My PC is running better than ever with the transplantation of a new hard drive, CPU, RAM chips and graphics card.
Anti-rejection drugs were not necessary.
Donor was newegg.com.
Why not expand our NEST teams - drill them harder and update their detection equipment.
And make Ed Zwick's "Special Bulletin" and Peter Watkins' "The War Game" mandatory viewing for new NEST team members (and for every sitting President, too).
Oh yes, and remember this - the US and Russia still have thousands of nukes essentially still ready to go at one another.
And that purpose is to challenge the basic assumptions we've made about the universe and how it behaves.
I'm not saying that anyone should junk the work that we've been building on since the Greeks through Galileo, Kepler and the like up till today.
But when someone comes along like him I think that instead of outright dismissal, it's helpful and healthy to re-examine and re-articulate those assumptions.
When speculative and sensational shows like the Fox "alien autopsy" and "faked moon landing" appear, it's a perfect time to re-explain that there hasn't been a single verifiable piece of evidence that UFOs are actually alien spacecraft, and that we DID go to the moon, and went there after creating an amazing space launch infrastructure in a very short time.
Somewhat tangenitally, I sincerely believe we need heretics in any field to shake up orthodoxies and make people think a bit, even about how the basic assumptions came to be.
1. No shipping. Local pickup only.
2. To avoid stiff fees, PayPal will not
be accepted.
3. Checks will be given ten days to
clear.
4. Non-paying bidders without ABM defenses
will be given NEGATIVE FEEDBACK.
I've fixed more than a few computer problems with just this tool and the knowledge in my head.
I suppose in New South Wales, I could justify carrying such a dangerous item, since it does relate to my profession.
That having been said, I despise these sorts of overzealous, zero-tolerance type laws. Go to www.endzerotolerance.org to see how this sort of thing is out of hand in US schools.
Look at the State of Vermont - no permits needed to own a handgun and to carry it openly or concealed. And guess what - they have a very low violent crime rate.
I'm somewhat surprised that so many young people would work on a project that will help our military develop unmanned hunter-killer vehicles.
Isn't this why DARPA's funding this project?
I'm not against the project, just curious if there are any conscience issues involved here.
Two big conduits for evil software. I've seen moderately protected machines (no router, no auto updates, no spyware elimination) with very little bad stuff, and well protected machines with tons of crap because the owner(s) look at porn and/or download music.
Please folks, don't think Mom or Dad are above surfing for pron or grabbing a couple of tunes.
It's not just software I worry about...
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Why would any radiation-emitting medical device be pemitted to administer a lethal dose? I mean, why was the piece of hardware itself given that kind of upper range?
Incident #1: An aqcuaintance tells me the law firm she works for needs some computer help. I tell her my fee is x per hour, with reimbursement for one hour's travel and parking. She asks if that's OK, and they agree (verbally)
I show up on time, and work steadily and quickly throughout the day - always at the request of an attorney - in other words, none of the work I did was of my own initiative. I tried to leave at three o'clock, but the attorneys kept "tugging at my sleeve" and asking me to do one last thing, so I left at 5:00.
I send them a bill for everything, and hear nothing back. I call about six weeks later, and they send only 60% payment. When I ask why they said, "they've never gotten such a big bill for computer work before." But she leaves me with the impression that maybe they'll pay the rest down the road.
I call this woman occasionally to collect the rest - she always sheepishly apologizes, says I'll get paid.
I finally have to write a severe letter, return receipt required to get someone to call me back.
One of the senior partners calls me, reiterating that same stupid argument. I tried to tell him that all of the work was driven by their requests, that I tried to leave but couldn't and that I charge less than most consultants do. All of this fell on deaf ears. He was willing to pay some of the remainder, so I took what he offered.
I thought I learned how to handle this. I decided that whenever I did a job and didn't get paid right away, I'd have a person with financial authority sign off on a pro forma invoice.
Incident #2 - I'm called to fix a computer in NYC that can't send Outlook emails. I get there, and play with the settings for a few minutes. I suspect a corrupted.pst file, so I use the Inbox Repair tool - it takes over an hour to run, and doesn't work. The person using the PC had to use it a couple of times and kick me off, so that burned up some time. Then, I hit upon the idea of making a new.pst file, but I didn't want to make any changes until I made a "safety copy" of the drive. Ghost took an usually long time, over an hour to copy the drive. Setting up the new file only took about 20 mins, including copying emails to the new one.
I create a pro forma invoice and have the office manager sign off. I kept the original. He was surprised at the high amount (Charged for three hours' work and only.5 hrs travel), but signed anyway.
So I sent an invoice as a PDF to their HQ. I also sent a copy of the signed pro forma.
*It still wasn't enough!* They told me they'd only pay part of the bill because they claimed I took too long to do the job! I told them why it did, and reminded them that someone who was financially responsible signed off, but those counter arguments failed! We finally settled on a reduced bill.
I'm not even sure of how I can protect myself from this kind of crap in the future. I guess even having an office manager approve a pro forma isn't good enough.
The only thing I can think of is to do a pro forma with everything in writing and have someone who's *really* responsible for check disbursement approve it.
I got my first apartment back in the fall of 1998.
I decided to cook my first official bachelor meal.
I make the following query: "Peanut Soup Recipe"
and found a lot of great recipes!
I don't know why peanut soup rose to the top of my list, but it did, and it's one of my favorites to this very day.
She describes how tourists couldn't stand the awful silence of the Dead Zone. Too bad - when I visit the desert, especially Death Valley, I think the silence is one of the best things about it.
Perhaps it's the combination of silence and existing vacant structures that drove them away.
Perfectly normal stores - I just got unlucky a few times in a row with slow clerks who were inherently slow, and also had to fumble to break my twenty.
I also worked in retail and I was always appreciative of people who tendered small bills or exact change.
Whenever I get money from an ATM and the bank is still open, I just change it for fives and singles.
I do this for two reasons: I patronize a lot of small stores, and giving them smaller denominations makes it easier to make change. The other reason is a corollary of the first: I can leave a store faster if the clerk counts out slowly, or if breaking a twenty results in having to ask a manager or another clerk for change.
Buy a realistic-looking and acting airsoft gun. There's tons of them for sale on Ebay every day.
It's a fun item, and can lead to an interest in the legitimate shooting sports.
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My PC is running better than ever with the transplantation of a new hard drive, CPU, RAM chips and graphics card. Anti-rejection drugs were not necessary. Donor was newegg.com.
Why not expand our NEST teams - drill them harder and update their detection equipment. And make Ed Zwick's "Special Bulletin" and Peter Watkins' "The War Game" mandatory viewing for new NEST team members (and for every sitting President, too). Oh yes, and remember this - the US and Russia still have thousands of nukes essentially still ready to go at one another.
And that purpose is to challenge the basic assumptions we've made about the universe and how it behaves.
I'm not saying that anyone should junk the work that we've been building on since the Greeks through Galileo, Kepler and the like up till today.
But when someone comes along like him I think that instead of outright dismissal, it's helpful and healthy to re-examine and re-articulate those assumptions.
When speculative and sensational shows like the Fox "alien autopsy" and "faked moon landing" appear, it's a perfect time to re-explain that there hasn't been a single verifiable piece of evidence that UFOs are actually alien spacecraft, and that we DID go to the moon, and went there after creating an amazing space launch infrastructure in a very short time.
Somewhat tangenitally, I sincerely believe we need heretics in any field to shake up orthodoxies and make people think a bit, even about how the basic assumptions came to be.
1. No shipping. Local pickup only. 2. To avoid stiff fees, PayPal will not be accepted. 3. Checks will be given ten days to clear. 4. Non-paying bidders without ABM defenses will be given NEGATIVE FEEDBACK.
I've fixed more than a few computer problems with just this tool and the knowledge in my head. I suppose in New South Wales, I could justify carrying such a dangerous item, since it does relate to my profession. That having been said, I despise these sorts of overzealous, zero-tolerance type laws. Go to www.endzerotolerance.org to see how this sort of thing is out of hand in US schools. Look at the State of Vermont - no permits needed to own a handgun and to carry it openly or concealed. And guess what - they have a very low violent crime rate.
I'm somewhat surprised that so many young people would work on a project that will help our military develop unmanned hunter-killer vehicles. Isn't this why DARPA's funding this project? I'm not against the project, just curious if there are any conscience issues involved here.
Two big conduits for evil software. I've seen moderately protected machines (no router, no auto updates, no spyware elimination) with very little bad stuff, and well protected machines with tons of crap because the owner(s) look at porn and/or download music. Please folks, don't think Mom or Dad are above surfing for pron or grabbing a couple of tunes.
Why would any radiation-emitting medical device be pemitted to administer a lethal dose? I mean, why was the piece of hardware itself given that kind of upper range?
Didn't Michael Corleone say something like, "If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone."
Incident #1: An aqcuaintance tells me the law firm she works for needs some computer help. I tell her my fee is x per hour, with reimbursement for one hour's travel and parking. She asks if that's OK, and they agree (verbally) I show up on time, and work steadily and quickly throughout the day - always at the request of an attorney - in other words, none of the work I did was of my own initiative. I tried to leave at three o'clock, but the attorneys kept "tugging at my sleeve" and asking me to do one last thing, so I left at 5:00. I send them a bill for everything, and hear nothing back. I call about six weeks later, and they send only 60% payment. When I ask why they said, "they've never gotten such a big bill for computer work before." But she leaves me with the impression that maybe they'll pay the rest down the road. I call this woman occasionally to collect the rest - she always sheepishly apologizes, says I'll get paid. I finally have to write a severe letter, return receipt required to get someone to call me back. One of the senior partners calls me, reiterating that same stupid argument. I tried to tell him that all of the work was driven by their requests, that I tried to leave but couldn't and that I charge less than most consultants do. All of this fell on deaf ears. He was willing to pay some of the remainder, so I took what he offered. I thought I learned how to handle this. I decided that whenever I did a job and didn't get paid right away, I'd have a person with financial authority sign off on a pro forma invoice. Incident #2 - I'm called to fix a computer in NYC that can't send Outlook emails. I get there, and play with the settings for a few minutes. I suspect a corrupted .pst file, so I use the Inbox Repair tool - it takes over an hour to run, and doesn't work. The person using the PC had to use it a couple of times and kick me off, so that burned up some time. Then, I hit upon the idea of making a new .pst file, but I didn't want to make any changes until I made a "safety copy" of the drive. Ghost took an usually long time, over an hour to copy the drive. Setting up the new file only took about 20 mins, including copying emails to the new one.
I create a pro forma invoice and have the office manager sign off. I kept the original. He was surprised at the high amount (Charged for three hours' work and only .5 hrs travel), but signed anyway.
So I sent an invoice as a PDF to their HQ. I also sent a copy of the signed pro forma.
*It still wasn't enough!* They told me they'd only pay part of the bill because they claimed I took too long to do the job! I told them why it did, and reminded them that someone who was financially responsible signed off, but those counter arguments failed! We finally settled on a reduced bill.
I'm not even sure of how I can protect myself from this kind of crap in the future. I guess even having an office manager approve a pro forma isn't good enough.
The only thing I can think of is to do a pro forma with everything in writing and have someone who's *really* responsible for check disbursement approve it.
I got my first apartment back in the fall of 1998. I decided to cook my first official bachelor meal. I make the following query: "Peanut Soup Recipe" and found a lot of great recipes! I don't know why peanut soup rose to the top of my list, but it did, and it's one of my favorites to this very day.
She describes how tourists couldn't stand the awful silence of the Dead Zone. Too bad - when I visit the desert, especially Death Valley, I think the silence is one of the best things about it. Perhaps it's the combination of silence and existing vacant structures that drove them away.
Perfectly normal stores - I just got unlucky a few times in a row with slow clerks who were inherently slow, and also had to fumble to break my twenty.
I also worked in retail and I was always appreciative of people who tendered small bills or exact change.
Whenever I get money from an ATM and the bank is still open, I just change it for fives and singles. I do this for two reasons: I patronize a lot of small stores, and giving them smaller denominations makes it easier to make change. The other reason is a corollary of the first: I can leave a store faster if the clerk counts out slowly, or if breaking a twenty results in having to ask a manager or another clerk for change.
Judging by the moderation, only half the moderators have a sense of humor...
Is this before or after the NASA guys visited the Rekall Corporation?
Are probably the usual Video Professor shovelware.
Put another docking module on the ISS, and simply have two Soyuz craft on the station at one time to allow a complete evacuation of a full complement?
He says: "Doctor, what are the symptoms of hypochrondria?" Doctor replies, "Anything you want them to be."
Buy a realistic-looking and acting airsoft gun. There's tons of them for sale on Ebay every day. It's a fun item, and can lead to an interest in the legitimate shooting sports.
Simply by being there for me when I needed information pronto, whether via a traditional query or by using the "Google Answers" feature.
They'll enjoy it, but won't appreciate it. Keep most of the winfall - make the others pitch in.
I was so hoping the font of choice would be "wingdings."
Not that a government doc in that font would be any more or less decipherable.
And turn on real life.
But they certainly aren't very funny. They laugh a lot more at their own jokes than I do.