Americans had freedom and are willingly throwing it away.
Right. We're not doing anything. This didn't appear on/.. We're not complaining to our congresscritters. We're not completely livid that wingnuts have taken over our government. Whatever, dude.
Get rid of wilderness and unincorporated areas, of which there are few to none in europe, japan, etc, and you'll find the numbers are a lot more comparable.
Sorry to hear your PT options stink. There's still a long way to go before transit is really a viable alternative to driving for disabled folks.
NJ Transit has a service called 'Transitlink' or something like that, and basically they provide identical routes to non-accessible rail, bus, and light rail lines by carting people around in something resembling a cab. It's not perfect, but it goes a long way to allowing disabled people to leave their cars at home.
I'm not sure as to your particular needs, but maybe there is a similar service in your area. I'm lucky enough to live/work close enough to a train station that it's a no-brainer for me how I will commute.
After interning with a transportation agency for a few months, I realized the best way to get your point across would be to be as vocal as you possibly can about the fact that your transportation needs are not being addressed. Nothing might happen in the near term, but if enough people complain, it gets more difficult to ignore.
Let's not forget incidental costs that are hidden by various organizations to make auto use seem more attractive, propping up the automakers, roadbuilders, and oil companies. Once you factor in the cost of pollution, costs due to increased obesity, crime due to people no longer walking around their own neighborhoods, reduced productivity from sitting in the occasional traffic jam, wars to secure foreign resoruces, and medical costs from auto accidents just to name a few, the actual cost of driving over walking, biking, or taking public transportation are significantly higher.
... and anyone who has USED Tiger files know how terribly innacurate they are. Greeeeat. Glad to know we're using free, lowest-common-denominator geodata for our public safety.
The negative effects of drugs on a neighborhood are not so much the drugs' fault, as much as they are related to the illegality of the drug. Obviously, hard drugs could cause some issues, but if the people who were addicted to these hard drugs could get their stash from a safe place, they wouldn't need to rob, kill, and steal to ensure their high is there.
Basically, making drugs illegal is what's destroying cities, not the drugs themselves -- for the most part. Get rid of the gangsters, and you've rid yourself of a large chunk of the problem.
Oh, you're right. I forgot that being able to document your thought process is totally kissing ass. Real Men shoot from the hip, and expect managers to treat their engineers like cowboys, free to roam the datacenter and do their job as they see fit with no accountability at all.
Yeah, quit. That's the mature, sensible way to go.
Or, you could not be an asshole, and try to calmly and simply explain the report in WRITTEN FORM. Write your own report about their report. Managers like reports. WRITE ANOTHER REPORT. Écrivez un autre rapport. Escriba otro informe.
Instead of running in there all willy nilly acting like they're complete idiots, just work with them on their level. They're paid to make decisions, and they know that it's dangerous to make a decision if there aren't hard facts on paper. Explain yourself. Give references to your conclusions -- back yourself up! Show that you have a brain in your body instead of just coming off as another annoying, slacker engineer.
What it said was that there was no way Linux would ever make the jump to a complete platform, especially one that could be sold.
The author is a genius. Leave it to the tools at Infoworld to publish this -- WOW, LINUX CAN'T BE SOLD (as a working business model)? I think that whole being able to download the kernel and such for free thing really hampers that. Kudos to Captain Obvious.
You know, I run a state-of-the-art cable conditioning service. All very high technology. I'd like to talk to you about the cables you use for your audiophile setup. With our SPECIAL TECHNOLOGY, we can make your music sound 50% better! Or something...
Ever hear the old joke "What's the mating call of a Sorority Girl? I'm SOOOOO drunk!" That's sort of like the mating call for an idiot who is easily parted with his money: "I'm an audiophile!"
Indeed. Anyone who uses MAPS to blackhole mail is an idiot, and should have their root privs taken away. Seriously. These sorts of lists are GREAT for greylisting -- increase your spamassasin score by a few points, or something like that.
But anyone who uses MAPS to blackhole servers is lazy and incompetant.
Unless you're an investment bank or reinsurance company (read: dropping millions of dollars on support contracts), your vendor is probably going to offload you on some sweatshop support house in India. My organisation has one of the oldest support contracts around with a vendor you mentioned above who shall remain nameless. We've been running into problems recently with memory errors in some of our larger (8+ CPU) boxes. Support 'figured out' the problem after repeated kernel log mailings, and told us they would courier us the parts we needed. Come time to install the parts, it turns out that support, as usual, sent us the wrong type AND number of required parts. When we talked to support, they basically had no clue what happened.
Ok, I'm rambling. Basically, unless you're dropping HUGE amounts of dough on support, my experience shows that HP, IBM, and SUN could care less about you.
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Wow. I can't imagine how fucking funny everyone of these fucking stupid stories are.
Really, it's amazing that people can come up with the same exact jokes every year, and they're still funny as hell! Oh man, I really can't contain myself.
I graduated in May 2004 with a degree in Urban Planning. I had a full-time job with all the tasty benefits by August 1st, 2004 running large unix systems.
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Wow, your euro-centric views make my brain hurt.
/.. We're not complaining to our congresscritters. We're not completely livid that wingnuts have taken over our government. Whatever, dude.
Americans had freedom and are willingly throwing it away.
Right. We're not doing anything. This didn't appear on
coat houred? sounds dirty.
Hey, the jerk store called, and they're running out of you!
Get rid of wilderness and unincorporated areas, of which there are few to none in europe, japan, etc, and you'll find the numbers are a lot more comparable.
"Average" population density is meaningless.
Can you prove that private industry can run this better than a public endeavor, or are you just parroting the same old tired talking points?
"I'm at the store, do you need something?"
Other side of conversation: "Yes, please get my nitro pills, as I am having heart palpitations.
Very unimportant. It's truely unfortunate that we all can't have as exciting and important conversations as you do.
Do you mean 'satellite' internet with a lower latency than a T1? Or just lower latency in general...
Sorry to hear your PT options stink. There's still a long way to go before transit is really a viable alternative to driving for disabled folks.
NJ Transit has a service called 'Transitlink' or something like that, and basically they provide identical routes to non-accessible rail, bus, and light rail lines by carting people around in something resembling a cab. It's not perfect, but it goes a long way to allowing disabled people to leave their cars at home.
I'm not sure as to your particular needs, but maybe there is a similar service in your area. I'm lucky enough to live/work close enough to a train station that it's a no-brainer for me how I will commute.
After interning with a transportation agency for a few months, I realized the best way to get your point across would be to be as vocal as you possibly can about the fact that your transportation needs are not being addressed. Nothing might happen in the near term, but if enough people complain, it gets more difficult to ignore.
Let's not forget incidental costs that are hidden by various organizations to make auto use seem more attractive, propping up the automakers, roadbuilders, and oil companies. Once you factor in the cost of pollution, costs due to increased obesity, crime due to people no longer walking around their own neighborhoods, reduced productivity from sitting in the occasional traffic jam, wars to secure foreign resoruces, and medical costs from auto accidents just to name a few, the actual cost of driving over walking, biking, or taking public transportation are significantly higher.
... and anyone who has USED Tiger files know how terribly innacurate they are. Greeeeat. Glad to know we're using free, lowest-common-denominator geodata for our public safety.
The negative effects of drugs on a neighborhood are not so much the drugs' fault, as much as they are related to the illegality of the drug. Obviously, hard drugs could cause some issues, but if the people who were addicted to these hard drugs could get their stash from a safe place, they wouldn't need to rob, kill, and steal to ensure their high is there.
Basically, making drugs illegal is what's destroying cities, not the drugs themselves -- for the most part. Get rid of the gangsters, and you've rid yourself of a large chunk of the problem.
How exactly would selling drugs to willing buyers (a felony in some circumstances) be ignoring the rights of others?
Sorry, your broad brush doesn't really work for all situations.
Taking away their voting right is just a convienent way to prevent disadvantaged people from being able to voice their concerns.
Oh, you're right. I forgot that being able to document your thought process is totally kissing ass. Real Men shoot from the hip, and expect managers to treat their engineers like cowboys, free to roam the datacenter and do their job as they see fit with no accountability at all.
Yup, sorry. My mistake.
Yeah, quit. That's the mature, sensible way to go.
Or, you could not be an asshole, and try to calmly and simply explain the report in WRITTEN FORM. Write your own report about their report. Managers like reports. WRITE ANOTHER REPORT. Écrivez un autre rapport. Escriba otro informe.
Instead of running in there all willy nilly acting like they're complete idiots, just work with them on their level. They're paid to make decisions, and they know that it's dangerous to make a decision if there aren't hard facts on paper. Explain yourself. Give references to your conclusions -- back yourself up! Show that you have a brain in your body instead of just coming off as another annoying, slacker engineer.
What it said was that there was no way Linux would ever make the jump to a complete platform, especially one that could be sold.
The author is a genius. Leave it to the tools at Infoworld to publish this -- WOW, LINUX CAN'T BE SOLD (as a working business model)? I think that whole being able to download the kernel and such for free thing really hampers that. Kudos to Captain Obvious.
You know, I run a state-of-the-art cable conditioning service. All very high technology. I'd like to talk to you about the cables you use for your audiophile setup. With our SPECIAL TECHNOLOGY, we can make your music sound 50% better! Or something...
Ever hear the old joke "What's the mating call of a Sorority Girl? I'm SOOOOO drunk!" That's sort of like the mating call for an idiot who is easily parted with his money: "I'm an audiophile!"
Wake up 10 minutes earlier and grab a bagel?
Wow. Gay porno! HA HA HA! That'll get them. Hilarious!
History has shown that if you give people an inch, they go the whole way
Pardon me, but are you saying that some sort of totalitarian government would be better to solve these pesky problems pissing off corporations?
Indeed. Anyone who uses MAPS to blackhole mail is an idiot, and should have their root privs taken away. Seriously. These sorts of lists are GREAT for greylisting -- increase your spamassasin score by a few points, or something like that.
But anyone who uses MAPS to blackhole servers is lazy and incompetant.
What about the kinds of tourist trips that are frequented by rich folks who could care less about carrying their passport?
Unless you're an investment bank or reinsurance company (read: dropping millions of dollars on support contracts), your vendor is probably going to offload you on some sweatshop support house in India. My organisation has one of the oldest support contracts around with a vendor you mentioned above who shall remain nameless. We've been running into problems recently with memory errors in some of our larger (8+ CPU) boxes. Support 'figured out' the problem after repeated kernel log mailings, and told us they would courier us the parts we needed. Come time to install the parts, it turns out that support, as usual, sent us the wrong type AND number of required parts. When we talked to support, they basically had no clue what happened.
Ok, I'm rambling. Basically, unless you're dropping HUGE amounts of dough on support, my experience shows that HP, IBM, and SUN could care less about you.
Wow. I can't imagine how fucking funny everyone of these fucking stupid stories are.
Really, it's amazing that people can come up with the same exact jokes every year, and they're still funny as hell! Oh man, I really can't contain myself.
You all suck.
... call your lawyer?
I graduated in May 2004 with a degree in Urban Planning. I had a full-time job with all the tasty benefits by August 1st, 2004 running large unix systems.
Happy?