Yea, Jesus. Someone take their job a little too seriously?
If you ever seriously think of killing yourself over your job, it's time to get a new job.
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Heh. The more you learn, the more you realize you don't know...Unless you're an asshole or a teenager. In the grand scheme, we're still just scratching the surface. There are so many things we do not understand.
Agreed. I didn't mean to imply that I thought lightning actually downed the plane...Planes are struck often enough that we would be well aware if it tended to knock planes out of the sky.
Doubt it. Most of them are (rightly) geared toward threats from the ground, not from directly above.
Add to that the difference between shooting down a missile that will destroy itself with very little provocation and a solid hunk of metal/rock which, even if struck by a decent sized explosive device, would likely continue the exact same path as a shotgun blast of debris, and I think that the AMLS would be pretty useless against a meteor strike.
The probability of a lightning strike is quite high. It happens all the time. This article is about meteors, not about lightning or your personal prejudices. The odds of it having been a terrorist bomb are practically nil at this point, given that no one has been able to convincingly claim credit.
The crappy ".net" (as opposed to.com) version of my preferred domain is selling for a whopping $15,000.
The sad thing is this: in college I thought about picking up the.com, but I didn't want to pay the stupid 40 dollar fee (or whatever it was back then).
It wouldn't bother me, but none of the domains (.com,.net,.org) are actually being used by a legit organization.
Being a patriot doesn't have to be synonymous with bad decision making. Look for a modern company making modern products in this country, and give them your money. There are plenty of them.
Pumping it into the bottomless hole that is GM, a company that's been flirting with bankruptcy for decades? Not smart. It's not just that they're allergic to innovation: it's that they're bloated and unable to adapt as well.
How could he cry unreasonable search on a computer that didn't belong to him? It's the property of his employer, and, unlike a case where he would be leasing it, and thereby be able to claim some contractual ownership rights, in this case it is clearly their property.
I think if there is anything resembling a reasonable search, that's it. You have no reasonable expectation of privacy on a work computer.
Won't fly, because they're wildly separate products. Trademark violations crop up where there is a good chance that one product will be confused with another given a similar name.
If you want to make a glass cleaner and call it "Windows", there is nothing microsoft can do about it.
First off, your home insulation should be good enough that you'd only see a modest benefit from the solar heating. Second, living that far north (above say, pennsylvania (39 degrees north/south for you furriners)) and the amount of daylight you get is pretty low in the winter anyway.
I live in the South, and I run the AC between 6 and 8 months of the year, and, thanks to a big tornado earlier this year, I heated my house for most of our short winter using free firewood. I'd definitely be open to having the roof resurfaced with something lighter colored.
Yep. People are cunning with their addictions...If it didn't fill some deep need, it wouldn't be an addiction. They'll fight to keep it, and their cunning in that area will surpass anything they may be capable of in other parts of their life.
Counterbalance that with the fact that everyone wants to be the hero of their own story. The whole intervention thing is based on getting the joker's dozen closest friends to tell him he's a fuck-up and needs serious help. Sometimes it works.
Certainly you're not going to get through to them in any other way. Love and support the addict, and you're loving and supporting the addiction, and addictions are a beast that cannot be fed.
Addiction is addiction, whether to drugs, women, or games.
The only thing you really need to know, is that there is almost nothing you can do if it's someone else. They have to come to a place within themselves where they don't want to be like that anymore. Once they're there, they can quit. If they never get there, they will never be able to quit. Ever.
Just be honest. Tell them you think they're fucking up their life. Don't be afraid to tell them exactly how disgusting you think they are. It may sink in. It may not. Even if it doesn't, at least you'll be able to face yourself afterward.
The thing is, there is no way that they could really sanitize it without making it obviously worthless. You could try and seed it against certain types of analysis, but you can only do that for big obvious targets. Any target where you're coming at it obliquely...I don't see how they could do it.
That would be like trying to alter a dictionary to prevent someone from writing a certain novel.
He misses the point with his naivety, but you miss it with your cynicism. The data will still be incredibly useful, even if they're trying to game it, or sloppily collecting it, or if they're putting it up in an obscure, unorganized format.
A broad enough dataset can be used to determine things well beyond it's intended scope.
Heh. I remember working on a bioinformatics problem for a friend of mine that dealt with no less than 9 dimensions. I parsed the data and dumped it into an array that was 9 arrays deep...I'd never done more than 3 dimensions before, and I wasn't even sure it would work. Everyone I showed it to (cs and physics guys) thought it was complete bullshit, but it made the math so hilariously easy...I'm one of those geometry people, so it made sense in my weird brain to apply linear algebra to it.
Crazy shit. I had several people flat denounce the whole thing as impossible...They refused to believe that the results were meaningful. More than a few people told me that there weren't any practical applications of n-dimensional math, where N>5.
I'm the freak who doesn't have a dominant hemisphere...Go figure. Every time I test, it runs right down the middle. Supposedly it runs that way for about 2% of the population. Anyway, I'll throw my opinion out there...FOR SCIENCE!
There is definitely something in the chin/lips, especially if you're looking at a picture of Voight when he's younger.
For me though, my perception is drawn to the eyes/nose triangle first, and then the first thing I notice about her mouth is that little smirk she affects. I'd never noticed that she had a particularly strong jaw until just now.
Even after studying Voight pictures for a while (you owe me for that, btw), the resemblance doesn't leap out at me when I switch to an AJ. photo.
Anyway, my subjective 2 cents, for what it's worth.
Those "additional costs" are an article of faith, and not the proven thing most people seem to assume.
When studies have been done, it's turned out that people who live unhealthy lifestyles generally cost a society less overall because they tend to actually die of their health problems. The tofu-eaters, on the other hand, live longer, and accrue more costs.
Paying lung cancer care for a smoker who lives 12 months after his diagnosis is cheap compared to paying medicare, social security, and eventual hospital costs for someone who lives much longer.
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Yea, Jesus. Someone take their job a little too seriously?
If you ever seriously think of killing yourself over your job, it's time to get a new job.
Heh. The more you learn, the more you realize you don't know...Unless you're an asshole or a teenager. In the grand scheme, we're still just scratching the surface. There are so many things we do not understand.
Agreed. I didn't mean to imply that I thought lightning actually downed the plane...Planes are struck often enough that we would be well aware if it tended to knock planes out of the sky.
It's just sad. No one knows what a primary source is anymore.
Here is a good citation.
Doubt it. Most of them are (rightly) geared toward threats from the ground, not from directly above.
Add to that the difference between shooting down a missile that will destroy itself with very little provocation and a solid hunk of metal/rock which, even if struck by a decent sized explosive device, would likely continue the exact same path as a shotgun blast of debris, and I think that the AMLS would be pretty useless against a meteor strike.
The probability of a lightning strike is quite high. It happens all the time. This article is about meteors, not about lightning or your personal prejudices. The odds of it having been a terrorist bomb are practically nil at this point, given that no one has been able to convincingly claim credit.
The crappy ".net" (as opposed to .com) version of my preferred domain is selling for a whopping $15,000.
The sad thing is this: in college I thought about picking up the .com, but I didn't want to pay the stupid 40 dollar fee (or whatever it was back then).
It wouldn't bother me, but none of the domains (.com, .net, .org) are actually being used by a legit organization.
That whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing is something that the Founding Fathers felt strongly about...having lived in England.
Being a patriot doesn't have to be synonymous with bad decision making. Look for a modern company making modern products in this country, and give them your money. There are plenty of them.
Pumping it into the bottomless hole that is GM, a company that's been flirting with bankruptcy for decades? Not smart. It's not just that they're allergic to innovation: it's that they're bloated and unable to adapt as well.
How could he cry unreasonable search on a computer that didn't belong to him? It's the property of his employer, and, unlike a case where he would be leasing it, and thereby be able to claim some contractual ownership rights, in this case it is clearly their property.
I think if there is anything resembling a reasonable search, that's it. You have no reasonable expectation of privacy on a work computer.
Won't fly, because they're wildly separate products. Trademark violations crop up where there is a good chance that one product will be confused with another given a similar name.
If you want to make a glass cleaner and call it "Windows", there is nothing microsoft can do about it.
It depends on where you live. Completely.
First off, your home insulation should be good enough that you'd only see a modest benefit from the solar heating. Second, living that far north (above say, pennsylvania (39 degrees north/south for you furriners)) and the amount of daylight you get is pretty low in the winter anyway.
I live in the South, and I run the AC between 6 and 8 months of the year, and, thanks to a big tornado earlier this year, I heated my house for most of our short winter using free firewood. I'd definitely be open to having the roof resurfaced with something lighter colored.
Wow, I think this is the first time I've ever heard him say something nice about something black.
Yep. People are cunning with their addictions...If it didn't fill some deep need, it wouldn't be an addiction. They'll fight to keep it, and their cunning in that area will surpass anything they may be capable of in other parts of their life.
Counterbalance that with the fact that everyone wants to be the hero of their own story. The whole intervention thing is based on getting the joker's dozen closest friends to tell him he's a fuck-up and needs serious help. Sometimes it works.
Certainly you're not going to get through to them in any other way. Love and support the addict, and you're loving and supporting the addiction, and addictions are a beast that cannot be fed.
Meh.
Addiction is addiction, whether to drugs, women, or games.
The only thing you really need to know, is that there is almost nothing you can do if it's someone else. They have to come to a place within themselves where they don't want to be like that anymore. Once they're there, they can quit. If they never get there, they will never be able to quit. Ever.
Just be honest. Tell them you think they're fucking up their life. Don't be afraid to tell them exactly how disgusting you think they are. It may sink in. It may not. Even if it doesn't, at least you'll be able to face yourself afterward.
I don't know...If you were stuck inside a ska band, you'd probably be equally disconnected with the world...
Heh, that was exactly what I was thinking of.
The thing is, there is no way that they could really sanitize it without making it obviously worthless. You could try and seed it against certain types of analysis, but you can only do that for big obvious targets. Any target where you're coming at it obliquely...I don't see how they could do it.
That would be like trying to alter a dictionary to prevent someone from writing a certain novel.
He misses the point with his naivety, but you miss it with your cynicism. The data will still be incredibly useful, even if they're trying to game it, or sloppily collecting it, or if they're putting it up in an obscure, unorganized format.
A broad enough dataset can be used to determine things well beyond it's intended scope.
Heh. I remember working on a bioinformatics problem for a friend of mine that dealt with no less than 9 dimensions. I parsed the data and dumped it into an array that was 9 arrays deep...I'd never done more than 3 dimensions before, and I wasn't even sure it would work. Everyone I showed it to (cs and physics guys) thought it was complete bullshit, but it made the math so hilariously easy...I'm one of those geometry people, so it made sense in my weird brain to apply linear algebra to it.
Crazy shit. I had several people flat denounce the whole thing as impossible...They refused to believe that the results were meaningful. More than a few people told me that there weren't any practical applications of n-dimensional math, where N>5.
In case anyone was wondering, I was totally fucking interesting in that thread...
Can we repost the next article in the series soon? I said some insightful shit there too.
This was cool when I first read it...in 2007.
And it was cool when I was in the Slashdot thread as well.
I'm the freak who doesn't have a dominant hemisphere...Go figure. Every time I test, it runs right down the middle. Supposedly it runs that way for about 2% of the population. Anyway, I'll throw my opinion out there...FOR SCIENCE!
There is definitely something in the chin/lips, especially if you're looking at a picture of Voight when he's younger.
For me though, my perception is drawn to the eyes/nose triangle first, and then the first thing I notice about her mouth is that little smirk she affects. I'd never noticed that she had a particularly strong jaw until just now.
Even after studying Voight pictures for a while (you owe me for that, btw), the resemblance doesn't leap out at me when I switch to an AJ. photo.
Anyway, my subjective 2 cents, for what it's worth.
Hey, what kind of bandwidth do you get in your militia bunker? Mine sucks, but it's probably because I shot the cable guy because he looked like CIA.
Those "additional costs" are an article of faith, and not the proven thing most people seem to assume.
When studies have been done, it's turned out that people who live unhealthy lifestyles generally cost a society less overall because they tend to actually die of their health problems. The tofu-eaters, on the other hand, live longer, and accrue more costs.
Paying lung cancer care for a smoker who lives 12 months after his diagnosis is cheap compared to paying medicare, social security, and eventual hospital costs for someone who lives much longer.
Well they can tax the luxury goods, or they can raise the state sales tax, it's really up to you.
What it comes down to, is they need the money to make their budget. If this is what they choose to tax, it's a lot better than what they could tax.
Lowering spending is another option, but that's never all that popular in New York, or at least it wasn't when I lived there.