Every president supplies (maybe supplied?) sealed orders for the nuclear submarines under the north pole ice as far as what to do if the US is nuked into oblivion. Allegedly, at least a few presidents' orders were to stand down in such a situation, and a lot more were to seek out any surviving allies. So at least a few people in positions of power probably agreed with your assessment.
Citation needed.
The slashdot story I think you are partially remembering was about British submarine policy, not USA.
These goddamn kids are diluting the strength of words. I'm going to have to get creative now. The trick I think is to combine things that multiply the strength of the words. Here are some examples of profane combinations, and please don't let the kids get wind of them:
"Jesus Fuck!"
"Christ's Tits!"
"Mother of God's Firm Ass!"
"Jesus Raped!"
I could go on..
Please do. This is the most entertaining and insightful post I have seen on slashdot in a long time.
As the article specified, they DO catch "rolling stops"
If you're rolling, you haven't stopped. If the light is red, you must stop. It's not a hard concept to grasp.
Negative. They give tickets for any *full-stop* with a duration of less than three seconds.
You can be fully stopped, but if your car begins to move before 3 seconds have expired, it's a ticketable offense according to the cameras (and yes, I have been ticketed for this). This creative and counter-intuitive definition is a lucrative profit center for the city.
And this dual Community and Professional edition has backfired with their implementation IMHO.
I have tried to use the Community Edition for internal use, but what I have found is that all pages are notoriously slow and the modules they provide are missing essential functions. Imagine an application with 4 second page loads and a "project module" where tasks can have no dependancies, but 'trust us' the Pay Version makes it all better.
They seem to spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to wall their garden rather than providing a decent calendar, etc etc. They certainly could use more community developers to refine and extend the software, but they seem to be against the community on many levels I haven't the energy to digress into.
Your problem is that you are attempting to decode the ancient greek version instead of the King James version which we all know is the unerring word of... errr... Plato.
You got ripped off... I take it this was on insurance (higher cost) and not out of pocket (MUCH cheaper)?... Don't use your Insurance paperwork for your pricing. Those numbers are not actual out of pocket cost. Next time you are at your doctor, ask him/her how much the visit will cost if you pay it out of pocket. Most will be a lot cheaper...
This is OPPOSITE of my experience. If I do not get my health unsurance network 'discounts', then my bill is much larger.
My best practice is to always provide my BCBS insurance card even if I know it is not covered so I get the discounted rate, then pay cash.
Also, it is near impossible to discuss costs at the Doctor's office. They look at you like you're from mars if you ask how much a procedure will cost, and they are unequipped to answer the question without getting someone from the billing office involved.
Perhaps my experience is due to Knoxville, TN being dominated by large hospital-owned practice groups. It's not possible (in my experience) to find a doctor in this town not part of one of the megacomglomerates.
Do you have any links to material which describe your findings?
As always the only lefty in the room, no instructor ever knew how teach me to write. I was shown the 'right' way to do it, then smeared my way attempting to imitate with my left hand. Writing instructors should be aware of the alternate methods for lefties, and with DaVinci as a citation, this should affect endorsement of his practices.
Some (financial) Point Of Sale software I designed uses SSNs to tell the difference between customers with identical names. If I change the SSN... it thinks you're a new customer. Well... this is something to think about.
You are being lazy.
Use a 1-way hashing function on the SSN, then use the hash as a GUID.
There is a shelter for abused women around here who notes in their ads that women return to their abusive relationships 7 times before they finally escape.
Perhaps that would make a good tag line for Windows 7...
Yes, call me a troll, but I think that's insightful...
No. It isn't true. Instinct is indeed to chase pretty much anything that moves, that isn't a 'friend'.
The cat's mom teaches the technique of pouncing-to-break-rodents-backbone. Every cat is hardwired to chase things that move, but effective mousers know how to break backbones on the initial pounce, a non-innate skill.
Cats are effective for small rodents, but I really doubt even the most skilled mouser is going to be effective against rats, which have the same body mass as a cat, and are much more viscious.
- We are having to pay OUR tax money to educate the kids of people who illegally entered the country and mooch off all our social services, demanding handouts even as they thumb their noses at our laws.
Never mind that schools are paid for by SALES TAX, which even illegals have the privilege of paying with every dollar they spend.
--
The problem with today's society is that discussion of public issues is driven by blowhards and extremists.
I know of two schools locally where imminent construction has been put on hold due to loss of state funding. I'd say these qualify as 'shovel ready' and certainly would provide stimulus and necessary infrastructure.
After 8 years of "no time to discuss" in order to pass anti-american legislation, I find your argument that we must stop and discuss anything which might be 'debatable" laughable. Everything is debatable to someone, especially those with a self-serving agenda.
Imagine the potential for disaster if our elected officials were tech savvy enough to actual use technologies such as "e-mail" and the "world wide web" and that "http" thing!
We won a chance at a better future with a democratic Iraq leading the Persian Gulf area away from tyranny and dictatorship. Just a chance.
And this is demonstrates just how inept, hamfisted, and non-elite the W administration is.
The conflict between the Muslim and Western worlds is based on culture. They see Western culture as decadent and destroying the values of their peoples. The US government sees them as an affront to the neo-con manifest destiny.
An intelligent response would have involved carpet-bombing the entire region with comfy chairs, fatty foods and TVs spewing sitcoms. The muslim world would become as completely pacified as their western counterparts in a single generation.
Keep in mind that those "contractors" were mercenaries. They were NOT engineers, office workers, or non-combat personnel. They were non-uniformed contractor military forces. This makes them a MILITARY TARGET, not a civilian target as the word "contractor" implies.
If you set the power mode in Vista to presentation mode, it should have blocked all pop ups. did you do this?
You must change a 'Power Mode' setting to stop software updates during a presentation?! Jesus on a stick!
Why not just hide the user operation mode in something equally intuitive, such as clock or network settings. I got it!, why not bury this feature somewhere that only a win fanboi would ever hope to find it. Then blame the user for ignorance of a hidden capability.
And what, other than stopping interruptions due to poorly architected OS, does 'presentation mode' need to do anyway? Disable display power saving settings? Seems this power mode has been elevated to a catchall presentation mode and does not belong in power settings, if in the UI at all.
For years consumer electronics firms have anticpated the digital convergence, where the television becomes the computer and everything else all rolled into one. I've worked on a few of these projects. But the consumer electronics companies won't be the ones to do it: they do not understand software, design bare bones hardware, and seek to keep everything proprietary for customer lock-in. WebTV is probably the most notable of these failures.
Digital TVs are crappy, inflexible computers. The convergence is happening, but it won't be the TV that reigns: it will be the computer in what Steve Job's refers to as the 'digital hub'. Duh. Been saying this myself since '92. Amazingly, he seems to be the only exec who understands the forces behind the convergence.
The computer will be the television. I already have a 30" LCD monitor on my desktop. My computer can play a huge variety of formats in many resolutions. My computer is already attached to a cable company data network. When/if cable companies wise up and start the leverage their data services, offering on-demand video via software clients over their data networks, the convergence will really pick up.
But the cable companies are just as stuck in their thinking as the consumer electronics firms: it could be that iTunes or like technology ursurps their current potential advantage for content delivery AND presentation, not through anything other than corporate vision which doggedly persues ease-of-use.
This expense is most likely not being paid out of their personal pockets, but by Google.
As a shareholder, I see this as an egregious waste of company money. Sure their time is valuable, but so is my investment.
I am sick of corporate executives who act like little kings. Like the Tyco execs company-funded baachus birthday party for a wife / orgy in (Athens?), it is hard for me to see the value of supporting these execs excessive lifestyle choices and to see their contribution to the company's future success outweighing personal advancing, parasitic decisions.
Thanks for designing a great search engine, you've been well rewarded, you are irresponsible, and there's the door.
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Every president supplies (maybe supplied?) sealed orders for the nuclear submarines under the north pole ice as far as what to do if the US is nuked into oblivion. Allegedly, at least a few presidents' orders were to stand down in such a situation, and a lot more were to seek out any surviving allies. So at least a few people in positions of power probably agreed with your assessment.
Citation needed.
The slashdot story I think you are partially remembering was about British submarine policy, not USA.
These goddamn kids are diluting the strength of words. I'm going to have to get creative now. The trick I think is to combine things that multiply the strength of the words.
Here are some examples of profane combinations, and please don't let the kids get wind of them:
"Jesus Fuck!"
"Christ's Tits!"
"Mother of God's Firm Ass!"
"Jesus Raped!"
I could go on..
Please do. This is the most entertaining and insightful post I have seen on slashdot in a long time.
As the article specified, they DO catch "rolling stops"
If you're rolling, you haven't stopped. If the light is red, you must stop. It's not a hard concept to grasp.
Negative. They give tickets for any *full-stop* with a duration of less than three seconds.
You can be fully stopped, but if your car begins to move before 3 seconds have expired, it's a ticketable offense according to the cameras (and yes, I have been ticketed for this). This creative and counter-intuitive definition is a lucrative profit center for the city.
And this dual Community and Professional edition has backfired with their implementation IMHO.
I have tried to use the Community Edition for internal use, but what I have found is that all pages are notoriously slow and the modules they provide are missing essential functions. Imagine an application with 4 second page loads and a "project module" where tasks can have no dependancies, but 'trust us' the Pay Version makes it all better.
They seem to spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to wall their garden rather than providing a decent calendar, etc etc. They certainly could use more community developers to refine and extend the software, but they seem to be against the community on many levels I haven't the energy to digress into.
Your problem is that you are attempting to decode the ancient greek version
instead of the King James version
which we all know is the unerring word of... errr... Plato.
You got ripped off... I take it this was on insurance (higher cost) and not out of pocket (MUCH cheaper)? ... Don't use your Insurance paperwork for your pricing. Those numbers are not actual out of pocket cost. Next time you are at your doctor, ask him/her how much the visit will cost if you pay it out of pocket. Most will be a lot cheaper...
This is OPPOSITE of my experience. If I do not get my health unsurance network 'discounts', then my bill is much larger.
My best practice is to always provide my BCBS insurance card even if I know it is not covered so I get the discounted rate, then pay cash.
Also, it is near impossible to discuss costs at the Doctor's office. They look at you like you're from mars if you ask how much a procedure will cost, and they are unequipped to answer the question without getting someone from the billing office involved.
Perhaps my experience is due to Knoxville, TN being dominated by large hospital-owned practice groups. It's not possible (in my experience) to find a doctor in this town not part of one of the megacomglomerates.
See the real life case of J S G Boggs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSG_Boggs
Do you have any links to material which describe your findings?
As always the only lefty in the room, no instructor ever knew how teach me to write. I was shown the 'right' way to do it, then smeared my way attempting to imitate with my left hand. Writing instructors should be aware of the alternate methods for lefties, and with DaVinci as a citation, this should affect endorsement of his practices.
Some (financial) Point Of Sale software I designed uses SSNs to tell the difference between customers with identical names. If I change the SSN... it thinks you're a new customer. Well... this is something to think about.
You are being lazy.
Use a 1-way hashing function on the SSN, then use the hash as a GUID.
30 years? Hmmm, that's about 0.000000007% of the age of the earth. I'd say you are qualified.
I'm betting the years he's spent on planets other than earth make him qualified.
There is a shelter for abused women around here who notes in their ads that women return to their abusive relationships 7 times before they finally escape.
Perhaps that would make a good tag line for Windows 7...
Yes, call me a troll, but I think that's insightful...
A slut sleeps with everyone, a bitch sleeps with everyone but you.
"And the whores get angry when the sluts give it away for free."
No. It isn't true. Instinct is indeed to chase pretty much anything that moves, that isn't a 'friend'.
The cat's mom teaches the technique of pouncing-to-break-rodents-backbone. Every cat is hardwired to chase things that move, but effective mousers know how to break backbones on the initial pounce, a non-innate skill.
Cats are effective for small rodents, but I really doubt even the most skilled mouser is going to be effective against rats, which have the same body mass as a cat, and are much more viscious.
They are also foundering because:
- We are having to pay OUR tax money to educate the kids of people who illegally entered the country and mooch off all our social services, demanding handouts even as they thumb their noses at our laws.
Never mind that schools are paid for by SALES TAX, which even illegals have the privilege of paying with every dollar they spend.
--
The problem with today's society is that discussion of public issues is driven by blowhards and extremists.
I know of two schools locally where imminent construction has been put on hold due to loss of state funding. I'd say these qualify as 'shovel ready' and certainly would provide stimulus and necessary infrastructure.
After 8 years of "no time to discuss" in order to pass anti-american legislation, I find your argument that we must stop and discuss anything which might be 'debatable" laughable. Everything is debatable to someone, especially those with a self-serving agenda.
Imagine the potential for disaster if our elected officials were tech savvy enough to actual use technologies such as "e-mail" and the "world wide web" and that "http" thing!
We won a chance at a better future with a democratic Iraq leading the Persian Gulf area away from tyranny and dictatorship. Just a chance.
And this is demonstrates just how inept, hamfisted, and non-elite the W administration is.
The conflict between the Muslim and Western worlds is based on culture. They see Western culture as decadent and destroying the values of their peoples. The US government sees them as an affront to the neo-con manifest destiny.
An intelligent response would have involved carpet-bombing the entire region with comfy chairs, fatty foods and TVs spewing sitcoms. The muslim world would become as completely pacified as their western counterparts in a single generation.
I wonder how long until they subvert the channel to only broadcast crappy reality shows.
Keep in mind that those "contractors" were mercenaries. They were NOT engineers, office workers, or non-combat personnel. They were non-uniformed contractor military forces. This makes them a MILITARY TARGET, not a civilian target as the word "contractor" implies.
Why not just select the entire gamut of colors with: "Clown Hat"
"More companies die of indigestion than starvation."
("The HP Way," Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard, page 142)
You must change a 'Power Mode' setting to stop software updates during a presentation?! Jesus on a stick!
Why not just hide the user operation mode in something equally intuitive, such as clock or network settings. I got it!, why not bury this feature somewhere that only a win fanboi would ever hope to find it. Then blame the user for ignorance of a hidden capability.
And what, other than stopping interruptions due to poorly architected OS, does 'presentation mode' need to do anyway? Disable display power saving settings? Seems this power mode has been elevated to a catchall presentation mode and does not belong in power settings, if in the UI at all.
It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever.
-David St. Hubbins
(when the crawling-naked-girl cover for the album "Smell The Glove" was universally decried as sexist)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258/quotes
For years consumer electronics firms have anticpated the digital convergence, where the television becomes the computer and everything else all rolled into one. I've worked on a few of these projects. But the consumer electronics companies won't be the ones to do it: they do not understand software, design bare bones hardware, and seek to keep everything proprietary for customer lock-in. WebTV is probably the most notable of these failures.
Digital TVs are crappy, inflexible computers. The convergence is happening, but it won't be the TV that reigns: it will be the computer in what Steve Job's refers to as the 'digital hub'. Duh. Been saying this myself since '92. Amazingly, he seems to be the only exec who understands the forces behind the convergence.
The computer will be the television. I already have a 30" LCD monitor on my desktop. My computer can play a huge variety of formats in many resolutions. My computer is already attached to a cable company data network. When/if cable companies wise up and start the leverage their data services, offering on-demand video via software clients over their data networks, the convergence will really pick up.
But the cable companies are just as stuck in their thinking as the consumer electronics firms: it could be that iTunes or like technology ursurps their current potential advantage for content delivery AND presentation, not through anything other than corporate vision which doggedly persues ease-of-use.
This expense is most likely not being paid out of their personal pockets, but by Google.
As a shareholder, I see this as an egregious waste of company money. Sure their time is valuable, but so is my investment.
I am sick of corporate executives who act like little kings. Like the Tyco execs company-funded baachus birthday party for a wife / orgy in (Athens?), it is hard for me to see the value of supporting these execs excessive lifestyle choices and to see their contribution to the company's future success outweighing personal advancing, parasitic decisions.
Thanks for designing a great search engine, you've been well rewarded, you are irresponsible, and there's the door.