And whammo- somebody like me with chronic low blood pressure becomes a drug dealer- I'd have to keep the white stuff in my pocket I guess (kind of like I already have to do with Jack-in-the-box fries).
I wouldn't. Not again, anyway. Even State Government was too strange for me- policies limiting the ability of workers to get the information they needed, combined with an attitude that if you did your job well enough to actually have the time to do your job well, then you must not be the type of employee they wanted.
Basically the same answer Jacob (the Christ figure) in Lost gave to Ben Linus (the Job figure) right before Ben killed Jacob at the behest of the smoke monster (the devil).
Religion is like Obi-Wan Kenobi- strike him down he'll come back larger, weirder, and more powerful than ever.
Well, actually, so are most businesses these days. I can't believe you just gave me a reason to refer back to my own journal AND be close to on topic in a front page post- but maybe, just maybe, my realization this morning was already obvious to the rest of the world: http://slashdot.org/journal/246256/Most-of-what-humans-do-isnt-necessary-or-needed
Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard. The ultimate bane of any given software product or data system. Also known as Garbage In, Garbage Out, but GIGO is really a subset of PEBCAK in which the software system actually fails to notice the human errors and continues working. Real PEBCAK also includes the unexpected or downright malicious input that causes a system to stop working entirely.
NO unit test alone can survive PEBCAK, because the software engineer who created the system knows how it is supposed to work and will code to how it is supposed to work. PEBCAK is the subset of input the system is not designed to work with- in other words, all other input other than what the system is designed for.
and where does all of that money lead? It says "federal reserve note" right on each bill.
And the Federal Reserve is a private bank- sold to Wall Street back in the 1930s.
The government ultimately controls the money supply and the fact that Wall Street went to Washington for their bailouts demonstrates that the government is still master of the money supply; the source from which all credit flows.
If the government truly controlled the money supply (instead of it just being a puppet government controlled from Wall Street) nobody in Washington would have voted for the Bailouts. The only reason to vote for bailouts for big banks is if you had already been bribed with "campaign contributions".
A bribed government is just a puppet shell, not a real government at all.
The U.S. government blows trillions of dollars each year, trillions that are expropriated by force (yes, the threat of jail for not paying your taxes is force--politely whitewashed, of course, but force nevertheless). Wall Street's fat cats wettest dreams don't have that kind of monetary clout.
Last I saw, the estimate for the amount of wealth Wall Street's fat cats blew in September 2008 was $650 Trillion. For comparison, the Gross World Product is only $22 Trillion, the GDP of the United States is $13 Trillion, Obama's 2009 Federal Budget was $3.1 Trillion, and the annual Income Tax revenue of the United States is $2.1 Trillion. What was that again about Wall Street's Fat Cats not having that kind of clout?
The only people getting their "wealth" from the government are government employees and welfare recipients. And all that "wealth" was taken from someone else--it wasn't just created out of thin air by Obama's magical rainbow fairies.
Agreed, but exactly the same could be said replacing "government" with "the stock market" and "government employees and welfare recipients" with "investors and financial companies". And the scary thing is, both statements are entirely equal, thanks to modern campaign financing, Wall Street IS the government. The people in Washington, DC are just figureheads.
The Dems don't understand business and the private sector; they don't understand what actually generates wealth in this country because they themselves are destroyers, not creators, of wealth
Interesting idea when you consider the largest destroyers of wealth are in New York City on Wall Street, rather than in Washington DC. But those of us in the know, know that the Dems and Reps all have their campaigns paid by Goldman Sachs anyway.
To understand power in the United States, don't follow government. Follow the money.
Not only that- but his Doctorate Committee were apparently huge fans of his work- he got a joke question on a minor short story that he wrote to practice the turgid writing style that was popular for research papers at the time, on the chronotic effects of an entirely made up chemical that supposedly dissolved in water pre-emptively.
But at that energy level, has anybody thought that perhaps instead of a problem, this might actually be the *solution* to FTL travel- an adaptation of ramjet tech, compressing the incoming hydrogen (and whatever other matter happens to be there) and incinerating it into a much faster outgoing stream?
No, that's the point, Logan's Run is off SyFy channel due to apparent (or at least, by my DVR because I've finally found science fiction that my wife likes) reruns of Caprica 20 times a week (which is saying a lot considering they've only shown 3 episodes of that series so far- and all of the reruns are apparently the second episode).
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And whammo- somebody like me with chronic low blood pressure becomes a drug dealer- I'd have to keep the white stuff in my pocket I guess (kind of like I already have to do with Jack-in-the-box fries).
I wouldn't. Not again, anyway. Even State Government was too strange for me- policies limiting the ability of workers to get the information they needed, combined with an attitude that if you did your job well enough to actually have the time to do your job well, then you must not be the type of employee they wanted.
No keyboard- right there that means it's worth $100 or less, same as a phone without a full keyboard.
Basically the same answer Jacob (the Christ figure) in Lost gave to Ben Linus (the Job figure) right before Ben killed Jacob at the behest of the smoke monster (the devil).
Religion is like Obi-Wan Kenobi- strike him down he'll come back larger, weirder, and more powerful than ever.
You'd think an all-powerful God might have something to say about all that priest-killing...
Why? Just a bunch of little ants getting stepped on by other, meaner ants.
What's the church's stance on God's inaction there, anyway? They had it coming?
Too small to notice.
Heck, I even count a lack of religion, as being a religion (in that it's often a closely held belief with no proof whatsoever).
Of course not- the courts are bought and paid for representatives of the financial class.
Heck, America doesn't protect it's whistle blowers. Why should Latvia?
No-This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original...
Far outlasts stone, and if you did it right I'll bet you could get nearly 1Mbit per card without running into the problems of Lace Cards
What is an A level executive?
I'm familiar with the C level executives: CEO, CTO, CFO, etc.
no- and this answer needed to be modified to get past slashdot.
yes- This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original...
yes
No
I know plenty who are laid off for other reasons- such as their C-level executives being slackers and the whole bloody company going under.
Well, actually, so are most businesses these days. I can't believe you just gave me a reason to refer back to my own journal AND be close to on topic in a front page post- but maybe, just maybe, my realization this morning was already obvious to the rest of the world:
http://slashdot.org/journal/246256/Most-of-what-humans-do-isnt-necessary-or-needed
Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard. The ultimate bane of any given software product or data system. Also known as Garbage In, Garbage Out, but GIGO is really a subset of PEBCAK in which the software system actually fails to notice the human errors and continues working. Real PEBCAK also includes the unexpected or downright malicious input that causes a system to stop working entirely.
NO unit test alone can survive PEBCAK, because the software engineer who created the system knows how it is supposed to work and will code to how it is supposed to work. PEBCAK is the subset of input the system is not designed to work with- in other words, all other input other than what the system is designed for.
and where does all of that money lead? It says "federal reserve note" right on each bill.
And the Federal Reserve is a private bank- sold to Wall Street back in the 1930s.
The government ultimately controls the money supply and the fact that Wall Street went to Washington for their bailouts demonstrates that the government is still master of the money supply; the source from which all credit flows.
If the government truly controlled the money supply (instead of it just being a puppet government controlled from Wall Street) nobody in Washington would have voted for the Bailouts. The only reason to vote for bailouts for big banks is if you had already been bribed with "campaign contributions".
A bribed government is just a puppet shell, not a real government at all.
The U.S. government blows trillions of dollars each year, trillions that are expropriated by force (yes, the threat of jail for not paying your taxes is force--politely whitewashed, of course, but force nevertheless). Wall Street's fat cats wettest dreams don't have that kind of monetary clout.
Last I saw, the estimate for the amount of wealth Wall Street's fat cats blew in September 2008 was $650 Trillion. For comparison, the Gross World Product is only $22 Trillion, the GDP of the United States is $13 Trillion, Obama's 2009 Federal Budget was $3.1 Trillion, and the annual Income Tax revenue of the United States is $2.1 Trillion. What was that again about Wall Street's Fat Cats not having that kind of clout?
The only people getting their "wealth" from the government are government employees and welfare recipients. And all that "wealth" was taken from someone else--it wasn't just created out of thin air by Obama's magical rainbow fairies.
Agreed, but exactly the same could be said replacing "government" with "the stock market" and "government employees and welfare recipients" with "investors and financial companies". And the scary thing is, both statements are entirely equal, thanks to modern campaign financing, Wall Street IS the government. The people in Washington, DC are just figureheads.
The Dems don't understand business and the private sector; they don't understand what actually generates wealth in this country because they themselves are destroyers, not creators, of wealth
Interesting idea when you consider the largest destroyers of wealth are in New York City on Wall Street, rather than in Washington DC. But those of us in the know, know that the Dems and Reps all have their campaigns paid by Goldman Sachs anyway.
To understand power in the United States, don't follow government. Follow the money.
A famous athlete who screwed up and had an embarrassing press conference just a few hours ago.
Not only that- but his Doctorate Committee were apparently huge fans of his work- he got a joke question on a minor short story that he wrote to practice the turgid writing style that was popular for research papers at the time, on the chronotic effects of an entirely made up chemical that supposedly dissolved in water pre-emptively.
But at that energy level, has anybody thought that perhaps instead of a problem, this might actually be the *solution* to FTL travel- an adaptation of ramjet tech, compressing the incoming hydrogen (and whatever other matter happens to be there) and incinerating it into a much faster outgoing stream?
No, that's the point, Logan's Run is off SyFy channel due to apparent (or at least, by my DVR because I've finally found science fiction that my wife likes) reruns of Caprica 20 times a week (which is saying a lot considering they've only shown 3 episodes of that series so far- and all of the reruns are apparently the second episode).