I'll decide what gets downloaded onto it. I really wish these commercial sites would just stop cluttering the internet. They just make it harder to find the good stuff.
I think I'll kick in a few more bucks to AdBlock, today. I'm happy to donate to people like that, (although I wish Wikipedia would've given me a cookie when I donated, but ok, maybe they did, and I deleted it).
Yeah, if you listen to Jazz or Classical recordings from the fifties, they can be quite amazing. It seems it took some studios a while to figure out how to record amplified instruments, so there are a lot of bad sounding pop recordings from the early sixties. The Beatles don't belong in that category, though. Also, a lot of songs were mixed to "pop" on car radios, which at that time consisted of an AM radio, and one cheap speaker, so if you listen to them on an actual hifi...ouch! Certainly you can tell the difference between a modern recording, and an older recording, but much of this difference is due to differences in production techniques, rather than recording quality or ability, per se.
IDK, it still sounds like, "kiss this guy" whether I'm listening with my McIntosh, or my MacIntosh. But certainly it's an improvement over the six-inch car speaker, powered by an AM car radio, which I first heard it on. There are a lot of Stones songs, in particular, whose lyrics I never would've figured out without the internet. And I've had high fidelity equipment all my adult life. Not that learning the lyrics has helped - the mondegreens have been burned into my brain for decades now.
Now *that* is some fine A++ wegyu-grade irony, there. I'm not familiar with the song, but reading the lyrics which can easily be found online...
Indeed they can - now. You have to remember, grasshopper, the internet did not exist for most people until the late nineties/early two-thousands. Comprehensive lyric sites came even later. So for most of rock history, if the lyrics weren't printed somewhere on the album, you were left to figure them out yourself, as best you could.
Simply because there are laws against types of discrimination, doesn't mean employers don't discriminate. If you're looking at two résumés, both equally qualified, some kind of discrimination is going to come into play, whether regarding race, gender, criminal history, etcetera... You simply can't be overt about it, and I suspect much of it is unconscious, anyway.
Depends on the felony. You can get a felony for having too much weed on you. There are many "crimes" which sensible people realize shouldn't even be a crime, some of which are felonies.
Right, many companies rely on applicants assuming they'll spend the money for a background check, when in fact, many don't. My advice is to lie if you think they'll look askance at your record. Either they check, and you don't get the job, or they don't check, and you do get the job. If you're honest about it up front, it's likely the same outcome as "they check." As I say, this can depend on what type of company you're going to apply to - are they a buttoned-down corporate type of place, or rather hip? Is security a big concern for the employer? What are your convictions about? Drug convictions will be less of a problem than theft or violence convictions.
I once had to take a pre-employment "lie-detector" test, and was asked about drugs. When I answered that I had used them, he asked which ones. Since he wouldn't take "pretty much all of them" for an answer, I had to sit and list every drug I'd ever tried. It was a very long list. I got the job, and my test results got big laughs with my new bosses and colleagues. They were, (rightly), concerned about theft, not how I spent my free time. So, if it's only a bunch of drug-related misdemeanors, (or felonies), take heart!
I now have a job where a very dim view is taken of this sort of thing, and I never say a word about it, even though I have some arrests and minor convictions. It's not come back to bite me.
Whoever wrote it, it a pretty convincing imitation of bad English. I'm not sure an English speaker could come up with that. People, when using a foreign language, tend to use certain words and phrases in imitation of their own native syntax and idioms. I think we all know that hacking or coding skills do not automatically equal grammar skills, let alone foreign language skills. But is it Russians, Koreans, Chinese...?
Depends on the type of work, I guess. Truck drivers are expected to work up to 70 hours per week, (at least, that's the legal limit), and as long as they can stay awake behind the wheel, the work is getting done. If your job is to stand in front of a machine, feeding it parts or whatever, it's likely they're still getting productivity out of you. But, forgive me, we were speaking of the middle class...
In the exact same way that the erosion of the federal minimum wage—from an inflation-adjusted peak of about $11 an hour in 1968 to only $7.25 an hour today—has held down wages for low-income Americans, the simultaneous erosion of the overtime threshold has also held down wages for the American middle class. And just like raising the minimum wage would nudge up incomes for those workers earning somewhat above it, restoring the overtime threshold would push up incomes for many workers currently earning above $69,000 too.
You know, I always suspected that these people really understood how the economy worked, and that they were simply bamboozling voters into thinking that giving more money to the rich would benefit working people somehow. That's not how the economy works. It works by consumer demand. And if the consumer has no money, there is no demand.
So, here we have it, straight from the horses mouth. You can stop voting against your own interests now.
It's testosterone, really. More testosterone = more aggression. The males of many species have evolved to be aggressive and territorial, and testosterone is the driver. A lot of women hate this idea for some reason, but it's simply true.
I mean, I played THROUGH gta V and.. well. I don't remember where killing some bitches happened.
Perhaps they're confusing San Andreas with V. In San Andreas, hiring a prostitute would bring your health up a bit. Not so in V where, correct me if I'm wrong, it just takes your money. Certainly you can kill female NPCs in V, just as you can kill male NPCs, but there's no particular incentive to do so. That said, aside from the other points of sexism already noted, female NPCs, unlike male NPCs, will not fight back when you jack their car. Only rarely will a female NPC pedestrian will fight back. Or, perhaps that's realism rather than sexism? *smack* Ow, just asking...
Wouldn't you say that the CEO, or at the very least, the heads of particular units are responsible for the bad things corporations do? After all, they are the ones who ok, if not initiate, this kind of stuff.
True enough. But the real difference is that in Germany it is illegal to pass on the right, and the law is followed. When a faster vehicle is approaching, cars will move out of the way, to the right, so that the other car can pass. In the US, you have idiots driving slowly in the left lanes, as if it were their God-given right, effectively blocking passing lanes, and forcing others to pass on the right. Obviously, (at least to some of us), this creates a number of problems. Perhaps if we changed "don't pass on the right" from a suggestion to a law, our roads might function as well as the autobahn.
Find a cabinet that goes with your living room furniture, and stick it in there. It'll hide it both visually and audibly. Just make sure it allows enough air-flow from the rear, for cooling, or open the cabinet door while in use. Stereo heads like me have had to deal with this problem for a long time, and the solution is nice-looking furniture.
"Science" is a liberal world view. It's inherently progressive. After all, science does not agree with the Bible, nor does it agree with those who do not wish to believe that global warming is happening, and allows people to circumvent old taboos with technology. You can see how it'd be a little scary.
I've had a fully ad-free web experience since the late nineties when the first banner ads appeared, thanks to, first of all, my own hosts file, Pith Helmet, AdBlock, and others whose names I've forgotten. I think these people are more deserving of our money.
I wouldn't, (and I certainly don't), rely on Do Not Track. You have to take these things into your own hands as best you can, by blocking ads and trackers, by using search engines that at least claim to respect your privacy by not logging your searches, by regularly dumping cookies, and by using a VPN or Tor. Then, maybe, you can have a little privacy.
I mean, who's idiot enough to trust the very people spying on them to respect their request not to be spied on? It's laughable.
The worry with a rocket, of course, is that it might explode in the atmosphere. Dispersing even a "cupful" of plutonium in the atmosphere could have serious consequences, the severity depending upon many different circumstances. That said, I think it's worth the chance for some projects. But people's worries are not unfounded.
Where the other party has reason to believe that the party manifesting such assent would not do so if he knew that the writing contained a particular term, the term is not part of the agreement.
i.e. if you put terms into a contract that you know your customers aren't likely to agree to, then they're not binding, even if the contract is signed.
Great! So I can continue to ignore all this hooey I'm always "accepting" when I install apps, and register at sites. Because I would never agree to any of that jive.
Slashdot Mirror
I'll decide what gets downloaded onto it. I really wish these commercial sites would just stop cluttering the internet. They just make it harder to find the good stuff.
I think I'll kick in a few more bucks to AdBlock, today. I'm happy to donate to people like that, (although I wish Wikipedia would've given me a cookie when I donated, but ok, maybe they did, and I deleted it).
I was gonna say...
I swear, when I have mod points, I can find no place to apply them. And vice-versa.
Yeah, if you listen to Jazz or Classical recordings from the fifties, they can be quite amazing. It seems it took some studios a while to figure out how to record amplified instruments, so there are a lot of bad sounding pop recordings from the early sixties. The Beatles don't belong in that category, though. Also, a lot of songs were mixed to "pop" on car radios, which at that time consisted of an AM radio, and one cheap speaker, so if you listen to them on an actual hifi...ouch! Certainly you can tell the difference between a modern recording, and an older recording, but much of this difference is due to differences in production techniques, rather than recording quality or ability, per se.
IDK, it still sounds like, "kiss this guy" whether I'm listening with my McIntosh, or my MacIntosh. But certainly it's an improvement over the six-inch car speaker, powered by an AM car radio, which I first heard it on.
There are a lot of Stones songs, in particular, whose lyrics I never would've figured out without the internet. And I've had high fidelity equipment all my adult life. Not that learning the lyrics has helped - the mondegreens have been burned into my brain for decades now.
Now *that* is some fine A++ wegyu-grade irony, there. I'm not familiar with the song, but reading the lyrics which can easily be found online...
Indeed they can - now. You have to remember, grasshopper, the internet did not exist for most people until the late nineties/early two-thousands. Comprehensive lyric sites came even later. So for most of rock history, if the lyrics weren't printed somewhere on the album, you were left to figure them out yourself, as best you could.
Simply because there are laws against types of discrimination, doesn't mean employers don't discriminate. If you're looking at two résumés, both equally qualified, some kind of discrimination is going to come into play, whether regarding race, gender, criminal history, etcetera... You simply can't be overt about it, and I suspect much of it is unconscious, anyway.
Depends on the felony. You can get a felony for having too much weed on you. There are many "crimes" which sensible people realize shouldn't even be a crime, some of which are felonies.
Right, many companies rely on applicants assuming they'll spend the money for a background check, when in fact, many don't. My advice is to lie if you think they'll look askance at your record. Either they check, and you don't get the job, or they don't check, and you do get the job. If you're honest about it up front, it's likely the same outcome as "they check." As I say, this can depend on what type of company you're going to apply to - are they a buttoned-down corporate type of place, or rather hip? Is security a big concern for the employer? What are your convictions about? Drug convictions will be less of a problem than theft or violence convictions.
I once had to take a pre-employment "lie-detector" test, and was asked about drugs. When I answered that I had used them, he asked which ones. Since he wouldn't take "pretty much all of them" for an answer, I had to sit and list every drug I'd ever tried. It was a very long list. I got the job, and my test results got big laughs with my new bosses and colleagues. They were, (rightly), concerned about theft, not how I spent my free time. So, if it's only a bunch of drug-related misdemeanors, (or felonies), take heart!
I now have a job where a very dim view is taken of this sort of thing, and I never say a word about it, even though I have some arrests and minor convictions. It's not come back to bite me.
Which is why you can't calculate your weight on Sedna, something I desperately want to know.
Whoever wrote it, it a pretty convincing imitation of bad English. I'm not sure an English speaker could come up with that. People, when using a foreign language, tend to use certain words and phrases in imitation of their own native syntax and idioms. I think we all know that hacking or coding skills do not automatically equal grammar skills, let alone foreign language skills. But is it Russians, Koreans, Chinese...?
Depends on the type of work, I guess. Truck drivers are expected to work up to 70 hours per week, (at least, that's the legal limit), and as long as they can stay awake behind the wheel, the work is getting done. If your job is to stand in front of a machine, feeding it parts or whatever, it's likely they're still getting productivity out of you. But, forgive me, we were speaking of the middle class...
In the exact same way that the erosion of the federal minimum wage—from an inflation-adjusted peak of about $11 an hour in 1968 to only $7.25 an hour today—has held down wages for low-income Americans, the simultaneous erosion of the overtime threshold has also held down wages for the American middle class. And just like raising the minimum wage would nudge up incomes for those workers earning somewhat above it, restoring the overtime threshold would push up incomes for many workers currently earning above $69,000 too.
You know, I always suspected that these people really understood how the economy worked, and that they were simply bamboozling voters into thinking that giving more money to the rich would benefit working people somehow. That's not how the economy works. It works by consumer demand. And if the consumer has no money, there is no demand.
So, here we have it, straight from the horses mouth. You can stop voting against your own interests now.
It's testosterone, really. More testosterone = more aggression. The males of many species have evolved to be aggressive and territorial, and testosterone is the driver. A lot of women hate this idea for some reason, but it's simply true.
I mean, I played THROUGH gta V and .. well. I don't remember where killing some bitches happened.
Perhaps they're confusing San Andreas with V. In San Andreas, hiring a prostitute would bring your health up a bit. Not so in V where, correct me if I'm wrong, it just takes your money. Certainly you can kill female NPCs in V, just as you can kill male NPCs, but there's no particular incentive to do so. That said, aside from the other points of sexism already noted, female NPCs, unlike male NPCs, will not fight back when you jack their car. Only rarely will a female NPC pedestrian will fight back. Or, perhaps that's realism rather than sexism?
*smack*
Ow, just asking...
Well, it's being released on new platforms this month - PC and PS4 - so it's likely related to that.
Wouldn't you say that the CEO, or at the very least, the heads of particular units are responsible for the bad things corporations do? After all, they are the ones who ok, if not initiate, this kind of stuff.
And so it is with a lot of these Silicon Valley garage stories.
Garage Myth
But humans are still a bunch of idiots.
True enough. But the real difference is that in Germany it is illegal to pass on the right, and the law is followed. When a faster vehicle is approaching, cars will move out of the way, to the right, so that the other car can pass. In the US, you have idiots driving slowly in the left lanes, as if it were their God-given right, effectively blocking passing lanes, and forcing others to pass on the right. Obviously, (at least to some of us), this creates a number of problems. Perhaps if we changed "don't pass on the right" from a suggestion to a law, our roads might function as well as the autobahn.
Find a cabinet that goes with your living room furniture, and stick it in there. It'll hide it both visually and audibly. Just make sure it allows enough air-flow from the rear, for cooling, or open the cabinet door while in use. Stereo heads like me have had to deal with this problem for a long time, and the solution is nice-looking furniture.
"Science" is a liberal world view. It's inherently progressive. After all, science does not agree with the Bible, nor does it agree with those who do not wish to believe that global warming is happening, and allows people to circumvent old taboos with technology. You can see how it'd be a little scary.
I've had a fully ad-free web experience since the late nineties when the first banner ads appeared, thanks to, first of all, my own hosts file, Pith Helmet, AdBlock, and others whose names I've forgotten. I think these people are more deserving of our money.
Well, it's "donation-ware." People should really toss the guy a few bucks. That's my subscription plan.
I wouldn't, (and I certainly don't), rely on Do Not Track. You have to take these things into your own hands as best you can, by blocking ads and trackers, by using search engines that at least claim to respect your privacy by not logging your searches, by regularly dumping cookies, and by using a VPN or Tor. Then, maybe, you can have a little privacy.
I mean, who's idiot enough to trust the very people spying on them to respect their request not to be spied on? It's laughable.
The worry with a rocket, of course, is that it might explode in the atmosphere. Dispersing even a "cupful" of plutonium in the atmosphere could have serious consequences, the severity depending upon many different circumstances. That said, I think it's worth the chance for some projects. But people's worries are not unfounded.
Where the other party has reason to believe that the party manifesting such assent would not do so if he knew that the writing contained a particular term, the term is not part of the agreement.
i.e. if you put terms into a contract that you know your customers aren't likely to agree to, then they're not binding, even if the contract is signed.
Great! So I can continue to ignore all this hooey I'm always "accepting" when I install apps, and register at sites. Because I would never agree to any of that jive.