This is all fine and dandy, until the system makes more excuses as to why more people need more help. Then it crashes under the burden of unsupportable debt. Nobody here in the US wants to touch the bankrupt SS and Medicare systems, which are collapsing under their own weight. Because Seniors Vote.
Loyalty is a two way street. The problem is, both sides (employer and employee) are out looking to screw each other over and loyalty is just a word for chumps.
Why pay to train a new guy when he is trained and now "functional" he drops you like a hot potato for the big time elsewhere, when you can outsource it to India for Pennies on the Dollar? Why stay working for a shop that will fire your ass in two seconds if the new CEO can outsource your job to India for pennies on the dollar?
The whole system is in an endless feedback loop.
Then you grow up, and realize that companies like that aren't worth the hassle. And as an Employer you do what you can to make life working for you bearable so the employees don't feel like you're out to screw them. And companies like this are outside the feedback loop, and you only get jobs there if that is what you're looking for.
This is why going with a Managed WIFI Solution simply rocks. Stick the WAPs in Lightweight mode, put them in the field, and let the controller set the power, channel and VLAN setup for you. That way, if the neighbor sets his WIFI up the controller auto tunes all the WAPs for you to new frequencies and power levels.
Forget having to manage 100 Configurations. And yes, 15 is about pushing it for anything other than casual use. For casual use, you might get 30 clients to a WAP.
Life is inherently unfair. Some are born smarter than other. Some are born stronger than others. Some are born sick, other are born healthy. Some are taller and some are shorter.
The problem is that trying to "equallize" these doesn't and will never be any more fair. The real issue isn't making it more fair, but rather give people every chance to exceed their reach. Leftwingers don't want to measure anything based on effort, but rather have it based on outcome. And that leads to all sorts of policies that are fundamentally broken.
You want to know the "real" conspiracy? In that clip, they used the code word "Geronimo" used for the operation that used "whisper mode" helicopters... coincidence? I think NOT!
Sticks n stones, names and all that. I know, I shouldn't feed the trolls, but being called "rancid asshole" by the likes of a goatse troll is an honor. Thank you sir.
Look, I'm all for ending subsidies. ALL subsidies.
But when people complain about the "obscene profits" of the Oil Companies, they conveniently ignore that the government makes a hell of a lot more "profit" per any measure than Big Oil, and yet that is considered okay. I don't get it when the government gets more from people's work than the people who do the work do.
Which is why I'm for making taxes as transparent as possible, from Employer taxes that don't show up on your paycheck, to all the hidden taxes and fees that are built into all sorts of things... like a gallon of gas. If it was up to me, every receipt would have the costs delineated of taxes.
If people really knew what it cost to employ them, they would revolt. There is a reason why the government wants to hide all that behind smoke and mirrors. But hey, we also get people voting for politicians because they believe they are going to get a piece of someone else's pie.
Just because I don't care to know about everyone's bowel movement or sexual ejaculation doesn't mean I'm a prude. I know lots of people think that is a sign of sophistication or something profound, I don't. I'm exposed to all sorts of things that make me "uncomfortable", and sometimes those things cause me to think, other times they are just disgusting.
Fecal Matter spread on a canvas makes me uncomfortable on a couple levels. And quite frankly, I don't even want to know about it. However if it is "promoted" as "art"(and it has been), I am necessarily going to hear about it. I question anyone who thinks it is either of those. And those people can call me a "prude" for all I care. It doesn't mean I am.
The problem is, in your last full paragraph. Behaviors have become common that are causing material harm. We don't like to talk about STDs such as AIDS, HPV and others that are killing people. Knowledge gives us to ability to mask these dangers, but that doesn't negate that people do get hurt in the process. The only argument used by people is self fulfilling "well they are going to do it anyway, might as well make it safer".
Having sex with shemales in and by and of itself is probably harmless. However the culture where shemales reside is "sexually permissive" in general. Which means the chances of catching one of those diseases that can kill you is much greater than my choice of monogamy. Not the "harmless fun" it is being portrayed as. And then he comes back home with exotic diseases and spreads them around your town and your son or daughter sleeps with someone he slept with, and then it hits home, your kid has HPV warts and at a lifetime risk of Cervical cancer or... HPV throat cancer. Which was unheard of 30 years ago, but is now becoming more common.
You do realize, that the government makes more on a gallon of gas than the Oil Companies. Hell, here in California, they double tap the taxes, flat taxes per gallon ($.35) and then add sales tax on top of THAT.
Yes, while the profits seem obscene, you need to ask how much MORE the government makes off Big Oil.
The reason they want to tax miles driven, is because of all those hybrid / electric vehicles will not be paying their "fair share" of taxes. Gotta love unintended consequences.
One other quick point. Take a look at the title of his post. It is clearly implying that if you're not like him/her/it, you're not "thinking on your own".
This statement, alone, clearly indicates that he/she/it thinks that thinking with one's genitals is the peek of reason. As his whole post is his explanation for the title. I find it very odd that so many so-called reasoned people find his post interesting. I find it... boring, because apart from his sexual experiences it is remarkably lacking in any "thought" at all.
Culture doesn't require religion, and I didn't imply it did. I was parroting his terminology and interestingly enough, you didn't offer the same criticism for his/her/its use of the same terms in a context that clearly was implying religion was wrong.
His whole post is about bucking "cultural norms", and using "shock" value as a measure of sophistication. Go back, read it closely. He/she/it knows exactly what they were saying and clearly implying.
And I find the bucking of cultural norms to be one of those interesting topics of what culture is. With very little variance, the result is how sexually permissive, active and experimental one is is a sign of "sophistication" in this sub culture. Which is exactly why I put it quotes as I understand the definition and why I made reference to two dogs humping in the backyard. Dogs make no distinction on their partners, and that is clearly the sign that they are not sophisticated (bucking the natural).
If you want, let us look at what it means to be sophisticated in context of the definition you gave? Less natural, ignoring base instincts, resisting the natural in favor of reasoned responses. Now compare with the GP post's "shemale" sex with a stranger not based on anything other than selfish pleasure. Hedonism is the opposite of sophistication (your definition).
As for forcing his view on me, yes, he does want to force his version on me. He just did. I don't want to know the sexual perversions of other people. I don't care about it, as it is base and uncouth. I'm not describing my sexual prowess (or lack there of), my conquests (or lack) or whatever, because... quite frankly, they aren't anyone's business, in exactly the same way as I don't care to know about the intimate details of peoples bowel movements.
Oh, I get it. I just have a much different way of looking at the world than either of you do. And my "wink wink nudge nudge" is not any of your business, "know what I mean" ??
Moss isn't on the "north side".. it is on the "wet side". It just so happens the "wet side" is often away from the sun (north-ish), but if you've ever traveled through the northwest US, you'll clearly find moss on all sides of the trees, so using that method is useless.
Then you have people like yourself, who have no culture or religion and your the only way you can express how liberated you are is by saying you had sex with a Shemale. You're part of the problem with the opposite of "Dictators, Politicians, Religious Persons" in that you don't care about anyone else but you, and your hedonistic tendencies.
You've expressed that you're no more evolved than two dogs humping in the backyard. And you think that is sophistication. Thanks but I don't want your version of the world any more than you want mine.
You cannot run Android programs in a JVM, because while it is Java, it is not JVM. The difference is that the JVM and Dalvik are more like "compilers" than anything else, much like you can write a program in C and compile it for PPC or i86 using GCC or Intel or IBM compilers. However I doubt that your C code compiled by Intel Compiler will run on PPC architecture.
Java is a language.Oracle wants to assert control over the language because it has a "compiler" in the form of JVM. Good luck with that.
It is different in that Blackberry will run Dalvik (Android Apps) code fairly shortly, where Android is not going to be running Blackberry Apps any time soon.
The GP is just ignorant about software, systems and progranmming
GoogleTalk/Voice combo is close to skype now. It even operates over open protocols. I know people who have both GV and Skype, and they use Skype more, because more people use it. Google needs to get off their ass and promote Talk/Voice better. And dumping Gizmo5 was one of the dumbest moves Google did. I'm just hoping the glimpse we got of sip support last month is a harbinger of things to come.
That, and I'm still kind of pissed that Google took international TXTing off Voice...
This is a sign of HUGE problems. Even if you're not experiencing them yet. If your IT guys are running around putting out fires then there are not enough fire suppression systems in place.
The problem is, that the people with the purse strings aren't in the IT department, don't care about IT, unless it affects them directly. In which case, you let the fires burn.
Good IT takes money, skill and guts. Money to get the products that work, skill to implement it, and the guts to tell people to mind their own business and stay out of IT decisions unless they are in IT. Where else does the Marketing Department get to tell Accounting how to count ? Why do other departments get to tell IT how to do IT?
Investments without guarantees is... risk analysis. The understanding that if you do x, y is more likely is a risk, with not guarantees. If the reward is greater than the cumulative risk, then in the long run, that is exactly what will play out, if not, then it won't.
Of course humans often don't care about such risk/reward analysis and will override sane behavior and engage in high risk, low reward (lotto/slot machines) on the OFF chance that one CAN get beat the system for a very large reward. I play the slots, but I'm under no delusion that I'll more likely than not, walk away with less money, but the cost is rewarded in entertainment value, like going to see a movie. Twenty bucks on penny slots for a couple hours... better than watching Justin Bieber's new movie.
60% of U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan Have Occurred Since Obama Was Inaugurated in 2009.
Funny thing about reporting, it says as much as what is reported, as what is excluded by reports. AntiWar is just Anti (R) war, not the current (D) wars, including the new one in Libya.
At the current rate of increasing deaths in Afghanistan, Obama will surpass GWB by the time the 2012 elections come and he is either re-elected or we have President Trump (or worse, Palin). Stop reporting about a war and diminishing death rate, and start reporting the other war and the ALARMINGLY increasing death rate under Obama.
2010 Census Questions. Required. By Law. For no purpose other than political power wielding by certain groups who benefit from the collected data. That, by itself is enough. It erodes the very idea of "one person, one vote" to being more like "all votes are equal, some are more equal than others"
The only thing that is currently in government's favor is the general incompetence of those in government to do anything useful/harmful with the info it has.
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This is all fine and dandy, until the system makes more excuses as to why more people need more help. Then it crashes under the burden of unsupportable debt. Nobody here in the US wants to touch the bankrupt SS and Medicare systems, which are collapsing under their own weight. Because Seniors Vote.
Loyalty is a two way street. The problem is, both sides (employer and employee) are out looking to screw each other over and loyalty is just a word for chumps.
Why pay to train a new guy when he is trained and now "functional" he drops you like a hot potato for the big time elsewhere, when you can outsource it to India for Pennies on the Dollar? Why stay working for a shop that will fire your ass in two seconds if the new CEO can outsource your job to India for pennies on the dollar?
The whole system is in an endless feedback loop.
Then you grow up, and realize that companies like that aren't worth the hassle. And as an Employer you do what you can to make life working for you bearable so the employees don't feel like you're out to screw them. And companies like this are outside the feedback loop, and you only get jobs there if that is what you're looking for.
This is why going with a Managed WIFI Solution simply rocks. Stick the WAPs in Lightweight mode, put them in the field, and let the controller set the power, channel and VLAN setup for you. That way, if the neighbor sets his WIFI up the controller auto tunes all the WAPs for you to new frequencies and power levels.
Forget having to manage 100 Configurations. And yes, 15 is about pushing it for anything other than casual use. For casual use, you might get 30 clients to a WAP.
No, it is more like suing Oenada for making the fork that made Rosie O'Donnel fat.
Life is inherently unfair. Some are born smarter than other. Some are born stronger than others. Some are born sick, other are born healthy. Some are taller and some are shorter.
The problem is that trying to "equallize" these doesn't and will never be any more fair. The real issue isn't making it more fair, but rather give people every chance to exceed their reach. Leftwingers don't want to measure anything based on effort, but rather have it based on outcome. And that leads to all sorts of policies that are fundamentally broken.
You want to know the "real" conspiracy? In that clip, they used the code word "Geronimo" used for the operation that used "whisper mode" helicopters ... coincidence? I think NOT!
Sticks n stones, names and all that. I know, I shouldn't feed the trolls, but being called "rancid asshole" by the likes of a goatse troll is an honor. Thank you sir.
Look, I'm all for ending subsidies. ALL subsidies.
But when people complain about the "obscene profits" of the Oil Companies, they conveniently ignore that the government makes a hell of a lot more "profit" per any measure than Big Oil, and yet that is considered okay. I don't get it when the government gets more from people's work than the people who do the work do.
Which is why I'm for making taxes as transparent as possible, from Employer taxes that don't show up on your paycheck, to all the hidden taxes and fees that are built into all sorts of things ... like a gallon of gas. If it was up to me, every receipt would have the costs delineated of taxes.
If people really knew what it cost to employ them, they would revolt. There is a reason why the government wants to hide all that behind smoke and mirrors. But hey, we also get people voting for politicians because they believe they are going to get a piece of someone else's pie.
Your hatred of my hatred is hateful. You should stop hating so much.
Just because I don't care to know about everyone's bowel movement or sexual ejaculation doesn't mean I'm a prude. I know lots of people think that is a sign of sophistication or something profound, I don't. I'm exposed to all sorts of things that make me "uncomfortable", and sometimes those things cause me to think, other times they are just disgusting.
Fecal Matter spread on a canvas makes me uncomfortable on a couple levels. And quite frankly, I don't even want to know about it. However if it is "promoted" as "art"(and it has been), I am necessarily going to hear about it. I question anyone who thinks it is either of those. And those people can call me a "prude" for all I care. It doesn't mean I am.
The problem is, in your last full paragraph. Behaviors have become common that are causing material harm. We don't like to talk about STDs such as AIDS, HPV and others that are killing people. Knowledge gives us to ability to mask these dangers, but that doesn't negate that people do get hurt in the process. The only argument used by people is self fulfilling "well they are going to do it anyway, might as well make it safer".
Having sex with shemales in and by and of itself is probably harmless. However the culture where shemales reside is "sexually permissive" in general. Which means the chances of catching one of those diseases that can kill you is much greater than my choice of monogamy. Not the "harmless fun" it is being portrayed as. And then he comes back home with exotic diseases and spreads them around your town and your son or daughter sleeps with someone he slept with, and then it hits home, your kid has HPV warts and at a lifetime risk of Cervical cancer or ... HPV throat cancer. Which was unheard of 30 years ago, but is now becoming more common.
On the other hand, I'm just a prude.
You do realize, that the government makes more on a gallon of gas than the Oil Companies. Hell, here in California, they double tap the taxes, flat taxes per gallon ($.35) and then add sales tax on top of THAT.
Yes, while the profits seem obscene, you need to ask how much MORE the government makes off Big Oil.
The reason they want to tax miles driven, is because of all those hybrid / electric vehicles will not be paying their "fair share" of taxes. Gotta love unintended consequences.
One other quick point. Take a look at the title of his post. It is clearly implying that if you're not like him/her/it, you're not "thinking on your own".
This statement, alone, clearly indicates that he/she/it thinks that thinking with one's genitals is the peek of reason. As his whole post is his explanation for the title. I find it very odd that so many so-called reasoned people find his post interesting. I find it ... boring, because apart from his sexual experiences it is remarkably lacking in any "thought" at all.
Culture doesn't require religion, and I didn't imply it did. I was parroting his terminology and interestingly enough, you didn't offer the same criticism for his/her/its use of the same terms in a context that clearly was implying religion was wrong.
His whole post is about bucking "cultural norms", and using "shock" value as a measure of sophistication. Go back, read it closely. He/she/it knows exactly what they were saying and clearly implying.
And I find the bucking of cultural norms to be one of those interesting topics of what culture is. With very little variance, the result is how sexually permissive, active and experimental one is is a sign of "sophistication" in this sub culture. Which is exactly why I put it quotes as I understand the definition and why I made reference to two dogs humping in the backyard. Dogs make no distinction on their partners, and that is clearly the sign that they are not sophisticated (bucking the natural).
If you want, let us look at what it means to be sophisticated in context of the definition you gave? Less natural, ignoring base instincts, resisting the natural in favor of reasoned responses. Now compare with the GP post's "shemale" sex with a stranger not based on anything other than selfish pleasure. Hedonism is the opposite of sophistication (your definition).
As for forcing his view on me, yes, he does want to force his version on me. He just did. I don't want to know the sexual perversions of other people. I don't care about it, as it is base and uncouth. I'm not describing my sexual prowess (or lack there of), my conquests (or lack) or whatever, because ... quite frankly, they aren't anyone's business, in exactly the same way as I don't care to know about the intimate details of peoples bowel movements.
Oh, I get it. I just have a much different way of looking at the world than either of you do. And my "wink wink nudge nudge" is not any of your business, "know what I mean" ??
Moss isn't on the "north side" .. it is on the "wet side". It just so happens the "wet side" is often away from the sun (north-ish), but if you've ever traveled through the northwest US, you'll clearly find moss on all sides of the trees, so using that method is useless.
Then you have people like yourself, who have no culture or religion and your the only way you can express how liberated you are is by saying you had sex with a Shemale. You're part of the problem with the opposite of "Dictators, Politicians, Religious Persons" in that you don't care about anyone else but you, and your hedonistic tendencies.
You've expressed that you're no more evolved than two dogs humping in the backyard. And you think that is sophistication. Thanks but I don't want your version of the world any more than you want mine.
You cannot run Android programs in a JVM, because while it is Java, it is not JVM. The difference is that the JVM and Dalvik are more like "compilers" than anything else, much like you can write a program in C and compile it for PPC or i86 using GCC or Intel or IBM compilers. However I doubt that your C code compiled by Intel Compiler will run on PPC architecture.
Java is a language.Oracle wants to assert control over the language because it has a "compiler" in the form of JVM. Good luck with that.
It is different in that Blackberry will run Dalvik (Android Apps) code fairly shortly, where Android is not going to be running Blackberry Apps any time soon.
The GP is just ignorant about software, systems and progranmming
GoogleTalk/Voice combo is close to skype now. It even operates over open protocols. I know people who have both GV and Skype, and they use Skype more, because more people use it. Google needs to get off their ass and promote Talk/Voice better. And dumping Gizmo5 was one of the dumbest moves Google did. I'm just hoping the glimpse we got of sip support last month is a harbinger of things to come.
That, and I'm still kind of pissed that Google took international TXTing off Voice ...
This is a sign of HUGE problems. Even if you're not experiencing them yet. If your IT guys are running around putting out fires then there are not enough fire suppression systems in place.
The problem is, that the people with the purse strings aren't in the IT department, don't care about IT, unless it affects them directly. In which case, you let the fires burn.
Good IT takes money, skill and guts. Money to get the products that work, skill to implement it, and the guts to tell people to mind their own business and stay out of IT decisions unless they are in IT. Where else does the Marketing Department get to tell Accounting how to count ? Why do other departments get to tell IT how to do IT?
Investments without guarantees is ... risk analysis. The understanding that if you do x, y is more likely is a risk, with not guarantees. If the reward is greater than the cumulative risk, then in the long run, that is exactly what will play out, if not, then it won't.
Of course humans often don't care about such risk/reward analysis and will override sane behavior and engage in high risk, low reward (lotto/slot machines) on the OFF chance that one CAN get beat the system for a very large reward. I play the slots, but I'm under no delusion that I'll more likely than not, walk away with less money, but the cost is rewarded in entertainment value, like going to see a movie. Twenty bucks on penny slots for a couple hours ... better than watching Justin Bieber's new movie.
60% of U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan Have Occurred Since Obama Was Inaugurated in 2009.
Funny thing about reporting, it says as much as what is reported, as what is excluded by reports. AntiWar is just Anti (R) war, not the current (D) wars, including the new one in Libya.
http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx
At the current rate of increasing deaths in Afghanistan, Obama will surpass GWB by the time the 2012 elections come and he is either re-elected or we have President Trump (or worse, Palin). Stop reporting about a war and diminishing death rate, and start reporting the other war and the ALARMINGLY increasing death rate under Obama.
He used the Router ... as blunt force trauma.
Then don't use a "Smart Phone" like iPhone or Android. Use a stupid phone or ... ghhhaaaahh a Blackberry
Premature Detonation?
2010 Census Questions. Required. By Law. For no purpose other than political power wielding by certain groups who benefit from the collected data. That, by itself is enough. It erodes the very idea of "one person, one vote" to being more like "all votes are equal, some are more equal than others"
The only thing that is currently in government's favor is the general incompetence of those in government to do anything useful/harmful with the info it has.