I am a mac user, but I'm also an electronic technician. This is not FUD, this is incorrect advice in Apple's service manual, and I'm all for correction to be as widely disseminatd as possible.
Too much thermal goo is one of the more common assembly errors I've seen, all because of a misunderstanding of its purpose. Too many people think, "the more, the better" and it's just not so. The best thermal bond is metal to metal, but there are gaps between the metal surfaces that don't conduct well if they are filled with air, so we want to fill them with something more conductive. If the layer of thermal compound is so thick that it pushes apart the metal surfaces, it defeats its purpose.
Two things you can do to mitigate that. Always keep at least six months expenses in some fairly liquid form of savings, and work on open source projects while you're unemployed.
I only wish there were some open source alternative for my job. I'm an electronic tech with over twenty years of experience. I've seen most of the jobs of that type go to China in the last few years, and they're not coming back. I'm also getting to the point where I have to worry about whether the company I work for might decide that their older, higher paid and possibly less healthy workers might just not be worth keeping. They are constantly pushing me to pass along all the knowledge I've accumulated over the time I've been there, and I've always been perfectly willing to train people because I've always been happier when those around me are at least competent, but lately I'm getting a bit paranoid as I've seen such turnover in management that I don't trust that they even know how much I can do for them. You bet I'm putting as much as I can into savings and actively but discreetly looking elsewhere.
I was not trying to make an angel out of her, just protesting that she wasn't the devil she has been made out to be. Also, until I see the speech quoted, how do I know the quote wasn't simply made up? Can you show me a cite, as they say on the Straight Dope?
Did you read all the way down to where it talks about "quote mining" and "spin doctoring"? Margaret Sanger was a product of her time, and no more racist than many highly respected people in her society (e.g. G. K. Chesterton). The fact that she worked to make birth control available to all who wanted it, so that women themselves could make the choice of whether to have a child or not, gives many of us cause to be grateful to her. Your efforts to demonize her are perplexing to me.
As far as eugenics are concerned, My only argument against people trying to improve their lot in that way is that we can't know what genes we might need in the gene pool under changing circumstances. If people want to decide what characteristics their children will have, they will, regardless of how others feel about it. Who are you to tell them they can't? This will happen whether we extend our reach to other planets or not.
Margaret Sanger's work was designed to give women a choice, not take it away from them. I, personally, am very glad she did it.
If I had said to him what he said to me, I would not be surprised if he called me that. My comment that he was replying to did not deserve the reaction it got from him.
Want to play "Prisoner's Dilemma"? That's where I'm coming from.
If the intention of the user was not racist, the word is not racist. Racism is in the eye of the beholder here. The ones who are racist are the ones who jump all over innocent speakers/writers, misinterpreting their meaning and dragging things off on a tangent instead of paying attention to what they obviously intended to say.
I use it to find the specific item I'm looking for on a page with way too much information for me to read it all. with the cache, my search terms are highlighted so I can find them.
OR, they might be like me , a 50 year old woman who was never a very good typist and finds it very difficult to type one handed. I play with my son and make him do most of the communicating other than "add" or "TY" or "NP" when things are actually happening. If I wanted to chat with people I'd do it here or on a message board or something, where I have more time to type.
Other than that, I agree with you. I would expand that to cover all laws concerning "victimless" crimes. They are not the proper concern of the government, and (honest) education is a more effective deterrent than criminalization anyway.
My son says he likes to play females because he'd rather watch them running from the rear than men. I suspect that a large percentage of the female night elves in WoW are actually played by men. I also think most of those playing female dwarves are actually females, since they don't look as sexy from the rear when running. I have a couple of male gnome characters, and all the rest of my characters are female (I, like Tycho, tend to make new characters when the one I'm currently playing gets much over level forty because I'm not a fan of four hour twenty man raids) because I think the male characters are mostly rather stupid looking.
When I first started playing I was a bit disconcerted by the size of the female's mammaries and the lack of much visible muscle. I do like playing a female gnome warrior with a sword taller than she is though, because it's fun watching her swing that thing around. There's probably a bit of the underdog/David and Goliath thing in there, too.
You are absolutely correct. My company recently laid off about half the workforce in the U.S., and 90% of those laid off worked second shift. They were in many cases better workers than people who are still there, but management people didn't ever see much of them and didn't know that. If I had not been a compulsive communicator I probably wouldn't be there anymore either.
I don't know why my reply to an above comment got misplaced, but i was referring to the lack of tipping in Japan. I hit the "Reply to This" link under that comment, so my reply should have gone there, but I'm seeing it in the wrong place.
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I am a mac user, but I'm also an electronic technician. This is not FUD, this is incorrect advice in Apple's service manual, and I'm all for correction to be as widely disseminatd as possible.
Too much thermal goo is one of the more common assembly errors I've seen, all because of a misunderstanding of its purpose. Too many people think, "the more, the better" and it's just not so. The best thermal bond is metal to metal, but there are gaps between the metal surfaces that don't conduct well if they are filled with air, so we want to fill them with something more conductive. If the layer of thermal compound is so thick that it pushes apart the metal surfaces, it defeats its purpose.
Two things you can do to mitigate that. Always keep at least six months expenses in some fairly liquid form of savings, and work on open source projects while you're unemployed.
I only wish there were some open source alternative for my job. I'm an electronic tech with over twenty years of experience. I've seen most of the jobs of that type go to China in the last few years, and they're not coming back. I'm also getting to the point where I have to worry about whether the company I work for might decide that their older, higher paid and possibly less healthy workers might just not be worth keeping. They are constantly pushing me to pass along all the knowledge I've accumulated over the time I've been there, and I've always been perfectly willing to train people because I've always been happier when those around me are at least competent, but lately I'm getting a bit paranoid as I've seen such turnover in management that I don't trust that they even know how much I can do for them. You bet I'm putting as much as I can into savings and actively but discreetly looking elsewhere.
Think of it as shorthand for "I beg to differ".
He does say in TFA, if you RTFA. Only he substituted "fine" for a ruder term.
I was not trying to make an angel out of her, just protesting that she wasn't the devil she has been made out to be. Also, until I see the speech quoted, how do I know the quote wasn't simply made up? Can you show me a cite, as they say on the Straight Dope?
I was saying "quote mining".
Context, anyone?
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/pp2/portal/medica linfo/birthcontrol/bio-margaret-sanger.xml
As far as eugenics are concerned, My only argument against people trying to improve their lot in that way is that we can't know what genes we might need in the gene pool under changing circumstances. If people want to decide what characteristics their children will have, they will, regardless of how others feel about it. Who are you to tell them they can't? This will happen whether we extend our reach to other planets or not.
Margaret Sanger's work was designed to give women a choice, not take it away from them. I, personally, am very glad she did it.
If I had said to him what he said to me, I would not be surprised if he called me that. My comment that he was replying to did not deserve the reaction it got from him.
Want to play "Prisoner's Dilemma"? That's where I'm coming from.
Personally, I try to treat everyone with the respect I expect to receive. What's your problem with that?
Learn to read, anonymous dipshit
Fair enough. That's a familiar feeling.
I do not disagree with you. I was replying to someone else, and your statement really has nothing to do with my point.
We don't need to be "given" equality. We already have that.
What we deserve and damn well better get, is respect.
If the intention of the user was not racist, the word is not racist. Racism is in the eye of the beholder here. The ones who are racist are the ones who jump all over innocent speakers/writers, misinterpreting their meaning and dragging things off on a tangent instead of paying attention to what they obviously intended to say.
I use it to find the specific item I'm looking for on a page with way too much information for me to read it all. with the cache, my search terms are highlighted so I can find them.
OR, they might be like me , a 50 year old woman who was never a very good typist and finds it very difficult to type one handed. I play with my son and make him do most of the communicating other than "add" or "TY" or "NP" when things are actually happening. If I wanted to chat with people I'd do it here or on a message board or something, where I have more time to type.
Let's just say I'm in the 401(k) catchup bracket, and I spend way too much time on WoW.
You're sarcasm detector appears to be broken.
Other than that, I agree with you. I would expand that to cover all laws concerning "victimless" crimes. They are not the proper concern of the government, and (honest) education is a more effective deterrent than criminalization anyway.
It would be a best game of 2004. Pay attaention to the year.
RTFA. She IS a lawyer.
My son says he likes to play females because he'd rather watch them running from the rear than men. I suspect that a large percentage of the female night elves in WoW are actually played by men. I also think most of those playing female dwarves are actually females, since they don't look as sexy from the rear when running. I have a couple of male gnome characters, and all the rest of my characters are female (I, like Tycho, tend to make new characters when the one I'm currently playing gets much over level forty because I'm not a fan of four hour twenty man raids) because I think the male characters are mostly rather stupid looking.
When I first started playing I was a bit disconcerted by the size of the female's mammaries and the lack of much visible muscle. I do like playing a female gnome warrior with a sword taller than she is though, because it's fun watching her swing that thing around. There's probably a bit of the underdog/David and Goliath thing in there, too.
Fine. You can have your game your way, just don't expect me to be interested in playing it with you.
You are absolutely correct. My company recently laid off about half the workforce in the U.S., and 90% of those laid off worked second shift. They were in many cases better workers than people who are still there, but management people didn't ever see much of them and didn't know that. If I had not been a compulsive communicator I probably wouldn't be there anymore either.
I don't know why my reply to an above comment got misplaced, but i was referring to the lack of tipping in Japan. I hit the "Reply to This" link under that comment, so my reply should have gone there, but I'm seeing it in the wrong place.
But they aren't really paying more, because the cost of the meal here is less. The full cost of the service is included in the cost of the meal there.