I do a lot of remote support for my customers. I also make sure I get face time with them. Learning the work-flow of a company is very important when it comes to administering their network. If the company you are hiring doesn't schedule regular visits than i wouldnt trust them to work in your best interests. I'll add this as well. audit them periodically. Hire another company to check up on them. My customers do this and I've received good feedback from the customer and the auditor.
I totally agree with you. and am going for a sleep study tomorrow evening. One of my clients is a sleep center and they are doing it for free. The catch is that i'm testing out some new equipment for them at the same time. The Director is one of my friends and is glad he finally got me to agree to it.
i don't really use the vending machine at work, not for the past 3 years anyway. only pretzels if i get anything.
Thanks for the post though. it's refreshing to see someone lay it on the line.
yeah i factored that in, i may lie a bit about it though. However. according to the Doc, i don't consume nearly enough to warrant the problems i'm having. Hopefully the CPAP will help.
not speaking for every fatass. But since I started working nights 10 years ago i've gained 150lbs. Funny thing is I'm still as active and eat basically the same amount that I always have.
I've been big since puberty set in. In HS i was 5'9" and weighed 240lbs. As i was playing football at the time I don't think it was a lack of exercise. I don't know what my calorie intake was at the time but it couldn't have been that much since we weren't very well off but my dad made enough to keep us off welfare. Never any huge amount of junk food or fatty food. Mostly carbs though. beans, rice, pasta and chicken.
In my 20's i reached my present height of 6ft. I was working construction and living in Brooklyn. I ate and drank pretty much whatever I wanted then but never got above 190.
FF to my 40's and 10 years of night work, sleep apnea and other nonsense I weigh 340. I eat maybe 2 times a day. I don't really eat sweets. My diet is mostly the same it was when I was a kid though I drink a lot more. spent about 3 months writing down my food intake for the doctor I'm working with. He didn't see anything abnormal. I average about 1900 calories a day. I should be losing weight but I'm not. Possibilities include sleep deprivation, thyroid problem or diabetes (which i still test negative for even though both parents have adult onset)
Sure there are people that don't control what they eat, don't exercise and are seriously fat in the way you describe. But I think there a lot of folks that due to different circumstances just can't maintain weight the way you or other people think they should.
FWIW, my family of 6 has a food budget of 540 a month not including 160 budgeted for eating out. this is pretty low for our area. most people i know that make the same amount of money as i do spend twice as much with less people in the house.
I don't have any figures about the amount of fuel we use. We have to have a minivan for all of us to go somewhere in one vehicle. And my personal vehicle is no gas miser. But I may only drive it 3000 miles a year. The minivan we've averaged about 9000mi/year since we bought it. Until hydrogen powered cars become more widespread though we won't be buying any new vehicles. I'm not wild about hybrids because i don't think batteries are any better for the environment than burning fuel. Converting Gas engines to run hydrogen I think is the best bet.
I don't think our transportation impact is that great since we aren't running kids back and forth to activities every night and we have always made an effort to consolidate trips.
and last but not least. I view people that hold stock with BMI calculations with the same derision as those that in the past believed in phrenology.
some people because of poor upbringing need to have everything spelled out for them. They cannot infer from context or the flow of the conversation that somethings are just given./snarky
Um yeah I don't think the OP or I was talking about setting arbitrary limits. I have no clue how you read my stance as a desire to "do something, anything". These limits are set based on things i described above. Nothing wrong with setting guidelines. There is something wrong with not guiding a child (either for good or bad)
Hopefully when the kid grows up you have trained them to decide if a limiting decision a parent has mad was asinine or not. If they can't determine it you've failed.
It's all about the devil you know. If you have kids you control what you can with the idea that you are doing it for their own good. These controls are based on your personal beliefs, fears and prejudices.
Some people go overboard, some people don't do enough.
If you go to the kitchen of your favorite restaraunt you may be appalled by the conditions there and decide to never go back.
If a person did this with everything in their lives they wouldn't have a life.
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I do a lot of remote support for my customers.
I also make sure I get face time with them.
Learning the work-flow of a company is very important when it comes to administering their network.
If the company you are hiring doesn't schedule regular visits than i wouldnt trust them to work in your best interests.
I'll add this as well. audit them periodically. Hire another company to check up on them.
My customers do this and I've received good feedback from the customer and the auditor.
i'll pass. 2 days of this nonsense is enough without trying to keep it going
With the way they seem to proliferate I think that would be a fine use of natural resources.
Nuk u lar plants of course! :)
I totally agree with you. and am going for a sleep study tomorrow evening.
One of my clients is a sleep center and they are doing it for free.
The catch is that i'm testing out some new equipment for them at the same time.
The Director is one of my friends and is glad he finally got me to agree to it.
i don't really use the vending machine at work, not for the past 3 years anyway. only pretzels if i get anything.
Thanks for the post though. it's refreshing to see someone lay it on the line.
yeah i factored that in, i may lie a bit about it though.
However. according to the Doc, i don't consume nearly enough to warrant the problems i'm having.
Hopefully the CPAP will help.
"It's a glandular problem!" Yeah, sure
But as a "large" person, bite my flabby ass.
not speaking for every fatass. But since I started working nights 10 years ago i've gained 150lbs.
Funny thing is I'm still as active and eat basically the same amount that I always have.
I've been big since puberty set in.
In HS i was 5'9" and weighed 240lbs. As i was playing football at the time I don't think it was a lack of exercise. I don't know what my calorie intake was at the time but it couldn't have been that much since we weren't very well off but my dad made enough to keep us off welfare. Never any huge amount of junk food or fatty food. Mostly carbs though. beans, rice, pasta and chicken.
In my 20's i reached my present height of 6ft. I was working construction and living in Brooklyn. I ate and drank pretty much whatever I wanted then but never got above 190.
FF to my 40's and 10 years of night work, sleep apnea and other nonsense I weigh 340. I eat maybe 2 times a day. I don't really eat sweets. My diet is mostly the same it was when I was a kid though I drink a lot more.
spent about 3 months writing down my food intake for the doctor I'm working with.
He didn't see anything abnormal. I average about 1900 calories a day.
I should be losing weight but I'm not. Possibilities include sleep deprivation, thyroid problem or diabetes (which i still test negative for even though both parents have adult onset)
Sure there are people that don't control what they eat, don't exercise and are seriously fat in the way you describe.
But I think there a lot of folks that due to different circumstances just can't maintain weight the way you or other people think they should.
FWIW, my family of 6 has a food budget of 540 a month not including 160 budgeted for eating out. this is pretty low for our area. most people i know that make the same amount of money as i do spend twice as much with less people in the house.
I don't have any figures about the amount of fuel we use. We have to have a minivan for all of us to go somewhere in one vehicle. And my personal vehicle is no gas miser. But I may only drive it 3000 miles a year. The minivan we've averaged about 9000mi/year since we bought it.
Until hydrogen powered cars become more widespread though we won't be buying any new vehicles.
I'm not wild about hybrids because i don't think batteries are any better for the environment than burning fuel.
Converting Gas engines to run hydrogen I think is the best bet.
I don't think our transportation impact is that great since we aren't running kids back and forth to activities every night and we have always made an effort to consolidate trips.
and last but not least. I view people that hold stock with BMI calculations with the same derision as those that in the past believed in phrenology.
well your reasoning concerning samsung is a little more sane than "oh noes it wont work with linux" when there's plenty of USB drives out there.
First post with any sense on this article. thanks.
This knee jerk reaction stuff needs to stop.
And last week the outrage was against Western Digital for the Mybook World edition.
So all thats left is Fujitsu?
Seriously, people need to get off this meme of Boycotting all of a company's product because one device doesn't work the way they want it to.
How many of you knuckleheads threw out your Macbooks because the iPhone was AT&T only when it was released? Or will never buy an Apple product again?
sorry about the idiot comment.
sounds like you are the idiot.
why would you get in a vehicle that someone you thought was impaired was driving?
It's possible. The carrier has to set it up. evidently no one in the US is doing i
A link for you:
http://forums.mobiledia.com/topic27924.html
I still play Master of Magic using DOSBox.
some people because of poor upbringing need to have everything spelled out for them. /snarky
They cannot infer from context or the flow of the conversation that somethings are just given.
Um yeah
I don't think the OP or I was talking about setting arbitrary limits.
I have no clue how you read my stance as a desire to "do something, anything".
These limits are set based on things i described above. Nothing wrong with setting guidelines.
There is something wrong with not guiding a child (either for good or bad)
Hopefully when the kid grows up you have trained them to decide if a limiting decision a parent has mad was asinine or not. If they can't determine it you've failed.
It's all about the devil you know.
If you have kids you control what you can with the idea that you are doing it for their own good.
These controls are based on your personal beliefs, fears and prejudices.
Some people go overboard, some people don't do enough.
If you go to the kitchen of your favorite restaraunt you may be appalled by the conditions there and decide to never go back.
If a person did this with everything in their lives they wouldn't have a life.
Kind of an embrace and extend thing?
but I won't worry till google conception is announced.
This is just another step toward finding someone to beat the Buggers.
the proper response would have been "See you next Wednesday"
Funny? hell this should be insightful.
all sausage type meats are heavily spiced to hide the fact that they are made of mostly snouts and asses.
with no snot or ass juice in you brat, would you like it better?
flavoring also comes from what the animal was fed.
If you ever had the chance take a taste test between corn-fed and grass-fed beef.
Don't forget the Woomba.
It keeps your business clean.
Your lady business...
I bet his name was really Leland Gaunt.