No, no. That was the plot of the VCD he viewed. The pirates saw Episode I and, being earthly lifeforms, had way too much integrity to foist the real thing on an unsuspecting public. If only the movie execs has shown the same self-control.
The first argument claiming "[lawyer] ethics aside" could be viewed as an intentional triggering of Godwin's Law. Put ethics aside so it is just people doing their job? That sounds too familiar. I knew the blitzkreig would be on soon.
Andromeda Strain got around a lot of dialog and character clunkiness by interspersing scientific reports and computer printouts. I think there was even a chunk of punch card text. This was different enough to grab your attention when the narrative was flagging. The scientific reports were good enough to make you wonder about their veracity instead of wondering about the dopey stuff in the storyline.
It was huge success and since then it has been downhill stories that are screenplays in waiting.
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"Maybe many young couples do not increase their life insurance benefits when a child is conceived, but again that is their problem."
You didn't notice the trick question. The moment a child (or twins, or triples!) is conceived it might need survivor benefits but how would even the most sophisticated adults know that they created a zygote the night before? Huh? Only Social Security is going to cover that situation.
And insurance is not "their problem." If daddy/mommy kicks off, it is the problem of the 2-year old who is left in poverty. You genuinely have no idea of the difference that Social Security survivor benefits can make between the gutter and a home, do you? You do? And the fetus or the 2-year old should plan ahead by . . . what?
Also, some people are uninsurable, but I guess that is not your problem. Until you become one of the uninsurable, too. Explain that.
I could have brought up the Social Security benefits for adults that will kick-in if you are disabled and can last to the end of your life, long after you have reached the cap on the insurance you have bought (your insurance doesn't have any caps?) or spent the claim (your policies are for what, $5-$50 million?).
Social Security is about having ANY money when your life becomes screwed. It is not about CompUSA warranties.
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And if I die two seconds after my first contribution at age 20, then my children will receive survivor benefits until they are 18, or 21 if they go to college. If you had invested the money yourself for those two seconds, or even for a few years, what would your kids have? They'd be in the gutter.
If you bought life insurance? Yeah, "if." And if they didn't, that just tough for the kids, right? (And what young couple increases their life insurance benefits - which really means increasing their life insurance payments - the moment that a child is conceived?)
You can't beat that kind of social security, so you ignored it. Your argument is crap when you ignore the reality of giving families a lifeline to survival.
The argument about failure? If the opponents spent one second working from facts instead of ideology, it would have a better chance.
"most unpopular message"? No, I'd just say uninformed. Perhaps you have never seen a form that resets the user selection in a way that is to the benefit of the form-writer, and you must be "smart" enough to quadruple check the form every time that you resubmit the form, over and over, again.
You select "No spam" and you ignore the box specifying your income range. The form comes back insisting that you specify your income range AND has quietly deselected "No spam" (because you were obviously careless about that selection also) but leaves everything else the same. So you recheck "No spam" (which is sometimes 5-10 subcategories), fill out all the trivia fields just to be safe, and then it comes back with "Please specify a sub-category for your occupation" (the form-writer did not indicate that sub-category was required information) and, gee, it has again quietly deselected "No spam" and left everything else on the form as you entered it.
Or it clears EVEYTHING from the form (only resetting the spam option) and you must repeatedly fill out the form until it meets the phony standards of the form-writer. Care to bet that these forms do the same trivial error checking if you are willing to accept spam?
Or it resets all fields below any field that it tells you to re-enter. Or it resets the "No spam" field if you change any other field. etc. Or if you choose "No spam" it then changes some option fields to required and resets "No spam" in the refresh. Or it does all of the above.
How "smart" do you need to be when you are playing a rigged game of chance like this?
I gave up on suits and ties, and then gave up on sport coat and tie as I saw that almost all on the job recognition of good dress or good taste was based upon job status. While I didn't expect to get compliments for the way I dressed, it only emphasized that almost all compliments at work, other than what us lowly workers said to each other, were being made to kiss ass.
It was always "Nice suit, boss" and "The boss is right, that is a sharp looking tie you're wearing" and "I wish everyone dressed as well as Charlie" (who happens to be the president's son), and "Boss, is that a Brooks Brothers suit?" (no, kiss-up, it was a JC Penny polyester suit and tie, I was the only one at the meeting wearing a Brooks Brothers suit), etc. If they were lying about stuff that you could SEE was false, what were they doing about things that took real work to figure out?
This was true in three different companies after I got out of college and before dot.com period had started. At my current company, outside of top management, it is a culture where compliments are given for sincere reasons; because it is just nice to be nice to people.
But now it is a time when only topmost management wears a tie and no one else wears a coat and tie. Also, it is very family oriented and few parents are eager to spend money and time on the purchase and maintenance of such clothes.
Maybe someone here could help you FIX this problem if you could identify even one DVD by, you know, title, and the DVD player by, you know, model number.
The Nissan brand name is so valuable that they wouldn't risk it when they first sold cars in America, waiting until the name change cost multi-millions of dollars. Same spineless company.
This Captain agrees. You can't even record on a household DVD player. The marketers have separated the frugal, average video viewer from the pay-for-quality market segment and concentrate their forces there. The home entertainment marketers are failing pitifully on popularity and they don't need to care. They are not wasting energy on a VCR owner such as myself who has bought zero pre-recorded VCR tapes. They are going after people who know that when they buy the player that they will also be paying for almost all of the content.
As for VCR sales - The selection and quality of new VCR recorders is dropping every day - unlike almost any other electronic device, it is currently smarter to just keep the old VCR repaired. Our VCR broke and after trying three new VCRs that were all junk we had the old VCR repaired.
AT&T is really scummy about this. As soon as I requested to be on the "do not call list" I received calls every few days and then ONLY every few weeks. Their claim/lie was that it took 2 MONTHS to get on the "do not call" list and until then wouldn't I please listen to the great offer they had for me. I would always request the written policy about that and they would immediately hang up.
TIP: If they tell you about an 800 number for details about the "do not call" list, write it down! They only mentioned it the time that I got on the "do not call" list and I thought it was some gimmick to prevent me from requesting removal.
This is a very important point. No one has any use for someone who can do "anything," they need someone who can do a specific thing.
Besides, this lets you interview the company on the same wavelength. If you know and understand a particular job and business, and the employer can't recognize that or themselves can't accurately describe what they do, then think hard about what what kind of mess you may be getting into.
After the success of A New Hope, there was money for some really good special effects.
But what really made that film great was the revelation that Darth Vader was Luke's father. In the years between the two movies I never heard anyone speculate on a relationship. It really came from out of nowhere. And then you knew you had been set-up royally from the start of A New Hope with that first conversation between Luke and his aunt and uncle.
Of course, he doesn't "dominate." It's just another hyper-painful, hyper-intellectual book review for Slashdot. The same with "...the book almost dissolves into the deconstruction of it's own content." Deconstruction? Oh, really!
I appreciate that Slashdot features sci-fi writers and books, but all too often these reviews need some editorial guidance BEFORE they are posted. Just a little reining in can make a big difference.
I have a cubicle bookshelf mounted away from my desk surface so I can read while I am standing. The
effort to remain standing helps me concentrate on reading, which in turn lets me shut out distractions.
It can even make sense to mount your keyboard and terminal so that you can use it standing up (if I had
an LCD terminal I would be able to switch from sitting to standing keyboarding, depending on what would
be most appropriate at the moment). It is a good switch from isolating yourself with headphones. Or
even try both.
It doesn't work if you have no privacy and numbnut coworkers who constantly ask why you are standing up
(translation: Why are you trying to do some work?), or if the facilities people object to a reading
platform (translation: Why are you trying to do some work? We sure don't)
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Since we're on the topic of FOX, The Tick is on tonight on FOX TV (9:30 pm) as well as it's
regular time on Thursday night. Two weeks on, two weeks off, then two night in a row, gotta love
those crazy guys at Fox.
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No, no. That was the plot of the VCD he viewed. The pirates saw
Episode I and, being earthly lifeforms, had way too much integrity
to foist the real thing on an unsuspecting public. If only the
movie execs has shown the same self-control.
You are still out of luck if someone included your
address in the quoted text of their archived message.
The first argument claiming "[lawyer] ethics aside" could be viewed as
an intentional triggering of Godwin's Law. Put ethics aside so it is
just people doing their job? That sounds too familiar. I knew the
blitzkreig would be on soon.
Andromeda Strain got around a lot of dialog and character clunkiness
by interspersing scientific reports and computer printouts. I think
there was even a chunk of punch card text. This was different enough
to grab your attention when the narrative was flagging. The scientific
reports were good enough to make you wonder about their veracity
instead of wondering about the dopey stuff in the storyline.
It was huge success and since then it has been downhill stories that
are screenplays in waiting.
"Maybe many young couples do not increase their life insurance
benefits when a child is conceived, but again that is their problem."
You didn't notice the trick question. The moment a child (or twins, or
triples!) is conceived it might need survivor benefits but how would
even the most sophisticated adults know that they created a zygote the
night before? Huh? Only Social Security is going to cover that situation.
And insurance is not "their problem." If daddy/mommy kicks off, it is
the problem of the 2-year old who is left in poverty. You genuinely
have no idea of the difference that Social Security survivor benefits
can make between the gutter and a home, do you? You do? And the fetus
or the 2-year old should plan ahead by . . . what?
Also, some people are uninsurable, but I guess that is not your problem.
Until you become one of the uninsurable, too. Explain that.
I could have brought up the Social Security benefits for adults that
will kick-in if you are disabled and can last to the end of your life,
long after you have reached the cap on the insurance you have bought
(your insurance doesn't have any caps?) or spent the claim
(your policies are for what, $5-$50 million?).
Social Security is about having ANY money when your life becomes screwed.
It is not about CompUSA warranties.
And if I die two seconds after my first contribution at age 20, then
my children will receive survivor benefits until they are 18, or 21 if
they go to college. If you had invested the money yourself for those
two seconds, or even for a few years, what would your kids have?
They'd be in the gutter.
If you bought life insurance? Yeah, "if." And if they didn't, that
just tough for the kids, right?
(And what young couple increases their life insurance benefits - which really means
increasing their life insurance payments - the moment that a child is conceived?)
You can't beat that kind of social security, so you ignored it. Your
argument is crap when you ignore the reality of giving families a
lifeline to survival.
The argument about failure? If the opponents spent one second
working from facts instead of ideology, it would have a better chance.
"most unpopular message"? No, I'd just say uninformed. Perhaps you
have never seen a form that resets the user selection in a way that is
to the benefit of the form-writer, and you must be "smart" enough to
quadruple check the form every time that you resubmit the form, over and over, again.
You select "No spam" and you
ignore the box specifying your income range. The form comes back
insisting that you specify your income range AND has quietly
deselected "No spam" (because you were obviously careless about that
selection also) but leaves everything else the same. So you recheck
"No spam" (which is sometimes 5-10 subcategories), fill out all the
trivia fields just to be safe, and then it comes back with "Please
specify a sub-category for your occupation" (the form-writer did not
indicate that sub-category was required information) and, gee, it has
again quietly deselected "No spam" and left everything else on the form as you
entered it.
Or it clears EVEYTHING from the form (only resetting the spam option)
and you must repeatedly fill out the form until it meets the phony
standards of the form-writer.
Care to bet that these forms do the same trivial error checking if you are willing to accept spam?
Or it resets all fields below any field that it tells you to re-enter.
Or it resets the "No spam" field if you change any other field. etc.
Or if you choose "No spam" it then changes some option fields to required and resets "No spam" in the refresh.
Or it does all of the above.
How "smart" do you need to be when you are playing a rigged game of
chance like this?
I gave up on suits and ties, and then gave up on sport coat and tie as I saw that
almost all on the job recognition of good dress or good taste was based upon job
status. While I didn't expect to get compliments for the way I dressed, it only
emphasized that almost all compliments at work, other than what us lowly workers said
to each other, were being made to kiss ass.
It was always "Nice suit, boss" and "The boss is right, that is a sharp looking tie
you're wearing" and "I wish everyone dressed as well as Charlie" (who happens to be
the president's son), and "Boss, is that a Brooks Brothers suit?" (no, kiss-up, it
was a JC Penny polyester suit and tie, I was the only one at the meeting wearing a
Brooks Brothers suit), etc. If they were lying about stuff that you could SEE was
false, what were they doing about things that took real work to figure out?
This was true in three different companies after I got out of college and before
dot.com period had started. At my current company, outside of top management, it is a
culture where compliments are given for sincere reasons; because it is just nice to be nice to people.
But now it is a time when only topmost management wears a tie and no one else wears a coat and tie. Also, it
is very family oriented and few parents are eager to spend money and time on the
purchase and maintenance of such clothes.
" the amount of money is so trivial that I can't see it causing any real problems"
Great, so let me be first in line. I prefer $100 bills, thank you.
I'm waiting.
I think there is an implied bad precedent of any auditing and collecting money (tribute) from religious broadcasters.
Still around, and for free
http://www.compusol.org/cs/ecco/
The last version is now available for free.
For a good set of pointers, go to
http://www.compusol.org/
Maybe someone here could help you FIX this problem if you could identify even one DVD by, you know, title, and the DVD player by, you know, model number.
The Nissan brand name is so valuable that they wouldn't risk it when they first sold cars in America, waiting until the name change cost multi-millions of dollars. Same spineless company.
This Captain agrees. You can't even record on a household DVD player. The marketers have separated the frugal, average video viewer from the pay-for-quality market segment and concentrate their forces there. The home entertainment marketers are failing pitifully on popularity and they don't need to care. They are not wasting energy on a VCR owner such as myself who has bought zero pre-recorded VCR tapes. They are going after people who know that when they buy the player that they will also be paying for almost all of the content.
As for VCR sales - The selection and quality of new VCR recorders is dropping every day - unlike almost any other electronic device, it is currently smarter to just keep the old VCR repaired. Our VCR broke and after trying three
new VCRs that were all junk we had the old VCR repaired.
Yes, it is a total nitpick when you then identify neither the whole phrase nor the acronym which you are picking on.
...the next Space Shuttle launch which is currently scheduled for NET (no earlier than) Sept 28th...
How about:
AT&T is really scummy about this. As soon as I requested to be on the "do not call list" I received calls every few days and then ONLY every few weeks. Their claim/lie was that it took 2 MONTHS to get on the "do not call" list and until then wouldn't I please listen to the great offer they had for me. I would always request the written policy about that and they would immediately hang up.
TIP: If they tell you about an 800 number for details about the "do not call" list, write it down! They only mentioned it the time that I got on the "do not call" list and I thought it was some gimmick to prevent me from requesting removal.
This is a very important point. No one has any use for someone who can do "anything," they need someone who can do a specific thing.
Besides, this lets you interview the company on the same wavelength. If you know and understand a particular job and business, and the employer can't recognize that or themselves can't accurately describe what they do, then think hard about what what kind of mess you may be getting into.
And jumped off as fast as they could, all the while mumbling, "let the market decide."
This lame-o list shows that the Wired concept of "we" continues to encompass all sentient beings, except for people living on earth.
Yodas' great-great-great-great--great-...-grand-child is...
The Green Goblin!
After the success of A New Hope, there was money for some really good special effects.
But what really made that film great was the revelation that Darth Vader was Luke's father. In the years between the two movies I never heard anyone speculate on a relationship. It really came from out of nowhere. And then you knew you had been set-up royally from the start of A New Hope with that first conversation between Luke and his aunt and uncle.
Of course, he doesn't "dominate." It's just another hyper-painful, hyper-intellectual book review for Slashdot. The same with "...the book almost dissolves into the deconstruction of it's own content." Deconstruction? Oh, really!
I appreciate that Slashdot features sci-fi writers and books, but all too often these reviews need some editorial guidance BEFORE they are posted. Just a little reining in can make a big difference.
I have a cubicle bookshelf mounted away from my desk surface so I can read while I am standing. The
effort to remain standing helps me concentrate on reading, which in turn lets me shut out distractions.
It can even make sense to mount your keyboard and terminal so that you can use it standing up (if I had
an LCD terminal I would be able to switch from sitting to standing keyboarding, depending on what would
be most appropriate at the moment). It is a good switch from isolating yourself with headphones. Or
even try both.
It doesn't work if you have no privacy and numbnut coworkers who constantly ask why you are standing up
(translation: Why are you trying to do some work?), or if the facilities people object to a reading
platform (translation: Why are you trying to do some work? We sure don't)
Since we're on the topic of FOX, The Tick is on tonight on FOX TV (9:30 pm) as well as it's
regular time on Thursday night. Two weeks on, two weeks off, then two night in a row, gotta love
those crazy guys at Fox.
Any sites or tips about the minimum info to supply
in registering for Passport?