I pulled out the dvd and watched it, which is why it was rattling around in my head. From a cinematographic point, it could really stand a refresh, but the underlying themes are probably more relevant today than when the movie was being made.
Life is too short to keep messing around... now that I'm out of the business, I can take a few steps back and realize that in the great scheme of things, I'd rather be friends with people than argue with them. There's a good side to everyone (yes, even evil me:-) Besides, you can never have too many friends, but even one enemy is one too many.
Me, I'm just learning how to enjoy being prematurely retired from the biz - something I never thought would happen. I still miss it in some aspects, because I really liked developing things and seeing them work (and getting paid to do what I like - which was a real bonus, because not everyone likes their job). My eye problems are partially resolved - to the point that I can read with my right eye, even though things are distorted a bit, but the side effects of the antidepressants have really knocked me down, and I really don't want to go back to the mental black hole I was in for 6 months, so until the doc says otherwise, gotta live with not being able to stay awake more than 5-8 hours at a stretch, and not being able to get "in the zone". Oh well, I'm sort of human, I'll adapt.:-)
I remember when I saw Windows 95 at one of the previews, and I turned to the guy next to me and said "Didn't they just rip off OS/2 2.1?" Looked pretty much the same to me - and him. Some of my co-workers took the free Win95 and Microsoft Office cds - I didn't because who wants to waste their time on a product that, at the time, wasn't really ready for prime time? Should have taken them and given them to one of my sisters. My mistake.
And no, haven't seen predestination, though I'm sure it's good. Maybe one day... and everyone who's logged in knows what way it applies to me - I'm not shy about the whole sex change thing, but thanks for the thought:-) TTYL
Real BOfH run as root, with no safety net. That way, when you screw up, you learn from it the first time, as well as being more thoughtful in the future. After all, there WILL be times you have no choice but to remote in as root and fix something PDQ with everyone leaning over your shoulder.
Linked to a wikipedia article that is listed as having multiple problems. And it doesn't change the fact that the chart, as presented, doesn't give any information as to the group measured, and the page does NOT show the graph you linked to.
Would you still do it if you had an very uncommon name and any loon with an axe to grind could pick your home address and personal history from the first results in google?
I've already posted my home address here and elsewhere, and anyone reading my journal already knows lots about my personal history. You can't "pay it forward" if you're too afraid to stand up and be counted.
Never ask an admin for permission for _anything_. Just walk past them to the people that matter. What are they going to do?
Kind of hard to do if you don't know which door conceals the person you want to see. It's also criminal trespass when you've been denied entry beyond the reception area. Your way lacks imagination. My way was better - put on a white hard hat and clipboard and gain entry via the loading dock area. You'd be surprised how much people will avoid confronting you if they assume you're just another pain-in-the-butt inspector.
My point was that nowadays, even China can pull the trigger and crash US currency. Sure, everyone gets hurt, but it's better than a nuclear WW3, so there's less resistance to go down that road. This has changed the world's geopolitics in a big way, the same as the US losing it's AAA credit rating did in terms of perceived balance of power.
Single payer health care and universal pharmacare solves the problem of the chronically ill. It's pretty much what we have here in Quebec. Also, if more people choose to work just part-time, then if that job requires the equivalent of a full-time employee, others will be able to work the other days. Consider it a form of "job sharing", and those others will also pay taxes.
I DON'T HAVE to download a new version of the app - I can keep the old one just fine. With the web app, every time they change it, you are forced to download new crap, and you run the risk of losing functionality that worked in the previous version because someone had a brain fart or needed to make changes to justify their salary.
That was my point - there IS nothing wrong with two people teaming up to rent a place (the poster I was responding to said it wouldn't be enough to rent a place even in fly-over land).
The solution to that is very simple - whichever system is called upon to generate the token is the one that throws out any token that doesn't meet additional rules. If it's system A, throw out every token that begins with a '1'. If it's system B, 'throw out any token that begins with a '2'. This way you also know which system to check to verify the token.
An additional benefit is that is a token that was generated in the area served by 'A' suddenly appears in an area served by 'B', you may want to code in checks to see if this was because the token was hijacked. You can't do that if you rely solely on generating unique tokens and not storing them anywhere until they (or the session) expires.
Also, since any web monkey can implement the changes, there's more likely to be more MORONIC changes because the barrier to change is so low. Look all over the web and you'll see why too low a technical knowledge barrier to entry is a bad thing.
1. You referred specifically to someone in the washroom "trying to catch a glimpse of my cock." Unless you're not standing face front at the urinal, you're doing it wrong, and the people around you would like you to stop pissing on the floor.
2. Transsexuals use washrooms for the same reason anyone else does - when you've gotta go, you've gotta go. Remember - we're everywhere, and there's no "trans-dar" that will let you spot us 100% of the time. You've probably unknowingly thought of some of us you didn't "clock" while masturbating. How does that make you feel? Gross? Well, guess what - most women feel gross about the thought of you thinking of them while wacking off.
3. I've been using the woman's washroom since I began transition oh so many moons ago. If I tried to use the men's room, I'd be thrown out (or worse).
Really? Janitorial jobs are going away? Retail jobs are going away? Supermarket jobs are going away? Restaurant jobs are going away?
Better floor waxes means fewer waxings
So fewer janitors polishing floors
Robot window washing systems
Means fewer washers entering your doors.
Automatic checkouts mean fewer cashiers
At grocery stores, and soon at Sears.
Your fast food will be faster than ever, you'll say
Because robots are handling it all the way.
Robots now harvest a lot of crops
Migrant workers will just get the slops
You say make them work for jobs they don't know
Hope you're not not in the nursing home where they go.
Basic income is coming your way
Just in time as the robots hold sway.
How is posting nonsense under a nickname any better than posting sane things as an Anonymous Coward?
Good point - so does that mean you'll do like me, and post under your name instead of as a anonymous coward or using a nic? Or are you just babbling for babbling's sake? (rhetorical question - anonymous coward is coward)
True, but you can also assign those people to all the menial task jobs, street cleaners, park and rec workers, road work crews, politicians, secretaries etc
The types of jobs where intelligence doesn't matter.
With an attitude like that, maybe you'll eventually figure out why you don't seem to be able to get past the receptionist and secretary to see the boss. When I was working as one, one of my jobs was to make sure you never got any further. When a boss really wants to know what's going on elsewhere in the business, he doesn't ask the yes-men around him - he asks the people whose "intelligence doesn't matter."
Come on, would you think you're doing someone a favor by giving them a rusted-out jalopy that needs a ton of work just to be put back on the road? That "free" car is going to cost more in gas, more in registration fees because it weighs more, more in day to day repairs, more in lost wages and towing because it broke on the way to work...
That sort of "free" comes with a huge cost. Giving someone an obsolete computer from the last century is like giving them old jeans that have holes in the knees. You're just giving away your garbage instead of (in the case of computers) having to take it to a recycling center and pay the appropriate electronic recycling fees.
It won't work that way. Do you believe anyone making several times the minimum wage is going to agree to a $10k per year cut because they now get basic income? You can be darned sure they won't. And the jobs that pay minimum wage will stay at that wage, because people won't work for an extra $2 an hour, when the expenses of making that extra cost more (transportation, clothes, lunches, etc) than they're going to make.
How many of you would be willing to go on unemployment/welfare and work under the table for an extra $2 an hour cash? Be honest. You'd rather look for a better paying job, one that the employer doesn't "tax" you for receiving basic income.
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I pulled out the dvd and watched it, which is why it was rattling around in my head. From a cinematographic point, it could really stand a refresh, but the underlying themes are probably more relevant today than when the movie was being made.
Life is too short to keep messing around ... now that I'm out of the business, I can take a few steps back and realize that in the great scheme of things, I'd rather be friends with people than argue with them. There's a good side to everyone (yes, even evil me :-) Besides, you can never have too many friends, but even one enemy is one too many.
Me, I'm just learning how to enjoy being prematurely retired from the biz - something I never thought would happen. I still miss it in some aspects, because I really liked developing things and seeing them work (and getting paid to do what I like - which was a real bonus, because not everyone likes their job). My eye problems are partially resolved - to the point that I can read with my right eye, even though things are distorted a bit, but the side effects of the antidepressants have really knocked me down, and I really don't want to go back to the mental black hole I was in for 6 months, so until the doc says otherwise, gotta live with not being able to stay awake more than 5-8 hours at a stretch, and not being able to get "in the zone". Oh well, I'm sort of human, I'll adapt. :-)
You're right- my mistake :-)
I remember when I saw Windows 95 at one of the previews, and I turned to the guy next to me and said "Didn't they just rip off OS/2 2.1?" Looked pretty much the same to me - and him. Some of my co-workers took the free Win95 and Microsoft Office cds - I didn't because who wants to waste their time on a product that, at the time, wasn't really ready for prime time? Should have taken them and given them to one of my sisters. My mistake.
And no, haven't seen predestination, though I'm sure it's good. Maybe one day ... and everyone who's logged in knows what way it applies to me - I'm not shy about the whole sex change thing, but thanks for the thought :-) TTYL
Real BOfH run as root, with no safety net. That way, when you screw up, you learn from it the first time, as well as being more thoughtful in the future. After all, there WILL be times you have no choice but to remote in as root and fix something PDQ with everyone leaning over your shoulder.
" And if you really need windows for some program or so, start it in a VM, not connected to the internet. Problem solved."
Yes. That works really well for A-list games. Oh wait. It doesn't work at all.
Try a solution that Richard Stallman wouldn't suggest. Hmm?
Do you really believe Stallman would suggest this? Hahahahahahahahaha.
Except the fact is that trojans aren't viruses. "antivirus" products should preferably be called malware scanners, not virus scanners.
Linked to a wikipedia article that is listed as having multiple problems. And it doesn't change the fact that the chart, as presented, doesn't give any information as to the group measured, and the page does NOT show the graph you linked to.
Would you still do it if you had an very uncommon name and any loon with an axe to grind could pick your home address and personal history from the first results in google?
I've already posted my home address here and elsewhere, and anyone reading my journal already knows lots about my personal history. You can't "pay it forward" if you're too afraid to stand up and be counted.
Why shouldn't single people combine resources instead of living alone? It's the natural state for most animals, including humans.
So you picked a random chart not knowing what's behind it, but it agrees with what you believe. Confirmation bias much?
Never ask an admin for permission for _anything_. Just walk past them to the people that matter. What are they going to do?
Kind of hard to do if you don't know which door conceals the person you want to see. It's also criminal trespass when you've been denied entry beyond the reception area. Your way lacks imagination. My way was better - put on a white hard hat and clipboard and gain entry via the loading dock area. You'd be surprised how much people will avoid confronting you if they assume you're just another pain-in-the-butt inspector.
My point was that nowadays, even China can pull the trigger and crash US currency. Sure, everyone gets hurt, but it's better than a nuclear WW3, so there's less resistance to go down that road. This has changed the world's geopolitics in a big way, the same as the US losing it's AAA credit rating did in terms of perceived balance of power.
Single payer health care and universal pharmacare solves the problem of the chronically ill. It's pretty much what we have here in Quebec. Also, if more people choose to work just part-time, then if that job requires the equivalent of a full-time employee, others will be able to work the other days. Consider it a form of "job sharing", and those others will also pay taxes.
You must be working in a different country than me - here, governments are free to lay off workers who are no longer needed.
I DON'T HAVE to download a new version of the app - I can keep the old one just fine. With the web app, every time they change it, you are forced to download new crap, and you run the risk of losing functionality that worked in the previous version because someone had a brain fart or needed to make changes to justify their salary.
Sure sounds a lot like an app drawer to me.
Sure sounds like Windows 3.1 Presentation Manager to me.There seems to be not much new under the sun nowadays.
That was my point - there IS nothing wrong with two people teaming up to rent a place (the poster I was responding to said it wouldn't be enough to rent a place even in fly-over land).
An additional benefit is that is a token that was generated in the area served by 'A' suddenly appears in an area served by 'B', you may want to code in checks to see if this was because the token was hijacked. You can't do that if you rely solely on generating unique tokens and not storing them anywhere until they (or the session) expires.
Also, since any web monkey can implement the changes, there's more likely to be more MORONIC changes because the barrier to change is so low. Look all over the web and you'll see why too low a technical knowledge barrier to entry is a bad thing.
1. You referred specifically to someone in the washroom "trying to catch a glimpse of my cock." Unless you're not standing face front at the urinal, you're doing it wrong, and the people around you would like you to stop pissing on the floor.
2. Transsexuals use washrooms for the same reason anyone else does - when you've gotta go, you've gotta go. Remember - we're everywhere, and there's no "trans-dar" that will let you spot us 100% of the time. You've probably unknowingly thought of some of us you didn't "clock" while masturbating. How does that make you feel? Gross? Well, guess what - most women feel gross about the thought of you thinking of them while wacking off.
3. I've been using the woman's washroom since I began transition oh so many moons ago. If I tried to use the men's room, I'd be thrown out (or worse).
You really need to think through your paranoia.
Really? Janitorial jobs are going away? Retail jobs are going away? Supermarket jobs are going away? Restaurant jobs are going away?
Better floor waxes means fewer waxings
So fewer janitors polishing floors
Robot window washing systems
Means fewer washers entering your doors.
Automatic checkouts mean fewer cashiers
At grocery stores, and soon at Sears.
Your fast food will be faster than ever, you'll say
Because robots are handling it all the way.
Robots now harvest a lot of crops
Migrant workers will just get the slops
You say make them work for jobs they don't know
Hope you're not not in the nursing home where they go.
Basic income is coming your way
Just in time as the robots hold sway.
Burma shave
How is posting nonsense under a nickname any better than posting sane things as an Anonymous Coward?
Good point - so does that mean you'll do like me, and post under your name instead of as a anonymous coward or using a nic? Or are you just babbling for babbling's sake? (rhetorical question - anonymous coward is coward)
True, but you can also assign those people to all the menial task jobs, street cleaners, park and rec workers, road work crews, politicians, secretaries etc
The types of jobs where intelligence doesn't matter.
With an attitude like that, maybe you'll eventually figure out why you don't seem to be able to get past the receptionist and secretary to see the boss. When I was working as one, one of my jobs was to make sure you never got any further. When a boss really wants to know what's going on elsewhere in the business, he doesn't ask the yes-men around him - he asks the people whose "intelligence doesn't matter."
Come on, would you think you're doing someone a favor by giving them a rusted-out jalopy that needs a ton of work just to be put back on the road? That "free" car is going to cost more in gas, more in registration fees because it weighs more, more in day to day repairs, more in lost wages and towing because it broke on the way to work ...
That sort of "free" comes with a huge cost. Giving someone an obsolete computer from the last century is like giving them old jeans that have holes in the knees. You're just giving away your garbage instead of (in the case of computers) having to take it to a recycling center and pay the appropriate electronic recycling fees.
It won't work that way. Do you believe anyone making several times the minimum wage is going to agree to a $10k per year cut because they now get basic income? You can be darned sure they won't. And the jobs that pay minimum wage will stay at that wage, because people won't work for an extra $2 an hour, when the expenses of making that extra cost more (transportation, clothes, lunches, etc) than they're going to make.
How many of you would be willing to go on unemployment/welfare and work under the table for an extra $2 an hour cash? Be honest. You'd rather look for a better paying job, one that the employer doesn't "tax" you for receiving basic income.