Oh yeah, a big bold warning on a tiny fucking bottle.
The moment you forget when you took your last dose, you should immediately document the next dose. Normally you can take a second does within the time frame as long as you don't keep doing it. As a parent, I know that if we forget when the last dose was, we try to figure out an approximate time frame and then go from there. After that, we both look at the clock and say the time back to each other, repeatedly, so we know when it was taken. If we didn't have the other person there, it would get written down (much like we did with our first child, feedings and changings get written down so you can look at that when asked).
According to rxlist.com, the proper dosage is one or two pills every 6 hours, not every 4-6. The pharmacist probably told you this when you picked them up. Again, if you have trouble remember when your last dose was, write it down the first time that happens. To quote Henry Jones "I wrote it down so I wouldn't have to remember it". LIVE BY THAT!
Again with the alcohol thing. Once you know this, you shouldn't have to read it. I haven't needed to read that on a bottle in years because it's freaking known. Sure, someone else who's younger needs to read it, but once you know it, you know it. Do not drink alcohol with acetameniphen! Am I the only one that doesn't take tylenol if I'm planning to go out drinking?!
As someone who doesn't have this problem, I say bad. If you have a problem with a drug, inform your doctor before they write you a prescription. That's why they ask you if you're allergic to anything. This sounds like either an allergic reaction or something similar. Simply tell them "Lortab and other vicodin variants are hard on my stomach, please don't give me that" and they probably won't.
Geez. Take some fucking responsibility. If it hurts to take it, don't take it.
I took vicodin for a major toothache because the ER gave it to me (dentist was closed). I took another dose a day or two later and then another does about 4-6 hours after that one...on an empty stomach. The final dose made me vomit about an hour after taking it (all the while feeling pretty dizzy). I simply stopped taking Vicodin and stayed with Equate (generic Excedrin) and Tylenol until I got to the dentist. The only reason I took the Lortab is because it had a different name and I didn't read the bottle (I did follow the dosage instructions). Lortab seems to be a weaker form of Vicodin though since it didn't cause nearly the same feeling of being high that Vicodin did.
Tylenol is nasty dangerous stuff. It's very easy to misuse it to a lethal degree.
Really? How so? By not reading the damn labels? I mean seriously, anything is easy to misuse at that point. How hard is it to read a label of Tylenol that says "Adults: No more than 2 tablets every 4-6 hours with no more than 8 tablets in a 24 hour period" And if you do the math, guess what? 2 tablets every 4-6 hours is 8 tablets in a 24 hour period (assuming you wait the full 6 hours).
Tylenol is no deadlier than any other drug on the market. Too damn many people just don't read their labels. If you've already taken a painkiller, it's probably safe to not take any more tylenol. If you have a question, call your freaking doctor. Again, too damn many people try to be their own doctors that it's no wonder people get hurt. You can in fact take Ibuprofen and Tylenol in combination if you take them 3 hours apart (Ibuprofen, 3 hours later Tylenol, 3 hours later Ibuprofen, wash, rinse, repeat).
And every bottle of anything I've ever seen that has acetameniphen in it says "Do not take in combination with alcohol". Just because other people are stupid and don't read the label on their meds doesn't mean I should be penalized. Changing the label on children's tylenol had no effect on those of us with a clue, but an outright ban is going to hurt, especially when the kids are miserable with pain and low grade fevers.
Ibuprofen is a big no no as well. Ibuprofen can prevent the fertilized egg from attaching to the Uteran wall. Pretty much all painkillers are off limits in the first trimester.
A gallon of water weighs 8 pounds. If you can piss out a gallon, you've instantly lost 8 pounds of weight. I'd say that's a pretty effective form of weight loss (if you could do it that is).
I don't know how old you are, but my first experience killing in an FPS was killing the Nazi guard with a knife in the original Wolf3D (the one that ran on a 386). I felt no quesiness at all. From my perspective, I was a captured allied soldier fighting for my life and freedom, which the Nazis were about to completely take away.
The last time I specifically stopped playing a game was the same as the authors - Bioshock (actually, it was F.E.A.R. before that). I started playing it months later and forced myself to play it further. But it still wasn't the killing that disturbed me. It was the dark atmosphere and the weird ass looking characters (especially the opening "spider" character) that freaked me out. Hell, I had a hard time playing F.E.A.R. at first too, but again, it wasn't the killing, it was the creepy ass atmosphere. I'm not a big fan of horror movies, so games like that scare the crap out of me. F.E.A.R. still scares the shit out of me.
That's what you're calling defining marriage now? So it's cool for 3 or 4 or 5 people to "marry" each other (yes, it will lead to that, people are doing it in other areas of the country). Got it.
It's called gay bashing when you disagree, but it's called tolerance when I disagree, right? I have to tolerate it while you can just call me a bigot, right?
And then there's my personal favorite, a short-sighted effort to limit property taxes whose only real effect is to hurt younger people just starting out and drive the schools into the shitter? You know it.
Exactly how does that hurt young people? I'm fairly young and I had no trouble paying my way through community college and only a little trouble buying my first house (that was mostly due to the over inflated cost of houses). As a matter of fact, the bank approved us for far more than we could afford, but since we were responsible, we bought in for far less. Now instead of having trouble making mortgage payments, we're doing just fine. And private schools seem to be doing quite well. In fact, we spend more per pupil than any other state, yet we have the worst schools. Why is that?
Prop 13 passed with 65% of the vote (70% voting), so it was hardly a simple majority that passed it. The reality is that the legislature then, like now, was completely out of control and this is what stopped them.
Yeah, because we've had all kinds of problems the entire time that system has been in place.
Give me a break. I live in California and the system is the only thing that has kept the legislature in check. California is a prime example of why the Socialist experiment is a complete failure. Prop 13 and the 3/4 majority needed to pass a budget is the only thing that has kept taxes low. Without those, many more people would've left the state by now. As it is, people and businesses are leaving in droves. It's no wonder that even with the sales tax increase, revenue is down.
The legislature needs to get it through their thick skull that the way to increase revenue is to decrease taxes. Until that happens, revenue will continue to fall. Now they're talking about wanting to tax beer and soda to pay for the short fall. Since I don't need either one, I will happily quit drinking both if they do raise taxes on them. Right now I drink about a case of beer every month or two and the same for soda. If they decide to tax them, I will drink none. The fatties who like to suck down a super sized soda are the ones that are going to get hurt by all these policies, not people responsible enough to say "Enough is enough!"
FYI, the Constitution can be AMENDED by a majority, not outright changed. A significant change can only be made by the legislature, not the people. And the government can raise taxes if they can get a 75% majority of the legislature to go along with it (how do you think they raised the sales tax?). The problem is that there will be a firestorm the likes of which hasn't been seen since Prop 13 was passed if they attempt to repeal Prop 13. I live in this State and I'm the first one to say that it needs to go bankrupt.
The government needs to get the hell out of all the shit they're involved in. California is a perfect example of what happens when run away government stops listening to the People.
That is one thing I liked about the Incredibles: the bad guy actually had a reasonably valid reason for doing what he did. Sure Mr. Incredible could have taken him under his wing, but he didn't, and ultimately he came to regret it later.
A reasonably valid reason for trying to kill his former hero and his family? And that's not even mentioning all the other guys he already killed to get to that point. Maybe it's just me, but that's hardly a reasonably valid reason for trying to kill someone. Get mad and pissy all you want, but when you try to kill someone, no matter the reason, you step over the definition of "reasonable".
With Transformers 1 I didn't enjoy it much at the cinema either, but after I decided just to ignore some of the more stupid parts and get it on DVD, it makes a decent action/comedy kind of movie.
For what, 15 mins? I sat down with some friends to watch it on Blu-ray. We figured we'd skip all the shitty parts. We watched the opening battle and then we ended up skipping everything else. That movie is just aweful.
Users will complain whether you have very controlling policies in place or not. If you have nothing to stop them (a policy to stop them from listening to Internet radio doesn't do anything), they'll do it anyway. You can tell them for weeks that you simply don't have the bandwidth for that kind of thing because you have remote users and they simply will not care. The only thing that will make them stop is hardware/software to control what they can and cannot do. Once implemented, you will immediately be seen as the jerk/asshole/dickhead/insert whatever adjective necessary.
The simple fact is that users do not care if their actions impact somebody else (by and large). Sure, there's the 1 in 50 guy that'll respect and understand what you're saying and won't do it, but the rest will simply ignore you. I have learned after many many years that being nice is simply an invitation for them to break the rules. In fact, the 1 in 50 guy, in my experience, is also the guy that does IT work on the side and understands the reasons you're doing everything and doesn't need an explanation. That guy also understands that his work computer is just that, a work computer. That guy won't install all kinds of bullshit on his system without asking. He will also likely fix any trouble he encounters with his system because he knows you're busy with other people. You don't have to worry about that guy, it's the other 49 people that are causing trouble. That guy will not give two shits if you decide to block half the Internet and keep him from installing crap. He's either got all the programs he needs or will simply ask you to install them when you can. He's also one of the only people that will store all his important work documents on the server without having to bug him because he knows that the server is backed up and his workstation is not.
We implemented software policies and really strict internet filtering recently and my support calls have dropped. I use to hear complaints all the time from both office and remote users that our IP phones sounded like crap. I haven't had a single complaint since implementing major filtering (only during office hours). It has pissed off a fair number of people, but if I try to be nice and let them have access, they'll just abuse it. I also happen to have two people around that "get it" when it comes to surfing the net, installing bullshit, and keeping important files on the server. No one else does. That's in a company with about 45 computer users and about 55 employees total.
I still get the occasional call from someone that's trying to install something from CD. I either log in to their computer and install it for them (adjusting policies as necessary) or I simply copy it to their desktop. They haven't quite figured out that they can install things from their desktop (not that they could run it afterwards anyway) without getting blocked, and that's even after watching me do it (it must be magic, right?).
Tell the kids at least a day in advance what text is going to be read. That way, the kids that don't have Internet at home can go to the computer lab and print the necessary pages. You'll still be using some paper, but far less than a full books worth. This also has the advantage of basically telling the kids "We're going to read these pages in class tomorrow, so you should read them at home tonight in order to better discuss it tomorrow". Most of the kids probably won't do that, but that's no different than right now anyway.
I think this is a really great idea as long as they give the kids with no Internet some kind of place where they can do the reading and print out what they need. Whether it's a computer lab in the school library or even a local library in the city, either way should be fine. It'll also get kids back into the library.
Thank you, that's an even better reply than I could've come up with. I live in California. We could do without the Governator even attempting to Govern.
Not exactly. Typically a newer card will have better features. So two of the older card will often times be outpaced by one of the newer cards. So for the same price, you've got a much better single card solution that doesn't need a high priced motherboard in order to take full advantage.
Sounds more like your hardware vendors need to get their drivers updated. But it's probably easier for them to just stick with XP and then charge huge sums of money to continue to support it. Drill machines are the same way. They still run on ancient DOS boxes and it generally costs a couple thousand dollars to get them replaced. The hardware isn't worth much more than a couple hundred, but since you can't go out and find the hardware in a store, you're stuck dealing with them. I'm sure GE and Siemens will take the same attitude.
That wasn't my point. Anything is easy once you know how to do it, including rocket science
That's pure rubbish. Simple repedative tasks are easy. Complex reasoning and deduction isn't. Some problems are in fact intractable. Nor is refining motor skills or pre-empting something. I know how to hit a baseball. That doesn't mean I could easily become a pro baseball player.
You've built your entire argument on a flawed premise.
Sure you could. If you went to the batting cages and practiced hitting the ball over and over again at steadily increasing speeds, you would eventually be able to hit a fast ball. Now all you have to do is play baseball in little league, high school, and maybe college. All it takes is getting noticed at that point.
Obviously if you're over 25 or 30 you couldn't become a pro baseball player now, but you probably couldn't switch gears into any other profession that wasn't close to your own at this point either. The point is that if you start at a young enough age, you can in fact become anything you want as long you keep trying.
I mean, you didn't just wake up one day as a sys admin did you? No, it took a lot of training and practice with plenty of screw ups along the way. You probably even started out doing some programming like most competent sys admins I know. Every occupation is the same way. Some are really good at baseball others are really good at tearing down an engine and completely rebuilding it.
Brain surgery and rocket science are also easy if you already know how to do these
Let me get this straight. You're comparing opening up regedit, browsing through a tree of values, and modifying one with brain surgery and rocket science??? You call it "the art of registry editing". I could teach any even semi-competent person how to use regedit in an hour max assuming nothing more than windows knowledge.
Yes (to the comparison) and bullshit if you think you can teach a "semi-competent" person about what values are ok to edit and which are not. You could teach them about this one value I'm sure, but the next time something else comes up and they try to fix it themselves (because you taught them how to use regedit), they'll end up doing more damage.
Using the regedit is like rocket science and/or brain surgery. The brain surgeon wouldn't have the first clue how it worked and wouldn't care. He's to busy doing surgery on peoples brains, so he's going to ask YOU to fix it. He's going to be willing to pay YOU up to $150 per hour to fix it. Same with the rocket scientist. Again, you could teach them where this one entry is, but expecting them to then be able to go in and find anything else is a joke. It's not because they're dumb, it's because it's not their field and without at least an hour of their time (which they're not going to be willing to give up) they're not going to learn enough about it to be useful.
Exactly. As long as you said you had a TV that needed it, you were guaranteed at least one coupon. I got two the same way. We had a TV in the bedroom that still used an antenna, but I got two coupons just in case I wanted to get another antenna for a TV in another room.
We've since gotten rid of that other TV and now have satellite hooked up to the bedroom TV. I've still got the DTV box that we don't need as well as a coupon that's no longer good:)
It was doing that pretty much from September 1st onward.
No it wasn't. The market pretty much tanked from October 1st to the 10th (lost about 2000 points) before rebounding a little. I believe this was about the same time that Bush made the emergency request for $700 billion to "rescue" the banks.
However, the market was tumbling daily from 9625 points on November 4th, down to 7552 points on November 20th. I believe that's right around the time Obama finally spoke up about how he probably wouldn't be raising taxes. The market has closed well above that point every day since.
Probably something to do with the fact that the Congressional Research Services investigated and discovered he still had:
deferred salary, tied to earnings
retained stock options, available for exercise after he stepped down
a 401(k) account which had investments in Halliburton
and had been found that his statements that he had removed financial ties to himself and Halliburton to be "steeped in loopholes and legalese and avoidance".
You were saying?
All of which he was required, by contract, to keep intact. If he broke the contracts, he faced stiff penalties. And of course no one would've raked him over the coals for breaking a contract with a former employer.
It was a no win situation. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
The project after that would be sustained by the subscribers, and it could be sold for less money per month since Verizon doesn't have as much money to recoup.
Hahahaha! You think Verizon is going to sell the service for less just because they got some money from the government? Hahahaha! They will more likely keep the cost the same and the rest is profit (they'll make even more money faster). The cost to maintain the infrastructure will be the same anyway, so why would they lower the end cost? All a govt infusion will do is get the infrastructure built quicker.
Like many, I'd rather see physical infrastructure updated/maintained sooner than digital infrastructure. You can't even deploy the digital stuff if your physical stuff isn't in good condition.
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Oh yeah, a big bold warning on a tiny fucking bottle.
The moment you forget when you took your last dose, you should immediately document the next dose. Normally you can take a second does within the time frame as long as you don't keep doing it. As a parent, I know that if we forget when the last dose was, we try to figure out an approximate time frame and then go from there. After that, we both look at the clock and say the time back to each other, repeatedly, so we know when it was taken. If we didn't have the other person there, it would get written down (much like we did with our first child, feedings and changings get written down so you can look at that when asked).
According to rxlist.com, the proper dosage is one or two pills every 6 hours, not every 4-6. The pharmacist probably told you this when you picked them up. Again, if you have trouble remember when your last dose was, write it down the first time that happens. To quote Henry Jones "I wrote it down so I wouldn't have to remember it". LIVE BY THAT!
Again with the alcohol thing. Once you know this, you shouldn't have to read it. I haven't needed to read that on a bottle in years because it's freaking known. Sure, someone else who's younger needs to read it, but once you know it, you know it. Do not drink alcohol with acetameniphen! Am I the only one that doesn't take tylenol if I'm planning to go out drinking?!
43,000 people die each year in car accidents. Let's get rid of those while we're at it.
We should also ban all forms of drinking and driving, not just up to a certain limit. 140,000 people die that way every year.
Seriously, why don't we just ban anything and everything that causes people to die. 2x4s, windows, sidewalks and streets (deceleration trauma :P).
As someone who doesn't have this problem, I say bad. If you have a problem with a drug, inform your doctor before they write you a prescription. That's why they ask you if you're allergic to anything. This sounds like either an allergic reaction or something similar. Simply tell them "Lortab and other vicodin variants are hard on my stomach, please don't give me that" and they probably won't.
Geez. Take some fucking responsibility. If it hurts to take it, don't take it.
I took vicodin for a major toothache because the ER gave it to me (dentist was closed). I took another dose a day or two later and then another does about 4-6 hours after that one...on an empty stomach. The final dose made me vomit about an hour after taking it (all the while feeling pretty dizzy). I simply stopped taking Vicodin and stayed with Equate (generic Excedrin) and Tylenol until I got to the dentist. The only reason I took the Lortab is because it had a different name and I didn't read the bottle (I did follow the dosage instructions). Lortab seems to be a weaker form of Vicodin though since it didn't cause nearly the same feeling of being high that Vicodin did.
Tylenol is nasty dangerous stuff. It's very easy to misuse it to a lethal degree.
Really? How so? By not reading the damn labels? I mean seriously, anything is easy to misuse at that point. How hard is it to read a label of Tylenol that says "Adults: No more than 2 tablets every 4-6 hours with no more than 8 tablets in a 24 hour period" And if you do the math, guess what? 2 tablets every 4-6 hours is 8 tablets in a 24 hour period (assuming you wait the full 6 hours).
Tylenol is no deadlier than any other drug on the market. Too damn many people just don't read their labels. If you've already taken a painkiller, it's probably safe to not take any more tylenol. If you have a question, call your freaking doctor. Again, too damn many people try to be their own doctors that it's no wonder people get hurt. You can in fact take Ibuprofen and Tylenol in combination if you take them 3 hours apart (Ibuprofen, 3 hours later Tylenol, 3 hours later Ibuprofen, wash, rinse, repeat).
And every bottle of anything I've ever seen that has acetameniphen in it says "Do not take in combination with alcohol". Just because other people are stupid and don't read the label on their meds doesn't mean I should be penalized. Changing the label on children's tylenol had no effect on those of us with a clue, but an outright ban is going to hurt, especially when the kids are miserable with pain and low grade fevers.
Ibuprofen is a big no no as well. Ibuprofen can prevent the fertilized egg from attaching to the Uteran wall. Pretty much all painkillers are off limits in the first trimester.
A gallon of water weighs 8 pounds. If you can piss out a gallon, you've instantly lost 8 pounds of weight. I'd say that's a pretty effective form of weight loss (if you could do it that is).
I don't know how old you are, but my first experience killing in an FPS was killing the Nazi guard with a knife in the original Wolf3D (the one that ran on a 386). I felt no quesiness at all. From my perspective, I was a captured allied soldier fighting for my life and freedom, which the Nazis were about to completely take away.
The last time I specifically stopped playing a game was the same as the authors - Bioshock (actually, it was F.E.A.R. before that). I started playing it months later and forced myself to play it further. But it still wasn't the killing that disturbed me. It was the dark atmosphere and the weird ass looking characters (especially the opening "spider" character) that freaked me out. Hell, I had a hard time playing F.E.A.R. at first too, but again, it wasn't the killing, it was the creepy ass atmosphere. I'm not a big fan of horror movies, so games like that scare the crap out of me. F.E.A.R. still scares the shit out of me.
Shake up a can and open it: pressurized liquid sprays all over.
Shake up a can, put it in the refrigerator for a hour of so, and the CO2 dissolves back into the water.
Uh, shake up a can and leave it sitting for an hour or so and it does the same thing. The refrigerator just makes it colder.
Institutionalized gay bashing? Check.
That's what you're calling defining marriage now? So it's cool for 3 or 4 or 5 people to "marry" each other (yes, it will lead to that, people are doing it in other areas of the country). Got it.
It's called gay bashing when you disagree, but it's called tolerance when I disagree, right? I have to tolerate it while you can just call me a bigot, right?
And then there's my personal favorite, a short-sighted effort to limit property taxes whose only real effect is to hurt younger people just starting out and drive the schools into the shitter? You know it.
Exactly how does that hurt young people? I'm fairly young and I had no trouble paying my way through community college and only a little trouble buying my first house (that was mostly due to the over inflated cost of houses). As a matter of fact, the bank approved us for far more than we could afford, but since we were responsible, we bought in for far less. Now instead of having trouble making mortgage payments, we're doing just fine. And private schools seem to be doing quite well. In fact, we spend more per pupil than any other state, yet we have the worst schools. Why is that?
Prop 13 passed with 65% of the vote (70% voting), so it was hardly a simple majority that passed it. The reality is that the legislature then, like now, was completely out of control and this is what stopped them.
Yeah, because we've had all kinds of problems the entire time that system has been in place.
Give me a break. I live in California and the system is the only thing that has kept the legislature in check. California is a prime example of why the Socialist experiment is a complete failure. Prop 13 and the 3/4 majority needed to pass a budget is the only thing that has kept taxes low. Without those, many more people would've left the state by now. As it is, people and businesses are leaving in droves. It's no wonder that even with the sales tax increase, revenue is down.
The legislature needs to get it through their thick skull that the way to increase revenue is to decrease taxes. Until that happens, revenue will continue to fall. Now they're talking about wanting to tax beer and soda to pay for the short fall. Since I don't need either one, I will happily quit drinking both if they do raise taxes on them. Right now I drink about a case of beer every month or two and the same for soda. If they decide to tax them, I will drink none. The fatties who like to suck down a super sized soda are the ones that are going to get hurt by all these policies, not people responsible enough to say "Enough is enough!"
FYI, the Constitution can be AMENDED by a majority, not outright changed. A significant change can only be made by the legislature, not the people. And the government can raise taxes if they can get a 75% majority of the legislature to go along with it (how do you think they raised the sales tax?). The problem is that there will be a firestorm the likes of which hasn't been seen since Prop 13 was passed if they attempt to repeal Prop 13. I live in this State and I'm the first one to say that it needs to go bankrupt.
The government needs to get the hell out of all the shit they're involved in. California is a perfect example of what happens when run away government stops listening to the People.
That is one thing I liked about the Incredibles: the bad guy actually had a reasonably valid reason for doing what he did. Sure Mr. Incredible could have taken him under his wing, but he didn't, and ultimately he came to regret it later.
A reasonably valid reason for trying to kill his former hero and his family? And that's not even mentioning all the other guys he already killed to get to that point. Maybe it's just me, but that's hardly a reasonably valid reason for trying to kill someone. Get mad and pissy all you want, but when you try to kill someone, no matter the reason, you step over the definition of "reasonable".
With Transformers 1 I didn't enjoy it much at the cinema either, but after I decided just to ignore some of the more stupid parts and get it on DVD, it makes a decent action/comedy kind of movie.
For what, 15 mins? I sat down with some friends to watch it on Blu-ray. We figured we'd skip all the shitty parts. We watched the opening battle and then we ended up skipping everything else. That movie is just aweful.
As a parent of a 2.5 year old, I can attest to this! My son loooooves Cars. He would watch it every day if he could.
Quite simply put, you don't.
Users will complain whether you have very controlling policies in place or not. If you have nothing to stop them (a policy to stop them from listening to Internet radio doesn't do anything), they'll do it anyway. You can tell them for weeks that you simply don't have the bandwidth for that kind of thing because you have remote users and they simply will not care. The only thing that will make them stop is hardware/software to control what they can and cannot do. Once implemented, you will immediately be seen as the jerk/asshole/dickhead/insert whatever adjective necessary.
The simple fact is that users do not care if their actions impact somebody else (by and large). Sure, there's the 1 in 50 guy that'll respect and understand what you're saying and won't do it, but the rest will simply ignore you. I have learned after many many years that being nice is simply an invitation for them to break the rules. In fact, the 1 in 50 guy, in my experience, is also the guy that does IT work on the side and understands the reasons you're doing everything and doesn't need an explanation. That guy also understands that his work computer is just that, a work computer. That guy won't install all kinds of bullshit on his system without asking. He will also likely fix any trouble he encounters with his system because he knows you're busy with other people. You don't have to worry about that guy, it's the other 49 people that are causing trouble. That guy will not give two shits if you decide to block half the Internet and keep him from installing crap. He's either got all the programs he needs or will simply ask you to install them when you can. He's also one of the only people that will store all his important work documents on the server without having to bug him because he knows that the server is backed up and his workstation is not.
We implemented software policies and really strict internet filtering recently and my support calls have dropped. I use to hear complaints all the time from both office and remote users that our IP phones sounded like crap. I haven't had a single complaint since implementing major filtering (only during office hours). It has pissed off a fair number of people, but if I try to be nice and let them have access, they'll just abuse it. I also happen to have two people around that "get it" when it comes to surfing the net, installing bullshit, and keeping important files on the server. No one else does. That's in a company with about 45 computer users and about 55 employees total.
I still get the occasional call from someone that's trying to install something from CD. I either log in to their computer and install it for them (adjusting policies as necessary) or I simply copy it to their desktop. They haven't quite figured out that they can install things from their desktop (not that they could run it afterwards anyway) without getting blocked, and that's even after watching me do it (it must be magic, right?).
Tell the kids at least a day in advance what text is going to be read. That way, the kids that don't have Internet at home can go to the computer lab and print the necessary pages. You'll still be using some paper, but far less than a full books worth. This also has the advantage of basically telling the kids "We're going to read these pages in class tomorrow, so you should read them at home tonight in order to better discuss it tomorrow". Most of the kids probably won't do that, but that's no different than right now anyway.
I think this is a really great idea as long as they give the kids with no Internet some kind of place where they can do the reading and print out what they need. Whether it's a computer lab in the school library or even a local library in the city, either way should be fine. It'll also get kids back into the library.
Thank you, that's an even better reply than I could've come up with. I live in California. We could do without the Governator even attempting to Govern.
Not exactly. Typically a newer card will have better features. So two of the older card will often times be outpaced by one of the newer cards. So for the same price, you've got a much better single card solution that doesn't need a high priced motherboard in order to take full advantage.
Sounds more like your hardware vendors need to get their drivers updated. But it's probably easier for them to just stick with XP and then charge huge sums of money to continue to support it. Drill machines are the same way. They still run on ancient DOS boxes and it generally costs a couple thousand dollars to get them replaced. The hardware isn't worth much more than a couple hundred, but since you can't go out and find the hardware in a store, you're stuck dealing with them. I'm sure GE and Siemens will take the same attitude.
That wasn't my point. Anything is easy once you know how to do it, including rocket science
That's pure rubbish. Simple repedative tasks are easy. Complex reasoning and deduction isn't. Some problems are in fact intractable. Nor is refining motor skills or pre-empting something. I know how to hit a baseball. That doesn't mean I could easily become a pro baseball player.
You've built your entire argument on a flawed premise.
Sure you could. If you went to the batting cages and practiced hitting the ball over and over again at steadily increasing speeds, you would eventually be able to hit a fast ball. Now all you have to do is play baseball in little league, high school, and maybe college. All it takes is getting noticed at that point.
Obviously if you're over 25 or 30 you couldn't become a pro baseball player now, but you probably couldn't switch gears into any other profession that wasn't close to your own at this point either. The point is that if you start at a young enough age, you can in fact become anything you want as long you keep trying.
I mean, you didn't just wake up one day as a sys admin did you? No, it took a lot of training and practice with plenty of screw ups along the way. You probably even started out doing some programming like most competent sys admins I know. Every occupation is the same way. Some are really good at baseball others are really good at tearing down an engine and completely rebuilding it.
Brain surgery and rocket science are also easy if you already know how to do these
Let me get this straight. You're comparing opening up regedit, browsing through a tree of values, and modifying one with brain surgery and rocket science??? You call it "the art of registry editing". I could teach any even semi-competent person how to use regedit in an hour max assuming nothing more than windows knowledge.
Yes (to the comparison) and bullshit if you think you can teach a "semi-competent" person about what values are ok to edit and which are not. You could teach them about this one value I'm sure, but the next time something else comes up and they try to fix it themselves (because you taught them how to use regedit), they'll end up doing more damage.
Using the regedit is like rocket science and/or brain surgery. The brain surgeon wouldn't have the first clue how it worked and wouldn't care. He's to busy doing surgery on peoples brains, so he's going to ask YOU to fix it. He's going to be willing to pay YOU up to $150 per hour to fix it. Same with the rocket scientist. Again, you could teach them where this one entry is, but expecting them to then be able to go in and find anything else is a joke. It's not because they're dumb, it's because it's not their field and without at least an hour of their time (which they're not going to be willing to give up) they're not going to learn enough about it to be useful.
Exactly. As long as you said you had a TV that needed it, you were guaranteed at least one coupon. I got two the same way. We had a TV in the bedroom that still used an antenna, but I got two coupons just in case I wanted to get another antenna for a TV in another room.
We've since gotten rid of that other TV and now have satellite hooked up to the bedroom TV. I've still got the DTV box that we don't need as well as a coupon that's no longer good :)
It was doing that pretty much from September 1st onward.
No it wasn't. The market pretty much tanked from October 1st to the 10th (lost about 2000 points) before rebounding a little. I believe this was about the same time that Bush made the emergency request for $700 billion to "rescue" the banks.
However, the market was tumbling daily from 9625 points on November 4th, down to 7552 points on November 20th. I believe that's right around the time Obama finally spoke up about how he probably wouldn't be raising taxes. The market has closed well above that point every day since.
Probably something to do with the fact that the Congressional Research Services investigated and discovered he still had:
and had been found that his statements that he had removed financial ties to himself and Halliburton to be "steeped in loopholes and legalese and avoidance".
You were saying?
All of which he was required, by contract, to keep intact. If he broke the contracts, he faced stiff penalties. And of course no one would've raked him over the coals for breaking a contract with a former employer.
It was a no win situation. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
The project after that would be sustained by the subscribers, and it could be sold for less money per month since Verizon doesn't have as much money to recoup.
Hahahaha! You think Verizon is going to sell the service for less just because they got some money from the government? Hahahaha! They will more likely keep the cost the same and the rest is profit (they'll make even more money faster). The cost to maintain the infrastructure will be the same anyway, so why would they lower the end cost? All a govt infusion will do is get the infrastructure built quicker.
Like many, I'd rather see physical infrastructure updated/maintained sooner than digital infrastructure. You can't even deploy the digital stuff if your physical stuff isn't in good condition.
In 1776, a couple of rabble-rousers really did conspire to break off the American colonies from the British Empire.
You call that a conspiracy? They were pretty open about what they were doing, even to the point of signing their names on a piece of paper.