$120K a year now and taking home like $6,500 a month...Its rough.
Are you that out of touch with "the grim meathook reality?" Understand that the average household income in this country was $42,148 (2000). In North Carolina it was $37,057 (1997 - 1999 avg). You're doing just fine. It could be much worse
So...farming a few acres for food, a garden for opium and marijuana, perhaps a vineyard for wine. Someone to talk to, someone to hold at night. Hippie bullshit?
Re:Illustrate the Complexity of Machines
on
Computer History Museum
·
· Score: 1, Informative
I couldn't wait 'til Monday. Here's the link Thanks for pointing it out - it might come in handy.
Just so you know, irregardless...well, I'll save you the mouseclick:
irregardless (r-gärdls)
adv. Nonstandard
Regardless.
[Probably blend of irrespective, and regardless.]
Usage Note: Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so.
Remember, just because you are an idiot doesn't mean you have to sound like one.
Just so you know, I've been enjoying the hell out of these posts since I fist saw one. However, I fucking dreamed about a killer ATM and a man in a red hat two nights ago. I woke up trying to figure out where the hell that imagery had come from...now I remember.
Frankly, I won't be satisfied until they wire the monkey's brain to the Universal Translator
From the Universal Translator site:
New topic added -
Housekeeper. The phrases are selected with special purpose of covering about 95% of the communication needs of the property owners or tenants dealing with foreign speaking housekeepers. Now, UT-103 recognizes, translates into Spanish, Russian or French, and pronounces over 200 phrases on the subject.
Tell me that is a joke page. It is, right? I mean...can this be for real?
Yep. Summer 2000. I remember - I did fast food delivery at the time. All the sudden the phones went cold. I ran across the street (15th at Custer) to see if the payphones were out - they were. Funniest part I remember was watching a guy try his cellphone, not understanding how cell towers work (I did the highschool work thing at Nortel in Wireless), that they tie to landlines. Oh, I remember it well. It was a glorious day. I got paid to stand around, because I had to be ready "in case the phones start working again"
Thanks for the memory
I lived in Plano for years. I knew some of those rich kids with more money than sense. Jeff (no last names, look it up if you care) lived two doors down. He ODed and died in 1996. Ahead of the curve, yeah? He wasn't rich. He did have more money than sense, but he didn't have much money. Wes lived two, three blocks away. He didn't have much more sense than Jeff, and he had about the same amount of money. It wasn't the cash that killed them, it was the boredom, the myths, the recklesness, and the uncertain cuts. You live in Richardson, so you know...there's shit all to do around there that isn't organized or expensive. No places to just hang out unless you're spending money. So people do damn stupid things, like drag race down Spring Creek or Central and get killed, or drink everything they can find, or smoke shitloads of weed, or fuck around with shitty Mexican heroin. I thought it was interesting how the deaths occured in a wave...a few, a lot, a few - almost like there was a bunch of people who didn't respect the drug getting into it without taking the time to learn the lore. I haven't lived there for a year or so, and I've been out of the high school (PESH) / quad C / what do I do with my life stage for a few more, but I was there and I remember. Those weren't just dumb rich kids dying. Those were kids I used to ride the bus with, kids I'd played Frisbee with, kids I knew from the neighborhood. Shit. I don't know where all this came from, but now that I've typed it up I suppose I'll click "submit"
Exactly. I read Nested, Oldest First, -1, Hidden Moderation. I have to wade through some crap, but I can skim, so it isn't really a problem. Mostly I'm posting this to see if I've been unblocked. Here goes.
Slashdot Mirror
We were concerned about the lack of minority and older workers in the profession.
Not in the shop I just left.
Indians and Chinese on work visas, paid like shit and dying to leave.
I'm out of work, but not a C coder.
Yet.
That's what this "time of renewal" is for, right?
$120K a year now and taking home like $6,500 a month...Its rough.
Are you that out of touch with "the grim meathook reality?"
Understand that the average household income in this country was $42,148 (2000).
In North Carolina it was $37,057 (1997 - 1999 avg).
You're doing just fine. It could be much worse
So...farming a few acres for food, a garden for opium and marijuana, perhaps a vineyard for wine.
Someone to talk to, someone to hold at night.
Hippie bullshit?
I couldn't wait 'til Monday.
Here's the link
Thanks for pointing it out - it might come in handy.
So get Opera 6.
Works great. And no, I'm not set to identify as MSIE.
I'm amazed he could get 20 years of annoyances out of his system in a single hour
"I'm pregnant, your the father, and I'm going to kill all three of us"
Every day is Bad Moderator Day.
Maybe Sunday was Worse Moderator Day.
Remember, just because you are an idiot doesn't mean you have to sound like one.
Then, when crackheads start robbing your "branch offices" with weapons like broken bottles, you go crying to the FBI for protection.
But in this case, they didn't go to the FBI - they came up with their own brand of protection.
Off topic.
Haunting of Hill House, right?
I love that Jackson woman.
Nah. Tubes...why not make hotknives instead?
Have him build me a guitar amp and I'll give him all the feedback he can handle.
Just so you know, I've been enjoying the hell out of these posts since I fist saw one.
However, I fucking dreamed about a killer ATM and a man in a red hat two nights ago. I woke up trying to figure out where the hell that imagery had come from...now I remember.
Replace all those references to lefties with $AntiAbortionActivist and see how it reads
From the Universal Translator site:
Tell me that is a joke page. It is, right? I mean...can this be for real?
...and that's why I should hit "Preview"
Fluent in English?
No, I'm not stalikng you. I just happend to notice this, and thought it was an odd thing to say.
Yep. Summer 2000. I remember - I did fast food delivery at the time. All the sudden the phones went cold.
I ran across the street (15th at Custer) to see if the payphones were out - they were.
Funniest part I remember was watching a guy try his cellphone, not understanding how cell towers work (I did the highschool work thing at Nortel in Wireless), that they tie to landlines.
Oh, I remember it well. It was a glorious day. I got paid to stand around, because I had to be ready "in case the phones start working again"
Thanks for the memory
I lived in Plano for years. I knew some of those rich kids with more money than sense. Jeff (no last names, look it up if you care) lived two doors down. He ODed and died in 1996. Ahead of the curve, yeah? He wasn't rich. He did have more money than sense, but he didn't have much money. Wes lived two, three blocks away. He didn't have much more sense than Jeff, and he had about the same amount of money.
It wasn't the cash that killed them, it was the boredom, the myths, the recklesness, and the uncertain cuts. You live in Richardson, so you know...there's shit all to do around there that isn't organized or expensive. No places to just hang out unless you're spending money. So people do damn stupid things, like drag race down Spring Creek or Central and get killed, or drink everything they can find, or smoke shitloads of weed, or fuck around with shitty Mexican heroin.
I thought it was interesting how the deaths occured in a wave...a few, a lot, a few - almost like there was a bunch of people who didn't respect the drug getting into it without taking the time to learn the lore.
I haven't lived there for a year or so, and I've been out of the high school (PESH) / quad C / what do I do with my life stage for a few more, but I was there and I remember.
Those weren't just dumb rich kids dying. Those were kids I used to ride the bus with, kids I'd played Frisbee with, kids I knew from the neighborhood. Shit. I don't know where all this came from, but now that I've typed it up I suppose I'll click "submit"
The Slashdot editors are all fluent in English
I demand proof - a mere assertion will not convince me in this particular case.
September, 2001?
News?
It's not about compile time.
It's about the speed of the binaries produced by the compiler.
Exactly. I read Nested, Oldest First, -1, Hidden Moderation. I have to wade through some crap, but I can skim, so it isn't really a problem.
Mostly I'm posting this to see if I've been unblocked.
Here goes.