No, the parent has it right, they want to stack you brain. Any time you have a thought, think of a song, remember a movie, or a passage from a book, a small bit of money is deducted from your account. Since you account will be completely empty within about 4 minutes of your receiving a pay check, and since you'll still be having thoughts, the powers that be will inform you that you are now a ward of the state (a wholly owned subsidiary of the folks who stacked your brain.) You will do as you are told, or they will activate their right to carve out any memories they deem as their IP. Welcome to heaven as envisioned by he XX-IAA.
Its way more than that.... they will be popular, they will be young and beautiful forever, they will never die, have bad breath, fart, or be embarrassed. The machine whispers in your ear and tells you anything for the privilege of lightening your wallet, and locking down a few more neurons. Its ultimate goal is to rob the world of the capacity to form individual thoughts or make rational decisions. Is it not time to kill the machine.
All of this would make sense if the primary powers in communism didn't go belly up in the 80s and 90s, and now all that's left are varying degrees of capitalistic economy with vaguely totalitarian governments. Russia and Chine are in full swing, with market driven economies out to beat the band. So who are these communistic influences at home? The problem with deregulation and big business in general is that its composed of the same greedy, fallible, selfish, underhanded, Machiavellian bastards that governments are full of. Take your eyes off them, and they will buy governments, rob nations, destroy ecosystems and play hob with the economy all just to squeeze out a few more goodies.
To write off the scientists reporting on global warming because you're concerned about their politics is like writing off what people tell you regarding the earth not being flat because you're concerned about their religious beliefs. The common key, is follow the fact, everything else is you or me defending ideological turf and it has no grounding in physical reality. Your dogma have has gotten of the leash.
This is a perfect example. You have the Beatles version of "Baby Its You", epic old school Rock and Roll, "Smith" turns out the same song and drives it home with a soulful late 60s hint of acid, then the Carpenters do a version full of lush vocals and soft jazz accompaniment. All in less than 10 years. You'd never see this today. All the versions are awesome, completely different and completely honor the spirit of the song. Each is marked by a standout vocal performance, and each would be completely appreciated by different listeners (or somebody with really broad musical tastes.)
You'd have a hard time getting past the legal problems of doing these kind of covers today with a song still being performed by an artist and on the charts. The bankers would go into spastic colon spasms and their legal minions would begin suing everything in sight. There's no more room for art. Worse, America has been lead and bred on a diet of vacuous audio sewage... all I hear is radio Gaga. There was a time when rap was dangerous, and minds bright and angry poured out lyrics that cut to the soul and spoke volumes of what it meant to live on mean streets. Most of the rap today is formulaic and so shallow, you could wade through it and barely get your feet wet.
Where's the Jazz, where's the Rock-a-Billy, Folk, Punk, Classic Electronica. Anyone remember ELP, Tangerine Dreams, Vangelis, Tomita, Eno, Kraftwerk, Jean Michael Jarre, Alan Parson's Project. We've gone from Alan Parson's "Lucifer" to Electronica, which is bland, repetitive noise for dancing. Even cutting edge band like "Daft Punk" who were good enough to have music in the TRON remake, are hardly more than a shadow of classically trained and insanely inventive artists of the 60s,70s and 80s. Here's a guy who invented the guitar synthsizer in the 70s. Here's something he just recorded. Its call "Lead Works", his name is Timo Laine. Tell me why I can't hear this on a radio today? The guy is still ripping it up.
We need to take American Idol, a step further and give young people a place to experiment. To hear all that was great, and then give them giants on whose shoulders they may stand. Music is the byproduct of a healthy culture, it heals its sick and celebrates its magnificence. Its time to wrest back the future from small and greedy minds who would squander it on personal gratification. Our art. Our souls. Its time to make them all dance.
I love this... I'd love to do magic for y'all, you just keep falling for the same stupid misdirections every time. Its absolutely Pavlovian.
These contracts were made when the economy was fine, and nobody had a problem with a person putting in a career and getting a decent pension to retire on. Its only now, that the banker and other Wallstreet scum have crashed our savings, gutted our retirement, wrecked our economy, bankrupted our government from City to Federal Capitol, bled us all dry for their own enrichment and self serving interests, and left the masses treading water, that we are now up in arms about public sector employees getting a pension. Dog eat dog, if I'm starving you better be starving too.... blah, blah, blah. All the while, the real problem is out buying his 12th MacMansion and giving his 18 year old his first $20,000,000 to invest. You know, a little folding money.
Honest you guys almost don't deserve any better, you keep looking where the magician point and whoops, they goes your wallet again.
Apparently this isn't your field of study. Global Climate Change, includes stronger more frequent swings between flood and drought. That's good for nobody. Changes in climate mean catastrophic changes sea temperature and chemistry, destroying reefs and causing the collapse of huge fish populations. That's too is good for nobody. The people for whom it is worst, will want to move, but they'll bang into the borders of other nations. This will lead to starvation, war and global conflict. Again I see no up side in any of that. The fact that Canada will become a bread basket and Scotland a wine makers delight doesn't change the fact that the other 6.5 billion living below the (ant)artic circles will be having a rough time of it. In the end I expect that will be good for nobody.
Look at the 70s. The vastness of musical genres was amazing. As bad as the recording industry was, it just let artists be artists and we got a 1,000 unique styles and voices. Look at the female vocalists. Not a professional model among the lot, but sweet jebus they could wail your brains out at 50 paces. Today must is preprogrammed, preprocessed, tested for all the parameters that will make it a top 20s hit, and press fit to the production standards bankers have come to know and love. The women are all size 0, curly blonds, with precise the right dimples, and are so perky you wanna stick'em with hat pins to see if they explode.
Go to the indie providers. All the great musicians are still making music, just not for the bankers.
It does if one releases said element into an open environment over which one has no say or control. I write a beautiful little piece of code that controls flash timers, for folks who want to do studio photography and I release that little gem into the world. Some putz in a country who's major export is hot sand, decides this is the perfect bit of code to manage the timer for his nuclear trigger. It has my name on it. But I did not authorize this use and I'm not liable for the misuse of this PUBLIC code by this ill begotten son of a mangy camel. Same way you can't sue Ford because a drunk driver takes out an entire bus stop, I should not be held in any way liable for the stupidity, arrogance, or malicious intent of some stranger on the other side of the net.
You keep forgetting that somebody in a very nice office in Hollywood payed a helluva lot of money to make certain "His Government" fixed the problem, and he cares not a wit if the pit bull in charge has to bend the law, break the law, or wipe his furry rump on the Constitution. This is business dammit!!!
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley of "Valley Gurl" legend, but it was also the place the RocketDyne tested their engines. At the northwest end of the valley during the 60s, it would be a quiet summer day and them the silence would be split by a deafening roar coming from the Santa Susanna mountains. If we were up in the hills at one of the local parks, we might even catch a glimpse of a column of smoke. Pretty amazing times. Pretty awesome machine.
Add 3 things to iDevices.... Mandatory Insurance, iCloud, and the ability to passively record video and audio upon owner's say so with police getting mirrored data-stream.
The insurance replaces the stolen device, no reason for the owner to resist and get hurt. Cloud Backup get's all your data, content, media. Its also is the place that get's the passive audio and video of the perpetrator screwing with you and your iPad or iPhone. All the while the iPad is clearing your data from the pad, and removing applications until the only thing remaining is IOS and the security apps capturing the information from the thief. The device run in stealth mode and looks like its off and the thieves can't seem to turn on. Once the machine has enough captured data, it get's bricked.
The Police now have video of the bad guys plus any names and locations that got mentioned in the audio of their conversation. You get a new device that can be synced up with your iCloud account. The bad guys get a pretty brick, and a live warrant for arrest.
The minute it becomes clear they can't steal these things and retain anything worth more than the slagged machine, and it get's them arrested, how long do you think the behavior will continue. I give it about a day. You can even add a spoken trigger, so that if a person is attacked they can call out "Mugged" and the whole process starts, including recording the devices accelerometer to indicate possible physical violence for an assault and mugging charge. By the time its all over, you have enough forensic evidence to send butt head to Rikers for a little R&R (in this context that would be Rape & Recreational Hemorrhaging.
You don't understand what a firestorm an outbreak of ebola is capable of. Yes it has a short incubation period and time of death from first contact can be as little as several days depending on the health of the patient (this is actually good, because as has been said, it dramatically reduces the likelihood of large scale spread), but if an infected person were to get on a plane that touched down let's say in any major European city, then went either to the U.S. with a stop in the U.K. or to let's say Japan with a stop in India, the chance for an amazing number of people to become infected before the disease could be contained would be almost certain. With infected people changing flights, and traveling to other transportation hubs, where the disease could be passed on several times, you could have tens of millions of people infected in days. All the major cities of the world would have cases, and global transportation would collapse.
The ebola we currently know will never kill billions, but it could cripple the world and cause untold horror. The one other major concern is that a large enough outbreak of ebola, could cause a significant number of mutations in the virus, with a virus that is airborne or a virus that has a longer incubation period, becoming a serious game changer. Such a virus would be much easier to spread and much harder to control. A slow ebola could kill billions.
Sadly, you're probably right, for borderline behavior, more women sue than men, so that is probably where business leans. That said, any overt acts get you smacked and it doesn't matter whether you sit or stand in the loo. A woman who consistently dressed unprofessionally will not advance. Its poor business. It depends on what you mean by noticing. Glancing, no problem, we don't expect you to be dead. If you oggle, stare, wolf whistle, act like a post pubescent idiot, don't be surprised you're screwed. You can comment on a woman's appearance, but comment on the clothing and not her body. Jane, that color really suits you. Martha, that is a lovely dress, going someplace special with your husband this evening? The key here is every point is to be tasteful. What the hell is man flu? If a guy is having problems with his prostate, the women should be sensitive and discrete in their comments. This could be a very serious condition up to and including cancer, and anyone without the compassion or grace to understand that no matter the sex should be spoken to. That said, some women have debilitating cycles. Show a little compassion, this is nothing to joked about. Though I do agree the same consideration should go both ways.
You feel men are getting short shrift in your workplace, talk to HR, even an anonymous letter may help. That doesn't excuse you from towing the line. The cost of being an ass is really high and the last thing you want is someone taking that price out of your hide.
Have someone come to your workplace, explain what the repercussions are for acting like an idiot. A person can be personally sued, and a company will certainly be sued. You can lose everything. You can be labeled as someone who harasses, and that can travel with you. You can be forced to face your behavior in court, now explain that to your wife and children. Daddy lost the house because he like to pat girls on the ass. Let people know what is acceptable, what is not. You call a girl "Babe" and you're probably good to go, you could even say "Get over it, Babe!" On the other hand, you say "Blow me, Babe!" and I hope you've inherited a vast fortune because you're about to part with some of it. Let your guys know that they just be respectful and professional. They can even say "You know what, this is a pretty male centric space, please let us know if we do anything that you find uncomfortable or irritating." In most case she's going to want to be one of the guys, so she can work easily with you and you'll all arrive at a happy place. Just be a little conscious.
There was a famous investment firm in the late 80s that was said to have a really macho corporate culture. They referred to the top seller of the month as the "Big Swinging Dick" which was funny considering a fair number of months belonged to women on the team and caused discordant sentences like "Lisa is this months big swinging dick..." Anyway, their CEO did time at club Fed, and after they started burning out a number of folks sued them for hostile work environments, a gay guy who's sports car was painted with all kinds of awful graffiti, and women who were publicly groped, fondled and spoken to in a lewd or lascivious manner. You don't want to be known as that place. It isn't pretty.
Sorry, but there are two huge sides to this issue. On the one side, when the average sexual harassment suit brings in about $800,000, you think there aren't going to be people who will take even a slight problem and turn it into a payday? On the other hand, there are businesses that are run more like locker rooms that places of professional behavior. I worked at a place that was operated mostly by ex-military folk, and to call the environment salty, testosterone laden or simply female antagonistic, would be raising understatement to art form. The ladies there were gracious, good humored and good natured, but it was common practice to hire girls by chest size and guys were always trying to "Take a dip in the secretarial pool..."
This place existed before sex harassment suits, and I'm betting its changed a lot since I was there. In the early 80s, a female lawyer went around to most of the large businesses trying to convince them they needed to be educated in preventing harassment. They told her to get lost. She spoke to women at the 6 largest and there were suits filed against all of them with 2 months, costing those companies millions of dollars (back in the 80s that hurt big time.) Needless to say, every business over single ownership had a sensitivity class put on by this lady and she made better money training businesses than she did suing people. Welcome to life as we know it today.
If your saying a.22 isn't lethal enough, a.22 mercury filled bullet is capable of doing simply amazing damage. It explodes, the mercury travels along the long bones of the body then punches through sharp turns. A shot in the arm, could explode the heart or blow a hole in the skull and disrupt the brain. It can sever limbs and cause hyrdrostatic shock causing instant concussion death. That and there's nothing left to do ballistics on. So it completely depends on the.22 my son. But for the most part, I fear you're right, most fire arms are a vain effort to compensate for lack of meatier bits... get a sports car instead, at least you can enjoy the wind in what remains of your hair.
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DON'T PICK IT UP!!!!!!! Aaaaaahhhhh, poor bastard!
I believe you need the following display to assist with proper sneaker net age determination...
AGE .................... MEDIA
............. Clay Tablet ............ Papyrus .................. Parchment .... (What's a sneaker?) ............ Reel Tape ................... Paper punch card deck ........ 8" 180 KB Floppy .......... 360 KB Floppy ........... 1.44 MB Floppy ..... Tape Cassette .......... CD ............. DVD ............... Flashcard ............... Flashdrive
Babylon 1 Star
Beyond Farting
Farts Dust
Forbidden Planer star . Printed paper
Star Trek star
Old Fart
Star Wars star
Middle Aged
STNG Star
Babalon 5 star
Young Man
Youngun
Todler
Infant
No, the parent has it right, they want to stack you brain. Any time you have a thought, think of a song, remember a movie, or a passage from a book, a small bit of money is deducted from your account. Since you account will be completely empty within about 4 minutes of your receiving a pay check, and since you'll still be having thoughts, the powers that be will inform you that you are now a ward of the state (a wholly owned subsidiary of the folks who stacked your brain.) You will do as you are told, or they will activate their right to carve out any memories they deem as their IP. Welcome to heaven as envisioned by he XX-IAA.
Its way more than that.... they will be popular, they will be young and beautiful forever, they will never die, have bad breath, fart, or be embarrassed. The machine whispers in your ear and tells you anything for the privilege of lightening your wallet, and locking down a few more neurons. Its ultimate goal is to rob the world of the capacity to form individual thoughts or make rational decisions. Is it not time to kill the machine.
And Pavlov was able to get dogs to drool when they heard a bell... your point is?
All of this would make sense if the primary powers in communism didn't go belly up in the 80s and 90s, and now all that's left are varying degrees of capitalistic economy with vaguely totalitarian governments. Russia and Chine are in full swing, with market driven economies out to beat the band. So who are these communistic influences at home? The problem with deregulation and big business in general is that its composed of the same greedy, fallible, selfish, underhanded, Machiavellian bastards that governments are full of. Take your eyes off them, and they will buy governments, rob nations, destroy ecosystems and play hob with the economy all just to squeeze out a few more goodies.
To write off the scientists reporting on global warming because you're concerned about their politics is like writing off what people tell you regarding the earth not being flat because you're concerned about their religious beliefs. The common key, is follow the fact, everything else is you or me defending ideological turf and it has no grounding in physical reality. Your dogma have has gotten of the leash.
This is a perfect example. You have the Beatles version of "Baby Its You", epic old school Rock and Roll, "Smith" turns out the same song and drives it home with a soulful late 60s hint of acid, then the Carpenters do a version full of lush vocals and soft jazz accompaniment. All in less than 10 years. You'd never see this today. All the versions are awesome, completely different and completely honor the spirit of the song. Each is marked by a standout vocal performance, and each would be completely appreciated by different listeners (or somebody with really broad musical tastes.)
You'd have a hard time getting past the legal problems of doing these kind of covers today with a song still being performed by an artist and on the charts. The bankers would go into spastic colon spasms and their legal minions would begin suing everything in sight. There's no more room for art. Worse, America has been lead and bred on a diet of vacuous audio sewage... all I hear is radio Gaga. There was a time when rap was dangerous, and minds bright and angry poured out lyrics that cut to the soul and spoke volumes of what it meant to live on mean streets. Most of the rap today is formulaic and so shallow, you could wade through it and barely get your feet wet.
Where's the Jazz, where's the Rock-a-Billy, Folk, Punk, Classic Electronica. Anyone remember ELP, Tangerine Dreams, Vangelis, Tomita, Eno, Kraftwerk, Jean Michael Jarre, Alan Parson's Project. We've gone from Alan Parson's "Lucifer" to Electronica, which is bland, repetitive noise for dancing. Even cutting edge band like "Daft Punk" who were good enough to have music in the TRON remake, are hardly more than a shadow of classically trained and insanely inventive artists of the 60s,70s and 80s. Here's a guy who invented the guitar synthsizer in the 70s. Here's something he just recorded. Its call "Lead Works", his name is Timo Laine. Tell me why I can't hear this on a radio today? The guy is still ripping it up.
We need to take American Idol, a step further and give young people a place to experiment. To hear all that was great, and then give them giants on whose shoulders they may stand. Music is the byproduct of a healthy culture, it heals its sick and celebrates its magnificence. Its time to wrest back the future from small and greedy minds who would squander it on personal gratification. Our art. Our souls. Its time to make them all dance.
I love this... I'd love to do magic for y'all, you just keep falling for the same stupid misdirections every time. Its absolutely Pavlovian.
These contracts were made when the economy was fine, and nobody had a problem with a person putting in a career and getting a decent pension to retire on. Its only now, that the banker and other Wallstreet scum have crashed our savings, gutted our retirement, wrecked our economy, bankrupted our government from City to Federal Capitol, bled us all dry for their own enrichment and self serving interests, and left the masses treading water, that we are now up in arms about public sector employees getting a pension. Dog eat dog, if I'm starving you better be starving too.... blah, blah, blah. All the while, the real problem is out buying his 12th MacMansion and giving his 18 year old his first $20,000,000 to invest. You know, a little folding money.
Honest you guys almost don't deserve any better, you keep looking where the magician point and whoops, they goes your wallet again.
Apparently this isn't your field of study. Global Climate Change, includes stronger more frequent swings between flood and drought. That's good for nobody. Changes in climate mean catastrophic changes sea temperature and chemistry, destroying reefs and causing the collapse of huge fish populations. That's too is good for nobody. The people for whom it is worst, will want to move, but they'll bang into the borders of other nations. This will lead to starvation, war and global conflict. Again I see no up side in any of that. The fact that Canada will become a bread basket and Scotland a wine makers delight doesn't change the fact that the other 6.5 billion living below the (ant)artic circles will be having a rough time of it. In the end I expect that will be good for nobody.
Movies, music, marketing... its all the same kind of mind... makes me think of this awesome comedic riff by Bill Hicks... if only!
Look at the 70s. The vastness of musical genres was amazing. As bad as the recording industry was, it just let artists be artists and we got a 1,000 unique styles and voices. Look at the female vocalists. Not a professional model among the lot, but sweet jebus they could wail your brains out at 50 paces. Today must is preprogrammed, preprocessed, tested for all the parameters that will make it a top 20s hit, and press fit to the production standards bankers have come to know and love. The women are all size 0, curly blonds, with precise the right dimples, and are so perky you wanna stick'em with hat pins to see if they explode.
Go to the indie providers. All the great musicians are still making music, just not for the bankers.
It does if one releases said element into an open environment over which one has no say or control. I write a beautiful little piece of code that controls flash timers, for folks who want to do studio photography and I release that little gem into the world. Some putz in a country who's major export is hot sand, decides this is the perfect bit of code to manage the timer for his nuclear trigger. It has my name on it. But I did not authorize this use and I'm not liable for the misuse of this PUBLIC code by this ill begotten son of a mangy camel. Same way you can't sue Ford because a drunk driver takes out an entire bus stop, I should not be held in any way liable for the stupidity, arrogance, or malicious intent of some stranger on the other side of the net.
You keep forgetting that somebody in a very nice office in Hollywood payed a helluva lot of money to make certain "His Government" fixed the problem, and he cares not a wit if the pit bull in charge has to bend the law, break the law, or wipe his furry rump on the Constitution. This is business dammit!!!
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley of "Valley Gurl" legend, but it was also the place the RocketDyne tested their engines. At the northwest end of the valley during the 60s, it would be a quiet summer day and them the silence would be split by a deafening roar coming from the Santa Susanna mountains. If we were up in the hills at one of the local parks, we might even catch a glimpse of a column of smoke. Pretty amazing times. Pretty awesome machine.
Add 3 things to iDevices.... Mandatory Insurance, iCloud, and the ability to passively record video and audio upon owner's say so with police getting mirrored data-stream.
The insurance replaces the stolen device, no reason for the owner to resist and get hurt. Cloud Backup get's all your data, content, media. Its also is the place that get's the passive audio and video of the perpetrator screwing with you and your iPad or iPhone. All the while the iPad is clearing your data from the pad, and removing applications until the only thing remaining is IOS and the security apps capturing the information from the thief. The device run in stealth mode and looks like its off and the thieves can't seem to turn on. Once the machine has enough captured data, it get's bricked.
The Police now have video of the bad guys plus any names and locations that got mentioned in the audio of their conversation. You get a new device that can be synced up with your iCloud account. The bad guys get a pretty brick, and a live warrant for arrest.
The minute it becomes clear they can't steal these things and retain anything worth more than the slagged machine, and it get's them arrested, how long do you think the behavior will continue. I give it about a day. You can even add a spoken trigger, so that if a person is attacked they can call out "Mugged" and the whole process starts, including recording the devices accelerometer to indicate possible physical violence for an assault and mugging charge. By the time its all over, you have enough forensic evidence to send butt head to Rikers for a little R&R (in this context that would be Rape & Recreational Hemorrhaging.
You don't understand what a firestorm an outbreak of ebola is capable of. Yes it has a short incubation period and time of death from first contact can be as little as several days depending on the health of the patient (this is actually good, because as has been said, it dramatically reduces the likelihood of large scale spread), but if an infected person were to get on a plane that touched down let's say in any major European city, then went either to the U.S. with a stop in the U.K. or to let's say Japan with a stop in India, the chance for an amazing number of people to become infected before the disease could be contained would be almost certain. With infected people changing flights, and traveling to other transportation hubs, where the disease could be passed on several times, you could have tens of millions of people infected in days. All the major cities of the world would have cases, and global transportation would collapse.
The ebola we currently know will never kill billions, but it could cripple the world and cause untold horror. The one other major concern is that a large enough outbreak of ebola, could cause a significant number of mutations in the virus, with a virus that is airborne or a virus that has a longer incubation period, becoming a serious game changer. Such a virus would be much easier to spread and much harder to control. A slow ebola could kill billions.
p>I'm surprised the first post regarding a Japanese aquarium module didn't go straight to the obvious end involving sushi rice and ponzu sauce?
Apparently so... its already working so well with tort law...
I'm good with the banker decision, I'm betting I could probably raise the money for their plane tickets on Kickstarter in about 20 minutes...
They actually let you enter the ring with a briefcase full of horse shoes?
Sadly, you're probably right, for borderline behavior, more women sue than men, so that is probably where business leans. That said, any overt acts get you smacked and it doesn't matter whether you sit or stand in the loo. A woman who consistently dressed unprofessionally will not advance. Its poor business. It depends on what you mean by noticing. Glancing, no problem, we don't expect you to be dead. If you oggle, stare, wolf whistle, act like a post pubescent idiot, don't be surprised you're screwed. You can comment on a woman's appearance, but comment on the clothing and not her body. Jane, that color really suits you. Martha, that is a lovely dress, going someplace special with your husband this evening? The key here is every point is to be tasteful. What the hell is man flu? If a guy is having problems with his prostate, the women should be sensitive and discrete in their comments. This could be a very serious condition up to and including cancer, and anyone without the compassion or grace to understand that no matter the sex should be spoken to. That said, some women have debilitating cycles. Show a little compassion, this is nothing to joked about. Though I do agree the same consideration should go both ways.
You feel men are getting short shrift in your workplace, talk to HR, even an anonymous letter may help. That doesn't excuse you from towing the line. The cost of being an ass is really high and the last thing you want is someone taking that price out of your hide.
Have someone come to your workplace, explain what the repercussions are for acting like an idiot. A person can be personally sued, and a company will certainly be sued. You can lose everything. You can be labeled as someone who harasses, and that can travel with you. You can be forced to face your behavior in court, now explain that to your wife and children. Daddy lost the house because he like to pat girls on the ass. Let people know what is acceptable, what is not. You call a girl "Babe" and you're probably good to go, you could even say "Get over it, Babe!" On the other hand, you say "Blow me, Babe!" and I hope you've inherited a vast fortune because you're about to part with some of it. Let your guys know that they just be respectful and professional. They can even say "You know what, this is a pretty male centric space, please let us know if we do anything that you find uncomfortable or irritating." In most case she's going to want to be one of the guys, so she can work easily with you and you'll all arrive at a happy place. Just be a little conscious.
There was a famous investment firm in the late 80s that was said to have a really macho corporate culture. They referred to the top seller of the month as the "Big Swinging Dick" which was funny considering a fair number of months belonged to women on the team and caused discordant sentences like "Lisa is this months big swinging dick..." Anyway, their CEO did time at club Fed, and after they started burning out a number of folks sued them for hostile work environments, a gay guy who's sports car was painted with all kinds of awful graffiti, and women who were publicly groped, fondled and spoken to in a lewd or lascivious manner. You don't want to be known as that place. It isn't pretty.
Sorry, but there are two huge sides to this issue. On the one side, when the average sexual harassment suit brings in about $800,000, you think there aren't going to be people who will take even a slight problem and turn it into a payday? On the other hand, there are businesses that are run more like locker rooms that places of professional behavior. I worked at a place that was operated mostly by ex-military folk, and to call the environment salty, testosterone laden or simply female antagonistic, would be raising understatement to art form. The ladies there were gracious, good humored and good natured, but it was common practice to hire girls by chest size and guys were always trying to "Take a dip in the secretarial pool..."
This place existed before sex harassment suits, and I'm betting its changed a lot since I was there. In the early 80s, a female lawyer went around to most of the large businesses trying to convince them they needed to be educated in preventing harassment. They told her to get lost. She spoke to women at the 6 largest and there were suits filed against all of them with 2 months, costing those companies millions of dollars (back in the 80s that hurt big time.) Needless to say, every business over single ownership had a sensitivity class put on by this lady and she made better money training businesses than she did suing people. Welcome to life as we know it today.
Everyone knows he hangs with one of the best lawyers in town... you didn't hear it from me, but some say he's a prick.
If your saying a .22 isn't lethal enough, a .22 mercury filled bullet is capable of doing simply amazing damage. It explodes, the mercury travels along the long bones of the body then punches through sharp turns. A shot in the arm, could explode the heart or blow a hole in the skull and disrupt the brain. It can sever limbs and cause hyrdrostatic shock causing instant concussion death. That and there's nothing left to do ballistics on. So it completely depends on the .22 my son. But for the most part, I fear you're right, most fire arms are a vain effort to compensate for lack of meatier bits... get a sports car instead, at least you can enjoy the wind in what remains of your hair.