Part of it? Sure. But we are the dominant species. The fact that we're sitting here posting about management of other species on the internet should at least help to demonstrate that. (that is, unless monkeys have a highly evolved method of electronic communication we're unaware of - oh, so that's where slashdot moderators come from;)
Seriously - to think that we're the only species that would wipe out another because we eat them, or because we build houses, or develop ranchland...is absurd. As long as food is available, some animals will eat until they die.
My point is, if humans were to vacate the planet today and leave the other animals to their own devices, there would still be extinctions. I don't think we should totally disregard responsible behavior and go killing every animal in sight, but I think a little thought is in order when we're paranoid about a species of fly vanishing from our world forever.
After all, if it evolved from something, won't it eventually come back (and no, I'm not a foe of evolution)?
I roll my eyes whenever I see a "Sprint sucks" or "T-Mobile" sucks comment.
As many here are fond of saying, YMMV. It depends on where you are at any given time. I had Sprint for 2 years and changed to T-Mobile only because I wanted a cool phone. And the service stayed the same.
Yes, I've had dropped calls with both carriers, but it's not to the point of saying the entire organization "sucks." And if you find that while at your house or office the coverage is very bad, you can contact the carrier and they will actually look into why that's the case. It doesn't mean they'll build a tower so you get coverage at your ranch in Wyoming, but they do want to improve their coverage in order to retain customers.
For the record, I do not and have not ever worked for one of the carriers and own stock in none of them.
...for being stuck here working late nights on things that I shouldn't have to be, because other people failed in their duties.
I've experienced this several times in the two years I've been at my job. It's usually due to upper management refusing to hire more help, or having an engineer on a project quit and expect me to come in and do both our jobs.
Management claims they don't want to hire more bodies because if/when our volume goes down they'll have to let people go, and they don't want to have to do that. But the truth of the situation is it's making me a little resentful - having to work shitloads of hours so someone that gets paid to have the hard conversations with employees about a potential layoff won't have to do so.
I have to admit, I've received nice raises, but there comes a point when I would rather have a normal day/week than get home at 8-9pm (like tonight). I'm also not sure if my raises reflect satisfaction in a job well-done, or are a way of saying "We think you're doing good...if we give you X amount more we think you could do better."
Consequently, I've got monster open in another tab and I'm browsing.
I don't know where you're from, but it's the reason why in many places there are laws on the books that differentiate between intent when it comes to the reason someone was killed.
Most people understand this. Apparently you and those that blindly join al Qaeda don't. That's ok, though, because as we've seen today, life will go on. I'm a US citizen, and can say I'm proud of Londoners for their courage in returning to their normal lives.
Personal liberty will win out over extreme Islamic fanaticism and intolerance.
As someone that was seriously injured as the result of another driver under the influence, you should not be concentrating on how poor and pitiful you are, but on what a fucked-up thing you did.
You're actually quite lucky that's all the damage that was done. You could have been in an accident and killed your friend, or even worse an innocent bystander.
Pay your measely $700, serve your terrible 24 days, and live out your life without the help of alcohol.
Could your attorney have plead down to a lesser crime? Possibly. But it's kind of screwy that you're worried you were punished too harshly. It's 24 days...geez.
Amazing. According to SCOTUS, the states have the wherewithal to make the determination about whether someone can lose their home to a strip mall, but they can't decide a partial-birth abortion (excuse me..."dilation and extraction" - you know the one, where the "doctor" kills the baby before its head is removed from the mother by stabbing it in the head with scissors and sucking its brain out) is illegal.
Yeah, go ahead and mod me as Offtopic. But my point stands. The court may have some f****d up way of justifying their decisions based on "internet research" and "what other countries around the world are doing," but they seem to have forgotten that yes, we actually do have a Constitution and that is what they are supposed to use for their decisions.
The part about "life and liberty" stands out like a neon sign, regardless of previous case law.
These are not "uncultivated lands." They are homes for families, paid for legally.
It might be different if this were a tract of useless desert being seized to put up solar panels, but they are going to build a hotel, health club, and offices in place of homes where people live.
Today's empires, tomorrow's ashes. And we're allowing it to happen.
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical....It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
-Thomas Jefferson, 1787
So who's taking bets on the longevity of our current leaders, when private property can be seized for private use?
I'm in Korea (Seoul) right now, and I heartily agree. When a telco can drop the necessary equipment in one block and get an entire 20-story apartment building of customers, paying for the capital outlay happens much, much faster and profits are raked in that much sooner.
The US population is, for the most part, too spread out to make it profitable for the telcos in many cases.
Here's my claim of "bias" with the CJR site - I read about halfway down the main page...never once did it refute any Kerry statements. Nor did it provide actual facts to rebutt what it said were untruths (A la "Kerry voted 98 times to increase taxes"..Ok, how many times? Where are your references?). Are the writers of that site lazy journalists as well?
Simple things can save time in places like a grocery store line.
For instance, when someone is paying by credit card, the first receipt to print would be the one that must be signed (merchant copy). While the customer is signing, the customer receipt is being printed.
It's not a huge deal, and would save only five or six seconds, but it's the lack of thought that went into the process that drives me nuts.
Start by getting a part time job and having your parents NOT claim you as a dependent on their taxes (this is easier if you are already 18). Once you become independent, your qualifications for government grants go way up (since you don't have your parents' income keeping you above the poverty line). The grants you can qualify more than make up for the tax credit.
Hold the phone. I tried that route (unintentionally), and it takes several years of living independently before only your income will be considered and not your income plus your parents' income according to IRS rules. Your school financial aid office can override this in extenuating circumstances, but you have to provide an assload of information proving you are actually independent. Even still, it's no guarantee you'll be considered independent for financial aid purposes.
Stay on your parents' taxes, fill out scholarship/grant applications like mad, and keep the grades up. It also doesn't hurt to get involved in a professional organization at your school such as IEEE, ACM, or NSPE. They either provide scholarships directly or will get you exposure with professors and administrators in order to get other scholarships.
Avoid loans if at all possible, but don't put off your education unnecessarily. Get a co-op job where you can - at least you're getting experience in your field.
How can you buy an "On Demand" show if you don't already pay for basic cable? Answer: you can't.
On Demand may be a nice convenience, but it's not a value-added service. For me, it's just a way to avoid going to the video store, as movie rental rates are about the same. Of course On Demand doesn't have nearly the selection of the video store - yet.
We went to war to distract the US population from the fact we haven't solved a damned thing in Afghanistan
Yeah, the Taliban is still in power, right? Wrong. Osama may not be captured, but for all we know he could already be dead. Either way, we took away from al Qaida a large source of security and funding - the Afghan government.
we went to war for the oil
Really? My gas prices haven't improved. Iraqi oil being sold on the open market isn't going into a US account - it's being used to improve the Iraqi infrastructure. And US taxpayer money is being used to get refineries updated and back online.
we went to war because the current administration has been unable to resolve domestic issues such as increasing poverty, decreasing employment, and corporations that have destroyed the economy to enrich a few people.
I was working a full time job and attending college. I would get home past 11pm, and had to wind down before I could do homework or sleep. For a period of about three years I was either working a FT and a PT or working a FT and attending school.
Back when I was a lowly electrician's helper (many moons ago) I had a difficult time making a car payment. I would collect scrap copper and strip it as I was watching TV. It kept me from bouncing checks several times.
There were some guys there that probably made a killing off of scrap copper when a new install was done. I would somtimes get the 12AWG and lower stuff, while they would pile the large feed cables in their trucks.
Whatever the solution, it has to have monetary consequences for the spammer. A little hassle here and there just won't cut it.
Case in point: for every credit card application I get via snail mail, I seal the return envelope (empty or with trash) and mail it back at their expense. The idea is the company loses money by having to pay for the reply postage and for the labor to open my bogus reply.
But I've noticed lately that companies are designing it so you have to include the application form to mail the return envelope (the city/state are printed on the app, which is viewable through a window on the envelope). Apparently, credit card companies weren't taking enough of a hit to say "fuck it, these people don't want our mailings." Instead, they seemed to have paid some poor schmuck more money to come up with a way to outsmart the scheme many of us have been using.
Doesn't matter, though. I'll tape the city/state info to the envelope if I have to. And soak the envelope in cat piss. Take that.
Come on now...let's be realistic. We're going to assume that said mortgage companies don't put a "max per-day cap" on the amount of money spammers can be paid?
We're talking about companies that deal in contracts on a daily basis. They aren't going to risk screwing themselves over that badly.
If they have a Windows server it obviously is not a wise decision. And they may not know it is Windows but they chose the person who chose the Windows so they are probably more impressed by Microsoft Certified blah blah than reality where they have to actually think about who they are hiring and what that person has done in the past.
Yeah. You go ahead and vote based on that oh-so-insightful set of ideas, mmmkay?
The fact that someone even cares what OS/web server the candidates are running floors me. What's next, a list of the shade of blue in each candidate's tie? The brand of toothpaste they use? You tell me, Obi.
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Seriously - to think that we're the only species that would wipe out another because we eat them, or because we build houses, or develop ranchland...is absurd. As long as food is available, some animals will eat until they die.
My point is, if humans were to vacate the planet today and leave the other animals to their own devices, there would still be extinctions. I don't think we should totally disregard responsible behavior and go killing every animal in sight, but I think a little thought is in order when we're paranoid about a species of fly vanishing from our world forever.
After all, if it evolved from something, won't it eventually come back (and no, I'm not a foe of evolution)?
You mean "The Nuts and Volts of News for Nerds"
As many here are fond of saying, YMMV. It depends on where you are at any given time. I had Sprint for 2 years and changed to T-Mobile only because I wanted a cool phone. And the service stayed the same.
Yes, I've had dropped calls with both carriers, but it's not to the point of saying the entire organization "sucks." And if you find that while at your house or office the coverage is very bad, you can contact the carrier and they will actually look into why that's the case. It doesn't mean they'll build a tower so you get coverage at your ranch in Wyoming, but they do want to improve their coverage in order to retain customers.
For the record, I do not and have not ever worked for one of the carriers and own stock in none of them.
I've experienced this several times in the two years I've been at my job. It's usually due to upper management refusing to hire more help, or having an engineer on a project quit and expect me to come in and do both our jobs.
Management claims they don't want to hire more bodies because if/when our volume goes down they'll have to let people go, and they don't want to have to do that. But the truth of the situation is it's making me a little resentful - having to work shitloads of hours so someone that gets paid to have the hard conversations with employees about a potential layoff won't have to do so.
I have to admit, I've received nice raises, but there comes a point when I would rather have a normal day/week than get home at 8-9pm (like tonight). I'm also not sure if my raises reflect satisfaction in a job well-done, or are a way of saying "We think you're doing good...if we give you X amount more we think you could do better."
Consequently, I've got monster open in another tab and I'm browsing.
I don't know where you're from, but it's the reason why in many places there are laws on the books that differentiate between intent when it comes to the reason someone was killed.
Most people understand this. Apparently you and those that blindly join al Qaeda don't. That's ok, though, because as we've seen today, life will go on. I'm a US citizen, and can say I'm proud of Londoners for their courage in returning to their normal lives.
Personal liberty will win out over extreme Islamic fanaticism and intolerance.
As someone that was seriously injured as the result of another driver under the influence, you should not be concentrating on how poor and pitiful you are, but on what a fucked-up thing you did.
You're actually quite lucky that's all the damage that was done. You could have been in an accident and killed your friend, or even worse an innocent bystander.
Pay your measely $700, serve your terrible 24 days, and live out your life without the help of alcohol.
Could your attorney have plead down to a lesser crime? Possibly. But it's kind of screwy that you're worried you were punished too harshly. It's 24 days...geez.
Yeah, go ahead and mod me as Offtopic. But my point stands. The court may have some f****d up way of justifying their decisions based on "internet research" and "what other countries around the world are doing," but they seem to have forgotten that yes, we actually do have a Constitution and that is what they are supposed to use for their decisions.
The part about "life and liberty" stands out like a neon sign, regardless of previous case law.
It might be different if this were a tract of useless desert being seized to put up solar panels, but they are going to build a hotel, health club, and offices in place of homes where people live.
Today's empires, tomorrow's ashes. And we're allowing it to happen.
-Thomas Jefferson, 1787
So who's taking bets on the longevity of our current leaders, when private property can be seized for private use?
Got a link to your senior project report? I'd love to build one of these for home.
The US population is, for the most part, too spread out to make it profitable for the telcos in many cases.
Here's my claim of "bias" with the CJR site - I read about halfway down the main page...never once did it refute any Kerry statements. Nor did it provide actual facts to rebutt what it said were untruths (A la "Kerry voted 98 times to increase taxes"..Ok, how many times? Where are your references?). Are the writers of that site lazy journalists as well?
Simple things can save time in places like a grocery store line.
For instance, when someone is paying by credit card, the first receipt to print would be the one that must be signed (merchant copy). While the customer is signing, the customer receipt is being printed.
It's not a huge deal, and would save only five or six seconds, but it's the lack of thought that went into the process that drives me nuts.
Take a look!
Hold the phone. I tried that route (unintentionally), and it takes several years of living independently before only your income will be considered and not your income plus your parents' income according to IRS rules. Your school financial aid office can override this in extenuating circumstances, but you have to provide an assload of information proving you are actually independent. Even still, it's no guarantee you'll be considered independent for financial aid purposes.
Stay on your parents' taxes, fill out scholarship/grant applications like mad, and keep the grades up. It also doesn't hurt to get involved in a professional organization at your school such as IEEE, ACM, or NSPE. They either provide scholarships directly or will get you exposure with professors and administrators in order to get other scholarships.
Avoid loans if at all possible, but don't put off your education unnecessarily. Get a co-op job where you can - at least you're getting experience in your field.
On Demand may be a nice convenience, but it's not a value-added service. For me, it's just a way to avoid going to the video store, as movie rental rates are about the same. Of course On Demand doesn't have nearly the selection of the video store - yet.
Yeah, the Taliban is still in power, right? Wrong. Osama may not be captured, but for all we know he could already be dead. Either way, we took away from al Qaida a large source of security and funding - the Afghan government.
we went to war for the oil
Really? My gas prices haven't improved. Iraqi oil being sold on the open market isn't going into a US account - it's being used to improve the Iraqi infrastructure. And US taxpayer money is being used to get refineries updated and back online.
we went to war because the current administration has been unable to resolve domestic issues such as increasing poverty, decreasing employment, and corporations that have destroyed the economy to enrich a few people.
Have you even seen the news lately?
Stocks End First Positive Year Since 1999
New Jobless Claims Lowest of Bush Tenure
You might want to find a new source for the conspiracy theories.
I was working a full time job and attending college. I would get home past 11pm, and had to wind down before I could do homework or sleep. For a period of about three years I was either working a FT and a PT or working a FT and attending school.
There were some guys there that probably made a killing off of scrap copper when a new install was done. I would somtimes get the 12AWG and lower stuff, while they would pile the large feed cables in their trucks.
Case in point: for every credit card application I get via snail mail, I seal the return envelope (empty or with trash) and mail it back at their expense. The idea is the company loses money by having to pay for the reply postage and for the labor to open my bogus reply.
But I've noticed lately that companies are designing it so you have to include the application form to mail the return envelope (the city/state are printed on the app, which is viewable through a window on the envelope). Apparently, credit card companies weren't taking enough of a hit to say "fuck it, these people don't want our mailings." Instead, they seemed to have paid some poor schmuck more money to come up with a way to outsmart the scheme many of us have been using.
Doesn't matter, though. I'll tape the city/state info to the envelope if I have to. And soak the envelope in cat piss. Take that.
We're talking about companies that deal in contracts on a daily basis. They aren't going to risk screwing themselves over that badly.
Yeah. You go ahead and vote based on that oh-so-insightful set of ideas, mmmkay?
The fact that someone even cares what OS/web server the candidates are running floors me. What's next, a list of the shade of blue in each candidate's tie? The brand of toothpaste they use? You tell me, Obi.
Hopefully by joining Green she will marginalize herself even more.