No, it's the influx of upper (and middle) management who just don't "get it". The very things that made the company an attractive acquisition are the things that the new management has the most difficulty staying out of the way of. They don't understand the product, the methods and philosophy that led to this point. They just can't help themselves from tweaking and adding their personal touch to everything. The interference (or new, added, inertia) is what keeps the shark from moving forward fast enough to stay alive.
Sure, go ahead and put me down as a lying, thieving, wife-beating, intravenous drug-using, HIV positive tax-cheating atheist pervert, but DON'T call me a Windows user!
Courtesy of the extreme Left we are now living effectively in a police state.
Holy shit, you quit taking your meds again, didn't you? There isn't, and hasn't been an "extreme left" in this country in almost 40 years. It's that the extreme right keeps moving more extremely right that makes people who used to be described as "moderate Republicans" (like Barak Obama) look like lefties. These days, idiots like you, who use sentences like the above quoted, wouldn't have allowed Ronald Reagan to run as a Republican because he wasn't "right" enough. And somebody like an Everett Dirkson, well, "hangin' would be too good for him", right?
And that's exactly why it's a bad idea. I don't think I'm stereotyping too badly when I say that the percentage of thugs and bullies is much higher in the rent-a-cop population than the population at large. Before you disagree too strenuously, think back to your last encounter with the TSA. Now picture all these people out of work.
No, I meant "some tiny fraction", but, tongue-in-cheek, I was saying that we don't appreciate the (literally) visceral reaction the Japanese have when they hear the news people screaming "RADIATIONS!!!".
Looks like we found a grammar nazi with a limited vocabulary. "Dove" (rhymes with "trove") is a perfectly acceptable (and commonly used) past tense of "dive".
Does anyone else have this mental picture of rows and rows of network administrators chained to their routers, while a huge, shirtless man with brass bands on his biceps pounds on a large drum, and Mark Zuckerberg shouts down from above "Increase the drumbeat!!"? No? Just me?
Pretty close. Actually, it's multi-tiered. AT&T lets a national contract, where the winning contractor takes 90% of the profit out of the contract and sub-lets 5 or six regional contracts, where those sub-contractors take 90% of the remaining profit, and sub-let dozens of sub-regional contracts, who take their 90%, and sub-let the actual work to these 10-man outfits, who can't afford enough gear or people to adequately and safely do the job. Then some free-market idiot like the GP comes along and blames the whole thing on the government. FRONTLINE has done several stories and follow-ups on this phenomenon.
Evidence that we live in a police-surveilence state. Evidence of a flagrant disregard for the people they purport to "protect". Evidence of thugs and bullies abusing their power.
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No, it's the influx of upper (and middle) management who just don't "get it". The very things that made the company an attractive acquisition are the things that the new management has the most difficulty staying out of the way of. They don't understand the product, the methods and philosophy that led to this point. They just can't help themselves from tweaking and adding their personal touch to everything. The interference (or new, added, inertia) is what keeps the shark from moving forward fast enough to stay alive.
No, a point-and-shoot worth a pinch of shit would have a glass lens with a diameter larger than the sensor chip.
The check is in the mail.
It's only a cold sore.
I won't cum in your mouth.
Really - this is ALL we at the NSA are up to.
Sure, go ahead and put me down as a lying, thieving, wife-beating, intravenous drug-using, HIV positive tax-cheating atheist pervert, but DON'T call me a Windows user!
Agreed. Apparently we've already got Wile E. Coyote designing containment solutions.
Holy shit, you quit taking your meds again, didn't you? There isn't, and hasn't been an "extreme left" in this country in almost 40 years. It's that the extreme right keeps moving more extremely right that makes people who used to be described as "moderate Republicans" (like Barak Obama) look like lefties. These days, idiots like you, who use sentences like the above quoted, wouldn't have allowed Ronald Reagan to run as a Republican because he wasn't "right" enough. And somebody like an Everett Dirkson, well, "hangin' would be too good for him", right?
Exactly. 0.0.0.0 doesn't get far enough down the TCP/IP stack to even get to the hardware.
Other than localhost, my router and (static) printer, these are the only hosts entries I use.
Here's a real excerpt from my /etc/hosts file, saves me no end of trouble:
0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 facebook.com
0.0.0.0 www.static.ak.fbcdn.net
0.0.0.0 static.ak.fbcdn.net
0.0.0.0 www.login.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 login.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 www.fbcdn.net
0.0.0.0 fbcdn.net
0.0.0.0 www.fbcdn.com
0.0.0.0 fbcdn.com
0.0.0.0 www.static.ak.connect.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 static.ak.connect.facebook.com
LOL. Thanks for the confirmation.
Supposedly, some purported dictionaries notionally claim that it apparently is.
And that's exactly why it's a bad idea. I don't think I'm stereotyping too badly when I say that the percentage of thugs and bullies is much higher in the rent-a-cop population than the population at large. Before you disagree too strenuously, think back to your last encounter with the TSA. Now picture all these people out of work.
That sounds like a good way to end up on Double Secret Probation.
(original AC): God, I wish I'd said that, too.
Hats off to you , sir.
No, I meant "some tiny fraction", but, tongue-in-cheek, I was saying that we don't appreciate the (literally) visceral reaction the Japanese have when they hear the news people screaming "RADIATIONS!!!".
Holy crap! That's 1/10^4 Hiroshimas.
For the same reason they don't buy their web advertising from Nissan?
Looks like we found a grammar nazi with a limited vocabulary. "Dove" (rhymes with "trove") is a perfectly acceptable (and commonly used) past tense of "dive".
That was a Disaster Area stunt ship.
Yeah, what does Dice know about hiring trends?
Does anyone else have this mental picture of rows and rows of network administrators chained to their routers, while a huge, shirtless man with brass bands on his biceps pounds on a large drum, and Mark Zuckerberg shouts down from above "Increase the drumbeat!!"? No? Just me?
You're an AC, so that's pretty much axiomatic.
Pretty close. Actually, it's multi-tiered. AT&T lets a national contract, where the winning contractor takes 90% of the profit out of the contract and sub-lets 5 or six regional contracts, where those sub-contractors take 90% of the remaining profit, and sub-let dozens of sub-regional contracts, who take their 90%, and sub-let the actual work to these 10-man outfits, who can't afford enough gear or people to adequately and safely do the job. Then some free-market idiot like the GP comes along and blames the whole thing on the government. FRONTLINE has done several stories and follow-ups on this phenomenon.
Evidence that we live in a police-surveilence state. Evidence of a flagrant disregard for the people they purport to "protect". Evidence of thugs and bullies abusing their power.
Didn't Richard Nixon explain this to Leela and Fry already?