Are you joking? What about the millions of construction workers that help build the big cities. They often move from construction site to construction site, live in crowded dorms and from the pennies they earn they send most of it back home. If they get paid for their work that is, because if your employer screws you in China you just have to suck it up. There's NO rule of law over there.
So the Chinese have their own Mexicans? Saves the trouble of pretending to have a border I guess...
Bleh, it gets worse. I recently followed a first-aid course that included helpful hints on how to deal with emergency situations. Is someone in distress? Help him, unless you're in the USA. In the USA don't touch that person in any way whatsoever unless we're talking life or death, in which case you're fucked either way.
Add to this that the military spends millions of dollars to actively misrepresent the nature, scope, and risks of military service in elaborate advertising campaigns targeted at young people in such circumstances, and you have a truly despicable situation.
Next thing you're gonna tell me the navy's nothing like how it's portrayed in NCIS or JAG.
Fusion is a messy thing. You don't simply fuse two Hydrogen atoms into one Helium atom.
Hey, anyone who can manage to convert 2 protons in 2 protons and 2 neutrons has my vote...one question though, where is the energy to be converted into matter coming from, fission?
He's outgoing, likes sports and was popular here, so I guess everyone just hates the outsider, even the "tolerant" Dutch.
Oh, definitely. Or, perhaps, he's an isolated case and barely enough to base a hypothesis on? Maybe he just acts like an ass? Being a popular kid in the states does not necessarily mean he'll automatically be popular elsewhere, different social structures and all that. Which level of highschool is he in btw?
yes, but gasoline tends to prevent you being really independent. Put up some solar cells, a wind-turbine or whatever, use some batteries for your electric car... and nobody takes your ability to drive away !
As you say, a hardcore minority of people treat ASBOs as some kind of badge of honour; given that they can't be jailed and fining them is a waste of time (as they have no substantial assets or money to speak of) and we can't deport them, what would you do?
Community service, the worst kind you can find. Cleaning streets, walls, surveillance cameras, whatever.
Personally, I like the Netherlands take on it. Imagine what would happen if it became legal, widely available, and cheap. An entire class of criminal would almost instantly disappear overnight.
Speaking as someone living in the Netherlands, I can also vouch for the fact that the very fact it's not illegal(it's not legal either, but that's a different story) also renders it a lot less interesting to prospective experimenters. The concept is simple, if you can't beat them, make them pay taxes for it:-)
The list of "comma countries" seems to be quite a bit longer but contains a lot of lesser populated countries like Switzerland, Cuba, and Belgium, and most of the rest of Europe.
I wonder if we can get our Swiss friends to start threatening they'll starting reading bank balances in the account holder country's way...should fix the problem soon enough. Comma's for everyone:P
IT is the only industry where the lower staff are superior-in-skill over the people who manage them. That is fact.
Whoa, in which reality? In pretty much every field experts will be managed by *managers*. You know, people that are trained to manage other people, make budgets fit, crap like that. A good manager will readily admit to this and depend on the opinions and suggestions of his experts before making a decision on matters that he knows less about. A bad one will not.
They just happened to luck out with those scrubbing dust devils. Ninety days: sure, they could do that, and even that seemingly brief period would have been outstanding. The Pathfinder lander in 1997, with its little Sojourner rover, only lasted that long and it was a wildly successful mission that captivated the public eye.
Meanwhile, the poor devil with the sign "will clean solar panels for food" is still standing there waiting for his tip.
Yeah, sorry Bill, but it seems 90% of the searches conducted from within our company relate to sorting out Windows problems. A very common one seems to be "how do i get rid of this msn crap?". "internet explorer crash" seems to be quite popular as well.
* Off-topic, but enlightening, nonetheless: my wife recently purchased an e-machines computer that came with XP installed. I despise the...ahem..."feature"...that MS rolled into XP that requires you to call MS for validation if you change too much of the hardware, so I removed XP and installed Win2K on the e-machines PC. However, in order to find out what hardware was installed (2K didn't recognize the audio or video cards), I had to boot from a Knoppix CD, run lspci, then boot back into 2K to download the appropriate drivers. I found that rather amusing:)
Or....you could have looked in device manager *before* kicking the preinstalled xp off and made sure you had the necessary drivers before proceeding;-)
without having to join a corp, do the shitwork they assigned me to at the outset, and maybe eventually working my way up to a cool ship or something interesting. To me if a game isn't solo-able to a large extent then its a waste of my time, as I refuse to be dependent on other people for my leisure time.
Ehmmmm, and it isn't? You don't need a corp to mine and make money(yuck! mining! boring! carebear!). You don't need a corp to take your freshly created character out in a cheap frig to cause a bit of mayhem in low sec. You don't need a corp to set up a huge research imperium. The only thing you do need a corp for is to take advantage of the whole "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" concept.
What most of these complex systems really are, are a collection of small modules of which many are most likely writtin at different times, by different people, for different projects and just barely working together.
You mean, like, libraries containing reusable code? Wasn't that supposed to be a good thing?
You mean that pinko guy with the long hair that used to hang out with a bunch of guys all the time? Yeah man, he's like, a totally awesome role-model for your kids.
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but what is even the high-end gamer going to need a chip 100 times faster than today's machines for any time in the next decade?
2 letters: AI
So when can I expect my 500 mill? ;-)
Are you joking? What about the millions of construction workers that help build the big cities. They often move from construction site to construction site, live in crowded dorms and from the pennies they earn they send most of it back home. If they get paid for their work that is, because if your employer screws you in China you just have to suck it up. There's NO rule of law over there.
So the Chinese have their own Mexicans? Saves the trouble of pretending to have a border I guess...
The moment EULA's evolved into sentience, rewriting themselves as you went over them.
The Corporations are really going to feel it when MS end-of-lifes XP
Really? Half(*) of them still run 2000.
* Disclaimer: number pulled arbitrarily out of rear exit canal.
Only we called it "Big Brother", and it was the end of tv as we knew it.
Bleh, it gets worse. I recently followed a first-aid course that included helpful hints on how to deal with emergency situations. Is someone in distress? Help him, unless you're in the USA. In the USA don't touch that person in any way whatsoever unless we're talking life or death, in which case you're fucked either way.
Add to this that the military spends millions of dollars to actively misrepresent the nature, scope, and risks of military service in elaborate advertising campaigns targeted at young people in such circumstances, and you have a truly despicable situation.
Next thing you're gonna tell me the navy's nothing like how it's portrayed in NCIS or JAG.
Fusion is a messy thing. You don't simply fuse two Hydrogen atoms into one Helium atom.
Hey, anyone who can manage to convert 2 protons in 2 protons and 2 neutrons has my vote...one question though, where is the energy to be converted into matter coming from, fission?
He's outgoing, likes sports and was popular here, so I guess everyone just hates the outsider, even the "tolerant" Dutch.
Oh, definitely. Or, perhaps, he's an isolated case and barely enough to base a hypothesis on? Maybe he just acts like an ass? Being a popular kid in the states does not necessarily mean he'll automatically be popular elsewhere, different social structures and all that. Which level of highschool is he in btw?
yes, but gasoline tends to prevent you being really independent. Put up some solar cells, a wind-turbine or whatever, use some batteries for your electric car ... and nobody takes your ability to drive away !
:-)
Driving back, however...
As you say, a hardcore minority of people treat ASBOs as some kind of badge of honour; given that they can't be jailed and fining them is a waste of time (as they have no substantial assets or money to speak of) and we can't deport them, what would you do?
Community service, the worst kind you can find. Cleaning streets, walls, surveillance cameras, whatever.
Personally, I like the Netherlands take on it. Imagine what would happen if it became legal, widely available, and cheap. An entire class of criminal would almost instantly disappear overnight.
:-)
Speaking as someone living in the Netherlands, I can also vouch for the fact that the very fact it's not illegal(it's not legal either, but that's a different story) also renders it a lot less interesting to prospective experimenters. The concept is simple, if you can't beat them, make them pay taxes for it
Well, I for one don't. I'd much rather they slept around. Variation keeps things interesting ;-)
The list of "comma countries" seems to be quite a bit longer but contains a lot of lesser populated countries like Switzerland, Cuba, and Belgium, and most of the rest of Europe.
:P
I wonder if we can get our Swiss friends to start threatening they'll starting reading bank balances in the account holder country's way...should fix the problem soon enough. Comma's for everyone
Yes, and here we measure that cost in gallons per soldier killed.
Your own or the allied ones involved in "friendly fire incidents"?
someone at google is reading this and going "ooooooh, me likey".
Yes, great idea. and then your boss walks by...remember how you feel about that guy?
IT is the only industry where the lower staff are superior-in-skill over the people who manage them. That is fact.
Whoa, in which reality? In pretty much every field experts will be managed by *managers*. You know, people that are trained to manage other people, make budgets fit, crap like that. A good manager will readily admit to this and depend on the opinions and suggestions of his experts before making a decision on matters that he knows less about. A bad one will not.
They just happened to luck out with those scrubbing dust devils. Ninety days: sure, they could do that, and even that seemingly brief period would have been outstanding. The Pathfinder lander in 1997, with its little Sojourner rover, only lasted that long and it was a wildly successful mission that captivated the public eye.
Meanwhile, the poor devil with the sign "will clean solar panels for food" is still standing there waiting for his tip.
Yeah, sorry Bill, but it seems 90% of the searches conducted from within our company relate to sorting out Windows problems. A very common one seems to be "how do i get rid of this msn crap?". "internet explorer crash" seems to be quite popular as well.
* Off-topic, but enlightening, nonetheless: my wife recently purchased an e-machines computer that came with XP installed. I despise the...ahem..."feature"...that MS rolled into XP that requires you to call MS for validation if you change too much of the hardware, so I removed XP and installed Win2K on the e-machines PC. However, in order to find out what hardware was installed (2K didn't recognize the audio or video cards), I had to boot from a Knoppix CD, run lspci, then boot back into 2K to download the appropriate drivers. I found that rather amusing :)
;-)
Or....you could have looked in device manager *before* kicking the preinstalled xp off and made sure you had the necessary drivers before proceeding
without having to join a corp, do the shitwork they assigned me to at the outset, and maybe eventually working my way up to a cool ship or something interesting. To me if a game isn't solo-able to a large extent then its a waste of my time, as I refuse to be dependent on other people for my leisure time.
Ehmmmm, and it isn't? You don't need a corp to mine and make money(yuck! mining! boring! carebear!). You don't need a corp to take your freshly created character out in a cheap frig to cause a bit of mayhem in low sec. You don't need a corp to set up a huge research imperium. The only thing you do need a corp for is to take advantage of the whole "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" concept.
What most of these complex systems really are, are a collection of small modules of which many are most likely writtin at different times, by different people, for different projects and just barely working together.
You mean, like, libraries containing reusable code? Wasn't that supposed to be a good thing?
You mean that pinko guy with the long hair that used to hang out with a bunch of guys all the time? Yeah man, he's like, a totally awesome role-model for your kids.