is dead and the middle class is being destroyed and I'm the one of the first casualties.
CA - don't you have to be licensed; which if it's like every other state means working for two years for someone else to be eligible. It's an idea though. I love Berkeley and I have family out there.
Here in GA you don't need a license - there are guys putting signs on the side of the road "Hungry Roofer! Need Work!" right along side the "Computer Service and web design: eCommerce website $99!" signs - that's how bad it is.
This is certainly true, but anyone with a steady income can save an plad for the first disaster.
I disagree. How about never getting another job ever again? The system has broken down: there are plenty of healthy people who want to work and can't because no one will hire them.
Things aren't the way they were during the last downturn. Jobs that were lost this time are not coming back. Some economists are saying we're going to have to live with a 10%+/- unemployment permanently. America's job creation machine has broken down. I hope that's wrong - really I do.
As far as the living paycheck to paycheck people are concerned, I can't comment on that because I never lived that way. But there are plenty of people who did save and have exhausted their savings and unemployment - like I said, a middle class person can't save enough these days - even for one disaster.
That's why it's so important to be a responsible adult and not leave yourself in a position where you depend upon the kindness of strangers.
There are times when you don't have a choice. It is impossible to plan for every eventuality and as a middle class person, it isn't possible to save enough money for long term layoff - let alone becoming unhireable. You can save and invest until you're blue in the face and then run into a long lay-off and burn through your savings. It's worse if you have health problems along the way. I don't care how much you save, if you get sick when unemployed, you get wiped out easily and then some. And then, you have crap on your MIB (medical information bureau) file and no employer will hire you because of that - one guy, a college educated guy, had to get a letter from a doctor that his congenital heart condition wouldn't affect his job performance - to drive a school bus. Having insurance, if you can afford it, doesn't make things much better: assuming you can even get it.
And during bad times, if you've been out of work for a while, employers just start passing you by because they think there's something wrong with you or that your skills are "rusty". They won't even check it out, they don't even bother because they think everyone else "knows" something that they don't know. And if you're middle aged or older; you're going to have some real problems.
Then there are the folks who say, "Well, just suck up your pride get any job."
Well guess what, a lot of people are in fact doing that and that's why there's this HUGE problem with under-employment along with unemployment. And that's assuming you CAN get a "lesser" job. I tried getting a roofing job (I grew up in the trades) and they wouldn't even talk to me - even though they have all these Mexicans on their payroll.
I hear all this talk about being "responsible" from folks who really don't know how bad it is out there and it really gets depressing - like shoving a 9mm in the mouth depressing. Others who are old enough are just retiring early because that's all they can do. And being out of work sucks, btw. The stigma of being an out of work bum or being called "irresponsible" is heart wrenching. Is there something wrong with me? Maybe, but no one ever says anything so you just keep sending out resumes wondering what's happening.
Starting something one your own? Ha! I started a business and got tons of calls from other IT guys - website designers, admins, you name it - that market for IT support is saturated beyond belief! It was like "dude, I don't need your services. Do you need mine?" Unfucking believable!
Volunteering is nice and it keeps one busy but the thing is, you can't pay student loans volunteering. And no, volunteering does not lead to employment; at least these days.
I don't expect anyone to understand - and no one ever does because they've never have had to live it.
There are lots of "Guerrilla this" or "Ninja that" related to layoffs and job hunting, but I don't think I have come across any other book that addresses the mental aspects of being unemployed.
My book is going to be "The Zen Ninja Guerrilla's Tao of Job Hunting and Getting Rich Quick in Real Estate."
Then I realized that it was an overused use of terms. So, I changed the title to "The Ch'an Kung Fu Guerrilla's Tao Guide to Job Hunting and The Way of Getting Rich Quick."
And contrary to what you seem to believe, Democrats aren't liberal (root "libertas"), they're socialist/progressive. Robin Hood ("take from the rich, give to the poor") or Marx ("From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need"), as you prefer.
Is that what you got out of his post? I think he believes in the tooth fairy, soft core hairy MILF porn, and having sex with strawmen. The GGP is obviously a Chinese agent who's into hairy MILF porn (40+) and likes his tofu shaped like kitties.
Then again, I may be projecting onto the GP's short post. After all, you can tell everything about someone from their few sentences posted.
The author of that book mentioned on the 60 minutes segment about his book that folks who just want the money to buy expensive shit will probably never become a millionaire. Many of the folks in the book were frugal and weren't into the luxury goods and saved money and if they had a business, plowed the money back into the business - their motivation wasn't really to get rich - getting rich was a side effect of their lifestyle.
The book, IIRC, wasn't that direct in its description of the motivations of those folks.
Linus is a millionaire because of his reputation from starting Linux. If he didn't create Linux, he'd probably be some cubicle worker in Finland.
CELESTE LYN PAUL, Open-Sourcer: You're working with people that you like. You're doing things that you love to do. And it's just very fulfilling. So, money isn't the only reason why somebody might want to contribute to it.
So, open-sourcers, you guys do it for the same reason folks play in local music bands, sing at church or play on local amateur sports teams: pretty much never get paid except maybe for (on very rare) expenses and you do it for fun and the community of doing things with like minded people?
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First of all the big bang, evolution and earth's origin doesn't effect massive amounts of the world economy.
Ah, money.
Combating Global Warming, even if wrong, wouldn't be a complete waste of resources. All this money spent on alternative clean energy will not go to waste because eventually, there won't be enough economically useful oil. Sure, there will still be oil, but it'll be at hundreds of dollars a barrel. People won't be able to afford it. There are over 7 billion people on earth who want to live like Americans and we're 300 million of that population using 25% of it - the numbers don't work. demand is increasing exponentially and supply isn't keeping up - and it doesn't look like there's enough oil in the world to keep up.
Which means we have to have other forms of cheap energy and if we wait for oil to increase to the point of being too expensive before developing these other forms of energy, our economy will collapse. At lease with other forms, the pain will be great (all those damn internal combustion engines), but it won't knock us out.
Let's say we don't do anything and the planet cooks. We being the richest country in the World will have people rushing into this country. Meaning, one way or another, it'll cost us.
And there are even still new NES games coming out, like Sivak's Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril and ProgAce's Bio Force Ape vs. Dur Butter.
Apparently you're confusing "went out of style" with "completely ceased to exist".
Just because I can find a green leisure suit on an internet site somewhere doesn't mean I will still look normal walking down the street in it.
Well, what dya know!
and these are the kinds of people who will be looking at what are basically naked pictures of your kids? how is this a good idea again?
not just your kids, but you too. and it's not a good idea.
I think his point was that he was bringing in the "think of the children" mentality and maybe using public hysteria over child porn and whatnot as a means of destroying this intrusive and questionable method of security.
A terrorist, intent on striking against us infidels, will shove explosives up his ass or have something surgically implanted around his body. Now, how will these things prevent that? Are we going to move to full body x-rays just to fly next?
With all the people forking over $.99 for iTunes and software, I was under the impression that the thesis of this paper has been proven in real life.
Attackers have been targeting home networking equipment for a couple of years, using a combination of vulnerabilities in the firmware and hardware to get control of home users' outbound Internet traffic
So, regardless if you have Windows, Mac OS or Linux; you could be fucked.
It looks like an attacker can put code in your router's firmware that sends all your traffic through their computers and they sniff it and get your passwords to you bank accounts.
And there are other exploits.
And also go after the left lane hogs? Here in GA (I-75N) we get a lot of the *snow birds who insist on staying in the left lane as they go through GA and folks who want to speed are dashing around them. The old people in the land yachts are usually pretty courteous and stay to the right with their other car in tow. And then you get the idiots who are on their cell phone who are traveling at 50, then 75, then 60, then 70 - and it's worse when their in the left hand lane.
* Snow birds: retired people (mostly old) who travel to Florida during the Winter and then move back to their homes in the North during the Summer.
This book depicts incest and child sexual acts and it should be the first to go. It also promotes hate crimes against homo sexuals, slavery and violence towards women.
Wouldn't the Latin URL start off with "HTTPUS" for the URLUS?
Yeah, like www.bankofamerica.com.secure.cn
I have a better one: www.bankofamerica.com.secure.ru.
It has an algorithm that predicts what expenses you will have in the near future and withdraws your money and puts it in a safe account that's unknown to you so that you don't spend it. They did that to me - took all my money out - and then all I have to do is send them an email and they'll pay my bills - all for a $19.95 monthly service fee on my CC. I can't loose!
This is my first month on this program, so I'll let you guys know how it works.
Never getting any job ever again? Assuming you're not talking about becoming seriously disabled, I hope you mean "starting over in a new career"
I'm trying that. And that's not working either. I've been to career councilors and had folks look at my resume - and I took all their feedback and did what I had to do.
I'm basically unemployable. It's been a few years and I'm tarnished goods - so yes, this able bodied person is never getting another job again because I can't. That's how bad it is. When you're 45 with years of IT experience, no one want's to touch you. I can't even get an interview.
I'm just going to have to figure out some sort of business - maybe roofing like that other guy said. Or go to China - Jim Rogers says it's the place to be - America isn't. Maybe they'll be interested in a middle aged guy with a masters degree.
The American dream is dead and the middle class is being destroyed and I'm the one of the first casualties.
Here in GA you don't need a license - there are guys putting signs on the side of the road "Hungry Roofer! Need Work!" right along side the "Computer Service and web design: eCommerce website $99!" signs - that's how bad it is.
This is certainly true, but anyone with a steady income can save an plad for the first disaster.
I disagree. How about never getting another job ever again? The system has broken down: there are plenty of healthy people who want to work and can't because no one will hire them.
Things aren't the way they were during the last downturn. Jobs that were lost this time are not coming back. Some economists are saying we're going to have to live with a 10%+/- unemployment permanently. America's job creation machine has broken down. I hope that's wrong - really I do.
As far as the living paycheck to paycheck people are concerned, I can't comment on that because I never lived that way. But there are plenty of people who did save and have exhausted their savings and unemployment - like I said, a middle class person can't save enough these days - even for one disaster.
That's why it's so important to be a responsible adult and not leave yourself in a position where you depend upon the kindness of strangers.
There are times when you don't have a choice. It is impossible to plan for every eventuality and as a middle class person, it isn't possible to save enough money for long term layoff - let alone becoming unhireable. You can save and invest until you're blue in the face and then run into a long lay-off and burn through your savings. It's worse if you have health problems along the way. I don't care how much you save, if you get sick when unemployed, you get wiped out easily and then some. And then, you have crap on your MIB (medical information bureau) file and no employer will hire you because of that - one guy, a college educated guy, had to get a letter from a doctor that his congenital heart condition wouldn't affect his job performance - to drive a school bus. Having insurance, if you can afford it, doesn't make things much better: assuming you can even get it.
And during bad times, if you've been out of work for a while, employers just start passing you by because they think there's something wrong with you or that your skills are "rusty". They won't even check it out, they don't even bother because they think everyone else "knows" something that they don't know. And if you're middle aged or older; you're going to have some real problems.
Then there are the folks who say, "Well, just suck up your pride get any job."
Well guess what, a lot of people are in fact doing that and that's why there's this HUGE problem with under-employment along with unemployment. And that's assuming you CAN get a "lesser" job. I tried getting a roofing job (I grew up in the trades) and they wouldn't even talk to me - even though they have all these Mexicans on their payroll.
I hear all this talk about being "responsible" from folks who really don't know how bad it is out there and it really gets depressing - like shoving a 9mm in the mouth depressing. Others who are old enough are just retiring early because that's all they can do. And being out of work sucks, btw. The stigma of being an out of work bum or being called "irresponsible" is heart wrenching. Is there something wrong with me? Maybe, but no one ever says anything so you just keep sending out resumes wondering what's happening.
Starting something one your own? Ha! I started a business and got tons of calls from other IT guys - website designers, admins, you name it - that market for IT support is saturated beyond belief! It was like "dude, I don't need your services. Do you need mine?" Unfucking believable!
Volunteering is nice and it keeps one busy but the thing is, you can't pay student loans volunteering. And no, volunteering does not lead to employment; at least these days.
I don't expect anyone to understand - and no one ever does because they've never have had to live it.
There are lots of "Guerrilla this" or "Ninja that" related to layoffs and job hunting, but I don't think I have come across any other book that addresses the mental aspects of being unemployed.
My book is going to be "The Zen Ninja Guerrilla's Tao of Job Hunting and Getting Rich Quick in Real Estate."
Then I realized that it was an overused use of terms. So, I changed the title to "The Ch'an Kung Fu Guerrilla's Tao Guide to Job Hunting and The Way of Getting Rich Quick."
No hyperbole for me!
You forgot the $65/hr tech (tech actually gets $15, $50 to business guys) that has to come out and operate it.
And contrary to what you seem to believe, Democrats aren't liberal (root "libertas"), they're socialist/progressive. Robin Hood ("take from the rich, give to the poor") or Marx ("From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need"), as you prefer.
Is that what you got out of his post? I think he believes in the tooth fairy, soft core hairy MILF porn, and having sex with strawmen. The GGP is obviously a Chinese agent who's into hairy MILF porn (40+) and likes his tofu shaped like kitties.
Then again, I may be projecting onto the GP's short post. After all, you can tell everything about someone from their few sentences posted.
Hey chicks! Look at me! I'm a badass motherfucking climate scientist that get's in trouble with the LAW! I'm STICK'N IT TO THE MAN!
That's right! And climate scientist will be getting motor cycles and leather jackets with HOT CHICKS on the back!
Yep. This will INCREASE science enrollment!
The bullet points for why we invaded Iraq:
What they didn't consider:
Of course that's the simplified version but pretty much the way I see it.
Oh, the rest of the Bush Administration should have listened to Powell.
The book, IIRC, wasn't that direct in its description of the motivations of those folks.
Linus is a millionaire because of his reputation from starting Linux. If he didn't create Linux, he'd probably be some cubicle worker in Finland.
CELESTE LYN PAUL, Open-Sourcer: You're working with people that you like. You're doing things that you love to do. And it's just very fulfilling. So, money isn't the only reason why somebody might want to contribute to it.
So, open-sourcers, you guys do it for the same reason folks play in local music bands, sing at church or play on local amateur sports teams: pretty much never get paid except maybe for (on very rare) expenses and you do it for fun and the community of doing things with like minded people?
The only sucky part about Hulu is that sometimes, all they have are clips of certain shows or limited run time (Buffy the Vampire slayer).
If you Netflicks and Amazon, you can watch many shows that are on DVD - without ads.
This will be interesting to see what happens with Flash, given the growing gap between devices that support it and those that don't.
Most porn sites use it for their videos (so, I hear), so I don't think Flash will be going anywhere.
So, who wants to bet that most of the time he spent playing Bejeweled he was also billing someone for contract work?
So, he was a QA engineer?
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"Help us Obi Wan Kenobi, your'e our only hope!"
Am I the only one who thought of that when I saw #8?
If so, take the money and run.