After my 6th marriage, I began to think the problem might be me. -poorly quoted from some rock star or another
Seriously, they moved me from line to line and i kept getting bullied. Is the whole company bigoted? They've hired 10,000 people from around Fremont. Is the population of Fremont this bigoted? I don't see the employees of most places treating an individual like this. I think it is more likely the guy was an asshat troublemaker.
I think one thing Trump doesn't get credit for because the media is so quick to call him names, is kicking the lawmaking back to Congress. DACA was not a proper law. Trump didn't even "cancel" it. He just refused to RENEW it. It is Congress' responsibility to make law, and especially THAT law. Same with Obamacare. He does not have the executive power to give money to insurance companies. That is Congress' responsibility. They're all just pissy because now they have to do what we elected them for.
Right now, the market is good enough that I ask what the job pays when I'm first called. I've got a gig, and they're calling me. I don't see it as loosing an opportunity. I see it as not wasting my time with someone that isn't serious. Most aren't, looking to offer about 70% of what I'm making now. I like to think I'm helping out the next guy by politely informing the recruiter of how low they are fishing in the barrel.
Slippery slope does not apply when there is a clear, inevitable path from point A to point B. If I tell you that if you keep increasing the pace of your binge drinking it is going to ruin your liver, I have not made a slippery slope argument. I've told you that A must lead to B. There is not enough money to give every person every medical service that they would like. At some point, someone would have to decide who gets what. In a western culture, that decision maker would most likely be a panel ('cause that's how we roll). That panel would be deciding who lives and dies, i.e. a Death Panel.
I would submit that "risk of complication" is simply a shield to hide behind. The NHS has limited funds and too many people that want access to them. The game becomes one of finding ways to deny players access to those funds. You can't have perfect health care for everybody for free on the cheap.
Umm?! I think a well place rock would be more than sufficient. Carbon fiber blades are lightweight, but not know for resiliency. You have 4 to choose from here. Take out any of them and you have a three legged table, and a dead policeman.
Am I the only one that saw the ad for Endless computer and thought, "Heh! I could get one and delete the wikipedia stuff to make room for more games!" ?
That said you do have to admit that trump is tearing this country apart with divisiveness
I have to admit no such thing. I would put that squarely in the lap of groups showing up to marches of people with opposing viewpoints wearing black masks and throwing rocks and fireworks into the crowds, and other groups constructing false narratives ("Hands up, Don't shoot"?) and then being upset when the other side calls bullshit on them. The only "divisiveness" cause by Trump is that he actually responds to the vindictiveness of the left, and they're not used to that.
I might actually look into buying one now. This would be something that I could actually live with. Reading at the beach, pool, or in the tub is impossible even with my phone, since I have to worry about it even getting splashed.
Intuitively speaking, I have trouble with the idea that the air all over the USA a century ago was more polluted than what I experienced in and around the 1970's
A reporter takes a picture of main street on New Year's Eve, 1901. What you see is a row of houses with smoking chimneys, and this was AFTER Benjamin Franklin's wood stove reduced the amount of fuel needed by 90%(?, or some ridiculously high number like that).
Fast forward 50 years. Most of those fireplaces are replaced by oil (kerosene) burners. Still dirty, but not even comparable to the fireplaces. No one has to hire a chimney sweep to clean the exhaust tube of an oil heater.
Another 50 years, and most of the heating is done with either natural gas or heat pumps.
Your intuition fails, because your imagination doesn't wrap around what its like to have thousands upon thousands of fireplace burning day in and day out.
They got into cars...by buying small companies that were into cars. They didn't "re-invent" themselves, regardless of the lip service. They tack an appendage onto themselves.
I'm currently working for a company bought by an industry behemoth. I've seen the nimble, excellent startup with a state of the art CI system be snuff under a layer of needless middle management composed of corporate hanger-ons from the behemoth. Their great contribution has been to demand a weekly "status report" (there was an actual meeting to educate the team on the correct shade of green and red to use in the report). When I stated that the CI server provides the same numbers in real time, I was told that it was to difficult to use. I was then asked how many weeks I would need to QA the product (a REST server). I told them I would need less than ten minutes, because ALL my tests were automated and ran as part of the CI process, and they literally could not conceive of how that could be.
The behemoth will choke this add on company, and I'm just waiting for them to shut it down and offer me a package so I can look for my next gig.
That city haze didn't come from corporation polluting. It came from cars...driven by everyday citizens. Stop blaming companies for things they have no over.
Credit reporting agencies make money by sending my information to people that pay for it. If someone was asking questions about a friend of mine, simple politeness would require me to inform my friend that so-and-so was asking about him.
Me: "Hey, Bill. You're ex was asking about you the other day." Bill: "You don't say. What did you tell her?"
The way to fix this whole credit reporting mess is that if someone makes an inquiry to the reporting agency (i.e., someone asks about me), the reporting agency should be required to mail me a copy of what they pass on. If they are saying something wrong, I can challenge them and get the information corrected. If the person requesting information didn't have my permission, I would know identity theft was in the works and could stop the bank from extending credit.
they were too busy protecting Windows and Office and built a toxic company culture to protect those products.
Microsoft built a reputation for being a bully that would bulldoze anything they perceived as competition. They would wedge themselves into a market by using underhand tactics and decimate quality players with back room deals. No one with a clue was going to let Microsoft into the mobile market any more than they had to. The response of the world has basically been, "You have the PC OS and Word. Stay there."
I'm in an apartment. I already have a 40" TV, and it covers the entire wall I have available for it and the glare from windows ruins the colors. If it were to be given to me, I wouldn't want a bigger TV or would I care about a higher resolution.
What I would care about would be decent speakers built into the the thing, and a wireless protocol to move speakers behind the couch so that I can have surround sound without running wires over the floor. No, I'm not interested in investing as much in speakers as I paid for the TV so that I can have a second remote for a complicated, scarfed on solution that barely inter-operates. And, no, I don't want it to have 1000W of audio output. I'd prefer NOT to have the complaints from neighbors.
IOW, why can't manufacturers look at the vast majority of people and solve their problems, instead of just trying to sell the next iteration of the same thing.
The same question is justifiably asked of why go to Mars? What is the "scientific justification"? Cuts some rocks to find that microscopic organisms might have existed there eons ago? Who cares? How will that affect anyone's life? What are you going to do differently now that you know? You may have an insatiable thirst for useless knowledge, but it is the ideas of humans traveling the stars that excites me.
The way to build a transcontinental railroad is not to build a steam engine, demonstrate that it can cross a campus, and then try to sell the idea of going around the world. You cross the campus with it, then show that it can cross the city. Then the state. That it can carry cargo, then that it can carry passengers. That it can cross several states, and eventually you reach the opposite ocean. Anything else is just a friggen stunt.
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After my 6th marriage, I began to think the problem might be me.
-poorly quoted from some rock star or another
Seriously, they moved me from line to line and i kept getting bullied. Is the whole company bigoted? They've hired 10,000 people from around Fremont. Is the population of Fremont this bigoted? I don't see the employees of most places treating an individual like this. I think it is more likely the guy was an asshat troublemaker.
I think one thing Trump doesn't get credit for because the media is so quick to call him names, is kicking the lawmaking back to Congress. DACA was not a proper law. Trump didn't even "cancel" it. He just refused to RENEW it. It is Congress' responsibility to make law, and especially THAT law. Same with Obamacare. He does not have the executive power to give money to insurance companies. That is Congress' responsibility. They're all just pissy because now they have to do what we elected them for.
Good for them. Saves my time.
Right now, the market is good enough that I ask what the job pays when I'm first called. I've got a gig, and they're calling me. I don't see it as loosing an opportunity. I see it as not wasting my time with someone that isn't serious. Most aren't, looking to offer about 70% of what I'm making now. I like to think I'm helping out the next guy by politely informing the recruiter of how low they are fishing in the barrel.
And yet: seat belt laws -> stop light cameras -> cameras everywhere
Slippery slope does not apply when there is a clear, inevitable path from point A to point B. If I tell you that if you keep increasing the pace of your binge drinking it is going to ruin your liver, I have not made a slippery slope argument. I've told you that A must lead to B. There is not enough money to give every person every medical service that they would like. At some point, someone would have to decide who gets what. In a western culture, that decision maker would most likely be a panel ('cause that's how we roll). That panel would be deciding who lives and dies, i.e. a Death Panel.
I would submit that "risk of complication" is simply a shield to hide behind. The NHS has limited funds and too many people that want access to them. The game becomes one of finding ways to deny players access to those funds. You can't have perfect health care for everybody for free on the cheap.
I have one of the TimeWarner (now Spectrum) wifi modems. The thing will barely reach across my apartment, so I'm safe.
Umm?! I think a well place rock would be more than sufficient. Carbon fiber blades are lightweight, but not know for resiliency. You have 4 to choose from here. Take out any of them and you have a three legged table, and a dead policeman.
Am I the only one that saw the ad for Endless computer and thought, "Heh! I could get one and delete the wikipedia stuff to make room for more games!" ?
That said you do have to admit that trump is tearing this country apart with divisiveness
I have to admit no such thing. I would put that squarely in the lap of groups showing up to marches of people with opposing viewpoints wearing black masks and throwing rocks and fireworks into the crowds, and other groups constructing false narratives ("Hands up, Don't shoot"?) and then being upset when the other side calls bullshit on them. The only "divisiveness" cause by Trump is that he actually responds to the vindictiveness of the left, and they're not used to that.
Or, post it on Facebook. Then you'll see how many friends you really have.
Lots of joint ownership.
I leave my bath brush to my brother and my aunt. May they live in peace.
I might actually look into buying one now. This would be something that I could actually live with. Reading at the beach, pool, or in the tub is impossible even with my phone, since I have to worry about it even getting splashed.
Intuitively speaking, I have trouble with the idea that the air all over the USA a century ago was more polluted than what I experienced in and around the 1970's
A reporter takes a picture of main street on New Year's Eve, 1901. What you see is a row of houses with smoking chimneys, and this was AFTER Benjamin Franklin's wood stove reduced the amount of fuel needed by 90%(?, or some ridiculously high number like that).
Fast forward 50 years. Most of those fireplaces are replaced by oil (kerosene) burners. Still dirty, but not even comparable to the fireplaces. No one has to hire a chimney sweep to clean the exhaust tube of an oil heater.
Another 50 years, and most of the heating is done with either natural gas or heat pumps.
Your intuition fails, because your imagination doesn't wrap around what its like to have thousands upon thousands of fireplace burning day in and day out.
People don't realize the not-so-subtle way this happens.
I work for a bought out startup, and have watched clueless managers move in and destroy their Agile processes with waterfall demands.
They got into cars...by buying small companies that were into cars. They didn't "re-invent" themselves, regardless of the lip service. They tack an appendage onto themselves.
I'm currently working for a company bought by an industry behemoth. I've seen the nimble, excellent startup with a state of the art CI system be snuff under a layer of needless middle management composed of corporate hanger-ons from the behemoth. Their great contribution has been to demand a weekly "status report" (there was an actual meeting to educate the team on the correct shade of green and red to use in the report). When I stated that the CI server provides the same numbers in real time, I was told that it was to difficult to use. I was then asked how many weeks I would need to QA the product (a REST server). I told them I would need less than ten minutes, because ALL my tests were automated and ran as part of the CI process, and they literally could not conceive of how that could be.
The behemoth will choke this add on company, and I'm just waiting for them to shut it down and offer me a package so I can look for my next gig.
Is Facebook really concerned about the plight of Puerto Rico
I think we all have come to realize that the SJWs out there are really more concerned with signaling virtue more than actually solving problems.
You can get canned Dark Matter? Where would I buy it? Can I get it pickled?
That city haze didn't come from corporation polluting. It came from cars...driven by everyday citizens. Stop blaming companies for things they have no over.
Credit reporting agencies make money by sending my information to people that pay for it. If someone was asking questions about a friend of mine, simple politeness would require me to inform my friend that so-and-so was asking about him.
Me: "Hey, Bill. You're ex was asking about you the other day."
Bill: "You don't say. What did you tell her?"
The way to fix this whole credit reporting mess is that if someone makes an inquiry to the reporting agency (i.e., someone asks about me), the reporting agency should be required to mail me a copy of what they pass on. If they are saying something wrong, I can challenge them and get the information corrected. If the person requesting information didn't have my permission, I would know identity theft was in the works and could stop the bank from extending credit.
Microsoft could possibly have dominated mobile
Unlikely, because...
they were too busy protecting Windows and Office and built a toxic company culture to protect those products.
Microsoft built a reputation for being a bully that would bulldoze anything they perceived as competition. They would wedge themselves into a market by using underhand tactics and decimate quality players with back room deals. No one with a clue was going to let Microsoft into the mobile market any more than they had to. The response of the world has basically been, "You have the PC OS and Word. Stay there."
I'm in an apartment. I already have a 40" TV, and it covers the entire wall I have available for it and the glare from windows ruins the colors. If it were to be given to me, I wouldn't want a bigger TV or would I care about a higher resolution.
What I would care about would be decent speakers built into the the thing, and a wireless protocol to move speakers behind the couch so that I can have surround sound without running wires over the floor. No, I'm not interested in investing as much in speakers as I paid for the TV so that I can have a second remote for a complicated, scarfed on solution that barely inter-operates. And, no, I don't want it to have 1000W of audio output. I'd prefer NOT to have the complaints from neighbors.
IOW, why can't manufacturers look at the vast majority of people and solve their problems, instead of just trying to sell the next iteration of the same thing.
And we won't know if it is workable if we don't build a moon base. And if it doesn't work on the moon, why would we think that it would work on Mars?
The same question is justifiably asked of why go to Mars? What is the "scientific justification"? Cuts some rocks to find that microscopic organisms might have existed there eons ago? Who cares? How will that affect anyone's life? What are you going to do differently now that you know? You may have an insatiable thirst for useless knowledge, but it is the ideas of humans traveling the stars that excites me.
The way to build a transcontinental railroad is not to build a steam engine, demonstrate that it can cross a campus, and then try to sell the idea of going around the world. You cross the campus with it, then show that it can cross the city. Then the state. That it can carry cargo, then that it can carry passengers. That it can cross several states, and eventually you reach the opposite ocean. Anything else is just a friggen stunt.