I've never had any problems wandering around Montreal after the bars close.
No offfense, but it sounds like you are a fearful person and I am a fool.
In Montreal, believe it or not, people look out for stumbling drunks and help them get home. Does this not happen in your town? If not, why not? Is it maybe a "fuck them" attitude?
I work in process plant design, often having to read and interpret drawings of heavy equipment from various suppliers from around the world (the piping has to hook up to it). Usually the documents will arrive with both imperial and metric. I've seen unit translations (mm to inch, for example, or vice-versa) be off by as much as 1/2". Half an inch may not seem to be much to you (or my girlfriend, who really appreciates your extra inches) but it can really throw off calculations that already have fabrication/construction fit-up tolerances built-in.
Providing both gives some vendors a fudge factor where they can claim unit translation error to cover up imprecise fabrication practices.
Please define "fruits of your labor". Does that refer to how strong you are and how much you can lift? Is it knowledge or insider information or friendliness with the boss? In an "information economy" it is impossible to equate ability to value as there are just too many variables.
For the record, I think that execs earning millions per year and then getting millions more after screwing-up is a bad thing.
"Social engineering" arising out of more education and a focus on education at all levels...
I wish this misuse of terms would stop. Everyone knows that "social engineering" refers to scammers/hackers tricking people into giving out their passwords.
It's not the impotent education system, drooping economy, disinterest in critical thinking or limp committment to family values that will eventually cause the downfall of American society, it's all the wasted sperm!
[...] NUN: Let the Pagan spill theirs O'er mountain, hill, and plain.
HOLY STATUES: God shall strike them down for Each sperm that's spilt in vain.
EVERYONE: Every sperm is sacred. Every sperm is good. Every sperm is needed In your neighbourhood.
Every sperm is sacred. Every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite iraaaaaate!
Often times when I present a cashier with a cheque from Google (I use their AdSense, the amount is never all that impressive) they ask, "do you work for Google?". In a way, I guess I do, but not because I am so smrt.
Google has to be in the top five best-known brands on the planet.
When you ask a carpenter "are you done ?", almost anyone can verify the answer just by looking at it. When you ask a programmer "are you done ?", it is difficult to verify the answer.
This reminds me of process plant design. It's fairly obvious when "it's done" and constructed, but will it work and not explode when started up? And yes, today's process plants use a lot of software and electronics that provide finer control than we had even as recently as 20 years ago, not to mention that there are a lot of legacy facilities that are retro-fitted.
I bet that if you study the actions of drunk drivers there's a pattern. "Weaving" is one symptom that sober ones don't have, unless they are applying makeup or emotionally involved in a phone conversation.
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I don't see why there is this cry to bring women into the loop
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Here is one possible reason why women are now encouraged to get into engineering:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecole_Polytechnique_
Of course, Lepine was a psycho.
So therefore, disco sucks!
What do you consider to be a "big city"?
I've never had any problems wandering around Montreal after the bars close.
No offfense, but it sounds like you are a fearful person and I am a fool.
In Montreal, believe it or not, people look out for stumbling drunks and help them get home. Does this not happen in your town? If not, why not? Is it maybe a "fuck them" attitude?
I work in process plant design, often having to read and interpret drawings of heavy equipment from various suppliers from around the world (the piping has to hook up to it). Usually the documents will arrive with both imperial and metric. I've seen unit translations (mm to inch, for example, or vice-versa) be off by as much as 1/2". Half an inch may not seem to be much to you (or my girlfriend, who really appreciates your extra inches) but it can really throw off calculations that already have fabrication/construction fit-up tolerances built-in.
Providing both gives some vendors a fudge factor where they can claim unit translation error to cover up imprecise fabrication practices.
Please mod parent up.
Yeah, but once you hit 40 you don't care about it anymore. Just wait a bit.
But we want to make more than our peers do
Because "making more" equates to one of two gut-level motivators:
A) attractiveness to chicks
B) high status, by being Alpha in a group
Actually, forget B), as it stems from A)
I finished Freakonomics recently. It's a great book to read. I found The Tipping Point and Blink to be less interesting but still worth a look.
You trade the fruits of your labor for money
Please define "fruits of your labor". Does that refer to how strong you are and how much you can lift? Is it knowledge or insider information or friendliness with the boss? In an "information economy" it is impossible to equate ability to value as there are just too many variables.
For the record, I think that execs earning millions per year and then getting millions more after screwing-up is a bad thing.
If you only carry a card (and no cash) you will never run the risk of losing serious money from theft/mugging.
Do you live in an area where you are routinely worried about getting mugged or do you just like using credit cards?
8.) Pay your taxes (or at least legally avoid them)
"Social engineering" arising out of more education and a focus on education at all levels...
I wish this misuse of terms would stop. Everyone knows that "social engineering" refers to scammers/hackers tricking people into giving out their passwords.
...a test run against customers...
Tech lingo or the attitude of the cable companies?
I like his last name, it sort of encourages you to keep going: Sunununununu...
I resemble that remark, now get off my lawn!
Screw that, just chop off Bender's arms and legs and let him do the part.
It's not the impotent education system, drooping economy, disinterest in critical thinking or limp committment to family values that will eventually cause the downfall of American society, it's all the wasted sperm!
[...]
NUN:
Let the Pagan spill theirs
O'er mountain, hill, and plain.
HOLY STATUES:
God shall strike them down for
Each sperm that's spilt in vain.
EVERYONE:
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is good.
Every sperm is needed
In your neighbourhood.
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite iraaaaaate!
Put.....the candle.....back.
Often times when I present a cashier with a cheque from Google (I use their AdSense, the amount is never all that impressive) they ask, "do you work for Google?". In a way, I guess I do, but not because I am so smrt.
Google has to be in the top five best-known brands on the planet.
Monstercable?
Excellent post.
I think you're bang-on with your comments, FWIW.
When you ask a carpenter "are you done ?", almost anyone can verify the answer just by looking at it. When you ask a programmer "are you done ?", it is difficult to verify the answer.
This reminds me of process plant design. It's fairly obvious when "it's done" and constructed, but will it work and not explode when started up? And yes, today's process plants use a lot of software and electronics that provide finer control than we had even as recently as 20 years ago, not to mention that there are a lot of legacy facilities that are retro-fitted.
I bet that if you study the actions of drunk drivers there's a pattern. "Weaving" is one symptom that sober ones don't have, unless they are applying makeup or emotionally involved in a phone conversation.