No, actually he's right. It's all about attitude. Fry cooks are hourly, with extra compensation should they need to take an extra breath. Managers are salaried--whatever it takes ot get the job done.
I've been a fry cook (literally), and I've been a manager. The fry cook is easier. The only thing you have to think about is the difference between over easy and over medium and whether you've got the wherewithall to even know the difference. A manager, particularly a front-line manager, has a lot more on his plate than eggs.
Now I question this manager's motives. You don't go developing something on your own time with the expectation to be paid extra. Any company paying attention would have you sign an agreement anyway. If that's what he really wants, cool. Quit and sell it back to the company. But as it stands he's setting himself up for failure.
In my own case I gave it away (a complete accounts payable and payroll system). As a result I got promoted and probably made close to twice what I would have otherwise. Sometimes you roll the dice and hope for the best.
"in their Feedback section, a place where dubious claims are highlighted. (Vol 199:2666, p.56) For those of you who actually paid $500 for this, I feel sorry for you because you just got duped. This is a digital signal. End of story. The claims about this are snake oil. If you believe this nonsense I've got this bridge I want to sell you in New York for a great price."
So 8 out 0f 18 found my review helpful. Was it my attitude?
In my opinion, it can work well. My grandson is homeschooled through an e-learning program that has resulted in his gaining two years academically last year alone. He also gets one-on-one speech therapy (He has some burned out brain cells and a resulting Elmer Fidd kind of accent). He also gets plenty of interaction, so it's not as if he sits home isolated.
The key, I believe, is a school system that does not resist this and helps parents get the tools they need to make this work. It's inevitavable anyway....
Steve Jobs changed my life. First I bought an Apple ][, and the rest is history. No. Really. It made my career. Now, several thousand PCs later, I'm retired. Rock on, Steve. And thanks.
I was taught BASIC in graduate school in the mid seventies where we used the CDC used by Bill Gates as a teenager. It used punched cards and the "programmers" (who were just clerks) wore white lab coats as they took our cards from us. A day or so later we got our green bar paper back along with our card decks. People drew crazy designs on the end of the decks so they could find them more easily. It took three or four pages of green bar to provide the answer, which was normally something as complex as: 42. Several years later I managed to score an Apple ][ Minus (Integer BASIC) in '79 (?) and traded my $500 motorcycle for a second disk drive. I also threw in a CP/M card and taught myself dBase II. I wrote a program called "Readability" which measured the grade level of text material. It was sold by Micro Power & Light for about ten years and furnished me enough royalties to buy--more computers, mostly, without dipping into the family budget. Meanwhile I managed to get my work to authorize a PC, another Apple just like I had at home. It ran Visicalc, and a strange word processor called Zardax from Australia.
I bought an IBM PC as soon as they came out (LOVED the keyboard!), and translated Readability for the IBM and did an Accounts Payable program out of dBase III compiled with Quicksilver. FidoNet was fairly new so I managed to get online that way at first, though I was also on "The Source" which charged per minute at the time. All that was pre-Web, of course. We put up a web server on Linux (which fit on two floppies at the time) in the very early nineties and put up a gopher, Pine for email, and Lynx as a web browser. I remember Mosaic, but we also had some other early graphic browsers I simply don't remember. Things started moving pretty fast after that. We automated with a mini, then re-automated with an ethernet system. I would install a LAN, then go to Novell school the next month to see how to do it. One of my guys had a young kid, so we'd tie an ethernet cable to his foot and have him slither through the crawlspace. We promised him a Happy Meal if he got to the other side. You never really know an industrial building unless you've wired it. We put in the first Frame Relay system in the city and managed to snag eleven Class C networks of our very own. (It would not happen today.) Each branch had its own Class C even though it had five devices only. (Now they may be up to 30 or so if you count the copy machines.)
By the end I had about 500 machines, including about 50 servers on a very busy ten site WAN with fiber to the net. I thoroughly enjoyed my career, where it started and where I wound up even though I blundered through quite a bit of it. But I'm very grateful to be retired and not responsible for a network like that any longer.
My Novell CNE certainly has opened doors for me. It is framed on the wall next to my Starfleet Academy Diploma and my appointment as an Admiral in the Navy of the State of Oklahoma signed by the governor, Cowboy Pink Williams himself!
Really? My father made a few cents more than minimum wage as a chump bartender on the seedy side of town--when he had a job at all. My mother, being agorophobic in the classic sense, was unemployable and never held a job ever. Yet I put myself through college and graduate school and wouldn't you know it, wound up 'wealthier than average.' I don't remember getting a head start, but I do remember my parents' attitude, nor do I think I'm unusual. A whole lot of people in my generation did the same damn thing.
So bullshit right back at ya. There's nothing prventing your success except a class attitude.
Where do you get this 1.4 * 1.4 = 1.96? What kind of math is that? Why are you using that equation? So? That's not the issue. Spending is up 80% in ten years. Population growth and inflation are just under 40%. If state spending had followed population growth and inflation, state spending would have gone up 40% in ten years, not 80%. State spending has gone up twice as fast as inflation and population growth. End of story. No wonder the state is broke.
Actually, state spending in Washington has gone up 80% in ten years at the same time population growth and inflation have been less than 40%. We don't have a revenue problem in Washington, we have a spending problem. If the State were spending at the same rate it did ten years ago, allowing for inflation and population gowth, there would be no budget issues. But instead, the legislature and governor went on a spending spree and added state workers by the thousands, added spending programs "for the children" and generally created an unsustainable spending environment. They do the heart-strings schtick and claim they don't want to cut "aid to the increasing number of poor people" when, in fact, aid to poor people is so good here that they move here to take advantage of it.
Now, rather than cut the spending programs, the state is going after things like this and claiming that it is because people "don't want to pay an income tax." Thanks for drinking the Kool Aid there above. It's the Party Line that counts. In fact, Washington ranks 13th in the nation for tax burden per capita, mostly because of a very high sales tax rate and reliance upon. So people stop spending and buying cars and the state revenue goes down. Duh!
So now it's my "social responsibility" to keep my router open? WTF? Uh, no. Not any more than it's my social responsibility to lend you my cell phone, feed you my groceries, or let you use my hot tub, or loan you my girlfriend. (Since this is/. I'm assuming most of you don't have one.) But the answer is still No, regardless. I don't have ANY responsibility to give you anything, not even the time of day.
Our local reag, er, newspaper, allows comments on stories. The paper reports on every crime in the county, of course, and blog entires rapidly "decide" guilt or innocence, sometimes both, depending on the crime and circumstances. Usually it's a big brawl, such as when a cop shoots someone, and the conversation is over whether or not it was justified.
The important part here is that the prosecutor and defense attorneys are both starting to realize that the blogs can be influential, so they ask in pre-dispositions and in jury selection questionaaires whether a prsspective juror is active on or ahas evebn read 'the blogs.' A positive answer is grounds for throwing you off a jury.
I'm all for criticizing the excesses of Kurzweil, but I don't think the article is up to snuff and reads like a personal attack on Kurzweil rather than a well-reasoned refutation of Kurzweil's predictions.The author seems to take the position that Kurzweil wasn't exactly 100% accurate in all the factes of his predictions, therefore he was wrong and besides, somebody else already thought of it anyway before Kurzweil did. It's kind of a specious hit piece that cherry picks a couple of examples and doesn't really measure up as a serious analysis of Kurzweil's record. Maybe it would be nice of someone actually did that, but this article is nowhere near it.
I should have added, Ballmer cashed in his chips THIS year AFTER the income tax measure failed. Had it passed it wouldn't have started until next year anyway (maybe even the year after). There really is no relationship between the income tax measure and Ballmer selling stock.
I live in Washington. Here's the deal. The State has increased its spending 80% in the last ten years when inflation and population growth has been 40%. No one can see a 40% increase in services. They just spent more money. Now that the recession has reduced the state coffers the State is whining that it has a deficit. If the State went back to a 40% growth rate over the last ten years there would BE no deficit.
Now, this is like the umpteenth time the voters have said NO to s state income tax. Why? Because we know it's just the camel's nose in the tent. They're trying to get a class war going so all the people will want to tax the "rich," then when that is implemented, in two years the state legislature will reduce the threshhold so that we all pay or inflation will be so bad we'll all be in the 'rich' bracket. No one trusts the legislature.
One of the ploys was to say "it's for the children." Right. Just like the lottery was supposed to be for education, the legislature has shown its stripes so many times by raiding earmarked funds that it makes a travesty of the claim.
Voters also passed, for the third time, an initiative calling for a 2/3 vote of the legislature to raise taxes and fees. The legislature has managed to override the last two. One of the complaints was, why should 51% vote for a 2/3rds majority? OK. This time we approved the intitiative by 67%. Capiche? We don't have a revenue problem in Washington. We have a spending problem.
I don't care one whit what Ballmer & Co do with their money. I just know my money is more precious than his because I don't have anywhere near what he does. And I'm tired of having it confiscated by a state that doesn't understand it has to live within its means.
My God! I bought Dell for years for far less for a network ready plug-in. Out of the box and onto the desktop. You want to BUILD them??? Good luck with that. You'll spend a lot more in staff time putting them together. Time is money. Space is money. Procurement of parts is money. The idea is not to provide jobs for IT. The idea is to get those PCs out to the clients as cheaply as possible. Think this through. And even Dell is less expensoive than that. You're not doing Alienware for the desktop, are you?
Paul Ehrlich, the Club of Rome, Saul of Tarsus, and any extant Cargo Cult all predicted doom within our lifetime. Never happened. Oh! We're running out of oil! (If you believe oil is made of dead dinosaurs, I suppose so. But what if, ==just== what if oil is not from dead dinosaurs? What if it's from the formation of the earth? Oh! we're running out of food! Umm, we haven't. All this doomsday stuff is just like any number of millenial cults claiming we're all going to die. Conserve resources? You bet! But let's not be stupid about this. It's much more likely an ice age is goug to get us than global, er, umm, "climate disruptionn."
I concur with several comments here. I'm not saying this BECAUSE it is in Israel. It's unreliable--period. Last year they claimed a huge fleet of destroyers was in the Indian Ocean that did not exist. More reliable sites such as strafor http://www.stratfor.com/ do not use debka and consider it a source of disinformation at best.
Technically, presumably you are correct, but do you really expect someone to look up this guy's family life to verify whether or not he has reproduced? Just a sec while I look up the census records. Well, his wife had a kid, but we're not sure it's his, so the jury is still out on this one! How about if we say he gets the Darwin Award, Second Class, for not being able to reproduce AGAIN? And you're calling someone stupid? Read the sig. It has your name on it.
The fact that I went to so much trouble to get this guy's money back to him speaks to that better than I could. The fact is, I had to find him first, which was no mean feat. You'd have a hell of a time proving I "stole" it. For all intents and purposes it was given to me through no effort of my own; I simply gave it back. What you are describing is what the government does to me all the time.
I can't imagine ever being put into this situation of having to download transaction data FROM a bank. I was taught to write down transactions as they happen and check the bank every month. Over the years I have caught them in several minor errors. I've had several hundred dollars of transactions that never posted, and even a deposit erroneously posted to my account. I rarely attempt to correct these errors on the theory that it would cost us both more to reconcile them than I got in "free" services. (What was with that Las Vegas trip, anyway?) But I did pursue that bad $300 deposit. I did a little invasion of privacy thing, found out who it was, google-earthed his address seeing it was no mansion and thought he might need that $300. It took forever to get through to a real person, but she bird-dogged it thru and got the guy's money back to him.
Today I have several years worth of transactions stored locally and backed up five ways against Sunday all reconciled against the bank records to no more than a month behind.
Good comments overall, btw! I do not believe I am misrepresenting penetration. You need it. Consider, for example, the Taurus Judge. It's marketed as a big ass defensive weapon, but in its 410 mode, penetration is like an inch--not enough to do any damage. I believe there are only two or three balls in a 410 and they just don't do the job.
I personally do carry pepper gel for the ocassional frisky dog that wants to bite my cocker spaniel, but I would never rely on pepper spray to stop a determined attack. For some people, just like a taser, it just angers them. And if they ARE high on meth (or adrenaline) they can fight right through either weapon.
I do agree with the comment that practicing with a 9mm does not prepare you for using a.45. I did fire a friend's 1911 a few weeks ago. I was cringing expecting significant recoil, and was surprised that it handled very nicely. I suspect the extra weight of a 1911 (compared to a Glock 19) compensates for the bigger caliber.
I guess as a final comment I learned through experience that when a threat happens, the adrenaline is going to hit you like a ton of bricks. You'll start shaking as it dumps into your bloodstream. What helped me through was working through the potential scenario in advance dozens of times, enough so that when it happens, you don't have to think, "What do I do next?" You just do it as you've practiced it. Reaction time and a steady hand are more important than caliber (within reason).
Sure you do. You use "Home defense ammo" that is hollow point. It both penetrates and expands causing maximum damage. The idea is to "stop the threat." This ammo, unlike FMJ (Full Metal Jacket) is NOT going to go through the wall and kill someone a house away. If you're serious about this, you wanmt two to the body mass and one to the head. This "I don't want to hurt anyone" nonsense means you are not serious about protecting yourself from someone who assuredly does not feel that way about you. And you don't want a pop gun either. You need a 40 or better, the largest you can handle safely. If you can handle a.45, like a 1911, go for it. I have a Glock 9mm, and, frankly, it is a little underpowered for self-defense. But the ammo is cheaper, so I can practice more and hopefully be more accurate enough to make up the difference.
I understand some people say shotgun is best. I don't disagree with you.
The reviews I've read on the Taurus Judge suggest it is NOT a good security weapon, especially using the 410 round, which does not have enough penetration to be any good. See: http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot41.htm for details. Of course, the OP was likely suggesting a system that would be in force when he wasn't there, so a firearm might be way off topic here. In any case, a Glock 40mm or a 12 gauge would be much better choices than a Taurus Judge for home protection.
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No, actually he's right. It's all about attitude. Fry cooks are hourly, with extra compensation should they need to take an extra breath. Managers are salaried--whatever it takes ot get the job done.
I've been a fry cook (literally), and I've been a manager. The fry cook is easier. The only thing you have to think about is the difference between over easy and over medium and whether you've got the wherewithall to even know the difference. A manager, particularly a front-line manager, has a lot more on his plate than eggs.
Now I question this manager's motives. You don't go developing something on your own time with the expectation to be paid extra. Any company paying attention would have you sign an agreement anyway. If that's what he really wants, cool. Quit and sell it back to the company. But as it stands he's setting himself up for failure.
In my own case I gave it away (a complete accounts payable and payroll system). As a result I got promoted and probably made close to twice what I would have otherwise. Sometimes you roll the dice and hope for the best.
Thsi was for a $500 Ddnon digital HDMI cable:
"in their Feedback section, a place where dubious claims are highlighted. (Vol 199:2666, p.56) For those of you who actually paid $500 for this, I feel sorry for you because you just got duped. This is a digital signal. End of story. The claims about this are snake oil. If you believe this nonsense I've got this bridge I want to sell you in New York for a great price."
So 8 out 0f 18 found my review helpful. Was it my attitude?
In my opinion, it can work well. My grandson is homeschooled through an e-learning program that has resulted in his gaining two years academically last year alone. He also gets one-on-one speech therapy (He has some burned out brain cells and a resulting Elmer Fidd kind of accent). He also gets plenty of interaction, so it's not as if he sits home isolated.
The key, I believe, is a school system that does not resist this and helps parents get the tools they need to make this work. It's inevitavable anyway....
Steve Jobs changed my life. First I bought an Apple ][, and the rest is history. No. Really. It made my career. Now, several thousand PCs later, I'm retired. Rock on, Steve. And thanks.
just fyi, I'm using IE and I can read your sig.
I was taught BASIC in graduate school in the mid seventies where we used the CDC used by Bill Gates as a teenager. It used punched cards and the "programmers" (who were just clerks) wore white lab coats as they took our cards from us. A day or so later we got our green bar paper back along with our card decks. People drew crazy designs on the end of the decks so they could find them more easily. It took three or four pages of green bar to provide the answer, which was normally something as complex as: 42. Several years later I managed to score an Apple ][ Minus (Integer BASIC) in '79 (?) and traded my $500 motorcycle for a second disk drive. I also threw in a CP/M card and taught myself dBase II. I wrote a program called "Readability" which measured the grade level of text material. It was sold by Micro Power & Light for about ten years and furnished me enough royalties to buy--more computers, mostly, without dipping into the family budget. Meanwhile I managed to get my work to authorize a PC, another Apple just like I had at home. It ran Visicalc, and a strange word processor called Zardax from Australia.
I bought an IBM PC as soon as they came out (LOVED the keyboard!), and translated Readability for the IBM and did an Accounts Payable program out of dBase III compiled with Quicksilver. FidoNet was fairly new so I managed to get online that way at first, though I was also on "The Source" which charged per minute at the time. All that was pre-Web, of course. We put up a web server on Linux (which fit on two floppies at the time) in the very early nineties and put up a gopher, Pine for email, and Lynx as a web browser. I remember Mosaic, but we also had some other early graphic browsers I simply don't remember. Things started moving pretty fast after that. We automated with a mini, then re-automated with an ethernet system. I would install a LAN, then go to Novell school the next month to see how to do it. One of my guys had a young kid, so we'd tie an ethernet cable to his foot and have him slither through the crawlspace. We promised him a Happy Meal if he got to the other side. You never really know an industrial building unless you've wired it. We put in the first Frame Relay system in the city and managed to snag eleven Class C networks of our very own. (It would not happen today.) Each branch had its own Class C even though it had five devices only. (Now they may be up to 30 or so if you count the copy machines.)
By the end I had about 500 machines, including about 50 servers on a very busy ten site WAN with fiber to the net. I thoroughly enjoyed my career, where it started and where I wound up even though I blundered through quite a bit of it. But I'm very grateful to be retired and not responsible for a network like that any longer.
My Novell CNE certainly has opened doors for me. It is framed on the wall next to my Starfleet Academy Diploma and my appointment as an Admiral in the Navy of the State of Oklahoma signed by the governor, Cowboy Pink Williams himself!
Really? My father made a few cents more than minimum wage as a chump bartender on the seedy side of town--when he had a job at all. My mother, being agorophobic in the classic sense, was unemployable and never held a job ever. Yet I put myself through college and graduate school and wouldn't you know it, wound up 'wealthier than average.' I don't remember getting a head start, but I do remember my parents' attitude, nor do I think I'm unusual. A whole lot of people in my generation did the same damn thing.
So bullshit right back at ya. There's nothing prventing your success except a class attitude.
Where do you get this 1.4 * 1.4 = 1.96? What kind of math is that? Why are you using that equation? So? That's not the issue. Spending is up 80% in ten years. Population growth and inflation are just under 40%. If state spending had followed population growth and inflation, state spending would have gone up 40% in ten years, not 80%. State spending has gone up twice as fast as inflation and population growth. End of story. No wonder the state is broke.
Actually, state spending in Washington has gone up 80% in ten years at the same time population growth and inflation have been less than 40%. We don't have a revenue problem in Washington, we have a spending problem. If the State were spending at the same rate it did ten years ago, allowing for inflation and population gowth, there would be no budget issues. But instead, the legislature and governor went on a spending spree and added state workers by the thousands, added spending programs "for the children" and generally created an unsustainable spending environment. They do the heart-strings schtick and claim they don't want to cut "aid to the increasing number of poor people" when, in fact, aid to poor people is so good here that they move here to take advantage of it.
Now, rather than cut the spending programs, the state is going after things like this and claiming that it is because people "don't want to pay an income tax." Thanks for drinking the Kool Aid there above. It's the Party Line that counts. In fact, Washington ranks 13th in the nation for tax burden per capita, mostly because of a very high sales tax rate and reliance upon. So people stop spending and buying cars and the state revenue goes down. Duh!
So now it's my "social responsibility" to keep my router open? WTF? Uh, no. Not any more than it's my social responsibility to lend you my cell phone, feed you my groceries, or let you use my hot tub, or loan you my girlfriend. (Since this is /. I'm assuming most of you don't have one.) But the answer is still No, regardless. I don't have ANY responsibility to give you anything, not even the time of day.
Our local reag, er, newspaper, allows comments on stories. The paper reports on every crime in the county, of course, and blog entires rapidly "decide" guilt or innocence, sometimes both, depending on the crime and circumstances. Usually it's a big brawl, such as when a cop shoots someone, and the conversation is over whether or not it was justified.
The important part here is that the prosecutor and defense attorneys are both starting to realize that the blogs can be influential, so they ask in pre-dispositions and in jury selection questionaaires whether a prsspective juror is active on or ahas evebn read 'the blogs.' A positive answer is grounds for throwing you off a jury.
I'm all for criticizing the excesses of Kurzweil, but I don't think the article is up to snuff and reads like a personal attack on Kurzweil rather than a well-reasoned refutation of Kurzweil's predictions.The author seems to take the position that Kurzweil wasn't exactly 100% accurate in all the factes of his predictions, therefore he was wrong and besides, somebody else already thought of it anyway before Kurzweil did. It's kind of a specious hit piece that cherry picks a couple of examples and doesn't really measure up as a serious analysis of Kurzweil's record. Maybe it would be nice of someone actually did that, but this article is nowhere near it.
I should have added, Ballmer cashed in his chips THIS year AFTER the income tax measure failed. Had it passed it wouldn't have started until next year anyway (maybe even the year after). There really is no relationship between the income tax measure and Ballmer selling stock.
I live in Washington. Here's the deal. The State has increased its spending 80% in the last ten years when inflation and population growth has been 40%. No one can see a 40% increase in services. They just spent more money. Now that the recession has reduced the state coffers the State is whining that it has a deficit. If the State went back to a 40% growth rate over the last ten years there would BE no deficit.
Now, this is like the umpteenth time the voters have said NO to s state income tax. Why? Because we know it's just the camel's nose in the tent. They're trying to get a class war going so all the people will want to tax the "rich," then when that is implemented, in two years the state legislature will reduce the threshhold so that we all pay or inflation will be so bad we'll all be in the 'rich' bracket. No one trusts the legislature.
One of the ploys was to say "it's for the children." Right. Just like the lottery was supposed to be for education, the legislature has shown its stripes so many times by raiding earmarked funds that it makes a travesty of the claim.
Voters also passed, for the third time, an initiative calling for a 2/3 vote of the legislature to raise taxes and fees. The legislature has managed to override the last two. One of the complaints was, why should 51% vote for a 2/3rds majority? OK. This time we approved the intitiative by 67%. Capiche? We don't have a revenue problem in Washington. We have a spending problem.
I don't care one whit what Ballmer & Co do with their money. I just know my money is more precious than his because I don't have anywhere near what he does. And I'm tired of having it confiscated by a state that doesn't understand it has to live within its means.
My God! I bought Dell for years for far less for a network ready plug-in. Out of the box and onto the desktop. You want to BUILD them??? Good luck with that. You'll spend a lot more in staff time putting them together. Time is money. Space is money. Procurement of parts is money. The idea is not to provide jobs for IT. The idea is to get those PCs out to the clients as cheaply as possible. Think this through. And even Dell is less expensoive than that. You're not doing Alienware for the desktop, are you?
Paul Ehrlich, the Club of Rome, Saul of Tarsus, and any extant Cargo Cult all predicted doom within our lifetime. Never happened. Oh! We're running out of oil! (If you believe oil is made of dead dinosaurs, I suppose so. But what if, ==just== what if oil is not from dead dinosaurs? What if it's from the formation of the earth? Oh! we're running out of food! Umm, we haven't. All this doomsday stuff is just like any number of millenial cults claiming we're all going to die. Conserve resources? You bet! But let's not be stupid about this. It's much more likely an ice age is goug to get us than global, er, umm, "climate disruptionn."
I concur with several comments here. I'm not saying this BECAUSE it is in Israel. It's unreliable--period. Last year they claimed a huge fleet of destroyers was in the Indian Ocean that did not exist. More reliable sites such as strafor http://www.stratfor.com/ do not use debka and consider it a source of disinformation at best.
Technically, presumably you are correct, but do you really expect someone to look up this guy's family life to verify whether or not he has reproduced? Just a sec while I look up the census records. Well, his wife had a kid, but we're not sure it's his, so the jury is still out on this one! How about if we say he gets the Darwin Award, Second Class, for not being able to reproduce AGAIN? And you're calling someone stupid? Read the sig. It has your name on it.
The fact that I went to so much trouble to get this guy's money back to him speaks to that better than I could. The fact is, I had to find him first, which was no mean feat. You'd have a hell of a time proving I "stole" it. For all intents and purposes it was given to me through no effort of my own; I simply gave it back. What you are describing is what the government does to me all the time.
I can't imagine ever being put into this situation of having to download transaction data FROM a bank. I was taught to write down transactions as they happen and check the bank every month. Over the years I have caught them in several minor errors. I've had several hundred dollars of transactions that never posted, and even a deposit erroneously posted to my account. I rarely attempt to correct these errors on the theory that it would cost us both more to reconcile them than I got in "free" services. (What was with that Las Vegas trip, anyway?) But I did pursue that bad $300 deposit. I did a little invasion of privacy thing, found out who it was, google-earthed his address seeing it was no mansion and thought he might need that $300. It took forever to get through to a real person, but she bird-dogged it thru and got the guy's money back to him.
Today I have several years worth of transactions stored locally and backed up five ways against Sunday all reconciled against the bank records to no more than a month behind.
They key to your entire statement is your P.S. You use SCO to run obsolete proprietary software.
OOOOOK!
P.S. I use dBase II on CP/M so that means everyone else is a moron sheep.
P.P.S. I thought all sheep were morons!
Good comments overall, btw! I do not believe I am misrepresenting penetration. You need it. Consider, for example, the Taurus Judge. It's marketed as a big ass defensive weapon, but in its 410 mode, penetration is like an inch--not enough to do any damage. I believe there are only two or three balls in a 410 and they just don't do the job.
I personally do carry pepper gel for the ocassional frisky dog that wants to bite my cocker spaniel, but I would never rely on pepper spray to stop a determined attack. For some people, just like a taser, it just angers them. And if they ARE high on meth (or adrenaline) they can fight right through either weapon.
I do agree with the comment that practicing with a 9mm does not prepare you for using a .45. I did fire a friend's 1911 a few weeks ago. I was cringing expecting significant recoil, and was surprised that it handled very nicely. I suspect the extra weight of a 1911 (compared to a Glock 19) compensates for the bigger caliber.
I guess as a final comment I learned through experience that when a threat happens, the adrenaline is going to hit you like a ton of bricks. You'll start shaking as it dumps into your bloodstream. What helped me through was working through the potential scenario in advance dozens of times, enough so that when it happens, you don't have to think, "What do I do next?" You just do it as you've practiced it. Reaction time and a steady hand are more important than caliber (within reason).
"You don't want penetration."
Sure you do. You use "Home defense ammo" that is hollow point. It both penetrates and expands causing maximum damage. The idea is to "stop the threat." This ammo, unlike FMJ (Full Metal Jacket) is NOT going to go through the wall and kill someone a house away. If you're serious about this, you wanmt two to the body mass and one to the head. This "I don't want to hurt anyone" nonsense means you are not serious about protecting yourself from someone who assuredly does not feel that way about you. And you don't want a pop gun either. You need a 40 or better, the largest you can handle safely. If you can handle a .45, like a 1911, go for it. I have a Glock 9mm, and, frankly, it is a little underpowered for self-defense. But the ammo is cheaper, so I can practice more and hopefully be more accurate enough to make up the difference.
I understand some people say shotgun is best. I don't disagree with you.
The reviews I've read on the Taurus Judge suggest it is NOT a good security weapon, especially using the 410 round, which does not have enough penetration to be any good. See: http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot41.htm for details. Of course, the OP was likely suggesting a system that would be in force when he wasn't there, so a firearm might be way off topic here. In any case, a Glock 40mm or a 12 gauge would be much better choices than a Taurus Judge for home protection.