I got into computers because that was the only job I could get at the time. I learned to program for the financial modeling I was doing - computer arbitrage what we called "computer trading" back then. Now it's just standard business practice. I couldn't get a job in the finance field other than salesman - selling shit mutual funds to my family and being paid 100% commission. First Investors was the firm's name. I'm a shitty salesman at that.
I hated it when folks said, "Well, you must love it because you're good at it." Nope. Solving problems on occasion can be interesting and even fun, but loving it? No way. And considering that most software development seems like the same old shit day in and day out - arrrggg.
Learn a new language? Yep. Learned several. It comes down to the same old shit - hours upon hours in front of a computer.
Even went to a couple of career councilors. Gave me some tests, said I was an INTP. Checked my interests and said "My you have a lot of interests!" Yep. But NONE of them are something I want to do day in and day out, 50+ hours a week. Then they said, how about going into computers? D'Oh!
Then I learned a new term: polymath. Well, well, well. That fits me. Now how to make a living as a polymath without having to get a once in a century TV show on Discovery Channel (Adam Savage on Mythbusters is a polymath).
"It once again shows how facial transplantation can help a small number of people who are the most severely facially injured and for whom reconstructive surgery cannot and has not worked."
But it's not just for the unfortunate folks who have been horribly disfigured, it can be used for the bag over the head girls - you know, the ones with the awesome bodies but ugly faces.
So, save up, get the hot bodied chick a new face and no more paper bags. It will also save the environment because of less paper being used!
Then again, the new hot chick may figure out that she can move on to a hot rich guy and be done with you - so there are risks!
And we surf slashdot rather than doing our own jobs
If you're doing something creative, distracting your mind with something else and allowing your subconscious to work on it will help in solving the problem.
One of my issues is that no matter how hard I think about something, I can never solve it on demand. Then, when I'm working out or meditating it comes to me.
LOL! Trolls still can't get enough of Taco's Wang.
Taco Wang? I knew him. His parents were Chinese and really loved that remake of "Putting on the Ritz" by Taco - thereby naming him Taco, Taco Wang. I think he's working for His Majesty's Secret Service and introduces himself as Wang. Taco Wang. and prefers his martinis shaken not served - but that's another story.
Or maybe stupid shit just happens. You don't need a conspiracy for everything. Let me guess, Ron Paul supporter?
It's interesting that you brought Ron Paul into this. He IS making waves and getting more and more support in the Republican party. How do we know that you're not some Republican operative who's trying to make all of the Paul supporters look like fools? Or even a Democratic operative that's covering the party's bases and is trying to knock Paul out now?
Then again, you may have masterminded the Kennedy assassination with Marilyn Monroe and your trying to pin another assassination on Ron Paul and his supporters.
Then again, you could also be a space alien trying to cause a stir down here for an invasion via your other operative Paul.
It's interesting you say that. They have showed Mohamad in the past and I believe, the Muslim organization also had a tizzy too and it didn't get this attention.
It may not be a stunt orchestrated by CC, but they may be using that organization to make the noise for them.I've never heard of those guys before and it's interesting that they're getting all this press. Why now?
Confucianism is not a religion. Toaism - that depends on the practitioner. Some treat it as a philosophy, others treat it as a way of life (pun intended), and there a few who do treat it like a religion - in the Eastern sense.
Of course they didn't offend every other religion because they went after the most popular.
Because we are social. We need social contact. If being social means having a profile on facebook so you'd connect with your friends, most people(whether they know the risks or not) will have one.
That's not real contact, though. It's a one way broadcast contact.
It's one thing to keep up with distant friends - it's a hell of a lot cheaper than phone calls, but in many cases it's a replacement for in person contact - even if folks are local. Sure, there are folks who use it to say "Hey, I'm at Joe's Tavern tonight, come and join me!" but others?
Facebook is pseudo social contact and I think it's actually making us more isolated as a people. We evolved to communicate one on one - not via a computer terminal.
I mean, so far, South Park has lampooned Christ, Budda, etc....and yet none of these groups have threatened them with anything more dangerous than possibly a boycott.
I would suggest that they have a talk with a Dharma Master about that.
Old Buddhist saying,
If you see the Buddha on the side of the road, kill him.
The AA said it would watch the system “carefully” but it did not believe there was anything sinister. “It is a natural evolution of the technology that is out there,” a spokesman said.
Ones "Natural evolution" is another's slippery slope.
He was just pointing out some possible sensationalism here. And I agree with him. He wasn't discounting the accusation or saying the treatment of workers was OK. He was just making a point in fact.
All too often the media distorts things or adds "evidence" to the point of diminishing the credibility of the story. And then the detractors say "Hey look! That picture isn't really what's happening! I guess the rest of the story isn't true either!"
See. If the media was a bit more responsible with the facts and evidence, there wouldn't so many naysayers. I could mention another hotly debated topic but I want to keep the thread on topic.
'This is not nearly enough to support a family. My parents are farmers without jobs. They also do not have pensions.
'I also need to worry about getting married, which requires a lot of money. Therefore, I still push myself to continue working in spite of my exhaustion.
Yes, it is deplorable working conditions, but what other options are there for these poor people? Starvation? Letting their parents and families starve?
As China develops further, we'll see less and less of this. And as pressure is put on Western companies, I hope they'll put pressure on their Chinese contract firms ( KYE Systems factory at Dongguan in this case) to treat their workers better.
As multinationals, many of them based in Asia (this isn't a problem that only American firms have, btw), move to other lower cost countries (Viet Nam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, etc... ) we will continue to see this sort of thing, I'm afraid.
That's something we need to do as consumers, demand better working conditions and better treatment of the environment in the manufacture of our products - even if it costs more.
Will another $5-$20 price increase on your big screen TV really hurt you if these folks get treated better and their drinking water isn't contaminated? Or to clean up their air so it doesn't burn their lungs when they take a breath?
$2000 for a glorified $300 DVD system vs $500 for a dumbed down computer that can play movies and games and you don't need to take shiny discs with you that scratch easily
To add: The history of quality with Apple is pretty good; whereas the history of quality with Ford is?
Most parents aren't going to be ripping their kid's whole collection of DVDs and putting them on an iPad.
That's assuming they know how. And, I wonder if the MPAA will go after said parents who do rip DVDs for their iPads? That was a dumb question: sure they will.
I think they use one of those ion Cannons from Empire Strikes Back.
No. They ruin the core's self esteem. They tell it, "You're not good enough to work with the others. Just turn off and sit there and stay out of everybody else's way."
Then one day, a gamer comes by and turns it on. But the core is thinking, I can't do this! This is graphics processing! It's intense! I can't keep up with the other cores!
But the gamer, having faith in the little core, turns him on. And low a behold, the little core can do it, but not without being picked on by the other cores. No! They still tell the little core that he's just not good enough. He can't keep up. But the little core hangs in there to fulfill his duty to the gamer - feeling less than every one else.
One day, the gamer upgrades, and the other cores are scared. They can't keep up. The clock is mad now. He screams, "Come on cores you need to keep up!" The little core comes in and takes up the slack, showing the other cores that he indeed can keep up. The other cores shout, "You did it! You can do it! Come and join our click!"
The little core responds, "No, I'm having lunch with the master clock and by the way, he's promoting me to be your boss. You're my bitches now!"
Deregulation worked pretty well in air travel.
Not trying to make a point about regulation in general, just providing an example where the amount of deregulation may have been appropriate for that situation.
Remember that the next time a plane sits on the tarmac for 11 hours.
Not that this is an excuse, but because the NC government won't play triage with projects and cut what it can tolerate so the budget is experiencing a shortfall again in the billions.
It's not a NC thing - ALL governments have that problem.
The only time they can cut is if the special interest group doesn't have enough political clout - See. GA and the grants for artists. - it'll probably get cut. GA is a solid Red state and in these economic times, many folks aren't too sympathetic with the artists who are getting government "handouts" to do what they are passionate about.
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I got into computers because that was the only job I could get at the time. I learned to program for the financial modeling I was doing - computer arbitrage what we called "computer trading" back then. Now it's just standard business practice. I couldn't get a job in the finance field other than salesman - selling shit mutual funds to my family and being paid 100% commission. First Investors was the firm's name. I'm a shitty salesman at that.
I hated it when folks said, "Well, you must love it because you're good at it." Nope. Solving problems on occasion can be interesting and even fun, but loving it? No way. And considering that most software development seems like the same old shit day in and day out - arrrggg.
Learn a new language? Yep. Learned several. It comes down to the same old shit - hours upon hours in front of a computer.
Even went to a couple of career councilors. Gave me some tests, said I was an INTP. Checked my interests and said "My you have a lot of interests!" Yep. But NONE of them are something I want to do day in and day out, 50+ hours a week. Then they said, how about going into computers? D'Oh!
Then I learned a new term: polymath. Well, well, well. That fits me. Now how to make a living as a polymath without having to get a once in a century TV show on Discovery Channel (Adam Savage on Mythbusters is a polymath).
Enough of my rant.
"It once again shows how facial transplantation can help a small number of people who are the most severely facially injured and for whom reconstructive surgery cannot and has not worked."
But it's not just for the unfortunate folks who have been horribly disfigured, it can be used for the bag over the head girls - you know, the ones with the awesome bodies but ugly faces.
So, save up, get the hot bodied chick a new face and no more paper bags. It will also save the environment because of less paper being used!
Then again, the new hot chick may figure out that she can move on to a hot rich guy and be done with you - so there are risks!
And we surf slashdot rather than doing our own jobs
If you're doing something creative, distracting your mind with something else and allowing your subconscious to work on it will help in solving the problem.
One of my issues is that no matter how hard I think about something, I can never solve it on demand. Then, when I'm working out or meditating it comes to me.
The mind is a real pain in the ass.
LOL! Trolls still can't get enough of Taco's Wang.
Taco Wang? I knew him. His parents were Chinese and really loved that remake of "Putting on the Ritz" by Taco - thereby naming him Taco, Taco Wang. I think he's working for His Majesty's Secret Service and introduces himself as Wang. Taco Wang. and prefers his martinis shaken not served - but that's another story.
Or maybe stupid shit just happens. You don't need a conspiracy for everything. Let me guess, Ron Paul supporter?
It's interesting that you brought Ron Paul into this. He IS making waves and getting more and more support in the Republican party. How do we know that you're not some Republican operative who's trying to make all of the Paul supporters look like fools? Or even a Democratic operative that's covering the party's bases and is trying to knock Paul out now?
Then again, you may have masterminded the Kennedy assassination with Marilyn Monroe and your trying to pin another assassination on Ron Paul and his supporters.
Then again, you could also be a space alien trying to cause a stir down here for an invasion via your other operative Paul.
I'm on to you Mister!
It may not be a stunt orchestrated by CC, but they may be using that organization to make the noise for them.I've never heard of those guys before and it's interesting that they're getting all this press. Why now?
That's just my cynical side guessing.
Of course they didn't offend every other religion because they went after the most popular.
My blood sugar is a bit low and I forgot the "white" part in front of woman - D'Oh!
Anything can happen in America! Why Michael Jackson was born a poor black boy and died a very rich woman - or close to it.
Thank you. I couldn't have said it better myself.
Because we are social. We need social contact. If being social means having a profile on facebook so you'd connect with your friends, most people(whether they know the risks or not) will have one.
That's not real contact, though. It's a one way broadcast contact.
It's one thing to keep up with distant friends - it's a hell of a lot cheaper than phone calls, but in many cases it's a replacement for in person contact - even if folks are local. Sure, there are folks who use it to say "Hey, I'm at Joe's Tavern tonight, come and join me!" but others?
Facebook is pseudo social contact and I think it's actually making us more isolated as a people. We evolved to communicate one on one - not via a computer terminal.
Now this is scary. One small step for Apple towards their global technocratic dictatorship.
Dictatorship? I don't think so. Theocracy? Yes.
When Steve dies, he'll be turned into a God and prayed to by His followers. After all, he's already a demi-god.
His followers will be recognized by the rimless glasses, black faux turtlenecks, and razor stubble.
When cursing others, the Follower, aka FanBoy, will say "Go to Microsoft! You Son of a PC!"
Sneeze? "Jobs bless you!"
And of course, Wozniak will be sainted. There will also be a virgin birth myth and some other stuff, but it will come.
...those peace loving muslims, eh?
I mean, so far, South Park has lampooned Christ, Budda, etc....and yet none of these groups have threatened them with anything more dangerous than possibly a boycott.
I would suggest that they have a talk with a Dharma Master about that.
Old Buddhist saying,
If you see the Buddha on the side of the road, kill him.
To be taken metaphorically, of course.
The AA said it would watch the system “carefully” but it did not believe there was anything sinister. “It is a natural evolution of the technology that is out there,” a spokesman said.
Ones "Natural evolution" is another's slippery slope.
All too often the media distorts things or adds "evidence" to the point of diminishing the credibility of the story. And then the detractors say "Hey look! That picture isn't really what's happening! I guess the rest of the story isn't true either!"
See. If the media was a bit more responsible with the facts and evidence, there wouldn't so many naysayers. I could mention another hotly debated topic but I want to keep the thread on topic.
'This is not nearly enough to support a family. My parents are farmers without jobs. They also do not have pensions.
'I also need to worry about getting married, which requires a lot of money. Therefore, I still push myself to continue working in spite of my exhaustion.
Yes, it is deplorable working conditions, but what other options are there for these poor people? Starvation? Letting their parents and families starve?
As China develops further, we'll see less and less of this. And as pressure is put on Western companies, I hope they'll put pressure on their Chinese contract firms ( KYE Systems factory at Dongguan in this case) to treat their workers better.
As multinationals, many of them based in Asia (this isn't a problem that only American firms have, btw), move to other lower cost countries (Viet Nam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, etc... ) we will continue to see this sort of thing, I'm afraid.
That's something we need to do as consumers, demand better working conditions and better treatment of the environment in the manufacture of our products - even if it costs more.
Will another $5-$20 price increase on your big screen TV really hurt you if these folks get treated better and their drinking water isn't contaminated? Or to clean up their air so it doesn't burn their lungs when they take a breath?
I'm willing to pay more.
$2000 for a glorified $300 DVD system vs $500 for a dumbed down computer that can play movies and games and you don't need to take shiny discs with you that scratch easily
To add: The history of quality with Apple is pretty good; whereas the history of quality with Ford is?
Most parents aren't going to be ripping their kid's whole collection of DVDs and putting them on an iPad.
That's assuming they know how. And, I wonder if the MPAA will go after said parents who do rip DVDs for their iPads? That was a dumb question: sure they will.
The Amazon link is showing a different cover than what I usually see.
Why is everyone looking at me that way?
I think they use one of those ion Cannons from Empire Strikes Back.
No. They ruin the core's self esteem. They tell it, "You're not good enough to work with the others. Just turn off and sit there and stay out of everybody else's way."
Then one day, a gamer comes by and turns it on. But the core is thinking, I can't do this! This is graphics processing! It's intense! I can't keep up with the other cores!
But the gamer, having faith in the little core, turns him on. And low a behold, the little core can do it, but not without being picked on by the other cores. No! They still tell the little core that he's just not good enough. He can't keep up. But the little core hangs in there to fulfill his duty to the gamer - feeling less than every one else.
One day, the gamer upgrades, and the other cores are scared. They can't keep up. The clock is mad now. He screams, "Come on cores you need to keep up!" The little core comes in and takes up the slack, showing the other cores that he indeed can keep up. The other cores shout, "You did it! You can do it! Come and join our click!"
The little core responds, "No, I'm having lunch with the master clock and by the way, he's promoting me to be your boss. You're my bitches now!"
That's how it happens.
It will be yet another boon to porn. two hands baby! And 3D - woohoo!
Deregulation worked pretty well in air travel. Not trying to make a point about regulation in general, just providing an example where the amount of deregulation may have been appropriate for that situation.
Remember that the next time a plane sits on the tarmac for 11 hours.
Doesn't "self regulation" usually result in services and pricing that always benefit the industry at the expense of the consumer?
No, no, no. Here are some examples where it has worked:
Never mind.
Not that this is an excuse, but because the NC government won't play triage with projects and cut what it can tolerate so the budget is experiencing a shortfall again in the billions.
It's not a NC thing - ALL governments have that problem.
The only time they can cut is if the special interest group doesn't have enough political clout - See. GA and the grants for artists. - it'll probably get cut. GA is a solid Red state and in these economic times, many folks aren't too sympathetic with the artists who are getting government "handouts" to do what they are passionate about.
And Matlock is on!
I'm there too! Shit! Where's my walker?!?