It's called nostalgia. You'll know what it is when you get older.
Will he?
I'm typing this on a commodity laptop - I don't even remember the model number. In a year it will be in the trash. It will never be as cool as my VIC-20 or Apple 2+, which I still have more than 30 years later.
It always cost me the same as a car to park a motorcycle in a parking garage. Even when I'd tuck it into a spot a car wouldn't fit in, just to be nice.
I suspect the protocol for doing this in the US is less well defined, and you might actually occasionally get an honest cop who is genuinely offended.
Trying to bribe a cop in the U.S. is more likely to land you in jail than whatever act you were committing to start with. Even if I thought handing over a $100 bill with my license might get me out of a speeding ticket, I'd never try it.
I also believe that 99.99% of U.S. cops are honest.
The only thing you get from Android app updates is more ads. I let it update my kitchen timer app. The new version was the same as the old one but came with fucking banner ads. So I've learned to never, ever update anything on my phone.
But that's not as bad as Google who pushed a Chrome update that removed the buttons from the scrollbar. I guess nobody at Google has ever used a touch pad.
Evolution is taught in U.S. schools. Once in a while some gray haired old man in some podunk backwoods county tries to change that and makes us all look bad. So don't believe everything you read on Slashdot.
Here on the east coast, water quantity is just not an issue. Agriculture depends mainly on rainwater - of which there is plenty - and residential use will never deplete the groundwater. Quality is the problem. With every residential well comes a septic system and a drain field. The more densely populated areas that still aren't serviced by public utilities are ending up with contaminated wells.
Like when someone brings a breathalyzer to a party. You'd think reasonable people would make sure they didn't drink too much. Nope. It becomes a contest to see who can blow the highest reading.
Hey Californians. I live on the other coast and I have a hole in my back yard where I can pump all the water out I could ever want - for free.
America used to be a lot more sink-or-swim. Work hard, innovate, or you die. Health care ended up being tied to employment because everybody worked. It was our grandparents who made this nation the greatest in the world. Now we're well on our way to a European social-wellfare system, and Universal Healthcare will be part of that after Obamacare fails (listen to Obama's speeches before he became a Senator - this is just one step in his plan).
Universal healthcare, living wage, equal outcomes. It's all coming. Along with it comes the loss of the U.S. competitive edge. Work hard? Why bother. Just join the Occupy Wallstreet crowd and stand in line for a government handout.
It's all well and good until there's nobody left to pay for it.
Same thing happened to a cat I had for 12 years. Liver cancer. The vet also told me I could put her through surgery and chemo, but that it would be wrong to do that to a cat. That was a surprising thing to hear from someone who stood to make a pretty big profit off me, and I was emotional enough at the time that I might have done it. That was 15 years ago and thinking about that still brings tears to my eyes.
You think that's bad? Wait a few years until there's some kind of real problem and they come at you with a $3000 proposal for treatment and an application for a consumer credit account. No joke. People get very emotional about their pets. I knew a woman who put her dog through chemotherapy on credit and couldn't pay her rent.
I've been using Yahoo mail since almost the beginning and still do.
I changed my password as soon as I heard about this. Or, I tried to. Yahoo makes it so difficult to change your password that I actually had to go to Google and search for "How do I change my Yahoo password". Then once I figured out where to go (none of the links worked - I had to paste it from an answers.yahoo.com reply), the AJAXified page wouldn't work in Firefox on Linux, so I had to fire up my work PC and use IE.
Unbelievable.
While I was there, I deleted an old yahoo personals alias (also didn't work in Firefox - had to use IE), and then changed my backup email. But that didn't work either - the link in the confirmation email went to an error page.
As to the government, they really don't amend their laws to take new circumstances into consideration. This whole sperm donor thing is not something the law understands at a deep level.
And if they try, they screw it up anyways.
My wife and I needed IUI for our first baby. By VA state law, if we hadn't been married, I would only be a "donor" and would have no parental rights over my son.
Any PHB who puts developers in an open plan has no clue what we do. Which they don't. Obviously. My last job put the developers AND phone tech support in the same room.
My current gig is so cheap that it's an open floating plan where nobody even has their own chair and we telecommute half the time. So half the time I'm in a noisy office with a shitty laptop PC and no personal space, and the other half I'm at home listening to a screaming baby from the next room.
I'm amazed at how much money they'll pay us in salary and then cheap out on little things that kill productivity.
I have to disagree. If you expand too much on what you already know and become too specialized, you can end up unemployable. Chase the JavaScript stuff and then use that 15 years of experience to end up managing those 20 year old whiz kids.
A bunch of years ago the filter at my company (Blue Goat, Goat Mountain, Blue Mountain, something like that) flagged a frigging Yoga site as pornography/inappropriate.
I have two domains of my personal name, each with a place holder "Under Contruction" home page. My company blocks one as "Pornography/Inapropriate" and the other one as "Gambling". I've owned each for more than a decade and they've always been blank.
The difference is, Mark Warner will be president someday and Christie won't. They'll probably both be candidates in 2016, as Warner was a front runner in 2008, and then he'll have 4 years as a senator (apparently twice the experience needed to be president). The press will ignore these things yet we'll hear about Christie's bridge over and over and over again.
It's a pretty big hassle when you have to drive an hour away and stand in line for four hours to renew your drivers license. Especially when it's just because you had the nerve to vote against the governor's party.
After that, he turned the Virginia side of the D.C. Beltway into a foreign owned toll road. Then he ran a dirty smear campaign for Senate and won by convincing the general public that his opponent was trying to ban the birth control pill (a lie).
Or is this just because Christie is a republican. 2016 is starting early around here.
The democrat governor of MY state closed the DMVs in all the districts that voted in republican delegates. Didn't make the news at all. And now he's a U.S. Senator.
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People should have to see their tax burden all in one sheet. Really, we should all have to write a check or use cash to pay our taxes.
It should hurt. The more it hurts, the more likely people will vote for politicians who can control spending.
Most people have no idea how much they pay in taxes.
It's called nostalgia. You'll know what it is when you get older.
Will he?
I'm typing this on a commodity laptop - I don't even remember the model number. In a year it will be in the trash. It will never be as cool as my VIC-20 or Apple 2+, which I still have more than 30 years later.
It always cost me the same as a car to park a motorcycle in a parking garage. Even when I'd tuck it into a spot a car wouldn't fit in, just to be nice.
I suspect the protocol for doing this in the US is less well defined, and you might actually occasionally get an honest cop who is genuinely offended.
Trying to bribe a cop in the U.S. is more likely to land you in jail than whatever act you were committing to start with. Even if I thought handing over a $100 bill with my license might get me out of a speeding ticket, I'd never try it.
I also believe that 99.99% of U.S. cops are honest.
The only thing you get from Android app updates is more ads. I let it update my kitchen timer app. The new version was the same as the old one but came with fucking banner ads. So I've learned to never, ever update anything on my phone.
But that's not as bad as Google who pushed a Chrome update that removed the buttons from the scrollbar. I guess nobody at Google has ever used a touch pad.
Evolution is taught in U.S. schools. Once in a while some gray haired old man in some podunk backwoods county tries to change that and makes us all look bad. So don't believe everything you read on Slashdot.
Here on the east coast, water quantity is just not an issue. Agriculture depends mainly on rainwater - of which there is plenty - and residential use will never deplete the groundwater. Quality is the problem. With every residential well comes a septic system and a drain field. The more densely populated areas that still aren't serviced by public utilities are ending up with contaminated wells.
Hush! The last thing we need are Californians bringing their problems to the east coast.
They already do, 55 congress members and electoral votes at a time.
Like when someone brings a breathalyzer to a party. You'd think reasonable people would make sure they didn't drink too much. Nope. It becomes a contest to see who can blow the highest reading.
Hey Californians. I live on the other coast and I have a hole in my back yard where I can pump all the water out I could ever want - for free.
Then buy some stock.
America used to be a lot more sink-or-swim. Work hard, innovate, or you die. Health care ended up being tied to employment because everybody worked. It was our grandparents who made this nation the greatest in the world. Now we're well on our way to a European social-wellfare system, and Universal Healthcare will be part of that after Obamacare fails (listen to Obama's speeches before he became a Senator - this is just one step in his plan).
Universal healthcare, living wage, equal outcomes. It's all coming. Along with it comes the loss of the U.S. competitive edge. Work hard? Why bother. Just join the Occupy Wallstreet crowd and stand in line for a government handout.
It's all well and good until there's nobody left to pay for it.
Same thing happened to a cat I had for 12 years. Liver cancer. The vet also told me I could put her through surgery and chemo, but that it would be wrong to do that to a cat. That was a surprising thing to hear from someone who stood to make a pretty big profit off me, and I was emotional enough at the time that I might have done it. That was 15 years ago and thinking about that still brings tears to my eyes.
You did the right thing for your friend.
You think that's bad? Wait a few years until there's some kind of real problem and they come at you with a $3000 proposal for treatment and an application for a consumer credit account. No joke. People get very emotional about their pets. I knew a woman who put her dog through chemotherapy on credit and couldn't pay her rent.
I've been using Yahoo mail since almost the beginning and still do.
I changed my password as soon as I heard about this. Or, I tried to. Yahoo makes it so difficult to change your password that I actually had to go to Google and search for "How do I change my Yahoo password". Then once I figured out where to go (none of the links worked - I had to paste it from an answers.yahoo.com reply), the AJAXified page wouldn't work in Firefox on Linux, so I had to fire up my work PC and use IE.
Unbelievable.
While I was there, I deleted an old yahoo personals alias (also didn't work in Firefox - had to use IE), and then changed my backup email. But that didn't work either - the link in the confirmation email went to an error page.
But if you like your Nobel Peace Prize then you can keep your Nobel Peace Prize.
I would love for us to reach a point where a single 500lb precision bomb can do the job of mass cluster bombing
That, we already have.
What we really need is a 500lb precision bomb that can take out an anti-aircraft gun and NOT damage the school or the mosque that it's sitting on.
As to the government, they really don't amend their laws to take new circumstances into consideration. This whole sperm donor thing is not something the law understands at a deep level.
And if they try, they screw it up anyways.
My wife and I needed IUI for our first baby. By VA state law, if we hadn't been married, I would only be a "donor" and would have no parental rights over my son.
Any PHB who puts developers in an open plan has no clue what we do. Which they don't. Obviously. My last job put the developers AND phone tech support in the same room.
My current gig is so cheap that it's an open floating plan where nobody even has their own chair and we telecommute half the time. So half the time I'm in a noisy office with a shitty laptop PC and no personal space, and the other half I'm at home listening to a screaming baby from the next room.
I'm amazed at how much money they'll pay us in salary and then cheap out on little things that kill productivity.
I have to disagree. If you expand too much on what you already know and become too specialized, you can end up unemployable. Chase the JavaScript stuff and then use that 15 years of experience to end up managing those 20 year old whiz kids.
A bunch of years ago the filter at my company (Blue Goat, Goat Mountain, Blue Mountain, something like that) flagged a frigging Yoga site as pornography/inappropriate.
I have two domains of my personal name, each with a place holder "Under Contruction" home page. My company blocks one as "Pornography/Inapropriate" and the other one as "Gambling". I've owned each for more than a decade and they've always been blank.
So I think they make up these ratings.
That joke was funny when I was in fourth grade. I don't think it's funny anymore.
I had to dig for it.
The difference is, Mark Warner will be president someday and Christie won't. They'll probably both be candidates in 2016, as Warner was a front runner in 2008, and then he'll have 4 years as a senator (apparently twice the experience needed to be president). The press will ignore these things yet we'll hear about Christie's bridge over and over and over again.
Here's a citation.
It's a pretty big hassle when you have to drive an hour away and stand in line for four hours to renew your drivers license. Especially when it's just because you had the nerve to vote against the governor's party.
After that, he turned the Virginia side of the D.C. Beltway into a foreign owned toll road. Then he ran a dirty smear campaign for Senate and won by convincing the general public that his opponent was trying to ban the birth control pill (a lie).
Or is this just because Christie is a republican. 2016 is starting early around here.
The democrat governor of MY state closed the DMVs in all the districts that voted in republican delegates. Didn't make the news at all. And now he's a U.S. Senator.
I wish java apps would die, along with the people who wrote them, because they NEVER follow the native platform UI.
Client side Java would be alive and popular if they'd made the Windows Look-and-feel the default. Or just given up on Metal entirely.
Your other complaints are the fault of the developer, not the platform.