in MHO are the smoothest, highest quality writing instrument available. I'd recommend something with either an 18K or 14K nib. I have a Mont Blanc fountain pen that was given to me as a gift. The nib fell out after about a year of careful use. Save a few bucks and stick with the Pelikan.
Moderate me down for being offtopic if you will, but; I've lived in California since 1956, and I can tell you this tax is good for California. Here's why: This tax will drive business out of California, and with it, hoards of employees and related support businesses and their employees will be leaving as well. Anything that reduces the popluation of California is a good thing. Ask any long time resident.
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Now planting a server with a webcam in a LIVE fly would have endless possibilities. No, wait...
When a retailer ask for personal information, like my area code, or name and address, I tell them that demographic information is valuable and a quid pro quo is offered. In exchange for the information they want about me, I'd like the name and home address or home telephone number of the store manager or a company executive.
I herby propose that GNU and Linux be commonly represented by an unpronounceable new moniker in the form of the following unprintable symbol. No...wait.
Moderate me down for this if you will for being offtopic, but I want to thank you for presenting me with an opportunity to rant regarding satellite radio. Why would anyone want to *pay* for the reception of a radio signal? Look at the content they are delivering. Neither of the two providers are feeding you programming which is free of the greedmongering spam you now are spoon fed from the commercial AM and FM stations. Paying for this dubious priveledge is against my religion and I for one, refuse to buy in. Now of course, if I were a truck driver and wanted to listen to NPR in Sagebrush Texas, things might be different. But I live in Los Angeles, the radio market is saturated with strong signal already. Besides that, who needs a radio that can receive Metallica in digital clarity? I'm boycotting them already. Say, do they have a Brittney Spears channel on those things? I gotta go.
I agree with you completely. When you provide services to a client, a huge part of providing good service is to make doing business with you, the service provider convenient to the client. That means that you take the information your client gives you, and accept it with a smile and a good attitude in the format in which he presents it. It's your job to convert it, if you need to, into a format that is convenient to you. I don't like it, but I do it because it is just another one of those costs of doing business. I may not like my clients document format, but I sure like his money.
Hey, maybe you should reach into your own wallet this time, since you're so compassionate, and send him another five bucks. You could be particularly altruistic and send it to him in my name.
Here, here. I work for a similar healthcare outfit which does not compensate at all for on-call pager duty after hours. The management seems to think we do on-call because we like it. We don't like it. Many engineers in my group have taken their talents elsewhere and cited 7 days of on-call in a highly stressful environment every four to six months without compensation as an important factor in their decision to leave the company. Unfortunately, management seems to be indifferent to the situation in spite of the high cost of replacing these skilled and knowledgeable individuals. The truth is, pointy haired managers simply do not have a grasp of the issues regarding remedial maintenance support. Their expectation is based on uptime percentages devoid of the human cost to acheive those numbers. This is a losing battle on the technical end. The pointy hairs seem to clearly grasp the concept of time in the opposing direction however. When negotiating on-call compensation, suggest time off on a 1:1 ratio for on-call time on and see how fast they recognize the value of worktime.
Okay, so SA wanted to make a few bucks to defray expenses. No fault there. But, now that lowtax got burned because he didn't read the fine print, he wants *you* to share the financial burden of recovering his losses by "contributing" to his server fund. I wonder if lowtax intended to share the profits over and above his expenses with the same people from whom he now solicits contributions. Lowtax should be placed on his own SA list for this one.
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And that's on high volume of trading. The slide has begun. I'm getting up a pool on when SCOX will be pulled from trading.
I strongly suspect I work for the same hosed up HMO as this guy, and I'm in a position to know for a fact this happened pretty much as he said it did.
Mind sending me an email? Linotype, Intertype, old school newspaper guy.
craig.m.swanson@kp.org.
in MHO are the smoothest, highest quality writing instrument available. I'd recommend something with either an 18K or 14K nib. I have a Mont Blanc fountain pen that was given to me as a gift. The nib fell out after about a year of careful use. Save a few bucks and stick with the Pelikan.
I'm unqualified to speculate on more than one half of the question.
Moderate me down for being offtopic if you will, but; I've lived in California since 1956, and I can tell you this tax is good for California. Here's why: This tax will drive business out of California, and with it, hoards of employees and related support businesses and their employees will be leaving as well. Anything that reduces the popluation of California is a good thing. Ask any long time resident.
Now planting a server with a webcam in a LIVE fly would have endless possibilities. No, wait...
In the long run, shouldn't all this spawn a new market for replacement BIOS chips sans privacy invasion?
When a retailer ask for personal information, like my area code, or name and address, I tell them that demographic information is valuable and a quid pro quo is offered. In exchange for the information they want about me, I'd like the name and home address or home telephone number of the store manager or a company executive.
I herby propose that GNU and Linux be commonly represented by an unpronounceable new moniker in the form of the following unprintable symbol. No...wait.
Moderate me down for this if you will for being offtopic, but I want to thank you for presenting me with an opportunity to rant regarding satellite radio. Why would anyone want to *pay* for the reception of a radio signal? Look at the content they are delivering. Neither of the two providers are feeding you programming which is free of the greedmongering spam you now are spoon fed from the commercial AM and FM stations. Paying for this dubious priveledge is against my religion and I for one, refuse to buy in. Now of course, if I were a truck driver and wanted to listen to NPR in Sagebrush Texas, things might be different. But I live in Los Angeles, the radio market is saturated with strong signal already. Besides that, who needs a radio that can receive Metallica in digital clarity? I'm boycotting them already. Say, do they have a Brittney Spears channel on those things? I gotta go.
I agree with you completely. When you provide services to a client, a huge part of providing good service is to make doing business with you, the service provider convenient to the client. That means that you take the information your client gives you, and accept it with a smile and a good attitude in the format in which he presents it. It's your job to convert it, if you need to, into a format that is convenient to you. I don't like it, but I do it because it is just another one of those costs of doing business. I may not like my clients document format, but I sure like his money.
Just goes to show you, no matter where you go...there you are.
Hey, maybe you should reach into your own wallet this time, since you're so compassionate, and send him another five bucks. You could be particularly altruistic and send it to him in my name.
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Here, here. I work for a similar healthcare outfit which does not compensate at all for on-call pager duty after hours. The management seems to think we do on-call because we like it. We don't like it. Many engineers in my group have taken their talents elsewhere and cited 7 days of on-call in a highly stressful environment every four to six months without compensation as an important factor in their decision to leave the company. Unfortunately, management seems to be indifferent to the situation in spite of the high cost of replacing these skilled and knowledgeable individuals. The truth is, pointy haired managers simply do not have a grasp of the issues regarding remedial maintenance support. Their expectation is based on uptime percentages devoid of the human cost to acheive those numbers. This is a losing battle on the technical end. The pointy hairs seem to clearly grasp the concept of time in the opposing direction however. When negotiating on-call compensation, suggest time off on a 1:1 ratio for on-call time on and see how fast they recognize the value of worktime.
Jeepmeister
Okay, so SA wanted to make a few bucks to defray expenses. No fault there. But, now that lowtax got burned because he didn't read the fine print, he wants *you* to share the financial burden of recovering his losses by "contributing" to his server fund. I wonder if lowtax intended to share the profits over and above his expenses with the same people from whom he now solicits contributions. Lowtax should be placed on his own SA list for this one.
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