Have you looked up 'Workstation' on wikipedia or any number of 'jargon' sites? The overwhelming interpretation is that a workstation is a high-end computer, with exceptional graphical or computational abilities.
Well, I would hope that you have kick-ass insurance, right? I suppose if you keep full coverage so that your risky behavior isn't paid for by society in emergency room visits or expensive end-of-life care, then your argument has merit. If your insurance runs out and you're still suffering from health issues due to over indulging in smoking or drinking, or car accidents, or repeated physical injuries due to physical hobbies, your behavior has cost society. I smoke and drink and drive fast, but I buy into a very well covered plan. Many people don't do this.
Sometimes we must increase the cost of doing business if it helps the greater good. Businesses would have kept dumping lead and mercury into our water and air if laws had not been passed.
Bad argument you say....I think Galbraith had you pegged when he wrote "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. "
All the environmental laws that prevent businesses from dumping...say...lead and mercury into our water increase the cost of business and therefore increase prices. Nobody dumps near me, why should I be forced to subsidize this artificially higher price when the poison water won't harm me or my children? Oh right, because it would harm other people and I'm a good person, not a self-centered greedy ass.
I think you are being short sighted....only looking at the monetary cost of a particular good or service. Things aren't always black/white.
When the retards who only see the cost of their purchase in dollars destroy their local economy, they will go crying to goverment for help. Those of us who knew better will have to bail them out. Better to prevent the fools from dragging us all down. This is the same logic used for gun control, drug laws, seatbelt laws, child protection laws, etc...
I never understood you authoritarian types. So many of you giggle with glee when confronted with the idea of a person who copied a few bits being sexualy violated. Do you have self esteem issues around women (or men, as the case may be)?
I specialize in making good upstanding religious families, who had 6 kids on one meager income, subsidize government lube for low-income orgy-and-abortion parties through the tax code.
I figured my use of the archaic phrasing "A touch of the..." would clue you in, but I don't think I have autism or Asperger's or any of that shit. In fact, nothing pisses me off more than the genetically defective parents who try to pass off blame for their brain-damaged child on important immunization programs.*
* This too was a joke...nobody has proven that autism is hereditary in nature.
I must say that the in-person relationships are over-rated. If I'm really crunching on some problem, I don't want you stopping by to say hello and distracting me. Send me an IM if it is urgent, or an email if it isn't. Ad-hoc conference calls fill in the gaps if the scheduled meetings aren't going to be timely enough for a given issue. Shit, I've been on disperse teams for years, and sometimes I've never even seen a team-mate outside of their headshot on the company whitepages site.
I like working with my teammates, and don't mind a little small talk, but really...I'm here to make money not friends. The fact that I enjoy the work is a plus, but it's not super important to me. My home-time is spent doing things that most 'middle Americans' would find scary or offensive so I really don't want to mix my work/home lives.
Those simple folks who worship military power keep modding down my anti-war posts. I guess they want US troops to keep dying because their daddy is already dead or something. I just don't get the rabid fellating of the military in this country. Not once in 40 years has the military been used to protect Americans...the 'threats' were always abstract and unprovable.
We don't need to waste our money on an army that just inspires douchebag politicians to start shit. Put 10% of the military welfare towards space exploration, and tone down the aggressive rhetoric.
I mean, why should my tax dollars finance an over-powered military which sucks hard at stopping current terroristic threats? Because you're pants-filling fear says so?
My management works us hard...they want over 40 hours a week for our salary. However, if you bust ass, they acknowledge it. You get promoted, you get more responsibility and options, you get more pay. I joined up in 1997, during the boom. All my friends jumped ship for 'cooler' companies to work for, but I'm still here. Sure, it took 8 years to hit 6 figures, but I work from a home office. I was able to trade my boring reliable car for a fun but often broken car because I just don't need a reliable car.
I wish you guys the best. WHen I'm bitching about dealing with the Indian sysadmins or the Brazillian developers due to language barriers...articles like these remind me of how good I have it.
Careers should be like weightlifting...compare yourself to yourself...always improve. Who cares what 'everyone else' has?
We don't need a standing army this size, and I surely don't trust the military self-serving 'research' on the matter. Maybe we should poll the poor to find out how much welfare money they really need. We can make up the slack with conscription and rationing, as we did in World War 2. I don't see that is a bad thing playing 'catch up' because I don't want to live in a constant state of near-war. We could always make serving in the National Guard mandatory if we don't want to start from zero should more manpower be needed. It might help keep fat-ass Americans a bit more healthy if they had to spend a weekend a month training.
The US doctrine stated we would need three times the current number of soldiers to handle Iraq. We should have had a draft to make up those numbers, but the war-mongerers in government knew that asking that sacrifice would cause Americans to peer a bit more closely at the shaky reasons for war. So we went in with a third of the number is soldiers, and pissed away money of mercenary scum to try to shore up the numbers. They never did hit the target, even with the 'surge'.
We knew Iraq wasn't a real threat to the US back in 2002. You seem to be arguing from a place where you actually believed Saddam was acquiring yellow cake, no wait, WMDs, no wait...alquieda links...no wait...we gotta stop the genocide...ah whatever.
Your description of a 'thriving economy' is nothing like they had in Roman times. Your regurgitation talking points is interesting, but not really germain to the discussion. I'm not sure exactly how the USA-Rome comparison is supposed to be defended here...
If the US army was half the size, Bush would have been unable to invade Iraq without a draft and rationing. Faced with a draft and rationing, enough Americans would have realized that the cause for war was crap, and withdrawn support. We would have avoided an unethical war of choice.
We need a small army, backed up by conscription. You know, how we won WW2?
We cut the budget in half, and cut the military in half. Keep it all Made in America.
I wasn't aware the the USA's economy depended on constant acquisition of new lands and resources as Rome's did.
If we stop being such hypocritical aggressive douchebags, we won't need this huge stick. Having the huge army around just means people are going to want to use it even if it is not needed. See: Iraq.
Yeah. This country needs more socialism. Well, what it really needs to cut the military budget in half, and spend that money on things that actually help US citizens.
If we can't take care of our own, why did we invade a foreign nation to 'fix' their problems?
I'm not talking about helping the Sudanese over our own people, but we did make Iraq way worse than it was under Saddam's rule. I think we have a responsibility to make it right. I do not think military presence is the way, BTW.
However, I don't give a damn about WHY it's happening. I just know that it IS happening.
You don't think we need to fix what we broke in Iraq?
Death sure is final...no backsies. Are you implying that rape victims would be better off dead? I don't think you are, but your argument is a little odd. I mean, the victim could always choose to off themself, but if you kill them, then there is no choice.
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Bio-fuels consume (worst case) 1.1gallons of oil to produce energy equivalent to 1.0 gallons of oil.
But if we didn't have to fuel a huge army....I think the net energy used would be less than now!
I always smile when I see some huge SUV with one person in it, sporting a 'support the troops' ribbon.
Have you looked up 'Workstation' on wikipedia or any number of 'jargon' sites? The overwhelming interpretation is that a workstation is a high-end computer, with exceptional graphical or computational abilities.
Your management just bought the wrong IBM product for the job you are doing.
I think people publish the letters to gain public support, because they can't afford to go to court against the abusive copyright holders.
See? They get you coming AND going.
Well, I would hope that you have kick-ass insurance, right? I suppose if you keep full coverage so that your risky behavior isn't paid for by society in emergency room visits or expensive end-of-life care, then your argument has merit. If your insurance runs out and you're still suffering from health issues due to over indulging in smoking or drinking, or car accidents, or repeated physical injuries due to physical hobbies, your behavior has cost society. I smoke and drink and drive fast, but I buy into a very well covered plan. Many people don't do this.
Sometimes we must increase the cost of doing business if it helps the greater good. Businesses would have kept dumping lead and mercury into our water and air if laws had not been passed.
Bad argument you say....I think Galbraith had you pegged when he wrote "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. "
All the environmental laws that prevent businesses from dumping...say...lead and mercury into our water increase the cost of business and therefore increase prices. Nobody dumps near me, why should I be forced to subsidize this artificially higher price when the poison water won't harm me or my children? Oh right, because it would harm other people and I'm a good person, not a self-centered greedy ass.
I think you are being short sighted....only looking at the monetary cost of a particular good or service. Things aren't always black/white.
When the retards who only see the cost of their purchase in dollars destroy their local economy, they will go crying to goverment for help. Those of us who knew better will have to bail them out. Better to prevent the fools from dragging us all down. This is the same logic used for gun control, drug laws, seatbelt laws, child protection laws, etc...
I hope you get the help you need to manage your mis-directed anger. FSM bless you.
I never understood you authoritarian types. So many of you giggle with glee when confronted with the idea of a person who copied a few bits being sexualy violated. Do you have self esteem issues around women (or men, as the case may be)?
I specialize in making good upstanding religious families, who had 6 kids on one meager income, subsidize government lube for low-income orgy-and-abortion parties through the tax code.
I find that if I leave my personal computer off, then I am not tempted by Civ4. Civ4 is by FAR the biggest threat to my work productivity.
I figured my use of the archaic phrasing "A touch of the..." would clue you in, but I don't think I have autism or Asperger's or any of that shit. In fact, nothing pisses me off more than the genetically defective parents who try to pass off blame for their brain-damaged child on important immunization programs.*
* This too was a joke...nobody has proven that autism is hereditary in nature.
I must say that the in-person relationships are over-rated. If I'm really crunching on some problem, I don't want you stopping by to say hello and distracting me. Send me an IM if it is urgent, or an email if it isn't. Ad-hoc conference calls fill in the gaps if the scheduled meetings aren't going to be timely enough for a given issue. Shit, I've been on disperse teams for years, and sometimes I've never even seen a team-mate outside of their headshot on the company whitepages site.
I like working with my teammates, and don't mind a little small talk, but really...I'm here to make money not friends. The fact that I enjoy the work is a plus, but it's not super important to me. My home-time is spent doing things that most 'middle Americans' would find scary or offensive so I really don't want to mix my work/home lives.
Those simple folks who worship military power keep modding down my anti-war posts. I guess they want US troops to keep dying because their daddy is already dead or something. I just don't get the rabid fellating of the military in this country. Not once in 40 years has the military been used to protect Americans...the 'threats' were always abstract and unprovable.
We don't need to waste our money on an army that just inspires douchebag politicians to start shit. Put 10% of the military welfare towards space exploration, and tone down the aggressive rhetoric.
I mean, why should my tax dollars finance an over-powered military which sucks hard at stopping current terroristic threats? Because you're pants-filling fear says so?
(Hyperbole used for effect)
My management works us hard...they want over 40 hours a week for our salary. However, if you bust ass, they acknowledge it. You get promoted, you get more responsibility and options, you get more pay. I joined up in 1997, during the boom. All my friends jumped ship for 'cooler' companies to work for, but I'm still here. Sure, it took 8 years to hit 6 figures, but I work from a home office. I was able to trade my boring reliable car for a fun but often broken car because I just don't need a reliable car.
I wish you guys the best. WHen I'm bitching about dealing with the Indian sysadmins or the Brazillian developers due to language barriers...articles like these remind me of how good I have it.
Careers should be like weightlifting...compare yourself to yourself...always improve. Who cares what 'everyone else' has?
You can even decide how much of each to grow, to maximize your farmland and fertilizer usage.
Also, how does one use hemp as food?
We don't need a standing army this size, and I surely don't trust the military self-serving 'research' on the matter. Maybe we should poll the poor to find out how much welfare money they really need. We can make up the slack with conscription and rationing, as we did in World War 2. I don't see that is a bad thing playing 'catch up' because I don't want to live in a constant state of near-war. We could always make serving in the National Guard mandatory if we don't want to start from zero should more manpower be needed. It might help keep fat-ass Americans a bit more healthy if they had to spend a weekend a month training.
The US doctrine stated we would need three times the current number of soldiers to handle Iraq. We should have had a draft to make up those numbers, but the war-mongerers in government knew that asking that sacrifice would cause Americans to peer a bit more closely at the shaky reasons for war. So we went in with a third of the number is soldiers, and pissed away money of mercenary scum to try to shore up the numbers. They never did hit the target, even with the 'surge'.
We knew Iraq wasn't a real threat to the US back in 2002. You seem to be arguing from a place where you actually believed Saddam was acquiring yellow cake, no wait, WMDs, no wait...alquieda links...no wait...we gotta stop the genocide...ah whatever.
Your description of a 'thriving economy' is nothing like they had in Roman times. Your regurgitation talking points is interesting, but not really germain to the discussion. I'm not sure exactly how the USA-Rome comparison is supposed to be defended here...
If the US army was half the size, Bush would have been unable to invade Iraq without a draft and rationing. Faced with a draft and rationing, enough Americans would have realized that the cause for war was crap, and withdrawn support. We would have avoided an unethical war of choice.
We need a small army, backed up by conscription. You know, how we won WW2?
If the tax-leeching baby boomers can figure it out, then the rest of the population will have no problems.
We cut the budget in half, and cut the military in half. Keep it all Made in America.
I wasn't aware the the USA's economy depended on constant acquisition of new lands and resources as Rome's did.
If we stop being such hypocritical aggressive douchebags, we won't need this huge stick. Having the huge army around just means people are going to want to use it even if it is not needed. See: Iraq.
Yeah. This country needs more socialism. Well, what it really needs to cut the military budget in half, and spend that money on things that actually help US citizens.
If we can't take care of our own, why did we invade a foreign nation to 'fix' their problems?
I'm not talking about helping the Sudanese over our own people, but we did make Iraq way worse than it was under Saddam's rule. I think we have a responsibility to make it right. I do not think military presence is the way, BTW.
However, I don't give a damn about WHY it's happening. I just know that it IS happening.
You don't think we need to fix what we broke in Iraq?
Death sure is final...no backsies. Are you implying that rape victims would be better off dead? I don't think you are, but your argument is a little odd. I mean, the victim could always choose to off themself, but if you kill them, then there is no choice.