uhuh. I think people, especially technology companies, forget that the easiest task to automate is one that a human can simply do.
"Executive assistant in charge of renewing certificates". Make it someone's job. It'll get done. You don't need a robot. You just need it to be in someone contract. That's it.
I want to know how much government time and money, in terms of tax dollars, were spent on this whole back and forth. Seems like a big huge waste of all three.
You could have always purchased unlocked phones, instead of locked phones in the first place. Welcome to voting with dollars.
You could have always unlocked your phone anyway, it's not like anyone would have checked, and you wouldn't have gotten any jail time unless your last name is capone.
This isn't an example of political "checks and balances". This is an example of financial cheques and balances.
Hope you paid your taxes. Hope you enjoy your deficit. Oh, and your unemployment too. Also your health and your education.
Nice guess. Too bad you're totally incorrect. 70 calories.
Of the 18g of sugar, much is honey. It's filtered water. And it's real green tea.
So you're way off. It's pretty close to as healthy as packaged pre-steeped tea can be.
Oh, and the whole entire point of eating is to acquire calories. So if it keeps me at the desk working for three hours, instead of eating, I would want it to have calories. Stop counting your calories by the glass, start counting them by the year. You'll find that it really doesn't matter where they come from at all.
Might be a border issue. The FDA approves a lot of things that aren't legal in Canada. And this one is specifically canadian. Even though it's "alizona an american company" it's allso "manufactured for arizona of canada inc in woodbury ny 11797 usa". it's got double-labelling -- english and french. And the honey says it's orange honey. neat.
I keep a tall can of Arizona Green Tea with Ginseng and Honey (cold tea, $0.99 each at the grocery store, and they are tall cans 695mL each). I take a sip every few minutes, as one does when one has a drink nearby.
The result is two-fold. First, instead of alt-tabbing away during natural cagnitive breaks, I wind up taking a sip. That sip ends in five seconds, and I'm faced with the same screen, so I resume the same work. More importantly, very soon my bladder fills up. Turns out that with a full bladder, I push to get one-more-task done before getting up to go to the bathroom.
The task itself distracts me from the bladder issue, and I wind up on the next task. Then the bladder issue distracts me from the alt-tabbing. Then the task distracts me from the bladder. Then the bladder distracts me from the alt-tabbing. It's circular, and it lasts until the work is done or I really can't sit anymore and the bladder takes over.
One ninety-nine cent can of this fairly healthy tea tends to get me a good three to five hours no matter what.
Yeah, I like that one too. Is it still limited by columns? I actually had a client with legitimately more columns, and I had to split things into multiple sheets with duplicated meta columns.
Look, office suites are way better than my first essay-writer -- wordstar in ~1986 -- which itself was wonderful. And modern office suites are better than my favourite essay-writer -- wordperfect 5 something I think -- with keyboard function key overlay and alt menu drop downs.
But is there really a difference between office in 2013, and office in 2002? It's been ten years of crazy awesome features that just don't matter.
Sure I use spreadsheets every day. But not for anything that I didn't do in lotus 123. And sure I use write/word every day. Again, not for anything more than I did with wordperfect.
I really couldn't care less any more. I'm not using them to fly to the moon.
...it's not a bad thing. It's not detrimental. The skill to forget is of extreme importance. You'll find that many serious psychological disorders stem from not being able to forget.
Consider modern-day home-security companies. "The comfort of knowing that you're safe." You'll find hundreds of companies offering you the ability to have cameras recording your front door, and being able to watch the video from your phone wherever you are.
Let's be very clear. "Feeling safe" doesn't mean that I get to watch my house all day every day. It means that I don't need to watch my house at all. I have no interest in viewing those cameras while I'm away.
As for your boy friend, and your future young goats, no one wanted to see your vacation slides last century. No one will want to watch your daily videos this century. It's that simple.
And, to be clear, no, I don't want you to record me.
Figures they'd think napster was the beginning. there were many ways to download music long before napster. napster was simply the first to get caught with legal troubles.
Good answer. Now where's your line on the other issue at hand? Again, I won't let you ignore the line between unfortunate and unsafe. Between alive and dead.
Cool. Have you tried that? It's been 40 years since the all in the family episode with the same conversation. I've seen no attempt in that direction either.
That's what makes me upset. I don't care about the guns either. I care about the problem.
I don't need to. I've cancelled all of my tourism, I've stopped purchasing for your country, and I'm in the middle of switching suppliers away from your country. This year, about $25'000 of my dollars aren't coming your way. Next year, it'll be all $85'000 per year that I have traditionally spent in your country. The year following, it'll be all $200'000 per year for which I am responsible. And I'm spreading that sentiment.
The problem here is specifically that you don't care what the rest of the world sees. Those are your blinders. You lack that perspective. And you're only making things worse for yourselves.
We've always seen you as an older brother. But these days, you're a mentally challenged older brother, and it looks like we all need to help you out before you implode.
I'm saying that the ideal concept of a war -- one country attempting to protect itself from another -- is legitimate. Mistakenly acting on incorrect intelligence is an error, to be sure. But people making mistakes is understandable. Big people making big mistakes is unfortunately understandable too.
Illegitimate wars are embarrassing, but to some extent they are a necessary part of a system that includes legitimate wars.
School shootings are not. They aren't a mistake -- no one thought that the children might be angry aliens.
Irrelevance isn't a problem. It's a solution. We spend virtually nothing on a military, and we're protected from attack. Figure that one out.
I have money, I have freedom to go just about anywhere, I can purchase from just about anywhere, I'm safe, I'm happy, and as a business owner, my taxes are actually very low -- almost as low as yours.
Oh yeah, people don't die in our streets, they don't starve in our streets, they don't freeze in our streets -- which is impressive. Our banking system is awesome, and we were barely impacted by your economy collapsing.
Sure we have issues. None of them affect our fundamental lives.
So I'll ask you what I've asked many. Draw your line. At what point is the problem too big for you to accept. My line was 20 young children in school. It was crossed. I got pissed off.
I don't care where your line is. Just so long as you have a line somewhere. So what's your line? Is it quantity? Is it frequency? is it method? Is it geography? If 200 infants in a hospitals in rhode island were killed every week by nuclear poison gas, would that cross your line?
Where's your line? What's simply not tolerable to you? When will you leave your country, dethrown your president, insist on change, refuse to pay your taxes?
Oh, I agree with you entirely. I'm upset that it's been 40 years of the same problems, and that you guys don't seem to be any closer.
Actually, my country doesn't have any problems that I feel need to be addressed within my life-time at the moment. The trouble is that we've got neighbours. And while I've recently decided to stop visiting, and stop contributing my tourism dollars, and I'm even working on cancelling my business dollars to find suppliers elsewhere, still many of your laws seem to be crossing our borders.
That's the problem. That's why I'm worried about your problems. Your "solutions" cross the border, often intentionally.
Heh. Actually, I didn't say mass-elementary-school shootings, nor mass elementary-school shootings, nor mass elementary school-shootings, so I think syntactically I could probably get away with assigning the plural to the shootings, or to the mass, or to the elementary, without assigning the plural to the school, but that's definitely at the limit of my language skills.
I'd like to agree with you that one school shooting every 50 years is something of a curiosity, more than it is something to be dealt with. However, it came with a mass theatre shooting too. And correct me if I'm wrong but I think there was a random sniper public shooting of a few people soon thereafter?
I'm not sure that the mass shooting part of the mass school shooting didn't flow as an escalation from mass shootings in general. And it's hard to argue with the simple number of shootings across any given year in the country. It's a very big number, especially considering the numbers in other countries.
It's a number that rivals deaths from other causes like terrorism, volcanoes, mud slides, avalanches, and many different illnesses. And yet it continues to go unaddressed.
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uhuh. I think people, especially technology companies, forget that the easiest task to automate is one that a human can simply do.
"Executive assistant in charge of renewing certificates". Make it someone's job. It'll get done. You don't need a robot. You just need it to be in someone contract. That's it.
I want to know how much government time and money, in terms of tax dollars, were spent on this whole back and forth. Seems like a big huge waste of all three.
You could have always purchased unlocked phones, instead of locked phones in the first place. Welcome to voting with dollars.
You could have always unlocked your phone anyway, it's not like anyone would have checked, and you wouldn't have gotten any jail time unless your last name is capone.
This isn't an example of political "checks and balances". This is an example of financial cheques and balances.
Hope you paid your taxes. Hope you enjoy your deficit. Oh, and your unemployment too. Also your health and your education.
What a waste of focus.
Nice guess. Too bad you're totally incorrect.
70 calories.
Of the 18g of sugar, much is honey.
It's filtered water.
And it's real green tea.
So you're way off. It's pretty close to as healthy as packaged pre-steeped tea can be.
Oh, and the whole entire point of eating is to acquire calories. So if it keeps me at the desk working for three hours, instead of eating, I would want it to have calories. Stop counting your calories by the glass, start counting them by the year. You'll find that it really doesn't matter where they come from at all.
Might be a border issue. The FDA approves a lot of things that aren't legal in Canada. And this one is specifically canadian. Even though it's "alizona an american company" it's allso "manufactured for arizona of canada inc in woodbury ny 11797 usa". it's got double-labelling -- english and french. And the honey says it's orange honey. neat.
That sort of thing happens a lot.
In Canada, Sucralose isn't legal at all. My stomach can vouch for the no aspartame, and obviously there's honey as the sweetener.
premium brewed creen tea using filtered water, glucose-fructose, honey, citric acid, natural flavoucs, ginseng extract, ascorbic acid.
looks good to me.
I keep a tall can of Arizona Green Tea with Ginseng and Honey (cold tea, $0.99 each at the grocery store, and they are tall cans 695mL each). I take a sip every few minutes, as one does when one has a drink nearby.
The result is two-fold. First, instead of alt-tabbing away during natural cagnitive breaks, I wind up taking a sip. That sip ends in five seconds, and I'm faced with the same screen, so I resume the same work. More importantly, very soon my bladder fills up. Turns out that with a full bladder, I push to get one-more-task done before getting up to go to the bathroom.
The task itself distracts me from the bladder issue, and I wind up on the next task. Then the bladder issue distracts me from the alt-tabbing. Then the task distracts me from the bladder. Then the bladder distracts me from the alt-tabbing. It's circular, and it lasts until the work is done or I really can't sit anymore and the bladder takes over.
One ninety-nine cent can of this fairly healthy tea tends to get me a good three to five hours no matter what.
Yeah, I like that one too. Is it still limited by columns? I actually had a client with legitimately more columns, and I had to split things into multiple sheets with duplicated meta columns.
Look, office suites are way better than my first essay-writer -- wordstar in ~1986 -- which itself was wonderful. And modern office suites are better than my favourite essay-writer -- wordperfect 5 something I think -- with keyboard function key overlay and alt menu drop downs.
But is there really a difference between office in 2013, and office in 2002? It's been ten years of crazy awesome features that just don't matter.
Sure I use spreadsheets every day. But not for anything that I didn't do in lotus 123. And sure I use write/word every day. Again, not for anything more than I did with wordperfect.
I really couldn't care less any more. I'm not using them to fly to the moon.
Oh cool; is that what he says? He probably heard me a while back, and thought me clever. Good for him: recognizing such eloquence.
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I've given you a conclusion. If you want it again from a different source, either do your own research, or pay me to do it for you.
...it's not a bad thing. It's not detrimental. The skill to forget is of extreme importance. You'll find that many serious psychological disorders stem from not being able to forget.
Consider modern-day home-security companies. "The comfort of knowing that you're safe." You'll find hundreds of companies offering you the ability to have cameras recording your front door, and being able to watch the video from your phone wherever you are.
Let's be very clear. "Feeling safe" doesn't mean that I get to watch my house all day every day. It means that I don't need to watch my house at all. I have no interest in viewing those cameras while I'm away.
As for your boy friend, and your future young goats, no one wanted to see your vacation slides last century. No one will want to watch your daily videos this century. It's that simple.
And, to be clear, no, I don't want you to record me.
Figures they'd think napster was the beginning. there were many ways to download music long before napster. napster was simply the first to get caught with legal troubles.
Good answer. Now where's your line on the other issue at hand? Again, I won't let you ignore the line between unfortunate and unsafe. Between alive and dead.
Cool. Have you tried that? It's been 40 years since the all in the family episode with the same conversation. I've seen no attempt in that direction either.
That's what makes me upset. I don't care about the guns either. I care about the problem.
I don't need to. I've cancelled all of my tourism, I've stopped purchasing for your country, and I'm in the middle of switching suppliers away from your country. This year, about $25'000 of my dollars aren't coming your way. Next year, it'll be all $85'000 per year that I have traditionally spent in your country. The year following, it'll be all $200'000 per year for which I am responsible. And I'm spreading that sentiment.
The problem here is specifically that you don't care what the rest of the world sees. Those are your blinders. You lack that perspective. And you're only making things worse for yourselves.
We've always seen you as an older brother. But these days, you're a mentally challenged older brother, and it looks like we all need to help you out before you implode.
I'm upset that the president, who said that something would be done in january, did nothing and is now focusing on something totally different.
I'm saying that the ideal concept of a war -- one country attempting to protect itself from another -- is legitimate. Mistakenly acting on incorrect intelligence is an error, to be sure. But people making mistakes is understandable. Big people making big mistakes is unfortunately understandable too.
Illegitimate wars are embarrassing, but to some extent they are a necessary part of a system that includes legitimate wars.
School shootings are not. They aren't a mistake -- no one thought that the children might be angry aliens.
I don't know anything about him. But I have one simple question. Did he kill 26 young children and teachers?
Irrelevance isn't a problem. It's a solution. We spend virtually nothing on a military, and we're protected from attack. Figure that one out.
I have money, I have freedom to go just about anywhere, I can purchase from just about anywhere, I'm safe, I'm happy, and as a business owner, my taxes are actually very low -- almost as low as yours.
Oh yeah, people don't die in our streets, they don't starve in our streets, they don't freeze in our streets -- which is impressive. Our banking system is awesome, and we were barely impacted by your economy collapsing.
Sure we have issues. None of them affect our fundamental lives.
Clearly.
So I'll ask you what I've asked many. Draw your line. At what point is the problem too big for you to accept. My line was 20 young children in school. It was crossed. I got pissed off.
I don't care where your line is. Just so long as you have a line somewhere. So what's your line? Is it quantity? Is it frequency? is it method? Is it geography? If 200 infants in a hospitals in rhode island were killed every week by nuclear poison gas, would that cross your line?
Where's your line? What's simply not tolerable to you? When will you leave your country, dethrown your president, insist on change, refuse to pay your taxes?
The most embarrassing on the planet -- present tense. Certainly not the most embarrassing in history. No doubt about that, you're right.
But right now, today, and especially two months ago, very much the most embarrassing.
I don't know what that means.
Oh, I agree with you entirely. I'm upset that it's been 40 years of the same problems, and that you guys don't seem to be any closer.
Actually, my country doesn't have any problems that I feel need to be addressed within my life-time at the moment. The trouble is that we've got neighbours. And while I've recently decided to stop visiting, and stop contributing my tourism dollars, and I'm even working on cancelling my business dollars to find suppliers elsewhere, still many of your laws seem to be crossing our borders.
That's the problem. That's why I'm worried about your problems. Your "solutions" cross the border, often intentionally.
Heh. Actually, I didn't say mass-elementary-school shootings, nor mass elementary-school shootings, nor mass elementary school-shootings, so I think syntactically I could probably get away with assigning the plural to the shootings, or to the mass, or to the elementary, without assigning the plural to the school, but that's definitely at the limit of my language skills.
I'd like to agree with you that one school shooting every 50 years is something of a curiosity, more than it is something to be dealt with. However, it came with a mass theatre shooting too. And correct me if I'm wrong but I think there was a random sniper public shooting of a few people soon thereafter?
I'm not sure that the mass shooting part of the mass school shooting didn't flow as an escalation from mass shootings in general. And it's hard to argue with the simple number of shootings across any given year in the country. It's a very big number, especially considering the numbers in other countries.
It's a number that rivals deaths from other causes like terrorism, volcanoes, mud slides, avalanches, and many different illnesses. And yet it continues to go unaddressed.
That's what concerns me.