I lucked out by not having to do it this time. Yeah it's invasive, but unlike them I work at the Johnson Space Center, I myself don't have access to classified data, but I'm just the other side of a wall from it. To me getting the background check and the low security clearance I have is sort of a mark of prestige and reliability. Honestly I wouldn't mind having a few more background checks if it means promotions, better pay, and more prestige. I'm at NASA for crying out loud, I'm glad they don't let just any schmuck off the street work here without some kind of clearance.
On another note, I don't recall my 85P form asking me if I was a homo or not, and I also don't recall retail transaction request. They did ask how much of what kind of debt I was in, I'm guessing to see if I was desperate for money or not. Yes they did ask about illegal drug use, but there was a time limit on it. I don't recall, but it wasn't to many years, four or so. All in all, I don't think much of the form was unreasonable, sure it was a pain in the ass to fill out, but it wasn't unreasonable.
If you want to see the form for yourself, here it is.
As for being at the JPL instead of the Cape or Johnson? Suck it up. This is for every federal position. Expect your postal carrier to be grouching about the form to.
The issue at hand: Instant moderation vs. clicking moderation at the bottom. I marked a tentative, then I clicked the link. Turns out even though there's still a "moderate" button at the bottom it's not being used, all moderations in the new layout are instant.
Would you please point me to the official weather station in the vacinity of Pecos Texas which has different terrain and elevation than the official one I spoke of? Not having an official place of measurement doesn't mean it doesn't get hotter. Damn, there were times I wished we could have locked onto the current "official" temperature and lowered it to that. Tell you what, why don't you go move there for a year or two, if you survive the gangs who hate yankee carpetbaggers worse than they hate the average local gringo then you can contradict me.
Back in 1994 when I still lived in Pecos it got up to 128F one summer. My dad tells me of 132 when he was in school in the 70's. 116 was a typical high, the lack of an "official" weather station means that the town gets credit for whatever Kermit Texas has for a temp (quite a few miles off and quite a few degrees cooler).
gives me a weird feeling in my stomache. I'm not sure what it is, but I got a chill up and down my spine. I can't catagorize either feeling as good or bad, just strange. When it comes to that empire my first question is usually what's their real objective, with this one I'm not 100% sure and that scares me.
Does this mean we actually crossed over the line as legitimate to them, or is this bait for something else?
Sonique had the coolest user interface of nearly any software I've ever used. Back in the early versions when it still used it's own engine, Sonique had an incredibly small footprint and download, yet arrived looking like a complete product. If I were to have to hire an interface design team, I would go out of my way to hire the people who designed that one. I haven't used Windows (at home) in years, but that was definately one of the coolest products I used on it.
So, these A listers say the slogan when tearing it apart. I'm sure this still benefits Microsoft to some degree, at least where Google ranking is concerned.
I'm with you. I like the DVD's handed out with my Revrand Horton Heat and Johnny Cash CD's. I rip my own music to Ogg. I recently switched computers and instead of copying my old Oggs over I reripped the whole collection with two drives going at once to take advantage of improvements in the encoders. I'm with you, the Ramones Anthology had a really good book with it. Worth buying just for the books info.
The only problem I have with CD is I had my whole collection stollen twice. I'm getting two gun safes, one for my guns, one for my media.
The very concept of this scares me. The presidential seal on the podium would suddenly reveal itself to be a cleaverly disquised LCD during a speach and suddenly become a goatse pic. The GNAA posters would wind up as the cabinet, but at least we would finally get Natalie Portman naked and petrified, covered with hot grits.
Not hate Bush, hate RIAA. It's like handing someone a pizza and telling them to deliver it to someone living in a van in the middle of an auto salvage yard, filled with dobermans and other junkyard dogs.
My personal observations have shown me that regardless of how a society is structured, you will always have your dissenters. I'm months shy of 30, and I would say my age group, even ironically many of my "technical" peers have little care for the science of how anything works. However, everywhere I go, even in non-technical circles I always find people who want to know how something works. A lot of "technical" people are in the field today because in the 80's and 90's that was the obvious place to go for the money. Only a small minority of us are natural techs who set out to be technical people regardless of the market. That small minority are the ones who care how something work, the rest are the one's chasing the almighty buck with no real passion for what they do. I find this to be true in nearly every field/division of society. The legal field, the medical field, all of them. Right now the ratio's are way off in the technical field due to the dot com bubble, heck for a while I felt like a rat clinging to the wreckage of a destroyed ship for a while, but unlike the buck chasers I didn't feel comfortable anywhere else. In the field of psychology you will always have your Freud types, and for every one of those you will have a ton of "I went to school, read a book, now I'm a psychologist!" types. In the medical field you will have you two types of doctors, those who make advances, and those who practice what others have taught. We couldn't prevent interest in his type of show even if the show didn't exist and we attempted to prevent interest, there will always be that sliver of the population. On the other hand, we can mold a large portion of the young population into whatever we need. Personally I'm proud to be in the less moldable portion.
Sure the IRiver may need to be flashed to get the right storage type. Almost all of them support Ogg/Vorbis except for a few models introduced before the judge smacked MS down over their plays for sure forbidding support of non-MS supported file types.
With the exception of their cowering in the corner when MS said do it this way, I respect IRiver products for that reason. Only the Neuros ranks higher in feel good penguin points.
Look at the license agreement on NT 4.0 and nearly every version of Windows since (a few before?). "On a maximum of two processors" It has been Microsoft's policies to rape anyone who wanted more than two cores, are they changing their policies now?
I want a backwards "L" shaped enter key the way it's meant to be! That backslash over the enter key is just bad. The backslash should be under the backwards L shaped Enter key. If it's not there, I can forgive that, I don't use it much anyways, as long as the forward slash it where it belongs. I do agree with the 3x2 cluster statement and refuse to buy a keyboard that does it differntly. Nothing is more anoying that trying to use VIM with an insert key you can't find. It's also quite annoying to hit suspend every time you want to hit Pause/Break or power off for Print Screen. The last keyboard I actually used that put the power keys where those belonged had its keys ripped off until the whole board was replaced. Let's not forget that the arrow keys belong with the up key top and middle with left, down, and right below it.
The Windows keys really don't belong, but I've grown used to them. It's ok if they're there, but it might be a good idea to use a dremmel tool to remove the logo's. The context key on the keyboard is near unto useless.
I actually like multimedia keys, as long as they live up and out of the way of the classic keyboard.
I don't do a lot of standby. I miss the days when I could hit the power button on a computer and the damn thing turned off. I also miss good cases that could double as a jack stand for my car. I gave one that went from being a 386 all the way to being a 450Mhz AMD K62 to a metal recycling guy a couple of months ago. The immediate power off was great for hang ups. Not to mention I had a situation where a cord got stuck in the CPU fan, I immediately turned it off, unplugged the power from the main board, then turned the power supply back on to spin the now unstuck CPU fan. You can't do that sort of thing now.
I'm firmly in the "If it aint broke don't fix it" school on DNS. Verizon's DNS is broke, bad, OpenDNS lets me browse the web without every 3rd query being a man in the middle.
You must be a young one. I still remember the IE 2 piece of shit that sometimes came with Windows NT, then IE 3 that came after it which was only marginally better. Of course back during that time I used Netscape. Then when it became unbearable I was already using the Mozilla Betas, I never found a reason to go to IE. Since switching to Linux only back in 2000 I don't really have that option.
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I lucked out by not having to do it this time. Yeah it's invasive, but unlike them I work at the Johnson Space Center, I myself don't have access to classified data, but I'm just the other side of a wall from it. To me getting the background check and the low security clearance I have is sort of a mark of prestige and reliability. Honestly I wouldn't mind having a few more background checks if it means promotions, better pay, and more prestige. I'm at NASA for crying out loud, I'm glad they don't let just any schmuck off the street work here without some kind of clearance.
On another note, I don't recall my 85P form asking me if I was a homo or not, and I also don't recall retail transaction request. They did ask how much of what kind of debt I was in, I'm guessing to see if I was desperate for money or not. Yes they did ask about illegal drug use, but there was a time limit on it. I don't recall, but it wasn't to many years, four or so. All in all, I don't think much of the form was unreasonable, sure it was a pain in the ass to fill out, but it wasn't unreasonable.
If you want to see the form for yourself, here it is.
As for being at the JPL instead of the Cape or Johnson? Suck it up. This is for every federal position. Expect your postal carrier to be grouching about the form to.
Oh my!
Are you using a version of IE that supports the marquee tag?
Seriously, who uses IE?
You know, that's sorta lame, but I like it. Mod parent up!
The issue at hand: Instant moderation vs. clicking moderation at the bottom. I marked a tentative, then I clicked the link. Turns out even though there's still a "moderate" button at the bottom it's not being used, all moderations in the new layout are instant.
Have to post, made a crummy moderation somehow
(I'm blaming the new way of browsing the comment system........)
Would you please point me to the official weather station in the vacinity of Pecos Texas which has different terrain and elevation than the official one I spoke of? Not having an official place of measurement doesn't mean it doesn't get hotter. Damn, there were times I wished we could have locked onto the current "official" temperature and lowered it to that. Tell you what, why don't you go move there for a year or two, if you survive the gangs who hate yankee carpetbaggers worse than they hate the average local gringo then you can contradict me.
This Texan laughs at you!
Back in 1994 when I still lived in Pecos it got up to 128F one summer. My dad tells me of 132 when he was in school in the 70's. 116 was a typical high, the lack of an "official" weather station means that the town gets credit for whatever Kermit Texas has for a temp (quite a few miles off and quite a few degrees cooler).
If I could I would mod you up insightful.
gives me a weird feeling in my stomache. I'm not sure what it is, but I got a chill up and down my spine. I can't catagorize either feeling as good or bad, just strange. When it comes to that empire my first question is usually what's their real objective, with this one I'm not 100% sure and that scares me.
Does this mean we actually crossed over the line as legitimate to them, or is this bait for something else?
You're a victim of preconceived notions and the inability to let them go.
Sonique had the coolest user interface of nearly any software I've ever used. Back in the early versions when it still used it's own engine, Sonique had an incredibly small footprint and download, yet arrived looking like a complete product. If I were to have to hire an interface design team, I would go out of my way to hire the people who designed that one. I haven't used Windows (at home) in years, but that was definately one of the coolest products I used on it.
You can not hurt the Twinkie!
(one of my favorite inbox new mail sounds back when I did tech support for computers as gas stations)
Sending a load to Apple may get you in a lot of trouble. I mean this guy got a big fine for it. (no not This Guy)
So, these A listers say the slogan when tearing it apart. I'm sure this still benefits Microsoft to some degree, at least where Google ranking is concerned.
I'm with you. I like the DVD's handed out with my Revrand Horton Heat and Johnny Cash CD's. I rip my own music to Ogg. I recently switched computers and instead of copying my old Oggs over I reripped the whole collection with two drives going at once to take advantage of improvements in the encoders. I'm with you, the Ramones Anthology had a really good book with it. Worth buying just for the books info.
The only problem I have with CD is I had my whole collection stollen twice. I'm getting two gun safes, one for my guns, one for my media.
The very concept of this scares me. The presidential seal on the podium would suddenly reveal itself to be a cleaverly disquised LCD during a speach and suddenly become a goatse pic. The GNAA posters would wind up as the cabinet, but at least we would finally get Natalie Portman naked and petrified, covered with hot grits.
Think deeper!
Not hate Bush, hate RIAA.
It's like handing someone a pizza and telling them to deliver it to someone living in a van in the middle of an auto salvage yard, filled with dobermans and other junkyard dogs.
My personal observations have shown me that regardless of how a society is structured, you will always have your dissenters. I'm months shy of 30, and I would say my age group, even ironically many of my "technical" peers have little care for the science of how anything works. However, everywhere I go, even in non-technical circles I always find people who want to know how something works. A lot of "technical" people are in the field today because in the 80's and 90's that was the obvious place to go for the money. Only a small minority of us are natural techs who set out to be technical people regardless of the market. That small minority are the ones who care how something work, the rest are the one's chasing the almighty buck with no real passion for what they do. I find this to be true in nearly every field/division of society. The legal field, the medical field, all of them. Right now the ratio's are way off in the technical field due to the dot com bubble, heck for a while I felt like a rat clinging to the wreckage of a destroyed ship for a while, but unlike the buck chasers I didn't feel comfortable anywhere else. In the field of psychology you will always have your Freud types, and for every one of those you will have a ton of "I went to school, read a book, now I'm a psychologist!" types. In the medical field you will have you two types of doctors, those who make advances, and those who practice what others have taught. We couldn't prevent interest in his type of show even if the show didn't exist and we attempted to prevent interest, there will always be that sliver of the population. On the other hand, we can mold a large portion of the young population into whatever we need. Personally I'm proud to be in the less moldable portion.
You just described an IRiver.
Sure the IRiver may need to be flashed to get the right storage type. Almost all of them support Ogg/Vorbis except for a few models introduced before the judge smacked MS down over their plays for sure forbidding support of non-MS supported file types.
With the exception of their cowering in the corner when MS said do it this way, I respect IRiver products for that reason. Only the Neuros ranks higher in feel good penguin points.
Look at the license agreement on NT 4.0 and nearly every version of Windows since (a few before?). "On a maximum of two processors" It has been Microsoft's policies to rape anyone who wanted more than two cores, are they changing their policies now?
I want a backwards "L" shaped enter key the way it's meant to be! That backslash over the enter key is just bad. The backslash should be under the backwards L shaped Enter key. If it's not there, I can forgive that, I don't use it much anyways, as long as the forward slash it where it belongs. I do agree with the 3x2 cluster statement and refuse to buy a keyboard that does it differntly. Nothing is more anoying that trying to use VIM with an insert key you can't find. It's also quite annoying to hit suspend every time you want to hit Pause/Break or power off for Print Screen. The last keyboard I actually used that put the power keys where those belonged had its keys ripped off until the whole board was replaced. Let's not forget that the arrow keys belong with the up key top and middle with left, down, and right below it.
The Windows keys really don't belong, but I've grown used to them. It's ok if they're there, but it might be a good idea to use a dremmel tool to remove the logo's. The context key on the keyboard is near unto useless.
I actually like multimedia keys, as long as they live up and out of the way of the classic keyboard.
IMHO this is one of the best designed keyboards ever. (I have two, I don't plug in/use the touch pad on the one that has it)
Since they don't make those anymore, I've found this to be a reasonable replacement.
I don't do a lot of standby. I miss the days when I could hit the power button on a computer and the damn thing turned off. I also miss good cases that could double as a jack stand for my car. I gave one that went from being a 386 all the way to being a 450Mhz AMD K62 to a metal recycling guy a couple of months ago. The immediate power off was great for hang ups. Not to mention I had a situation where a cord got stuck in the CPU fan, I immediately turned it off, unplugged the power from the main board, then turned the power supply back on to spin the now unstuck CPU fan. You can't do that sort of thing now.
I second that! OpenDNS has worked great for me.
I'm firmly in the "If it aint broke don't fix it" school on DNS. Verizon's DNS is broke, bad, OpenDNS lets me browse the web without every 3rd query being a man in the middle.
always?
You must be a young one. I still remember the IE 2 piece of shit that sometimes came with Windows NT, then IE 3 that came after it which was only marginally better. Of course back during that time I used Netscape. Then when it became unbearable I was already using the Mozilla Betas, I never found a reason to go to IE. Since switching to Linux only back in 2000 I don't really have that option.
....on a Linux system.
(I use OpenDNS because Verizons DNS sucks hardcore)