You are thinking way to small. We need to move Mars and Venus to the trailing Lagrange points in Earth's orbit. That will put them both in the water zone. Then, send a stream of comets from the Oort cloud to crash into Mars - just need to be careful not to miss. Venus just gets the good old fashioned algae/plants method of atmospheric reduction.
By the time we use up Earth, Mars will be ready for wholesale migration, and by the time Mars is used up, Venus will be done simmering. By that time we will be assembling new planets from scratch with asteroids, Mercury, Pluto, Sedna, and whatever other junk we can find.
"Most people do not have the choice to decide whether they wish to work, or with whom they wish to work for"
and
"If people really did have a choice of not to work for bad companies, I'm sure they would. Until that day comes, we will need legislation protecting us from our employers."
Huh?!? You mean, when I quit my last job and took this one, that was somehow impermissible? Or that it wasn't my choice, but some other person's?
There have been plenty of examples through history of folks not having a choice of who they worked for - company towns, the Soviets, and slavery. And I also agree that some people have little choice in the TYPES of jobs they must take - if I'm only qualified to be an angineer, I can't expect to set up shop as a doctor, or if I'm a farm laborer I'm perhaps not qualified to finish drywall. But California and the US in the year 2007? Come on! the vast majority of workers can choose their employer, and those that can't tend to be in illegal situations - slavery or other coerced employment.
Of course, those choices have consequences. When I left my previous job, I walked away from $40k in a "golden handcuffs" stock plan. But I did it anyway. Was my power to choose illusory, and I'm really still working for that old company in some sort of diabolical Cartesian plot?
I agree that allowing employers to require RFID implants is a bad thing, but using the "Gov't must protect the poor helpless worker from the soulless capitalist exploiter" just makes you sound stupid.
1) It doesn't really have a point, but 2) It feels quite good 3) Everybody does it, and 4) The ones that say they don't are either lying or have been neutered.
Just remember, it's not the US that hates the French - EVERYBODY hates the French, except those who the French have bribed.
(And much to my chagrin, that last statement can apply now to the US)
This is basically a big FU to Bush, one of many that will come out of Congress over the next 2 years. The relative merit of appropriations is irrelevant - this is the "We Hate Bush" congress, and their actions will typically have that as a primary element.
I would agree with all of the above except for the following: "If you're over 20 and you haven't started already, you're way behind the game". One can be "over 20" and still be in college, with not substantial means of income. At this point, "establishing credit" means getting credit cards, which is manifestly unwise when one is effectively unemployed. There won'r be any problem getting credit after graduation.
Bravo, sir - both for the common sense against the "fiat money" tin-foil-hatters, but the Larry Niven reference. Where's my damned mod points when I need them?
"Ron Paul is assassinated as republicrats cheer in the streets?:'("
I know Ron Paul is popular here on/., but lets be serious - no one would cheer his assassination because almost no one knows who he is, and most of the rest don't think he is any kind of a threat.
I mean, ask an average dude off the street who Ron Paul is and you are likely to hear "Oh, yeah - I loved 'Puff the Magic Dragon'!"
I think it's just young boys. My son (about 5 at the time) woke up in the middle of 3 hour car trip and became convinced that I had accidentally gotten turned around and was heading home, away from his beloved Nana's. He had woken up on a stretch of the PA turnpike which is quite monotonous, and could NOT be convinced that we were still heading in the right direction - adult logic did not avail him any insight. We spent another hour in the car with him sobbing, until I pulled into Mom's driveway - then he was his little chipper self again.
The worst part was that he wasn't upset that I was ignoring him. I had simply made a dreadful error, and he was trying to set me right so that we'd get to our destination. He had the best intentions, but he was still wrong, and I couldn't humor him because that really *would* have sent us in the wrong direction.
If you are such a brilliant real estate mogul, how did you get taken so badly on this deal? And why the profanities? You sound a little insecure in the decisions you made.
Oldest living mammal - hardly. Since there's evidence that whales live up to 200 years (I actually RTFA'd), I doubt it was the oldest one out there.
As for devine retribution, since the Inuit native religion isn't Christianity, I imagine whatever entitiy waits in the afterlife for them would say "Nice score on that whale! Pull up a chair and have some blubber!", or the equivalent Inuit custom. Even if they are Christian, you don't go to Hell for killing an animal and eating it.
Kodak is going to patent this, and use it themselves and license it out to other companies (hard the story last night on NPR). For those who would abolish the patent system, why would this not be a "good" patent?
One of the key points is that the employee must come to you with their problem BEFORE you discipline them. They can't wait until they get a pink slip to say "But I'm and Alcoholic!".
I believe that was one of the sticking points with the liberals and the ADA - they didn't want to force people to come forward, for fear of the "scarlet letter". Of course, the conservatives didn't want it at all, so they compromised.
So if you are an employee with a problem, stay clean long enough to get the job and establish your performance well. Then go to your boss one day and say "BTW, I'm an alcoholic, and I need to leave early on Tuesdays for my meetings". The boss is required to say yes, but he may also require that you come in early to make up the time.
The problem is that researchers have been looking for medical treatments for addiction for decades, and haven't gotten there. Likewise, psychiatrists and psychologists have been looking for a better treatment program for decades as well, with no better luck.
Whether you agree with them or not, *Anonymous programs have the best success rate at treating addictions. Period. Whether the contents of that program offends your sensibilities doesn't change that current reality.
From your post, it sounds like you have such an addiction, and won't go to a 12 step program because the belief in a higher power offends you. Aside from the fact that you appear to be confusing the higher power with the Judeo-Christian God (there are plenty of atheists in AA), that's your choice to make. If you are "managing" your addiction with therapy, good for you. But that doesn't mean that 12 step programs are worthless, or only for the weak minded. Your post makes you sound like you have plenty more issues than gaming addiction.
No, but if you are addicted to legal drugs, i.e. alcohol and maybe pain meds, and you get to a medical practitioner before getting into legal trouble, you could fall under the ADA and your employer would need to make "reasonable accomodations". And if they fired you, you could bring suit under the ADA.
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"Stop trying to excuse ignorance and stupidity and try to learn something instead."
Absolutely. After all, Jimmy Carter used that pronunciation and he is widely regarded as ignorant and stupid.
Wait..no...let me think...
I'll be damned - using the "nucular" pronunciation IS an indicator of the Commander in Chief being ignorant and stupid.
You are thinking way to small. We need to move Mars and Venus to the trailing Lagrange points in Earth's orbit. That will put them both in the water zone. Then, send a stream of comets from the Oort cloud to crash into Mars - just need to be careful not to miss. Venus just gets the good old fashioned algae/plants method of atmospheric reduction.
By the time we use up Earth, Mars will be ready for wholesale migration, and by the time Mars is used up, Venus will be done simmering. By that time we will be assembling new planets from scratch with asteroids, Mercury, Pluto, Sedna, and whatever other junk we can find.
"Most people do not have the choice to decide whether they wish to work, or with whom they wish to work for"
and
"If people really did have a choice of not to work for bad companies, I'm sure they would. Until that day comes, we will need legislation protecting us from our employers."
Huh?!? You mean, when I quit my last job and took this one, that was somehow impermissible? Or that it wasn't my choice, but some other person's?
There have been plenty of examples through history of folks not having a choice of who they worked for - company towns, the Soviets, and slavery. And I also agree that some people have little choice in the TYPES of jobs they must take - if I'm only qualified to be an angineer, I can't expect to set up shop as a doctor, or if I'm a farm laborer I'm perhaps not qualified to finish drywall. But California and the US in the year 2007? Come on! the vast majority of workers can choose their employer, and those that can't tend to be in illegal situations - slavery or other coerced employment.
Of course, those choices have consequences. When I left my previous job, I walked away from $40k in a "golden handcuffs" stock plan. But I did it anyway. Was my power to choose illusory, and I'm really still working for that old company in some sort of diabolical Cartesian plot?
I agree that allowing employers to require RFID implants is a bad thing, but using the "Gov't must protect the poor helpless worker from the soulless capitalist exploiter" just makes you sound stupid.
"Just remember, folks: the bullshit flows freely from both sides, not just from the Bush Administration."
But since Bush and his cronies are evil, and those opposing him are good, the means are irrelevant.
"your know-nothing French socialist bashing."
Bashing the French is like masturbating:
1) It doesn't really have a point, but
2) It feels quite good
3) Everybody does it, and
4) The ones that say they don't are either lying or have been neutered.
Just remember, it's not the US that hates the French - EVERYBODY hates the French, except those who the French have bribed.
(And much to my chagrin, that last statement can apply now to the US)
Right On, Brutha!
(note the sig)
This is basically a big FU to Bush, one of many that will come out of Congress over the next 2 years. The relative merit of appropriations is irrelevant - this is the "We Hate Bush" congress, and their actions will typically have that as a primary element.
In other words, politics as usual.
Go to alotofthings.com. They have some good info on refilling Canon carts, and sell aftermarket ones (for my model at least).
absolutely any LASER all-in-one printer.
" Want to zoom in? Spread your fingers. Zoom out? Pinch them."
Try that on your girlfriend and see what the results are.
Oh, wait, this is slashdot.
Nevermind.
"Damn I wish I could see a short clip of girls kissing or college girls dancing"
Fixed that for ya - and yes, that would be perfect for sitting in the passenger seat with the wife driving.
"women like to talk and look towards the person they're talking to."
If a woman is looking at her passenger instead of the road, she IS a poor driver. Just because the behavior is explainable doesn't make it safe.
Screw Lucas - if Tom Selleck and Gene Simmons aren't involved, then I'm not interested.
I would agree with all of the above except for the following: "If you're over 20 and you haven't started already, you're way behind the game". One can be "over 20" and still be in college, with not substantial means of income. At this point, "establishing credit" means getting credit cards, which is manifestly unwise when one is effectively unemployed. There won'r be any problem getting credit after graduation.
Bravo, sir - both for the common sense against the "fiat money" tin-foil-hatters, but the Larry Niven reference. Where's my damned mod points when I need them?
"Ron Paul is assassinated as republicrats cheer in the streets? :'("
/., but lets be serious - no one would cheer his assassination because almost no one knows who he is, and most of the rest don't think he is any kind of a threat.
I know Ron Paul is popular here on
I mean, ask an average dude off the street who Ron Paul is and you are likely to hear "Oh, yeah - I loved 'Puff the Magic Dragon'!"
I think it's just young boys. My son (about 5 at the time) woke up in the middle of 3 hour car trip and became convinced that I had accidentally gotten turned around and was heading home, away from his beloved Nana's. He had woken up on a stretch of the PA turnpike which is quite monotonous, and could NOT be convinced that we were still heading in the right direction - adult logic did not avail him any insight. We spent another hour in the car with him sobbing, until I pulled into Mom's driveway - then he was his little chipper self again.
The worst part was that he wasn't upset that I was ignoring him. I had simply made a dreadful error, and he was trying to set me right so that we'd get to our destination. He had the best intentions, but he was still wrong, and I couldn't humor him because that really *would* have sent us in the wrong direction.
"Surely the district didn't place a $5 million order with no means to pay for it?"
Bwahahahahaha!!!! Somebody mod this guy "+1 Funny"
Oh, wait - you were serious? Wow. Can I suggegest meds for those delusions?
If you are such a brilliant real estate mogul, how did you get taken so badly on this deal? And why the profanities? You sound a little insecure in the decisions you made.
I mean, couldn't they get anyone else?
Anybody at all?
Oldest living mammal - hardly. Since there's evidence that whales live up to 200 years (I actually RTFA'd), I doubt it was the oldest one out there.
As for devine retribution, since the Inuit native religion isn't Christianity, I imagine whatever entitiy waits in the afterlife for them would say "Nice score on that whale! Pull up a chair and have some blubber!", or the equivalent Inuit custom. Even if they are Christian, you don't go to Hell for killing an animal and eating it.
Kodak is going to patent this, and use it themselves and license it out to other companies (hard the story last night on NPR). For those who would abolish the patent system, why would this not be a "good" patent?
Please discuss.
One of the key points is that the employee must come to you with their problem BEFORE you discipline them. They can't wait until they get a pink slip to say "But I'm and Alcoholic!".
I believe that was one of the sticking points with the liberals and the ADA - they didn't want to force people to come forward, for fear of the "scarlet letter". Of course, the conservatives didn't want it at all, so they compromised.
So if you are an employee with a problem, stay clean long enough to get the job and establish your performance well. Then go to your boss one day and say "BTW, I'm an alcoholic, and I need to leave early on Tuesdays for my meetings". The boss is required to say yes, but he may also require that you come in early to make up the time.
If you are an employer - well, you're fucked.
The problem is that researchers have been looking for medical treatments for addiction for decades, and haven't gotten there. Likewise, psychiatrists and psychologists have been looking for a better treatment program for decades as well, with no better luck.
Whether you agree with them or not, *Anonymous programs have the best success rate at treating addictions. Period. Whether the contents of that program offends your sensibilities doesn't change that current reality.
From your post, it sounds like you have such an addiction, and won't go to a 12 step program because the belief in a higher power offends you. Aside from the fact that you appear to be confusing the higher power with the Judeo-Christian God (there are plenty of atheists in AA), that's your choice to make. If you are "managing" your addiction with therapy, good for you. But that doesn't mean that 12 step programs are worthless, or only for the weak minded. Your post makes you sound like you have plenty more issues than gaming addiction.
No, but if you are addicted to legal drugs, i.e. alcohol and maybe pain meds, and you get to a medical practitioner before getting into legal trouble, you could fall under the ADA and your employer would need to make "reasonable accomodations". And if they fired you, you could bring suit under the ADA.