Use those "twist ties" that hold electronics and consumer goods to the package. They are easier to work, re usable, and won't piss of the TSA guy cuz he has to go get a cutting tool. There are some real nice ones with clear plastic coating on toys with an open face cardboard box, go look in the toy isle to find them. Zip ties are actually not as strong. Plus, you have an excuse to pick up a Nerf gun!
That's still nicer than when someone answers the phone. The guy on the recieving end of the "Liberation Hotline" seems to have developed a drinking problem in the last couple years. Something about an air head-spring, then he degrades into a long string of obscenities wtih some random nouns thrown in for good measure.
I think you looked up the number of the "Libation Hotline" not the "Liberation Hotline"
Adam broke into the safe while she was traveling. Then shot her with a.22 rifle when she returned, and finished his plans (a couple of days with her dead on the bed).
Safes keep children and lawyers from guns. There isn't a safe that will withstand a smart and determined attacker with time to get it open.
A gear is a ratio of two rotating sprockets (describing the power vs motion) OR any thing with teeth on it that meets something else with teeth on it.
So, all sprockets are gears, but not all gears are sprockets. In certain industries, they are interchangeable because the gears all have a chain on them, and there's a need to use "gear" to describe the power vs motion ratios.
No fucking way. The DPRK has artillerie that can hit Seoul. Nor do the leaders of South Korea really relish the thought of paying the huge costs of unification and bringing the North up to the standards of the South. Look at the fall of the DDR and the cost to Germany during unification. This would be worse, far worse.
No they don't. That "information" is very old and not credible considering their infrastructure.
Fire up Google Earth and go take a fucking look yourself. There ain't shit there. Do you really think Google erased evidence of their massive numbers of artillery batteries? Or, is it more likely that it's propaganda or internal lying (Nork on Nork lies to make the leader think they have that stuff, just like Iraq) saying they have it.
Nothing larger than an oxcart moves in large portions of that country. They aren't feeding and supplying and manning large artillery batteries on any part of the border that I can see.
I think this is mentioned, but nothing mentioned indicates either party was hacked. The from part of an email can be forged as easily as the from address on a piece of stationary. That email could have come from anywhere in the world and anyone. The only thing we can gather is that the spammer somehow connected the submitter's name with that of his uncle. It could have been either side, or a public mention of both addresses, or a third relative getting hacked that has both of you in their contact list. The raw headers *might* be able to tell you if it came from an aol email server but that still doesn't itself tell you who sent it.
Or malware that collects those "forward to everyone you know!!!!112" emails and harvests emails from them. Where do you think the "millions of verified emails on CD!" lists come from?
He didn't ask for help, he asked why he sent him then link. If you can't even be bothered to read the summary, don't bother trying to answer the question in the title.
The answer is still valid.
Helpee: "help me"
Helper: "ok, do X"
Helpee: "no, I think it's y"
Helper: "Fuck off, figure it out yourself."
Perfectly reasonable response. There are plenty of other people in the world that will graciously accept help with computers to deal with twatwaffles that won't.
We need real, effective and certain ways of dealing with the mentally ill.
We need to stop dabbling in the chemistry of the brain at random.
We need to stop raising children that don't understand the pain side of human interaction. Winning all the time, being fair all the time, no real consequences for being an asshole, and some of them go way down the bell curve and act out when they are adults is a surprise? Some people you just can't reach without making it clear to them they'll get pain, or destroyed if they don't behave.
These types of things are just going to get worse. MUCH MUCH worse when this next generation grows up and becomes hit with the cold reality of a life of drudgery and discomfort that is adulthood.
If there aren't guns around when the little shits take over, it'll be something else. They'll still go on rampages and they'll still kill.
"Society" by trying to be "nice" has created monsters with no real sense of trying to not do wrong.
It would not be short, or even have a possibility of ending (talking about the fighting not the after fighting like you are). Read up on history. The Korean war split Korea because the Chinese were afraid McArthur would not stop at the Chinese border so they started throwing troops in to help North Korea. There is no reason to expect differently today. The issue with today is they would stop buying our bonds and suddenly our debt problem becomes much worse and our military could not be afforeded. Add on to that the invasion that would hit Taiwan and our obligations to help them when that happens and you have a non winnable situation, mostly because of our insane debt and not because of our military.
We have no ability to do anything to North Korea that China does not want us to do, thanks to our insane deficit spending. It would not be quick or easy, but probably impossible. Yea, North Korea itself wouldn't be able to do anything, but we wouldn't be fighting them for long.
Don't be stupid. If China tries to mess with the West economically all the West does is go "debt? what debt? We owe you nothing" and proceed to blockade their ability to make any money by shipping cheap goods.
The type of action you propose China will do would trigger mutually assured destruction, and they'd have just made the US considerably more solvent in the process. The US owes China and has debt because they are playing nice. Stop playing nice, and the debt goes away.
North Korea has a large army. Over 1 million soldiers. They also have lot of artillery within range of Seoul, South Korea. Any conflict would be very bloody. If we had to fight North Korea, we would probably have to institute a draft.
We would win, provided that North Korea didn't get support from China or Russia. GP poster fails to note that the Korean war was a proxy war against China and the Soviet Union. Yes, there were Soviet troops in Korea during the war. Without International support, North Korea would fall. It might not be fast though.
Take a look at Google Earth for a bit and see if you can find infrastructure required to get an army close to the border with something other than ox or human pulled carts.
That tired old "there's lots of artillery" is a big lie.
Little Suzie can go to any one of a number of free online forums to hook up with sellers who can legally sell to her face to face. As long as it doesn't go across state lines, ATF and any feds are not involved. In a lot of states, no paper trail at all is required.
You are scoring 0 for 2 so far on your gun knowledge. Perhaps you should shut your ignorant ass the fuck up.
It depends on WHO manufactures it, and in what context. If I wanted to, I could use a sharpie and draw on my nice oak desk here, then cut it out with a razorblade, and put AR15 parts on it, and I have legally manufactured a gun.
I just can't do that with intent to SELL the gun.
It doesn't sound like IF the ATF ruled these guys couldn't legally make a lower, that it would qualify as SELLING a gun. After all, I sent them the gun pattern to print. They are selling me labor and materials, but the project is mine.
In any case, you are completely wrong about the general concept of manufacturing a gun for one's own use being illegal.
Because in a lot of European countries he'd be arrested and jailed for not being nice, or disparaging someone or the government, or saying "Ha!" to some broad that offs herself because she can't figure out how to do her job.
Simply put, the US won't put them in jail for exercising free speech.
I have a better idea; how about you don't drink so much on a work night that you will be unable to come in to work the next day! That way, you will have sick days left for when you have communicable diseases, and I won't have to catch them!
Work IS the reason I drink. Maybe YOU should stop being such a whanker at work and folks around you wouldn't drink!
The problem is, switching to PTO guarantees the time gets used and the employer gets less time out of the person... plus a few leakers cause other employees to have to take up the slack.
Sick time and vacation time need to be a balance that lets the employer suit the balance they want out of the employees. Basically, sick time is either paid out, or paid out for a percentage (i.e. 10 hours sick is worth 1 hours pay on the check), or rolled over into "paid leave" bank of time and vacation time needs to be flexible and bountiful enough to work for letting the employee do whatever wandering they do.
Not getting enough of sick or vacation, or not USING it because the company steers the situation so it isn't used, needs to be compensated some other way.
My employer slowly switched from paying out vacation and sick, to rolling sick into long term paid leave (i.e. cancer leave, etc.) and not paying out vacation, to not letting sick or vacation pile up... but then backing off with "flex time" and this resulted in bunch more time off by all employees... hell, the entire IT department was going to take two months off straight because of lost vacation time before they wised up.
My vacation time is part of my salary. Fuck with it, and I'll drop your ass and go somewhere else to work. I can find an underpaid and annoying IT related job anywhere.
They screwed themselves by trying to be cheap with a few thousand here and there, guaranteeing every employee watches the numbers carefully all the time and losing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of employee time a year.
It's just stupid.
Plus, in some industries taking time off, or just happening to not be in the office when some whanker-customer calls results in "escalation" to some manager who can't solve the problem anyway, and a irritating and pointless discussion about "coverage" later. I assume most small IT shops are like that. I just don't take time off anymore. I mark it down, but I come to work anyway. Then take flex time (three hour lunches or whatever) later.
Your little petri-dish crotch-droppings already snotted all over everything when you went shopping with them because they got sent home sick you sanctimonious prick.
If I get sick, there's nothing I can do about it, and if I am going to be miserable, I might as well be miserable at work.
Wash your fucking hands with soap and water every time you go to the restroom or before you eat and you won't get sick so much.
One bout of flu in 28 years since college, and NO FLU SHOTS the entire time... because I wash my fucking hands!
So someone needs to start a "reverse change" machine business. Put five one dollar coins, plus a dime or nickle in the tray, shove it in, and get a $5 bill back. People would do that, they barely value nickles at all now.
It's not houses, it's just that those kids just died before because medical techniques and medicine in general were hard to come by. It's "cell phones and short ambulance ride to level 1 trauma center" and "knows CPR" that are causing these kids to live.
Ever seen Idiocracy? Out-breeding other "types" of humans will work well enough too. No stress needed, just time, and different breeding rates in whatever sub groups one chooses to define.
FYI, Tapin DOES NOT let you delete AT ALL. You have to contact their staff to do it. It's not a web interface the user can control. While they say it's "to prevent the police from forcing you to do it" it sort of puts that tool solely in the "useful for the Free Shit Army" category rather than something a regular Slashdotter might want.
Getting a video off the phone and into the public eye fast is the useful part. Not being able to delete is only useful in totalitarian regimes that are going to imprison and beat someone for access to a an account.
People only do steps 1-4 if they've got a huge sense of entitlement. My customers have that, but most of them pay a couple $k per year for hosting services that are expected to be online 24/7/365. (And for the most part, they are.)
Your problem is self inflicted. Either you have something somewhere saying it's free, or all the of the supposed IT guys that install this software just disappear from the universe (otherwise, THEY would be calling you after the user whines to them about it) or your product doesn't do what you are implying it does.
"Free little convenient useful tool that does XYZ" doesn't cause people to run through phone trees like that. Sure, MY customers do, but like I said, they have an expectation that's legitimately different than you say they should have for your software. Only a small percentage of whiny (or east coast, wtf is it with you guys and the bitchwhores of both sexes, imagine being polite for once eh?) customers do the "call the sales guy" thing.
Otherwise known as the "Eighty Twenty" rule. 20% of customers/users generate 80% of the cost/effort. They key is identifying and dropping the bad ones and not letting the sales guys dictate the entire company strategy.
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Use those "twist ties" that hold electronics and consumer goods to the package. They are easier to work, re usable, and won't piss of the TSA guy cuz he has to go get a cutting tool. There are some real nice ones with clear plastic coating on toys with an open face cardboard box, go look in the toy isle to find them. Zip ties are actually not as strong. Plus, you have an excuse to pick up a Nerf gun!
Shoot one of the other passengers the first night. Or, throw them off the train and say, ironically, to the other passengers "no ticket"
That's still nicer than when someone answers the phone. The guy on the recieving end of the "Liberation Hotline" seems to have developed a drinking problem in the last couple years. Something about an air head-spring, then he degrades into a long string of obscenities wtih some random nouns thrown in for good measure.
I think you looked up the number of the "Libation Hotline" not the "Liberation Hotline"
Adam broke into the safe while she was traveling. Then shot her with a .22 rifle when she returned, and finished his plans (a couple of days with her dead on the bed).
Safes keep children and lawyers from guns. There isn't a safe that will withstand a smart and determined attacker with time to get it open.
A sprocket is specifically to run a chain on.
A gear is a ratio of two rotating sprockets (describing the power vs motion) OR any thing with teeth on it that meets something else with teeth on it.
So, all sprockets are gears, but not all gears are sprockets. In certain industries, they are interchangeable because the gears all have a chain on them, and there's a need to use "gear" to describe the power vs motion ratios.
Web search was what they did for a while.
The goal always has been, and will be, showing ads and getting companies to pay them to show ads.
Everything else follows from that. The search is not the product, the eyeball using the search is.
No fucking way. The DPRK has artillerie that can hit Seoul. Nor do the leaders of South Korea really relish the thought of paying the huge costs of unification and bringing the North up to the standards of the South. Look at the fall of the DDR and the cost to Germany during unification. This would be worse, far worse.
No they don't. That "information" is very old and not credible considering their infrastructure.
Fire up Google Earth and go take a fucking look yourself. There ain't shit there. Do you really think Google erased evidence of their massive numbers of artillery batteries? Or, is it more likely that it's propaganda or internal lying (Nork on Nork lies to make the leader think they have that stuff, just like Iraq) saying they have it.
Nothing larger than an oxcart moves in large portions of that country. They aren't feeding and supplying and manning large artillery batteries on any part of the border that I can see.
That said, go look yourself.
I think this is mentioned, but nothing mentioned indicates either party was hacked. The from part of an email can be forged as easily as the from address on a piece of stationary. That email could have come from anywhere in the world and anyone. The only thing we can gather is that the spammer somehow connected the submitter's name with that of his uncle. It could have been either side, or a public mention of both addresses, or a third relative getting hacked that has both of you in their contact list. The raw headers *might* be able to tell you if it came from an aol email server but that still doesn't itself tell you who sent it.
Or malware that collects those "forward to everyone you know!!!!112" emails and harvests emails from them. Where do you think the "millions of verified emails on CD!" lists come from?
He didn't ask for help, he asked why he sent him then link. If you can't even be bothered to read the summary, don't bother trying to answer the question in the title.
The answer is still valid.
Helpee: "help me"
Helper: "ok, do X"
Helpee: "no, I think it's y"
Helper: "Fuck off, figure it out yourself."
Perfectly reasonable response. There are plenty of other people in the world that will graciously accept help with computers to deal with twatwaffles that won't.
We need to disarm criminals.
We need real, effective and certain ways of dealing with the mentally ill.
We need to stop dabbling in the chemistry of the brain at random.
We need to stop raising children that don't understand the pain side of human interaction. Winning all the time, being fair all the time, no real consequences for being an asshole, and some of them go way down the bell curve and act out when they are adults is a surprise? Some people you just can't reach without making it clear to them they'll get pain, or destroyed if they don't behave.
These types of things are just going to get worse. MUCH MUCH worse when this next generation grows up and becomes hit with the cold reality of a life of drudgery and discomfort that is adulthood.
If there aren't guns around when the little shits take over, it'll be something else. They'll still go on rampages and they'll still kill.
"Society" by trying to be "nice" has created monsters with no real sense of trying to not do wrong.
It would not be short, or even have a possibility of ending (talking about the fighting not the after fighting like you are). Read up on history. The Korean war split Korea because the Chinese were afraid McArthur would not stop at the Chinese border so they started throwing troops in to help North Korea. There is no reason to expect differently today. The issue with today is they would stop buying our bonds and suddenly our debt problem becomes much worse and our military could not be afforeded. Add on to that the invasion that would hit Taiwan and our obligations to help them when that happens and you have a non winnable situation, mostly because of our insane debt and not because of our military.
We have no ability to do anything to North Korea that China does not want us to do, thanks to our insane deficit spending. It would not be quick or easy, but probably impossible. Yea, North Korea itself wouldn't be able to do anything, but we wouldn't be fighting them for long.
Don't be stupid. If China tries to mess with the West economically all the West does is go "debt? what debt? We owe you nothing" and proceed to blockade their ability to make any money by shipping cheap goods.
The type of action you propose China will do would trigger mutually assured destruction, and they'd have just made the US considerably more solvent in the process. The US owes China and has debt because they are playing nice. Stop playing nice, and the debt goes away.
North Korea has a large army. Over 1 million soldiers. They also have lot of artillery within range of Seoul, South Korea. Any conflict would be very bloody. If we had to fight North Korea, we would probably have to institute a draft.
We would win, provided that North Korea didn't get support from China or Russia. GP poster fails to note that the Korean war was a proxy war against China and the Soviet Union. Yes, there were Soviet troops in Korea during the war. Without International support, North Korea would fall. It might not be fast though.
Take a look at Google Earth for a bit and see if you can find infrastructure required to get an army close to the border with something other than ox or human pulled carts.
That tired old "there's lots of artillery" is a big lie.
Little Suzie can go to any one of a number of free online forums to hook up with sellers who can legally sell to her face to face. As long as it doesn't go across state lines, ATF and any feds are not involved. In a lot of states, no paper trail at all is required.
You are scoring 0 for 2 so far on your gun knowledge. Perhaps you should shut your ignorant ass the fuck up.
This company might be a huge help with prototyping for new products.
It takes part of the infrastructure needed and outsources it.
Right now, a lot of that is done in China, giving them a chance to steal the design and beat the person to market with a crappier, cheaper version.
That risk goes away with this (somewhat, the Chinese will still probably infiltrate the company)
It depends on WHO manufactures it, and in what context. If I wanted to, I could use a sharpie and draw on my nice oak desk here, then cut it out with a razorblade, and put AR15 parts on it, and I have legally manufactured a gun.
I just can't do that with intent to SELL the gun.
It doesn't sound like IF the ATF ruled these guys couldn't legally make a lower, that it would qualify as SELLING a gun. After all, I sent them the gun pattern to print. They are selling me labor and materials, but the project is mine.
In any case, you are completely wrong about the general concept of manufacturing a gun for one's own use being illegal.
Because in a lot of European countries he'd be arrested and jailed for not being nice, or disparaging someone or the government, or saying "Ha!" to some broad that offs herself because she can't figure out how to do her job.
Simply put, the US won't put them in jail for exercising free speech.
I have a better idea; how about you don't drink so much on a work night that you will be unable to come in to work the next day! That way, you will have sick days left for when you have communicable diseases, and I won't have to catch them!
Work IS the reason I drink. Maybe YOU should stop being such a whanker at work and folks around you wouldn't drink!
The problem is, switching to PTO guarantees the time gets used and the employer gets less time out of the person... plus a few leakers cause other employees to have to take up the slack.
Sick time and vacation time need to be a balance that lets the employer suit the balance they want out of the employees. Basically, sick time is either paid out, or paid out for a percentage (i.e. 10 hours sick is worth 1 hours pay on the check), or rolled over into "paid leave" bank of time and vacation time needs to be flexible and bountiful enough to work for letting the employee do whatever wandering they do.
Not getting enough of sick or vacation, or not USING it because the company steers the situation so it isn't used, needs to be compensated some other way.
My employer slowly switched from paying out vacation and sick, to rolling sick into long term paid leave (i.e. cancer leave, etc.) and not paying out vacation, to not letting sick or vacation pile up... but then backing off with "flex time" and this resulted in bunch more time off by all employees... hell, the entire IT department was going to take two months off straight because of lost vacation time before they wised up.
My vacation time is part of my salary. Fuck with it, and I'll drop your ass and go somewhere else to work. I can find an underpaid and annoying IT related job anywhere.
They screwed themselves by trying to be cheap with a few thousand here and there, guaranteeing every employee watches the numbers carefully all the time and losing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of employee time a year.
It's just stupid.
Plus, in some industries taking time off, or just happening to not be in the office when some whanker-customer calls results in "escalation" to some manager who can't solve the problem anyway, and a irritating and pointless discussion about "coverage" later. I assume most small IT shops are like that. I just don't take time off anymore. I mark it down, but I come to work anyway. Then take flex time (three hour lunches or whatever) later.
Your little petri-dish crotch-droppings already snotted all over everything when you went shopping with them because they got sent home sick you sanctimonious prick.
If I get sick, there's nothing I can do about it, and if I am going to be miserable, I might as well be miserable at work.
Wash your fucking hands with soap and water every time you go to the restroom or before you eat and you won't get sick so much.
One bout of flu in 28 years since college, and NO FLU SHOTS the entire time ... because I wash my fucking hands!
So someone needs to start a "reverse change" machine business. Put five one dollar coins, plus a dime or nickle in the tray, shove it in, and get a $5 bill back. People would do that, they barely value nickles at all now.
It's not houses, it's just that those kids just died before because medical techniques and medicine in general were hard to come by. It's "cell phones and short ambulance ride to level 1 trauma center" and "knows CPR" that are causing these kids to live.
Ever seen Idiocracy? Out-breeding other "types" of humans will work well enough too. No stress needed, just time, and different breeding rates in whatever sub groups one chooses to define.
FYI, Tapin DOES NOT let you delete AT ALL. You have to contact their staff to do it. It's not a web interface the user can control. While they say it's "to prevent the police from forcing you to do it" it sort of puts that tool solely in the "useful for the Free Shit Army" category rather than something a regular Slashdotter might want.
Getting a video off the phone and into the public eye fast is the useful part. Not being able to delete is only useful in totalitarian regimes that are going to imprison and beat someone for access to a an account.
Ok now I am calling bullshit on you.
People only do steps 1-4 if they've got a huge sense of entitlement. My customers have that, but most of them pay a couple $k per year for hosting services that are expected to be online 24/7/365. (And for the most part, they are.)
Your problem is self inflicted. Either you have something somewhere saying it's free, or all the of the supposed IT guys that install this software just disappear from the universe (otherwise, THEY would be calling you after the user whines to them about it) or your product doesn't do what you are implying it does.
"Free little convenient useful tool that does XYZ" doesn't cause people to run through phone trees like that. Sure, MY customers do, but like I said, they have an expectation that's legitimately different than you say they should have for your software. Only a small percentage of whiny (or east coast, wtf is it with you guys and the bitchwhores of both sexes, imagine being polite for once eh?) customers do the "call the sales guy" thing.
Otherwise known as the "Eighty Twenty" rule. 20% of customers/users generate 80% of the cost/effort. They key is identifying and dropping the bad ones and not letting the sales guys dictate the entire company strategy.