It's spelled "demand" and "balance." Not "Demmand" and "ballance."
So are you one of those super-competent tie-wearing techs? If so, learn to fucking spell. Stupid authoritarian bootlicker...
It is worth pointing out that the Source engine is loaded before the title screen comes up. The background is an actual in-game location, so the engine needs to be loaded first. That is why it takes a long time to load.
The state of New Jersey is covered in highways. One can drive from Point A from Point B utilizing a number of different interstates and parkways, some of which have over 10 lanes to choose from.
Guess what? There are still major traffic jams every day. The more highway you build, the more highway get utilized. People just start commuting greater distances. NJ's magnificent transit system now allows people from Pennsylvania to commute to New York City -- hundreds of miles on a daily basis.
Indeed. The intellectual nature of most IT work lends itself to professional organization instead of wage employment. This also replaces the oft-repeated call for unionization of IT with a better plan for a professional association, along the lines of doctors and lawyers. Self-regulating standards, market force protection.
This holds true for other areas of IT -- systems designers, integrators, and administrators come to mind.
He's not rich, actually. He's an inflation-adjusted member of the new middle class. People that make 50K a year are actually part of the lower class, they just fool themselves into thinking otherwise with their consuming habits. Buying natural food at the market or mass-produced fashion at a mall is not a sign of wealth, no matter how many bags you take home.
Consider that factory workers could once buy a car with a month's salary -- or put a downpayment on a house with that same money. Cars now require loans or leases from everyone and ugly property in metropolitan areas can start at $400,000. Meaningful purchasing power is fleeing up the economic scale.
No, the poster above is not rich -- he's a mote on the scale of richness, barely above the status of wage slave.
Exactly correct. People like this bastard live in places like Chelsea now -- midlevel yuppies that got paid way too much money and spoiled the housing market in Manhattan forever. Feh.
If we are really "stealing" oil, then why does the price of gas continue to climb?
Who collects the money for those $50 barrels of oil? Your mistake is the "we," because the oil mutlinationals don't give a damn about you, only their enormously engorged profit margins.
What I love about righties is their tendancy to identify with powerful groups that consider them to be little more than dirt.
I once read that all of the available water on the planet has passed through a excretive system at least once. The average brontosaur created a pondful of urine on a daily basis; mulitply such quantities over hundreds of millions of years, and you can easily see this as possible.
I see little difference between recently-recycled and distantly-recycled water.
Isn't that the whole point of electing a legislature?
Are you at all familiar with the effectiveness of the current New York State Legislature? Or that of the New York State Executive, Pataki? Neither are shining examples of responsive or responsible government.
Do you honestly believe either of these bodies would have punished the financial industry for their crimes during the Internet Boom? I'll have a nice hearty laugh at the thought.
Will land prices, property tax, medicine, doctors fees, lawyers fees, private schooling....will all these things fall equally to the Chinese-manufactured quality of Walmart goods? If not, have fun buying lots of cheap material goods, while still being absolutely poor in a sovereign sense. That is a Pakistani
s idea of prosperity; he has no idea what wealth, and power, actually are.
If free trade were absolute and everywhere, we'd all be much richer - and the best educated and most productive of us, i.e. Westerners, would be richest.
If free trade were absolute and everywhere, resources would be evenly distributed, leaving us all with, in the words of Neal Stephenson, "a Pakistani bricklayer's idea of prosperity." I would rather not live in your world, thanks.
There were numerous reports from NYC of delegates to the RNC being accosted.
If by "accosted" you mean "shouted at." I witnessed many incidents of chanting slogans at RNC delegates that wandered into a protesting crowd. It was on the level of a ribbing, and more than a few delegates smiled and waved, playing along with the crowd.
Hotplates and halogen bulbs are fire hazards, especially in the hands of post-teenagers (drying laundry on lamps, etc) . How are WAPs a threat to public safety? If a student is capable enough to set up a wireless network, let them discover uses for the technology. As long as they are not interfering with University communications or setting the dorms on fire, what is the problem?
Life does not exist within the confines of contract law. Thank goodness.
You really begin to miss people. You just want to talk...We need interaction. You might think that you hate your office environ, but doing solitary in your home office is far worse.
Where is the home office located? Is it part of the suburban Sprawl? In that case you are simply trading one unnatural environment for another. Human beings were not meant to live in big separate dwellings, insulated from each other by lawns, fences, cars and streets.
The arbitrary friendship of working for the same employer should not be a replacement for meangingful social interaction, but I agree, it is better than nothing at all. American society can be a very lonely place.
I don't recall the architects of the NYC MSN Butterfly sticker campaign going to jail; they just paid for the clean-up. This guy gets delayed-process treatment and permanently loses his bike.
jobs range from technical support at 30k/yr... ...I happen to live in the NYC area and there are plenty of IT jobs around
That is a non-sustainable wage for New York City. Its not a matter of wanting to be a tech support guy, its a matter of not living in a filthy ghetto with four roommates. The idea is to scramble up to Senior Network Engingeer before you reach 30 and want a family -- but if you do not, then fuck off and die, am I right? Maybe have a King of Queens life if you are really, really lucky.
Picture this. You are standing amongst a herd of your fellows, let's say zebra. You detect agitation from the far side of the pack; a few begin to run, then a few more, then suddenly half the pack is moving. "Herd-mentality!" you sneer to yourself as you continue to lap at waterside. "All this running I have done before, but never have I seen the danger. Only the alarm to start running, and the calming-down afterwards." Thus you smugly miss the lions sneaking up through the grass.
So it is just a fanciful tale. A majority of intelligent geeks are upset about something because they are emotionally unbalanced, not because they perceive a threat that you do not. Ignore them, and go about as you were. Please.
However, if it was truly popular, how come the Libertarian Party is such a fringe party?
What? One of the primary aims of the GOP is to starve the Federal government. Pushing "tax cuts!" allows them to move towards their goal without having to tell anyone about that goal. Push social programs to the state or community level, where, presumably, the areas that are already prosperous can provide truly wonderful social services, while poor and/or otherwise useless (e.g. the Rust Belt) areas decay and disappear.
The concept does resonate among 40-60% of the country after all, even if it comes in the self-interested belief to the right of a slightly larger paycheck at Big Gvmt's expense.
That was one of the better-written defenses of globalization. But,
Is it better to say "you can't have our jobs until your environment is clean" or is it better to say "here, have some jobs; now please take your new money and spend some of it on cleaning up your environment and implementing new laws"?
does't work in my view. Just look at power plants in the United States. Even in the 'civilized' East, there are unfiltered coal plants belching smoke into the air (at night, so you can't see it). If we allow our government to grandfather and re-grandfather bad pollution into our future, do you really expect other third-world countries to act differently?
The problem is that kids don't have the same amount of life experience. Sure, it stands to reason to most of us here that it would be a bad idea to take a picture of your boner with a camera phone and send it to a couple of girls that you know.
I hate to disillusion you, but if an unfiltered viewing of moblogs are any indication, there are many, many adult men out there who think that showing boner pictures to women is the pinnacle of sophistication...
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It's spelled "demand" and "balance." Not "Demmand" and "ballance." So are you one of those super-competent tie-wearing techs? If so, learn to fucking spell. Stupid authoritarian bootlicker...
It is worth pointing out that the Source engine is loaded before the title screen comes up. The background is an actual in-game location, so the engine needs to be loaded first. That is why it takes a long time to load.
The state of New Jersey is covered in highways. One can drive from Point A from Point B utilizing a number of different interstates and parkways, some of which have over 10 lanes to choose from. Guess what? There are still major traffic jams every day. The more highway you build, the more highway get utilized. People just start commuting greater distances. NJ's magnificent transit system now allows people from Pennsylvania to commute to New York City -- hundreds of miles on a daily basis.
Between thais comment and your sig, you must truly be a wise old man....
This holds true for other areas of IT -- systems designers, integrators, and administrators come to mind.
Consider that factory workers could once buy a car with a month's salary -- or put a downpayment on a house with that same money. Cars now require loans or leases from everyone and ugly property in metropolitan areas can start at $400,000. Meaningful purchasing power is fleeing up the economic scale.
No, the poster above is not rich -- he's a mote on the scale of richness, barely above the status of wage slave.
Exactly correct. People like this bastard live in places like Chelsea now -- midlevel yuppies that got paid way too much money and spoiled the housing market in Manhattan forever. Feh.
So you get a 'senior' analyst position with a degree from DeVry? Sounds a bit like an exaggeration.
Who collects the money for those $50 barrels of oil? Your mistake is the "we," because the oil mutlinationals don't give a damn about you, only their enormously engorged profit margins.
What I love about righties is their tendancy to identify with powerful groups that consider them to be little more than dirt.
Educate them as what? Can you extend the "Education is Good" rationalization more than two feet out of your mouth? You sir are a stupid, stupid man.
I see little difference between recently-recycled and distantly-recycled water.
Are you at all familiar with the effectiveness of the current New York State Legislature? Or that of the New York State Executive, Pataki? Neither are shining examples of responsive or responsible government.
Do you honestly believe either of these bodies would have punished the financial industry for their crimes during the Internet Boom? I'll have a nice hearty laugh at the thought.
Will land prices, property tax, medicine, doctors fees, lawyers fees, private schooling....will all these things fall equally to the Chinese-manufactured quality of Walmart goods? If not, have fun buying lots of cheap material goods, while still being absolutely poor in a sovereign sense. That is a Pakistani s idea of prosperity; he has no idea what wealth, and power, actually are.
If free trade were absolute and everywhere, resources would be evenly distributed, leaving us all with, in the words of Neal Stephenson, "a Pakistani bricklayer's idea of prosperity." I would rather not live in your world, thanks.
If by "accosted" you mean "shouted at." I witnessed many incidents of chanting slogans at RNC delegates that wandered into a protesting crowd. It was on the level of a ribbing, and more than a few delegates smiled and waved, playing along with the crowd.
Life does not exist within the confines of contract law. Thank goodness.
Where is the home office located? Is it part of the suburban Sprawl? In that case you are simply trading one unnatural environment for another. Human beings were not meant to live in big separate dwellings, insulated from each other by lawns, fences, cars and streets.
The arbitrary friendship of working for the same employer should not be a replacement for meangingful social interaction, but I agree, it is better than nothing at all. American society can be a very lonely place.
I fear a substantial percentage of America believes just that. Its some sort of paranoid projected-jealousy type-thing.
That is a non-sustainable wage for New York City. Its not a matter of wanting to be a tech support guy, its a matter of not living in a filthy ghetto with four roommates. The idea is to scramble up to Senior Network Engingeer before you reach 30 and want a family -- but if you do not, then fuck off and die, am I right? Maybe have a King of Queens life if you are really, really lucky.
So it is just a fanciful tale. A majority of intelligent geeks are upset about something because they are emotionally unbalanced, not because they perceive a threat that you do not. Ignore them, and go about as you were. Please.
Yes. 9-11 ugly...
What? One of the primary aims of the GOP is to starve the Federal government. Pushing "tax cuts!" allows them to move towards their goal without having to tell anyone about that goal. Push social programs to the state or community level, where, presumably, the areas that are already prosperous can provide truly wonderful social services, while poor and/or otherwise useless (e.g. the Rust Belt) areas decay and disappear.
The concept does resonate among 40-60% of the country after all, even if it comes in the self-interested belief to the right of a slightly larger paycheck at Big Gvmt's expense.
Is it better to say "you can't have our jobs until your environment is clean" or is it better to say "here, have some jobs; now please take your new money and spend some of it on cleaning up your environment and implementing new laws"?
does't work in my view. Just look at power plants in the United States. Even in the 'civilized' East, there are unfiltered coal plants belching smoke into the air (at night, so you can't see it). If we allow our government to grandfather and re-grandfather bad pollution into our future, do you really expect other third-world countries to act differently?
I hate to disillusion you, but if an unfiltered viewing of moblogs are any indication, there are many, many adult men out there who think that showing boner pictures to women is the pinnacle of sophistication...