You had all these problems with an award winning company? My advice would be to stay away from award-winning companies. When a company really messes up, and their customer, a contractor who was supposed to have had oversight, realizes this, he can't admit that he wasn't doing his job. So in turn, he awards a "quality" award to the company as a way of covering his butt, image-wise. Then the government agency that contracted the whole thing out looks at the mess, and decides that the political ramifications of dealing with this are too great, so they then issue a few awards as well, and next thing you know...... you aren't going to buy from award-winning companies any more, are you?
http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=canto n&book=saints&story=song
The Song of the Minster by William Canton, now public domain (yay!)
WHEN John of Fulda became Prior of Hethholme, says the old chronicle, he brought with him to the Abbey many rare and costly books--beautiful illuminated missals and psalters and portions of the Old and New Testament. And he presented rich vestments to the Minster; albs of fine linen, and copes embroidered with flowers of gold. In the west front he built two great arched windows filled with marvellous storied glass. The shrine of St. Egwin he repaired at vast outlay, adorning it with garlands in gold and silver, but the colour of the flowers was in coloured gems, and in like fashion the little birds in the nooks of the foliage. Stalls and benches of carved oak he placed in the choir; and many other noble works he had wrought in his zeal for the glory of God's house.
In all the western land was there no more fair or stately Minster than this of the Black Monks, with the peaceful township on one side, and on the other the sweet meadows and the acres of wheat and barley sloping down to the slow river, and beyond the river the clearings in the ancient forest.
[14] But Thomas the Sub-prior was grieved and troubled in his mind by the richness and the beauty of all he saw about him, and by the Prior's eagerness to be ever adding some new work in stone, or oak, or metal, or jewels.
"Surely," he said to himself, "these things are unprofitable--less to the honour of God than to the pleasure of the eye and the pride of life and the luxury of our house! Had so much treasure not been wasted on these vanities of bright colour and carved stone, our dole to the poor of Christ might have been fourfold, and they filled with good things. But now let our almoner do what best he may, I doubt not many a leper sleeps cold, and many a poor man goes lean with hunger."
This the Sub-prior said, not because his heart was quick with fellowship for the poor, but because he was of a narrow and gloomy and grudging nature, and he could conceive of no true service of God which was not one of fasting and praying, of fear and trembling, of joylessness and mortification.
Now you must know that the greatest of the monks and the hermits and the holy men were not of this kind. In their love of God they were blithe of heart, and filled with a rare sweetness and tranquility of soul, and they looked on the goodly earth with deep joy, and they had a tender care for the wild creatures of wood and water. But Thomas had yet much to learn of the beauty of holiness.
Often in the bleak dark hours of the night he would leave his cell and steal into the Minster, to fling himself on the cold stones before the high altar; and there he would remain, shivering and praying, till his strength failed him.
It happened one winter night, when the thoughts I [15] have spoken of had grown very bitter in his mind, Thomas guided his steps by the glimmer of the sanctuary lamp to his accustomed place in the choir. Falling on his knees, he laid himself on his face with the palms of his outstretched hands flat on the icy pavement. And as he lay there, taking a cruel joy in the freezing cold and the torture of his body, he became gradually aware of a sound of far-away yet most heavenly music.
He raised himself to his knees to listen, and to his amazement he perceived that the whole Minster was pervaded by a faint mysterious light, which was every instant growing brighter and clearer. And as the light increased the music grew louder and sweeter, and he knew that it was within the sacred walls. But it was no mortal minstrelsy.
The strains he heard were the minglings of angelic instruments, and the cadences of voices of unearthly loveliness. They seemed to proceed from the choir about him, and from the nave and transept and aisles; from the pictured windows and from the clerestory and from the vaulted roofs. Under his kne
Good point. Just to add my 2 bits, when I was experimenting around with my own circuits, I burned myself on an LED. It was a pretty bad burn, too.
If you set up your LED right, it won't emit *much* heat. But it will emit heat.
In that case, if you want walkable cities, you need to move to one of the ex-Soviet satellite states (like Lithuania or Latvia), and pick one of the smaller cities to live in.
A typical small city of 25000 there will have almost everything within 1/4 mile of your apartment, and most things within 1 block. Of course, nobody has space to sprawl out there, so then everybody *also* has a garden just outside the city, where they spend their weekends.
However, your US urban sprawl is itself just a symptom of high crime rates, and the high crime rates are in turn a symptom of people deifying wealth instead of God as He is. So if you think you can maintain that nice walkable city and leave God out, I'd say you're right only under two very temporary conditions: (1) you can get away with it for about 30 years until you create your own urban sprawl, or (2) you can get away with it for about 80 years if you're willing to resort to the tactics of Josef Stalin.
Add in diplomas, as many different PDF resumes as jobs you might be interested in, 1 PDF CV each, baptismal certificates...... working copies of MS Word and MS Excel, a simple text editor, Acrobat Reader, viruses, worms, trojan horses, Windows.DLL files, and...
all of which leads me to the following question.
Why not just upload encrypted versions of this info to your YAHOO mail, and have it there in a folder "personal stuff", as attachments? That way, you don't depend on just the USB drive? Yeah, the USB would also be good for redundancy, but the easiest access is probably by YAHOO mail, and it automatically scans for malware as it goes.
What part of "shall not be infringed" is so difficult to understand?
Regarding your sig in specific, and your whole post in general, the correct answer is unfortunately what part of "do not care" is so difficult to understand?"
You correctly note that our constitution is going or has already gone the way of the dodo. However, people are wrong who say "Well, that's unconstitutional, so they shouldn't do ***." They are wrong, because they aren't facing reality.
The constitution is only a contract, and when one or more parties to a contract decide that it's okay to violate the contract, then the contract is going to be violated. If enforcement is impractical, then the contract has no meaning.
In this case, I'd say the contract has no meaning.
If you want a more efficient hybrid, you need to do a number of things:
(1) Make the batteries "smart" packs of 4 D-Cell NIMHs, which can be replaced with more simple D-Cell NiMHs without replacing the smart unit. The smart unit should include a capacitor, and be able to handle both the charging and orderly discharging, in conjunction with other smart units, to yield any current/voltage output pattern needed. The smart unit can also identify when a battery needs to be replaced, and can handle a software update.
(2) stores the NIMHs *and* the *squirrel-cage* AC motor in the wheel hub. This allows the separate development of the body, hybrid unit, etc, and also allows the wheel hub's motion to piggy-back the hybrid motion.
(3) has an underpowered motor turning the axle.
(4) Is super-lightweight. In other words, carbon-composite and Kevlar construction.
Do this, and the car will probably be cost efficient.
Thanks. I was waffling between buying a diesel hummer and a toyota Prius hybrid. I now feel better that the humvee is the environmentally responsible choice.
For me, with a 10 mile commute, the answer is a hybrid human/electric vehicle: specifically, a cheap used bicycle from a thrift store, and a Zap Express electric motor kit.
http://www.zapworld.com/products/ETC_clearance.asp
As an advantage, it gives me exercise without ever despairing of getting home.
The constant wars come from several sources. Most recently, a lot of that comes out of the globalized companys', the IMF's. and the UN's way of doing business.
For example, when Kabila of Congo/Zaire overthrew Mobutu, and Mobutu escaped to france where most of the IMF loans were kept in banks, the IMF waited for a few years, and then asked Kabila to resume making payments on Zaire's IMF loan. Kabila publicly declined, probably for the reason that the money and the man for the "stabilization loan" were both sitting in France, and as a stabilization loan, it was a bad debt anyhow.
So within the next month an insurrection began in NE Congo, led by none other than the son of the IMF's representative to Zaire. That insurrection lasted until Congo was well broken down, and Kabila agreed to start making payments to the IMF. The insurrection *stopped* within one month of that statement. Nonetheless, it still cost Kabila his life.
But the extreme corruption doesn't just happen that way. It has also happened through the islamisization of Africa, which in turn probably came about because the African Christianity internalized (most of the great ancient monks were from Africa) as opposed to externalizing. So Christianity did not thrive, Islam moved in, and corruption resulted from the decreased levels of justice in the Islamic sharia.
Another source has been British, Dutch, and French colonialism, which does still play out in the IMF, but also plays out in the behavior of oil, gas, and precious natural resource companies (such as diamonds, gold, and whatnot.)
In other words, though some of the fault is of African origin, much of it to this day is because of war being imposed by those who are weathy and isolated from the evils they commit. More than likely, a major factor in the continuance of this problem is the humungous amount of natural resources that Africa has. And those things do prevent them from improving their situation.
Ummm... things to make land arable? How about a shovel, and a box?
No kidding.
http://www.growbiointensive.org/
The amount of research in the book they sell is prodigious. They also teach 3rd worlders.
About solar AC... well, that's a stretch, but as for solar refrigeration, try the pot-in-a-pot, mentioned already on slashdot.
Not to belittle your suggestions, your suggestions are good, and they are being done (which is a sign that they are good).
I suspect this would be good too, as far as learning coding goes -- but in terms of net value, the internet is of negative value as far as I can see. As you say, cost/benefit analysis doesn't look good when you divide a positive by a negative.
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First, in reality no person is self-made. So #1, if you are trying to be a self-made man, then you are trying to take credit for that which you have not done. Even in Ayn Rand novels, her heros weren't self-made.
#2. The pie is not always limited, but it often is. When three people collaborate on a project, for example, the credit or payment given is limited, and is often far less than what the three of them together deserve. So one person defending themselves necessarily will hurt the other two. That results in battles.
#3. You cannot get away from those who think that you should provide for them. Worse, those people will be very good at taking what they want, so you *will* find yourself providing for them whether or not you want to, and whether or not you provide for yourself. That's going to create stress, whether or not you like it.
#4. Despite all of the above, my experience is that God can and does provide for those who follow Him wholeheartedly, and trust in Him. God does *not* provide enough for a person to raise himself above his fellow men, but He does provide enough. In my own case, He moved me to a job that pays very badly, but at the same time He provided us (myself and my family) for free, a mobile home, and lowered our cost of living enough that we can still live reasonably well.
#5 "Wicked" isn't just a 4-letter word. "Wicked" describes that internal desire that turns us away from God, towards anything else. Usually, though, it starts with us trying to turn towards ourselves.
As you say, and as more to do with being overcommitted or having a desire for a lifestyle beyond their means. But when you try to be a self-made man, or when you try to place yourself beyond all possible failure, you are automatically overcommitted. You can't do either one of those, by definition.
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You know, I'd actually tend to think that burnout is most often caused by a clash of two peoples' wickedness, where wickedness is the desire of a person to be their own god.
Those who want worship, obedience, power, to be self-made, or to defend themselves -- are going to find themselves in battle after battle with others who want the same things.
In line with that, I suspect that you yourself may be subject to burnout, as are your employees. That's just based on what I've seen at my own job, where my boss was always at everyone's throat, and especially at the throat of his daughter, the secretary. Of course, she was also doing battle with her housemate, but she developed an exploded blood vessel in her eye from hypertension. A lot of that was caused by her father's harranguing. But she still didn't completely burn out-- he did. That is, if you call burnout the abuse of prescription medicines, worse and worse temper and despair, being more and more abusive of everyone around him [including his own boss], and finally being fired for the abuse,
I do.
But my point is that when you want to be your own god and a god to others, you're going to be battling other people until you fall.
Umm... roots are not all that difficult to calculate. In fact, a root takes approximately as many boolean operations as a divide (same order of magnitude, and within 20%).
You use a variant of (a+b)^2=a^2+2ab+b^2, where a is your current approximation, and b is your next binary digit, and the difference between them tells you whether or not b is 1.
Also, this new rational trig method seems *more* useful for game programming, where cos and sin take a long time (in boolean terms).
All the attacker has to do is call you on his recording phone (okay, tape recorder tied to the phone line), and convince you to type him a letter and email it to him.
Record the sound, match the sounds to the words of the letter, and bingo. He has your email password, and more if you logged on to type the email.
And yes, that doesn't require the use of a long amount of text, or their machine learning.
Human engineering takes a tech job, and makes it dismally simple.
Which leands to an interesting question: why not learn from venice, keep the city flooded, and build concrete and stone structures, one on the other, always staying above the waterline?
Maybe you'd want to sequence some Allens (germanic tribe). Or maybe you'd want to sequence some dwarfs. Both are small and squat in a different way than most, and could have something to do with a case of Neanderthal genes.
I think the guy was referring to home hospice care. The patient doesn't really need a hospital, they need a loving environment in which to die, and the home is often the best place.
These investors aren't going to walk away with a tax break and rewards.
I took a look at these ideas, and I classify them into one of several groups.
(Class) Convergence in a diverse market. (Why it won't work) Convergence will happen, based upon unifying forces within the technology. The problem here, though, is that those unifying forces will come from ISO efforts of the current sales leaders. In other words, there is no room for a new startup taking the lead.
Now, you can *take part* in unifying things, by sponsoring symposiums to just that purpose. However, there are already a number of companies that regularly do that as their main business effort, and can be expected to be working on that at any given moment.
(Class) Rehashing a badly working business model. (Why it won't work) Typically, these investors think that the problem is a first order problem: people don't like to use it. On the contrary, usually the problems are second- or third-order. People don't have money, or the business environment is dangerous, or customer service can be expected to not come through.
Therefore, these businesses can be expected to come through with a flashy, new, hyped product -- and still get only a tiny fraction of what current sales leaders get.
(Class) The already-existing, and working business copy. (Why it won't work) Actually, this will -- but will have only limited returns. As such, it probably will be an okay investment for the investor (though he'd do better to buy stock in an existing company) -- but a terrible investment for the person who wants to spend the labor, with one exception. If you're a college kid and can pull it off, specify that the contract includes funding for later degree completion, based upon number of years worked. If you are out after a year, you get a year's tuition/board. If you are out after two years, you get two years' tuition/board. That way, you can work triple time initially, and then hand the company over to a more regular C/O just about the time the "investors" start to bleed the company and put their own friends in.
For myself, I stopped going to movies, when I found that even the "decent" ones were obscene in my book, and the deep ones were terribly trite.
I stopped listening to pop music -- even free radio music-- when I started to notice that for every song I could say "rant against the system, by the beneficiaries"... "personal problems being aired"... and so on.
I stopped watching TV when I started feeling dirty after every episode of anything.
I stopped looking at the newspaper (yes, I still hit news.google.com) when I found myself reacting even as I realized that they were publishing that stuff just to get me to react. Sorry, I don't need more post-WTC fear.
So now I read classics, and the Bible, and relax by taking a walk. Maybe at some point I'll take up gardening.
But the products are definitely *not* good by any measure.
I'd like to add -- respect your boss not for what he can or cannot do, but for the fact that he is your boss.
And replace that failing "work ethic" thing with simple loyalty and a will to be as helpful and obedient (submissive) as possible.
Then, take all that money you save on TUMS, add the tax savings, and call it a raise.
I know that sounds cynical, but it is my real life advice, which I use every day.
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You had all these problems with an award winning company? My advice would be to stay away from award-winning companies. When a company really messes up, and their customer, a contractor who was supposed to have had oversight, realizes this, he can't admit that he wasn't doing his job. So in turn, he awards a "quality" award to the company as a way of covering his butt, image-wise. Then the government agency that contracted the whole thing out looks at the mess, and decides that the political ramifications of dealing with this are too great, so they then issue a few awards as well, and next thing you know... ... you aren't going to buy from award-winning companies any more, are you?
http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=canto n&book=saints&story=song The Song of the Minster by William Canton, now public domain (yay!) WHEN John of Fulda became Prior of Hethholme, says the old chronicle, he brought with him to the Abbey many rare and costly books--beautiful illuminated missals and psalters and portions of the Old and New Testament. And he presented rich vestments to the Minster; albs of fine linen, and copes embroidered with flowers of gold. In the west front he built two great arched windows filled with marvellous storied glass. The shrine of St. Egwin he repaired at vast outlay, adorning it with garlands in gold and silver, but the colour of the flowers was in coloured gems, and in like fashion the little birds in the nooks of the foliage. Stalls and benches of carved oak he placed in the choir; and many other noble works he had wrought in his zeal for the glory of God's house. In all the western land was there no more fair or stately Minster than this of the Black Monks, with the peaceful township on one side, and on the other the sweet meadows and the acres of wheat and barley sloping down to the slow river, and beyond the river the clearings in the ancient forest. [14] But Thomas the Sub-prior was grieved and troubled in his mind by the richness and the beauty of all he saw about him, and by the Prior's eagerness to be ever adding some new work in stone, or oak, or metal, or jewels. "Surely," he said to himself, "these things are unprofitable--less to the honour of God than to the pleasure of the eye and the pride of life and the luxury of our house! Had so much treasure not been wasted on these vanities of bright colour and carved stone, our dole to the poor of Christ might have been fourfold, and they filled with good things. But now let our almoner do what best he may, I doubt not many a leper sleeps cold, and many a poor man goes lean with hunger." This the Sub-prior said, not because his heart was quick with fellowship for the poor, but because he was of a narrow and gloomy and grudging nature, and he could conceive of no true service of God which was not one of fasting and praying, of fear and trembling, of joylessness and mortification. Now you must know that the greatest of the monks and the hermits and the holy men were not of this kind. In their love of God they were blithe of heart, and filled with a rare sweetness and tranquility of soul, and they looked on the goodly earth with deep joy, and they had a tender care for the wild creatures of wood and water. But Thomas had yet much to learn of the beauty of holiness. Often in the bleak dark hours of the night he would leave his cell and steal into the Minster, to fling himself on the cold stones before the high altar; and there he would remain, shivering and praying, till his strength failed him. It happened one winter night, when the thoughts I [15] have spoken of had grown very bitter in his mind, Thomas guided his steps by the glimmer of the sanctuary lamp to his accustomed place in the choir. Falling on his knees, he laid himself on his face with the palms of his outstretched hands flat on the icy pavement. And as he lay there, taking a cruel joy in the freezing cold and the torture of his body, he became gradually aware of a sound of far-away yet most heavenly music. He raised himself to his knees to listen, and to his amazement he perceived that the whole Minster was pervaded by a faint mysterious light, which was every instant growing brighter and clearer. And as the light increased the music grew louder and sweeter, and he knew that it was within the sacred walls. But it was no mortal minstrelsy. The strains he heard were the minglings of angelic instruments, and the cadences of voices of unearthly loveliness. They seemed to proceed from the choir about him, and from the nave and transept and aisles; from the pictured windows and from the clerestory and from the vaulted roofs. Under his kne
Good point. Just to add my 2 bits, when I was experimenting around with my own circuits, I burned myself on an LED. It was a pretty bad burn, too. If you set up your LED right, it won't emit *much* heat. But it will emit heat.
In that case, if you want walkable cities, you need to move to one of the ex-Soviet satellite states (like Lithuania or Latvia), and pick one of the smaller cities to live in.
A typical small city of 25000 there will have almost everything within 1/4 mile of your apartment, and most things within 1 block. Of course, nobody has space to sprawl out there, so then everybody *also* has a garden just outside the city, where they spend their weekends.
However, your US urban sprawl is itself just a symptom of high crime rates, and the high crime rates are in turn a symptom of people deifying wealth instead of God as He is. So if you think you can maintain that nice walkable city and leave God out, I'd say you're right only under two very temporary conditions: (1) you can get away with it for about 30 years until you create your own urban sprawl, or (2) you can get away with it for about 80 years if you're willing to resort to the tactics of Josef Stalin.
Wow! It's my age! How did you do that?!?
Add in diplomas, as many different PDF resumes as jobs you might be interested in, 1 PDF CV each, baptismal certificates... ... working copies of MS Word and MS Excel, a simple text editor, Acrobat Reader, viruses, worms, trojan horses, Windows .DLL files, and ...
all of which leads me to the following question.
Why not just upload encrypted versions of this info to your YAHOO mail, and have it there in a folder "personal stuff", as attachments? That way, you don't depend on just the USB drive? Yeah, the USB would also be good for redundancy, but the easiest access is probably by YAHOO mail, and it automatically scans for malware as it goes.
Regarding your sig in specific, and your whole post in general, the correct answer is unfortunately what part of "do not care" is so difficult to understand?"
You correctly note that our constitution is going or has already gone the way of the dodo. However, people are wrong who say "Well, that's unconstitutional, so they shouldn't do ***." They are wrong, because they aren't facing reality.
The constitution is only a contract, and when one or more parties to a contract decide that it's okay to violate the contract, then the contract is going to be violated. If enforcement is impractical, then the contract has no meaning.
In this case, I'd say the contract has no meaning.
If you want a more efficient hybrid, you need to do a number of things: (1) Make the batteries "smart" packs of 4 D-Cell NIMHs, which can be replaced with more simple D-Cell NiMHs without replacing the smart unit. The smart unit should include a capacitor, and be able to handle both the charging and orderly discharging, in conjunction with other smart units, to yield any current/voltage output pattern needed. The smart unit can also identify when a battery needs to be replaced, and can handle a software update. (2) stores the NIMHs *and* the *squirrel-cage* AC motor in the wheel hub. This allows the separate development of the body, hybrid unit, etc, and also allows the wheel hub's motion to piggy-back the hybrid motion. (3) has an underpowered motor turning the axle. (4) Is super-lightweight. In other words, carbon-composite and Kevlar construction. Do this, and the car will probably be cost efficient.
Thanks. I was waffling between buying a diesel hummer and a toyota Prius hybrid. I now feel better that the humvee is the environmentally responsible choice.
For me, with a 10 mile commute, the answer is a hybrid human/electric vehicle: specifically, a cheap used bicycle from a thrift store, and a Zap Express electric motor kit. http://www.zapworld.com/products/ETC_clearance.asp
As an advantage, it gives me exercise without ever despairing of getting home.
The constant wars come from several sources. Most recently, a lot of that comes out of the globalized companys', the IMF's. and the UN's way of doing business.
For example, when Kabila of Congo/Zaire overthrew Mobutu, and Mobutu escaped to france where most of the IMF loans were kept in banks, the IMF waited for a few years, and then asked Kabila to resume making payments on Zaire's IMF loan. Kabila publicly declined, probably for the reason that the money and the man for the "stabilization loan" were both sitting in France, and as a stabilization loan, it was a bad debt anyhow.
So within the next month an insurrection began in NE Congo, led by none other than the son of the IMF's representative to Zaire. That insurrection lasted until Congo was well broken down, and Kabila agreed to start making payments to the IMF. The insurrection *stopped* within one month of that statement. Nonetheless, it still cost Kabila his life.
But the extreme corruption doesn't just happen that way. It has also happened through the islamisization of Africa, which in turn probably came about because the African Christianity internalized (most of the great ancient monks were from Africa) as opposed to externalizing. So Christianity did not thrive, Islam moved in, and corruption resulted from the decreased levels of justice in the Islamic sharia.
Another source has been British, Dutch, and French colonialism, which does still play out in the IMF, but also plays out in the behavior of oil, gas, and precious natural resource companies (such as diamonds, gold, and whatnot.)
In other words, though some of the fault is of African origin, much of it to this day is because of war being imposed by those who are weathy and isolated from the evils they commit. More than likely, a major factor in the continuance of this problem is the humungous amount of natural resources that Africa has. And those things do prevent them from improving their situation.
Ummm... things to make land arable? How about a shovel, and a box? No kidding. http://www.growbiointensive.org/ The amount of research in the book they sell is prodigious. They also teach 3rd worlders. About solar AC... well, that's a stretch, but as for solar refrigeration, try the pot-in-a-pot, mentioned already on slashdot. Not to belittle your suggestions, your suggestions are good, and they are being done (which is a sign that they are good). I suspect this would be good too, as far as learning coding goes -- but in terms of net value, the internet is of negative value as far as I can see. As you say, cost/benefit analysis doesn't look good when you divide a positive by a negative.
First, in reality no person is self-made. So #1, if you are trying to be a self-made man, then you are trying to take credit for that which you have not done. Even in Ayn Rand novels, her heros weren't self-made.
#2. The pie is not always limited, but it often is. When three people collaborate on a project, for example, the credit or payment given is limited, and is often far less than what the three of them together deserve. So one person defending themselves necessarily will hurt the other two. That results in battles.
#3. You cannot get away from those who think that you should provide for them. Worse, those people will be very good at taking what they want, so you *will* find yourself providing for them whether or not you want to, and whether or not you provide for yourself. That's going to create stress, whether or not you like it.
#4. Despite all of the above, my experience is that God can and does provide for those who follow Him wholeheartedly, and trust in Him. God does *not* provide enough for a person to raise himself above his fellow men, but He does provide enough. In my own case, He moved me to a job that pays very badly, but at the same time He provided us (myself and my family) for free, a mobile home, and lowered our cost of living enough that we can still live reasonably well.
#5 "Wicked" isn't just a 4-letter word. "Wicked" describes that internal desire that turns us away from God, towards anything else. Usually, though, it starts with us trying to turn towards ourselves.
As you say, and as more to do with being overcommitted or having a desire for a lifestyle beyond their means. But when you try to be a self-made man, or when you try to place yourself beyond all possible failure, you are automatically overcommitted. You can't do either one of those, by definition.
You know, I'd actually tend to think that burnout is most often caused by a clash of two peoples' wickedness, where wickedness is the desire of a person to be their own god. Those who want worship, obedience, power, to be self-made, or to defend themselves -- are going to find themselves in battle after battle with others who want the same things. In line with that, I suspect that you yourself may be subject to burnout, as are your employees. That's just based on what I've seen at my own job, where my boss was always at everyone's throat, and especially at the throat of his daughter, the secretary. Of course, she was also doing battle with her housemate, but she developed an exploded blood vessel in her eye from hypertension. A lot of that was caused by her father's harranguing. But she still didn't completely burn out-- he did. That is, if you call burnout the abuse of prescription medicines, worse and worse temper and despair, being more and more abusive of everyone around him [including his own boss], and finally being fired for the abuse, I do. But my point is that when you want to be your own god and a god to others, you're going to be battling other people until you fall.
Umm... roots are not all that difficult to calculate. In fact, a root takes approximately as many boolean operations as a divide (same order of magnitude, and within 20%). You use a variant of (a+b)^2=a^2+2ab+b^2, where a is your current approximation, and b is your next binary digit, and the difference between them tells you whether or not b is 1. Also, this new rational trig method seems *more* useful for game programming, where cos and sin take a long time (in boolean terms).
Malware nothing.
All the attacker has to do is call you on his recording phone (okay, tape recorder tied to the phone line), and convince you to type him a letter and email it to him.
Record the sound, match the sounds to the words of the letter, and bingo. He has your email password, and more if you logged on to type the email.
And yes, that doesn't require the use of a long amount of text, or their machine learning.
Human engineering takes a tech job, and makes it dismally simple.
Which leands to an interesting question: why not learn from venice, keep the city flooded, and build concrete and stone structures, one on the other, always staying above the waterline?
Maybe you'd want to sequence some Allens (germanic tribe). Or maybe you'd want to sequence some dwarfs. Both are small and squat in a different way than most, and could have something to do with a case of Neanderthal genes.
I think the guy was referring to home hospice care. The patient doesn't really need a hospital, they need a loving environment in which to die, and the home is often the best place.
These investors aren't going to walk away with a tax break and rewards.
I took a look at these ideas, and I classify them into one of several groups.
(Class) Convergence in a diverse market.
(Why it won't work) Convergence will happen, based upon unifying forces within the technology. The problem here, though, is that those unifying forces will come from ISO efforts of the current sales leaders. In other words, there is no room for a new startup taking the lead.
Now, you can *take part* in unifying things, by sponsoring symposiums to just that purpose. However, there are already a number of companies that regularly do that as their main business effort, and can be expected to be working on that at any given moment.
(Class) Rehashing a badly working business model.
(Why it won't work) Typically, these investors think that the problem is a first order problem: people don't like to use it. On the contrary, usually the problems are second- or third-order. People don't have money, or the business environment is dangerous, or customer service can be expected to not come through.
Therefore, these businesses can be expected to come through with a flashy, new, hyped product -- and still get only a tiny fraction of what current sales leaders get.
(Class) The already-existing, and working business copy.
(Why it won't work) Actually, this will -- but will have only limited returns. As such, it probably will be an okay investment for the investor (though he'd do better to buy stock in an existing company) -- but a terrible investment for the person who wants to spend the labor, with one exception. If you're a college kid and can pull it off, specify that the contract includes funding for later degree completion, based upon number of years worked. If you are out after a year, you get a year's tuition/board. If you are out after two years, you get two years' tuition/board. That way, you can work triple time initially, and then hand the company over to a more regular C/O just about the time the "investors" start to bleed the company and put their own friends in.
For myself, I stopped going to movies, when I found that even the "decent" ones were obscene in my book, and the deep ones were terribly trite.
I stopped listening to pop music -- even free radio music-- when I started to notice that for every song I could say "rant against the system, by the beneficiaries"... "personal problems being aired"... and so on.
I stopped watching TV when I started feeling dirty after every episode of anything.
I stopped looking at the newspaper (yes, I still hit news.google.com) when I found myself reacting even as I realized that they were publishing that stuff just to get me to react. Sorry, I don't need more post-WTC fear.
So now I read classics, and the Bible, and relax by taking a walk. Maybe at some point I'll take up gardening.
But the products are definitely *not* good by any measure.
I'd like to add -- respect your boss not for what he can or cannot do, but for the fact that he is your boss. And replace that failing "work ethic" thing with simple loyalty and a will to be as helpful and obedient (submissive) as possible. Then, take all that money you save on TUMS, add the tax savings, and call it a raise. I know that sounds cynical, but it is my real life advice, which I use every day.
You can make a hummer get better than 80 mpg. Not too far from my house is a hummer that gets better than 80 mpg, but it's also a hybrid.
It's a combination diesel-continental drift vehicle, and they fire it up maybe once in 10000 years.
Of course, if they power it up and use the vehicle to drive down the street, it's back down to 6 mpg.
(1) Take search, submit to multiple different engines (2) Rank sites among results (3) Ad Google ads and spit back out (4) Profit!
Russne is here:
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It just sounds like Russinovich would be "from the town of Russne".