It would also help if you didn't go around telling everyone how much money you're worth. T-shirt and jeans, move to a new city, just be one of the crowd. (change your name if you have to)... If no one knows you're a billionaire, but maybe at best some kid with a trust fund, you can still be a regular person...
Seriously, I would have no such problems with 2.5 billion. it would allow me to dip my toes into many, many things without the worry of financial ruin. I could throw 10-20 million at various projects and get involved with the actual process, and possibly help change the world for the better. I could do things on a whimsy. Shit, I would start another band and tour 9 months out of the year, but wouldn't have to weigh "gas, food, or a motel room because the floor in that house is soaked in cat piss and roaches". (I still wouldn't do a goddamned tour bus though..) But then again, I have very simple "needs", but lots of interests.
Well, that's exactly what their contract says; it's not weaseling. My contract says unlimited phone data, with explicit exclusions for tethering. The fact that they let me tether is amazing enough but I do watch my usage when I'm tethered because I'm not a fucking asshole.
Because as others have noted, if he gets platinum in quantity, dumping it on the earth would drive the price through the floor unless his group can carefully control the rate of insertion into the marketplace, or find industries that could use platinum but don't because the current price is too high.
(d) It may encourage more risk taking. If I know I can give something my all knowing that I can lose everything, but still have a very basic existence, I'll be much more likely to follow my dreams, as will many others. How many times have you met some brilliant people who are afraid to put it on the line because they don't want to lose their benefits from the job they hate, but it beats being destitute? Even in the highly paid world of software development, there's a lot of hand-wringing about "what if I fail and my family starves" mentality. Just because the economy is great now (theoretically) makes no guarantees about tomorrow. Web 2.5's house of cards can finally collapse and we'll be seeing armies of javascript dudes trying to wash your car windows (oh, but they'll have an app for that).
Mint on my Thinkpad wouldn't suspend properly. It suspended/slept properly most of the time, but occasionally it wouldn't. It was kinda like rolling a D20 every time I needed to take the laptop out anywhere.
I constantly wonder why I continue to play... It's really not all that.. fun anymore.. It's more about being OCD about a few achievements that I feel I just have to complete...
You are aware that those weapons were not the weapons we were looking for, right? We already knew about their previous stockpile: we sold it to them (as the joke goes). We went, ostensibly, to stop their "current' WMD program which was supposed to be used to destroy israel, supplied to AQ (because Hussein and AQ were on such great terms) to attack the US and other US allies, etc. But we found absolutely dick in that regards. So, shut the fuck up.
And here in LA, it doesn't matter. These stupid fuckers will walk right out in the middle of the fucking street, light or no light, and dare you to hit them.
Still a crapshoot, especially if you're in a new area and don't know the tricks of the route. I know I've ran many a red turn light because I couldn't trigger, especially at 3AM without timed cycling.
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It would also help if you didn't go around telling everyone how much money you're worth. T-shirt and jeans, move to a new city, just be one of the crowd. (change your name if you have to)... If no one knows you're a billionaire, but maybe at best some kid with a trust fund, you can still be a regular person...
Seriously, I would have no such problems with 2.5 billion. it would allow me to dip my toes into many, many things without the worry of financial ruin. I could throw 10-20 million at various projects and get involved with the actual process, and possibly help change the world for the better. I could do things on a whimsy. Shit, I would start another band and tour 9 months out of the year, but wouldn't have to weigh "gas, food, or a motel room because the floor in that house is soaked in cat piss and roaches". (I still wouldn't do a goddamned tour bus though..) But then again, I have very simple "needs", but lots of interests.
Well, that's exactly what their contract says; it's not weaseling. My contract says unlimited phone data, with explicit exclusions for tethering. The fact that they let me tether is amazing enough but I do watch my usage when I'm tethered because I'm not a fucking asshole.
How many GOP Texans were screaming about how solar, wind and other renewables were nothing but communist liberal bullshit and yet.. here we are.
Bread and circuses.
Because as others have noted, if he gets platinum in quantity, dumping it on the earth would drive the price through the floor unless his group can carefully control the rate of insertion into the marketplace, or find industries that could use platinum but don't because the current price is too high.
(d) It may encourage more risk taking. If I know I can give something my all knowing that I can lose everything, but still have a very basic existence, I'll be much more likely to follow my dreams, as will many others. How many times have you met some brilliant people who are afraid to put it on the line because they don't want to lose their benefits from the job they hate, but it beats being destitute? Even in the highly paid world of software development, there's a lot of hand-wringing about "what if I fail and my family starves" mentality. Just because the economy is great now (theoretically) makes no guarantees about tomorrow. Web 2.5's house of cards can finally collapse and we'll be seeing armies of javascript dudes trying to wash your car windows (oh, but they'll have an app for that).
And a mad scientist with a cobbled together corpse.
No one believes they're trapped in a cult until they get out.
Mint on my Thinkpad wouldn't suspend properly. It suspended/slept properly most of the time, but occasionally it wouldn't. It was kinda like rolling a D20 every time I needed to take the laptop out anywhere.
Because this is how you get unions.
I wonder if they've been in contact with Blizzard. With falling subscribers, I can't help but think they'd love to get some folks playing an offshoot.
Isn't this what the Nemesis folks have been talking about?
Seriously, I don't think the /. demo is the market for this. Step->snap->Li-ion EXPLOSION.
I constantly wonder why I continue to play... It's really not all that.. fun anymore.. It's more about being OCD about a few achievements that I feel I just have to complete...
Porn. Porn will figure out a way. Choose your angle, choose your partner, hook up your Oculus, grab your lube and hang the fuck on.
All my best things are in... hack?
"But.. what does my cell phone carrier have to do with anything?"
beowulf cluster of these...
Agile development. Deploy early, fail quickly.
When did they get an editor?
You are aware that those weapons were not the weapons we were looking for, right? We already knew about their previous stockpile: we sold it to them (as the joke goes). We went, ostensibly, to stop their "current' WMD program which was supposed to be used to destroy israel, supplied to AQ (because Hussein and AQ were on such great terms) to attack the US and other US allies, etc. But we found absolutely dick in that regards. So, shut the fuck up.
I don't know what fucking shitty doctor you go to, but mine actually tries to do their damned job. Maybe you should get a new doctor.
And here in LA, it doesn't matter. These stupid fuckers will walk right out in the middle of the fucking street, light or no light, and dare you to hit them.
Still a crapshoot, especially if you're in a new area and don't know the tricks of the route. I know I've ran many a red turn light because I couldn't trigger, especially at 3AM without timed cycling.
Because it's fucking cool.