I was traveling in Southeast Asia, and I got what is known as a "nasty case of the shits." This is not uncommon for westerners traveling in that part of the world.
This was obviously a bacterial infection from something that I ingested. Yay. So I walked into a pharmacy and despite the language barrier, 2 minutes and 2 dollars later, I had a run of Cipro. Bye bye shits.
In the US, I would have had to make an apointment with my doctor. Take time off work to go sit in his fucking waiting room when I should have been billing my client, shit into a cardboard box so he can test my shit to see that I do, indeed, have the shits. Then he would prescribe Cipro and I would have to take more time off work to stand in line at the fucking pharmacy in the fucking grocery store so I can get the actual Cipro when I should have been billing my client. There would have been a $15 copay on the doctor's visit and another $20 copay for the Cipro.
And we wonder why healthcare is so expensive here? Personally, I like the 2 minutes and $2 model better than the $35 and 3 hours out of my day model.
I went to Virginia Tech, and a certain quarterback who now plays in the NFL approached someone I knew and just said "Want to hit this?" She didn't because she didn't know who he was yet, but the girl next to her jumped at the chance.
I bet she's glad now that she did not "hit this": Clicky.
1) He says barriers to entry of startups is low. Wrong. Barriers to entry of web services is low; most other startups still require huge infusions of capital
Blah blah blah. There is only one barrier to entry for a startup and it is in your own mind. It doesn't cost any money to get past that barrier, but it does require a little creative thinking.
2) Low barriers to entry also means there is going to be hundreds of other "undergrads" trying to sell the same idea. This means your chances of eventual payback are much smaller!
Heh. Well, in fact, most people think like you, so there are relatively few startups out there and not much competition.
3) Why should bigger companies buy startups when they can just partner with them or outsource company services to them?
Who cares? If they partner with you, you get cash. If they outsource company services to you you get cash. If they buy you you get cash (and you stop selling your product to their competitors!).
4) Yeah, starting a web based startup doesn't cost significantly more than just being a slacker. But if you haven't noticed, 99% of us can't afford to just set around and be a slacker either! SOMEBODY has got to be paying your food and rent. Apparently Mr. Graham thinks most students graduate with tens of thousands of dollars in the bank and can afford to not have any income for several years. I've got about $130,000 in student loans that say otherwise...
I'm sorry for being so blunt, but going $130,000 into debt to go to school was a really fucking stupid idea. It boggles my mind that anyone is stupid enough to do that. What a fucking horrible investment. The average starting salary for someone with a bachelor's is in the 30s. Annual debt service on a $130,000 loan is $9,000-10,000 or so depending on your interest rate. So if 33% of your salary goes to your college loan debt service and 33% goes to the government and 33% goes to your landlord, what the fuck did you think you were going to live on?
Try this one on for size: My Alma Mater currently costs $5866.24 per year for tuition (GO BADGERS!). Live at home or get a cheap-ass apartment with a few roommates for $100/mo. Eat Ramen. Your college costs are about $10,000/year when you get done with books and stuff.
Now here's where it gets tricky. Work June through August, and winter break as a temp making $12/hr. That's $8,000. Now work in the campus library 10 hrs/wk at $9/hr which is $3000/school yr. Your total income for the year is $11,000, and you should pay no tax with all the education tax credits.
In my case, I worked as a waiter for $20/hr, so I didn't have to eat Ramen... I just stole food from the restaurant. Show a little creativity!
Anyhow, that is the correct way to pay for college if your parents can't/won't pay for you. Taking out $130,000 in student loans is NOT the correct way to pay for college. I have no sympathy for people who do that.
Do you know how I got a decent job, eventually? A contact. I still can't get on full time. I'm supporting a family on a Contract that could disappear at any time. Yup, that Community College who declared 98% placement rate sure was right.
If the climate to make TVs is so much better in China than in the US, then the law of comparative advantage says we shouldn't make any fucking TVs in the US.
As expected, we don't make any fucking TVs in the US.
Within 4-6 years, your entire worldview will be turned on its head.
As soon as you set foot on a college campus, the guys who get the chicks will be the pre-med, pre-business, etc. majors. Sure, the athletes will still get chicks, but that will change after their NCAA eligibility is used up.
After college, those athletes will become washed-up athletes and will get zero pussy. Hopefully they payed at least a little attention in college, or else they will be the ones picking up my garbage twice a week.
You know, it's funny. All I hear about is how China and India are going to "beat us", whatever that means. They study harder, there is more emphasis on academics, an blahdy blah blah. If that's the case, how come the best and brightest Chinese and Indians all seem to wind up in the US? Yeah, sure, I know a lot of really smart Chinese and Indians. I work with them every day.
In Virginia.
By the way, I have no problem with the H1B program. If foreigners want to come here and compete with me for jobs right here on my turf with my cost of living, I say let 'em. They better be prepared to lose, though. I am one extremely competitive motherfucker.
Must have been all those years of high school sports.
I had a roommate in college with ADD (or whatever they're calling it nowadays). He was on Ritalin of his own free will, since he was over 18. The way he explained it was that he would be sitting in class and he simply could not concentrate. If a fly flew into the room, he would be fixated on it. Any other mild distraction that you or I wouldn't even notice would be gripping to him. As a result, he could not focus on the lesson and simply could not learn anything from it.
On Ritalin, he was able to ignore the distractions and just listen to the professor. This is an ability to you and I take for granted, but for him, he tried, but just could not learn anything in class without medication. Would depriving him of an education be better for his human rights than giving him Ritalin? Personally, I'd much rather see him get an education.
I also don't get your point about diseases that are diagnosed by clinical symptoms. For instance, my wife has Multiple Sclerosis (MS). MS is diagnosed by clinical symptoms. Oh, sure, she's had MRIs out the wazoo, but they do not conclusively diagnose the disease. Her brain lesions will come and go, and there are non-MS patients whose MRIs for unrelated injuries will show brain lesions that will never materialize as MS. But my wife has the "pins and needles" Numbness and Pain symptoms, so she has MS and is being treated for it.
How is MS different from ADD? We don't really understand the cause of either, so we diagnose both through symptoms.
The other thing I would say to do is ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS make either daily backups or mirror your most important data. Getting an external backup drive like one of the Maxtor external HD's that do autobackups or setting up a simple RAID 0 is not that expensive compared to losing your data.
RAID 0 is not redundant and will not protect you at all against data loss! In fact, it may render you more vulnerable to data loss because many RAID 0 implementations will lose the entire array in the case of a single disk failure! Read that again, if one drive fails in RAID 0, you risk losing ALL of your data! Beware the "(former) professional advice" you get on/.!
If you're using RAID to protect your data in case of a drive failure, you are probably going to be using a RAID 1 variant of some sort, or RAID 5.
Excellent! Then you have nothing to bitch about, then! You control the government, after all!
As a citizen, I authorized the corporations through chartering by my government.
Not likely! Unless you happen to live in Delaware!
Government already and outlandishly heaps favorable conditions upon corporations, in direct conflict with my modest needs for food, heat and shelter.
As I'm sure you know, the overwhelming majority of Americans derive their livelihood from corporations! Your government is looking out for your interests by making conditions favorable for business!
Social worth has been skewed towards artificial high valuations placed upon the parasitical classes known as an investment bankers and brokers.
They're the folks who keep our economy moving, and they are undervalued!
It is morally better to tolerate the death of corporations over the death of people (assuming one has to choose such).
As the owner of three corporations, I can tell you that all three of them are quite dead! A corporation is a piece of paper, and the tree that the paper came from was killed long ago! But a dead corporation can keep several people employed and put food on their tables!
There is no right to profits or losses, and the government has no legal mandate to act on either.
As the owner of three corporations, I can tell you that there is only one person on the planet ensuring their profitability, and that person is me! No governmental agency or representative has ensured their profitability! But it would be nice if they did, because then I could take a breather!
Nobody should have to live in mortal fear of losing their job
If you live in mortal fear of losing your job, you need to chill out a bit.
Anyhow, if you think that ANYBODY lives in poverty in the US, then you need to visit a third world country. Not being able to afford satellite TV on the latest flat-screen HDTV is not poverty.
People living in "poverty" in the US have clean drinking water, access to at least some health care, a roof over their heads, some food to put in their bellies, etc. Their most basic of human needs are met.
I don't think anyone should be allowed to bitch about poverty in the US who hasn't visited a third world country. That is poverty.
Every politician makes gaffes. Humans are error-prone, and politicians spend so much time speaking in public, it would be absurd to expect everything they say to be perfect 100% of the time.
But Quayle was different from other politicians. The article you linked to had an example of Al Gore saying something about a leopard changing his "stripes" instead of spots and Quayle complaining that the press let Gore off the hook for that one. But in my mind that's totally different from Quayle's gaffes.
Quayle routinely said things that just made no sense. It didn't matter whether you took his quotes in context, out of context, in ANY context. It was just gibberish! Even President Bush doesn't do that very often. Bush isn't always eloquent, but at least you know more or less what he's saying. The Gore gaffe... if you weren't analyzing every word he said, you probably wouldn't even notice that he gave leopards stripes instead of spots.
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. -- Dan Quayle
What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is. --Dan Quayle
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. --Dan Quayle
What in the sam hell does any of that mean? The world may never know.
Incidentally, I don't believe that Dan Quayle is a stupid man. But his reputation for putting his foot in his mouth is rightfully deserved.
If you are going to run a small business your clients will expect you to be there for them when they need you.
I dunno. I took two "extended" vacations last winter (10 days and 15 days) and my clients didn't really care. I just told them in advance and left things in a happy state before I left.
You'd be surprised. Most companies realize that their consultants need time off as well. Of course, you've got to be smart about when you plan your trips to minimize client impact. In one of the trips, one week was the week of thanksgiving when the client wasn't gonna get jack shit done anyway. I'm sure they appreciated not paying me for that week, and I appreciated some amazing caribbean diving!
I make it very clear that, not only am I not at work, I'm also uncontactable while I'm away
I love it when my clients call me on vacation! The smallest billing increment I have is 30 min, and I just call back during downtime.
I've made back my lift ticket money while on the chairlift. I've made back my car rental money driving from OAK to Napa.
Although, I guess there are vacations and there are vacations. My clients had no way to get ahold of me during either of my vacations last winter since my cell only works in the US.
I am currently examining the FSFS repository that I use for my personal coding. Let me say this: "I defy you to make any sense out of the gibberish that is your FSFS backend."
If you have a random corruption, I severely doubt you're going to be jumping into the FSFS repository and tweaking it to fix it.
My solution: rsnapshot. Because the repository is filesystem-based, all of my backup history combined only takes up the same amount of space as my actual repository (god bless hard links). With BDB, the disk usage for my backups would be insane.
After you fulfill your one or two year agreement, call your cell company and say you want a new phone or you're switching to $other_cellphone_company.
I think you'll find that your current provider would be happy to give you a new phone. Some even proactively contact you an offer you a new phone (like Verizon's "New Every Two").
I don't remember learning about two different mutually exclusive creation stories. I'm familiar with the one that begins, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." but what is the second?
It seems every time someone wants to bend the Torah to say something it doesn't, they simply assert that the ancient Hebrew was mistranslated.
Every time I go back to the Hebrew and look for myself, the original translation is obviously the correct one. 9 times out of 10 are like this example, where a direct explanation is given in the text just to make it perfectly clear.
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This was obviously a bacterial infection from something that I ingested. Yay. So I walked into a pharmacy and despite the language barrier, 2 minutes and 2 dollars later, I had a run of Cipro. Bye bye shits.
In the US, I would have had to make an apointment with my doctor. Take time off work to go sit in his fucking waiting room when I should have been billing my client, shit into a cardboard box so he can test my shit to see that I do, indeed, have the shits. Then he would prescribe Cipro and I would have to take more time off work to stand in line at the fucking pharmacy in the fucking grocery store so I can get the actual Cipro when I should have been billing my client. There would have been a $15 copay on the doctor's visit and another $20 copay for the Cipro.
And we wonder why healthcare is so expensive here? Personally, I like the 2 minutes and $2 model better than the $35 and 3 hours out of my day model.
Try this one on for size: My Alma Mater currently costs $5866.24 per year for tuition (GO BADGERS!). Live at home or get a cheap-ass apartment with a few roommates for $100/mo. Eat Ramen. Your college costs are about $10,000/year when you get done with books and stuff.
Now here's where it gets tricky. Work June through August, and winter break as a temp making $12/hr. That's $8,000. Now work in the campus library 10 hrs/wk at $9/hr which is $3000/school yr. Your total income for the year is $11,000, and you should pay no tax with all the education tax credits.
In my case, I worked as a waiter for $20/hr, so I didn't have to eat Ramen... I just stole food from the restaurant. Show a little creativity!
Anyhow, that is the correct way to pay for college if your parents can't/won't pay for you. Taking out $130,000 in student loans is NOT the correct way to pay for college. I have no sympathy for people who do that.
I won't hire you because I believe that you are irritating, "real" degree or not.
As expected, we don't make any fucking TVs in the US.
So what's the problem?
As soon as you set foot on a college campus, the guys who get the chicks will be the pre-med, pre-business, etc. majors. Sure, the athletes will still get chicks, but that will change after their NCAA eligibility is used up.
After college, those athletes will become washed-up athletes and will get zero pussy. Hopefully they payed at least a little attention in college, or else they will be the ones picking up my garbage twice a week.
You know, it's funny. All I hear about is how China and India are going to "beat us", whatever that means. They study harder, there is more emphasis on academics, an blahdy blah blah. If that's the case, how come the best and brightest Chinese and Indians all seem to wind up in the US? Yeah, sure, I know a lot of really smart Chinese and Indians. I work with them every day.
In Virginia.
By the way, I have no problem with the H1B program. If foreigners want to come here and compete with me for jobs right here on my turf with my cost of living, I say let 'em. They better be prepared to lose, though. I am one extremely competitive motherfucker.
Must have been all those years of high school sports.
On Ritalin, he was able to ignore the distractions and just listen to the professor. This is an ability to you and I take for granted, but for him, he tried, but just could not learn anything in class without medication. Would depriving him of an education be better for his human rights than giving him Ritalin? Personally, I'd much rather see him get an education.
I also don't get your point about diseases that are diagnosed by clinical symptoms. For instance, my wife has Multiple Sclerosis (MS). MS is diagnosed by clinical symptoms. Oh, sure, she's had MRIs out the wazoo, but they do not conclusively diagnose the disease. Her brain lesions will come and go, and there are non-MS patients whose MRIs for unrelated injuries will show brain lesions that will never materialize as MS. But my wife has the "pins and needles" Numbness and Pain symptoms, so she has MS and is being treated for it.
How is MS different from ADD? We don't really understand the cause of either, so we diagnose both through symptoms.
If you're using RAID to protect your data in case of a drive failure, you are probably going to be using a RAID 1 variant of some sort, or RAID 5.
Yowsers.
Anyhow, if you think that ANYBODY lives in poverty in the US, then you need to visit a third world country. Not being able to afford satellite TV on the latest flat-screen HDTV is not poverty.
People living in "poverty" in the US have clean drinking water, access to at least some health care, a roof over their heads, some food to put in their bellies, etc. Their most basic of human needs are met.
I don't think anyone should be allowed to bitch about poverty in the US who hasn't visited a third world country. That is poverty.
But Quayle was different from other politicians. The article you linked to had an example of Al Gore saying something about a leopard changing his "stripes" instead of spots and Quayle complaining that the press let Gore off the hook for that one. But in my mind that's totally different from Quayle's gaffes.
Quayle routinely said things that just made no sense. It didn't matter whether you took his quotes in context, out of context, in ANY context. It was just gibberish! Even President Bush doesn't do that very often. Bush isn't always eloquent, but at least you know more or less what he's saying. The Gore gaffe... if you weren't analyzing every word he said, you probably wouldn't even notice that he gave leopards stripes instead of spots.
What in the sam hell does any of that mean? The world may never know.Incidentally, I don't believe that Dan Quayle is a stupid man. But his reputation for putting his foot in his mouth is rightfully deserved.
You'd be surprised. Most companies realize that their consultants need time off as well. Of course, you've got to be smart about when you plan your trips to minimize client impact. In one of the trips, one week was the week of thanksgiving when the client wasn't gonna get jack shit done anyway. I'm sure they appreciated not paying me for that week, and I appreciated some amazing caribbean diving!
I've made back my lift ticket money while on the chairlift. I've made back my car rental money driving from OAK to Napa.
Although, I guess there are vacations and there are vacations. My clients had no way to get ahold of me during either of my vacations last winter since my cell only works in the US.
Oh well. I guess they just don't like me.
These "professional" journalists at the NYT are just making shit up as they go along, anyhow.
Anyone know if KDE is using the BDB or the FSFS backend?
If you have a random corruption, I severely doubt you're going to be jumping into the FSFS repository and tweaking it to fix it.
My solution: rsnapshot. Because the repository is filesystem-based, all of my backup history combined only takes up the same amount of space as my actual repository (god bless hard links). With BDB, the disk usage for my backups would be insane.
I think you'll find that your current provider would be happy to give you a new phone. Some even proactively contact you an offer you a new phone (like Verizon's "New Every Two").
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I don't remember learning about two different mutually exclusive creation stories. I'm familiar with the one that begins, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." but what is the second?
Every time I go back to the Hebrew and look for myself, the original translation is obviously the correct one. 9 times out of 10 are like this example, where a direct explanation is given in the text just to make it perfectly clear.
Ouch.
Surely SCO has enough lawyers, and I bet all of them know more about IP law than Paul "Who the fuck am I, again?" Murphy.