I'm always careful to grab mine, but with all the bullshit rules these days I have FOUR FUCKING BINS plus my bag to take through TSA.
It's complete fucking security theater. Stop requiring removal of all these devices that just slow down lines and lead to lost items. It's all bullshit.
If you travel much, pay the money ($100) and go through the process of getting your Global Entry card, which also gives you TSA Pre-check. It's well worth it for the hassle it saves. For a little less ($85) you can sign up for TSA Pre only, but if you ever leave the country the $15 extra for Global Entry will make re-entering the US much easier. I recommend Global Entry even if you just think you *might* travel internationally.
I don't despise Mark Zuckerberg like many do, but I hardly think he qualifies as a tech leader. Facebook succeeded through luck, timing, hard work and good engineering. That's all laudable, but there wasn't much leadership or vision involved. Bezos' initial idea, an online bookstore, was hardly visionary or leading but subsequent decisions, especially the decision to standardize internal system interfaces that led to the idea, and ability, to create AWS absolutely was visionary. Google should have done that, but didn't have the vision. There's no debating the vision of Elon "Mars or bust in my solar-powered electric car" Musk. Musk has so much vision we'd call him a crackpot, except that he has a tendency to succeed. Steve Jobs was clearly a leader and a visionary with a focus on making technology simple and beautiful.
And there are other leaders around who I'd say are much worthier than Zuckerberg. Larry Page, for example, whose goal for his new startup was to "Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", an insanely ambitious mission which arguably is no longer ambitious enough to describe what Alphabet/Google is doing. Mark Shuttleworth, not so much for Thawte as for Canonical, where his vision hasn't really succeeded in displacing Windows but has gone much further than most of us considered possible. Though a bunch of CEOs probably wouldn't pick him, I'd put Richard Stallman high on the list, too. His vision of the importance of software freedom has been incredibly influential.
I could go on, but the point is... Zuckerberg? Really? For what? I suppose it was visionary to believe that you could build a billion-user interactive system with PHP.
If Wheat was the problem, the US would be dropping food bags on the populace instead of TONS OF WEAPONS. GUNS DO NOT GROW OR WATER CROPS YOU FUCKING MORON!
Let me get this straight. Your argument is that the crisis must not be driven by a non-political cause because if it were the US would have solved it? Or, to put it another way, your're arguing that the US government is so perfectly effective at always addressing the root causes of problems in a timely manner, that the government's failure to address this one means it's not the root cause?
Dude, you must know a different US government than I do. The one I know occasionally does the right thing at the right time, but it's mostly by accident.
There is no evidence that viewing child porn causes the consumer to commit more child abuse, and some evidence that it is preventative.
I'll invite you to name your sources. In 2006 a documentary aired on the Dutch national television that made the case that viewers of childporn have a tendency to view worse and worse forms of it as well as try to create their own as well
I don't know one way or the other about the question of how viewing child porn affects pedophiles, but a documentary is not evidence. A documentary may be based on evidence, but the documentary itself is not, and I see nothing in the description that makes me think there was some solid data underlying the documentary's claims.
A's assertion was "Joe never kicked the dog therefore all Democrats are teh awesome"
No, A's assertion was "Joe, who is a Democrat, never kicked the dog".
The "all Democrats are teh awesome" part is something that you made up. You made it up because you WANTED him to be saying it.
But he didn't, and you know it. This makes you a liar.
Go back and read the thread.
A said: Bear this in mind. A Democrat tried to save the dog! Democrat Joe tried to save the dog.
B said: Steve and Jill are Democrats and they not only kicked dogs they wrote up laws to have them euthanized.
Clearly, PopeRatzo was making a point about democrats, and used one (Wyden) as his example. When it was pointed out that other democrats suck on this issue, he tried to imply that that he was only talking about one of them, not trying to generalize. But his initial post was clearly attempting to generalize.
I used to drive an F350. I'm no climate change denier.
"more likely to" != "are".
FWIW, I drive an F350 and a Nissan LEAF. I'd like to say it's just to confuse people who stereotype excessively, but the fact is that both vehicles make sense for me. The LEAF is pleasant to drive and cheap to operate when I'm running around town. The F350 tows and hauls stuff, like my Kubota L5030 and my Bayliner 215.
Surge pricing is usually still cheaper than a cab or a limo.
I've never had an experience with Uber like you describe. I've used it a couple of dozen times and it's always been flawless. I have much better experience with Ubers than with cabs. Limo services are better than Uber but require pre-planning and cost more. Your mileage has varied, apparently.
Personally, I'd like to see an Uber competitor that doesn't set prices at all, but instead uses a real-time auction model. They'd have to set some nominal, baseline prices to kick it off, but from there drivers should be able to "bid" by specifying the multiplier that they'll accept (which can be greater or less than 1). Passengers should be shown a list of available cars, with driver ratings, prices (based on driver bid) and arrival time. The list should include drivers who are currently carrying a passenger but will be dropping off soon, with appropriate arrival times (dropoff ETA + a minute for dropoff + travel time to pickup). That would enable drivers who set particularly low bids to stay busy all the time with very few gaps.
In addition, riders should be able to make an offer for a specific trip if none of the nearby drivers is cheap enough for them. The offer would show up on the devices of all not-currently-driving drivers nearby, and the drivers could choose to accept or reject. If the driver accepted, the rider would then have the opportunity (based on driver rating and arrival time) to accept or reject.
Besides allowing prices to settle on the correct values in a market-driven way, this approach should eliminate questions about whether drivers are employees or independent. If they set their own prices as well as their own working hours and using their own equipment, they're clearly independent.
Sure. If the first thing you hear about the problems with your perfomance is an improvement plan, your manager should *also* be on an improvement plan -- a point you should make with HR.
Umm... Drumpf isn't elected yet until the voting is certified and the Electoral College has cast their ballots. So you are wrong as of the end of November, 2016.
You need to work on your reading comprehension skills.
employee improvement plan, a step that can lead to termination if performance isn't improved
Whoever invented "employee improvement plan" needs to die.
Nonsense. Improvement plans are a good thing. I'm sure it's unpleasant to be put on one, but much better than getting fired straight off.
I've never been put on a plan, but I know many who have, and I have been fired. I'd much rather be put on a plan. Getting fired is really stressful. It leaves you job hunting on a tight, financially-driven timeline and with some serious disadvantages. In contrast, if you're on a 3-6 month improvement plan, that means worst case you have 3-6 months to look for a job, and all of your prospective employers will see you as a gainfully-employed person who is simply looking for a better situation, rather than a potential problem who couldn't hold his last job. If you don't find a new job during your improvement plan period, you're exactly where you would have been without the improvement plan... except that you've had some time to prepare.
There is a slim possibility that you can actually fix whatever it is that you're not doing well and stay on, assuming you want that. If you're put on a plan it's probably a really good idea to try to feel your manager out on whether that's even a possibility, because in many cases it's not. The improvement plan is just part of the firing process in many companies. Not that you can't stay if you make a dramatic turnaround, but the assumption is that you're on your way out, so it had better be really dramatic. Try to get your manager alone and ask them completely "off-the-record-we'll-both-deny-this-conversation-ever-happened" what your chances of staying are. If you can find that out you can determine whether you should invest time and effort in trying to do a better job, or begin spending large chunks of your time looking for another job -- and maybe start trying to cut expenses and sock more money away in case you end up unemployed for a while (though you should always keep a few month's salary in savings). If you don't get a really strong and sincere response that your manager wants to keep you if you'll just start doing X, Y and Z, assume the worst and get to work on your resume.
Hangouts syncs all of the messages to all devices.
How convenient. What about deletions, are they also synced to all devices?
I don't delete.
And the disadvantage that a drive failure loses your history
Ah, here's the problem. I had the false impression that I was talking to someone vaguely computer-literate. My bad, I'll adjust my expectations.
Ah, and I thought I was talking to someone who wasn't an asshole. I'll adjust mine as well.
I no longer bother with any sort of manual backups. Everything of importance is synced to the cloud and from there to multiple devices. Any solution that requires me to go back to managing backups is a non-starter. I don't have time for that crap.
That said, I don't see how this (non-)problem wouldn't equally apply to your workflow.
Hangouts syncs all of the messages to all devices.
And then there's the big advantage of my conversation logs being on my hard disks, while yours are being data-mined at google's...
And the disadvantage that a drive failure loses your history. As for data mining... meh. If it means the ads I see are more useful to me, that's a benefit, not a disadvantage.
Okay, I certainly see how having 40 xeon cores helps with browser performance... I somewhat doubt it's very representative for browser users, though.
The browser puts no appreciable load on any other computer I use, either. If your PC can't run a browser and still be silent, there's something wrong with the PC.
On the other hand, it is a waste of the public's money.
I work at a courthouse in a relatively small county. Our county clerks office employs exactly one person, we are having to pull an additional 7 people from other departments to do our recount on Thursday.
The taxpayers are paying eight people to be "not doing their jobs" for a day.
Is this in Wisconsin? As I understand it, the recounts under discussion have to be paid for by the parties requesting the recount, so your complaint doesn't apply. If your recount is being done for some other reason (e.g. many states have laws requiring recounts of races that are close), then perhaps there's some other entity that should be paying... or maybe it's just part of what the county should be expecting to pay.
If you're confident of that (as I am, actually), then you have nothing to fear from a recount, right? There's nothing wrong with double-checking tight races.
Unless you live in MN. We had both a Senator (Al Franken) and a Governor (Mark Dayton) lose and the Democrat controlled machine simply recounted over and over and "interpreted" the intent of votes until they won by a few hundred votes each.
Weren't the representatives of the Republican candidates involved in and overseeing the recount? A prerequisite for a recount being useful is that it actually has to be conducted with greater care and scrutiny than the original count.
Meh. My SMS communication client (Google Hangouts) is always loaded in my email tab, which is always open in my always-running browser. My workflow is: Alt-1 (to jump to the first tab, which is my pinned email tab), click on "fisted" in the list, type a message, hit enter. There's a big flaw with your workflow, too... supposing I reply, how do you see it? On your phone, I suppose... but then since you sent the message from your command-line SMS client, the conversation log on the phone is one-sided, which is unfortunate if you want to look at it later.
And my machine is completely silent except when I run a build. The fans have to kick up then to push heat out -- with 40 Xeon cores running at full bore there's quite a bit. But a browser? That's no load.
Oh, yeah. Because needing to use a closed-source proprietary skype client can totally not be a chore. It's literally one of the few things I consider even worse than web browsers.
No doubt. The quality or convenience of the skype client aside, how is using a web browser a chore? A web browser is the one app that is always running on any computer that I'm using. Having to start another app rather than another browser tab is almost always less convenient. There are a few things that just can't be done well in a browser (so far), and I don't mind running a separate app for them. But sending text message is not in that category. Neither is video conferencing, frankly.
And the best thing is, because Trump doesn't belong to a protected class, it won't be wacist.
Trump belongs to several protected classes. He has a race, he has a gender, he has a sexual orientation, he has a religion, etc. Except in specific circumstances, where the focus is on righting an existing wrong, it is illegal to discriminate against him on any of those bases. It's not illegal to criticize him for any of those things, just pointless and in bad taste.
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I'm always careful to grab mine, but with all the bullshit rules these days I have FOUR FUCKING BINS plus my bag to take through TSA.
It's complete fucking security theater. Stop requiring removal of all these devices that just slow down lines and lead to lost items. It's all bullshit.
If you travel much, pay the money ($100) and go through the process of getting your Global Entry card, which also gives you TSA Pre-check. It's well worth it for the hassle it saves. For a little less ($85) you can sign up for TSA Pre only, but if you ever leave the country the $15 extra for Global Entry will make re-entering the US much easier. I recommend Global Entry even if you just think you *might* travel internationally.
I don't despise Mark Zuckerberg like many do, but I hardly think he qualifies as a tech leader. Facebook succeeded through luck, timing, hard work and good engineering. That's all laudable, but there wasn't much leadership or vision involved. Bezos' initial idea, an online bookstore, was hardly visionary or leading but subsequent decisions, especially the decision to standardize internal system interfaces that led to the idea, and ability, to create AWS absolutely was visionary. Google should have done that, but didn't have the vision. There's no debating the vision of Elon "Mars or bust in my solar-powered electric car" Musk. Musk has so much vision we'd call him a crackpot, except that he has a tendency to succeed. Steve Jobs was clearly a leader and a visionary with a focus on making technology simple and beautiful.
And there are other leaders around who I'd say are much worthier than Zuckerberg. Larry Page, for example, whose goal for his new startup was to "Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", an insanely ambitious mission which arguably is no longer ambitious enough to describe what Alphabet/Google is doing. Mark Shuttleworth, not so much for Thawte as for Canonical, where his vision hasn't really succeeded in displacing Windows but has gone much further than most of us considered possible. Though a bunch of CEOs probably wouldn't pick him, I'd put Richard Stallman high on the list, too. His vision of the importance of software freedom has been incredibly influential.
I could go on, but the point is... Zuckerberg? Really? For what? I suppose it was visionary to believe that you could build a billion-user interactive system with PHP.
If Wheat was the problem, the US would be dropping food bags on the populace instead of TONS OF WEAPONS. GUNS DO NOT GROW OR WATER CROPS YOU FUCKING MORON!
Let me get this straight. Your argument is that the crisis must not be driven by a non-political cause because if it were the US would have solved it? Or, to put it another way, your're arguing that the US government is so perfectly effective at always addressing the root causes of problems in a timely manner, that the government's failure to address this one means it's not the root cause?
Dude, you must know a different US government than I do. The one I know occasionally does the right thing at the right time, but it's mostly by accident.
I'll invite you to name your sources. In 2006 a documentary aired on the Dutch national television that made the case that viewers of childporn have a tendency to view worse and worse forms of it as well as try to create their own as well
I don't know one way or the other about the question of how viewing child porn affects pedophiles, but a documentary is not evidence. A documentary may be based on evidence, but the documentary itself is not, and I see nothing in the description that makes me think there was some solid data underlying the documentary's claims.
A's assertion was "Joe never kicked the dog therefore all Democrats are teh awesome"
Citation please? All I read was a comment about Wyden in particular.
Go back and read the initial post. Here, I'll quote it for you:
PopeRatzo was clearly trying to show that Democrats are teh awesome and Republicans are teh suck. In reality, both suck.
A's assertion was "Joe never kicked the dog therefore all Democrats are teh awesome"
No, A's assertion was "Joe, who is a Democrat, never kicked the dog".
The "all Democrats are teh awesome" part is something that you made up. You made it up because you WANTED him to be saying it.
But he didn't, and you know it. This makes you a liar.
Go back and read the thread.
A said: Bear this in mind. A Democrat tried to save the dog! Democrat Joe tried to save the dog.
B said: Steve and Jill are Democrats and they not only kicked dogs they wrote up laws to have them euthanized.
Clearly, PopeRatzo was making a point about democrats, and used one (Wyden) as his example. When it was pointed out that other democrats suck on this issue, he tried to imply that that he was only talking about one of them, not trying to generalize. But his initial post was clearly attempting to generalize.
I used to drive an F350. I'm no climate change denier.
"more likely to" != "are".
FWIW, I drive an F350 and a Nissan LEAF. I'd like to say it's just to confuse people who stereotype excessively, but the fact is that both vehicles make sense for me. The LEAF is pleasant to drive and cheap to operate when I'm running around town. The F350 tows and hauls stuff, like my Kubota L5030 and my Bayliner 215.
Surge pricing is usually still cheaper than a cab or a limo.
I've never had an experience with Uber like you describe. I've used it a couple of dozen times and it's always been flawless. I have much better experience with Ubers than with cabs. Limo services are better than Uber but require pre-planning and cost more. Your mileage has varied, apparently.
Personally, I'd like to see an Uber competitor that doesn't set prices at all, but instead uses a real-time auction model. They'd have to set some nominal, baseline prices to kick it off, but from there drivers should be able to "bid" by specifying the multiplier that they'll accept (which can be greater or less than 1). Passengers should be shown a list of available cars, with driver ratings, prices (based on driver bid) and arrival time. The list should include drivers who are currently carrying a passenger but will be dropping off soon, with appropriate arrival times (dropoff ETA + a minute for dropoff + travel time to pickup). That would enable drivers who set particularly low bids to stay busy all the time with very few gaps.
In addition, riders should be able to make an offer for a specific trip if none of the nearby drivers is cheap enough for them. The offer would show up on the devices of all not-currently-driving drivers nearby, and the drivers could choose to accept or reject. If the driver accepted, the rider would then have the opportunity (based on driver rating and arrival time) to accept or reject.
Besides allowing prices to settle on the correct values in a market-driven way, this approach should eliminate questions about whether drivers are employees or independent. If they set their own prices as well as their own working hours and using their own equipment, they're clearly independent.
Yes, there are many, but there is only one strain of God's word. And, according to God's word, there is but the Glory of God to motivate.
Clearly there is not only one strain of God's word, else there wouldn't be so many interpretations of it.
Christianity has nothing to do with feeling good about yourself. In fact, doing things to feel good about yourself is a grievous sin.
There are many strains of Christianity. This is a common view among them, but by no means universal.
That's just a logistics problem
A huge one that results in many, many hours of underutilization.
Sure. If the first thing you hear about the problems with your perfomance is an improvement plan, your manager should *also* be on an improvement plan -- a point you should make with HR.
If that's the case there will be a lot less rides. Nobody wants to pay 2-3x surge or more.
In my experience it's usually still cheaper -- and more pleasant -- than a cab.
Tired of eating crow, do a recount, go back to eating cold crow when done.
You didn't read the post you replied to.
No Lyft in your area?
Umm... Drumpf isn't elected yet until the voting is certified and the Electoral College has cast their ballots. So you are wrong as of the end of November, 2016.
You need to work on your reading comprehension skills.
So... this means all-day surge pricing for the Uber drivers who don't strike?
employee improvement plan, a step that can lead to termination if performance isn't improved
Whoever invented "employee improvement plan" needs to die.
Nonsense. Improvement plans are a good thing. I'm sure it's unpleasant to be put on one, but much better than getting fired straight off.
I've never been put on a plan, but I know many who have, and I have been fired. I'd much rather be put on a plan. Getting fired is really stressful. It leaves you job hunting on a tight, financially-driven timeline and with some serious disadvantages. In contrast, if you're on a 3-6 month improvement plan, that means worst case you have 3-6 months to look for a job, and all of your prospective employers will see you as a gainfully-employed person who is simply looking for a better situation, rather than a potential problem who couldn't hold his last job. If you don't find a new job during your improvement plan period, you're exactly where you would have been without the improvement plan... except that you've had some time to prepare.
There is a slim possibility that you can actually fix whatever it is that you're not doing well and stay on, assuming you want that. If you're put on a plan it's probably a really good idea to try to feel your manager out on whether that's even a possibility, because in many cases it's not. The improvement plan is just part of the firing process in many companies. Not that you can't stay if you make a dramatic turnaround, but the assumption is that you're on your way out, so it had better be really dramatic. Try to get your manager alone and ask them completely "off-the-record-we'll-both-deny-this-conversation-ever-happened" what your chances of staying are. If you can find that out you can determine whether you should invest time and effort in trying to do a better job, or begin spending large chunks of your time looking for another job -- and maybe start trying to cut expenses and sock more money away in case you end up unemployed for a while (though you should always keep a few month's salary in savings). If you don't get a really strong and sincere response that your manager wants to keep you if you'll just start doing X, Y and Z, assume the worst and get to work on your resume.
Hangouts syncs all of the messages to all devices.
How convenient. What about deletions, are they also synced to all devices?
I don't delete.
And the disadvantage that a drive failure loses your history
Ah, here's the problem. I had the false impression that I was talking to someone vaguely computer-literate. My bad, I'll adjust my expectations.
Ah, and I thought I was talking to someone who wasn't an asshole. I'll adjust mine as well.
I no longer bother with any sort of manual backups. Everything of importance is synced to the cloud and from there to multiple devices. Any solution that requires me to go back to managing backups is a non-starter. I don't have time for that crap.
That said, I don't see how this (non-)problem wouldn't equally apply to your workflow.
Hangouts syncs all of the messages to all devices.
And then there's the big advantage of my conversation logs being on my hard disks, while yours are being data-mined at google's...
And the disadvantage that a drive failure loses your history. As for data mining... meh. If it means the ads I see are more useful to me, that's a benefit, not a disadvantage.
Okay, I certainly see how having 40 xeon cores helps with browser performance... I somewhat doubt it's very representative for browser users, though.
The browser puts no appreciable load on any other computer I use, either. If your PC can't run a browser and still be silent, there's something wrong with the PC.
On the other hand, it is a waste of the public's money.
I work at a courthouse in a relatively small county. Our county clerks office employs exactly one person, we are having to pull an additional 7 people from other departments to do our recount on Thursday.
The taxpayers are paying eight people to be "not doing their jobs" for a day.
Is this in Wisconsin? As I understand it, the recounts under discussion have to be paid for by the parties requesting the recount, so your complaint doesn't apply. If your recount is being done for some other reason (e.g. many states have laws requiring recounts of races that are close), then perhaps there's some other entity that should be paying... or maybe it's just part of what the county should be expecting to pay.
If you're confident of that (as I am, actually), then you have nothing to fear from a recount, right? There's nothing wrong with double-checking tight races.
Unless you live in MN. We had both a Senator (Al Franken) and a Governor (Mark Dayton) lose and the Democrat controlled machine simply recounted over and over and "interpreted" the intent of votes until they won by a few hundred votes each.
Weren't the representatives of the Republican candidates involved in and overseeing the recount? A prerequisite for a recount being useful is that it actually has to be conducted with greater care and scrutiny than the original count.
Meh. My SMS communication client (Google Hangouts) is always loaded in my email tab, which is always open in my always-running browser. My workflow is: Alt-1 (to jump to the first tab, which is my pinned email tab), click on "fisted" in the list, type a message, hit enter. There's a big flaw with your workflow, too... supposing I reply, how do you see it? On your phone, I suppose... but then since you sent the message from your command-line SMS client, the conversation log on the phone is one-sided, which is unfortunate if you want to look at it later.
And my machine is completely silent except when I run a build. The fans have to kick up then to push heat out -- with 40 Xeon cores running at full bore there's quite a bit. But a browser? That's no load.
Pretty much my thoughts.
but needing to use a web browser can be a chore.
Oh, yeah. Because needing to use a closed-source proprietary skype client can totally not be a chore. It's literally one of the few things I consider even worse than web browsers.
No doubt. The quality or convenience of the skype client aside, how is using a web browser a chore? A web browser is the one app that is always running on any computer that I'm using. Having to start another app rather than another browser tab is almost always less convenient. There are a few things that just can't be done well in a browser (so far), and I don't mind running a separate app for them. But sending text message is not in that category. Neither is video conferencing, frankly.
And the best thing is, because Trump doesn't belong to a protected class, it won't be wacist.
Trump belongs to several protected classes. He has a race, he has a gender, he has a sexual orientation, he has a religion, etc. Except in specific circumstances, where the focus is on righting an existing wrong, it is illegal to discriminate against him on any of those bases. It's not illegal to criticize him for any of those things, just pointless and in bad taste.