Certain counties in Wisconsin will turn the "stupid" lights into a flashing yellow in the "main" direction, with flashing red from the cross street after a certain time (outside of rush hour or sunset or whatever is appropriate). A wonderful solution I don't know why others haven't implemented (obvious profit from red light cameras aside, of course).
Living in Chicago, red light capital of the world, I can assure you it is actually worse than what you describe.
True story: Driver 1 and 2 are following each other, Driver 2 too closely. Yellow light, Driver 1 slams on the brakes. Driver 2 realizes he can't stop without hitting Driver 1, swerves instead.Your point is well taken here.
Here's where it gets interesting. Driver 2 hits a light pole after swerving, causing it to come crashing down, onto the roof of Driver 3, who is following from a safe distance and was able to stop in plenty of time... just not enough time to get out of the way of their newly force installed dome light.
Truth is stranger than fiction. There are always consequences that aren't thought of.
If I understand your insinuation correctly, those - however few they may be- with the bracketed "L" would likely be greatly offended at your statement. The "I"'s a little less so, but probably still enough to make them mad.
Just the "R" and "D" that you are likely trying to call out.
Does anyone here actually know the costs of fiber? I mean the material itself, not the labor costs. Those are a fixed cost... same trench if you lay 1 cable or ten. But as someone does a single cable, what is the incremental cost to put in something much fatter?
I just don't get why (once the cable is down) it should be much more than the peering agreement and some pricey routers on both ends of the cable... in a (say) 5 inch diameter space, how much bandwidth can you cram?
What I don't understand about the whole DRM mess is this: Why hasn't somebody brought up the bigger question which is why force a tech THAT DOES NOT WORK and ONLY pisses off the people PAYING you?
You must be new here. Some of us have been saying it for 30 years, going back to "copy protected" floppy disks... and our voices are hoarse by now.
Uhm.... yeah.... I work in this industry, and 15K packages/day is a "medium" size shipper to us. We have warehouses that easily put a six figure number onto trucks in a day... and I'm sure my competition has others. Not sure how they got the "second" biggest title.
I agree, he needs to get out more.
If someone wants to see such a warehouse... look at the "undercover boss" episode for GSI commerce...
Soon enough you'll be able to get a hard drive that can hold every song ever recorded. Then someone will buy one and put every song ever recorded on it. That person's friends will want a copy, and six degrees of separation later everybody has got it. New releases follow the same path and as time goes on the process becomes more efficient as the people involved improve it. Nobody will care about "filling up their hard drive" and someone will create a piece of software that allows you to mark files as "send to friends" and people you designate as friends will automatically get them the next time your any of your devices is in wireless range of theirs. Then their friends will get them, etc.
You, sir, are a genius!
Arguably, using such a device would be "wrong" with respect to copyright infringement... but if we take Linus' (badly paraphrased) quote about not needing backups when the world can mirror it for you out of context, throw in some trust algorithms so your stuff only gets copied to people you know and trust (and maybe safely encrypt?) you end up with one hell of a mesh network!
There's this other school of thought in certain circles... "never sue for more money than it costs to have you killed".
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Soon I will have no debt (relatively speaking) and will not be using a credit card or buying anything on credit ever again.
The only problem with that is I don't get 1% cash back on my cash purchases. (And yes, I'm sure my data is being sold, and no, I don't carry a balance).
Wonder if they got some screenshots with RIAA album covers or maybe some MPAA stills in the background. Then the FBI would perk up and put everyone involved in Guantanamo Bay for the rest of their lives... no criminal intent my ass...
Those pesky keys you carry around to get into your house and car are so annoying too! In order to ease your burden, you should consider just leaving your house and care unlocked. It'll be easier on your mind that way.
And that's why I have a combination lock on my back door, so I can go jogging or walk the dogs or whatever without worrying about carrying (or losing) those pesky keys. It is very easy on my mind.
To echo a point above- Cooks Illustrated magazine rocks- they did a chef's knife review.
They put out their number one choice as a $24.95 knife (A Victorinox forschner) that beats some of the knives an order of magnitude higher.
I have both the cheap and one of the more expensive ones... and they are right. $25 will do just fine for a proper chef's knife. A whole set of the various types would be less than $100. There's the cost justification for the subscription this year...
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With no assertion intended that portion control does not work, and the further disclaimer that you *MAY* die a horrible death of heart disease trying to do this, from first hand experience I have to say that the statistics don't lie: Doing Atkins/Southbeach- where you basically get to eat all the meat and cheese you want, most of the vegetables you want, and very very few processed carbohydrates:
(1) You can eat all you want, portion size bedamned. Your body WILL tell you are full.
(2) For 98% of the population, you WILL drop weight, and you won't be hungry. Most- I'd say 90%- will also have more energy than you ever did in your adult life while doing it.
There is still a long way to go in diet science, but the low carb diet makes a lot more practical sense than its predecessors where you want to kill yourself out of hunger pains or need the mind control of a tenth-degree blackbelt to stop from eating a big-ass steak*
Golden parachutes can be effective if reasonably written.
For example, cutting all the legalese out of mine it waters down to "your non-compete is as long as your severance package of normal salary". Thus, they give me a year's pay of severance, I don't show up at my competitors door for a year. If the checks bounce, I'm there, and the NDAs say I can do it free and clear.
Having pissed off sysadmins because your employer is an ass is one thing, and I agree there is no reason to torment the keepers of the keys. However, the parachutes come into play when you work in an industry full of hostile and semi-hostile takeovers. It gives me security regardless if my boss is someone I trust as well as [satan|$evil_diety]. Someone wants to buy us out and kill our product because it is killing theirs, fine. I'll take my ball and play elsewhere.:P
The majority of the mass-market American food producers are simply trying to profit as much as possible off of the federally-funded (genetically modified, artificially fertilized, etc) corn surplus... feeding the schlock to whatever they can.
I'd estimate that about 90% of the meals the average person ate would be healthier if we did NOT have the goverment meddling in our food. Obesity is a hard thing to price, what it ends up costing the populace, all things considered.
What do our future generations do with the toxic waste dumps generated by the CAFOs? How do we price that? What about the breakouts of E Coli and others from our packing plant consolidations...
Unless, of course, your neighborhood is one of the ones where the local government is financially challenged (i.e. Illinois, California, et al) and the police doesn't have the funding to send someone out.
And then, when the yelling turns to something worse, and the police are nowhere to be found (how does the saying go... "when seconds count, the police are only minutes away...") the proverbial "libertarian la-la land" will have other means of defending themselves, and enforcing their rights...
I'm sorry you chose the USAF, and had such a bad experience. Thank you for your service, and it is a shame your talent wasn't appreciated.
I was a US Navy "Nuke", responsible for (among other things) the operation of the electrical equipment in one the many nuclear power plants I worked on.
You are right to a degree that the military is "set up to have standard size cogs". However, getting yourself into a position of authority and/or power (they aren't always the same thing) was a game.
For the original poster that asked the question, you need to (1) know there is a game, and (2) play the game to win. Making rank means you get paid more, yes, but it has little to do with your authority at a command.
You'll get crappy deals all the time, but there are ways of bending the rules to accommodate. People you can befriend to get you moved to a different position or make your life easier. Have a senior enlisted or officer that has it in for you? Wait your time, you'll have a chance to get back at him/her. Payback is a bitch, and karma is for real. The balance of power can shift quite drastically quite quickly... if you play the politics correctly, it isn't too difficult to overcome. But you have to be aware of the game to see the moves.
Compared to what my friends that did college after HS learned about politics, I'd say the military is a wonderful thing. If you "see" the game... you can choose your level and type of participation... you'll stomp your competition.
That's nothing! You should hear about the time I was trying to get some money out of my IRA account so I could get my compuer needed more RAM memory, a new NIC card, and a new LCD Display. All I had to do was find the UPC code for some DAT tapes I bought because that was my PPP protocol password so I could get on t3h internet. Unfortunately my daughter (she was distracted from getting her SAT test scores) spilled some some lotion with an SPF factor of 50 on the pile of papers where it was, destroying that as well as a VIN number of a car I was going to sell when it shorted out a loose plug in the pile that caught fire (it had live AC current running through it). The smoke smelled so bad it would probably cure the HIV virus or something.
Agreed. I have an HTC Tytn II- wouldn't touch the iJunk with a 10' pole- and I've turned off 3G. Between the battery hunger and spotty/dropped calls, no ring, etc, 3G just isn't that great. Do what others say- just use EDGE, and the phone is a dream.
Does anyone sell a lock that goes over the OBD connector?
I don't think an officer at the scene could force you to remove it (esp if you don't have the keys with you) and you could still take it off when you needed to (service, emissions tests, etc) without tampering with the safety of the car.
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Certain counties in Wisconsin will turn the "stupid" lights into a flashing yellow in the "main" direction, with flashing red from the cross street after a certain time (outside of rush hour or sunset or whatever is appropriate). A wonderful solution I don't know why others haven't implemented (obvious profit from red light cameras aside, of course).
Living in Chicago, red light capital of the world, I can assure you it is actually worse than what you describe.
True story: Driver 1 and 2 are following each other, Driver 2 too closely. Yellow light, Driver 1 slams on the brakes. Driver 2 realizes he can't stop without hitting Driver 1, swerves instead.Your point is well taken here.
Here's where it gets interesting. Driver 2 hits a light pole after swerving, causing it to come crashing down, onto the roof of Driver 3, who is following from a safe distance and was able to stop in plenty of time ... just not enough time to get out of the way of their newly force installed dome light.
Truth is stranger than fiction. There are always consequences that aren't thought of.
If I understand your insinuation correctly, those - however few they may be- with the bracketed "L" would likely be greatly offended at your statement. The "I"'s a little less so, but probably still enough to make them mad.
Just the "R" and "D" that you are likely trying to call out.
Does anyone here actually know the costs of fiber? I mean the material itself, not the labor costs. Those are a fixed cost... same trench if you lay 1 cable or ten. But as someone does a single cable, what is the incremental cost to put in something much fatter?
I just don't get why (once the cable is down) it should be much more than the peering agreement and some pricey routers on both ends of the cable... in a (say) 5 inch diameter space, how much bandwidth can you cram?
What I don't understand about the whole DRM mess is this: Why hasn't somebody brought up the bigger question which is why force a tech THAT DOES NOT WORK and ONLY pisses off the people PAYING you?
You must be new here. Some of us have been saying it for 30 years, going back to "copy protected" floppy disks... and our voices are hoarse by now.
Now get off my lawn...
Uhm.... yeah.... I work in this industry, and 15K packages/day is a "medium" size shipper to us. We have warehouses that easily put a six figure number onto trucks in a day... and I'm sure my competition has others. Not sure how they got the "second" biggest title.
I agree, he needs to get out more.
If someone wants to see such a warehouse... look at the "undercover boss" episode for GSI commerce...
Soon enough you'll be able to get a hard drive that can hold every song ever recorded. Then someone will buy one and put every song ever recorded on it. That person's friends will want a copy, and six degrees of separation later everybody has got it. New releases follow the same path and as time goes on the process becomes more efficient as the people involved improve it. Nobody will care about "filling up their hard drive" and someone will create a piece of software that allows you to mark files as "send to friends" and people you designate as friends will automatically get them the next time your any of your devices is in wireless range of theirs. Then their friends will get them, etc.
You, sir, are a genius!
Arguably, using such a device would be "wrong" with respect to copyright infringement... but if we take Linus' (badly paraphrased) quote about not needing backups when the world can mirror it for you out of context, throw in some trust algorithms so your stuff only gets copied to people you know and trust (and maybe safely encrypt?) you end up with one hell of a mesh network!
There's this other school of thought in certain circles... "never sue for more money than it costs to have you killed".
Soon I will have no debt (relatively speaking) and will not be using a credit card or buying anything on credit ever again.
The only problem with that is I don't get 1% cash back on my cash purchases. (And yes, I'm sure my data is being sold, and no, I don't carry a balance).
Wonder if they got some screenshots with RIAA album covers or maybe some MPAA stills in the background. Then the FBI would perk up and put everyone involved in Guantanamo Bay for the rest of their lives... no criminal intent my ass...
Care to share (for those of us too lazy to search)?
And that's why I have a combination lock on my back door, so I can go jogging or walk the dogs or whatever without worrying about carrying (or losing) those pesky keys. It is very easy on my mind.
To echo a point above- Cooks Illustrated magazine rocks- they did a chef's knife review.
They put out their number one choice as a $24.95 knife (A Victorinox forschner) that beats some of the knives an order of magnitude higher.
I have both the cheap and one of the more expensive ones... and they are right. $25 will do just fine for a proper chef's knife. A whole set of the various types would be less than $100. There's the cost justification for the subscription this year...
With no assertion intended that portion control does not work, and the further disclaimer that you *MAY* die a horrible death of heart disease trying to do this, from first hand experience I have to say that the statistics don't lie: Doing Atkins/Southbeach- where you basically get to eat all the meat and cheese you want, most of the vegetables you want, and very very few processed carbohydrates:
(1) You can eat all you want, portion size bedamned. Your body WILL tell you are full.
(2) For 98% of the population, you WILL drop weight, and you won't be hungry. Most- I'd say 90%- will also have more energy than you ever did in your adult life while doing it.
There is still a long way to go in diet science, but the low carb diet makes a lot more practical sense than its predecessors where you want to kill yourself out of hunger pains or need the mind control of a tenth-degree blackbelt to stop from eating a big-ass steak*
* $diety bless America and our portion sizes.
Golden parachutes can be effective if reasonably written.
For example, cutting all the legalese out of mine it waters down to "your non-compete is as long as your severance package of normal salary". Thus, they give me a year's pay of severance, I don't show up at my competitors door for a year. If the checks bounce, I'm there, and the NDAs say I can do it free and clear.
Having pissed off sysadmins because your employer is an ass is one thing, and I agree there is no reason to torment the keepers of the keys. However, the parachutes come into play when you work in an industry full of hostile and semi-hostile takeovers. It gives me security regardless if my boss is someone I trust as well as [satan|$evil_diety]. Someone wants to buy us out and kill our product because it is killing theirs, fine. I'll take my ball and play elsewhere. :P
Because T-Mobile charges $20 less a month (for the plan I just got for a MT3G) if you buy the phone outright.
Thus, if you keep it for the two years, it gets cheaper...
The libertarian party?
If only you had left off the first one.
The majority of the mass-market American food producers are simply trying to profit as much as possible off of the federally-funded (genetically modified, artificially fertilized, etc) corn surplus... feeding the schlock to whatever they can.
I'd estimate that about 90% of the meals the average person ate would be healthier if we did NOT have the goverment meddling in our food. Obesity is a hard thing to price, what it ends up costing the populace, all things considered.
What do our future generations do with the toxic waste dumps generated by the CAFOs? How do we price that? What about the breakouts of E Coli and others from our packing plant consolidations...
Ack, I could go on for hours...
Unless, of course, your neighborhood is one of the ones where the local government is financially challenged (i.e. Illinois, California, et al) and the police doesn't have the funding to send someone out.
And then, when the yelling turns to something worse, and the police are nowhere to be found (how does the saying go... "when seconds count, the police are only minutes away...") the proverbial "libertarian la-la land" will have other means of defending themselves, and enforcing their rights...
You are confusing XKCD with the Southpark "Simpsons Did It" episode.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons_Already_Did_It
I'm sorry you chose the USAF, and had such a bad experience. Thank you for your service, and it is a shame your talent wasn't appreciated.
I was a US Navy "Nuke", responsible for (among other things) the operation of the electrical equipment in one the many nuclear power plants I worked on.
You are right to a degree that the military is "set up to have standard size cogs". However, getting yourself into a position of authority and/or power (they aren't always the same thing) was a game.
For the original poster that asked the question, you need to (1) know there is a game, and (2) play the game to win. Making rank means you get paid more, yes, but it has little to do with your authority at a command.
You'll get crappy deals all the time, but there are ways of bending the rules to accommodate. People you can befriend to get you moved to a different position or make your life easier. Have a senior enlisted or officer that has it in for you? Wait your time, you'll have a chance to get back at him/her. Payback is a bitch, and karma is for real. The balance of power can shift quite drastically quite quickly... if you play the politics correctly, it isn't too difficult to overcome. But you have to be aware of the game to see the moves.
Compared to what my friends that did college after HS learned about politics, I'd say the military is a wonderful thing. If you "see" the game... you can choose your level and type of participation... you'll stomp your competition.
That's nothing! You should hear about the time I was trying to get some money out of my IRA account so I could get my compuer needed more RAM memory, a new NIC card, and a new LCD Display. All I had to do was find the UPC code for some DAT tapes I bought because that was my PPP protocol password so I could get on t3h internet. Unfortunately my daughter (she was distracted from getting her SAT test scores) spilled some some lotion with an SPF factor of 50 on the pile of papers where it was, destroying that as well as a VIN number of a car I was going to sell when it shorted out a loose plug in the pile that caught fire (it had live AC current running through it). The smoke smelled so bad it would probably cure the HIV virus or something.
Obligatory Partiallyclips... http://www.partiallyclips.com/pclipslite.php?id=1047
Agreed. I have an HTC Tytn II- wouldn't touch the iJunk with a 10' pole- and I've turned off 3G. Between the battery hunger and spotty/dropped calls, no ring, etc, 3G just isn't that great. Do what others say- just use EDGE, and the phone is a dream.
Does anyone sell a lock that goes over the OBD connector?
I don't think an officer at the scene could force you to remove it (esp if you don't have the keys with you) and you could still take it off when you needed to (service, emissions tests, etc) without tampering with the safety of the car.