This may be a silly question since I've never been in this kind of situation, but why doesn't the IT staff all collectively refuse to train their outsourced replacements? Or go on strike? Even if they aren't unionized, they could go on strike (I assume). Am I just making some bad assumptions here?
So if you believe in God, the science world think's you're crazy/stupid, but if you believe in a programmer of the universe, it's totally cool and many of them agree. Gotcha.
If I were a passenger in a self driving car, I would sit in the back seat and act panicked, banging on the windows with a horrified look on my face while mouthing "help me!", every time we passed another car.
Unlike Ingress, where there is a continuing story line influenced by how well the two factions are doing, and there is a global score that every player can influence, and an in game chat function so players can interact without knowing each other ahead of time, and the ability for huge operations involving dozens of players and the challenge of organizing such an operation (clearing lanes to make way for linking, capturing or destroying key portals, heading out to some obscure location in the middle of the night and feeling like a secret agent on a top secret mission), Pokemon Go really has very little to offer. On top of that, the tracking feature is not what the players wanted (and had at release). You basically go around capturing gyms, which serves no purpose... the xp gained is not worth the potions you need to use to recover from the attack, so unless you are trying to get on multiple gyms to get your daily rewards, there is little point. You also go around hunting pokemon, which is not multiplayer in the slightest, except for the fact that your friends can do it with you. And you can only hunt so many pokemon before it gets redundant... the xp requirements suddenly grow at a stupidly fast rate once you get to level 20. It is extremely difficult to find new players as there is no way to communicate with them unless you happen to bump in to them. If you live in a place far away from water, you essentially are locked out of some of the badges and pokemon (unlike ingress where all badges are accessible, even while urban play and rural play present different challenges).
Essentially, Pokemon Go has little to offer once the novelty wears off.
I mean, sure, occasionally a game like Doom 3 comes out that is beyond it's time in hardware specs, but my computer at home has 3 year old parts, and I have no problem playing new releases. Sure, sometimes I can't play them on the absolute highest settings, but I've never really felt that the game was less fun because of that. Also, the only real limiting factor to that issue is my video card, and a $200 could easily fix that if I felt the need - much cheaper than a new console.
I'm willing to bet it is because sometime around 1990 or so we took something out of our diets... some synthetic additive or something, that was a big player in many cancers, but was never linked.
Yes but in those cases it's a matter of people using something (in the case, Scripture) to justify an pre-existing hatred. In the same way, many industrial capitalists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries used Darwin's work to justify horrid conditions for their workers, coming up with the idea of "social Darwinism". I don't blame Darwin or his works for that, and it would be equally stupid to blame the Bible on people being assholes as well. I mean, no one reads the book of Genesis and comes away with "Huh, I guess it's a sin for a white person to marry a black person". And yet racists in the late 19th and early 20th seemed to magically find this interpretation that just so happened to support their already racist worldview.
In any Bible I've ever seen, where Jesus explicitly tells His disciples to "love thy neighbor", there is no asterisk to denote exceptions or conditions to that command. Some Christians seem to have mentally added one though.
And anyone with even the simplest understand of the Bible understands that this is Mosaic Law, which A: was only given to the Jews for their society, and B: Christians are not under.
We need common sense internet laws. I mean, why does a person even need a 50 Mbps internet connection? You don't need that much bandwidth unless you are planning on breaking the law. If the internet had been better regulated, this man would have never been radicalized.
I never see anyone, even the oldest of people, put "please" in a Google search... maybe people understand the difference between talking to a computer and talking to a human more than you give them credit for.
Sorry, but unless you recently started your strict calorie limit of 1500 per day, or you are exceptionally short, or you have some bizarre medical condition, there is no way your are being honest. If you are overweight, it means you are eating more energy than you body needs, and so it stores the extra energy as fat. If, every day, you eat only what is required for your body to maintain a healthy weight, then your body will move towards that weight, whether you are underweight or overweight to begin with.
I'm not trying to "body shame" you, or any of that crap. If you are fat and happy, then it's no skin off my back. But don't sit here and tell me you eat 1500 calories per day and you're still overweight. Dishonestly like that may convince someone who is unhappy being fat that "it's just the way their body is and they can't change it".
Assuming you eat the same number of calories per day, it doesn't matter if you eat before or after you exercise. If you eat afterwards, you are just replacing either some or all of the calories and fat that you burned, and you end up with the same caloric deficit in the end.
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This may be a silly question since I've never been in this kind of situation, but why doesn't the IT staff all collectively refuse to train their outsourced replacements? Or go on strike? Even if they aren't unionized, they could go on strike (I assume). Am I just making some bad assumptions here?
So if you believe in God, the science world think's you're crazy/stupid, but if you believe in a programmer of the universe, it's totally cool and many of them agree. Gotcha.
Says the guy using encryption to visit Slalshdot so s/he can badmouth encryption.
In response they will simply raise rates. Surely that will save the industry.
If I were a passenger in a self driving car, I would sit in the back seat and act panicked, banging on the windows with a horrified look on my face while mouthing "help me!", every time we passed another car.
People who brag about their generosity are typically both A: not actually that generous, and B: doing it for personal gain
You don't need to walk in to a house to verify that the door is open.
That would be 12.5% more, not 10% more
Keep in touch with High School friends? I'm 32 and I have long since lost contact with my high school friends.
then depression = yes
Unlike Ingress, where there is a continuing story line influenced by how well the two factions are doing, and there is a global score that every player can influence, and an in game chat function so players can interact without knowing each other ahead of time, and the ability for huge operations involving dozens of players and the challenge of organizing such an operation (clearing lanes to make way for linking, capturing or destroying key portals, heading out to some obscure location in the middle of the night and feeling like a secret agent on a top secret mission), Pokemon Go really has very little to offer. On top of that, the tracking feature is not what the players wanted (and had at release). You basically go around capturing gyms, which serves no purpose... the xp gained is not worth the potions you need to use to recover from the attack, so unless you are trying to get on multiple gyms to get your daily rewards, there is little point. You also go around hunting pokemon, which is not multiplayer in the slightest, except for the fact that your friends can do it with you. And you can only hunt so many pokemon before it gets redundant... the xp requirements suddenly grow at a stupidly fast rate once you get to level 20. It is extremely difficult to find new players as there is no way to communicate with them unless you happen to bump in to them. If you live in a place far away from water, you essentially are locked out of some of the badges and pokemon (unlike ingress where all badges are accessible, even while urban play and rural play present different challenges).
Essentially, Pokemon Go has little to offer once the novelty wears off.
I didn't realize Apple was selling computers specifically designed for four year olds. Where can I get one for my daughter?
When a given company represents 90% of the daily information stream of your average citizen, it is a monopoly.
No. By definition, a monopoly means 100% control. I am still amazed how many people don't understand basic economic terms.
I mean, sure, occasionally a game like Doom 3 comes out that is beyond it's time in hardware specs, but my computer at home has 3 year old parts, and I have no problem playing new releases. Sure, sometimes I can't play them on the absolute highest settings, but I've never really felt that the game was less fun because of that. Also, the only real limiting factor to that issue is my video card, and a $200 could easily fix that if I felt the need - much cheaper than a new console.
I'm willing to bet it is because sometime around 1990 or so we took something out of our diets... some synthetic additive or something, that was a big player in many cancers, but was never linked.
Yes but in those cases it's a matter of people using something (in the case, Scripture) to justify an pre-existing hatred. In the same way, many industrial capitalists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries used Darwin's work to justify horrid conditions for their workers, coming up with the idea of "social Darwinism". I don't blame Darwin or his works for that, and it would be equally stupid to blame the Bible on people being assholes as well. I mean, no one reads the book of Genesis and comes away with "Huh, I guess it's a sin for a white person to marry a black person". And yet racists in the late 19th and early 20th seemed to magically find this interpretation that just so happened to support their already racist worldview. In any Bible I've ever seen, where Jesus explicitly tells His disciples to "love thy neighbor", there is no asterisk to denote exceptions or conditions to that command. Some Christians seem to have mentally added one though.
Could you elaborate one what you mean by "large number"? Ten thousand? A million? 100 million?
And anyone with even the simplest understand of the Bible understands that this is Mosaic Law, which A: was only given to the Jews for their society, and B: Christians are not under.
We need common sense internet laws. I mean, why does a person even need a 50 Mbps internet connection? You don't need that much bandwidth unless you are planning on breaking the law. If the internet had been better regulated, this man would have never been radicalized.
I never see anyone, even the oldest of people, put "please" in a Google search... maybe people understand the difference between talking to a computer and talking to a human more than you give them credit for.
I hear their computers still use binary
Yeah but the IT budget will still be the first thing cut when it's time to save money
You win, I fell for your troll.
Sorry, but unless you recently started your strict calorie limit of 1500 per day, or you are exceptionally short, or you have some bizarre medical condition, there is no way your are being honest. If you are overweight, it means you are eating more energy than you body needs, and so it stores the extra energy as fat. If, every day, you eat only what is required for your body to maintain a healthy weight, then your body will move towards that weight, whether you are underweight or overweight to begin with. I'm not trying to "body shame" you, or any of that crap. If you are fat and happy, then it's no skin off my back. But don't sit here and tell me you eat 1500 calories per day and you're still overweight. Dishonestly like that may convince someone who is unhappy being fat that "it's just the way their body is and they can't change it".
Assuming you eat the same number of calories per day, it doesn't matter if you eat before or after you exercise. If you eat afterwards, you are just replacing either some or all of the calories and fat that you burned, and you end up with the same caloric deficit in the end.