What and you have a valid argument? Give me a fucking break.
You:
You'd think if we staged the whole thing the Russians would have said SOMETHING about it seeing that they listened in to the ENTIRE FREAKING MISSION as did the rest of the world.
By the weight of the "evidence" I think you described yourself...let's see...
a fucking retard
But wait! Someone else has Actual Scientific Evidence[tm]!
I'm glad to see that you too don't know about the Van Allen Belt.
So perhaps you should get off your anti-conspiracy high-horse rocker and have a pint.
But wait, there's still more!
I don't care to argue this anymore because arguing with a conspiracy theorist is like arguing with a kid or a religious person who uses the fact that god can do anything and everything it wants to shoot down any argument you throw at them.
So now you argue that someone that believes in something that can't be proven is a "conspiracy theorist" yet someone that doesn't believe in something that can't be proven is...also a conspiracy theorist. Please make up your mind.
You'd think if we staged the whole thing the Russians would have said SOMETHING about it seeing that they listened in to the ENTIRE FREAKING MISSION as did the rest of the world.
In my case, I found that since I switched to listening to "free" music (offered by unsigned artists to download for free), that after listening to what sounded "okay" started sounding great...even though my friends consider it to be garbage ("How can you listen to that off-key, under-produced cr.p?").
After two years of listening to pretty much the same 40-50 songs, they sound pretty good to me - much more "real" than "commercial" music...I feel more like the artists are present rather than in a recording studio.
His argument was that my connection's slowness and 'not always on' connection gave me better security since I was less of a target for many security threats.
See post subject
Does Dial-Up really protect you
No
or is this a false sense of security and I should just go ahead and pick a faster service
Yes and yes
and make sure my firewall is a good one and my virus definitions are always up to date?
Yes
Also, make sure you are behind a router using NAT so that your computer won't be directly accessable from the outside world.
#5. People frequently sign up their WORK addresses for your crap. When they leave that job, it is up to whomever is set to receive their email or the email admin to handle the crap. Unless you want ALL of your messages blocked at my smtp box, you will make it very easy to quickly and completely unsubscribe addresses.
Allow postmaster@example.org to request unsubscription for an entire domain.
Postmaster emails your unsubscribe address with subject "unsubscribe domain"
Your mailer emails postmaster@example.org a URL to verify that it really is the postmaster
Postmaster clicks the URL and all addresses at example.org are immediately unsubscribed - no confirmations other than on the web, no notification to users, etc.
That said Govt. should build water mains, waste lines and electrical connections, but I don't necessarily want to see private industry providing water to individuals or processing sewage. I do not mind private electrical generation or a mixed public/private electrical co-op.
The FOIA already includes exceptions for law enforcement & privacy issues. The current admin is trying to add Sat pictures to this list to avoid making Govt bought Sat pics available for the price of a FOIA query & thus helping potential terrorists.
Now, your wifey is back in town and she gets a phone call from the market telling her that the meat you bought might be contaminated. You are going to be in the dog house, if not a motel, when you get home from work that day.
If it saved 2-3 hours of your time each day, aren't you worried about being expendable? If you're still there for the same amount of time, the company hasn't really saved anything, they've just made you a happier employee (and we know where that is on their priority list).
Actually, I was worried about getting the rest of my job done in the time allotted without having to work extra-fast/hard the other 5-6 hours/day.
Yes, it did make me a happier employee, but that's because I was a more productive employee. (That ought to be a popular statement! lol)
The time savings resulted in higher productivity, saving my employer from hiring yet another full-time employee. This was the result of not having to waste my time 2-3 hours per day I had enough time to make my whole department more streamlined by being afforded a little "spare" time each day to work on tuning the various processes within the department.
The "spare" time was at first my breaks, which had previously been donated to my employer in the form of getting-everything-done-on-time. After a year, my "spare" time was part of my work day, sometimes half of it. This was without hiring another employee in the department, and with increasing work output as needed (about 200% over the course of a year).
I no longer work there - after I decided to move away from the area and gave my two months' notice, they offered me a part-time job from home programming...which lasted for 5 years.
The cost of having every employee or department having their own shredder isn't restricted to the initial $30/seat investment. There's also the time involved in shredding documents.
Probably not a good example, but:
I once had a job which involved faxing purchase orders to suppliers. When I first started, the process was:
Print batch of purchase orders.
Go to accounting department. (I didn't have a fax machine on my desk.)
Fax each purchase order individually.
This process consumed 2 to 3 hours of each of my days. COST: 2 to 3 hours employee time per day. SAVINGS: $100 one-time cost of fax machine
Upper management greatly improved the situation when they donated a fax machine from their office for my desk...because it didn't meet their needs - it didn't automatically identify the sender in the page headers. COST: 45 to 60 minutes employee time per day; plus additional 40 minutes of long-distance calling per day for the header page. SAVINGS: $100 one-time cost of fax machine; 2 to 2-1/4 hours employee time per day.
Although it saved the daily trip to the accounting office, faxing now required a header page identifying where the fax was coming from. At least I could be mostly-productive while doing the mindless hours of fax work.
Print batch of purchase orders.
Fax each purchase order individually, with header page.
Eventually, we did end up with a fax modem which was connected directly to the mainframe which saved even more time. COST: $300 for the fax modem; software written in-house in about an hour SAVINGS: 2 to 3 hours of employee time per day
Also, keep in mind that 60 degrees farenheit is pretty far from freezing and that the inside of your house is unlikely to reach the temperatures required to freeze the pipes *inside* your home.
Agreed. 60 degrees Fahrenheit is pretty warm for the inside of a house at night during winter. Even my folks, in their 70s, keep their thermostat at 60 at night.
It's not uncommon that it's in the 50s in my house when I've been lazy with burning wood and it's under 30 outside...and I've slept a few hours too long. Lazy me.
Your pipes aren't likely to freeze until it's well below freezing if you keep your cold water dripping - I see 20s outside and high 40s inside before I need to start letting the water drip in the kitchen, which is the longest run of my water piping.
Now when the power goes out, and your pump stops pumping, then you'd better be home to drain your plumbing before it freezes.
Or just accept that you are saving money/bandwidth by not displaying advertisements to people who will never click on an advertisement.
I block banners (and probably get some collateral blocking) because when I want to purchase something, I search for it. A banner advertisement will never influence my decision.
Plus, flashing advertisements distract me from my work, and they also irritate me.
I pay plenty of money to serve content, as do my customers. I'd much rather have people using advertisement blocking which doesn't fake out the server - at $100/Mbps/month I'd sleep better knowing that non-clickers weren't downloading what they don't look at, or they don't see.
The fun part -- those "Silver Certificates" are still real money. You can buy stuff with them, just as easily as with today's money. But you'd be a fool to do so, and you'd probably have a LOT of trouble getting someone to take it.
Where I live, in a remote mountain community in Northern California, a Silver Certificiate would actually be taken in preference to a Federal Reserve Note by just about everyone - including merchants, although the cashier would probably exchange his/her own FRN for the SC before the SC ever saw the inside of the till.
The backtick is infinitely more useful than the 'insert' key:
vi `which adduser` -or- ls -l `which apachectl`
Granted these are probably pretty lame examples, but I'd bet that most people using a shell on a regular basis probably use the backtick on a regular basis as well.
The tilde is handy for navigating to user directories:
cd ~username
as well as along with mod_userdir in Apache:
http://domain.com/~username/
Of all the keys on the board, 'insert' is the only key other than 'scroll lock' and 'print screen/sysrq' that I *never* use. Neverminding, of course, the 'MS-Windows' and 'MS-context' keys - what wastes.
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I'll believe it when any one of us sees evidence through a telescope pointed at the moon. Otherwise it's as you say, just a "belief". ;)
You:
Note the lack of any supporting evidence.
Me:
By the weight of the "evidence" I think you described yourself...let's see...
But wait! Someone else has Actual Scientific Evidence[tm]!
So perhaps you should get off your anti-conspiracy high-horse rocker and have a pint.
But wait, there's still more!
So now you argue that someone that believes in something that can't be proven is a "conspiracy theorist" yet someone that doesn't believe in something that can't be proven is...also a conspiracy theorist. Please make up your mind.
Yeah, and Martians invaded Earth BECAUSE WE HEARD IT ON THE RADIO.
Give me a break with your name-calling until you have a valid argument.
You mean we actually went to the moon before?
In my case, I found that since I switched to listening to "free" music (offered by unsigned artists to download for free), that after listening to what sounded "okay" started sounding great...even though my friends consider it to be garbage ("How can you listen to that off-key, under-produced cr.p?").
After two years of listening to pretty much the same 40-50 songs, they sound pretty good to me - much more "real" than "commercial" music...I feel more like the artists are present rather than in a recording studio.
See post subject
No
Yes and yes
Yes
Also, make sure you are behind a router using NAT so that your computer won't be directly accessable from the outside world.
Like on my 10-year-old Sony TV?
And, make sure that the fine isn't a tax deduction!
The official statement is here: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/
Our government bought it. It belongs to us.
Hopefully your wife would rather not you be dead.
According to Merriam-Webster:
Highway:
a public way; especially : a main direct road
Freeway:
Expressway:
a high-speed divided highway for through traffic with access partially or fully controlled
Interstate Highway:
any of a system of expressways connecting most major U.S. cities
Ummm...it's a highway. Bikes and pedestrians have no business on the highway.
In California, bikes and pedestrians are welcome anywhere except freeways. In Oregon, AFAIK, they are even allowed on freeways.
PickOS on an ADDS mainframe.
Actually, I was worried about getting the rest of my job done in the time allotted without having to work extra-fast/hard the other 5-6 hours/day.
Yes, it did make me a happier employee, but that's because I was a more productive employee. (That ought to be a popular statement! lol)
The time savings resulted in higher productivity, saving my employer from hiring yet another full-time employee. This was the result of not having to waste my time 2-3 hours per day I had enough time to make my whole department more streamlined by being afforded a little "spare" time each day to work on tuning the various processes within the department.
The "spare" time was at first my breaks, which had previously been donated to my employer in the form of getting-everything-done-on-time. After a year, my "spare" time was part of my work day, sometimes half of it. This was without hiring another employee in the department, and with increasing work output as needed (about 200% over the course of a year).
I no longer work there - after I decided to move away from the area and gave my two months' notice, they offered me a part-time job from home programming...which lasted for 5 years.
The cost of having every employee or department having their own shredder isn't restricted to the initial $30/seat investment. There's also the time involved in shredding documents.
Probably not a good example, but:
I once had a job which involved faxing purchase orders to suppliers. When I first started, the process was:
- Print batch of purchase orders.
- Go to accounting department. (I didn't have a fax machine on my desk.)
- Fax each purchase order individually.
This process consumed 2 to 3 hours of each of my days.COST: 2 to 3 hours employee time per day.
SAVINGS: $100 one-time cost of fax machine
Upper management greatly improved the situation when they donated a fax machine from their office for my desk...because it didn't meet their needs - it didn't automatically identify the sender in the page headers.
COST: 45 to 60 minutes employee time per day; plus additional 40 minutes of long-distance calling per day for the header page.
SAVINGS: $100 one-time cost of fax machine; 2 to 2-1/4 hours employee time per day.
Although it saved the daily trip to the accounting office, faxing now required a header page identifying where the fax was coming from. At least I could be mostly-productive while doing the mindless hours of fax work.
Eventually, we did end up with a fax modem which was connected directly to the mainframe which saved even more time.
COST: $300 for the fax modem; software written in-house in about an hour
SAVINGS: 2 to 3 hours of employee time per day
Queue batch of purchase orders.
Time is money - even if it is 15 minutes.
How about cash? Silver and gold coin?
Most everyone accepts gold and silver, even if it's half of market value....Fed Notes aren't even near half of market value.
Agreed. 60 degrees Fahrenheit is pretty warm for the inside of a house at night during winter. Even my folks, in their 70s, keep their thermostat at 60 at night.
It's not uncommon that it's in the 50s in my house when I've been lazy with burning wood and it's under 30 outside...and I've slept a few hours too long. Lazy me.
Your pipes aren't likely to freeze until it's well below freezing if you keep your cold water dripping - I see 20s outside and high 40s inside before I need to start letting the water drip in the kitchen, which is the longest run of my water piping.
Now when the power goes out, and your pump stops pumping, then you'd better be home to drain your plumbing before it freezes.
On first read, I thought that this probably applied to interstate commerce. I was wrong:
UNITED STATES v. UNITED STATES SHOE CORP. shows that it does cover exports to foreign countries.
Or just accept that you are saving money/bandwidth by not displaying advertisements to people who will never click on an advertisement.
I block banners (and probably get some collateral blocking) because when I want to purchase something, I search for it. A banner advertisement will never influence my decision.
Plus, flashing advertisements distract me from my work, and they also irritate me.
I pay plenty of money to serve content, as do my customers. I'd much rather have people using advertisement blocking which doesn't fake out the server - at $100/Mbps/month I'd sleep better knowing that non-clickers weren't downloading what they don't look at, or they don't see.
Just because software wants to upgrade itself doesn't make it intrusive.
Where I live, in a remote mountain community in Northern California, a Silver Certificiate would actually be taken in preference to a Federal Reserve Note by just about everyone - including merchants, although the cashier would probably exchange his/her own FRN for the SC before the SC ever saw the inside of the till.
The backtick is infinitely more useful than the 'insert' key:
vi `which adduser`
-or-
ls -l `which apachectl`
Granted these are probably pretty lame examples, but I'd bet that most people using a shell on a regular basis probably use the backtick on a regular basis as well.
The tilde is handy for navigating to user directories:
cd ~username
as well as along with mod_userdir in Apache:
http://domain.com/~username/
Of all the keys on the board, 'insert' is the only key other than 'scroll lock' and 'print screen/sysrq' that I *never* use. Neverminding, of course, the 'MS-Windows' and 'MS-context' keys - what wastes.