The only time I can really get the metric system is whn I'm doing electronics work or generally "science" stuff. However I can be *extremely* precise when using decimal inches (think machine shop, robotics lab) where it is common to hit a ten-thousandth of an inch. But if you ask me to visualize a hundredth of a mm, I just can't do it!
Odd... I crunch imperial units in my head with no prob... spent most of my career (industrial fabricator) in that mode altho the US has been on hard metric for new contracts since 1986. I have no prob whatsoever working in fractions, again all in my head.
OTOH when driving in Canada, I can do business in metric units but I have a very hard time *visualizing* the specified quantity. Be it distance travelled, or whatever. And if I can't see it, I can't think it.
Hey guyz guess what? I've worked *plenty* of 50-60 hour workweeks and holidays. Deadlines all over the place. Pressure to perform. Stress levels off the map, schedules, budgets, and meetings.
At a construction company. As a labor crew leader.
Note to professors: It's called "the real world", deal with it. .
On the other hand, I *do* have the right to say what does or does not enter my body. I prefer organics, non-GMO. I know that's what my body was designed for. I would rather buy the produce if available since I'm not a farmer.
My grandma actually *was* a farmer in 1907... seems like they did OK regardless of having no tech at all back then.
Lets put it this way: If you want to be an unarmed victim, fine. That's your choice. But leave me out of it, and let me make my own choice. My choice is to arm myself. And the more the anti-gun nuts go on, the more my rights to self-defense are infringed. And that tends to be upsetting.
You lose that wager. In fact I do counseling for others.
You also lose in the fact that I'm unarmed at the moment. The fact that I am unarmed makes me *very* uncomfortable and edgy. I refuse to be a victim.
No, I *don't* trust the gov't, nor do I trust you. Also, your knowledge of guns and the ramifications of ownership seems very spotty at best - did you come in here to start something, or to actually learn about it?
There is already plenty of gun control in the US. The failure at Sandy Hook was the failure to follow accepted gun control practices. If they had been followed then it never would have happened.
And no, you can't take the violence out of humanity. Deal with it.
Right. Just because someone is getting mad means you may get shot. Idiot.
Hint: I hope and pray that I never have to use violence against another, but if I ever do, I want the option available to me. There's nothing noble about being a victim. Especially not if its preventable. Thats just stupidity.
no, it cannot be done with painball or airsoft. The ballistics are completely different.
Also some people do enjoy just target shooting as a hobby ya know?
As for myself, I *will* shoot if I have to. I hope it doesn't come to that, but it would be nice to be able to should the need arise. Such as when somebody is trying to abridge my freedoms with the threat of violence. Either a criminal or the government, it makes no difference to me.
The FISA, the Patriot act, the NDAA, warrantless wiretapping, the DMCA... dictatorship powers are already happening. The paranoia is justified, especially in light of history.
Believe it or not, a *large* population has no desire to live in a nanny state run by lefties. They don't agree that it is better.
Just yesterday in fact, a stranger that I've seen in the area a few blocks over, let themselves into my house and woke me up. The fact that I want to do something about this makes me unbalanced?
If the person had bad intentions, it would have been over for me within minutes, and long before any cops had arrived.
I think *you* are the one who is unbalanced - when I can't afford to hire armed guards 24/7 what else am I supposed to do? I insist on keeping the 2nd amendment, and I already live in a state where you have to go through plenty of training and a year's worth of background check...
Hope you enjoy being ass-raped by your totalitarian government. That's your alternative. Because not everything can be settled peacefully, as shown by the civil war. Seriously, go study some history.
Oh man I *so* hope this kinda thing takes off somehow, even if Intel's specific version of it doesn't make it... keep plugging away at it, because this is what cable TV *should* be. Without all the craptastic bundling - if a chan or a show isn't popular, then let it die. Let alone, driving a wedge between content and infrastructure.... but thats probably a job for the regulators.
Onan the barbarian developed opposable thumbs in order to whack it better. Imagine what it must be like to fap without the benefit of thumbs. It almost makes you cry, no? But nay, we overcame adversity! Fapping is an essential survival skill, for keeping an even temperament and surviving a partnership in which you're not getting any. Which both are desirable traits for selection in this day and age. Notice how the ladies are drawn to an even-tempered steady mate. How do you think he got that way!? Opposable thumbs of course!
Let's face it -- everyone does it. Every single man that you have ever shook hands with, has fapped with that hand.
Even tho I voted for Reagan and Bush senior, they indirectly put me out of a job via NAFTA/GATT. I highly doubt many middle-calss actually wanted those agreements. Now that the Rust Belt is gutted and people are having to turn to the gov't you're gonna scream about that too?
I *used* to be a Republican... you Wall St bastards need to start making good on what all your pet politicians said re trickle down and job creation. Or else STFU.
Hint, some of us are well into our 40's and 50's and we have *long* memories of the Carter malaise and what the 1986 tax reform act *actually* said. Noticed the Tea Partiers never seem to mention that.
Granted its brutal, but in a way I'm glad this kinda thing happens. Mainly because I still remember the horror of trying to setup audio on 2.0 kernel back in the 1990's... Everytime the soundcard got an IRQ the printer would kickoff... if it wasn't that, then the soundcard would get into a fight with the modem....
Also, these devs *know* that it is a public process when they sign up for kernel work. The know what they are getting into. Its part of the price to be paid, I suppose, for having your name on a very big and famous project.
Job creators won't have any capital if they're not being paid enough to accumulate anything let alone spend. By this, I mean the low wage workers. Believe it or not there is a huge swath of this country that lives borderline poor and works full time. With little or no opportunity for advancement regardless of what they do. These people pay taxes too.
Regardless of their "official"position, my experience with Linux on Gigabyte boards is excellent, especially the midrange to higher-end boards. One machine that I build 12 yrs ago on a gigabyte board is still running an insurance office, it was a dual-socket Gigabyte P3 board with 2 gigs ram.
Their BIOS setup at least on the server boards is very friendly with Linux
I can swamp you completely off the air with a spark gap transmitter for less than $5 regardless of your tech. Gov't regulations is the reason why that doesn't happen.
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The only time I can really get the metric system is whn I'm doing electronics work or generally "science" stuff. However I can be *extremely* precise when using decimal inches (think machine shop, robotics lab) where it is common to hit a ten-thousandth of an inch. But if you ask me to visualize a hundredth of a mm, I just can't do it!
Odd... I crunch imperial units in my head with no prob... spent most of my career (industrial fabricator) in that mode altho the US has been on hard metric for new contracts since 1986. I have no prob whatsoever working in fractions, again all in my head.
OTOH when driving in Canada, I can do business in metric units but I have a very hard time *visualizing* the specified quantity. Be it distance travelled, or whatever. And if I can't see it, I can't think it.
fp.pl?
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by CptChipJew (301983)
Thursday January 22 2004, @11:24PM (#8062958)
open(heart_to_perl);
content-type: haiku/firstpost;
or die "i fail it";
Hey guyz guess what? I've worked *plenty* of 50-60 hour workweeks and holidays. Deadlines all over the place. Pressure to perform. Stress levels off the map, schedules, budgets, and meetings.
At a construction company. As a labor crew leader.
Note to professors: It's called "the real world", deal with it.
.
On the other hand, I *do* have the right to say what does or does not enter my body. I prefer organics, non-GMO. I know that's what my body was designed for. I would rather buy the produce if available since I'm not a farmer.
My grandma actually *was* a farmer in 1907... seems like they did OK regardless of having no tech at all back then.
Millions of people starving has very little to do with seeds. It has everything to do with corrupt politics (Africa).
Lets put it this way: If you want to be an unarmed victim, fine. That's your choice. But leave me out of it, and let me make my own choice. My choice is to arm myself. And the more the anti-gun nuts go on, the more my rights to self-defense are infringed. And that tends to be upsetting.
You lose that wager. In fact I do counseling for others.
You also lose in the fact that I'm unarmed at the moment. The fact that I am unarmed makes me *very* uncomfortable and edgy. I refuse to be a victim.
No, I *don't* trust the gov't, nor do I trust you. Also, your knowledge of guns and the ramifications of ownership seems very spotty at best - did you come in here to start something, or to actually learn about it?
There is already plenty of gun control in the US. The failure at Sandy Hook was the failure to follow accepted gun control practices. If they had been followed then it never would have happened.
And no, you can't take the violence out of humanity. Deal with it.
Right. Just because someone is getting mad means you may get shot.
Idiot.
Hint: I hope and pray that I never have to use violence against another, but if I ever do, I want the option available to me. There's nothing noble about being a victim. Especially not if its preventable. Thats just stupidity.
no, it cannot be done with painball or airsoft. The ballistics are completely different.
Also some people do enjoy just target shooting as a hobby ya know?
As for myself, I *will* shoot if I have to. I hope it doesn't come to that, but it would be nice to be able to should the need arise. Such as when somebody is trying to abridge my freedoms with the threat of violence.
Either a criminal or the government, it makes no difference to me.
The FISA, the Patriot act, the NDAA, warrantless wiretapping, the DMCA... dictatorship powers are already happening. The paranoia is justified, especially in light of history.
Believe it or not, a *large* population has no desire to live in a nanny state run by lefties. They don't agree that it is better.
Just yesterday in fact, a stranger that I've seen in the area a few blocks over, let themselves into my house and woke me up. The fact that I want to do something about this makes me unbalanced?
If the person had bad intentions, it would have been over for me within minutes, and long before any cops had arrived.
I think *you* are the one who is unbalanced - when I can't afford to hire armed guards 24/7 what else am I supposed to do? I insist on keeping the 2nd amendment, and I already live in a state where you have to go through plenty of training and a year's worth of background check...
Answer to your first question: the Revolution.
Answer to your second question: the Civil war.
Hope you enjoy being ass-raped by your totalitarian government. That's your alternative. Because not everything can be settled peacefully, as shown by the civil war. Seriously, go study some history.
Oh man I *so* hope this kinda thing takes off somehow, even if Intel's specific version of it doesn't make it... keep plugging away at it, because this is what cable TV *should* be. Without all the craptastic bundling - if a chan or a show isn't popular, then let it die. Let alone, driving a wedge between content and infrastructure.... but thats probably a job for the regulators.
Those of us who remember Marv Levy and Jim Kelly (among many other greats) care a *lot*
so shut the fuck up about that ghey french-canadian ice thing, eh?
Onan the barbarian developed opposable thumbs in order to whack it better. Imagine what it must be like to fap without the benefit of thumbs. It almost makes you cry, no? But nay, we overcame adversity! Fapping is an essential survival skill, for keeping an even temperament and surviving a partnership in which you're not getting any. Which both are desirable traits for selection in this day and age. Notice how the ladies are drawn to an even-tempered steady mate. How do you think he got that way!? Opposable thumbs of course!
Let's face it -- everyone does it. Every single man that you have ever shook hands with, has fapped with that hand.
Have a nice day!
Even tho I voted for Reagan and Bush senior, they indirectly put me out of a job via NAFTA/GATT. I highly doubt many middle-calss actually wanted those agreements. Now that the Rust Belt is gutted and people are having to turn to the gov't you're gonna scream about that too?
I *used* to be a Republican... you Wall St bastards need to start making good on what all your pet politicians said re trickle down and job creation. Or else STFU.
Hint, some of us are well into our 40's and 50's and we have *long* memories of the Carter malaise and what the 1986 tax reform act *actually* said. Noticed the Tea Partiers never seem to mention that.
And yet, you trust - YOURSELF
are you an authority?
Granted its brutal, but in a way I'm glad this kinda thing happens. Mainly because I still remember the horror of trying to setup audio on 2.0 kernel back in the 1990's... Everytime the soundcard got an IRQ the printer would kickoff... if it wasn't that, then the soundcard would get into a fight with the modem....
Also, these devs *know* that it is a public process when they sign up for kernel work. The know what they are getting into. Its part of the price to be paid, I suppose, for having your name on a very big and famous project.
Job creators won't have any capital if they're not being paid enough to accumulate anything let alone spend. By this, I mean the low wage workers. Believe it or not there is a huge swath of this country that lives borderline poor and works full time. With little or no opportunity for advancement regardless of what they do. These people pay taxes too.
Regardless of their "official"position, my experience with Linux on Gigabyte boards is excellent, especially the midrange to higher-end boards. One machine that I build 12 yrs ago on a gigabyte board is still running an insurance office, it was a dual-socket Gigabyte P3 board with 2 gigs ram.
Their BIOS setup at least on the server boards is very friendly with Linux
Now every 2-bit thug in a hundred miles knows which houses to break into and steal the guns. Way to go, idiots.
here ya go, Manhattan in 1890:
http://www.newswise.com/images/uploads/2009/08/26/Broadway%20and%20John%20St%20Manhattan%201890.jpg
I can swamp you completely off the air with a spark gap transmitter for less than $5 regardless of your tech. Gov't regulations is the reason why that doesn't happen.