(Juuuust kidding, of course. America's real job creators are consumers: without people putting butts in seats of the restaurant, neither the cooks&waiters, nor the restaurant owner, nor his banker, have any jobs.)
Not entirely, supply and demand play off of each other. Sometimes people are more enticed to consume more when there are more choices, better prices, shorter wait lines, or overall better service. A fairly successful standalone restaurant owner can decide whether he wants to expand or not. He might be content with a well running business, though that will hit a ceiling as people weigh the quality of the food and service against increasing wait times and crowding, not to mention maximum occupancy. So maybe some just won't go out to eat tonight. OTOH, he could be an ambitious rascal and open another restaurant, and then another, hiring 3x as many employees, and enticing more customers to part ways with their money. This also boosts the related economies such as food wholesale, transportation, insurance, building contractors, etc. (Or he could overestimate his market, go under and blow the whole thing)
Also, define "need." We could go back to the client (dumb terminal)/server centralized model of computing, but even the "dumb terminals" are computers in this day and age.
Indeed, the whole notion behind the question is silly. As many as it takes? What a pointless question. Especially considering what a moving target any answer is going to be, due to near infinite factors.
But sometimes, you just need to drive that red Barchetta on a winding mountain road.
Just watch out for gleaming alloy air-cars that are two lanes wide..
You're welcome! Kiddo sounds like she's got a future career in astronomy, the Titan whoopsy notwithstanding. I think we can all give her a pass considering she's just 4! That's amazing.
We generally have not set quotas (with exceptions!) or auto-audited individual usage, historically. For some odd reason, that was the business policy in most cases, unless the user managers wanted to use it on their users. Most did not. While we are currently in the process of moving to Windows, currently most of our file shares are Novell OES linux servers. One large server had an issue right after a migration to new hardware where it's volume did in fact have user quotas enabled and some users restricted, and that would slow the file system down to a crawl as more users connected in the morning to the point of it being unusable; I wanted to move forward and troubleshoot the actual issue further (Novell's NSS group was more than willing to assist) but administration here just wanted it fixed quick and was unconcerned at the time about space, so that feature was left disabled and unresolved.
Previously we've usually gotten by because a lot of the wasted space has been private mp3 files and family vacation pics and similar, and once we cracked down on that things got better, at least for a while. We started off with lots of warnings and giving them time to remove them, and then we found these files often went back up after a few weeks by the same two or three dozen users or so. Once we stopped with the warnings and just started deleting immediately, they finally got the hint, but disciplinary action around here for such infractions just doesn't happen. (And then we've also got an Oracle DBA around here who is infamous for making several copies of his copies of his db backups, and has them spread all over the place, but not knowing Oracle nor working closely with him, I can't tell what is superfluous and what is critical.) Still, think the days of laissez faire storage use here are numbered. Whenever the migration to Windows goes underway, we'll probably look at AD quota policies more seriously.
While that depends on how easily impressed you are, I'd said there's not a lot to really utterly floor you with, using a small scope, and without the benefit of astrophotography and a motorized equatorial mount, because so few photons arrive to properly stimulate your retinas in real time, particularly the cones which process color. Everything except the moon (which is pretty monochrome anyway), the major planets, and the Orion Nebula will be monochrome. The Orion nebula has a matrix-like greenish tint. While it's still exciting to see nebulae and galaxies in real time with your "own" eyes (not an image, anyway) it's a little bit of a letdown that everything looks like blurry old black & white TV. The height of my interest in astronomy was probably around 2003, 2004, but the light pollution of my area killed my enthusiasm. Nonetheless, I did see a number of nebulae and galaxies with my simple 8" dobsonian, which was cool, and I could make out the polar ice caps on Mars when it was it's nearest in 60 years. Another neat thing is with Jupiter, not only do so see the clouds but you should easily make out the 4 Galilean moons. Actually, you can see those with just decent binoculars. You can look for the Sagittarius Trifid nebula, M51, Andromeda galaxy, and the Ring and Dumbell nebulae as well.. it was years ago but I distinctly remember seeing those.
Then why is Maxine Waters still visible, even after she called for physical violence among other things? How about Bill Maher, who suggested we might deliberately need to tank the economy (hurting millions of families)? Double standards. Are you seriously suggesting there is a lack of vitriol and hatred from the Left, or that everything they claim is true and never false or spun into a half-truth? Especially considering this happened to Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida right after his heated exchange with Twitter executives in from of the Judiciary committee, that's an interesting coincidence.
Good news, but I have been getting these "I'm from the IRS" scam calls a lot recently.
I've gotten those recently too - they leave these hilarious voicemails on my cellphone. The grammar is so god-awfully broken and illogical that I can't imagine anyone believes it to be official. I don't delete the voicemails because I play them for people for a laugh.
I remember those days..play 'til 3am, get up for work at 7:30am, Wed and Thurs.. by Saturday night, I was a zombie. Fortunately that gig was only once every 4 to 6 weeks. That was years ago, I couldn't do that now, I'm definitely too old. Strats are great, mine is aztec gold, but I have a collection of all types.
It would be, only this is total vaporware. They're stooping to the level of North Korean propagandist claims here (although lately NK began to deliver on some of their claims). In short, the physics don't check out, not even close. Next week: China solves the cold fusion problem.
Other way around. I don't "need" a cool toy that I can customize out the wazoo (I can do that with my tablet or my workstation) I just want a phone that's rock solid first and foremost, because it's phone first and foremost, and so far both of the iPhones I've ever owned (a 5 and a 6S) have been just that, probably due to their walled garden design (Granted, iTunes is a horrible PITA). Contrast that to the three Galaxy phones I've had, 2 of which have been issued from work, which were overall more buggy, and then there's my Tab A, which is just outright flaky crap; it rebooted on me twice last night just trying to watch YouTube. Fortunately I view that as a toy and it's use is not critical.
Ultimately this other guy admits to essentially stealing the first guy's backing track, without even asking, and even after all that grief he lets him continue to use the music? Didn't the 2nd guy have to file for the copyright infringement in the first place in order for YouTube to flag it? That would make him an IP troll, why give him permission?
Note that nowhere did I actually complain about society's move towards increased liberalism, I'm just observing that it has, compared to the '40s, '50s, '60s, '70's, '80s..
Most likely people call you names because they think your "simple facts" are just partisan lies.
Oh yes, and **their** partisan uninformed opinions totally justify their immature, nasty behavior. The ends justifies the means, does it?
I think it's telling that you didn't list any names when you claimed "many democrats(sic)" where calling for open borders. When I looked for Democrats who were calling for open borders, do you know what I found? Republicans who say Democrats are calling for open borders. Maybe it's just the skeptic in me talking, but I'm not inclined to take the word of Republican politicians and pundits on what the other party actually wants.
Just like democrats didn't back socialism before, but only now they do? Sure, not all the democrats are calling for open borders, and it's been exaggerated; but there is a disturbingly growing contingent that is doing just that. https://cis.org/Feere/Report-O... I'm pretty sure these people don't vote R.
You know, that's not actually a left wing position, there are right wing parties in other countries that realized that treating other people as their equals works better than constantly trying to limit who qualifies as fully human. Also, treating other humans as less than human is pretty much the definition of evil.
The point is, the left changed on that position, far more than the right. We're talking about what changed. But besides that, denying traditional marriage, but not domestic partnerships or civil unions isn't particularly "less than human" treatment. Leave the hyperbole at home, kids.
So given your statement, I understand that you weren't old enough to vote 10 years ago.
Not only is your statement non-nonsensical, you illustrate your fundamental lack or unwillingness to understand. Democrats have often been accused of socialist tendencies, I've seen that firsthand over the past decades. It was also emphatically denied with no small amount of offense; today it's declared the new face of the party.
No, just no. Your opinions are just too ridiculous. In fact, both the Democrats and the Republicans have moved to the right over the last 20 years. You could figure that out if you wanted to by looking at what policy positions they supported, but you'd rather cherry pick a few things that you think support your desired answer like a clueless child would. When you've conducted (or at least read) some longitudinal studies that show whether and if so what shift in the policies supported by each political party has taken place, then you can come back and try to pretend that you're an adult again.
Hysterical. Democrats have moved to the right? You're not even fucking credible. When you cannot accept the obvious but reject it as "opinions" because it doesn't fit with your contorted confirmation bias, you may have a psychosis. And oh, there's the first insult, insinuating I'm a "clueless child". Well, there's a shock. It's always the Leftists that throws the first stone, isn't it? That's fucking hilarious, because in reality I'm very likely closer to twice your age and have long shed the blind ignorance and smugness that endears youth to idealistic liberalism. Nothing has moved to the right over the years. Nothing. Not one fucking thing. I "cherry picked" nothing, but cited the most prominent, significant changes in society. So go ahead, name some things that are now more conservative than liberal in the last 20 years. Can you do it like an adult this time, or are you going to try to condescend to me again?
Which reminds me of the old Sears "Wishlist" catalog that always came out before every Christmas, many years ago. As a child, I'd get to peruse it and pick out things I wanted for Christmas, and that seemed magical at the time (especially since kids are naive and believe all the advertising vs the reality of the stuff). I still have a fond memory of those days, I guess it was the closest thing then to browsing online shops.
The last of the vestigial TRUE Republicans are dying or retiring. The brand has been hijacked.
They're mirroring the Democrats then, because they've totally exited the building. They've recently moved more far left than the republicans have moved far right. Cue the name calling and insults, but here are the simple facts: * 25 years ago or less, all the leading democrats declared illegal immigration was bad and needed to stop; you can find the videos of Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama stating this all over the 'net; now many democrats are openly calling for "open borders" and the abolishment of ICE, and those numbers are growing. * Democratic leaders were generally against gay marriage until about 8 - 10 years ago (again, videos are out there), now it's simply evil to suggest otherwise. * All democrats just 10 years ago would have loudly denounced socialism, and feigned offense at the very accusation; today it's "the new face of the party". They've done a 180 on all those counts. Republicans as a whole still pretty much hold the same ideals they did 30 years ago. But to "progressives", those ideals are all "bigoted, privileged, homophobic, sexist, racist, and xenophobic". Let's look at what is probably the most telling and meaningful metric of public social attitude: television. Things on television today are far, far, far more risque than they were 20 years ago or more; subjects once taboo are now commonplace, and the language restrictions are all but gone. Society as a whole has moved left. From that perspective, it might seem as the Right is moving more right but in actuality they're pretty much standing still for the most part. After all, it's in the name, conservatism.. meaning resistant to change.
That all said, I'm fine with Pruitt hitting the road, he was a jackass. Now if we can just get rid of Ajit.
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America's true Job Creators.
(Juuuust kidding, of course. America's real job creators are consumers: without people putting butts in seats of the restaurant, neither the cooks&waiters, nor the restaurant owner, nor his banker, have any jobs.)
Not entirely, supply and demand play off of each other. Sometimes people are more enticed to consume more when there are more choices, better prices, shorter wait lines, or overall better service.
A fairly successful standalone restaurant owner can decide whether he wants to expand or not. He might be content with a well running business, though that will hit a ceiling as people weigh the quality of the food and service against increasing wait times and crowding, not to mention maximum occupancy. So maybe some just won't go out to eat tonight. OTOH, he could be an ambitious rascal and open another restaurant, and then another, hiring 3x as many employees, and enticing more customers to part ways with their money. This also boosts the related economies such as food wholesale, transportation, insurance, building contractors, etc.
(Or he could overestimate his market, go under and blow the whole thing)
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Also, define "need." We could go back to the client (dumb terminal)/server centralized model of computing, but even the "dumb terminals" are computers in this day and age.
Indeed, the whole notion behind the question is silly. As many as it takes? What a pointless question. Especially considering what a moving target any answer is going to be, due to near infinite factors.
But sometimes, you just need to drive that red Barchetta on a winding mountain road.
Just watch out for gleaming alloy air-cars that are two lanes wide..
You're welcome!
Kiddo sounds like she's got a future career in astronomy, the Titan whoopsy notwithstanding. I think we can all give her a pass considering she's just 4! That's amazing.
We generally have not set quotas (with exceptions!) or auto-audited individual usage, historically. For some odd reason, that was the business policy in most cases, unless the user managers wanted to use it on their users. Most did not.
While we are currently in the process of moving to Windows, currently most of our file shares are Novell OES linux servers.
One large server had an issue right after a migration to new hardware where it's volume did in fact have user quotas enabled and some users restricted, and that would slow the file system down to a crawl as more users connected in the morning to the point of it being unusable; I wanted to move forward and troubleshoot the actual issue further (Novell's NSS group was more than willing to assist) but administration here just wanted it fixed quick and was unconcerned at the time about space, so that feature was left disabled and unresolved.
Previously we've usually gotten by because a lot of the wasted space has been private mp3 files and family vacation pics and similar, and once we cracked down on that things got better, at least for a while. We started off with lots of warnings and giving them time to remove them, and then we found these files often went back up after a few weeks by the same two or three dozen users or so. Once we stopped with the warnings and just started deleting immediately, they finally got the hint, but disciplinary action around here for such infractions just doesn't happen.
(And then we've also got an Oracle DBA around here who is infamous for making several copies of his copies of his db backups, and has them spread all over the place, but not knowing Oracle nor working closely with him, I can't tell what is superfluous and what is critical.)
Still, think the days of laissez faire storage use here are numbered.
Whenever the migration to Windows goes underway, we'll probably look at AD quota policies more seriously.
Users will still find a way to burn up the drive space in no time at all. Speaking as a storage admin.
While that depends on how easily impressed you are, I'd said there's not a lot to really utterly floor you with, using a small scope, and without the benefit of astrophotography and a motorized equatorial mount, because so few photons arrive to properly stimulate your retinas in real time, particularly the cones which process color. Everything except the moon (which is pretty monochrome anyway), the major planets, and the Orion Nebula will be monochrome. The Orion nebula has a matrix-like greenish tint.
While it's still exciting to see nebulae and galaxies in real time with your "own" eyes (not an image, anyway) it's a little bit of a letdown that everything looks like blurry old black & white TV.
The height of my interest in astronomy was probably around 2003, 2004, but the light pollution of my area killed my enthusiasm.
Nonetheless, I did see a number of nebulae and galaxies with my simple 8" dobsonian, which was cool, and I could make out the polar ice caps on Mars when it was it's nearest in 60 years.
Another neat thing is with Jupiter, not only do so see the clouds but you should easily make out the 4 Galilean moons. Actually, you can see those with just decent binoculars.
You can look for the Sagittarius Trifid nebula, M51, Andromeda galaxy, and the Ring and Dumbell nebulae as well.. it was years ago but I distinctly remember seeing those.
Then why is Maxine Waters still visible, even after she called for physical violence among other things? How about Bill Maher, who suggested we might deliberately need to tank the economy (hurting millions of families)? Double standards.
Are you seriously suggesting there is a lack of vitriol and hatred from the Left, or that everything they claim is true and never false or spun into a half-truth?
Especially considering this happened to Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida right after his heated exchange with Twitter executives in from of the Judiciary committee, that's an interesting coincidence.
Good news, but I have been getting these "I'm from the IRS" scam calls a lot recently.
I've gotten those recently too - they leave these hilarious voicemails on my cellphone. The grammar is so god-awfully broken and illogical that I can't imagine anyone believes it to be official. I don't delete the voicemails because I play them for people for a laugh.
I remember those days ..play 'til 3am, get up for work at 7:30am, Wed and Thurs.. by Saturday night, I was a zombie. Fortunately that gig was only once every 4 to 6 weeks. That was years ago, I couldn't do that now, I'm definitely too old. Strats are great, mine is aztec gold, but I have a collection of all types.
I'm ..I'm not sure if this should be modded "Funny", or Insightful ..
Strat
-ocaster?
It would be, only this is total vaporware. They're stooping to the level of North Korean propagandist claims here (although lately NK began to deliver on some of their claims).
In short, the physics don't check out, not even close.
Next week: China solves the cold fusion problem.
Your casual trolling is mediocre, though a few took your bait.
In this week's episode of, "Queer Eye for the Laser Guy" ...
I'll take a guess: HuffPost, Salon, Vox, Mashable, Mic, (or any mag by their parent publishing houses); as well as CNN, MSNBC, ABC...
Left / Right isn't strictly economics though. It's more of a social spectrum.
Other way around. I don't "need" a cool toy that I can customize out the wazoo (I can do that with my tablet or my workstation) I just want a phone that's rock solid first and foremost, because it's phone first and foremost, and so far both of the iPhones I've ever owned (a 5 and a 6S) have been just that, probably due to their walled garden design (Granted, iTunes is a horrible PITA).
Contrast that to the three Galaxy phones I've had, 2 of which have been issued from work, which were overall more buggy, and then there's my Tab A, which is just outright flaky crap; it rebooted on me twice last night just trying to watch YouTube. Fortunately I view that as a toy and it's use is not critical.
Ultimately this other guy admits to essentially stealing the first guy's backing track, without even asking, and even after all that grief he lets him continue to use the music? Didn't the 2nd guy have to file for the copyright infringement in the first place in order for YouTube to flag it? That would make him an IP troll, why give him permission?
Here ya go. Close enough?
http://freebeacon.com/politics...
Note that nowhere did I actually complain about society's move towards increased liberalism, I'm just observing that it has, compared to the '40s, '50s, '60s, '70's, '80s..
Most likely people call you names because they think your "simple facts" are just partisan lies.
Oh yes, and **their** partisan uninformed opinions totally justify their immature, nasty behavior. The ends justifies the means, does it?
I think it's telling that you didn't list any names when you claimed "many democrats(sic)" where calling for open borders. When I looked for Democrats who were calling for open borders, do you know what I found? Republicans who say Democrats are calling for open borders. Maybe it's just the skeptic in me talking, but I'm not inclined to take the word of Republican politicians and pundits on what the other party actually wants.
Just like democrats didn't back socialism before, but only now they do? Sure, not all the democrats are calling for open borders, and it's been exaggerated; but there is a disturbingly growing contingent that is doing just that. https://cis.org/Feere/Report-O...
I'm pretty sure these people don't vote R.
You know, that's not actually a left wing position, there are right wing parties in other countries that realized that treating other people as their equals works better than constantly trying to limit who qualifies as fully human. Also, treating other humans as less than human is pretty much the definition of evil.
The point is, the left changed on that position, far more than the right. We're talking about what changed.
But besides that, denying traditional marriage, but not domestic partnerships or civil unions isn't particularly "less than human" treatment.
Leave the hyperbole at home, kids.
So given your statement, I understand that you weren't old enough to vote 10 years ago.
Not only is your statement non-nonsensical, you illustrate your fundamental lack or unwillingness to understand.
Democrats have often been accused of socialist tendencies, I've seen that firsthand over the past decades. It was also emphatically denied with no small amount of offense; today it's declared the new face of the party.
No, just no. Your opinions are just too ridiculous. In fact, both the Democrats and the Republicans have moved to the right over the last 20 years. You could figure that out if you wanted to by looking at what policy positions they supported, but you'd rather cherry pick a few things that you think support your desired answer like a clueless child would. When you've conducted (or at least read) some longitudinal studies that show whether and if so what shift in the policies supported by each political party has taken place, then you can come back and try to pretend that you're an adult again.
Hysterical. Democrats have moved to the right? You're not even fucking credible. When you cannot accept the obvious but reject it as "opinions" because it doesn't fit with your contorted confirmation bias, you may have a psychosis. And oh, there's the first insult, insinuating I'm a "clueless child". Well, there's a shock. It's always the Leftists that throws the first stone, isn't it? That's fucking hilarious, because in reality I'm very likely closer to twice your age and have long shed the blind ignorance and smugness that endears youth to idealistic liberalism.
Nothing has moved to the right over the years. Nothing. Not one fucking thing. I "cherry picked" nothing, but cited the most prominent, significant changes in society.
So go ahead, name some things that are now more conservative than liberal in the last 20 years.
Can you do it like an adult this time, or are you going to try to condescend to me again?
I suggest you reread my very first sentence again. Particularly, the sixth word. I wasn't talking about people jailed for minor drug offenses.
Which reminds me of the old Sears "Wishlist" catalog that always came out before every Christmas, many years ago. As a child, I'd get to peruse it and pick out things I wanted for Christmas, and that seemed magical at the time (especially since kids are naive and believe all the advertising vs the reality of the stuff). I still have a fond memory of those days, I guess it was the closest thing then to browsing online shops.
The last of the vestigial TRUE Republicans are dying or retiring. The brand has been hijacked.
They're mirroring the Democrats then, because they've totally exited the building. They've recently moved more far left than the republicans have moved far right.
Cue the name calling and insults, but here are the simple facts:
* 25 years ago or less, all the leading democrats declared illegal immigration was bad and needed to stop; you can find the videos of Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama stating this all over the 'net; now many democrats are openly calling for "open borders" and the abolishment of ICE, and those numbers are growing.
* Democratic leaders were generally against gay marriage until about 8 - 10 years ago (again, videos are out there), now it's simply evil to suggest otherwise.
* All democrats just 10 years ago would have loudly denounced socialism, and feigned offense at the very accusation; today it's "the new face of the party".
They've done a 180 on all those counts. Republicans as a whole still pretty much hold the same ideals they did 30 years ago. But to "progressives", those ideals are all "bigoted, privileged, homophobic, sexist, racist, and xenophobic".
Let's look at what is probably the most telling and meaningful metric of public social attitude: television. Things on television today are far, far, far more risque than they were 20 years ago or more; subjects once taboo are now commonplace, and the language restrictions are all but gone. Society as a whole has moved left. From that perspective, it might seem as the Right is moving more right but in actuality they're pretty much standing still for the most part. After all, it's in the name, conservatism.. meaning resistant to change.
That all said, I'm fine with Pruitt hitting the road, he was a jackass. Now if we can just get rid of Ajit.
Who pissed in your cornflakes this morning?
Don't forget to make a few tweets as well. Or post on Instagram, Snapchat, or tumblr... it's like everyone wants to star on Big Brother.