Cute. But is it really so bad of me to dislike having to smell nasty smells? I mean, I don't fart in public because people around me don't like the smell. So why should smoking in public be socially acceptable?
So when someone comes along and accuses nonsmokers of thinking him a pariah for being addicted to tobacco, I responded that I, a nonsmoker, couldn't care less about his stupid addiction. It's the smell that bothers me. Is a little fresh air so much to ask for?
Making a small or large is no extra work. Starbucks employees prolly just look irritated because.. well.. they're working at Starbucks. Can you blame them?
The non-smoker wants the average to be higher. They want to make smokers more nasty, evil, addicted and out of control than they really are.
That is the most rediculous thing I've heard all day. Granted, it's only 11am, but seriously. As a non-smoker, the only thing I wish I could make smokers do is stop smelling like ass. You seriously fucking reek. Your breath reeks, your clothes reek, your ashtray reeks, and I'd rather not be around you because you stink. You stink up bars and make my clothes stink, too. You make my contacts itch. You make everything around you stink and everyone around you suffer. I'm just happy you can't smoke indoors so I don't have to smell that, too.
Your attempt to portray non-smokers as being unreasonable because we object to your addiction is just silly. Seriously, your addiction? Not my problem. Your health-risks? Not my problem. I don't care if you get lung cancer and die. I don't care if you get throat cancer and die. I don't care if you get heart disease and die. If you smelled ok, I wouldn't care if you smoked. But you reek, so I find you offensive.
Back up the write logs. From those, you can recreate the tables. That's what they're there for. Then, you're backing up incrementally and not taking a snapshot of your entire DB every night.;)
However, they demand that we purchase a renters insurance policy that would cover, in effect, the entire building, should something go wrong (a lightning strike, for example). The requirement stated some rediculous multi $100k dollar amount.
FYI, according to the FCC, that is illegal. Read the part that says
Q: What types of restrictions are prohibited?
A: The rule prohibits restrictions that impair a person's ability to install, maintain, or use an antenna covered by the rule. The rule applies to state or local laws or regulations, including zoning, land-use or building regulations, private covenants, homeowners' association rules, condominium or cooperative association restrictions, lease restrictions, or similar restrictions on property within the exclusive use or control of the antenna user where the user has an ownership or leasehold interest in the property. A restriction impairs if it: unreasonably delays or prevents use of; (2) unreasonably increases the cost of; or (3) precludes a person from receiving or transmitting an acceptable quality signal from an antenna covered under the rule. The rule does not prohibit legitimate safety restrictions or restrictions designed to preserve designated or eligible historic or prehistoric properties, provided the restriction is no more burdensome than necessary to accomplish the safety or preservation purpose.
First off, your landlord can specify exactly what they're allowed and not allowed to do when they sign a waiver.
Wrong wrong wrong. The FCC says that you cannot sign away your right to install a 1M or smaller dish in a non-common area (as in for your exclusive use). Your landlord cannot prevent you. Your city can't prevent you. No one can.
Second, if you approach your landlord in a way that makes it sound like they're getting a deal out of it, they may just say yes. Try pitching it to them like, "I want to upgrade your apartment, free of charge, to be satellite ready!"
Seriously, if your landlord is that brain-dead he is not gonna be a landlord much longer. Landlord school has a mandatory course called "Seeing Straight Through Tenant Bullshit 101". Any landlord who fails that one is in for a hell of a ride.
Despite Tony Blair's policies, the UK is not a US state, and therefor is "international". Some US retailers just don't do international for whatever reason. It's a whole new set of regulation, you have less recourse in the case of fraud, etc. They just don't wanna deal with it. It's nothing personal against the UK.
this guy has $11,000 cash lying around in case all his hardware dies a tragic death? Maybe he really does want to pay 1% of the replacement cost per year so he doesn't have to lie awake at night worrying about that number, $11,000 cash, if he were to lose all his electronics somehow. That peace of mind is worth something, and to him it is clearly worth 1%/yr.
It's the morons who plunk down 33% of the replacement cost of some gadget on an Extended Warranty who need your condescending "grasshopper" lesson.
You are describing the company, and not the CRM implementation. CRM cannot control the intention of the company that implements it. Like any technology, it can be used for good or bad purposes. You cannot blame shady companies on CRM technology. Those companies are going to be distasteful whether they implement CRM or not.
Case in point: Do you think Nordstrom has CRM? (hint: they use Siebel) Now do you think they would ever be caught dead treating their customers poorly? Hahahah. No way.
You've gotta separate the technology from the company.
It is the slowest distro to crank out new releases.
If you are running a server, this is what you want. The process for rolling out changes to a production machine in any smart company is never trivial. On your desktop machine, if you update something and something else breaks, you curse a few times and figure out how to fix it.
On a production machine for a company's e-commerce website or whatever, if you update something, and it breaks something else taking down your e-commerce website, your entire business just got brought to a screeching halt, and heads roll. If you admin a production system, the last thing on earth you want are frequent updates. You want an OS that does not change unless there is a security hole discovered. You want to come to work and have the same old system working as well today as it worked yesterday.
That is who uses debian stable. Would I recommend deb stable for a desktop machine? No way. Use testing. But would I recommend testing for a "mission critical" server? No way. You'd have to be out of your mind.
the idea that you had to really treat the customer right and constantly get in the customer's face with how wonderful a company you were so they'd all want to do business with you since you were such a great friendly place.
That's not what CRM is.
dropping spyware on your computer so they can bombard you with crap advertising for products that don't work and nobody wants - and treating their employees - those people who are the front-line to their customers - like dirt.
That is not what CRM is, either.
Once you get through all the marketing hype, all CRM is is an infrastructure to unify channels of contact with a customer. Take a large company, let's say Citigroup. Let's say you're a customer and you fax some request to Citibank. Nevermind that your fax was probably received in Nevada and transcribed in Bungalore, you are a customer and you just see Citi. Not some massive company with many businesses each with many divisions who have a hard time knowing what each other are doing. When you walk into your local branch, you expect your banker to know you faxed Citi. When you call the 800 #, you expect the CSR in Bangledesh to know you just opened an account in Topeka, Kansas.
That's what CRM is. Enabling large organizations to provide their customers coherent service by having all the customer's "relationship" data available across the organization. What said organization does with the data and how well they treat their clients is up to them. But, anyhow, now you know what CRM is.
I have no idea if they still have this sort of "policy" anymore, or if it was just this particular manager or particular store, but that is the sort of service that will keep people loyal to a place.
I think it still is their policy. I had a water-heater die on me out of warranty. I didn't even buy the thing (came with my house)... bit I figured out it was bought at Sears, so I called their service dept to schedule someone to come out and fix it. While on the phone, the CSR correctly diagnosed my problem, told me it was a $3 part (the thermocouple had died), and that I could fix it myself in 10 minutes, and that if I was having trouble I could call back and they would walk me through it, and did I still want to pay for a service call?
Needless to say I installed it myself and needless to say when I needed a new fridge a few weeks ago I went straight to Sears. It prolly cost me a little more than if I would have bought it at Al's discount scrap heap, but knowing that Sears Service won't try to rip me off when something goes wrong made the difference.
I have a small gentoo box (EPIA) and a large debian box (multiprocessor). I set up distcc on the debian machine to handle as much of the compiling as possible, but about 10% of the gentoo packages won't compile using distcc because gentoo's gcc version is patched to all hell, methinks.
Kinda frustrating to run a huge emerge, only to return hours later to see that nothing ran because distcc puked.
If you ran an online store and 0.1% of your business came from Eastern Europe and 90% of the business was fraud, you'd block too. Even if more fraud comes from the US, a US retailer can't very well block the US since that is the source of 99% of his business.
This is business, my friend, not some socialist expirement.
That's right, number 2 means you have to lose your fear of rejection. When you leanred to walk, when you learned to ride a bike, did you ever fall? And after that did you give up and never try again? Of course not. You got right back up again and again until you got it right. You will need to do the same for dating.
Dating is a skill that needs to be learned through practice. This way, you can not only learn how to be yourself in a way that does not come across as offensive, you also run the chance of locating a woman who find your "nerdy" qualities charming.
Do you want to date? Do you really want to date? Resolve that you will ask out 100 women in the month of July. Realize that many times you will get shot down. But certainly you'll get several dates and you'll refine your style/technique.
Sure, that all sounds good, but let me put it to you this way. I left my salaried job where I was working 60-70 hrs/wk for an hourly job working 40 hours/wk (unless it's a deadline or something). I make over three times at the hourly job as as the salaried job for much less work.
So you can keep your pride. I'll take the money and free time, thanks.
That's why there are two types of electric locks: fail-safe and fail-secure. I'll leave it up to you to decide which lock when the power is lost and which unlock.
Anyone know when Spamassassin 3.0 is going to be released? Some spammers seem to have outsmarted 2.63. I'm really excited to see what changes they have made to up the ante in teh war on spam
According to the American Bar Association, there were1,058,662 ACTIVE lawyers in the US in 2003. That means about 1 in every 290 US residents is an active lawyer.
Not surprisingly, the ratio in Washington DC (where I am currently residing) is much higher. 41K resident (doesn't count commuters, and there are many commuters from VA and MD) lawyers in a population of 571K. That's more like 1 in 14 is a lawyer (but really it's worse than that because of the commuters). And that, my friend, probably explains the level of litigation in this country.
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So when someone comes along and accuses nonsmokers of thinking him a pariah for being addicted to tobacco, I responded that I, a nonsmoker, couldn't care less about his stupid addiction. It's the smell that bothers me. Is a little fresh air so much to ask for?
Making a small or large is no extra work. Starbucks employees prolly just look irritated because.. well.. they're working at Starbucks. Can you blame them?
Your attempt to portray non-smokers as being unreasonable because we object to your addiction is just silly. Seriously, your addiction? Not my problem. Your health-risks? Not my problem. I don't care if you get lung cancer and die. I don't care if you get throat cancer and die. I don't care if you get heart disease and die. If you smelled ok, I wouldn't care if you smoked. But you reek, so I find you offensive.
Back up the write logs. From those, you can recreate the tables. That's what they're there for. Then, you're backing up incrementally and not taking a snapshot of your entire DB every night. ;)
Despite Tony Blair's policies, the UK is not a US state, and therefor is "international". Some US retailers just don't do international for whatever reason. It's a whole new set of regulation, you have less recourse in the case of fraud, etc. They just don't wanna deal with it. It's nothing personal against the UK.
It's the morons who plunk down 33% of the replacement cost of some gadget on an Extended Warranty who need your condescending "grasshopper" lesson.
Case in point: Do you think Nordstrom has CRM? (hint: they use Siebel) Now do you think they would ever be caught dead treating their customers poorly? Hahahah. No way.
You've gotta separate the technology from the company.
On a production machine for a company's e-commerce website or whatever, if you update something, and it breaks something else taking down your e-commerce website, your entire business just got brought to a screeching halt, and heads roll. If you admin a production system, the last thing on earth you want are frequent updates. You want an OS that does not change unless there is a security hole discovered. You want to come to work and have the same old system working as well today as it worked yesterday.
That is who uses debian stable. Would I recommend deb stable for a desktop machine? No way. Use testing. But would I recommend testing for a "mission critical" server? No way. You'd have to be out of your mind.
That's why there is more than one "Debian".
Once you get through all the marketing hype, all CRM is is an infrastructure to unify channels of contact with a customer. Take a large company, let's say Citigroup. Let's say you're a customer and you fax some request to Citibank. Nevermind that your fax was probably received in Nevada and transcribed in Bungalore, you are a customer and you just see Citi. Not some massive company with many businesses each with many divisions who have a hard time knowing what each other are doing. When you walk into your local branch, you expect your banker to know you faxed Citi. When you call the 800 #, you expect the CSR in Bangledesh to know you just opened an account in Topeka, Kansas.
That's what CRM is. Enabling large organizations to provide their customers coherent service by having all the customer's "relationship" data available across the organization. What said organization does with the data and how well they treat their clients is up to them. But, anyhow, now you know what CRM is.
Needless to say I installed it myself and needless to say when I needed a new fridge a few weeks ago I went straight to Sears. It prolly cost me a little more than if I would have bought it at Al's discount scrap heap, but knowing that Sears Service won't try to rip me off when something goes wrong made the difference.
Kinda frustrating to run a huge emerge, only to return hours later to see that nothing ran because distcc puked.
This is business, my friend, not some socialist expirement.
- Remember that you were gonna meet your buddy and he's gonna be pissed
- Compliment her dancing, smile, eyes, blahdyblah whatever. Chicks can't seem to get enough compliments
- Say you'd like to pick up the conversation some other time when it's less noisy
- Get her number
- WAIT 2-3 DAYS
- Call her and ask her out to lunch (or dinner, but lunch is less pressure for both of you).
Best of luck next time!- Practice
- Resilience
That's right, number 2 means you have to lose your fear of rejection. When you leanred to walk, when you learned to ride a bike, did you ever fall? And after that did you give up and never try again? Of course not. You got right back up again and again until you got it right. You will need to do the same for dating.Dating is a skill that needs to be learned through practice. This way, you can not only learn how to be yourself in a way that does not come across as offensive, you also run the chance of locating a woman who find your "nerdy" qualities charming.
Do you want to date? Do you really want to date? Resolve that you will ask out 100 women in the month of July. Realize that many times you will get shot down. But certainly you'll get several dates and you'll refine your style/technique.
No fear, man. Chicks like confidence.
Oh, you meant User-mode Linux? Well, why didn't you say so? Sometimes I think these writeups are intentionally confusing.
So you can keep your pride. I'll take the money and free time, thanks.
HTH. HAND.
Anyone know when Spamassassin 3.0 is going to be released? Some spammers seem to have outsmarted 2.63. I'm really excited to see what changes they have made to up the ante in teh war on spam
Mailing Lists.
Proof: Freedom Fries.
Or does that fuck up your 'analogy' too much?
Not surprisingly, the ratio in Washington DC (where I am currently residing) is much higher. 41K resident (doesn't count commuters, and there are many commuters from VA and MD) lawyers in a population of 571K. That's more like 1 in 14 is a lawyer (but really it's worse than that because of the commuters). And that, my friend, probably explains the level of litigation in this country.