First off, I did NOT attend the WTO protest. I moved to the Seattle area AFTER that happened.
I split my time between Redmond, Renton, Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, and Kirkland. I go where I want when I want. But I'm damned if I'm going to watch sales taxes go up AGAIN so that Paul Allen can charge more of his fantasy life to the public ticket. You don't live here, so allow me to pour you a non-fat, grande shut the hell up. You may not be aware of this, but Paul Allen wanted a new stadium for the Seahawks. They put it to a vote. It was voted down. They put it to a vote AGAIN, it was voted down. So Allen pulled some strings and got the stadium paid for by the public, ANYWAY.
EMP is a money losing eyesore, and him putting his collection of sci-fi nerd crap in another part of the building isn't going to help. Nobody wants to spend $20 to walk into an eyesore and see a pile of old clothing. I don't care if it was worn by Jimi Hendrix, it's still a T-shirt. I don't care if the water bottle in the next display case was sipped on by Bill Shatner before doing that scene where he does the double overhand punch to the back of the other guy's neck and then sex0rs the alien princess.
Next time you want to enjoy the Seattle area, go check out Capitol Hill, the Fremont area, get yourself a Utilikilt in lower Queen Anne and check out both the Tacoma Art Museum and the Olympia main strip. If you want to fly in somewhere just to go to some overpriced monument to someone's ego, go to it.
RE: I think this time, we're off the hook, as SFAIK, there isn't any public sector investment in SFM.
I think what you mean to say is, I think this time, we're off the hook, as SFAIK, there isn't any public sector investment in SFM.... YET.
By the way, if you want to refer to NFL football and a bunch of plastic toys from a nerd garage sale as "culture" go right ahead. And people from this area wonder why people don't think of the Pacific Northwest as cultured. Here's a hint. Wear a CLEAN flannel lumberjack shirt to the opera.
How soon can I expect to see sales taxes in Washington State go up to pay for this useless monstrosity?
I find it highly ironic that although the man has more money than God, Paul Allen still manages to convince the State to pass on the cost of his narcissistic pet projects on to the rest of us.
Look, the only people that go out into the mountains or hike or do that kind of crap and then get badly screwed up and in need of rescue are the kind of earth-bound Golgafrinchamianites who drive H2s in their dockers and short sleeve shirts, who smoke Macanudos while parked illegally but conspicuously in front of the fondue restaurant yelling loudly into their tiny cell phones.
These feckless morons are always getting themselves lost up Mount Rainier, just because they have a credit card they maxed out at REI and attended the middle managerial woodsman's retreat they think they can climb a mountain without any of the essentials (although the gas-powered latte maker came in handy for morale's sake). King5 always has the footage of these pointy haired twits being dropped off by helicopter somewhere NOT snowbound and likely to avalanche, grinning goofily - while the caption reveals it to be the President and CEO of goldfish.com and his golf partner, the CIO of pimentoloaf.com.
For the love of God and this economy, don't bother with installing any tech - just LET THEM DIE.
Actually, IIRC in the Clinton years you were bringing people here and paying them a real salary. Now that the keys to everything have been given to the Skull and Bones old boy network cabal, it's shaft the little guy every which way to sunday so that you can buy a second Bayliner.
The economy and job prospects sucked under the first George Bush, don't forget (wasn't big oil gouging us for ridiculous gas prices at the same time?). I'm not a left winger, but I'm intelligent enough to learn from history.
For the homemade LAW rocket I'm going to use when some cretin starts driving down my street at 3am blasting some of that garbage bass-heavy rap music through one of these things?
Sure, he might be towing it behind his sticker-laden Honda Civic cause it won't fit, but to the Eminem clones of the world such things are mere details. You hearing the latest "joint" by MC Murder Diggy Dogg is far more important.
There's a whole HOST of reasons why you'd want to do this.
1) To prevent fraud - certain services are only allowed to the homeless, say, once a week. Seeing as how homeless people rarely carry ID and are very canny at being able to dress differently and/or otherwise try and screw the system, something like this would RAPIDLY cut down on fraud.
2) Law enforcement would appreciate being able to find out where Crackhead Sammy is, cause he was last seen half an hour ago stealing someone's purse.
3) During very cold weather, it would be nice if you could drive around, aiming RFID readers at various known rubbie locations, so you can drag the hypothermic drunken sods out of their cardboard and into life-saving warmth.
I'm used to using standards conformant C++ compilers, with which I use Alexandrescu style techniques in doing templated cantrips which allow me to make better code.
Naturally, g++ barfs when seeing this kind of standards compliant code, whereas Microsoft C++ does not, and in fact handles it quite well.
It's a sad day when a Microsoft compiler is better at adopting a standard than an open source solution.
Don't bother suggesting the Comeau frontend - it isn't available for the hardware we need. (Neither is Microsoft, but enh.)
You can't get a Canadian out of bed to do anything unless the government subsidises em to do it.
When I was last on a job assignment in France, the workday (for an engineering company, no less) was swan in at 9, coffee break til 10 (wiz zur seegarrett). Work (?) (of course, after kissing all the female members of staff and shaking hands with the male members of staff) half-arsedly until 10:45. Lunch at 11. Return to work at 1:30. Coffee break at 2. Resume work at 3. Leave at 4. Getting anything done was nigh on impossible. And this was a major multinational corporation.
The APF and WPO have decided to allow this equipment during their powerlifting meets, and strangely enough, regardless of weight class, the top squat in all categories was about 5,000lb.
Food Geek Alton Brown has done a show on space based cooking. He's planning on somehow working on shooting poultry faster than light at Mars, so that it technically brines on the planet's surface BEFORE cooking by burning up on hitting the atmosphere.
re: A model that we could try is Gandhi's concept of Gram swaraj. Each village is self-sufficient. They grow their own food, make their own clothes, and consume only what they themselves can produce. Everybody is happy and satisfied. There is no competition between countries, let alone competition between villages.
Well, it doesn't seem that they are following this model. Should we?
Cash up and cash out NOW, and then when prices fall to evil levels and you can literally buy that pretty little girl to be your love slave, you'll live like an emperor.
And how would you get real world experience in how software ACTUALLY gets written and how software development ACTUALLY works unless you've been in the trenches?
God spare me from a world where wet-behind-the-ears-CS grads decide to "design" and "architect" (note the "verbing") things with no concrete experience in its implementation. Sorry, implementation is done in Bangalore......
Can you say overdesigned, overengineered, hard to maintain, crap for $500, Alex?
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First off, I did NOT attend the WTO protest. I moved to the Seattle area AFTER that happened.
I split my time between Redmond, Renton, Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, and Kirkland. I go where I want when I want. But I'm damned if I'm going to watch sales taxes go up AGAIN so that Paul Allen can charge more of his fantasy life to the public ticket. You don't live here, so allow me to pour you a non-fat, grande shut the hell up. You may not be aware of this, but Paul Allen wanted a new stadium for the Seahawks. They put it to a vote. It was voted down. They put it to a vote AGAIN, it was voted down. So Allen pulled some strings and got the stadium paid for by the public, ANYWAY.
EMP is a money losing eyesore, and him putting his collection of sci-fi nerd crap in another part of the building isn't going to help. Nobody wants to spend $20 to walk into an eyesore and see a pile of old clothing. I don't care if it was worn by Jimi Hendrix, it's still a T-shirt. I don't care if the water bottle in the next display case was sipped on by Bill Shatner before doing that scene where he does the double overhand punch to the back of the other guy's neck and then sex0rs the alien princess.
Next time you want to enjoy the Seattle area, go check out Capitol Hill, the Fremont area, get yourself a Utilikilt in lower Queen Anne and check out both the Tacoma Art Museum and the Olympia main strip. If you want to fly in somewhere just to go to some overpriced monument to someone's ego, go to it.
RE: I think this time, we're off the hook, as SFAIK, there isn't any public sector investment in SFM.
I think what you mean to say is, I think this time, we're off the hook, as SFAIK, there isn't any public sector investment in SFM.... YET.
By the way, if you want to refer to NFL football and a bunch of plastic toys from a nerd garage sale as "culture" go right ahead. And people from this area wonder why people don't think of the Pacific Northwest as cultured. Here's a hint. Wear a CLEAN flannel lumberjack shirt to the opera.
How soon can I expect to see sales taxes in Washington State go up to pay for this useless monstrosity?
I find it highly ironic that although the man has more money than God, Paul Allen still manages to convince the State to pass on the cost of his narcissistic pet projects on to the rest of us.
This is an unlisted wall!
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Look, the only people that go out into the mountains or hike or do that kind of crap and then get badly screwed up and in need of rescue are the kind of earth-bound Golgafrinchamianites who drive H2s in their dockers and short sleeve shirts, who smoke Macanudos while parked illegally but conspicuously in front of the fondue restaurant yelling loudly into their tiny cell phones.
These feckless morons are always getting themselves lost up Mount Rainier, just because they have a credit card they maxed out at REI and attended the middle managerial woodsman's retreat they think they can climb a mountain without any of the essentials (although the gas-powered latte maker came in handy for morale's sake). King5 always has the footage of these pointy haired twits being dropped off by helicopter somewhere NOT snowbound and likely to avalanche, grinning goofily - while the caption reveals it to be the President and CEO of goldfish.com and his golf partner, the CIO of pimentoloaf.com.
For the love of God and this economy, don't bother with installing any tech - just LET THEM DIE.
Actually, IIRC in the Clinton years you were bringing people here and paying them a real salary. Now that the keys to everything have been given to the Skull and Bones old boy network cabal, it's shaft the little guy every which way to sunday so that you can buy a second Bayliner.
The economy and job prospects sucked under the first George Bush, don't forget (wasn't big oil gouging us for ridiculous gas prices at the same time?). I'm not a left winger, but I'm intelligent enough to learn from history.
Welcome to the outsourcing world of the George W. Bush economy.
Be lucky you can do the job at all. There are Indians who can and will do it cheaper.
They won't offshore the cars. They'll H-1B in the Bangaloreans as cut-rate labor.
For the homemade LAW rocket I'm going to use when some cretin starts driving down my street at 3am blasting some of that garbage bass-heavy rap music through one of these things?
Sure, he might be towing it behind his sticker-laden Honda Civic cause it won't fit, but to the Eminem clones of the world such things are mere details. You hearing the latest "joint" by MC Murder Diggy Dogg is far more important.
There's a whole HOST of reasons why you'd want to do this.
1) To prevent fraud - certain services are only allowed to the homeless, say, once a week. Seeing as how homeless people rarely carry ID and are very canny at being able to dress differently and/or otherwise try and screw the system, something like this would RAPIDLY cut down on fraud.
2) Law enforcement would appreciate being able to find out where Crackhead Sammy is, cause he was last seen half an hour ago stealing someone's purse.
3) During very cold weather, it would be nice if you could drive around, aiming RFID readers at various known rubbie locations, so you can drag the hypothermic drunken sods out of their cardboard and into life-saving warmth.
Some evil bastard's going to figure out how to get purple loosestrife or kudzu to produce THC. Mayhem ensues....
You've never tried compiling template-based generic code under g++ then, I gather.
I'm used to using standards conformant C++ compilers, with which I use Alexandrescu style techniques in doing templated cantrips which allow me to make better code.
Naturally, g++ barfs when seeing this kind of standards compliant code, whereas Microsoft C++ does not, and in fact handles it quite well.
It's a sad day when a Microsoft compiler is better at adopting a standard than an open source solution.
Don't bother suggesting the Comeau frontend - it isn't available for the hardware we need. (Neither is Microsoft, but enh.)
Easy. Deficit Spending.
RE: The whole world works hard
That's ABJECT NONSENSE.
You can't get a Canadian out of bed to do anything unless the government subsidises em to do it.
When I was last on a job assignment in France, the workday (for an engineering company, no less) was swan in at 9, coffee break til 10 (wiz zur seegarrett). Work (?) (of course, after kissing all the female members of staff and shaking hands with the male members of staff) half-arsedly until 10:45. Lunch at 11. Return to work at 1:30. Coffee break at 2. Resume work at 3. Leave at 4.
Getting anything done was nigh on impossible. And this was a major multinational corporation.
The APF and WPO have decided to allow this equipment during their powerlifting meets, and strangely enough, regardless of weight class, the top squat in all categories was about 5,000lb.
Set by, er, everyone.
Food Geek Alton Brown has done a show on space based cooking. He's planning on somehow working on shooting poultry faster than light at Mars, so that it technically brines on the planet's surface BEFORE cooking by burning up on hitting the atmosphere.
I thought that was Al Gore.
re: A model that we could try is Gandhi's concept of Gram swaraj. Each village is self-sufficient. They grow their own food, make their own clothes, and consume only what they themselves can produce. Everybody is happy and satisfied. There is no competition between countries, let alone competition between villages.
Well, it doesn't seem that they are following this model. Should we?
If you're a CEO, you're looking forward to this.
Cash up and cash out NOW, and then when prices fall to evil levels and you can literally buy that pretty little girl to be your love slave, you'll live like an emperor.
So, get off your fat [backside] and create one.
Where are you LIVING, though?
Or are you sleeping on a grate in the Village?
And how would you get real world experience in how software ACTUALLY gets written and how software development ACTUALLY works unless you've been in the trenches?
God spare me from a world where wet-behind-the-ears-CS grads decide to "design" and "architect" (note the "verbing") things with no concrete experience in its implementation. Sorry, implementation is done in Bangalore......
Can you say overdesigned, overengineered, hard to maintain, crap for $500, Alex?
Strangely enough it will be right..... about........ then.......... that the CEO class demands protectionism, and unfurls the "Buy American" banner.
Since when is answering a specifically asked question "offtopic" (this is directed to the moron who down-graded this reply)?