Your analogy is good, but your logic is flawed. Here's a proper analogy: On a long enough time line your roof is BOUND to spring a leak. Knowing this, do you wish to have a tarp?
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The crowning achivement being the chevy Nova or No va ("doesn't go") which was expected to do well in latin america....
Ya, North American "morals" never fail to amaze me when it comes to sex and violence...
Hey, don't pin these "morals" on us. Its just the religious nuts who get worked up over this stuff. They make a big stink about it in public then privately go do it at home. Ive been lectured about having porn by a lot of religious folk WHO HAVE PORN.
You're thinking too abstractly:) Theres tons of evidence, IE, the tv shows and movies. All you have to do is think of them as "historical documents" as opposed to "TV Shows.":) IE, the bible might be more of a historical document than anything else.
Mainstream religion differs from regular crackpots in that theres enough of one to label the other...
Arguably, I have more proof that the events of Star Trek or Lord of the Rings happened than anything in the bible. But I'd be "crazy" to believe one of these things...
Just the fact that he knows that 2.4ghz is in the microwave spectrum makes him an unlikely candidate for breeding.
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I'm not a dealer, dont claim to be. I used to deal with them professionally when I worked for a university... and was very happy with them.
However, after a rash of bad experiences I was forced to conclude that they simply suck now. And the personal attacks "laptops vs notebooks" just makes you look stupid:)
Let me explain how things work:) There are basically producers and consumers. If you make less than 40 or 50k a year, you're a consumer. I have a skill thats extremely valuable, I practice that skill almost to the exculsing of everything else (I wasn't kidding when I said I work 15 hours a day. I leave at 5am, I come home at 8pm, I sleep, shower, eat, get 6 hours of sleep and am back out the door at 5am). And then I give 42% of my income to the government to pay for your kids school, pay for SSI and Medicare, and pointless wars, etc etc). What im saying is, for every service someone gets "for free" from the government, some other bastard has to pay for. If I were to stop doing what I do, and say, work at a soup kitchen, would that be more charitable? Perhaps, but perhaps not. I pay about 50k a *YEAR* in taxes. If I didnt work and spent my time doing something charitable, then the government wouldn't have that tax money, which pays for soup kitchens, welfare, etc etc.
My ultimate point is -- somebody has to make the money that drives the government, and pays for the services that already are out there. By extension Im saying, I am one of those guys. Sure *I* could quit my job and help the homeless, but due to the skills I have the most efficent social use for me is actually, unfourtantely, paying taxes, which Im doing in spades.
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*NEVER* and I mean never shop at geeks.com/compgeeks.com/evertek.com... A few years ago they were a truely awesome place. But their customer service has gone to SHIT, and so has their products.
I dont have time to type out all my horror stories, but here's a few:
Bought a wireless card and antentta from them. Paid a fortune for the wireless card trying to get a "good" brand so I wouldn't have trobule. As it turns out the card was defective (It woudln't work in about 50% of computers). Compgeeks refused to take a return or even talk to me on the phone. I won thuogh, I got my CC Company to reverse the charges.
Before that I bought a laptop, and went there to pick it up. I got down the street with it, and thought, id better look to see what this is... I openend it, it was *nothing* like the laptop I ordered, half the ram, no dvd burner, etc etc. SO I went back, got them to exchange it (had to wait like 45 minutes)... all turned out well, except the laptop broke just out of warranty anyways. Expensive repair:)
And my all time favorite story -- a friend of mine bought a laptop from them. They ship him laptop #1 with no power brick. So he spens forever on the phone with them, and gets them to send the brick. They send it to the wrong address, so he calls and they ship him a brick a second time. He finally gets it (weeks have elapsed since his laptop got here). The laptop is DOA. He calls back, they give him endless shit about how could the laptop be DOA when he's had it for two weeks... finally he gets another laptop, it works but ONLY IF YOU REMOVE THE WIRELESS CARD. All of this took about 3 weeks, and at least 10 hours talking to reps.
My point about compgeeks is -- they sell shit and their customer service is shit. I am working on a sucks site for them if anyone would like to contribute stories.
I spend all my free time working 15 hours a day (not kidding), and give 42% of my income to the government (yay contractor status!). So as far "giving back", I give a fucking lot.
When i think of hobbies, learning a sequence of 83,000 digits sounds like a good time.
I seriously would have much more respect for someone who went down to the local homeless shelter and helped out now and then, instead of investing serious ammounts of time doing something pointless in a vain search for a fleeting moment of fame.
I dont know about PA, but in California he absolutely would. I was in a situation where I was asked to do something extremely illegal, and I was able to report the problem to a different part of my organization which then *called* a Detective and DA to prosecute members of their own organaztion. I ended up wearing a wire in two undercover operations... However, they were unable to prosecute because the guys wised up somehow and did the scam in a way that was extremely hard to prove. Throughout the whole process I was anonymous through californias whistleblower laws.
This guys mistake was having faith in humanity that his company had any intention of being honest. If I was this fellow, I would find a tech savy lawyer and take all their money.
On the other hand, thats exactly who you want to advertise to. In general, the lower the class, the less you know about money and finance -- basically, the stupider you are with your money. Allow me to demonstrate with an anticdote:
I was seeing a girl who lived in some apartments which were being converted to section 9 housing -- on section 9 the government pays part of your rent because you're too low income. The people living in the section 9 housing had *far* nicer cars than the people in my area which was all 400k houses. My point being -- people who can least afford to make stupid purchases, are exactly the ones doing it. Its human nature. Or maybe its social darwinism. I don't know. In high school, I had two kinds of friends, those who bought cars and those who went to college. The ones who bought cars ended up working to make their car payments -- the ones who drove beat up junkers spent the same money on community college tuition.
Yea, i'd like to mention as well the Consumer Electronics association will get to sell a bunch of new boxes if this becomes true. Im so sick of being lied to by self serving pricks.
I hardly watch tv, and when I do its not over the air... but I found over the air useful on 9/11. As I was leaving for work that morning the whole thing was just getting started (on the other coast), and we had an old TV in the office that we were able to watch the coverage and be informed on the weirdest day I can remember. Could we have listened to the radio? Yes... it was just that nobody had one.
The very act of competing is anti-competitive...
The problem is that "anti-competitive" if an arbitrary label
And for a moment I thought the problem was arbitrary and STUPID statements. Competition is anti-competitive? Here's how the economy is supposed to work: you make a product, others make products, informed or manipulated or stupid consumers make a decision. Thats competition. Here is how it's not supposed to work: paying people to use your products is anti-competitve. Slowing down your competitors products is anti-competitive.
I was once interviewed for a pretty decent paying tech job -- by a secretary. The job required light programming and heavy systems administration duties. I described my various programming jobs, how I managed 2.6TB of online storage (back when that was a lot), about a 30 computers from windows, to apple to linux to solaris, and was met with questions like "can you fix a PC?" and "can you do a website?"... This place actually more or less needed someone with my skillset (they had 50 or so computers).
I think the market is just plain, weird. I interview at some places -- they want an *all* windows guy and won't consider me because I have unix experience. Other places have insane demands that you know very specific Unix packages, as if its impossible or even difficult to learn something. Other places see that I've been a programmer and don't want to hire me as an admin, other places see that ive been an admin and dont want to hire me as a programmer... so basically what im saying is , the whole thing just sucks.
I got out of school just after the dot com bust and 9/11... it took me the better part of 3 years to find a job (my area is extremely depressed -- coudln't afford to move anywhere).
You take any job you can get and look what for you want later:)
exactly! I am using a 30$ ide "raid" card as a normal drive controller in a Linux machine... the card has no raid component whatsoever... of course I knew this when I bought it... but does your average citizen steely dan know that?
In my jurisdiction (state of Texas), employment is at will, meaning that you might be fired for any reason, or no reason, excepting those certain reasons explicitly barred by law, such as race, religion, sex, disability, and country of origin. Green hair, or body mods, just aren't on the list.
And texas is host to the most and poorest counties in the country... One party having all the power in a relationship isn't healthy and always leads to abuse.
Personally, I think you should be allowed to look in any way thats not disruptive... but you have to be prepared to accept the consequences. If everyone thinks you're a joke with your green hair and barbells in your ears, then thats your problem huh? The opposing edge of freedom is always responsibility.
I interviewed for UPS's IT dept, they don't even allow *facial hair* unless you are one of those religions where facial hair is important (I dont recall their names)
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Thank you voice of reason. Id like to point out that DVD-Audio was JUST cracked a few days ago (yay, now I can start buying them).
Your analogy is good, but your logic is flawed. Here's a proper analogy: On a long enough time line your roof is BOUND to spring a leak. Knowing this, do you wish to have a tarp?
The crowning achivement being the chevy Nova or No va ("doesn't go") which was expected to do well in latin america....
Hey, don't pin these "morals" on us. Its just the religious nuts who get worked up over this stuff. They make a big stink about it in public then privately go do it at home. Ive been lectured about having porn by a lot of religious folk WHO HAVE PORN.
You're thinking too abstractly :) Theres tons of evidence, IE, the tv shows and movies. All you have to do is think of them as "historical documents" as opposed to "TV Shows." :) IE, the bible might be more of a historical document than anything else.
Arguably, I have more proof that the events of Star Trek or Lord of the Rings happened than anything in the bible. But I'd be "crazy" to believe one of these things...
Just the fact that he knows that 2.4ghz is in the microwave spectrum makes him an unlikely candidate for breeding.
However, after a rash of bad experiences I was forced to conclude that they simply suck now. And the personal attacks "laptops vs notebooks" just makes you look stupid :)
Let me explain how things work :) There are basically producers and consumers. If you make less than 40 or 50k a year, you're a consumer. I have a skill thats extremely valuable, I practice that skill almost to the exculsing of everything else (I wasn't kidding when I said I work 15 hours a day. I leave at 5am, I come home at 8pm, I sleep, shower, eat, get 6 hours of sleep and am back out the door at 5am). And then I give 42% of my income to the government to pay for your kids school, pay for SSI and Medicare, and pointless wars, etc etc). What im saying is, for every service someone gets "for free" from the government, some other bastard has to pay for. If I were to stop doing what I do, and say, work at a soup kitchen, would that be more charitable? Perhaps, but perhaps not. I pay about 50k a *YEAR* in taxes. If I didnt work and spent my time doing something charitable, then the government wouldn't have that tax money, which pays for soup kitchens, welfare, etc etc.
My ultimate point is -- somebody has to make the money that drives the government, and pays for the services that already are out there. By extension Im saying, I am one of those guys. Sure *I* could quit my job and help the homeless, but due to the skills I have the most efficent social use for me is actually, unfourtantely, paying taxes, which Im doing in spades.
I dont have time to type out all my horror stories, but here's a few:
Bought a wireless card and antentta from them. Paid a fortune for the wireless card trying to get a "good" brand so I wouldn't have trobule. As it turns out the card was defective (It woudln't work in about 50% of computers). Compgeeks refused to take a return or even talk to me on the phone. I won thuogh, I got my CC Company to reverse the charges.
Before that I bought a laptop, and went there to pick it up. I got down the street with it, and thought, id better look to see what this is... I openend it, it was *nothing* like the laptop I ordered, half the ram, no dvd burner, etc etc. SO I went back, got them to exchange it (had to wait like 45 minutes)... all turned out well, except the laptop broke just out of warranty anyways. Expensive repair :)
And my all time favorite story -- a friend of mine bought a laptop from them. They ship him laptop #1 with no power brick. So he spens forever on the phone with them, and gets them to send the brick. They send it to the wrong address, so he calls and they ship him a brick a second time. He finally gets it (weeks have elapsed since his laptop got here). The laptop is DOA. He calls back, they give him endless shit about how could the laptop be DOA when he's had it for two weeks ... finally he gets another laptop, it works but ONLY IF YOU REMOVE THE WIRELESS CARD. All of this took about 3 weeks, and at least 10 hours talking to reps.
My point about compgeeks is -- they sell shit and their customer service is shit. I am working on a sucks site for them if anyone would like to contribute stories.
I spend all my free time working 15 hours a day (not kidding), and give 42% of my income to the government (yay contractor status!). So as far "giving back", I give a fucking lot.
I seriously would have much more respect for someone who went down to the local homeless shelter and helped out now and then, instead of investing serious ammounts of time doing something pointless in a vain search for a fleeting moment of fame.
This guys mistake was having faith in humanity that his company had any intention of being honest. If I was this fellow, I would find a tech savy lawyer and take all their money.
On the other hand, thats exactly who you want to advertise to. In general, the lower the class, the less you know about money and finance -- basically, the stupider you are with your money. Allow me to demonstrate with an anticdote:
I was seeing a girl who lived in some apartments which were being converted to section 9 housing -- on section 9 the government pays part of your rent because you're too low income. The people living in the section 9 housing had *far* nicer cars than the people in my area which was all 400k houses. My point being -- people who can least afford to make stupid purchases, are exactly the ones doing it. Its human nature. Or maybe its social darwinism. I don't know. In high school, I had two kinds of friends, those who bought cars and those who went to college. The ones who bought cars ended up working to make their car payments -- the ones who drove beat up junkers spent the same money on community college tuition.
I hardly watch tv, and when I do its not over the air ... but I found over the air useful on 9/11. As I was leaving for work that morning the whole thing was just getting started (on the other coast), and we had an old TV in the office that we were able to watch the coverage and be informed on the weirdest day I can remember. Could we have listened to the radio? Yes ... it was just that nobody had one.
no, I actually completely agree with him. There's no such thing as the force, and there never will be :)
And for a moment I thought the problem was arbitrary and STUPID statements. Competition is anti-competitive? Here's how the economy is supposed to work: you make a product, others make products, informed or manipulated or stupid consumers make a decision. Thats competition. Here is how it's not supposed to work: paying people to use your products is anti-competitve. Slowing down your competitors products is anti-competitive.
Frustration.
I think the market is just plain, weird. I interview at some places -- they want an *all* windows guy and won't consider me because I have unix experience. Other places have insane demands that you know very specific Unix packages, as if its impossible or even difficult to learn something. Other places see that I've been a programmer and don't want to hire me as an admin, other places see that ive been an admin and dont want to hire me as a programmer ... so basically what im saying is , the whole thing just sucks.
Gnome.
My 3.2ghz Pentium 4 takes 60 seconds to boot up. You do the math.
You take any job you can get and look what for you want later :)
exactly! I am using a 30$ ide "raid" card as a normal drive controller in a Linux machine... the card has no raid component whatsoever... of course I knew this when I bought it... but does your average citizen steely dan know that?
And texas is host to the most and poorest counties in the country... One party having all the power in a relationship isn't healthy and always leads to abuse.
Personally, I think you should be allowed to look in any way thats not disruptive... but you have to be prepared to accept the consequences. If everyone thinks you're a joke with your green hair and barbells in your ears, then thats your problem huh? The opposing edge of freedom is always responsibility.
I interviewed for UPS's IT dept, they don't even allow *facial hair* unless you are one of those religions where facial hair is important (I dont recall their names)