I dare any Debian user to try to stick up for the "ease" pinning hand-picked packages to mix various states of stable and unstable so as to keep a system useable but not a minimum of 2 years behind the times. Yikes!
It's called "testing" and the stuff gets moved from unstable to testing after 10 days. So your system has packages that have been in testing for 10 days. Plenty of time to iron out the kinks, and you are always running up-to-date versions of software. Running the testing version of Debian has always been stable for me.
Seriously. You want real legal advice, not advice from some dude on a website who sounds convincing.
That being said, how much help is the software without precision aviation hardware? And wouldn't the software you write be tied to some particular hardware that may or may not be hard for a typical nation's defense forces to obtain?
Being in the 10% of C's doesn't mean you get fired
At my old company, being a 1 meant you were fired. Then, they changed it so being a 5 meant you were fired. But they did have forced distribution rankings, so they were gonna fire x% (the exact percentage escapes me) of the company.
Unfortunately, I was always ranked toward the top so it took me a long-ass time to realize just how shitty of a company I worked for. When I finally did I got the fuck out of there and pretty much shocked those who knew me (top performer and just up and leaves). Now I work for a small company with exactly one employee: me. At least this time I knew going into the game that my boss is a total jackass.
But as I said, there just isn't enough information here to make any kind of decision on the rightness/wrongness of what was done.
Only thing I saw was that the police did not notify his legal guardian (parents), who were worried sick about him and could have easily solved the whole situation. The point is that parents only found out when they started getting letters from defense attorneys. If the cops are telling all the lawyers in town that the dude was arrested, the least they could have done is notify the legal guardians.
If I can figure out how to actually submit comments to bugs on the OO site, I will feedback Impress religiously in hopes that it becomes as facile an alternative as the others.
American companies are outsourcing not because of cheap labor but because of the American school system not being up to snuff. In a report by the AeA, they contend that American schools don't teach enough math and science anymore."
I have been on and seen a number of projects with an offshoring element and I can tell you that in all of those cases the offshoring was done for cheap labor, and the quality of the work produced by the offshore teams was invariably horseshit. At least it was cheap horseshit.
This is a great aphorism that conveniently supports the stereotype, but I don't really see any objective data on who said what. Maybe it is that you just *expected* the women to ask what color so those are the comments you remember.
Quit the opposite is true. If you read the short parable I wrote about the experience in this comment, you'll see that my wife was irritated that the salesperson at the dealer wouldn't quit harping on what color she wanted and she couldn't understand why he was being sexist. But then she noticed that all of her female friends, her mother, her grandmother, my mother, etc., asked first "What color was it?" when told that she had purchased a new car. The fact is the salesperson was responding to years of conditioning that women care more about color, and he was acting on that in an attempt to establish a rapport with my wife (of course it did not work, and he wound up only pissing her off, but that's neither here nor there). As for what that tells us about women, I'd say the fact that the car sales agent kept harping on the color tells the most about women. If that type of sales was a problem for the majority of women he'd have cut it out a long time ago. BTW, every dealership we visited behaved in this way, so it's not just one guy being a dick.
That being said, how do you know that the 17-year-old computer salesperson in Best Buy treated you any differently for being 50? Perhaps he was just an asshole and treated everyone that way. Perhaps because most people do not understand computers and need a little handholding.
Thank you for taking the time to explain things to these people who just assume that the issue is within the women, when it is really within their perception of women
I'd like to believe you, but I think it's more likely that the parent poster is an anomoly. See my reply to her where I explained that when my wife bought a new car and started announcing it to the world, women would first ask "What color?" and men would ask "What kind?". Is it any wonder that car salespeople do the same? Most women care about color/style/look rather than specs/features/reliability. My wife happens to be one of those women who cares about specs/features/reliability. But most women do not, and she'll be the first to tell you that.
As I get older I find that sales people have started talking down to me because as an "old guy" (50) I must not know anything about computers
Dude, the people working at best buy know nothing about computers. Just start throwing around a few acronyms and that'll fix that. ("How many PCI slots does this machine have?", "How many megs of video RAM does it come with?") Anything they can look up on their spec sheet. Prolly better not to ask "hard" stuff like bandwidth of the FSB 'cuz they're not gonna know and you're gonna be stuck waiting 45 minutes while they try to call Sanjay in Mumbai for an answer.
I'm an aerospace engineer, and I do finite element analysis on jet engines for a living.
Great. And my wife is a business analyst for a credit card company. She creates models to determine company's credit policy that take a few dozen variables and determine the credit risk vs. likely profitability. Not rocket science per se, but not your typical girly profession either.
It's rampant in sales and marketing of any kind--those horror stories you hear about women trying to buy cars or computers and being treated like 6 year-olds? They're all true.
A few years ago, I accompanied my wife (we weren't married at the time, tho) to some car dealerships for car buying because I had just purchased one myself and had already done a lot of the research on what's out there. All of the dealers behaved the same way, so I'll just use the Nissan dealship (why not name names, eh?) as an example. We went in, I stood in the background (she was buying the car, after all) and my wife informed the sales agent that she would be buying a car. The dealer introduced himself, shook my hand, and started talking to me about models. I responded that I already had a car and that he'd do better trying to sell to the lady standing next to me. So he turns to her and asks her, "So what color car would you like?" She informed him that she would like to discuss models/features/etc. and pick a color later. But this guy wasn't accepting of that. After asking less than 3 times my wife's color preference (before test driving even one car!), my wife informed him that if he asked that one more time she would be leaving.
Why do car sellers behave this way? I'll tell you why. Because that is how they sell more cars. They're trying to establish a rapport with the customer, and women tend to care more about car color than features. Don't believe me? Well, buying a new car is an exciting experience, and of course my wife told everyone she knew about it. She told her parents. Grandparents. Friends. Pretty much anyone who would listen (hey, she has to have some stereotypical female traits, right?) Without fail, the conversations with the women (her mother, grandmother, female friends, coworkers) went something like:
Wife: I bought a new car yesterday! Female: Oh, that's so exciting! What color is it?
And as I'm sure you've already guessed, the men all asked "What kind" instead of "What color". So what does that tell me? That you are an anomoly. So is my wife. But most women care more about color/style/looks than they care about specs/features/durability.
About the best you can do is inform any unskilled salespeople (the ones who, in trying to establish a rapport with you, miss the boat completely and try to give you warm fuzzies) what you consider to be important to your purchase and inform his/her manager if he/she still doesn't get it. Yes, it sucks. Yes, it shouldn't be that way. But you've got to function in society somehow.
They can remove a carpet of dog hair from any hard drive vent
That must be some expert tecnician.. er.. excuse me... digitician. I mean, where the fuck do you find the vent on your HDD?
Kinda reminds me of my computer installing days where this one woman, who I did not get along with well, kept insisting that her "new hard drive" be placed on the floor. After hearing her request that for the 5th and final time, I opened up the case, removed the hard drive, placed it on the floor, then left.
3 years of is time is also included in that $300,000 figure. $300k sure as hell would not cover 3 years of my time and that leaves no money left to buy your metric assload of disk space and 1TB of bandwidth.
Continue to allow buyers to download your software, but ship them a CD of it, too. USMail can give you a delivery confirmation for a couple of bucks and the CD'll cost you like 50 cents. Then you'll have proof of delivery and qualify for seller protection. Pass the cost on to your customers.
Don't forget to read what the Federal Deposit Insurance Act has to say about who is a bank. Basically, if you are incorporated in a state (or DC) and take deposits, you are a 'state bank'. In fact, this is exactly what the FDIC ruled a few years ago. The FDIC said, in a nutshell, "because you do not have a charter and you do not personally hold deposits, you are not a national bank, but the States might rule otherwise".
So it seems the jury is still out on what the hell paypal is. But the Feds made it very clear that paypal very well might fall under state bank regulation.
Your problem isn't that you are a 23 year old virgin. Your problem is that you are flipping out about being a 23 year old virgin. I can think of no less than 50 reasons why you need to just chill out about it. Here are a few in random order:
Women are about more than just sex. I'm not trying to say you're a cheauvanist, just that you're dwelling on only one facet of women. You might do well to simply practice talking to women. About mundane things. For example, let's say you're going to check in for a flight. You might normally just stand in front of the ticket agent awkwardly, fumble for your ID and hand it to her, then scurry away. Instead, ask her a few questions. "Is this a full flight? Do you know if there is an ATM nearby? etc..." Next, move up to small talk that is unrelated to the transaction (the weather, results of the latest sporting event, whatever comes to mind). If there's some question you need answered at work and you have a choice of whom you can ask, try to choose a woman. Anything to get you comfortable interacting with women on a person-to-person basis.
23 ain't that old to be a virgin. It's not like you're 40 or something. And anyway losing your virginity when you're younger (read: more likely to be losing it to another virgin) ain't all it's cracked up to be. My first time was very memorable in that neither of use had a fscking clue what we were doing. It was awkward. It hurt for her. Real romantic, I gotta tell ya. Sure, after practicing (and practicing... and practicing...) we got much better at it. But that first time? Better it should be with someone who is experienced, I'd say. Hell, you could spin it as a positive. What woman wouldn't jump at the chance to teach a man to do things exactly the way she likes it?
For the love of god, do not say something like "I have 16 inch arms and 9-10% body fat" to a woman. Kidding. But the point is, no one is quite sure why women are attracted to men. We are hairy, rude, fart in public, keep messy living quarters, become assholes when we drink, can't dress, and all they have to look forward to when we get older is us going bald. But they are attracted to us, and they have their reasons. Fortunately, there are all kinds of women out there who are attracted to all kinds of men. There are plenty out there who will find your strong points attractive and your quirks charming (or at least not too offensive). But you will never find these women if you never speak to them. Hell, they're probably shy, themselves.
No woman is going to think you are pathetic for being a virgin. The necessity for maintaining some sort of image left the day you graduated high school. When the subject comes up (not on the first date!) you could tell her the truth (chicks love minor doses of self-deprecating humor) "You're never gonna believe this, but it turns out I was actually not the most popular kid in my high school" and she is not going to think less of you. At this age people recognize how silly high school popularity consests were and even enjoy poking a little fun at them. Now don't dwell on this. Don't say it eats you up inside (even though it does) that you are a virgin. If you are able to say that you are a virgin in a self-assured way (practice in front of a mirror if you must!), and that you are ok with it, and that you will lose your virginity whenever it happens to happen. Just don't take it and yourself so seriously.
Ok. I'm tired of typing. But I think you get the general idea. Start talking to women, get your confidence up (women love a man who is confident, yet not cocky... good luck striking that balance 'cuz it's different for every woman), then start asking some women out.
Just one thing. Dating is a game, and practice makes perfect. You're gonna face some rejection, and it's nothing personal. Don't take it personally and don't become emotionally invested in a women before asking her out! If she rejects you you'll be sad and won't try again. Always try again. There are always more women out there. Many of them will like you. I reapeat, many of them will like you. You just gotta not take rejection personally.
As far as the cook goes, you have to deal with 10+ waitresses and the people inside of the kitchen.
I was a waiter in high school. Not only do you get to flirt more with the waitresses, but your pay is directly correlated to how well you put your guests at ease and create an enjoyable atmosphere for them.
Let's just say I learned real quick how to deal with people.
The thief opened two credit card accounts in my name, was able to take over my real credit card account, and also obtain telephone service in my name in another state (obviously didn't pay the bills). It took me over two years to sort the situation out and I still have to check my credit file every now and again to make sure nothing new has popped up.
Does the system suck? Yes, the system sucks ass. But now you at least have some idea why Americans are "privacy nuts". Because having your information get out is a really big pain.
My father pays more in medical malpractice insurance than I made last year.
Well, let's see here. According to the Journal of Clinical Orthodontics, orthos make a median of $350,000/yr. But your dad is, according to you, a well-respected expert, so let's assume he makes above the median. Let's say $500,000/yr. Now assuming his revenues are $900,000 before he pays his office workers, the chicks who actually put on and take off the braces (what are they called again? The ortho equivalent to hygenists), the office rent, his medical malpractice insurance, etc., and let's assume he pays the average 3.5% of revenues on insurance. That means he pays $31,500 for insurance.
Do I believe you that you make less than $31,500? Sure. Do I care that your dad pays that much for insurance? Not when you figure his take-home pay (pretax) is $500,000. Should you care? No. After all, he makes over 16x your salary.
So what am I saying? I dunno. I guess that your dad is easily in the top 1% of US wage earners and ought to quit bitching about insurance costs.
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That being said, how much help is the software without precision aviation hardware? And wouldn't the software you write be tied to some particular hardware that may or may not be hard for a typical nation's defense forces to obtain?
Those are my thoughts.
That's what my CPA is for, dude.
Unfortunately, I was always ranked toward the top so it took me a long-ass time to realize just how shitty of a company I worked for. When I finally did I got the fuck out of there and pretty much shocked those who knew me (top performer and just up and leaves). Now I work for a small company with exactly one employee: me. At least this time I knew going into the game that my boss is a total jackass.
That took me all of 12 seconds to find. If you don't count the time I spent writing this comment.
YMMV.
That being said, how do you know that the 17-year-old computer salesperson in Best Buy treated you any differently for being 50? Perhaps he was just an asshole and treated everyone that way. Perhaps because most people do not understand computers and need a little handholding.
Why do car sellers behave this way? I'll tell you why. Because that is how they sell more cars. They're trying to establish a rapport with the customer, and women tend to care more about car color than features. Don't believe me? Well, buying a new car is an exciting experience, and of course my wife told everyone she knew about it. She told her parents. Grandparents. Friends. Pretty much anyone who would listen (hey, she has to have some stereotypical female traits, right?) Without fail, the conversations with the women (her mother, grandmother, female friends, coworkers) went something like:
Wife: I bought a new car yesterday!
Female: Oh, that's so exciting! What color is it?
And as I'm sure you've already guessed, the men all asked "What kind" instead of "What color". So what does that tell me? That you are an anomoly. So is my wife. But most women care more about color/style/looks than they care about specs/features/durability.
About the best you can do is inform any unskilled salespeople (the ones who, in trying to establish a rapport with you, miss the boat completely and try to give you warm fuzzies) what you consider to be important to your purchase and inform his/her manager if he/she still doesn't get it. Yes, it sucks. Yes, it shouldn't be that way. But you've got to function in society somehow.
Or just ride the bus.
Kinda reminds me of my computer installing days where this one woman, who I did not get along with well, kept insisting that her "new hard drive" be placed on the floor. After hearing her request that for the 5th and final time, I opened up the case, removed the hard drive, placed it on the floor, then left.
All in all, not so bad, IMHO.
3 years of is time is also included in that $300,000 figure. $300k sure as hell would not cover 3 years of my time and that leaves no money left to buy your metric assload of disk space and 1TB of bandwidth.
Mandatory Arbitration.
Continue to allow buyers to download your software, but ship them a CD of it, too. USMail can give you a delivery confirmation for a couple of bucks and the CD'll cost you like 50 cents. Then you'll have proof of delivery and qualify for seller protection. Pass the cost on to your customers.
So it seems the jury is still out on what the hell paypal is. But the Feds made it very clear that paypal very well might fall under state bank regulation.
- Women are about more than just sex. I'm not trying to say you're a cheauvanist, just that you're dwelling on only one facet of women. You might do well to simply practice talking to women. About mundane things. For example, let's say you're going to check in for a flight. You might normally just stand in front of the ticket agent awkwardly, fumble for your ID and hand it to her, then scurry away. Instead, ask her a few questions. "Is this a full flight? Do you know if there is an ATM nearby? etc..." Next, move up to small talk that is unrelated to the transaction (the weather, results of the latest sporting event, whatever comes to mind). If there's some question you need answered at work and you have a choice of whom you can ask, try to choose a woman. Anything to get you comfortable interacting with women on a person-to-person basis.
- 23 ain't that old to be a virgin. It's not like you're 40 or something. And anyway losing your virginity when you're younger (read: more likely to be losing it to another virgin) ain't all it's cracked up to be. My first time was very memorable in that neither of use had a fscking clue what we were doing. It was awkward. It hurt for her. Real romantic, I gotta tell ya. Sure, after practicing (and practicing... and practicing...) we got much better at it. But that first time? Better it should be with someone who is experienced, I'd say. Hell, you could spin it as a positive. What woman wouldn't jump at the chance to teach a man to do things exactly the way she likes it?
- For the love of god, do not say something like "I have 16 inch arms and 9-10% body fat" to a woman. Kidding. But the point is, no one is quite sure why women are attracted to men. We are hairy, rude, fart in public, keep messy living quarters, become assholes when we drink, can't dress, and all they have to look forward to when we get older is us going bald. But they are attracted to us, and they have their reasons. Fortunately, there are all kinds of women out there who are attracted to all kinds of men. There are plenty out there who will find your strong points attractive and your quirks charming (or at least not too offensive). But you will never find these women if you never speak to them. Hell, they're probably shy, themselves.
- No woman is going to think you are pathetic for being a virgin. The necessity for maintaining some sort of image left the day you graduated high school. When the subject comes up (not on the first date!) you could tell her the truth (chicks love minor doses of self-deprecating humor) "You're never gonna believe this, but it turns out I was actually not the most popular kid in my high school" and she is not going to think less of you. At this age people recognize how silly high school popularity consests were and even enjoy poking a little fun at them. Now don't dwell on this. Don't say it eats you up inside (even though it does) that you are a virgin. If you are able to say that you are a virgin in a self-assured way (practice in front of a mirror if you must!), and that you are ok with it, and that you will lose your virginity whenever it happens to happen. Just don't take it and yourself so seriously.
Ok. I'm tired of typing. But I think you get the general idea. Start talking to women, get your confidence up (women love a man who is confident, yet not cocky... good luck striking that balance 'cuz it's different for every woman), then start asking some women out.Just one thing. Dating is a game, and practice makes perfect. You're gonna face some rejection, and it's nothing personal. Don't take it personally and don't become emotionally invested in a women before asking her out! If she rejects you you'll be sad and won't try again. Always try again. There are always more women out there. Many of them will like you. I reapeat, many of them will like you. You just gotta not take rejection personally.
Good luck, man.
Let's just say I learned real quick how to deal with people.
HTH. HAND.
How, again, did you lose your domains? Couldn't you just log into your account at your registrar and change the DNS settings, billing contact, etc?
Does the system suck? Yes, the system sucks ass. But now you at least have some idea why Americans are "privacy nuts". Because having your information get out is a really big pain.
Do I believe you that you make less than $31,500? Sure. Do I care that your dad pays that much for insurance? Not when you figure his take-home pay (pretax) is $500,000. Should you care? No. After all, he makes over 16x your salary.
So what am I saying? I dunno. I guess that your dad is easily in the top 1% of US wage earners and ought to quit bitching about insurance costs.