Oh yes, and I know it's a faux pas to reply to one's own post, but to get this back on subject; Ever seen a chimp mother swat her kid for getting a little too rambunctious? Sure you have. But what the heck do apes know, right? If they didn't discipline their children, maybe they would be the master species.
Once again, I have to say that there is a difference between smacking a kid around and spanking them.
I have never spanked our 13 year old, even though I have known him since he was 4. As a stepdad, I felt he would resent getting spanked by me. Now, I see that he really needs a good spanking, but unfortunately, now he is too old and physical discipline would result in reactionary violence on his part, as I can see by the several holes he has punched in our wall just because we wouldn't let him sleep over at someone's house on a schoolnight. What horrible parents we are. My girls, on the other hand, have had light spankings infrequently when the situation warranted it, and they are mostly well behaved.
I was spanked as a child. I was also abused as a child. I know the difference. The foot is not discpline. A fist is not discipline. Spanking was discipline, and I understood the need for it. The other made me daydream of my stepdad dying in a terrible accident. I STILL have dreams (still once a year, to this day) of beating the crap out of my stepdad.
We now live in a modern and reasonable society where child abuse is generally frowned upon.
Wrongo. We just now choose to abuse our children by not preparing them for the real world. Namely, we let them run wild and become spoiled brats with no greater fear than that someone will nag them to stop doing that. We shelter them from the real world by trying to avoid stomping on their self esteem and preventing them from realizing that other people may be better than them at something. We teach them that no matter what happens, it is someone else's fault.
No, I would have to say that in this generation of "no spank" the abuse is much greater than it ever was before.
Easy. "Pimp" is a noun, which is slang for one who manages prostitutes. "Ride" is a verb, meaning to travel upon something. "Pimp my Ride" is a sentence with an implied noun "You" followed by a barely acceptable slang noun being used as a verb then a verb being used as a noun and a possessive indicating that the speaker owns that verb.
How could it be any more clear?
Perhaps they could say, more simply, for those of us familiar with the English language "You transform my car from a beater into a beater with diminished useful value and lots of ornamental lame junk on it that would appeal to prostitutes and acne laden teenagers."
Well, I have discovered that I am legally responsible if someone enters my home and allegedly dials a Sports pay per minute hotline number without my knowledge.
At the time I was single and none of the two friends that may or may not have been visiting me on that particular day admitted to calling. The Sports Hotline said, "well, maybe you dialed our 800 sports number and then chose the option to transfer to one of the pay lines." Yes, that seems plausible considering how little interest I have in sports of any kind.
I think the Sports Hotline was just scamming me, but in the good ole USA, the burden of proof is on the accused and you are guilty until proven not guilty (you can't be proven innocent, only that you probably did it, but they can't prove it).
What is a fingerprint scanner adding but a false sense of security?
We have a fingerprint scanner at work and it doesn't make me feel any more secure. I feel like it is there more to impress visitors to our office. Sadly, it is our main means of security. Our particular system requires you enter a pin first then scans your finger. It reads badly enough that most times I have to scan two or three times (once as many as 6), and I don't think it could ever really tell one person from another. I think it just says "well, they did enter a valid pin, and I am at least 1% sure that the thing on the glass is a finger, so I'll let them in." Sadly, most times, as I mentioned, it DOESN'T let you in. Especially if it is very cold, or very hot, or rainy, or windy, or it is the afternoon, and the sun is on that side of the building.
I think all the bioetrics out there are just "ooh! Shiny!" gadgets that provide no real security, but impress the bigwigs, who then spend the cash on the false security, rather than divvy it up to the hardworking employees.
Do you always refer to the "television set," or do you turn on the "TV" or "telly?" Do you drive a "horseless carriage" or "automobile"... or you you drive a "car?" Do people call your "cellular phone" or do they call your "cell?"
No, since I call audio over RSS PODcasting, I must also call my television set a "Sonyvision" and my horseless carriage a "GMCar" and my cellular phone a "MotorolaPhone".
I have the same setup as your parents, and since the cable signal is not strong enough, I can not get the HD channels in the 600 range except very occassionally and even then, it has a lot of stop frame and artifact problems. I had the cable company come in and they said "Oh, somebody hooked you up to the wrong pole" and proceeded to run a cable from a pole on the other side of our property, which resulted in a slightly better picture, but still not good enough to get HD more than about 5% of the time, and again, with all the artifacts and so forth. Additionally, they never bothered to bury the cable so at some point it is going to get run over by the lawnmower or something.
If it wasn't for the fact that, due to packaging, I would actually be spending MORE money by canceling the HD part, I would have cancelled long ago.
About time for some cable competition, I say.
If the lyrics suck, I would rather know this before shelling out the greens on the music, instead of being stuck with a tape or CD that I decide I don't like, and most likely can't return.
Well of course you would. This is exactly why they don't want you to have this information. Neither does Phillip Morris want you to know that their cigarettes cause cancer. neither does Vioxx want you to know that their drug causes heart attacks. Freely available information makes it more difficult for an industry to sell, and they will do everything within their power to squelch it.
I am certainly aware that it was a cover, but I have heard the original and found it inferior. But then, the remake was done back in the day when remakes were often better than the originals, unlike today, where remakes are just the original with a disco beat and all of the soul sucked out.
Responsible cat owners keep their cats indoors.
My cat would tend to disagree with you.
Of course, I have an acre, but the cat doesn't seem to desire being confined to the acre either. He wanders off into the five acre unoccupied lot next door, or the one across the street. The neighbors have commented on seeing him around their yards, too. But they also said he hasn't been any trouble. When it's cold or wet, I let him sleep in the garage, if I can find him. But he is usually just as content to sleep in some unknown location outside.
For an outdoor cat, he is very friendly, and likes to be pet. He will bite or scratch, but mostly because you wandered off without finishing petting him. He gets nervous around little, loud people and has smacked my girls shoes when they get too rowdy too close to him, which terrifies them, but does not actual do any harm.
My cat is smart enough to avoid traffic, and the gangs of unleashed dogs that irresponsible owners allow to wander the neighborhood, attacking cats and small children.
I wouldn't have an outdoor cat in an urban environment, but in my reasonably spaced neighborhood, my cat can enjoy having a family care for it while also enjoying his natural instinct of being outside.
You think you have problems with people stealing your dog now, wait until you strap a $400 peice of electronic equipment to it.
Of course, I am still of the opinion that you shouldn't pay more than $0 for a cat or dog. My wife disagrees with me about half the time. Like when we bought a Shitzu for $100 for my stepson against my wishes. But then sometimes she agrees with me, too. Like 6 months later when she gave the Shitzu away for free because my stepson wouldn't take care of it. Of course, at that point, it was also against my wishes to give it away for free.
Well, if everyone went off and started an internet company, then yes, probably most would fail. However, if everyone went off and started something suitable to their skills and interests, then not so many businesses would fail. If everyone started a business, I would start a B2B.
"How do you reset the root password on a server when you don't know the current root password?"
That's a trick question. A smart interviewer would never acknowledge the need to do this. He always remembers his password.
Seriously though, scripts like these are just as effective at throwing out the baby with the bathwater as HR departments are. Rather than pose questions like this, I alike to have interviewees explain to me some interesting things they think they have done in position X and see what they come up with. Although people with recent and considerable experience in the particular job would be a godsend, I would be quite happy to get someone who has demonstrated the ability to learn and excel in multiple technical positions. Such a person could easily learn how to be a UNIX administrator in short order, plus could pick up other tasks as the needs of the company shifted.
I'm sure helpdesk is not paying $100 an hour, but certainly there exist numerous $100+ an hour jobs. SAP and Peoplesoft consultants, Data Warehousing Architects, specific skillsets that take years to learn and master.
What gets me is when these Indian companies offer me like $35 an hour to do a short term contract job that I could get paid $80k-$90k or more as a full time employee. You just know that the Indian company is scraping about $50 an hour off the top and they pay no travel, no per diem, nothing.
Ciber is outsourcing to Oklahoma City. In fact, I was offered a job there, but after attempting to negotiate a package that would increase, rather than decrease my overall lifestyle, their offer was withdrawn. That company, at least, is coming into Oklahoma and offering jobs that on the surface appear to match the average salary in the area, but then you find out that their benefits suck, they DON'T PAY ANY HOLIDAYS OR VACATIONS, and if a project ends and they can't find any other project to match your skillset, you are out on your butt. Excuse me, but if I am bearing all of the risk, you have to pay me more. So anyway, beware of rural outsourcers. It appears to me that they come into an area and try to rip off the IT population of the area. I am now making at least $25k more than I would have had I taken their job, when you factor in benefits and vacation/holidays.
That being said, it is great to work IT in rural areas. I live and work near Oklahoma City. The cost of living is slightly lower than when I lived in Chicago, the cost of housing is about 50% less, and the payscale in the area is only about 5% less than Chicago. In fact, I now make $15k more than I did when I last worked a corporate job in Chicago (1997).
I agree, but for different reasons. To me, arguing MS versus linux is like arguing the entire GMC product line versus a specific Ford. I mean, linux is only one of many unix OSes. Perhaps the fact that it works on a desktop better than most others unices is the reason for the argument. But I wouldn't let MS OR linux run any of my mission critical apps.
P2P software can be used for law abiding or illegal activities. The Chinese company is doing something which can only be used for illegal purposes. It is the computer equivalent of selling a burglary kit. P2P software is the equivalent of selling a hammer, which COULD be used to smash a window, or could be used for hammering nails.
Interesting that they concluded that grass existed at the time of dinosaurs rather than that dinosaurs existed at the time of grass.
I suppose it is more difficult to determine when grass was around, as it doesn't fossilize easily. However, it should be possible for it to make mud impressions such as we have seen with ferns and tree leaves.
If the suit is successful and Blizzard is pulled from the shelves, then Darwin was wrong. Even those unfit will still survive, or at least have to try to find another way to kill themselves before reaching reproductive age.
Your theory is intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Does your solution propose moving the Earth closer to the Sun so that the solar year is 100 times the solar day, or perhaps moving the Earth farther from the Sun so that the solar year is 1000 times the length of a solar day. Or perhaps you are going for the speeding up or slowing down of Earth's rotation? Maybe some combination of both?
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Oh yes, and I know it's a faux pas to reply to one's own post, but to get this back on subject; Ever seen a chimp mother swat her kid for getting a little too rambunctious? Sure you have. But what the heck do apes know, right? If they didn't discipline their children, maybe they would be the master species.
Once again, I have to say that there is a difference between smacking a kid around and spanking them.
I have never spanked our 13 year old, even though I have known him since he was 4. As a stepdad, I felt he would resent getting spanked by me. Now, I see that he really needs a good spanking, but unfortunately, now he is too old and physical discipline would result in reactionary violence on his part, as I can see by the several holes he has punched in our wall just because we wouldn't let him sleep over at someone's house on a schoolnight. What horrible parents we are. My girls, on the other hand, have had light spankings infrequently when the situation warranted it, and they are mostly well behaved.
I was spanked as a child. I was also abused as a child. I know the difference. The foot is not discpline. A fist is not discipline. Spanking was discipline, and I understood the need for it. The other made me daydream of my stepdad dying in a terrible accident. I STILL have dreams (still once a year, to this day) of beating the crap out of my stepdad.
We now live in a modern and reasonable society where child abuse is generally frowned upon.
Wrongo. We just now choose to abuse our children by not preparing them for the real world. Namely, we let them run wild and become spoiled brats with no greater fear than that someone will nag them to stop doing that. We shelter them from the real world by trying to avoid stomping on their self esteem and preventing them from realizing that other people may be better than them at something. We teach them that no matter what happens, it is someone else's fault.
No, I would have to say that in this generation of "no spank" the abuse is much greater than it ever was before.
Easy. "Pimp" is a noun, which is slang for one who manages prostitutes. "Ride" is a verb, meaning to travel upon something. "Pimp my Ride" is a sentence with an implied noun "You" followed by a barely acceptable slang noun being used as a verb then a verb being used as a noun and a possessive indicating that the speaker owns that verb.
How could it be any more clear?
Perhaps they could say, more simply, for those of us familiar with the English language "You transform my car from a beater into a beater with diminished useful value and lots of ornamental lame junk on it that would appeal to prostitutes and acne laden teenagers."
Well, I have discovered that I am legally responsible if someone enters my home and allegedly dials a Sports pay per minute hotline number without my knowledge. At the time I was single and none of the two friends that may or may not have been visiting me on that particular day admitted to calling. The Sports Hotline said, "well, maybe you dialed our 800 sports number and then chose the option to transfer to one of the pay lines." Yes, that seems plausible considering how little interest I have in sports of any kind.
I think the Sports Hotline was just scamming me, but in the good ole USA, the burden of proof is on the accused and you are guilty until proven not guilty (you can't be proven innocent, only that you probably did it, but they can't prove it).
What about their colon map?
It could inject some bleach into whatever it was trying to scan. Then it would be 100% accurate on whether the finger was living or dead.
What is a fingerprint scanner adding but a false sense of security?
We have a fingerprint scanner at work and it doesn't make me feel any more secure. I feel like it is there more to impress visitors to our office. Sadly, it is our main means of security. Our particular system requires you enter a pin first then scans your finger. It reads badly enough that most times I have to scan two or three times (once as many as 6), and I don't think it could ever really tell one person from another. I think it just says "well, they did enter a valid pin, and I am at least 1% sure that the thing on the glass is a finger, so I'll let them in." Sadly, most times, as I mentioned, it DOESN'T let you in. Especially if it is very cold, or very hot, or rainy, or windy, or it is the afternoon, and the sun is on that side of the building.
I think all the bioetrics out there are just "ooh! Shiny!" gadgets that provide no real security, but impress the bigwigs, who then spend the cash on the false security, rather than divvy it up to the hardworking employees.
Do you always refer to the "television set," or do you turn on the "TV" or "telly?" Do you drive a "horseless carriage" or "automobile"... or you you drive a "car?" Do people call your "cellular phone" or do they call your "cell?"
No, since I call audio over RSS PODcasting, I must also call my television set a "Sonyvision" and my horseless carriage a "GMCar" and my cellular phone a "MotorolaPhone".
I have the same setup as your parents, and since the cable signal is not strong enough, I can not get the HD channels in the 600 range except very occassionally and even then, it has a lot of stop frame and artifact problems. I had the cable company come in and they said "Oh, somebody hooked you up to the wrong pole" and proceeded to run a cable from a pole on the other side of our property, which resulted in a slightly better picture, but still not good enough to get HD more than about 5% of the time, and again, with all the artifacts and so forth. Additionally, they never bothered to bury the cable so at some point it is going to get run over by the lawnmower or something.
If it wasn't for the fact that, due to packaging, I would actually be spending MORE money by canceling the HD part, I would have cancelled long ago.
About time for some cable competition, I say.
What I can't figure out is how they looked at 900 domains total and found that 46.26 of them had bad information.
If the lyrics suck, I would rather know this before shelling out the greens on the music, instead of being stuck with a tape or CD that I decide I don't like, and most likely can't return.
Well of course you would. This is exactly why they don't want you to have this information. Neither does Phillip Morris want you to know that their cigarettes cause cancer. neither does Vioxx want you to know that their drug causes heart attacks. Freely available information makes it more difficult for an industry to sell, and they will do everything within their power to squelch it.
I am certainly aware that it was a cover, but I have heard the original and found it inferior. But then, the remake was done back in the day when remakes were often better than the originals, unlike today, where remakes are just the original with a disco beat and all of the soul sucked out.
Responsible cat owners keep their cats indoors.
My cat would tend to disagree with you.
Of course, I have an acre, but the cat doesn't seem to desire being confined to the acre either. He wanders off into the five acre unoccupied lot next door, or the one across the street. The neighbors have commented on seeing him around their yards, too. But they also said he hasn't been any trouble. When it's cold or wet, I let him sleep in the garage, if I can find him. But he is usually just as content to sleep in some unknown location outside.
For an outdoor cat, he is very friendly, and likes to be pet. He will bite or scratch, but mostly because you wandered off without finishing petting him. He gets nervous around little, loud people and has smacked my girls shoes when they get too rowdy too close to him, which terrifies them, but does not actual do any harm.
My cat is smart enough to avoid traffic, and the gangs of unleashed dogs that irresponsible owners allow to wander the neighborhood, attacking cats and small children.
I wouldn't have an outdoor cat in an urban environment, but in my reasonably spaced neighborhood, my cat can enjoy having a family care for it while also enjoying his natural instinct of being outside.
You think you have problems with people stealing your dog now, wait until you strap a $400 peice of electronic equipment to it.
Of course, I am still of the opinion that you shouldn't pay more than $0 for a cat or dog. My wife disagrees with me about half the time. Like when we bought a Shitzu for $100 for my stepson against my wishes. But then sometimes she agrees with me, too. Like 6 months later when she gave the Shitzu away for free because my stepson wouldn't take care of it. Of course, at that point, it was also against my wishes to give it away for free.
Do the Mayans have any complex computer systems that I can come and fix for their 13.0.0.0 bug?
Well, if everyone went off and started an internet company, then yes, probably most would fail. However, if everyone went off and started something suitable to their skills and interests, then not so many businesses would fail. If everyone started a business, I would start a B2B.
"How do you reset the root password on a server when you don't know the current root password?"
That's a trick question. A smart interviewer would never acknowledge the need to do this. He always remembers his password.
Seriously though, scripts like these are just as effective at throwing out the baby with the bathwater as HR departments are. Rather than pose questions like this, I alike to have interviewees explain to me some interesting things they think they have done in position X and see what they come up with. Although people with recent and considerable experience in the particular job would be a godsend, I would be quite happy to get someone who has demonstrated the ability to learn and excel in multiple technical positions. Such a person could easily learn how to be a UNIX administrator in short order, plus could pick up other tasks as the needs of the company shifted.
I'm sure helpdesk is not paying $100 an hour, but certainly there exist numerous $100+ an hour jobs. SAP and Peoplesoft consultants, Data Warehousing Architects, specific skillsets that take years to learn and master.
What gets me is when these Indian companies offer me like $35 an hour to do a short term contract job that I could get paid $80k-$90k or more as a full time employee. You just know that the Indian company is scraping about $50 an hour off the top and they pay no travel, no per diem, nothing.
Ciber is outsourcing to Oklahoma City. In fact, I was offered a job there, but after attempting to negotiate a package that would increase, rather than decrease my overall lifestyle, their offer was withdrawn. That company, at least, is coming into Oklahoma and offering jobs that on the surface appear to match the average salary in the area, but then you find out that their benefits suck, they DON'T PAY ANY HOLIDAYS OR VACATIONS, and if a project ends and they can't find any other project to match your skillset, you are out on your butt. Excuse me, but if I am bearing all of the risk, you have to pay me more. So anyway, beware of rural outsourcers. It appears to me that they come into an area and try to rip off the IT population of the area. I am now making at least $25k more than I would have had I taken their job, when you factor in benefits and vacation/holidays.
That being said, it is great to work IT in rural areas. I live and work near Oklahoma City. The cost of living is slightly lower than when I lived in Chicago, the cost of housing is about 50% less, and the payscale in the area is only about 5% less than Chicago. In fact, I now make $15k more than I did when I last worked a corporate job in Chicago (1997).
I agree, but for different reasons. To me, arguing MS versus linux is like arguing the entire GMC product line versus a specific Ford. I mean, linux is only one of many unix OSes. Perhaps the fact that it works on a desktop better than most others unices is the reason for the argument. But I wouldn't let MS OR linux run any of my mission critical apps.
P2P software can be used for law abiding or illegal activities. The Chinese company is doing something which can only be used for illegal purposes. It is the computer equivalent of selling a burglary kit. P2P software is the equivalent of selling a hammer, which COULD be used to smash a window, or could be used for hammering nails.
Interesting that they concluded that grass existed at the time of dinosaurs rather than that dinosaurs existed at the time of grass.
I suppose it is more difficult to determine when grass was around, as it doesn't fossilize easily. However, it should be possible for it to make mud impressions such as we have seen with ferns and tree leaves.
If the suit is successful and Blizzard is pulled from the shelves, then Darwin was wrong. Even those unfit will still survive, or at least have to try to find another way to kill themselves before reaching reproductive age.
Your theory is intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Does your solution propose moving the Earth closer to the Sun so that the solar year is 100 times the solar day, or perhaps moving the Earth farther from the Sun so that the solar year is 1000 times the length of a solar day. Or perhaps you are going for the speeding up or slowing down of Earth's rotation? Maybe some combination of both?