I'm in the magazine publishing industry. We get targets from our print houses which we use to match our in-house equipment against. It's not perfect but it's very precise and most people couldn't see the difference.
You should also remember that Lou Wolff, the A's newest owner, is looking to build a "baseball village". This village has a number of condos that Wolff is planning to sell to "finance the rest of the ballpark". I see this as his greed overwhelming any sense of compassion for the loyal fans that have been going to the games for decades. Furthermore, this new baseball village will lack any sort of public transit access as BART's currently closest stop is 5 miles away and their planned extension only shortens that distance to 2 miles. If only the Raiders had stayed in LA, then the Oakland Coliseum wouldn't have the ugly Mt. Davis and the City of Oakland wouldn't feel like sports had ripped them off.
an intern? As an IT Manager for a regional and city magazine, I can attest that if my hundred-thousand dollar, monthly magazine can find the resources to fact check over 100 pages of editorial content(the magazine is usually about 250 pages), then a multi-million dollar publisher can find the resources to fact check their 300 paged manuscripts. I sincerely hope that no one truly believes this bullshit. It's a cop out and a lie.
Quit Your Bitching. Be happy that you have a job. I'm sure this is probably going to be considered a redundant post but that's because you're complaining about something that most of us have to deal with throughout our lives. If you really didn't like it as much as you say you do, then you'd make it your first freakin' priority to get a new job. When you get home at night, spend an hour to fix up your resume. Once you've done that, then spend an hour each night or day looking for new job postings. Tell your friends, family members, and any acquaintances that you're looking for a job; remember it's not what you know but who you know that lands you the job most of the time. Most importantly, keep a positive perspective on your future.
I work for a mid-size publishing company in the San Francisco Bay Area and we just purchased 125+ computers. We had too big of a conscience to throw the old ones away; furthermore, it's illegal in my city to throw away electronics which contain harmful metals or substances like lead or asbestos. I found one company in the area that actually recycled the computers by reclaiming all metals and plastics that they could, most of the others sent the systems to places in Asia to be put into landfills and the other "recyclers" just sold them back to the public. My company ended up paying ~$1750USD to recycle about 100 of the old computers plus monitors, keyboards, and mice. When I think of all of the harmful substances and useful items that were properly taken care of for these 100 systems, it shocks me to think about how much polluting waste was kept out of the environment and how much goes unreclaimed anually in my state, country and the world.
It is expensive when you consider the fact that you'll have one more version (UMD) of your favorite movies to purchase that won't work on any other system. I've read else where that Sony doesn't plan on selling UMD writers so that you could copy your currently owned video content to the UMD format.
When the story of the planned merger initially broke, I figured that there would be mass layoffs and/. labed my post as flamebait. I would be willing to bet that Good Ole Larry actually plans several more layoffs over the next year. I know of several instances where he's bought up companies for their customers or IP and then gutted all that was good out of them. Looks like former PeopleSoft employees are next on the chopping block. This whole situation is going to weigh heavily on the already strained economy of the San Francisco Bay Area.
While I agree with you about having some perspective, a valid point is being made. Since we landed on the moon, the space program has virtually been halted. If you think of NASA in terms of a corporation then you would realize that they are a subsidiary running on money given by investors to a parent company, and that parent company is making the decisions of where to put said money instead of the investors. There should be some way for all of those who care how the US spends its tax dollars to specify where their tax dollars go...I know I would put mine in NASA instead of Defense.
Actually, the first colonies of NA were caused by the landowners in England, i.e. the dukes and other various lords, pushing the peasants off of the land so that sheep could be raised. This was done because the land owners could make more money from wool and other sheep products than they could from the taxes that they forced on the peasants who farmed the land. These peasants and second, third, fourth, etc. sons came over to NA first to get land that they could farm because that is what they new how to do to make a living. The sons came over here because of a little practice called "primo geniture" in which the first born son recieved all of the property of the parents and was supposed to, but not always did, take care of his siblings. It wasn't until a few years later did religion come into the picture.
Those books were great! I suggest them to anyone who is truely interested in the colonization of Mars. On a side note I'd like to say that we have no chance of getting to Mars if our government continues to cut the NASA budget. I wish there was some country or society that was setup primarily for people interested in getting to Mars...sounds like a country run by and for scientists and not buerocrats(sp?).
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After following the links through to the original source material, I came to the same conclusion as you. This is totally fake and /. took the bait.
Lenin and Stalin was also enamored with Lysenko.
Lenin had nothing to do with Lysenko. Lysenko came around several years after Lenin died.
I'm in the magazine publishing industry. We get targets from our print houses which we use to match our in-house equipment against. It's not perfect but it's very precise and most people couldn't see the difference.
Or you just get a densitometer and completely remove the human mishap factor.
You should also remember that Lou Wolff, the A's newest owner, is looking to build a "baseball village". This village has a number of condos that Wolff is planning to sell to "finance the rest of the ballpark". I see this as his greed overwhelming any sense of compassion for the loyal fans that have been going to the games for decades. Furthermore, this new baseball village will lack any sort of public transit access as BART's currently closest stop is 5 miles away and their planned extension only shortens that distance to 2 miles. If only the Raiders had stayed in LA, then the Oakland Coliseum wouldn't have the ugly Mt. Davis and the City of Oakland wouldn't feel like sports had ripped them off.
an intern? As an IT Manager for a regional and city magazine, I can attest that if my hundred-thousand dollar, monthly magazine can find the resources to fact check over 100 pages of editorial content(the magazine is usually about 250 pages), then a multi-million dollar publisher can find the resources to fact check their 300 paged manuscripts. I sincerely hope that no one truly believes this bullshit. It's a cop out and a lie.
Quit Your Bitching. Be happy that you have a job. I'm sure this is probably going to be considered a redundant post but that's because you're complaining about something that most of us have to deal with throughout our lives. If you really didn't like it as much as you say you do, then you'd make it your first freakin' priority to get a new job. When you get home at night, spend an hour to fix up your resume. Once you've done that, then spend an hour each night or day looking for new job postings. Tell your friends, family members, and any acquaintances that you're looking for a job; remember it's not what you know but who you know that lands you the job most of the time. Most importantly, keep a positive perspective on your future.
I work for a mid-size publishing company in the San Francisco Bay Area and we just purchased 125+ computers. We had too big of a conscience to throw the old ones away; furthermore, it's illegal in my city to throw away electronics which contain harmful metals or substances like lead or asbestos. I found one company in the area that actually recycled the computers by reclaiming all metals and plastics that they could, most of the others sent the systems to places in Asia to be put into landfills and the other "recyclers" just sold them back to the public. My company ended up paying ~$1750USD to recycle about 100 of the old computers plus monitors, keyboards, and mice. When I think of all of the harmful substances and useful items that were properly taken care of for these 100 systems, it shocks me to think about how much polluting waste was kept out of the environment and how much goes unreclaimed anually in my state, country and the world.
It is expensive when you consider the fact that you'll have one more version (UMD) of your favorite movies to purchase that won't work on any other system. I've read else where that Sony doesn't plan on selling UMD writers so that you could copy your currently owned video content to the UMD format.
When the story of the planned merger initially broke, I figured that there would be mass layoffs and /. labed my post as flamebait. I would be willing to bet that Good Ole Larry actually plans several more layoffs over the next year. I know of several instances where he's bought up companies for their customers or IP and then gutted all that was good out of them. Looks like former PeopleSoft employees are next on the chopping block. This whole situation is going to weigh heavily on the already strained economy of the San Francisco Bay Area.
I completely agree.
One of the toughest job markets in the world just got about 10,000 people tougher. In my opinion this is a very sad day.
While I agree with you about having some perspective, a valid point is being made. Since we landed on the moon, the space program has virtually been halted. If you think of NASA in terms of a corporation then you would realize that they are a subsidiary running on money given by investors to a parent company, and that parent company is making the decisions of where to put said money instead of the investors. There should be some way for all of those who care how the US spends its tax dollars to specify where their tax dollars go...I know I would put mine in NASA instead of Defense.
Actually, the first colonies of NA were caused by the landowners in England, i.e. the dukes and other various lords, pushing the peasants off of the land so that sheep could be raised. This was done because the land owners could make more money from wool and other sheep products than they could from the taxes that they forced on the peasants who farmed the land. These peasants and second, third, fourth, etc. sons came over to NA first to get land that they could farm because that is what they new how to do to make a living. The sons came over here because of a little practice called "primo geniture" in which the first born son recieved all of the property of the parents and was supposed to, but not always did, take care of his siblings. It wasn't until a few years later did religion come into the picture.
Those books were great! I suggest them to anyone who is truely interested in the colonization of Mars. On a side note I'd like to say that we have no chance of getting to Mars if our government continues to cut the NASA budget. I wish there was some country or society that was setup primarily for people interested in getting to Mars...sounds like a country run by and for scientists and not buerocrats(sp?).
all of the pepsi commercials since they got that little bratty girl and adopted the "ba b-ba ba baaaaa" sounds have not been very good