I don't give my SS to anyone except the bank and for SS tax purposes. My last power company tried to insist I give it to them, when I asked WTF they needed this for simply connecting power they said for a 'credit check'. I talked further and found out they'd take a deposit in lieu of this and that's the road I took. I got the deposit refunded about 6mos later I think.
These companies really don't need it. When I setup my cable, electric etc. I didn't have an SSN, it takes time to get one when you are an immigrant. As soon as they learned I just didn't have one then they went down an alternate procedure. I think in the end I only had to leave a deposit with the cell phone company, everyone else just connected me.
This can be a pain down the line when trying to deal with these companies over the phone though as everyone wants the last 4 digits of your social as part of their authentication process.
Since Thanksgiving is non-secular holiday I would be interested to know how many religions forbid it.
I don't know about the religious aspect, but as an immigrant Thanksgiving isn't a holiday which means much to me personally aside from having a couple of days off. I mean I understand an appreciate the significance, and I have been lucky enough to visit families and experience a traditional Thanksgiving meal, but a family orientated holiday doesn't mean a lot when the rest of your family doesn't really care.
the absolutely insulting audacity to cut to commercial during the 7/7 London Bombing memorial.
That quite frankly is an appalling and shocking way for a national broadcaster to behave. Also I heard that the commentators didn't know who Sir Tim was and suggested that views Google him, did that really actually happen?
Also, I would have thought that an SE who wants to go back to dev would be gold dust. A dev who has spent all that time in the field trying to sell is a fantastic asset to any product company, and any product company should know this.
There is no safe way to drive without being able to see the road. Nobody that I know of considers it a good idea to have people who cannot see allowed to drive;
But I thought that the rumble strips on the side of the road were there so blind people knew when they had go too close to the edge? Have my friends been lying to me?
We started going more exotic places. Places that don't have cell signal or internet access. If they want to call a boat to the tune of $5-$10 a minute they're welcome to.
I hear that option. I've decided to go to Cuba for my next vacation, I'm in the UK but the rest of my team is in the US, as is our mail server. I figure that I won't be able to connect to the mail server even if I wanted to, and thus ensure 2 weeks of complete downtime
I agree with you on the 75%. I just changed from working in an office when not at customers to working from home, new job and no office in my country. It is incredibly easy to forget to stop working when working from home. If my wife is out for the evening she has started to phone me at about 7 and ask if I am still working, and if so might it not be a good idea to stop.
Also it's pretty nice to take 30 minutes at lunch time and actually have somewhere to go at relax with some food, a book and some peace and quiet
I think the bigger impact for some people will be being even further ahead of the US in terms of timezone. At the moment 5 hours is okay, I work with people in the Middle East, Europe, UK and the east coast, from the UK and this is manageable at the moment. I don't start work until about 9 and then work till about 7 or 8 if needed. This gives me a good amount of overlap with everyone. If this goes ahead then I'm going to be have to work later into the evenings sometimes, just negating the increase in outside drinking time, and giving me less quality time with my wife who will be working normal UK hours.
Nice idea, but not something that is particularly convenient for myself
They are quite frankly just plain disturbing, especially the first one. I would advise people only to follow the links if they are of sound mind and solid constitution.
I agree entirely. Let's not forget that sales is a phenomenally difficult profession to work in. I work as an SE, so I sit in between technology and sales by handling the technical parts of a sale for an enterprise software vendor (yes, I said enterprisy, yes I spend my days pulling my hair out). I am in awe of what these sales guys can do to navigate around a potential customer, figuring out who has budget, can make decisions, convincing them that we can add value and letting us get in to do a POC.
Also, it's a very feast or famine type of a job, exceed your quota and your laughing all the way to the bank, miss 2 quarters in a row and your out. I know people talk about lack of job security in any profession but I for these guys the cost of failure, your fault or not, is pretty high.
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I think it depends on what words you use as well, my iPhone now auto corrects all kinds of words which aren't in the dictionary, such as the name of my employer, our products and the village I live in. It might be getting these from things like the address book of course so I don't know for sure.
The plural of "touch" is "touches" you fucking dumbass'. People who put an apostrophe on every fucking word that end's with an 'S are starting to really piss' me off.
...this technological miracle that was recently invented (years ago) called Outlook.
You had me up until that bit.
In fairness, it's really not a bad tool. I use Outlook task list all the time to remind me to do stuff. Calendar, email, task and simple notes in one place makes sense to me. I think this is one of the products Microsoft really has got right, it works for 99% of people, picks its way though whatever proxy or auth I am sat behinf in the client office or hotel and is for me the best place for short term off site backup.
I think your spot on, I say this as an iPhone user for about a year who just picked up one for my wife. She didn't see te point of it when I first got mine but came round and now she has one thinks it is the best thing since bread. Apple make product for people, Joe Public. I use Apple at home because I spend my day job making tech work, when I get home I just want to make Family Guy appear on my TV or get my email. No fuss no effort.
You might enjoy driving or getting better performance or whatever. Lots of other people prefer not to have to push the clutch in and out constantly for the hour of stop-and-go bumper to bumper commuting that do each day (and don't try telling them to just stay in second, that's just more details they don't care about...)
Agreed, my last car had a manual transmission, and was fantastic taking for a nice Sunday drive round some of the country road where I live (making sure I can stop in the distance I an see, etc. etc. etc.) But I got an auto next, I just thought its a bit dumb to choose a transmission, suspension and the rest based on 5% of my driving. Sure I have lost the fun when I want it, some handling compared to picking up an equivalent sport model and the performance/mpg loss of an auto, but it works for the 95% of the time I just need to get from A to B.
This might disqualify my from being a petrol head, but I do plan to buy an Alfa at some point, also once I have a house with a garage I will be getting a kit car to build and have fun in. Yes, there is a long list of motoring ambitions waiting on having bought/paid for the actual important things in life
What's wrong with visiting an arab country? or do you believe in enclosing a race to their own land and prevent them from outside contact? Similar logic to that of a certain country, I must say.
Erm, have you ever tried to enter certain Arab coutries with an Israeli stamp in your passport? I don't think so. Israel will still let you in the country, just they make ask more questions and check you and your belongings out a little more. Some countries just wont let you in if you have an Israeli stamp, this is why some people have 2 passports, both from the same country.
I have said it before and I will way it again, a hammer is the only tool you need. If it can't be fixed with a hammer than it just can't be fixed. Well I guess the motivational stick also has its uses. A hammer and a motivational stick are he only tools you ever need.
Yes, because a first past the post system for electing a national president is a brilliant little bit of political legislation.
While PR may, possibly, at some point in the future for some mythical nation work when electing a legislative house of some kind, I find it very hard to work out how you can use anything other than FPTP when allowing the electorate to directly decide on a single person to lead a nation. Do you really want to see Obamas bottom half and McCains top half running the USA. (It would be that way around, that way the knees work properly)
Erm, if your tone deaf, learning to play a musical instrument is astonishingly hard, trust me, you end up learning everything by wrote with no real aural feeling of what you are playing. Ditto with DJing, you can learn to beat match, but not being able to tell which key parts of your records are in makes things sound just wrong to normal people.
Guitar Hero gets round this issue, also as others have said, it's fun.
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they really need someone dry and British.
I'ld put Chris Harris into the studio, I think he has a sharp wit and could quickly gather a following
I don't give my SS to anyone except the bank and for SS tax purposes. My last power company tried to insist I give it to them, when I asked WTF they needed this for simply connecting power they said for a 'credit check'. I talked further and found out they'd take a deposit in lieu of this and that's the road I took. I got the deposit refunded about 6mos later I think.
These companies really don't need it. When I setup my cable, electric etc. I didn't have an SSN, it takes time to get one when you are an immigrant. As soon as they learned I just didn't have one then they went down an alternate procedure. I think in the end I only had to leave a deposit with the cell phone company, everyone else just connected me.
This can be a pain down the line when trying to deal with these companies over the phone though as everyone wants the last 4 digits of your social as part of their authentication process.
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Since Thanksgiving is non-secular holiday I would be interested to know how many religions forbid it.
I don't know about the religious aspect, but as an immigrant Thanksgiving isn't a holiday which means much to me personally aside from having a couple of days off. I mean I understand an appreciate the significance, and I have been lucky enough to visit families and experience a traditional Thanksgiving meal, but a family orientated holiday doesn't mean a lot when the rest of your family doesn't really care.
Erm, thats a Koenigsegg Agera
the absolutely insulting audacity to cut to commercial during the 7/7 London Bombing memorial.
That quite frankly is an appalling and shocking way for a national broadcaster to behave. Also I heard that the commentators didn't know who Sir Tim was and suggested that views Google him, did that really actually happen?
I thought Tenn and Peller were the tribute act, is there more than one?
Also, I would have thought that an SE who wants to go back to dev would be gold dust. A dev who has spent all that time in the field trying to sell is a fantastic asset to any product company, and any product company should know this.
There is no safe way to drive without being able to see the road. Nobody that I know of considers it a good idea to have people who cannot see allowed to drive;
But I thought that the rumble strips on the side of the road were there so blind people knew when they had go too close to the edge? Have my friends been lying to me?
We started going more exotic places. Places that don't have cell signal or internet access. If they want to call a boat to the tune of $5-$10 a minute they're welcome to.
I hear that option. I've decided to go to Cuba for my next vacation, I'm in the UK but the rest of my team is in the US, as is our mail server. I figure that I won't be able to connect to the mail server even if I wanted to, and thus ensure 2 weeks of complete downtime
I agree with you on the 75%. I just changed from working in an office when not at customers to working from home, new job and no office in my country. It is incredibly easy to forget to stop working when working from home. If my wife is out for the evening she has started to phone me at about 7 and ask if I am still working, and if so might it not be a good idea to stop.
Also it's pretty nice to take 30 minutes at lunch time and actually have somewhere to go at relax with some food, a book and some peace and quiet
I miss read the summary at first and thought they are aiming for it to be as stable as Skype, I thought can't you aim a little higher than that guys.
Reminds me of someone talking about how they got 5 nines uptime with Windows, some else asked if they were aiming for 10% next year
I think the bigger impact for some people will be being even further ahead of the US in terms of timezone. At the moment 5 hours is okay, I work with people in the Middle East, Europe, UK and the east coast, from the UK and this is manageable at the moment. I don't start work until about 9 and then work till about 7 or 8 if needed. This gives me a good amount of overlap with everyone. If this goes ahead then I'm going to be have to work later into the evenings sometimes, just negating the increase in outside drinking time, and giving me less quality time with my wife who will be working normal UK hours.
Nice idea, but not something that is particularly convenient for myself
They are quite frankly just plain disturbing, especially the first one. I would advise people only to follow the links if they are of sound mind and solid constitution.
Alright, enough bickering. All I really want to know is, does it pack some serious power into a tiny case?
Yes. And yes, Also to be sure to be sure, yes.
I agree entirely. Let's not forget that sales is a phenomenally difficult profession to work in. I work as an SE, so I sit in between technology and sales by handling the technical parts of a sale for an enterprise software vendor (yes, I said enterprisy, yes I spend my days pulling my hair out). I am in awe of what these sales guys can do to navigate around a potential customer, figuring out who has budget, can make decisions, convincing them that we can add value and letting us get in to do a POC.
Also, it's a very feast or famine type of a job, exceed your quota and your laughing all the way to the bank, miss 2 quarters in a row and your out. I know people talk about lack of job security in any profession but I for these guys the cost of failure, your fault or not, is pretty high.
I think it depends on what words you use as well, my iPhone now auto corrects all kinds of words which aren't in the dictionary, such as the name of my employer, our products and the village I live in. It might be getting these from things like the address book of course so I don't know for sure.
and a plan C, D, E, F..... Z. One can not have enough backup plans.
In my experience preparations A thru G are a total failure, so I tend to go straight for preparation H these days, and haven't needed one beyond that.
The plural of "touch" is "touches" you fucking dumbass'. People who put an apostrophe on every fucking word that end's with an 'S are starting to really piss' me off.
You had me up until that bit.
In fairness, it's really not a bad tool. I use Outlook task list all the time to remind me to do stuff. Calendar, email, task and simple notes in one place makes sense to me. I think this is one of the products Microsoft really has got right, it works for 99% of people, picks its way though whatever proxy or auth I am sat behinf in the client office or hotel and is for me the best place for short term off site backup.
I think your spot on, I say this as an iPhone user for about a year who just picked up one for my wife. She didn't see te point of it when I first got mine but came round and now she has one thinks it is the best thing since bread. Apple make product for people, Joe Public. I use Apple at home because I spend my day job making tech work, when I get home I just want to make Family Guy appear on my TV or get my email. No fuss no effort.
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You might enjoy driving or getting better performance or whatever. Lots of other people prefer not to have to push the clutch in and out constantly for the hour of stop-and-go bumper to bumper commuting that do each day (and don't try telling them to just stay in second, that's just more details they don't care about...)
Agreed, my last car had a manual transmission, and was fantastic taking for a nice Sunday drive round some of the country road where I live (making sure I can stop in the distance I an see, etc. etc. etc.) But I got an auto next, I just thought its a bit dumb to choose a transmission, suspension and the rest based on 5% of my driving. Sure I have lost the fun when I want it, some handling compared to picking up an equivalent sport model and the performance/mpg loss of an auto, but it works for the 95% of the time I just need to get from A to B.
This might disqualify my from being a petrol head, but I do plan to buy an Alfa at some point, also once I have a house with a garage I will be getting a kit car to build and have fun in. Yes, there is a long list of motoring ambitions waiting on having bought/paid for the actual important things in life
-passport stamps from Arab countries -
What's wrong with visiting an arab country? or do you believe in enclosing a race to their own land and prevent them from outside contact? Similar logic to that of a certain country, I must say.
Erm, have you ever tried to enter certain Arab coutries with an Israeli stamp in your passport? I don't think so. Israel will still let you in the country, just they make ask more questions and check you and your belongings out a little more. Some countries just wont let you in if you have an Israeli stamp, this is why some people have 2 passports, both from the same country.
I have said it before and I will way it again, a hammer is the only tool you need. If it can't be fixed with a hammer than it just can't be fixed. Well I guess the motivational stick also has its uses. A hammer and a motivational stick are he only tools you ever need.
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Yes, because a first past the post system for electing a national president is a brilliant little bit of political legislation.
While PR may, possibly, at some point in the future for some mythical nation work when electing a legislative house of some kind, I find it very hard to work out how you can use anything other than FPTP when allowing the electorate to directly decide on a single person to lead a nation. Do you really want to see Obamas bottom half and McCains top half running the USA. (It would be that way around, that way the knees work properly)
Erm, if your tone deaf, learning to play a musical instrument is astonishingly hard, trust me, you end up learning everything by wrote with no real aural feeling of what you are playing. Ditto with DJing, you can learn to beat match, but not being able to tell which key parts of your records are in makes things sound just wrong to normal people. Guitar Hero gets round this issue, also as others have said, it's fun.