of a primary booster failure, your charred remains will be blasted into bits no larger than the nose hairs of a flea and scattered over an area half the size of Texas.
Thank you for choosing Bigelow Spacelines and have nice flight.
Dude, you are beating a dead horse. Actually that horse is not only dead, it is decayed, sunk into the primordial ooze and fossilized in 40 million year old limestone.
If there is "one LISTING a month" then clearly the supply of labor is far exceeding the demand and thus the value of your labor is strongly decreased. You either work more for the same money, do the same work for less money, or lose your job to someone who will. This is just the flip side of a "boom" (remember the last one?) where demand for skilled workers outstrips the supply, and employers have to pay premium salaries and retention bonuses etc. to hold on to staff. Neither condition is permanent.
A rainy day fund is damn good advice. It will put some of the control back in your hands. You won't be so desperate for a paycheque that you have to put up with whatever crap your employer wants to dump on you. You can push back, maintain some self respect, and not be living in constant dread of losing your job.
I know from experience that losing a job can be a kick in the nuts, and yes, I'm sure it sucks to be you. I know this all sounds cold, but this is reality, and reality seldom adjusts itself to suit our wishes.
I understand that there is/was a society of civil engineers in eastern Canada that took that name. I'm not a member of that.
I am E.E. early 80s UBC. Mostly I take care "that the switches lock." but sometimes I get to "piece and repiece the living wires." I first encountered Kipling's poem a few years ago and it resonated strongly and emotionally with my "self-image". I can see why engineers have adopted it as their own.
The original sci fi melee fighter was from EE Smith's Lensman books. The premise was that the energy shields on space armour could stop smaller handheld energy weapons and fast moving projectiles, but were unable to stop slow moving objects. So the way to beat a pirate in space armour was to hack him to bits with a neutronium space ax, preferably wielded by 300 lb dutch space marines from the heavy gravity planet of Valeria.
Frank Herbert stole (borrowed?) the idea for his knife fights with shields in Dune.
I note, with some amusement, that SCO shares, which have been hovering at the $4.50 mark for about 2 years, suddenly dropped to $2.50 about 10 days ago. Trading volumes are absolutely miniscule. I think we are seeing the end coming.
Just went to the site and had a look at their list of free movies. That's 5 minutes of my life I will never get back. Page after page of Z-list crapola and not one (NOT ONE !!!111) movie I have ever heard of. It must have taken a lot of work to come up with a list of movies this bad.
"Bad beyond all infinte possible dimensions of badness"
Back in third or fourth grade the teacher told us about "i before e except after c...." Somebody asked if the rule always worked, and the teacher said there were no exceptions. Another kid says "are you sure?" and pointed to the word "Science" on a poster hanging over her desk.
Son, I like the way you're thinkin...Make driving a priviledge...Wait a minute, driving is a priviledge!
Why shouldn't we reserve the roads for those folks sufficiently skilled to drive them. Surely we could raise the bar a little higher? Keeping 80 year old legally blind Alzheimers victims and people with more than a dozen drunk-driving covictions off the road would be a good start.
Interesting way of looking at it - if I do it the old-fashioned way, I must really care.
For me, what takes _all_ the effort, is the act of writing. That is, organizing my thoughts, putting them into words, and then editing, revising and re-arranging them into a (hopefully) coherent whole is very hard for me. I do this on a computer, just like anybody else would. Having done this, I can either a) look up an email address and hit send, or b) look up a physical (snail mail) address, print it on a label, print and sign my letter, and drop it into the mailbox (No stamp required to mail your MP in Canada). Neither option will materially affect the total effort.
As far as handwriting goes, I haven't hand-written anything longer than a grocery list in 25 years. My handwriting is pretty illegible; I certainly wouldn't subject anybody else to having to decipher it. It seems deliberately and calculatedly archaic to hand write a letter. If I write on parchment with india ink and a crow feather pen, and then have it delivered by stagecoach, would my message have yet more impact?
Seems like we are favoring style over substance, or the medium over the message.
Here's a naive question. Does anybody have a rational explanation why a paper copy of a letter would have more significance than an electronic copy? Does the act of printing, stuffing into an envelope and mailing really add that much more meaning?
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of a primary booster failure, your charred remains will be blasted into bits no larger than the nose hairs of a flea and scattered over an area half the size of Texas.
Thank you for choosing Bigelow Spacelines and have nice flight.
...snort....giggle...
What? Your cat doesn't sleep 18 hours a day?
When you hit the cover of Newsweek as a shining example of corporate misbehaviour, it's safe to say your days are numbered.
Dude, you are beating a dead horse. Actually that horse is not only dead, it is decayed, sunk into the primordial ooze and fossilized in 40 million year old limestone.
My old Viewsonic G90FB 19" which is far from top of line will sync 1024 x 768 @ 120Hz
Why am I replying to an AC?
Larry Niven won a Hugo for his story about a tiny black hole used (allegedly) as a murder weapon and later consuming Mars.
"The math is chancy..."
Econ. 101
If there is "one LISTING a month" then clearly the supply of labor is far exceeding the demand and thus the value of your labor is strongly decreased. You either work more for the same money, do the same work for less money, or lose your job to someone who will. This is just the flip side of a "boom" (remember the last one?) where demand for skilled workers outstrips the supply, and employers have to pay premium salaries and retention bonuses etc. to hold on to staff. Neither condition is permanent.
A rainy day fund is damn good advice. It will put some of the control back in your hands. You won't be so desperate for a paycheque that you have to put up with whatever crap your employer wants to dump on you. You can push back, maintain some self respect, and not be living in constant dread of losing your job.
I know from experience that losing a job can be a kick in the nuts, and yes, I'm sure it sucks to be you. I know this all sounds cold, but this is reality, and reality seldom adjusts itself to suit our wishes.
In that case, Yes. I wear the little iron reminder on my right hand.
I understand that there is/was a society of civil engineers in eastern Canada that took that name. I'm not a member of that.
I am E.E. early 80s UBC. Mostly I take care "that the switches lock." but sometimes I get to "piece and repiece the living wires." I first encountered Kipling's poem a few years ago and it resonated strongly and emotionally with my "self-image". I can see why engineers have adopted it as their own.
Sig - Triplanetary?
Geo-Political Humor
If Hungary attacks Albania from the rear will Greece help?
Valerian Marines with Space Axes!
The original sci fi melee fighter was from EE Smith's Lensman books. The premise was that the energy shields on space armour could stop smaller handheld energy weapons and fast moving projectiles, but were unable to stop slow moving objects. So the way to beat a pirate in space armour was to hack him to bits with a neutronium space ax, preferably wielded by 300 lb dutch space marines from the heavy gravity planet of Valeria.
Frank Herbert stole (borrowed?) the idea for his knife fights with shields in Dune.
Never played Civ when it first came out, did you?
that should be viola
I read somewhere that the credit card industry calls people who pay their balance in full every month "deadbeats".
My irony-meter went off the red end of the scale.
I note, with some amusement, that SCO shares, which have been hovering at the $4.50 mark for about 2 years, suddenly dropped to $2.50 about 10 days ago. Trading volumes are absolutely miniscule. I think we are seeing the end coming.
Just went to the site and had a look at their list of free movies. That's 5 minutes of my life I will never get back. Page after page of Z-list crapola and not one (NOT ONE !!!111) movie I have ever heard of. It must have taken a lot of work to come up with a list of movies this bad.
"Bad beyond all infinte possible dimensions of badness"
Enough suck to pull small planets out of orbit.
See, in the old days we didn't have v i * g r a, so we had to use mechanical means ...
Back in third or fourth grade the teacher told us about "i before e except after c...." Somebody asked if the rule always worked, and the teacher said there were no exceptions. Another kid says "are you sure?" and pointed to the word "Science" on a poster hanging over her desk.
She must really have hated her job some days.
Son, I like the way you're thinkin...Make driving a priviledge...Wait a minute, driving is a priviledge!
Why shouldn't we reserve the roads for those folks sufficiently skilled to drive them. Surely we could raise the bar a little higher? Keeping 80 year old legally blind Alzheimers victims and people with more than a dozen drunk-driving covictions off the road would be a good start.
"an easy way to move troops and supplies around the country"
Which, not surprisingly, is why der Fuehrer built the Autobahns in the first place.
Interesting way of looking at it - if I do it the old-fashioned way, I must really care.
For me, what takes _all_ the effort, is the act of writing. That is, organizing my thoughts, putting them into words, and then editing, revising and re-arranging them into a (hopefully) coherent whole is very hard for me. I do this on a computer, just like anybody else would. Having done this, I can either a) look up an email address and hit send, or b) look up a physical (snail mail) address, print it on a label, print and sign my letter, and drop it into the mailbox (No stamp required to mail your MP in Canada). Neither option will materially affect the total effort.
As far as handwriting goes, I haven't hand-written anything longer than a grocery list in 25 years. My handwriting is pretty illegible; I certainly wouldn't subject anybody else to having to decipher it. It seems deliberately and calculatedly archaic to hand write a letter. If I write on parchment with india ink and a crow feather pen, and then have it delivered by stagecoach, would my message have yet more impact?
Seems like we are favoring style over substance, or the medium over the message.
Here's a naive question. Does anybody have a rational explanation why a paper copy of a letter would have more significance than an electronic copy? Does the act of printing, stuffing into an envelope and mailing really add that much more meaning?
In Soviet Russia HD Player gets you!
sorry...