This is all bullshit. Reduce stress. As long as you're under stress, your body is making itself ready to flee whatever predator is causing you stress. It never got the memo that we have firearms now and are thus on top of the food-chain.
As long as you work yourself into the grave, your body will ramp up the calorie-consumption and put it in storage for the bad times it assumes are right around the corner.
You people with your "Fat is bad, mkay" are forgetting one thing: The calories that go into your body are not necessarily processed altogether. Like cars don't have all the same efficiency, neither do our bodies. Some of us will react to stress by gaining weight, others lose it. In a healthy situation, where you do get out of stressful environments enough, your body will adjust fine on its own, unless you put every next best thing that looks edible in your mouth.
And again, this is science. This is not me wishing it were so. German speakers should consult Udo Polmer's books. They're on Amazon.
Why would you need two adaptors? I have a microUSB cable lying around here and it can't be much of a problem to make one that plugs into the wall-socket.
Fuck entitlement. I wants it, I gets it. And after I have it I suddenly become knowledgeable enough to install and support it for family, friends and customers.
And there are no alternatives. The things I want to run do nut run under MacOS and fuck Linux on the desktop, seriously.
The US$ IS weak. Didn't you read the article? It's the whole point of it. The Euro price has NO RELATION WHATSOEVER to the US$ price. The weaker the US$ gets, the more we pay relative to US customers.
Indeed. Globalisation makes source material cheaper for companies and end-products more expensive for consumers while the same consumers at the same time have to be more accepting of corporate bullshit, lesser quality and have to be flexible when it comes to their jobs.
Meanwhile, consumers are NOT allowed to profit from globalisation themselves. That would defeat the whole idea of carving more money out of your customers.
Microsoft actually wants me to leech this off of BitTorrent. There's no other explanation.
Well, wouldn't want to disappoint them, no? I was pretty surprised at how little I hate Windows 7. I was actually thinking of buying. But it seems my perfect track record of never paying for Windows will remain perfect.
I mean, think about it. You can get new machines for what? 500 Euros? Do they really think that a, almost, 60% bonus for the OS will fly? I realize that OEM deals will look decidedly different, but come on...
There are tons of female geeks. They are just not into IT. There's the whole renaissance stuff, crafts geeks, there are geeks who are all about long beautiful hair, geeks about making their own cosmetics... hell even the gals doing natural contraception are getting together online.
Question is, do you want to get involved in something besides IT? The latter example is, obviously not the best thing to jump in being a male, but with other stuff the male to female ratio is just as bad as the female to male is in IT. Question remains, do you want to get involved?
If you don't want to get involved and IT is your everything, then I'm sad to say, you're just a fucking boring and limited person. That will be hard to overcome.
The US created these industries without massive immigration
We must be thinking about two separate versions of 'the US' because the one I know today consists of 99.9% people with migration background.
Personally, I think the man is right. In light of what Indians are willing to do for less money, of course Americans are unemployable. Vice versa you could also say that Americans are just not willing to be enslaved the way Indians are. So his whole statement becomes rather relative, doesn't it?
The Problem is that we keep being willing to receive our support from Indians and other foreign countries. Since EMEA support from HP moved to Sofia, I literally HATE to call them up. Not because those people are unwilling to help or rude about it. No, they are perfectly fine people. But the fact remains that there's a language barrier between us. The whole process has become that much more bureaucratic and time-consuming.
It's funny, though (not haha-funny but rather innat sad-funny) how even HP Switzerland is powerless against HP America's management. They are shaking their heads just as much as we are.
Another funny thing, IMO, is that somehow, back then when they still had their own techies and didn't outsource them all for worse pay and more hours, their bottom line actually looked better, didn't it? Isn't HP struggling much more today than it was around 1990? Now, I'm not implying that correlation equals causation, but one should think that point through, I think.
Don't we have some potentially more far reaching problems to address, like, oh, we might be going to run out of easily available water and energy, and the environment might change so much that about a billion people could lose their home over the next 15 years?
There, fixed that for you.
We might just as well discuss another 'real' problem like the chances of John Candy crashing into earth while riding a comet with Colonel Sanders' silhouette.
See, it's not that I don't believe there to be serious repercussions from the way we treat our planet, I'd just like for people like you to stop parroting all this FUD.
While many forms of it are not as effective as the pill or a condom by far, my wife, and many other women, successfully use it and have used it for years.
The important part is under 'Limitations'. You do have to invest a bit of work. A combination of symptoms-based, calendar-based and basal-temperature-based methods prove to be just as secure as the pill itself without any of the side-effects (like the libido crash-landing and never getting back on its feet again).
I've been struggling with lactose intolerance for a similar period of time and also had similar, unsatisfactory, experiences with doctors.
The one to diagnose it, finally, was me with a little help from Dr. Google.
My wife has made similar experiences with gynaecologists. Some were actually telling her that the pill had no side-effects. Unbelievable, really. Also, some doctors she consulted and whom prescribed drugs would say that said drugs did not interfere with the pill, when, clearly stated in the package insert, they did.
Must? No. But considering there's about seven billion of us around, chances are that someone will enjoy it.
The important question is this: Does it hurt somebody? Because if it doesn't, there's no good reason to ban it. And why?
Well, again there's about seven billion of us around. Someone, someday is bound to not like what you enjoy without it ever harming them or someone else. Would you think it fair to have that banned? Because, make no mistake, this thing could be everything from something you like to eat, some sport you like to watch to some sexual preferences you enjoy with your significant other.
Or even worse, what would keep people from not liking your face? So where would you draw the line? Whose morals will guide us when we ban everything that doesn't fit them out of legal existence?
Indeed. I can't count how often I've thought of strangling my boss. If it becomes a crime to even imagine having sex with a kid, then, logically, it would have to become a crime to have fantasies about killing your boss, too.
Then we'd have to get death penalty instated around the globe for we just cannot build all the prisons we'd need then.
Most of them do... the outrage starts whenever they're LABELED as such. Then the evil "Harr, harr, I'm gunna rape me some kiddiez"-pedos out there fall all over themselves to get their hands on the real thing... or so we've been told.
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The director's cut version also contains a scene where Jesus steps off the cross and has sex with an angel.
Oh my god, this sounds hilarious! I wanna see that!
Frankly, sometimes I think empathy is rather what separates some of the lower species from us, if you get my meaning.
Although I have to admit, the longer I live on this planet, the less empathy I have for other human beings. I'm getting overloaded with dumb.
This is all bullshit. Reduce stress. As long as you're under stress, your body is making itself ready to flee whatever predator is causing you stress. It never got the memo that we have firearms now and are thus on top of the food-chain.
As long as you work yourself into the grave, your body will ramp up the calorie-consumption and put it in storage for the bad times it assumes are right around the corner.
You people with your "Fat is bad, mkay" are forgetting one thing: The calories that go into your body are not necessarily processed altogether. Like cars don't have all the same efficiency, neither do our bodies. Some of us will react to stress by gaining weight, others lose it. In a healthy situation, where you do get out of stressful environments enough, your body will adjust fine on its own, unless you put every next best thing that looks edible in your mouth.
And again, this is science. This is not me wishing it were so. German speakers should consult Udo Polmer's books. They're on Amazon.
Why would you need two adaptors? I have a microUSB cable lying around here and it can't be much of a problem to make one that plugs into the wall-socket.
OR I actually know what I'm doing, how about that possibility?
Fuck entitlement. I wants it, I gets it. And after I have it I suddenly become knowledgeable enough to install and support it for family, friends and customers.
And there are no alternatives. The things I want to run do nut run under MacOS and fuck Linux on the desktop, seriously.
The US$ IS weak. Didn't you read the article? It's the whole point of it. The Euro price has NO RELATION WHATSOEVER to the US$ price. The weaker the US$ gets, the more we pay relative to US customers.
Indeed. Globalisation makes source material cheaper for companies and end-products more expensive for consumers while the same consumers at the same time have to be more accepting of corporate bullshit, lesser quality and have to be flexible when it comes to their jobs.
Meanwhile, consumers are NOT allowed to profit from globalisation themselves. That would defeat the whole idea of carving more money out of your customers.
Microsoft actually wants me to leech this off of BitTorrent. There's no other explanation.
Well, wouldn't want to disappoint them, no? I was pretty surprised at how little I hate Windows 7. I was actually thinking of buying. But it seems my perfect track record of never paying for Windows will remain perfect.
I mean, think about it. You can get new machines for what? 500 Euros? Do they really think that a, almost, 60% bonus for the OS will fly? I realize that OEM deals will look decidedly different, but come on...
I am actually implying that well-paid engineers are rather more creative and efficient than overworked and unmotivated ones.
Feh, bullshit.
There are tons of female geeks. They are just not into IT. There's the whole renaissance stuff, crafts geeks, there are geeks who are all about long beautiful hair, geeks about making their own cosmetics... hell even the gals doing natural contraception are getting together online.
Question is, do you want to get involved in something besides IT? The latter example is, obviously not the best thing to jump in being a male, but with other stuff the male to female ratio is just as bad as the female to male is in IT. Question remains, do you want to get involved?
If you don't want to get involved and IT is your everything, then I'm sad to say, you're just a fucking boring and limited person. That will be hard to overcome.
The US created these industries without massive immigration
We must be thinking about two separate versions of 'the US' because the one I know today consists of 99.9% people with migration background.
Personally, I think the man is right. In light of what Indians are willing to do for less money, of course Americans are unemployable. Vice versa you could also say that Americans are just not willing to be enslaved the way Indians are. So his whole statement becomes rather relative, doesn't it?
The Problem is that we keep being willing to receive our support from Indians and other foreign countries. Since EMEA support from HP moved to Sofia, I literally HATE to call them up. Not because those people are unwilling to help or rude about it. No, they are perfectly fine people. But the fact remains that there's a language barrier between us. The whole process has become that much more bureaucratic and time-consuming.
It's funny, though (not haha-funny but rather innat sad-funny) how even HP Switzerland is powerless against HP America's management. They are shaking their heads just as much as we are.
Another funny thing, IMO, is that somehow, back then when they still had their own techies and didn't outsource them all for worse pay and more hours, their bottom line actually looked better, didn't it? Isn't HP struggling much more today than it was around 1990? Now, I'm not implying that correlation equals causation, but one should think that point through, I think.
Don't we have some potentially more far reaching problems to address, like, oh, we might be going to run out of easily available water and energy, and the environment might change so much that about a billion people could lose their home over the next 15 years?
There, fixed that for you.
We might just as well discuss another 'real' problem like the chances of John Candy crashing into earth while riding a comet with Colonel Sanders' silhouette.
See, it's not that I don't believe there to be serious repercussions from the way we treat our planet, I'd just like for people like you to stop parroting all this FUD.
Now you know better.
Tjat would have been your screen saver.
Chances are slim, but if you should happen to look at the replies here I'd like to point you at NFP.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_family_planning
While many forms of it are not as effective as the pill or a condom by far, my wife, and many other women, successfully use it and have used it for years.
The important part is under 'Limitations'. You do have to invest a bit of work. A combination of symptoms-based, calendar-based and basal-temperature-based methods prove to be just as secure as the pill itself without any of the side-effects (like the libido crash-landing and never getting back on its feet again).
My, what a decidedly uninsightful and outright nonsensical post.
It isn't much better here in Europe.
I've been struggling with lactose intolerance for a similar period of time and also had similar, unsatisfactory, experiences with doctors.
The one to diagnose it, finally, was me with a little help from Dr. Google.
My wife has made similar experiences with gynaecologists. Some were actually telling her that the pill had no side-effects. Unbelievable, really.
Also, some doctors she consulted and whom prescribed drugs would say that said drugs did not interfere with the pill, when, clearly stated in the package insert, they did.
Never thought about it like that. Good point though.
Oh I just like it how idiots will sooner rather than later show their true colours without us even prompting.
Must? No. But considering there's about seven billion of us around, chances are that someone will enjoy it.
The important question is this: Does it hurt somebody? Because if it doesn't, there's no good reason to ban it. And why?
Well, again there's about seven billion of us around. Someone, someday is bound to not like what you enjoy without it ever harming them or someone else. Would you think it fair to have that banned? Because, make no mistake, this thing could be everything from something you like to eat, some sport you like to watch to some sexual preferences you enjoy with your significant other.
Or even worse, what would keep people from not liking your face? So where would you draw the line? Whose morals will guide us when we ban everything that doesn't fit them out of legal existence?
Err, yes? And this differs from what I've said how exactly?
Indeed. I can't count how often I've thought of strangling my boss. If it becomes a crime to even imagine having sex with a kid, then, logically, it would have to become a crime to have fantasies about killing your boss, too.
Then we'd have to get death penalty instated around the globe for we just cannot build all the prisons we'd need then.
Most of them do... the outrage starts whenever they're LABELED as such. Then the evil "Harr, harr, I'm gunna rape me some kiddiez"-pedos out there fall all over themselves to get their hands on the real thing... or so we've been told.