This is entirely age dependendent I suppose, but the great Eureka moment for me was discovering the BBS circa 1990 from a friend, then on my own figuring out how to connect.
This might not seem like much, but it was my first independent project with a PC and I was 13.
btw, that first bbs was "Saimin" in Hawaii, and I to this day I still use the same handle.
That would explain things like environmental laws, the Endangered Species Act, and seatbelt laws.
Liberals LOVE forcing their views on others at the point of a gun. All for the 'greater good', of course.
That would be knowing what's best for a third party whom you are presumably injuring by your actions. Those laws are a limitation of liberty, but ideally a weighed one that considers the interests of other people as well as the person proximally affected.
The only way to fix it is to pass new laws. No more outsourcing of jobs. All companies must have a pension package. No lay offs unless the union okay's it. And every company must have a union, or the workers must collectivly agree on pay and terms.
Most companies do have some sort of retirement package, but the shift has been away from defined benefits regimes like that of a traditional pension toward a defined contribution like a 401k or and IRA.
The difference here is a question of risk and flexibility. The pension model was designed around the worker who would stay at the same company for thirty years, then die a short time later. The automotive companies are quickly discovering, like other formerly strong American industries like steel, that these open ended pension liabilities coupled with longer lifespans are like boat anchors when their margins slip away.
The fixed contribution model tries to solve two problems at once. First, workers can more easily move from firm to firm when their retirement package is not owned by the first company. Second, since only contriubtions are fixed, difficult variables like lifespan are removed from the employer's pension equation, allowing them to be focused only on their current workforce.
The shift in risk is a political issue. Does the worker gain by the potential windfall of compound interest and appreciation or does he lose by inheiriting the risk associated with direct exposure to the market?
That's kinda sorta what the evil Terminator did in T3. She took her cell phone out, connected (using her mouth as a modem) to something and d/l'd the names and faces of several secondary targets.
You just need to be more imaginative. You browse for diamonds, making sure that an expensive diamond is left in the search history, then you go out and buy a cubic zirconia!
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From the article: "You could use it to make cold compresses that mold to your body and last quite a while."
Isn't the whole idea of cold compresses to cool? Might as well have a very cold piece of foam.
This is why I still read/. after all these years. We all know exactly what the original poster meant, but we've got 4 subsequent posts to dissect the true meaning of mathematical terms.
GTA: Tehran has a neat plot that follows your development from a cheap street punk, through your time hostage taking in the Islamic revolution, all the way to your darkhorse victory as president!
What if Frodo Baggins, instead of confronting the evil empire in "The Lord of the Rings," just got himself a lawyer and sued?
Possession is 9/10 of the law. Even had Frodo been able to get a restraining order in time, even a +5 vorpal restraining order ain't gunna stop a pack of Nazgul from performing an early morning BATF raid at Bag End.
Real life example: Someone I know(tm), had a large (~$30,000) amount taken by the IRS over a disputed tax account. Just taken, as in dissappeared from bank accounts. Someone at the IRS actually said verbatim, "Yeah we're probably wrong, but we have your money. Now try and get it back."
Generally, but if you browse you can find a Thinkpad at a decent price. I am neutral on the trackpad vs nipple, but I am a slut for high resolution screens.
I got a 15" screen that goes 1400x1050 on my thinkpad for around $1500.
I had been shopping around Dell's website and the various discount/coupon sites, and couldn't find a better deal for what I was looking for than straight from IBM's website. I probably could have even done better had I gone through a college or gotten some sort of discount.
This may not be a popular sentiment here, but what is done to sex offenders has gone way overboard.
Consider what 'sex offender' can mean. We're immediately led to imagine a child molester, but consider that a 'sex offense' in some less enlightened areas in the country can be things like
Sodomy (between consenting adults) Public Urination
Now for those offenders that are the not nice things we are inclined to imagine, either the offender is a threat to public safety or he is not. There may be fine distinctions as to how an offender is considered a threat, but in the end it is a binary condition: Threat/Notthreat.
If the person is a threat, that person should first NOT BE OUT IN SOCIETY, that's what prisons are for! Second, it would be in the public's best interest that the offender be given treatment such that he is no longer a threat upon eventual release.
If that person is not a threat, LEAVE HIM ALONE! This increasingly public punishment of sex offenders makes even repentent, treatable offenders pariahs in any community. Look at what happened to the guy just recently released from Atascadero Hospital only to be bounced around from Mill valley to Oakland to Antioch, people picketing outside of his room, the location of which was released to the press.
I don't mean to be rude (honestly), but your comments sound exactly like Comic Book Guy in that Simpsons episode. He tells Bart how upset he is at an Itchy & Scratchy episode, how they have so let him down, and Bart asks "why are you complaining? They offer you something completely for free! who are YOU to complain?"
Remember the business model. They offer you a service without charge and turn around and sell you to potential advertisers. You aren't the customer, but really the product of this service.
If by complaints and feedback, Google (or any other advertising driven service) can be improved, then it's a net gain for the customer, Google, and for Google's advertisers.
The second incident happened when I went shopping after spending the day in interviews. I was still in college and this was the first time I had really been out in public while wearing a suit. The level of respect from the sales staffed was an amazing difference from what I was used to. Even average citizens were happen to hold the door open for me.
In the same vein, I had a great big green mohawk in high school. In a strange accident, part of it caught fire, and I was thus forced to shave the whole 'hawk off.
The change in attitude I got from everyone around me, whether they had seen me with the mohawk or not was remarkable to me.
I went even further by growing my hair out and cutting it into what I referred to as a 'young republican' haircut (side part, faded sides). The difference again seemed like orders of magnitude.
The lesson I've learned is that while respect is something you can earn, it's also something you can steal by inference. If people infer that you are important, that will treat you that way.
What we have here is a model of authority that is culturally implanted in each of us. If you seek to wield some particular authority, it helps if you can model yourself after this idea that is already lurking in the heads of those you would seek to influence.
Slashdot Mirror
Unless you have something intelligent to say, just don't click the post button.
Slashdot would be an awful lonely place if that were the standard...
The coolest part about that whole area is the couple random individual homes who never sold out to let the office parks be built on their land.
As you drive around that neighborhood you'll see: office park, office park, victorial revival, office park..
you get the idea.
My girlfriend's is over 25,000
In a row?
This is entirely age dependendent I suppose, but the great Eureka moment for me was discovering the BBS circa 1990 from a friend, then on my own figuring out how to connect.
This might not seem like much, but it was my first independent project with a PC and I was 13.
btw, that first bbs was "Saimin" in Hawaii, and I to this day I still use the same handle.
That would explain things like environmental laws, the Endangered Species Act, and seatbelt laws.
Liberals LOVE forcing their views on others at the point of a gun. All for the 'greater good', of course.
That would be knowing what's best for a third party whom you are presumably injuring by your actions. Those laws are a limitation of liberty, but ideally a weighed one that considers the interests of other people as well as the person proximally affected.
How is the red swingline a symbol for IT? Cubicle farms, office bs in general i see, but how IT?
Milton was entirely ineffectual. Do IT workers sympathize with him for being victimized or is the red swingline a passive finger to the man?
The only way to fix it is to pass new laws. No more outsourcing of jobs. All companies must have a pension package. No lay offs unless the union okay's it. And every company must have a union, or the workers must collectivly agree on pay and terms.
Most companies do have some sort of retirement package, but the shift has been away from defined benefits regimes like that of a traditional pension toward a defined contribution like a 401k or and IRA.
The difference here is a question of risk and flexibility. The pension model was designed around the worker who would stay at the same company for thirty years, then die a short time later. The automotive companies are quickly discovering, like other formerly strong American industries like steel, that these open ended pension liabilities coupled with longer lifespans are like boat anchors when their margins slip away.
The fixed contribution model tries to solve two problems at once. First, workers can more easily move from firm to firm when their retirement package is not owned by the first company. Second, since only contriubtions are fixed, difficult variables like lifespan are removed from the employer's pension equation, allowing them to be focused only on their current workforce.
The shift in risk is a political issue. Does the worker gain by the potential windfall of compound interest and appreciation or does he lose by inheiriting the risk associated with direct exposure to the market?
Fizzle.
My Nizzle
Maybe with the money behind Google, Zazzle can finally get their "scrollies" menus to work in Firefox.
That's kinda sorta what the evil Terminator did in T3. She took her cell phone out, connected (using her mouth as a modem) to something and d/l'd the names and faces of several secondary targets.
And, I ask you, why has there not been a single American civilian death on our own soil since 9/11?
Except for the anthrax attacks. What ever happened to that investigation anyway?
You just need to be more imaginative. You browse for diamonds, making sure that an expensive diamond is left in the search history, then you go out and buy a cubic zirconia!
From the article: "You could use it to make cold compresses that mold to your body and last quite a while."
Isn't the whole idea of cold compresses to cool? Might as well have a very cold piece of foam.
This is why I still read /. after all these years. We all know exactly what the original poster meant, but we've got 4 subsequent posts to dissect the true meaning of mathematical terms.
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I love you
GTA: Tehran has a neat plot that follows your development from a cheap street punk, through your time hostage taking in the Islamic revolution, all the way to your darkhorse victory as president!
I'm sure some where out there is a chess club with $15 monthly due, and it only attracts players for whom that chess playing experience is worth $15
The first rule of chess club is you do NOT talk about chess club.
What if Frodo Baggins, instead of confronting the evil empire in "The Lord of the Rings," just got himself a lawyer and sued?
Possession is 9/10 of the law. Even had Frodo been able to get a restraining order in time, even a +5 vorpal restraining order ain't gunna stop a pack of Nazgul from performing an early morning BATF raid at Bag End.
Real life example: Someone I know(tm), had a large (~$30,000) amount taken by the IRS over a disputed tax account. Just taken, as in dissappeared from bank accounts. Someone at the IRS actually said verbatim, "Yeah we're probably wrong, but we have your money. Now try and get it back."
Generally, but if you browse you can find a Thinkpad at a decent price. I am neutral on the trackpad vs nipple, but I am a slut for high resolution screens.
I got a 15" screen that goes 1400x1050 on my thinkpad for around $1500.
I had been shopping around Dell's website and the various discount/coupon sites, and couldn't find a better deal for what I was looking for than straight from IBM's website. I probably could have even done better had I gone through a college or gotten some sort of discount.
Perhaps trol as in pa-trol?
This may not be a popular sentiment here, but what is done to sex offenders has gone way overboard.
Consider what 'sex offender' can mean. We're immediately led to imagine a child molester, but consider that a 'sex offense' in some less enlightened areas in the country can be things like
Sodomy (between consenting adults)
Public Urination
Now for those offenders that are the not nice things we are inclined to imagine, either the offender is a threat to public safety or he is not. There may be fine distinctions as to how an offender is considered a threat, but in the end it is a binary condition: Threat/Notthreat.
If the person is a threat, that person should first NOT BE OUT IN SOCIETY, that's what prisons are for! Second, it would be in the public's best interest that the offender be given treatment such that he is no longer a threat upon eventual release.
If that person is not a threat, LEAVE HIM ALONE! This increasingly public punishment of sex offenders makes even repentent, treatable offenders pariahs in any community. Look at what happened to the guy just recently released from Atascadero Hospital only to be bounced around from Mill valley to Oakland to Antioch, people picketing outside of his room, the location of which was released to the press.
WTF?
28 Replies and they're all AOL metoo?
If Slashdot were to look down right now, she would see a shark just under her waterskis.
Umm. So does this mean right wingers can't do maths?
You haven't been following the social security debate, I see.
I don't mean to be rude (honestly), but your comments sound exactly like Comic Book Guy in that Simpsons episode. He tells Bart how upset he is at an Itchy & Scratchy episode, how they have so let him down, and Bart asks "why are you complaining? They offer you something completely for free! who are YOU to complain?"
Remember the business model. They offer you a service without charge and turn around and sell you to potential advertisers. You aren't the customer, but really the product of this service.
If by complaints and feedback, Google (or any other advertising driven service) can be improved, then it's a net gain for the customer, Google, and for Google's advertisers.
Common courtesy always applies however.
Wow. That sounded like pure Star Trek gibberish, but I'm followed it just enough to think it's not.
The second incident happened when I went shopping after spending the day in interviews. I was still in college and this was the first time I had really been out in public while wearing a suit. The level of respect from the sales staffed was an amazing difference from what I was used to. Even average citizens were happen to hold the door open for me.
In the same vein, I had a great big green mohawk in high school. In a strange accident, part of it caught fire, and I was thus forced to shave the whole 'hawk off.
The change in attitude I got from everyone around me, whether they had seen me with the mohawk or not was remarkable to me.
I went even further by growing my hair out and cutting it into what I referred to as a 'young republican' haircut (side part, faded sides). The difference again seemed like orders of magnitude.
The lesson I've learned is that while respect is something you can earn, it's also something you can steal by inference. If people infer that you are important, that will treat you that way.
What we have here is a model of authority that is culturally implanted in each of us. If you seek to wield some particular authority, it helps if you can model yourself after this idea that is already lurking in the heads of those you would seek to influence.