Am I the only one left in the US that doesn't want everyone to know my every move of every day life??
I don't want people to know what I am doing. I further don't care that people don't care what I am doing. But as far as the crux of this article goes, the ONLY way I would ever update Twitter is if it updated automatically via various mechanisms. I have no time to be dinking around with blabbing about what I am doing. If Twitter can't figure out what I am doing automatically, then my Twitter page would always say "I just installed Twitter!"
Not where I work. Where I work all the 25 and older IT folk work all day long and spend maybe 5 minutes a day interacting with other people, and all the 25 and under folks watch Youtube, use twitter, and IM all day long. Well, not all day, they are not usually there for a full 8 hours. I wish the same nepotism policy that applies to me also applied to the higher ups, because their kids are useless.
That is an argument many drunk drivers already make. The fallacy being of course that no one tied them to a chair and forced alcohol down their throats. People know that alcohol inhibits their ability to think clearly, so if they drink, they made a conscious decision while they were sober to inhibit their ability to think clearly. Therefore, they are still at fault for anything stupid, dangerous or illegal that they do when they are drunk.
When I'm on the corporate T-1 that also has a public web server on it, I keep it down to 128kbps (aren't I nice?).
There's a guy where I work who daily complains about the speed of the network and how slow it is accessing files from our Data Storage Facility 200 miles away. He will happily send an officewide e-mail telling people to shut down their downloads so he can do his job, yet he will not shut down his own streaming radio connection. He says "it's only 128k". Well, that's 128k more bandwidth that would be available if he shut it down.
Amen. Citizens of Chicago. Demand what is due you. Ask Daley to pay for the airport he bulldozed under cover of darkness while posting security guards to keep out people who had every right to be there. That was YOUR airport. It made millions of dollars for your city and relieved pressure on Midway and Palwaukee. Now most visiting businessmen have to land at Palwaukee, which is a burden on Chicago ATC being only a few miles from O'Hare, and then they have to drive 75 minutes to get downtown. Why do you keep voting for him?
And along with discouraging driving, what measures are they taking to encourage using public transportation? More bus lines. No. Last time I was in Chicago, they had permanently discontinued the bus service to Navy Pier from the train station. More trains? No, they still run about once an hour on the main lines, just as they always have. Pretty well packed full. Oh, and they also seem to have raised bus and rail fares since last time I checked. So I guess that means they are also trying to discourage use of public transportation, right?
Face it, it's all about the money.
600 UFO sitings is insignificant. That is such a ridiculously small percentage of the population of the U.K. that you can't use it for proving any correlation whatsoever. Just because it jumped in one year from insignificant/6 to insignificant doesn't mean a trend has been established. It's probably the same loon calling 3 time a night instead of once every 3 nights.
Now show me 100,000 people calling in on one sighting, and I'll sit up and take notice.
...you have to take it to the binding arbitration board, which is probably funded entirely by Verizon, made up of people hand picked by Verizon, and may even exist on Verizon's corporate grounds. But no really, they'll be impartial. Honest. If not, you can take your complaint to the binding arbitration board.
As a small business owner, I agree with the grandparent. If I have done a reasonable effort of making sure that my employees do not have a history of violence, then I would certainly hope not to get sued when one of them takes it upon themselves to do something wrong. Of course, I realize that this is America, and suing the tech guy won't get you any money, so instead you have to sue the company who could have done nothing to prevent the incident, resulting in increased cost to all the company's customers.
I'm kind of old-fashioned I guess, but I believe in holding people responsible for their own actions and not blaming somebody else that has money that can be gotten.
This is not that different a story than what happens in the software world. People who are analytical problem solvers were able to see a problem A, analyze it and determine that B needs to be done to fix it. Smart management types decided that they could get script monkeys to fix all the problems by just having the analytical people write down what they do when A happens, what they do when X happens etc. Then they fired all the analytical types. But what happens when C happens, which never came up while the Analysts still worked there? Now you have no one to analyze your problem, and nothing on your script which tells you what to do when C happens.
Purely out of curiosity, could any aircraft nerds confirm when the last major totally new aircraft (ie. not a refresh of an existing design like the 747-400) was?
Probably the Boeing 777 if you're just talking big planes. But if you want to count regionals, then there have been some more recent models in the ERJs and CRJs.
most of us will be fuel-priced out of the option of flying.
I think you used the wrong tense on your verb. The only flying I do anymore is when my company sends me somewhere. It is not economically feasible for me and my family to fly anywhere, and we earn about double the median income. I priced flying for our family trip versus driving. Granted,I have 6 people in my family, but when I priced flying, it turns out it would be cheaper even if I was single to drive than to fly, and that was assuming the 50.5 cents per mile deductible expense as opposed to the real expense, which is lower. In all, it was close to 10 times cheaper to drive than to fly, and then I didn't have to rent a vehicle at the destination, wouldn't be subjected to ridiculous and useless TSA regulations, wouldn't have to pay extra for every piece of luggage over the limit of zero, would be more in control of arriving on time, and would be able to visit sites along the way, if so desired. The only downside is that it took 24 hours to get there, where it would have only taken 8 by plane.
It's sad, really. Because I love airplanes. I am a Private Pilot ( but I haven't flown in 9 years, because it is too expensive now). I'm hooked on flight simulators and will read just about anything I can get my hands on about airplanes, but I have serious doubts whether my children will ever fly on an airplane, because the costs have gone up by more than quadruple over the last 20 years, while the fuel costs have only doubled if that, and pilot salaries have dropped by a factor of two. One wonders where the money goes.
I wasn't running down Il and Tu jets, just questioning how many are out there running passenger lines.
I recall seeing one of the Tupolev models at Newark Liberty before. I don't remember which model. It was a Russian Airline, but still, U.S. airspace.
I don't see the problem here. People who spend megabucks advertising on TV or radio can never really quantify if their advertisement ever did any good either, yet they continue to buy advertising time. The only people who are really able to make money by advertising is marketing firms.
I actually had tears in my eyes when I stood behind the awesome Saturn V rocket. How sad to think what great things humans used to know how to do in the 50s and 60s. What a magnificent time it must have been: The moon landings, the SR-71, the Concorde, the 747, the rise of transistors. Really puts the last 50 years to shame.
Like GP said - We have 3x the number of towers.
That's not necessarily true. Cell phone companies will often lease space on their towers to other carriers.
In a truly competitive market prices for comparable items converge towards a low price, as long as they aren't luxury items.
Well, that is just the thing. Cell phones ARE luxury items. It's all about who has the latest phone, with the most non-phone-related capabilities, and therefore people are willing to pay the high prices for the service and 15 cents for 120 bytes of data.
but when there are three players who probably all have this same crap in their ToS there is no option of voting with your feet
There sure is. Who says you need a cell phone? Sure, in some cases, your company requires you to have one, but 80% or more people that have one do not need one. Sure it's convenient at times, but is it worth having to pay the ridiculous amounts of money that the companies want each month, the poor customer service, and the outrageous limits in the contract? I think not.
Darn, you guessed one of my passwords. Unfortunately, it is on a system which the administrator sets the password, and there is no facility for changing the password, and it is the same as everyone else's password on that system.
Surprisingly, I deal with HIPAA data, so some systems where I work are secured to such a level as to be unusable, while other systems are so insecure, that I could go log in as any user I wanted to. There are two systems where I must change my password every 60 days. There is one system where I chose my own password, and don't have to change it. There are two systems where I was assigned a password and don't have to change it. And there is one system where I was assigned a password and can't change it, and it is the same as everybody else's password. I can log in as my own user, and pull up a list of all the other users in case I want to log in as one of them next time. Phenomenally stupid.
between the half dozen systems or so that I access on a daily basis, I have 3 different user names, and about 4 different password schemas that must be adhered to.
The only real "tax credit" in the situation you are referring to is that they were able to avoid the luxury tax on these vehicles. The incentive was that they were able to write off the entire cost of the vehicle in the first year, as opposed to writing it off over 5 years or whatever the period would be. It didn't really introduce any new tax savings, just changed when it would happen.
Not that I'm bashing small business owners here, just that the system is pretty broken.
not broken. Working as designed. Small businesses are given these tax breaks on purpose in order to encourage them to grow, hire more people and fuel the economy.
I think I'm going to stop talking, because people clearly are not listening. When I say Congress crushes every nut, bolt, radiator, et cetera, that's what I mean. The entire car has to be trashed according to this Cash for Clunkers program. Bloody stupid.
And by "the entire car" I assume you mean "the engine and drivetrain" which is all that the CARS program requires to not go back on the road. http://www.cars.gov/faq#category-14
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Am I the only one left in the US that doesn't want everyone to know my every move of every day life??
I don't want people to know what I am doing. I further don't care that people don't care what I am doing. But as far as the crux of this article goes, the ONLY way I would ever update Twitter is if it updated automatically via various mechanisms. I have no time to be dinking around with blabbing about what I am doing. If Twitter can't figure out what I am doing automatically, then my Twitter page would always say "I just installed Twitter!"
Not where I work. Where I work all the 25 and older IT folk work all day long and spend maybe 5 minutes a day interacting with other people, and all the 25 and under folks watch Youtube, use twitter, and IM all day long. Well, not all day, they are not usually there for a full 8 hours. I wish the same nepotism policy that applies to me also applied to the higher ups, because their kids are useless.
That is an argument many drunk drivers already make. The fallacy being of course that no one tied them to a chair and forced alcohol down their throats. People know that alcohol inhibits their ability to think clearly, so if they drink, they made a conscious decision while they were sober to inhibit their ability to think clearly. Therefore, they are still at fault for anything stupid, dangerous or illegal that they do when they are drunk.
When I'm on the corporate T-1 that also has a public web server on it, I keep it down to 128kbps (aren't I nice?).
There's a guy where I work who daily complains about the speed of the network and how slow it is accessing files from our Data Storage Facility 200 miles away. He will happily send an officewide e-mail telling people to shut down their downloads so he can do his job, yet he will not shut down his own streaming radio connection. He says "it's only 128k". Well, that's 128k more bandwidth that would be available if he shut it down.
Amen. Citizens of Chicago. Demand what is due you. Ask Daley to pay for the airport he bulldozed under cover of darkness while posting security guards to keep out people who had every right to be there. That was YOUR airport. It made millions of dollars for your city and relieved pressure on Midway and Palwaukee. Now most visiting businessmen have to land at Palwaukee, which is a burden on Chicago ATC being only a few miles from O'Hare, and then they have to drive 75 minutes to get downtown. Why do you keep voting for him?
And along with discouraging driving, what measures are they taking to encourage using public transportation? More bus lines. No. Last time I was in Chicago, they had permanently discontinued the bus service to Navy Pier from the train station. More trains? No, they still run about once an hour on the main lines, just as they always have. Pretty well packed full. Oh, and they also seem to have raised bus and rail fares since last time I checked. So I guess that means they are also trying to discourage use of public transportation, right?
Face it, it's all about the money.
600 UFO sitings is insignificant. That is such a ridiculously small percentage of the population of the U.K. that you can't use it for proving any correlation whatsoever. Just because it jumped in one year from insignificant/6 to insignificant doesn't mean a trend has been established. It's probably the same loon calling 3 time a night instead of once every 3 nights.
Now show me 100,000 people calling in on one sighting, and I'll sit up and take notice.
...you have to take it to the binding arbitration board, which is probably funded entirely by Verizon, made up of people hand picked by Verizon, and may even exist on Verizon's corporate grounds. But no really, they'll be impartial. Honest. If not, you can take your complaint to the binding arbitration board.
As a small business owner, I agree with the grandparent. If I have done a reasonable effort of making sure that my employees do not have a history of violence, then I would certainly hope not to get sued when one of them takes it upon themselves to do something wrong. Of course, I realize that this is America, and suing the tech guy won't get you any money, so instead you have to sue the company who could have done nothing to prevent the incident, resulting in increased cost to all the company's customers.
I'm kind of old-fashioned I guess, but I believe in holding people responsible for their own actions and not blaming somebody else that has money that can be gotten.
How do they expect to develop a healthy immunity to radiation if they refuse to expose themselves to it?
This is not that different a story than what happens in the software world. People who are analytical problem solvers were able to see a problem A, analyze it and determine that B needs to be done to fix it. Smart management types decided that they could get script monkeys to fix all the problems by just having the analytical people write down what they do when A happens, what they do when X happens etc. Then they fired all the analytical types. But what happens when C happens, which never came up while the Analysts still worked there? Now you have no one to analyze your problem, and nothing on your script which tells you what to do when C happens.
Purely out of curiosity, could any aircraft nerds confirm when the last major totally new aircraft (ie. not a refresh of an existing design like the 747-400) was?
Probably the Boeing 777 if you're just talking big planes. But if you want to count regionals, then there have been some more recent models in the ERJs and CRJs.
most of us will be fuel-priced out of the option of flying.
I think you used the wrong tense on your verb. The only flying I do anymore is when my company sends me somewhere. It is not economically feasible for me and my family to fly anywhere, and we earn about double the median income. I priced flying for our family trip versus driving. Granted,I have 6 people in my family, but when I priced flying, it turns out it would be cheaper even if I was single to drive than to fly, and that was assuming the 50.5 cents per mile deductible expense as opposed to the real expense, which is lower. In all, it was close to 10 times cheaper to drive than to fly, and then I didn't have to rent a vehicle at the destination, wouldn't be subjected to ridiculous and useless TSA regulations, wouldn't have to pay extra for every piece of luggage over the limit of zero, would be more in control of arriving on time, and would be able to visit sites along the way, if so desired. The only downside is that it took 24 hours to get there, where it would have only taken 8 by plane.
It's sad, really. Because I love airplanes. I am a Private Pilot ( but I haven't flown in 9 years, because it is too expensive now). I'm hooked on flight simulators and will read just about anything I can get my hands on about airplanes, but I have serious doubts whether my children will ever fly on an airplane, because the costs have gone up by more than quadruple over the last 20 years, while the fuel costs have only doubled if that, and pilot salaries have dropped by a factor of two. One wonders where the money goes.
I think that if they surveyed prospective passengers, most people would not be comfortable with riding in this plane.
I wasn't running down Il and Tu jets, just questioning how many are out there running passenger lines.
I recall seeing one of the Tupolev models at Newark Liberty before. I don't remember which model. It was a Russian Airline, but still, U.S. airspace.
I don't see the problem here. People who spend megabucks advertising on TV or radio can never really quantify if their advertisement ever did any good either, yet they continue to buy advertising time. The only people who are really able to make money by advertising is marketing firms.
I actually had tears in my eyes when I stood behind the awesome Saturn V rocket. How sad to think what great things humans used to know how to do in the 50s and 60s. What a magnificent time it must have been: The moon landings, the SR-71, the Concorde, the 747, the rise of transistors. Really puts the last 50 years to shame.
Like GP said - We have 3x the number of towers.
That's not necessarily true. Cell phone companies will often lease space on their towers to other carriers.
In a truly competitive market prices for comparable items converge towards a low price, as long as they aren't luxury items.
Well, that is just the thing. Cell phones ARE luxury items. It's all about who has the latest phone, with the most non-phone-related capabilities, and therefore people are willing to pay the high prices for the service and 15 cents for 120 bytes of data.
but when there are three players who probably all have this same crap in their ToS there is no option of voting with your feet
There sure is. Who says you need a cell phone? Sure, in some cases, your company requires you to have one, but 80% or more people that have one do not need one. Sure it's convenient at times, but is it worth having to pay the ridiculous amounts of money that the companies want each month, the poor customer service, and the outrageous limits in the contract? I think not.
Darn, you guessed one of my passwords. Unfortunately, it is on a system which the administrator sets the password, and there is no facility for changing the password, and it is the same as everyone else's password on that system.
Surprisingly, I deal with HIPAA data, so some systems where I work are secured to such a level as to be unusable, while other systems are so insecure, that I could go log in as any user I wanted to. There are two systems where I must change my password every 60 days. There is one system where I chose my own password, and don't have to change it. There are two systems where I was assigned a password and don't have to change it. And there is one system where I was assigned a password and can't change it, and it is the same as everybody else's password. I can log in as my own user, and pull up a list of all the other users in case I want to log in as one of them next time. Phenomenally stupid.
between the half dozen systems or so that I access on a daily basis, I have 3 different user names, and about 4 different password schemas that must be adhered to.
They can trademark "SyFy" because of it's relatively unique spelling.
...until the lawyers start going after homonyms.
The only real "tax credit" in the situation you are referring to is that they were able to avoid the luxury tax on these vehicles. The incentive was that they were able to write off the entire cost of the vehicle in the first year, as opposed to writing it off over 5 years or whatever the period would be. It didn't really introduce any new tax savings, just changed when it would happen.
Not that I'm bashing small business owners here, just that the system is pretty broken.
not broken. Working as designed. Small businesses are given these tax breaks on purpose in order to encourage them to grow, hire more people and fuel the economy.
I think I'm going to stop talking, because people clearly are not listening. When I say Congress crushes every nut, bolt, radiator, et cetera, that's what I mean. The entire car has to be trashed according to this Cash for Clunkers program. Bloody stupid.
And by "the entire car" I assume you mean "the engine and drivetrain" which is all that the CARS program requires to not go back on the road. http://www.cars.gov/faq#category-14