I was under the impression the two finger salute had something to do with a war, where a king ordered the index and middle finger cut from all archers hands so they could no longer shoot, the sign then became an insult by showing the king you still had your fingers. Like a big "fook you"
I would define it as purchasing things you can't afford, then paying the minimum payment on the card every month.
There are some that purchase with a credit card and pay off the purchase before even receiving a bill for it from their CC. I would not consider this living on credit.
True, if you are able to make a charge to your card and pay it in full before the bill is due, you get the points and pay little to no interest for the purchase.
CC or debit charges cost them more really? So instead of saving them man hours by using an automated system to pay my bill, you reason that the extra cc or debit charges are costing them the same amount and that is the justification for charging a "convenience fee", yet I can walk into any Verizon store and pay my bill with the same CC or debit card and not pay that $2 fee, but they are still paying the same amount to run the card.
I disagree, this is sure looks like a money grab.
I'd be more likely to believe the $2 fees they collect from people paying by phone or online are put into a trust in the event of a data breach. Sort of a "ok the bad news, there was a data breach and we are getting fined, the good news we set aside a trust fund by charging phone pay and online pay customers a $2 fee, so the fine is covered".
I think you miss the point, it sounds more like OP has created a help desk / tracking CMS and nothing more. Specific tools PHP and mySQL were mentioned. I highly doubt anything superbly stellar came of it, most likely the app was hammered out in a few weekends.
OP states "I was hired on as a Senior SA" doing L3 type stuffs. Yet programming a portal in PHP and mySQL are above his paygrade? Wouldn't that be below?
My feeling is if you created it, it is yours unless you signed something that says anything you develop while employed there belongs to them whether it's on your time and resources or the companies. You began making it without any type of approval for funding upon it's completion. I'd say you should expect nothing other than easing the workload of your subordinates.
Bite the bullet and turn it over asking for nothing. If you didn't sign anything that says it solely belongs to them, then release it online as CMS/Ticketing system that is donation based.
Foremost I'm not religious, unless not having a religion is a religion. Now on to the meat and potatoes your whole argument was well thought out and well written. I could have saved you some time though. The bible was not written by a person. It's comprised of several "books" written by different people, some were written well after the person they are about had passed.
A better argument would have been "believing the writings of a book edited by a king". The current bible in most use in the US is the King James version. Makes one wonder, what was left out of the original text, what was rearranged and what-not.
There's also no direct evidence to disprove a supreme being, there's also no direct evidence to support everything wasn't created by said being.
You can have both a creator and creationism, while at the same time having evolution. Why do the two have to be mutually exclusive?
While I support the theory of evolution there are truths that don't fit into that bill. Take the dinosaurs for example, the time we have walked the earth compared to the length of time they walked is not even a grain of sand on a beach, yet somehow we evolved, we invent. Why is it that when their time span was well over a million times longer than ours did they not evolve to think and reason?
Did anyone else catch the part about "hackers will target mobile phones", wow that's news. So from the whole article about the only innovation we can look forward to is from hackers attacking our phones.
Not sure about you, but while gathering my shopping for the Holiday season I saw or rather heard "Christ" everywhere.
There was a time when that were true, but with stores pushing gifts rather than the reason, whether you believe or not (which I do not, it's a pagan holiday after all). What I do believe is the message. It shouldn't be limited to one day/week/month a year either.
Seriously parent must have disposable income to replace the car, or must be leasing, which is even worse. There's about $200 - $500 depending make model you could be saving.
A well maintained car should last you 10 years or more, if you feel you need one every few years then you have drank of the cool-aid.
No matter the advances, I think we would still be exactly where we are today with computing. I don't think it's so much the technology as the average level of intelligence of the general populace.
It really wasn't until the early 1900's that kids weren't out working in their parents fields but were attending schools.
What good would a computing device have been to an illiterate person?
In any game this is always the argument for some 10 year old swearing his ass off while tea-bagging you at the same time.
It does get old having to mute the everyone in the world.
How about a system that can detect the pitch of someones voice to guess their age. "I'm sorry, but our tests indicate your balls haven't dropped yet, as such you will no longer be able to play this game, in the meantime here are some offerings we think you will enjoy."
Parents point is still very valid whether they missed the point of the article or not.
The current problem with education is not having 20+ kids to a class, it's that 19 students have to fall behind for 1 that learns slower than the rest.
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Yes because we all know that the internet is the most respectful and civil meeting place in the world.
http://www.ooze.com/finger/html/foriegn.html
Found this thought is relevant.
I was under the impression the two finger salute had something to do with a war, where a king ordered the index and middle finger cut from all archers hands so they could no longer shoot, the sign then became an insult by showing the king you still had your fingers. Like a big "fook you"
In dogs showing of teeth is a sign of aggression.
I for one two finger salute this idea.
Define your interpretation of living on credit.
I would define it as purchasing things you can't afford, then paying the minimum payment on the card every month.
There are some that purchase with a credit card and pay off the purchase before even receiving a bill for it from their CC. I would not consider this living on credit.
True, if you are able to make a charge to your card and pay it in full before the bill is due, you get the points and pay little to no interest for the purchase.
CC or debit charges cost them more really? So instead of saving them man hours by using an automated system to pay my bill, you reason that the extra cc or debit charges are costing them the same amount and that is the justification for charging a "convenience fee", yet I can walk into any Verizon store and pay my bill with the same CC or debit card and not pay that $2 fee, but they are still paying the same amount to run the card.
I disagree, this is sure looks like a money grab.
I'd be more likely to believe the $2 fees they collect from people paying by phone or online are put into a trust in the event of a data breach. Sort of a "ok the bad news, there was a data breach and we are getting fined, the good news we set aside a trust fund by charging phone pay and online pay customers a $2 fee, so the fine is covered".
Corporate greed
My point is they make it sound like they created the very first one.
I think you miss the point, it sounds more like OP has created a help desk / tracking CMS and nothing more. Specific tools PHP and mySQL were mentioned. I highly doubt anything superbly stellar came of it, most likely the app was hammered out in a few weekends.
OP states "I was hired on as a Senior SA" doing L3 type stuffs. Yet programming a portal in PHP and mySQL are above his paygrade? Wouldn't that be below?
My feeling is if you created it, it is yours unless you signed something that says anything you develop while employed there belongs to them whether it's on your time and resources or the companies. You began making it without any type of approval for funding upon it's completion. I'd say you should expect nothing other than easing the workload of your subordinates.
Bite the bullet and turn it over asking for nothing. If you didn't sign anything that says it solely belongs to them, then release it online as CMS/Ticketing system that is donation based.
I thought any diode only allowed transmission one way.
Foremost I'm not religious, unless not having a religion is a religion. Now on to the meat and potatoes your whole argument was well thought out and well written. I could have saved you some time though. The bible was not written by a person. It's comprised of several "books" written by different people, some were written well after the person they are about had passed.
A better argument would have been "believing the writings of a book edited by a king". The current bible in most use in the US is the King James version. Makes one wonder, what was left out of the original text, what was rearranged and what-not.
There's also no direct evidence to disprove a supreme being, there's also no direct evidence to support everything wasn't created by said being.
You can have both a creator and creationism, while at the same time having evolution. Why do the two have to be mutually exclusive?
While I support the theory of evolution there are truths that don't fit into that bill. Take the dinosaurs for example, the time we have walked the earth compared to the length of time they walked is not even a grain of sand on a beach, yet somehow we evolved, we invent. Why is it that when their time span was well over a million times longer than ours did they not evolve to think and reason?
Bout time, half my wardrobe is machine wash in a vacuum and tumble dry.
Did anyone else catch the part about "hackers will target mobile phones", wow that's news. So from the whole article about the only innovation we can look forward to is from hackers attacking our phones.
Not sure about you, but while gathering my shopping for the Holiday season I saw or rather heard "Christ" everywhere.
There was a time when that were true, but with stores pushing gifts rather than the reason, whether you believe or not (which I do not, it's a pagan holiday after all). What I do believe is the message. It shouldn't be limited to one day/week/month a year either.
If that were the case there would be no exploits executing code in the user context when viewed in a browser with Java/Javascript enabled.
You should surf the web on your iPad, cause there's an app for that.
Gives new meaning to stiff as a rock.
Viagra, it ain't got shit on fossilization.
What awesome tax break?
Seriously parent must have disposable income to replace the car, or must be leasing, which is even worse. There's about $200 - $500 depending make model you could be saving.
A well maintained car should last you 10 years or more, if you feel you need one every few years then you have drank of the cool-aid.
I fail to see how aviation could have been helped by this technology. Computing has nothing to do with metallurgy (you mentioned lighter metals).
No matter the advances, I think we would still be exactly where we are today with computing. I don't think it's so much the technology as the average level of intelligence of the general populace.
It really wasn't until the early 1900's that kids weren't out working in their parents fields but were attending schools.
What good would a computing device have been to an illiterate person?
In any game this is always the argument for some 10 year old swearing his ass off while tea-bagging you at the same time.
It does get old having to mute the everyone in the world.
How about a system that can detect the pitch of someones voice to guess their age.
"I'm sorry, but our tests indicate your balls haven't dropped yet, as such you will no longer be able to play this game, in the meantime here are some offerings we think you will enjoy."
Parents point is still very valid whether they missed the point of the article or not.
The current problem with education is not having 20+ kids to a class, it's that 19 students have to fall behind for 1 that learns slower than the rest.