Honestly, I got the idea somewhat from a talking head on TV....when it first came out that the bomb was encased in a pressure cooker..he was saying things like
"Well, things like this are hard to trace...(with the disgusted tone and facial expression like he thought they should)...but then again NO ONE needs to buy more than ONE pressure cooker, so maybe they can look for people buying more than one.." etc.
The guy was actually sounding like he couldn't believe that since pressure cookers can be used to make bombs and is apparently popular with the DIY bomb crowd, that they weren't more closely looked at....
Pretty soon, are we going to start regulating anything that has a normal use, that can be repurposed into something dangerous?
I get this sad feeling every time allergy season comes around, and I have to fscking show ID and sign forms when I want ephedrine to help me feel better...
I know...mod me down as an anti-gun nut. But at least try to make the connection.
Nice try, but wrong call here.
You're post would have been better suited saying we need to 'think of the children', and increase the background checks, and create a national registry of pressure cookers.
And hell, who needs more that 6 qts "capacity" of a pressure cooker? We need legislation to limit pressure cooker capacity, and of course, mandated training.
erroneous reports of dark-skinned males, light-skinned males
Why is it always MALES??
I mean, why can't we get more WOMEN into terrorism? We can't seem to get them interested in Engineering, and now it seems we need more equal opportunity for terrorism.
What can be done about this? Sheesh, will the sexism never end for us??
Escaping from the "friend zone" requires maturing enough to realize that women aren't just vending machines you put niceness tokens into until sex comes out.
I take it you don't get laid much....or are not a guy.
Doesn't mean the kids *want* the stuff from the 50s and 60s, they're just starry eyed thinking how brilliant Justin Timberlake is for even knowing about that old stuff.
There is an age limit beyond which driving a sports car amounts to wearing an "I'm an insecure prick with tiny genitalia" t-shirt.
Unless you're Italian.
For everyone else, it's about 34.
That's only if your buying a car to impress others, or to impress and entertain yourself.
I'm quite a bit over 34yrs....I've never owned anything with more than two functional seats in my entire life, the one that technically had 4 seats, was a 911 turbo.
I've never owned anything BUT 2 seat sports cars. Is it because I care a flip about what others think. No...I"ve just loved them since I was a kid, and I like to drive like a bat out of hell in a performance car, and I do. It makes me happy, and to me, that's what really counts.
I've never understood the supposed sports car / penis size thing.
I think non-rappers and non-senior-citizens are allowed to buy CTS-Vs...
Nah..those people would be smart enough to just go and buy a REAL vette, and have something that actually not only performs well, but also looks the part of a sports car too.
I've never understood the appeal of a grandpa car with a vette underneath it...why not just get the real vette?
They are acting in the best interest of the citizens.
No, they are not.
The best interest of US citizens would be to make sure that OUR citizens filled those spots at citizen market rates....and ONLY after that supply is expended, do we allow limited immigrant workers in.
You'd think the govt would want US citizens to get the jobs first...since they live here pay taxes here, and spend money here (rather than sending $$'s home to relatives overseas or across the border).
Somewhat protectionist? Sure, I see no reason against it. With the unemployment rates we have currently? We should turn the migrant worker spigot off till we get unemployment back to proper levels.
Why would you keep it on. Unless you're torrenting or something that's just pointless, and a huge waste of energy.
I dunno...I've not seen any significant jump or dip in my electricty bill when some happen to be off or on. Actually, I really don't pay much attention to the power bill, it is levelized so the amounts don't jump much, I pay it each month, but I honestly couldn't tell you how much it was, I just see the bill, type it in to the bank pay by check and whoosh, it is off. For that matter, I couldn't tell you how much a gallon of gas was, or how much my last tank was...it is a necessity of life so I fill up, slide the card in, and done, I don't look at the amounts...
But back to the question, I have computers and tablets all over the house, office, kitchen, bedroom bathrooms, spare rooms, MAME cabinet..etc. I don't want to have to come in, fire them all up (didn't mention the servers running out of the home office) so they'd all be available to me wherever I am in the house at the time...and then have to bother shutting them all down when I left or crashed at night. Heck, some times I wake up at night if I can't sleep, and will walk into the office to check something, or maybe even edit a photo or video I'm working on....so, I like that it is there waiting for me wherever I am in the house whenever the mood strikes me.
I quit seeing a reason to shutdown/power on machines at least a decade or so ago..just a PITA, and I don't see that it wastes THAT much energy. I'd certainly not notice it on the power bill.
It isn't like he said something racist, misogynistic, threatening, or even particularly offensive.
If he was not representing MS, this was a personal only twitter or forum account..done on his own time and dime, that he or anyone uttering something offensive to another person/race/sex should be subject to termination from their job?!?!?!
Sure, running around calling everyone nigger sluts is tasteless and offensive, but should a person lose their job if they express themselves how they wish as long as it is legal on their own private time and personal output channel?
Here's another issue, by the way: if everyone is expected to be so "flexible" that they can't stay in one place long enough to buy a house, how can they possibly expect to have any relationships? Are you really saying that nobody should expect to be able to get married and have both partners be able to find work in the same city?
I know plenty of people that do this with relationships. A little tougher if you want to have kids, but can be done. My parents moved a few times when I was growing up...4-5 during my childhood I think.
But the way I see it work mostly, is the one who makes the most $$...the other follows them on their job trek, usually still the man of the family, but that is rapidly changing it seems.
Again, I'm with you on which way is ideal. People that find the way you suggest are VERY lucky and I'm happy for them.
I'm just saying, in this day, it is rare. If you want to get paid more on a satisfactory basis (more than a measly 2% or so every other year or whatever..or you want to climb the corporate ladder for higher positons (which as you get older is a good thing, you can't compete hard tech all your life for most)..you have to jump job to job...and unless you are lucky to live in a place with a lot of tech opportunities, you gotta move.
If you refuse to move, I know people that have a 'home base'..and the one making the most gold (again often the man) commutes to/from job 3 or so days a week. Not optimum, and you have to have a relationship that can deal with that type of time apart, but for some it works.
I'm in between girlfriends right now, but the latter would work for me, I get a bit 'smothered' feeling when in too close confines with anyone (even loved ones) for too many days in a row, but that's me.
What I speak in general is anecdotal from many I've seen in the industry over the past decades.
Don't pretend this s-corp bullshit is being fairly followed by people paying themselves the absolute lowest possible salary when the sole value in the company is their skill, knowledge, and reputation.
I'm not pretending. I'm saying that that is quite justified and no reason to start extra taxation on Scorps, which are mostly 1 or 2 people.
I don't see a single thing wrong with the way it previously worked.
I don't know why people upgrade to 8gb RAM. I've a 4gb ram and my os hardly used 50% of it. I've a swap of 8gb which is never used. I don't know what kind of applications you run to need 8gb of ram; video editing, big games?
I found out on my macbook pro (late 2011) that while Apple doesn't bless it officially, it will readily handle 16GB ram, which I promptly upgraded to.
When working with RAW files in Aperture, or video work in Final Cut Pro X...you can definitely max out the RAM.
And hell, RAM is so cheap these days....why not max it out? It won't do anything but help.
I upgraded my MacBook Pro from 4 to 8GB RAM and from a 500GB HDD to a 128SSD and it is like a new comp. It boots in 7seconds rather than 40 seconds.
I so rarely boot...the only time I boot is if there is a long lasting power failure or if I have to take my macbook out on a trip or something.
At home on normal time, all my computers stay on 24/7...
In this day in age, with always on internet, do people actually bother to shut down and restart their computers rather than just leave them on all the time?
Some of us care about living, being part of a community, and maybe even having a garden (which takes a few years to mature, and can't be moved). And being able to have that at the same time as a decent job is not too much to ask!!
While I agree that is ideallic, in reality, that in general is a pipe dream in this day in age, and it has been for a couple decades really.
If you are w2 and want to move ahead with salary and position, you are gonna have to change jobs every 3 year or so, especially starting out....it won't happen with one company. And if you aren't lucky enough to live in a large city with a large choice of tech companies, you are going to have to move. Simple. Not fun, but simple.
If you are lucky enough to find a job you like for life, and lucky enough to have it be one that will promote and raise your pay as you wish, the congratulations!! But, that isn't the norm sadly.
I like a nice garden too....veggie garden that is. I plant a nice one each year...not sure why it takes a few years for you?
I'm not putting you down, I wish what you say was the way...back in my parents' time, it was, but those days are past and to get ahead, you likely will have to move around a good bit. Fortunately, telecommuting is helping,and if you can land contract gigs that will let you work from home, well, that is one nice solution to your needs you stated.
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"Well, things like this are hard to trace...(with the disgusted tone and facial expression like he thought they should)...but then again NO ONE needs to buy more than ONE pressure cooker, so maybe they can look for people buying more than one.." etc.
The guy was actually sounding like he couldn't believe that since pressure cookers can be used to make bombs and is apparently popular with the DIY bomb crowd, that they weren't more closely looked at....
Pretty soon, are we going to start regulating anything that has a normal use, that can be repurposed into something dangerous?
I get this sad feeling every time allergy season comes around, and I have to fscking show ID and sign forms when I want ephedrine to help me feel better...
Seriously? How does that work?
Kinda hard to rape the willing...what guy doesn't like getting laid, and if she was that fugly...how would he get it up?
Err...can you point any of us to links showing where the NRA calls for and sanctions fully automatic weapons for the populace?
Nice try, but wrong call here.
You're post would have been better suited saying we need to 'think of the children', and increase the background checks, and create a national registry of pressure cookers.
And hell, who needs more that 6 qts "capacity" of a pressure cooker? We need legislation to limit pressure cooker capacity, and of course, mandated training.
Why is it always MALES??
I mean, why can't we get more WOMEN into terrorism? We can't seem to get them interested in Engineering, and now it seems we need more equal opportunity for terrorism.
What can be done about this? Sheesh, will the sexism never end for us??
That doesn't sound terribly high...
Isn't the average in the US (at least for men) much higher than that? I mean, especially if you're talking lifetime?
I take it you don't get laid much....or are not a guy.
That sounds not too far off from correct.
What were you expecting for a first job out of school salary....$50K+???
In general, I'd say that starting $18-$21K/yr for a first job, no experience right out of school is about right.
Yeah, my first thought was "Do they go well with lots of garlic and butter??"
I'm wondering how they're going to take this, and somehow link it to the need for greater gun control myself.
What happened...did someone's PF Flyers blow out at the finish line?
Who's Justin Timberlake?
That's only if your buying a car to impress others, or to impress and entertain yourself.
I'm quite a bit over 34yrs....I've never owned anything with more than two functional seats in my entire life, the one that technically had 4 seats, was a 911 turbo.
I've never owned anything BUT 2 seat sports cars. Is it because I care a flip about what others think. No...I"ve just loved them since I was a kid, and I like to drive like a bat out of hell in a performance car, and I do. It makes me happy, and to me, that's what really counts.
I've never understood the supposed sports car / penis size thing.
That's what's important to me.
Nah..those people would be smart enough to just go and buy a REAL vette, and have something that actually not only performs well, but also looks the part of a sports car too.
I've never understood the appeal of a grandpa car with a vette underneath it...why not just get the real vette?
Just another reason in the long line of them to make you wanna say: "Fuck Zuckerberg"
No, they are not.
The best interest of US citizens would be to make sure that OUR citizens filled those spots at citizen market rates....and ONLY after that supply is expended, do we allow limited immigrant workers in.
You'd think the govt would want US citizens to get the jobs first...since they live here pay taxes here, and spend money here (rather than sending $$'s home to relatives overseas or across the border).
Somewhat protectionist? Sure, I see no reason against it. With the unemployment rates we have currently? We should turn the migrant worker spigot off till we get unemployment back to proper levels.
I dunno...I've not seen any significant jump or dip in my electricty bill when some happen to be off or on. Actually, I really don't pay much attention to the power bill, it is levelized so the amounts don't jump much, I pay it each month, but I honestly couldn't tell you how much it was, I just see the bill, type it in to the bank pay by check and whoosh, it is off. For that matter, I couldn't tell you how much a gallon of gas was, or how much my last tank was...it is a necessity of life so I fill up, slide the card in, and done, I don't look at the amounts...
But back to the question, I have computers and tablets all over the house, office, kitchen, bedroom bathrooms, spare rooms, MAME cabinet..etc. I don't want to have to come in, fire them all up (didn't mention the servers running out of the home office) so they'd all be available to me wherever I am in the house at the time...and then have to bother shutting them all down when I left or crashed at night. Heck, some times I wake up at night if I can't sleep, and will walk into the office to check something, or maybe even edit a photo or video I'm working on....so, I like that it is there waiting for me wherever I am in the house whenever the mood strikes me.
I quit seeing a reason to shutdown/power on machines at least a decade or so ago..just a PITA, and I don't see that it wastes THAT much energy. I'd certainly not notice it on the power bill.
If he was not representing MS, this was a personal only twitter or forum account..done on his own time and dime, that he or anyone uttering something offensive to another person/race/sex should be subject to termination from their job?!?!?!
Sure, running around calling everyone nigger sluts is tasteless and offensive, but should a person lose their job if they express themselves how they wish as long as it is legal on their own private time and personal output channel?
I know plenty of people that do this with relationships. A little tougher if you want to have kids, but can be done. My parents moved a few times when I was growing up...4-5 during my childhood I think.
But the way I see it work mostly, is the one who makes the most $$...the other follows them on their job trek, usually still the man of the family, but that is rapidly changing it seems.
Again, I'm with you on which way is ideal. People that find the way you suggest are VERY lucky and I'm happy for them.
I'm just saying, in this day, it is rare. If you want to get paid more on a satisfactory basis (more than a measly 2% or so every other year or whatever..or you want to climb the corporate ladder for higher positons (which as you get older is a good thing, you can't compete hard tech all your life for most)..you have to jump job to job...and unless you are lucky to live in a place with a lot of tech opportunities, you gotta move.
If you refuse to move, I know people that have a 'home base'..and the one making the most gold (again often the man) commutes to/from job 3 or so days a week. Not optimum, and you have to have a relationship that can deal with that type of time apart, but for some it works.
I'm in between girlfriends right now, but the latter would work for me, I get a bit 'smothered' feeling when in too close confines with anyone (even loved ones) for too many days in a row, but that's me.
What I speak in general is anecdotal from many I've seen in the industry over the past decades.
I'm not pretending. I'm saying that that is quite justified and no reason to start extra taxation on Scorps, which are mostly 1 or 2 people.
I don't see a single thing wrong with the way it previously worked.
My question was..."Who turns their computers off these days?
I found out on my macbook pro (late 2011) that while Apple doesn't bless it officially, it will readily handle 16GB ram, which I promptly upgraded to.
When working with RAW files in Aperture, or video work in Final Cut Pro X...you can definitely max out the RAM.
And hell, RAM is so cheap these days....why not max it out? It won't do anything but help.
I so rarely boot...the only time I boot is if there is a long lasting power failure or if I have to take my macbook out on a trip or something.
At home on normal time, all my computers stay on 24/7...
In this day in age, with always on internet, do people actually bother to shut down and restart their computers rather than just leave them on all the time?
While I agree that is ideallic, in reality, that in general is a pipe dream in this day in age, and it has been for a couple decades really.
If you are w2 and want to move ahead with salary and position, you are gonna have to change jobs every 3 year or so, especially starting out....it won't happen with one company. And if you aren't lucky enough to live in a large city with a large choice of tech companies, you are going to have to move. Simple. Not fun, but simple.
If you are lucky enough to find a job you like for life, and lucky enough to have it be one that will promote and raise your pay as you wish, the congratulations!! But, that isn't the norm sadly.
I like a nice garden too....veggie garden that is. I plant a nice one each year...not sure why it takes a few years for you?
I'm not putting you down, I wish what you say was the way...back in my parents' time, it was, but those days are past and to get ahead, you likely will have to move around a good bit. Fortunately, telecommuting is helping,and if you can land contract gigs that will let you work from home, well, that is one nice solution to your needs you stated.