I'm pretty sure the hippies were against razing SE Asia. You know, "Make Love Not War" and all that. Hippiedom was a direct protest to the war. Hippies should be given credit for working to end it.
As an owner of 3 businesses, I must say that you have vastly overstated the requirements to open a business.
You can operate a business as a Sole Proprietorship free of charge. The IRS paperwork in that case is a simple form where you list your income, subtract your expenses, and add that result as ordinary income on your tax return. If you need an EIN, it's a simple phone call to the IRS. The US economy has historically been so robust because it is so easy to do business here.
Are there certain businesses that require a specific license? Yes, of course there are. But the requirements are publicly available. For instance, if you want a license to run a daycare facility, there are certain requirements that you must meet in order to obtain a license. It depends on your locality, but it usually has to do with numbers of kids you can have in your size of a facility, staff-to-kid ratios, etc. You do NOT have to bribe your way into getting a license, in other words.
You go out there and try. You fuck up. You try again. You fuck up again.
Eventually, you'll learn.
Oh, and it helps to reduce your living expenses to the absolute minimum. After you are at the absolute minimum, cut 'em in half. You're gonna need time for all those fuck-ups, and if you spend all yer money, you're dead in the water.
--From someone who has started 3 businesses and doesn't really have to work anymore but just kind of enjoys it for some odd reason.
If you base your life's path based on what 4 people on the planet managed to do, you deserve what you get. I can name 40 people who dropped out of school and now have dead-end jobs.
it's been a good few years since I 'accidentally' erased, or lost a file.
Bet you really wanted it back, too. What if you mess up a DELETE or UPDATE statement in your database? Or bork a configuration file and want to see what it used to look like?
What if your power goes out in the middle of writing a file to disk and the file gets corrupted? What if you lose multiple disks on your RAID at the same time because they were from the same manufacturing run? What if multiple disks are damaged while transporting the computer? What if there is a fire in your home?
Even if you are perfect and never make any human errors, you live in an imperfect world. Prudent computer users keep offsite backups.
I hope none of the things I mentioned ever happen to you. I hope none of the other dozen or so common causes of data loss happen to you. I hope you never rm something accidentally. As for me, I can't remember the last time I accidentally rm'ed something, but I am currently at the office sitting next to my encrypted offsite backup CDs.
I'm curious which solid ink printer you used that was as good as a photo lab. For instance, the Xerox Phaser 8400 is a great solid ink printer. But you would never, I repeat NEVER, confuse its photo output with the quality you could get at your local walmart. Walmart photo labs will kick the Phaser's ass every time.
Sounds like your experience was different, so I'm just curious which printer model you used.
with your low-end color lasers. That whole razor and blades marketing plan has started to creep over to the color laser market.
If you buy a medium-end color laser, your cost per page should be pretty low. Check out printerdb.com. They will tell you what your cost per page is going to be. A great home color laser is the Dell 3100cn. Retails for $550 (you can probably get a better deal if you look a bit) and the cost per page is 8.1c for color, 1.1c for black and white.
That free printers program you linked to has a free 3-year service contract on the printer as well. Pretty frickin' good deal if you do a lot of printing with color charts and graphs.
I've seen the 8400 printing photos, and it's not even close to the quality you'd get from just takin them to walmart or costco, but for business presentations, it's a great deal on a great printer.
I never said anything about agreeing with this post, and I never criticized anyone for making errors in a slashdot post.
In fact, I did just the opposite of criticizing those who make errors in slashdot posts when I said:
There is a difference between whipping off a comment on slashdot and crafting a resume.
You can be damned sure there are no spelling or grammatical errors on my resume. Fuck if I care how I spell or write on some website, though.
My original comment did not mention agreeing with anybody. Not the original poster, not anyone. I simply said that I receive a lot of resumes with errors in them, and that I found this to be pathetic. If you are preparing a marketing piece on yourself, don't put in any errors. That was, is, and will continue to be my point. You get extra laughs from me if your resume has errors in it and you also claim to have "Excellent communication skills."
So of course you voiced your concerns with this step-mother right away, right? Or found whomever was paying you to be the official wedding photographer and alerted him/her to the situation pronto, right? So that that person could have a chat with "step-mother"?
The target demographic seems to be hardcore movie buffs and (let's face it) "pirates."
Don't forget road warriors. Back when I used to have to travel for work, I had a netflix subscription. It was great. I could watch movies on the plane, and in my hotel room if I was in some crappy little town with nothing to do.
The best part is I could grab the movies at home and return them from ANYWHERE. Then, I'd have more movies waiting for me when I got home.
It required no thought or effort on my part, and I never had to worry about renting a movie in Armpit, Iowa and wondering if I was going to be there next week to return it. The video store was the nearest mailbox.
Well, I don't travel anymore, so I canceled my netflix subscription. But it sure was great for the road.
Yes, these are small things, but we are nerds, and for nerds small things like this matter.
I can't tell you how many resumes I've gotten with blatant spelling and/or grammatical errors on it. I may not be a perfect speller, but I can tell you there are certainly no spelling mistakes on my resume.
I trash any resumes with spelling mistakes on them. If you don't care enough to polish your resume, then you can work for someone else.
hmm. That's interesting. I thought I remembered reading somewhere that if you aren't an attorney, you shouldn't be raising objections. That it tends to piss off judges. That it would be better to ask the judge politely if the witness really should be presenting evidence.
Oh well. Fortunately I have not yet had the opportunity to get fleeced in traffic court.
But I would not be shocked (no pun intended) if Tasers could be shown to trigger heart attacks. The heart beating is controlled by electrical impulses. Filling the nervous system with a bunch of noise electric current can't be helping heart function.
I know, I know. Not scientific. But also not beyond the realm of possibility.
Or admit to going 60? If so, it doesn't matter what the gun read. You conceded that you were speeding.
Can't believe you got a ticket for 60 in a 55 in VA, though. That really sucks. I've heard the cops are a pain in the ass here in VA, and I don't doubt it given the number I see on the roads every day. I prolly saw 6 or 7 on the way to work this morning.:-\
Radar gun manufacturers publish their specs. You can obtain them during discovery if you ever receive a speeding ticket.
In some jurisdictions, if you start filing discovery it's a good way to get the charges dropped. It's a revenue drain for them to comply with all the discovery and it's easier for them to extract money from folks who just pay up.
DC law says the registered owner of the vehicle is responsible for red light cam and speeding cam violations. The owner can say he wasn't driving the car at the time, but he will be compelled to divulge who was actually driving.
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You experience is worth something. If it wasn't, the dude who hired you would have just checked the fucking box himself and been done with it.
I'm pretty sure the hippies were against razing SE Asia. You know, "Make Love Not War" and all that. Hippiedom was a direct protest to the war. Hippies should be given credit for working to end it.
You can operate a business as a Sole Proprietorship free of charge. The IRS paperwork in that case is a simple form where you list your income, subtract your expenses, and add that result as ordinary income on your tax return. If you need an EIN, it's a simple phone call to the IRS. The US economy has historically been so robust because it is so easy to do business here.
Are there certain businesses that require a specific license? Yes, of course there are. But the requirements are publicly available. For instance, if you want a license to run a daycare facility, there are certain requirements that you must meet in order to obtain a license. It depends on your locality, but it usually has to do with numbers of kids you can have in your size of a facility, staff-to-kid ratios, etc. You do NOT have to bribe your way into getting a license, in other words.
You go out there and try. You fuck up. You try again. You fuck up again.
Eventually, you'll learn.
Oh, and it helps to reduce your living expenses to the absolute minimum. After you are at the absolute minimum, cut 'em in half. You're gonna need time for all those fuck-ups, and if you spend all yer money, you're dead in the water.
--From someone who has started 3 businesses and doesn't really have to work anymore but just kind of enjoys it for some odd reason.
How would you do it differently?
The smart money's on finishing your degree.
What if your power goes out in the middle of writing a file to disk and the file gets corrupted? What if you lose multiple disks on your RAID at the same time because they were from the same manufacturing run? What if multiple disks are damaged while transporting the computer? What if there is a fire in your home?
Even if you are perfect and never make any human errors, you live in an imperfect world. Prudent computer users keep offsite backups.
I hope none of the things I mentioned ever happen to you. I hope none of the other dozen or so common causes of data loss happen to you. I hope you never rm something accidentally. As for me, I can't remember the last time I accidentally rm'ed something, but I am currently at the office sitting next to my encrypted offsite backup CDs.
Sounds like your experience was different, so I'm just curious which printer model you used.
If you buy a medium-end color laser, your cost per page should be pretty low. Check out printerdb.com. They will tell you what your cost per page is going to be. A great home color laser is the Dell 3100cn. Retails for $550 (you can probably get a better deal if you look a bit) and the cost per page is 8.1c for color, 1.1c for black and white.
I've seen the 8400 printing photos, and it's not even close to the quality you'd get from just takin them to walmart or costco, but for business presentations, it's a great deal on a great printer.
> rm -f ~/important_file
> # Oh shit, I didn't mean to do that!
Please tell me how RAID would fix this problem. I'm waiting...
Waiting...
Still waiting....
Oh, that's right. RAID doesn't fucking solve the fucking problem. That's what fucking backups are fucking for.
Fuckin' A, you're dense.
In fact, I did just the opposite of criticizing those who make errors in slashdot posts when I said:
My original comment did not mention agreeing with anybody. Not the original poster, not anyone. I simply said that I receive a lot of resumes with errors in them, and that I found this to be pathetic. If you are preparing a marketing piece on yourself, don't put in any errors. That was, is, and will continue to be my point. You get extra laughs from me if your resume has errors in it and you also claim to have "Excellent communication skills."Didn't think so.
The best part is I could grab the movies at home and return them from ANYWHERE. Then, I'd have more movies waiting for me when I got home.
It required no thought or effort on my part, and I never had to worry about renting a movie in Armpit, Iowa and wondering if I was going to be there next week to return it. The video store was the nearest mailbox.
Well, I don't travel anymore, so I canceled my netflix subscription. But it sure was great for the road.
You can be damned sure there are no spelling or grammatical errors on my resume. Fuck if I care how I spell or write on some website, though.
I trash any resumes with spelling mistakes on them. If you don't care enough to polish your resume, then you can work for someone else.
Oh well. Fortunately I have not yet had the opportunity to get fleeced in traffic court.
I know, I know. Not scientific. But also not beyond the realm of possibility.
Can't believe you got a ticket for 60 in a 55 in VA, though. That really sucks. I've heard the cops are a pain in the ass here in VA, and I don't doubt it given the number I see on the roads every day. I prolly saw 6 or 7 on the way to work this morning. :-\
But brethalyzers are worthless for a number of reasons. If you ever get pulled over for DUI, insist on a blood test.
So just to be clear, what are these "magic words" you speak of? Just calling into question the calibration of the laser gun in outdoor conditions?
In some jurisdictions, if you start filing discovery it's a good way to get the charges dropped. It's a revenue drain for them to comply with all the discovery and it's easier for them to extract money from folks who just pay up.
DC law says the registered owner of the vehicle is responsible for red light cam and speeding cam violations. The owner can say he wasn't driving the car at the time, but he will be compelled to divulge who was actually driving.
They are leaving Virginia at the end of the month, however! Good riddance!