Limitations are there to be railed against pushed through.
Yes, I'm sure that looks good on a Nike sweatshirt, but you have to choose which limitations to accept and which to confront. Do you see your inability to speak every language on the planet a limitation to be pushed through? Or your inability to even use English perfectly (that's not a slur; no one has ever had perfect English)?
Focusing on limitations that are both important and possible to overcome can only be a good thing. As I said originally, picking your battles is not only appropriate, but necessary.
Let's hope that this reader learns some lessons that you apparently haven't.
Happiness doesn't come from accomplishment, possessions, or the admiration/envy of others.
Happiness comes from within, and can mean accepting your own limitations, and the limitations of others. If you can't appreciate the qualities of those you term "stupid people," it will be hard for you to accept your own failings.
Being isolated and miserable isn't a result of "failure to submit yourself to the stupidity of our self-crafted society." It comes from not understanding how to form deep, committed relationships, in not finding joy in small, everyday things that are nonetheless wonderful.
There is a place for dissatisfaction with the status quo, for striving and achieving things that are new and unique. That's the path you take, not the goal, nor the meaning.
And always, always accept that sometimes other people do know better, and sometimes you are wrong. Humility is essential.
Or maybe it just brought home the arbitrary and capricious way in which PayPal can freeze the account of anyone they feel like.
Maybe FreeNet just decided that they wanted to go with an organization that showed a little more responsiveness and responsibility.
I don't think the point is that PayPal has frozen or unfrozen the account; the point is that they could do so again at any time, without giving any reason.
We should also be concerned about the local ecosystem. What happens to the bears and other carnivores when they are deprived of one of their sources of protein?
Thanks for your graceful apology. We don't see too many around here; not nearly enough.
Yeah, Andrew has a busy life. It used to be worse, such as when he was a med student with two kids and working two part-time jobs! It's amazing how he's been able to balance everything, and balance it well.
How nice of you to add your two cents to the discussion, without knowing anything about it (i.e. my brother and his family). Not even the country we live in.
Oh right, this is Slashdot. I eagerly await your wisdom on topics including (but certainly not limited to) international finance, animal husbandry, and astrophysics.
Medical school is stressful, possibly just as stressful as working 80 hour weeks at a software company
Well, my brother, who is a surgery resident, has a personal record of 117 hours of work in a single week. He would probably find 80 hours at a software company a kind of blissful relaxation!
He also has three children, with a fourth on the way.
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Poseidon is a free (beer) tool written in Java. At least, the community edition is free; you have to pay more for advanced features.
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Yes, it's a good thing that we don't have concentration of media ownership up here.
It's not false at all. I was writing about groups like the FDA that have the legal right/obligation to stop some products being sold.
If a drug is developed, isn't it to society's advantage to learn about harmful effects before it is marketed, rather than allowing "market corrections" to take place afterwards?
My point is that if the consequences are severe enough, there is a very good reason not to rely exclusively on the free market to work its (purely remedial) magic on businesses and products.
Correction of any problems after the fact is acceptable.
This means that consumers can see which producers are providing value and change to their products after a certain number of transactions have occurred, based on their experience. In the case of printers, people buy equipment and use it, find that it is too expensive, and reject it for another producer's.
This model does not always work (think prescription drugs) and that is why a pure free market must be tempered by restrictions (laws) enacted to protect people before transactions take place.
Thanks for the clarification. I guess I just had a knee-jerk "Access == Bad" reaction. I suppose that if the place the AD database is stored is secure, then the database itself is secure, kind of like a shadow password file.
Does anyone else aside from me feel very disappointed in the casting of Liv Tyler? I had expected a more delicate, nuanced -- hell, elfin look to my elves, especially one who was such an exemplar. I mean, look at Orlando Bloom as Legolas.
Tyler makes me think "heavy," "slow" and, forgive me, "stupid."
Gee, do 90% of the immigration office staff in your country speak Japanese? Fact is, the majority of foreign workers (legal or illegal) aren't English speakers!
Getting a re-entry permit is a pain. I know, I had to get a dozen or so when I was there. I also had to leave the country to change my visa (I came over on a working-holiday visa -- takes 2 weeks -- then switched to a work visa, then got a spouse visa when I married a Japanese), but she will have to do the same thing when she comes to Canada this summer.
And do you really think that waiting 4 months for a work visa is tough? They have to check for criminal records, previous visas, etc. Sure, it moves at the usual pace of anything in a bureaucracy, but they do have to MAKE SURE of the people they let into the country.
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Limitations are there to be railed against pushed through.
Yes, I'm sure that looks good on a Nike sweatshirt, but you have to choose which limitations to accept and which to confront. Do you see your inability to speak every language on the planet a limitation to be pushed through? Or your inability to even use English perfectly (that's not a slur; no one has ever had perfect English)?
Focusing on limitations that are both important and possible to overcome can only be a good thing. As I said originally, picking your battles is not only appropriate, but necessary.
Let's hope that this reader learns some lessons that you apparently haven't.
Happiness doesn't come from accomplishment, possessions, or the admiration/envy of others.
Happiness comes from within, and can mean accepting your own limitations, and the limitations of others. If you can't appreciate the qualities of those you term "stupid people," it will be hard for you to accept your own failings.
Being isolated and miserable isn't a result of "failure to submit yourself to the stupidity of our self-crafted society." It comes from not understanding how to form deep, committed relationships, in not finding joy in small, everyday things that are nonetheless wonderful.
There is a place for dissatisfaction with the status quo, for striving and achieving things that are new and unique. That's the path you take, not the goal, nor the meaning.
And always, always accept that sometimes other people do know better, and sometimes you are wrong. Humility is essential.
It's too bad nobody has found an effective way to "resuse" the heat generated by laptops to recharge the batteries.
Say hello to Mr. Entropy!
Or maybe it just brought home the arbitrary and capricious way in which PayPal can freeze the account of anyone they feel like.
Maybe FreeNet just decided that they wanted to go with an organization that showed a little more responsiveness and responsibility.
I don't think the point is that PayPal has frozen or unfrozen the account; the point is that they could do so again at any time, without giving any reason.
Maybe they should have a dial that goes up to 11?
We should also be concerned about the local ecosystem. What happens to the bears and other carnivores when they are deprived of one of their sources of protein?
Maybe you are talking about Buy Nothing Day?
How about correcting your German? Isn't it supposed to be Rothenburg ob der Tauber?
I figured it was, but a serendipitous one! It's not often that a spelling/grammar Nazi is appreciated, you know!
don't give this retch any more publicity
That's an interesting (and possibly appropriate) misspelling of "wretch"!
Thanks for your graceful apology. We don't see too many around here; not nearly enough.
Yeah, Andrew has a busy life. It used to be worse, such as when he was a med student with two kids and working two part-time jobs! It's amazing how he's been able to balance everything, and balance it well.
(Yes, I'm very protective of my family!)
How nice of you to add your two cents to the discussion, without knowing anything about it (i.e. my brother and his family). Not even the country we live in.
Oh right, this is Slashdot. I eagerly await your wisdom on topics including (but certainly not limited to) international finance, animal husbandry, and astrophysics.
Medical school is stressful, possibly just as stressful as working 80 hour weeks at a software company
Well, my brother, who is a surgery resident, has a personal record of 117 hours of work in a single week. He would probably find 80 hours at a software company a kind of blissful relaxation!
He also has three children, with a fourth on the way.
Poseidon is a free (beer) tool written in Java. At least, the community edition is free; you have to pay more for advanced features.
Yes, it's a good thing that we don't have concentration of media ownership up here.
P.S. Try Googling "Izzy Asper" or "CanWest"
I'm curious: what makes you think that anyone would give even a microscopic particle of a damn when your birthday is?
Oh wait. I just checked, and the universe does revolve around you.
I didn't set out to be snarky when I got up this morning, but some comments really have no redeeming value.
Presumably you are thinking about dual-layer pressed (i.e. commercial) DVDs, that aren't burned at all, but physically made from a master.
You mean like this?
Apostraphe error
Speling erur
P.S. According to the style guide you follow, the possessive can be formed using just a final apostrophe, or an apostrophe + "s"
It's not false at all. I was writing about groups like the FDA that have the legal right/obligation to stop some products being sold.
If a drug is developed, isn't it to society's advantage to learn about harmful effects before it is marketed, rather than allowing "market corrections" to take place afterwards?
My point is that if the consequences are severe enough, there is a very good reason not to rely exclusively on the free market to work its (purely remedial) magic on businesses and products.
- Correction of any problems after the fact is acceptable.
This means that consumers can see which producers are providing value and change to their products after a certain number of transactions have occurred, based on their experience. In the case of printers, people buy equipment and use it, find that it is too expensive, and reject it for another producer's.This model does not always work (think prescription drugs) and that is why a pure free market must be tempered by restrictions (laws) enacted to protect people before transactions take place.
Thanks for the clarification. I guess I just had a knee-jerk "Access == Bad" reaction. I suppose that if the place the AD database is stored is secure, then the database itself is secure, kind of like a shadow password file.
Is it true that Active Directory really stores all the information in a MS Access database? Seems hard to believe, considering the security risk.
Does anyone else aside from me feel very disappointed in the casting of Liv Tyler? I had expected a more delicate, nuanced -- hell, elfin look to my elves, especially one who was such an exemplar. I mean, look at Orlando Bloom as Legolas.
Tyler makes me think "heavy," "slow" and, forgive me, "stupid."
Gee, do 90% of the immigration office staff in your country speak Japanese? Fact is, the majority of foreign workers (legal or illegal) aren't English speakers!
Getting a re-entry permit is a pain. I know, I had to get a dozen or so when I was there. I also had to leave the country to change my visa (I came over on a working-holiday visa -- takes 2 weeks -- then switched to a work visa, then got a spouse visa when I married a Japanese), but she will have to do the same thing when she comes to Canada this summer.
And do you really think that waiting 4 months for a work visa is tough? They have to check for criminal records, previous visas, etc. Sure, it moves at the usual pace of anything in a bureaucracy, but they do have to MAKE SURE of the people they let into the country.