Get paid on friday, get $100 cash. Come Wednesday, when you're out of cash you quit spending.
or
Get paid on friday, put it in the bank. Buy everything with your credit card. Come end of the month, you can't cover your bills, end up paying 27% interest on your Starbucks double cappuccino mocha mint grande.
It's a huge risk to fight the charges even if you're innocent,
My understanding is hiring a lawyer to get a plea deal is around $10-30k. If it goes to trial it's a minimum of $100k. Just for the lawyer. Expert witnesses and other crap add to that.
Think about that for a bit. You get charged with something you didn't do. Not only are you trading off 1 year vs 10, if you roll the dice and go for broke you're, well, broke even if you win.
Considering how often during my MERE 10 minute commute from home to work and back again, and I see people screwing with their phones at nearly every light.
I fail to see the problem with this. The car isn't moving. It's the perfect time to read a message. Assuming of course you put the damned phone away when you start moving again.
How is it any different from reading a magazine, or turning around to talk to people in the back seat?
That said, if you get caught texting while the car is moving you should lose your license for a few months. Fark you inconsiderate assholes.
The kid is accused of armed robbery. The kid gets to stay out of jail while awaiting trial. I understand the "if you have nothing to hide then why worry" argument, but this isn't just some random person. Truly, if he has nothing to hide then no problem. But he's probably a gang banger who is going to brag about his crimes to his homies.
IMHO, the only time this kid gets to be un-monitored is when he's talking to his lawyer. Bragging to his homies? Gotcha.
Don't like it? Cool your jets in jail until your trial date comes up. You aren't some random dude minding his own business. You're probably an asshole who needs to be locked away for decades, and this is your last chance to prove the prosecutor wrong.
1) Games. Folks with bleeding edge systems that require windows may be a small minority, but the large majority thinks they need Windows to run any recent game.
2) On a related note, the random thing you need to run that doesn't have a LInux version, nor a Linux equivalent
3) Fear. Microsoft may fuck you over every chance they get, but they still have a lot of support. Linux has the same, but you can't exactly go to support.linux.com for help.
I never had an offer for any job I interviewed for before I turned 50. At 53 I decided to join a startup. Which went sneakers up in 2 years.
Guess what? I can't even get an interview now. I even shaved the first 10 years of my career off my resume. I've been living off savings for my highest earning years, and I'm not happy about it.
These mergers are always sold as "synergy, better service for less cost". They always turn out to be "Less competition, higher prices, folks out of jobs".
My understanding is they paid a lot of money 10-15 years ago to dig a tunnel from Chicago to New York city for the sole purpose of shaving a few ms off following the curvature of the earth. Not to mention they pay $$$ to co-locate their servers close to the NYSE servers, again to shave a few ms. Knowing this, how is knowing their algorithms going to do you any good?
I thought SCSI died decades ago. I'd know, I had Scuzzy stuff back in the 80s. Loved it at the time, but time marches on...
In other words, I should not have to use Google to figure out a/. summary. It's not like I'm an accountant using Quikbooks in Twin Forks, IA. I've been programming computers for over 40 years now, and keep up with the current stuff. Except cloud stuff. I'll never keep my only copy of anything on someone else's Atari in their mom's basement.
They have better quality fruits, veggies, and meat; the prices reflect that and more. But they also assumed they had better quality on everything else, and their prices reflected that as well. It might be well and good to charge 40% extra for 20% better steak, but not for Dole's canned pineapple.
Not to mention, when you got to things like the olive bars, they were way out of line. Charging 40% more for the olives, then another 40% for the labor to make the whatever, yeah. Tasty but, yeah.
CVS always asks for my email when I buy a $0.50 tube of chapstick, then they print out a 3 foot long receipt. Do you really think they won't spam the hell out of any email address I give them?
CVS is the current bad guy, but as soon as $BigBoxRetailer gets their hands on my email address do you really think they won't spam the hell out of it?
I remember 10-15 years ago, I'd spend an hour or two to get my ping count down by 10 ms. With the PS3, nor the PS4, that's not an option. Given my experience that low ping count yields better K/D ratios, why would anyone want to play these streamed games? Seems clear to me, the folks with the most $$$ will have the better internet and thus will dominate.
4 years ago I bought an HP laptop and tried to put Linux on it. Could not get the lappie to boot from neither the DVD nor a USB stick. Trust me, I tried.
Last October that lappie died with a hard disk crash. Nothing could be recovered (good backups FTW). Other than a dead hard drive it's a perfectly good laptop.
I thought of buying a new hard drive and making it a 100% Linux box, but if the BIOS won't let me boot from anything other than the hard drive that seemed a waste of money.
Are you now telling me there is a way to turn this useless pile of electronics into something useful? Because that would be wonderful, and I'd probably use the (currently dead) laptop more than it's replacement.
Back in 94/95 a friend and I went to a Progfest in LA. My navigator was poring over his paper maps trying to figure out where I should get off. I was in the middle lane of a 5-6 lane freeway, ready to go in either direction at a moment's notice. Keep in mind this is at 70 MPH, surrounded by other cars doing 70. And Ken was a pretty good navigator.
About the time he said "shit!", I said "shi!t" as the freeway split into 2. 2-3 lanes going left, 2-3 lanes going right, and I was on an offramp straight down the middle. Turned out to be the offramp I wanted.
I remember the year(s) because I bought a brand spankin new car in '94, and still considered it brand new for a year after.
Hopefully, the AI isn't influenced by the $$$ each viewpoint brings to the table. In other words, you can't bribe it.
A year or two back the signature gatherers in California were gathering signatures for what they called the NASCAR rule. Namely, politicians had to wear patches, size based on $$$ paid, all day every day. So you could see at a glance who your politico really supported. Too bad the courts struck it down because reasons.
Why is Trump imposing tariffs? Because he's a moron, and he's got the money to convince his voters he's better than The Other Guy.
Why is McConnell obstructionist? Because his big donors give him more money that way.
I'm retired, work out 3 days a week, I eat cereal those days (fast, cheap, and don't sit in my gut FTW). Saturdays I hang with a group of old farts, we usually end up eating breakfast together. I alternate between an omelette and a burger. The other 3 days? 2 egg omelettes. Colorado, asparagus and feta, shrimp, mushroom and cheese, whatever. I cycle around them. I also sometimes get into poached, fried, or scrambled eggs.
In other words, in my mind my choice is either packaged cereal (fast, cheap), or eggs (slower, tastier, healthier, less cheap). Oatmeal Only way I can eat it is with more sugar than my cereal has. Fruit? Sorry skinny puppies, not filling. Other options? Love to hear them, cuz at 60 I'm tired of the whole eggs/cereal routine.
Another point to consider. I can eat a bowl of cereal 30 minutes before class and I'm good. Same thing with eggs 90 minutes before class? Every move I make I feel that breakfast working it's way down my gut.
Someone you care about has an emergency where they can't use their cellphone. So they borrow someone else's. They call you, you assume it's a scam, and don't answer.
These assholes have made phones useless, and the only people that can stop it are the telcos. So make the telcos pay for the spam/scam call, problem goes away overnight.
Who knows where the calls come from? The phone company. Who makes money for each call placed? The phone company.
Let me file a complaint that a call was bogus, and if shown true I get $1. This will cost the phone company money, seeing as they are the only ones that can fix the problem they will suddenly be motivated to fix the problem.
I only wish my scam calls were 50%, I'm pushing close to 90%. Not because I get more of them than most, but most of my communication is via text messages nowdays.
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Get paid on friday, get $100 cash. Come Wednesday, when you're out of cash you quit spending.
or
Get paid on friday, put it in the bank. Buy everything with your credit card. Come end of the month, you can't cover your bills, end up paying 27% interest on your Starbucks double cappuccino mocha mint grande.
It's a huge risk to fight the charges even if you're innocent,
My understanding is hiring a lawyer to get a plea deal is around $10-30k. If it goes to trial it's a minimum of $100k. Just for the lawyer. Expert witnesses and other crap add to that.
Think about that for a bit. You get charged with something you didn't do. Not only are you trading off 1 year vs 10, if you roll the dice and go for broke you're, well, broke even if you win.
Something is broken with our system of "justice".
A bunch of armchair aeronautical scientists telling SpaceX how to fix their problem.
Considering how often during my MERE 10 minute commute from home to work and back again, and I see people screwing with their phones at nearly every light.
I fail to see the problem with this. The car isn't moving. It's the perfect time to read a message. Assuming of course you put the damned phone away when you start moving again.
How is it any different from reading a magazine, or turning around to talk to people in the back seat?
That said, if you get caught texting while the car is moving you should lose your license for a few months. Fark you inconsiderate assholes.
The kid is accused of armed robbery. The kid gets to stay out of jail while awaiting trial. I understand the "if you have nothing to hide then why worry" argument, but this isn't just some random person. Truly, if he has nothing to hide then no problem. But he's probably a gang banger who is going to brag about his crimes to his homies.
IMHO, the only time this kid gets to be un-monitored is when he's talking to his lawyer. Bragging to his homies? Gotcha.
Don't like it? Cool your jets in jail until your trial date comes up. You aren't some random dude minding his own business. You're probably an asshole who needs to be locked away for decades, and this is your last chance to prove the prosecutor wrong.
1) Games. Folks with bleeding edge systems that require windows may be a small minority, but the large majority thinks they need Windows to run any recent game.
2) On a related note, the random thing you need to run that doesn't have a LInux version, nor a Linux equivalent
3) Fear. Microsoft may fuck you over every chance they get, but they still have a lot of support. Linux has the same, but you can't exactly go to support.linux.com for help.
I never had an offer for any job I interviewed for before I turned 50. At 53 I decided to join a startup. Which went sneakers up in 2 years.
Guess what? I can't even get an interview now. I even shaved the first 10 years of my career off my resume. I've been living off savings for my highest earning years, and I'm not happy about it.
These mergers are always sold as "synergy, better service for less cost". They always turn out to be "Less competition, higher prices, folks out of jobs".
It requires all ISPs to comply with warrentless searches and requires meta data collection.
This is not the net neutrality that was promised to me.
The sub sub paragraphs matter folks. Don't rely on what they say it does, you actually have to parse the legal obfuscation that is in these things.
My understanding is they paid a lot of money 10-15 years ago to dig a tunnel from Chicago to New York city for the sole purpose of shaving a few ms off following the curvature of the earth. Not to mention they pay $$$ to co-locate their servers close to the NYSE servers, again to shave a few ms. Knowing this, how is knowing their algorithms going to do you any good?
I thought SCSI died decades ago. I'd know, I had Scuzzy stuff back in the 80s. Loved it at the time, but time marches on...
/. summary. It's not like I'm an accountant using Quikbooks in Twin Forks, IA. I've been programming computers for over 40 years now, and keep up with the current stuff. Except cloud stuff. I'll never keep my only copy of anything on someone else's Atari in their mom's basement.
In other words, I should not have to use Google to figure out a
They have better quality fruits, veggies, and meat; the prices reflect that and more. But they also assumed they had better quality on everything else, and their prices reflected that as well. It might be well and good to charge 40% extra for 20% better steak, but not for Dole's canned pineapple.
Not to mention, when you got to things like the olive bars, they were way out of line. Charging 40% more for the olives, then another 40% for the labor to make the whatever, yeah. Tasty but, yeah.
Sounds like a secretary to me, or maybe a glorified secretary.
/. submissions? I don't have to anywhere else
Been doing this shit for 40 years and have never run across a tech admin.
And why to have have to manually add page breaks to
CVS always asks for my email when I buy a $0.50 tube of chapstick, then they print out a 3 foot long receipt. Do you really think they won't spam the hell out of any email address I give them?
CVS is the current bad guy, but as soon as $BigBoxRetailer gets their hands on my email address do you really think they won't spam the hell out of it?
I remember 10-15 years ago, I'd spend an hour or two to get my ping count down by 10 ms. With the PS3, nor the PS4, that's not an option. Given my experience that low ping count yields better K/D ratios, why would anyone want to play these streamed games? Seems clear to me, the folks with the most $$$ will have the better internet and thus will dominate.
After seeing the size of my dick
Where did you mom jokes come from?
I don't think I ever heard one 10 years ago
Now they're everywhere.
4 years ago I bought an HP laptop and tried to put Linux on it. Could not get the lappie to boot from neither the DVD nor a USB stick. Trust me, I tried.
Last October that lappie died with a hard disk crash. Nothing could be recovered (good backups FTW). Other than a dead hard drive it's a perfectly good laptop.
I thought of buying a new hard drive and making it a 100% Linux box, but if the BIOS won't let me boot from anything other than the hard drive that seemed a waste of money.
Are you now telling me there is a way to turn this useless pile of electronics into something useful? Because that would be wonderful, and I'd probably use the (currently dead) laptop more than it's replacement.
Back in 94/95 a friend and I went to a Progfest in LA. My navigator was poring over his paper maps trying to figure out where I should get off. I was in the middle lane of a 5-6 lane freeway, ready to go in either direction at a moment's notice. Keep in mind this is at 70 MPH, surrounded by other cars doing 70. And Ken was a pretty good navigator.
About the time he said "shit!", I said "shi!t" as the freeway split into 2. 2-3 lanes going left, 2-3 lanes going right, and I was on an offramp straight down the middle. Turned out to be the offramp I wanted.
I remember the year(s) because I bought a brand spankin new car in '94, and still considered it brand new for a year after.
Hopefully, the AI isn't influenced by the $$$ each viewpoint brings to the table. In other words, you can't bribe it.
A year or two back the signature gatherers in California were gathering signatures for what they called the NASCAR rule. Namely, politicians had to wear patches, size based on $$$ paid, all day every day. So you could see at a glance who your politico really supported. Too bad the courts struck it down because reasons.
Why is Trump imposing tariffs? Because he's a moron, and he's got the money to convince his voters he's better than The Other Guy.
Why is McConnell obstructionist? Because his big donors give him more money that way.
I'm retired, work out 3 days a week, I eat cereal those days (fast, cheap, and don't sit in my gut FTW). Saturdays I hang with a group of old farts, we usually end up eating breakfast together. I alternate between an omelette and a burger. The other 3 days? 2 egg omelettes. Colorado, asparagus and feta, shrimp, mushroom and cheese, whatever. I cycle around them. I also sometimes get into poached, fried, or scrambled eggs.
In other words, in my mind my choice is either packaged cereal (fast, cheap), or eggs (slower, tastier, healthier, less cheap). Oatmeal Only way I can eat it is with more sugar than my cereal has. Fruit? Sorry skinny puppies, not filling. Other options? Love to hear them, cuz at 60 I'm tired of the whole eggs/cereal routine.
Another point to consider. I can eat a bowl of cereal 30 minutes before class and I'm good. Same thing with eggs 90 minutes before class? Every move I make I feel that breakfast working it's way down my gut.
Came here to say this. Autoplay video still plays.
Someone you care about has an emergency where they can't use their cellphone. So they borrow someone else's. They call you, you assume it's a scam, and don't answer.
These assholes have made phones useless, and the only people that can stop it are the telcos. So make the telcos pay for the spam/scam call, problem goes away overnight.
Who knows where the calls come from? The phone company. Who makes money for each call placed? The phone company.
Let me file a complaint that a call was bogus, and if shown true I get $1. This will cost the phone company money, seeing as they are the only ones that can fix the problem they will suddenly be motivated to fix the problem.
I only wish my scam calls were 50%, I'm pushing close to 90%. Not because I get more of them than most, but most of my communication is via text messages nowdays.
Nothing else to add. Just Why would I want to do that, or care that others do that.
The multiplayer games I play lag is the #1 issue. I can't imagine this helps my lag in any way.
Your mom's dildo?
/ where did these your mom jokes come from?