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That's good, because I see many enemy tanks invading the US in the near future. OK, I know the Nat Guard is now going overseas, just sounds weird.
Re:Ah, makes perfect sense...
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Wasn't this question answered in some movie about how black ops get funded?
Re:Only "troubled" if you're not Lockheed Martin
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Another fun part of contracting stuff out (I used to do some contract work for the gov) is how much freaking paperwork, meetings, and partial demos are required. Those are 3 of the many inefficient things the gov is good at. If you can't show paperwork to your boss, you're obviously doing nothing. If you're not having weekly meetings (even if a deliverable is not due for 3 months), you obviously not working on it. If you can't have a dog and pony "demo" (i.e. some graphics/CGI vids showing what will eventually happen), you're obviously just spending the money on beer and hiring hookers.
All that crap leaves about 20 hours a week to actually do something. I think I hit a low when I sent a regular report in, and someone on the list sent it back telling me it needed line numbers, where I should indent, wanting changes on the size of the graphs, telling me how to label such graphs, where italics were supposed to be used, etc. Best part- not a word on the content of the report. For a general monthly report. Must have been a new guy, since my previous 5 or so were fine.
Another problem is that a certain percentage of people will always vote for a certain thing or issue. There are Democrats who will never not vote Democratic, Republicans that will never not vote Republican, and special interest people who will always vote on abortion, gay rights, environmentalism, racism, etc. (either way). You could have the perfectly seasoned and educated candidate, but if a female non-white/Jewish & had a stance on abortion (either way), gay rights (either way), and had strong opinions on global warming (either way), chunks of the voters are gone due to their internal filters of "correct." Then slash another chunk based on party affiliation.
And I wouldn't say people are stupid, per se, but rather gather their information from sound bites.
Yeah, because I have to jump through hoops to make a copy of a DVD or BR that I've bought, since it's not like I'm getting a replacement if it gets scratched. Or the inability to digitally record cable TV without fiddling around with it. I call that "working so awesome, I always notice it." Other stuff I don't know about since I don't use them.
For the very little I know, when you rent time, you request a certain amount of capacity. So more than one thing can run at a time. I would imagine it would be hard to write something for a massively paralleled system. That's all I got.
"It wasn't as bad as I got when I was a kid." "She's just digging for money." "Teaching a lesson is a good thing." "Other countries do this all the time."
Yeah, I was trying to go older school, lol. I actually put 1149 in one of my presentations during grad school- the confused looks I got from my classmates was disturbing. At least my prof got the joke.
In the general listings unless I put in "purchase" "buy" "price" or something like that. I was looking up some tech specs on something that for some reason the manufacturer's website didn't have (or was buried so far I couldn't find it), and I think I found them on page 4 of the results after tons of used equip links.
Yeah, yeah, business business. Split product research searches from product purchase searches already.
I'm surprised, too. I haven't seen a Hotmail email addy in, um well, a long time. Never used it, so I have nothing against it, just the bad stuff I heard from others. Then that chatter died down, so I figured it went kaput.
The fun part about ACs are that they are so freaking humor-impaired. That and the fact they have no balls to put a name behind their statements. What freaking company (well, apparently Red Hat, I guess) hasn't made promises about things that don't happen? Go grow some balls and a sense of f'n humor.
TFA says Apple threatened to sue. How? Letter, phone call, an undercover thug off the street? If true, screw Apple (computer), but maybe a source would be helpful than just some article saying "Hey, Bob threatens to pee on my carpet."
Obviously, the correct answer for "Understand crazy monkey weather" is "Watch out for banana peels," and "... this political climate" is "Stinky, with a 100% chance of debt."
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That's good, because I see many enemy tanks invading the US in the near future. OK, I know the Nat Guard is now going overseas, just sounds weird.
Wasn't this question answered in some movie about how black ops get funded?
Another fun part of contracting stuff out (I used to do some contract work for the gov) is how much freaking paperwork, meetings, and partial demos are required. Those are 3 of the many inefficient things the gov is good at. If you can't show paperwork to your boss, you're obviously doing nothing. If you're not having weekly meetings (even if a deliverable is not due for 3 months), you obviously not working on it. If you can't have a dog and pony "demo" (i.e. some graphics/CGI vids showing what will eventually happen), you're obviously just spending the money on beer and hiring hookers.
All that crap leaves about 20 hours a week to actually do something. I think I hit a low when I sent a regular report in, and someone on the list sent it back telling me it needed line numbers, where I should indent, wanting changes on the size of the graphs, telling me how to label such graphs, where italics were supposed to be used, etc. Best part- not a word on the content of the report. For a general monthly report. Must have been a new guy, since my previous 5 or so were fine.
Another problem is that a certain percentage of people will always vote for a certain thing or issue. There are Democrats who will never not vote Democratic, Republicans that will never not vote Republican, and special interest people who will always vote on abortion, gay rights, environmentalism, racism, etc. (either way). You could have the perfectly seasoned and educated candidate, but if a female non-white/Jewish & had a stance on abortion (either way), gay rights (either way), and had strong opinions on global warming (either way), chunks of the voters are gone due to their internal filters of "correct." Then slash another chunk based on party affiliation.
And I wouldn't say people are stupid, per se, but rather gather their information from sound bites.
I sort of remember something like this from grade school.
Crotch, then.
Yeah, because I have to jump through hoops to make a copy of a DVD or BR that I've bought, since it's not like I'm getting a replacement if it gets scratched. Or the inability to digitally record cable TV without fiddling around with it. I call that "working so awesome, I always notice it." Other stuff I don't know about since I don't use them.
For the very little I know, when you rent time, you request a certain amount of capacity. So more than one thing can run at a time. I would imagine it would be hard to write something for a massively paralleled system. That's all I got.
"It wasn't as bad as I got when I was a kid."
"She's just digging for money."
"Teaching a lesson is a good thing."
"Other countries do this all the time."
You people are sick.
Yeah, I was trying to go older school, lol. I actually put 1149 in one of my presentations during grad school- the confused looks I got from my classmates was disturbing. At least my prof got the joke.
And for you.. whatever... pen and paper was like communication. You just send it over TCP-BuggieCarriage (RFC -031).
As much as I like Discovery, that was horribly written article. Hernias and Austin Power jokes? C'mon!
'falls short' of its commitment to transparency"
Well, not really. I wonder who is going to get fired at the DOJ?
In the general listings unless I put in "purchase" "buy" "price" or something like that. I was looking up some tech specs on something that for some reason the manufacturer's website didn't have (or was buried so far I couldn't find it), and I think I found them on page 4 of the results after tons of used equip links.
Yeah, yeah, business business. Split product research searches from product purchase searches already.
I'm surprised, too. I haven't seen a Hotmail email addy in, um well, a long time. Never used it, so I have nothing against it, just the bad stuff I heard from others. Then that chatter died down, so I figured it went kaput.
The fun part about ACs are that they are so freaking humor-impaired. That and the fact they have no balls to put a name behind their statements.
What freaking company (well, apparently Red Hat, I guess) hasn't made promises about things that don't happen?
Go grow some balls and a sense of f'n humor.
I think that would be the insect equivalent of the "peep booth."
I now feel unsettled I made such a bizarre connection.
Obviously. Called "joke," relative to an older technology.
But even that is a weak story. "They were served with a letter from a 'bunch of lawyers' from Apple." OK, let's see the letter.
TFA says Apple threatened to sue. How? Letter, phone call, an undercover thug off the street? If true, screw Apple (computer), but maybe a source would be helpful than just some article saying "Hey, Bob threatens to pee on my carpet."
Darn you beat me to it! Love that little guy.
Can you hear me now?
Ask Siri "What is zero."
Nicely done.
Obviously, the correct answer for "Understand crazy monkey weather" is "Watch out for banana peels," and "... this political climate" is "Stinky, with a 100% chance of debt."